story | Lian Szu-Jin, Staff Writer photos | Daryl Chan Perched on a high stool with a tall glass of beer, the chatter of after-work bankers and pulsing pub music in the background, I chatted with 41 year-old Umar Rana, founder and host of Comedy Masala, Singapore’s biggest and most popular weekly stand-up comedy show. […]
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story | Austin Shiner, Guest Contributor photo | British Council Singapore There are 108 hawker centres in Singapore. Austin Shiner, a former staff member at Yale-NUS College, has visited all of them. The Singapore Book of Records recognizes him as the first person to have eaten at every hawker centre in the country. He has […]
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story | Yip Jia Qi, Opinion Editor photo | Rachel Juay When I began writing this, I thought I could quickly make an exhaustive review of the few online grocery delivery services in Singapore. After all, Singapore is so small and the supermarkets so numerous, it’s impossible for there to be no supermarket near you. […]
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story | Pham Le Vi, News Editor photo | Rachel Juay Sri Lanka, North Korea, Iran. These are just some of the countries Coco Cao ’19 has been to alone in the past year. Last semester, she went off for a beach retreat in Batam for reading week. During summer, she was in Turkey (during the […]
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story | Zula Badral, Managing Editor photo | Zula Badral, Managing Editor After moving to Singapore, I realized that the things I normally liked to do to indulge my vanity were way more expensive on this little island. This, compounded with the lack of a regulatory body for maintaining standard practices for people like aestheticians, nail […]
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Story | Kan Ren Jie and Justin Ong Photos | Kan Ren Jie, Google Maps Trying (and failing) to stave off the dreaded Freshman Fifteen, or the nightmare of the Sophomore 20? Tired of the same old treadmill routine everyday? Thankfully, we have some awesome running routes around our college. Lace up your shoes, get […]
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Story By | Enkhzul Badral (not a sponsored post) Now that UberEats is in Singapore, and given the fact that college students have inconsistent meal times, here’s some tips and reviews of a few restaurants I’ve ordered from. Maybe you’ll order from them too, and if you do, ask around for a coupon code (maybe […]
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Story | Yip Jia Qi, Opinion Editor Photo | Sean Cham, Rachel Juay, ZeroHedge, edited by Yip Jia Qi Just five weeks into my first year, I have come to realize a problem that plagues our school— the Yale-NUS College Bubble. The Bubble is an invisible wall around us. It imprisons us both physically and […]
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story Nicole Lim, Contributing Reporter illustrations Rachel Johanna Lim Desperate calls for Indomie in the middle of night on Facebook have been popping up all too frequently and have almost become the hallmark of college life. However, resorting to instant noodles in Singapore, with its vibrant supper culture, seems almost criminal. The Octant has hunted […]
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