May 26, 2021
By: Karina Casarrubias
By Valerie A gap year sounds sexy, doesn’t it? It’s becoming increasingly popular, but still unconventional enough to warrant fascination from others when you tell them about it, almost like a badge of honour you wear proudly on your sleeve to announce...
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April 13, 2021
By: Leslie
By Valerie It was all I could ever think about, the nasty culprit behind countless sleepless nights, a master puppeteer who toyed with my emotional strings, wearing me down till I went limp as a rag doll. Childish. Immature. Melodramatic....
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March 1, 2021
By: Admin
By Valerie As a quintessential Gen Z-er, I am conversationally impaired without my painstakingly-curated digital repository of stickers, emoticons and emojis. How could I not, when they have the power to impart shades and nuances that colloquial devices cannot effectively...
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December 15, 2020
By: James Ziemba
By Valerie I knew that 2020 was going to be different. The respite from a grueling cycle of tests, projects and competitions was something I had anticipated since the start of high school, but I never expected it to be...
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October 29, 2020
By: Admin
There it stood, arrogant and adamant, heedless of the shrill herald of impending peril. I hastened my pace, smug in the certainty that the sudden acceleration would cow it into capitulation— but it hardly flinched in the face of the...
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September 23, 2020
By: Admin
By Valerie What initially came across as a brilliant scheme, however, was thwarted by messy realities. Head throbbing and eyes sore from excessive screen time, I had to muster every fibre in my body to keep myself from spontaneously combusting....
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August 24, 2020
By: Admin
By Valerie 4.5E14, 1.2E2, 94, 59… I sat stock-still with my body contorted in an awkward position, the tingling and prickling of pins and needles in my limbs hardly registering as I fixated my gaze on the screen with intense, sober concentration,...
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