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This month, The Ridge explores the NUS Students’ Union and the Yellow Ribbon Project. Chin Mei Kuan looks at what NUS undergraduates think about NUSSU in “Are You Being Represented”, while Fabius Chen attempts to evaluate the 29th NUSSU EXCO in “Does NUSSU Walk The Talk?” Discuss the article here. [coming soon!]On the other ...
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This was the game I made after a week. It’s pretty crappy, actually.Two weeks ago, a week after my last exam at university, I disappeared from my social life. No lunches together, no meet-ups, no IM, no facebook. Just hermiting it on my little netbook. I would wake up close to noon, turn on the ...
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This issue, the outspoken desk discussed The Yellow Ribbon Project and its work with ex-convicts and our society to bridge the gap in between. We also brought to the table an interview with an ex-convict, to shed light on prison life and the struggles involved in trying to lead a normal life after serving a ...
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Hurrairah bin Sohail | hurrairah@gmail.comthe ridge transmediaA NUSSU Publication Once again Singapore’s own Indie-Rock Fest comes around and provides us with genre defying, boundary …
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One paragraph review: Well, yeah. It’s a shame that it didn’t turn out the way it should have. Max comes off as one-dimensional, pacing suffers from a problem and the noir didn’t turn out too well. There are things that I do like about it, but I wouldn’t recommend much of it to just any ...
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Wong Pei Yee | pywong@nus.edu.sgthe ridge transmediaA NUSSU PublicationEver wanted to be in the thick of things in the arts? Esplanade offers you the opportunity to do so with an inte …
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Hurrairah bin Sohail | hurrairah@gmail.comthe ridge transmediaA NUSSU PublicationThe Rakes, hailing from London, are part of the thriving British wave of Indie Art rockers and are men …
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ZL & Hurrairah bin Sohail | hurrairah@gmail.comthe ridge transmediaA NUSSU PublicationWith the conclusion of Rockfest 2008, we here at the ridge decided to dissect and evaluate the NUS Rock Scene and what the participants have to say about it. The KNEES Musical Influences: System of a Down, My Chemical Romance, Radiohead, IncubusArtists covered: Muse, Beatles, ...
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Lim Tze Kian | naijiz@gmail.comthe ridge newsA NUSSU PublicationSince its launch in 2004, Facebook has acquired around 60 million users around the world and is one of the most popular …
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Ho Yi Jian | rockjianrock@gmail.comthe ridge transmediaA NUSSU Publication Laremy Lee’s The Last Political Animal found censorship problems with MDA and CFA Incredible potential …
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the ridge transmediaA NUSSU Publication With the conclusion of the NUS Arts Festival 2008 (NAF) which married the disciplines of medicine and the arts last month, the ridge transmedia takes a closer look at what has been offered to measure the arts health of NUS this academic year. Surveying the various facets of the arts from ...
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Lasanthi Bandara | lasanthi@nus.edu.sgthe ridge newsA NUSSU PublicationThere are those songs you could listen to over and over again just because they smile in the face of a world gone wrong. Some of them provide the perfect soundtrack to the morning coffee. Others are more about attitude. With many apologies to the Doobie Brothers, Dire ...
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Kon Xin Tian | earthsongs@gmail.comthe ridge transmediaA NUSSU Publication1 - 3 May 2008Puppet SquareWritten by Zhuo Wenlong & Directed by Benjamin Ho Kah WeiPerformed in Mandarin …
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Chin Mei Kuan | mk.chin@nus.edu.sgthe ridge newsA NUSSU PublicationMarch 18, 2008Story Highlights:the ridge interviews NUS President Professor Shih Choon Fong during his SRC VIP tour …
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Audrey Ng | audrey_a@nus.edu.sgMar. 11, 2008Story Highlights:Many organizations adopting CSR as part of their business strategyQuestion of whether companies are practicing ethical CSRSome companies claim to practice CSR but their activities harm society or the environmentVarious international bodies and student groups involved in promoting CSRCSR is the new buzzword in …
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Credit: EH EusoffworksDarn work is preventing me from doing anything on the internet at all! Chugging along is “Maid In Singapore”, written by Nadia Olisa. I’m not sure who’s the lead Filipino maid though, so I’m just winging it. Anybody want to correct it for me? This one is relatively short. Forgive me for the ...
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Chin Mei Kuan | mk.chin@nus.edu.sgthe ridge newsA NUSSU Publication14 Mar 2008Story Highlights:NUS open house visitors note the lack of CCAs showcase at NUS open house this yearExhibition by faculties providing information on admission and academic courses well receivedImprovements to open house can be made, said current NUS undergraduatesThey came, they saw, and they …
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R.S. Milne and Diane K. Mauzy, “Politics and Government in Malaysia” Singapore : Times Books International, 1980.page 78-79:Numerous accounts, which do not always agree with one another, have been given of the events of May 1969… The alliance won the elections, although not as conclusively as in 1964. However, strangely, the non-Malay parties who …
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Fabius Chen|fabiuschen@nus.edu.sgthe ridge NewsA NUSSU PublicationMarch 21, 2008Story Highlights:World Cup qualifying campaign to follow successful Youth Olympic Games bidThe Lions’ j …
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Underlying cross-ethnic tensions surfacing?Vandalism is on the rise in the National University of Singapore (NUS). Graffiti comments allegedly discriminating against the minority Muslim community in Singapore were found in FASS.High Rejection Rate For Campus Accommodation Shock Students The on-campus accommodation allocation results released on Mar. 27 took many students by …
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