Humorous

  • How to Get Third Year Stay (and the Myths We Create Along the Way)

    How to Get Third Year Stay (and the Myths We Create Along the Way)

    In our most vulnerable moments, we uncover the truths about who we are and who we are becoming. Wesley reflects on how the falls we endure at Tembusu reveal the quiet strength that emerges from uncertainty.

  • Descartes and Boxing

    Descartes and Boxing

    This piece does a bit of armchair philosophising on the nature and connection between mind, body, and pain. Lots of fancy names dropped. Also, what’s boxing got to do with all this? Read more to find out! (How else would you know about it?)

  • Curious About Curios

    Curious About Curios

    Hanniel Lim interviews four from the team behind this year’s issue of Curios on their labour of love in publishing a magazine that integrates art and literature.

  • Ways of Seeing

    Ways of Seeing

    This article explores recent scientific discoveries about the highly evolved colour-changing skin cells and eye structures of the octopus and cuttlefish to illustrate how they perceive and manipulate colour.

  • A Day in the Life of Misty

    A Day in the Life of Misty

    In a special edition of the Day in a Life, Lee Mun Yee and Jarratt Ong ‘speak’ to Misty about his life as college cat.

  • The Third Year Experience

    The Third Year Experience

    Isaac Neo reflects on what it feels like to be a Third Year Student in Tembusu College, in response to his reflections on his Freshman and Sophomore years.