Culture

  • Taylor, look what you made an old fan do.

    Taylor, look what you made an old fan do.

    They start off pure and innocent, starry-eyed and ready to take on the world. Their career begins and they ascend slowly but surely. Eventually, they release that one song which lights the afterburner of their careers and they are thrust into gargantuan fame. Yet fame is fickle. And so slowly, they lose control. They descend […]

  • A Two Forty-Five Affair

    A Two Forty-Five Affair

    After being disturbed by the recent fire-alarm incident, Tan Yang Long pens a poem recalling his two forty-five affair with a thing called Sleep.

  • Medicine of my Mother’s Mother — The Issues with TCM

    Medicine of my Mother’s Mother — The Issues with TCM

    Did you know that Steve Jobs turned to TCM not long before his demise? Rounding off the semester on Treehouse, Marcus Seah finishes his public health column by bringing insights into the coexistence of TCM with western medicine in his article.

  • Thoughts on Exchange

    Thoughts on Exchange

    How do you spend your time on exchange? In this piece, guest writer Wei Xuan recounts the time he spent on exchange, and what he gained from it.

  • Filmbusu Treeview – A Clockwork Orange

    Filmbusu Treeview – A Clockwork Orange

    Mun Yee takes a look at Filmbusu’s pick of the week – A Clockwork Orange, giving us her take on this dystopian science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick.

  • Filmbusu Treeview – Spotlight

    Filmbusu Treeview – Spotlight

    A story told time after time, in Singapore and abroad, Spotlight explores the complicated and loaded relationships between the church, state and society. What happens when one betrays the trust of the other? And what happens, when the institutions that are supposed to protect the weak use their powers to shelter the powerful?