The organizing committee received many designs and you can view some of them below:

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The committee will shortlist the submissions and the final design will be revealed soon.

For any queries, please contact Tutor Linh (Buckley).

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Here’s how the race was played. The event started in the Dining Hall. Each team received a puzzle to their first checkpoint. Once they managed to solve it, they were handed over an envelope containing the name of of their first checkpoint, a map and a list of questions to answer. The team would then go to their first checkpoint where they played games and ate food as fast as possible to get their next puzzle to the next checkpoint. At each checkpoint, a different game was played and different food was given. Each team had to clear 4 checkpoints to complete the race.

FOOD

As the name suggests, food is a major component of the event. Here is a list of food the teams ‘had to’ eat:

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PUZZLES

In case you missed the event, test your skills with some of the puzzles the teams solved during the race. These puzzles were the clues to their next destination. (You can find the answers on this page too!)

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Ans: Clarke Quay

2.

Ans: Chinatown

3.

Ans: Bugis

Coming up: results and pictures from the event!

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As gracious seniors, we are going to share with you about one of the awesome CCAs in RJC that will transform your life altogether (that is, if you are good enough to make the cut) – Air Weapons Shooting. For the boys, this is a perfect time to put those Counter-Strike skills to practical use.

Targets and Pellets

There are two categories of weapons you’d be able to use – Air Rifle and Air Pistol. Each requires a great deal of skills, talent and mental power to master. To be the top player, you must be able to hit the bull’s eye (which has the size of the dot used at the end of this sentence) from 10m, consistently. But fear not, as a newbie, you will receive the fullest attention of the coach as well as the seniors, who will guide you through the fundamentals of shooting. Your training sessions (where you get to fire off the guns) will take place in the nice and cozy shooting range located in RJC for the first year. And when you are good enough, you get to go to the world-class range in SAFRA Yishun and show other people how many tens[V1] Rafflesians can score

Guns and Love[V2]

Shooting CCA is also our second family - we always take care of fellow shooters. Be it birthdays, farewells, celebrations, or even mugging sessions, just one call and we’ll be there for each other. There will also be opportunities for you to make friends, not only within our club, but also in the wider community of shooters in Singapore. And if you ever need inspiration, there are many role models in the club to whom you can look up. This year’s captain, Jonathan Koh, is the reigning SEAGames champion in 10m Air Rifle, and many of the club members are in Singapore National Team.

Now, everything is up to your hard work and determination. Any aspiring shooter can contact Viet, Benjamin Lo or Shuaihao in Morrison, or Victor Ong in Bayley for more information.

By Tran Minh Viet

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Here are the winners’ list:

Volleyball

Champion: Hullett 2

Floorball

Champion: Bayley

Captain’s ball

Champion: Hullett 2

‘Finale’ race

Champion: Morrison

Champion House

The championship trophy this year goes to Hullet 2 as the overall winner.

Congratulations to the winners and the champion house.

Thank you all for your participation on the day. We hope to see (more of) you at the next Sports Carnival!

Click here to view the pictures from the event

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Being a junior of the same nationality, I feel really sad when he left, as he is a wonderful and inspiring senior to us. He constantly motivate us to try our best in everything, especially our study. Quoc is an all-rounded and brilliant person and we really have had a great time with him around.

I hope that somewhere in The States, Quoc will be able to read this message and know that all of us miss him very much. We are extremely proud to have such a dazzling leader and senior.

And I believe, whenever he may be, he will be one shining star!

As per today, Quoc is currently in Vietnam. Anyone who wanted to contact Quoc can email Pham Viet Hai at admin@riboarding.com

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Visit this link for more info:
http://tinyurl.com/5m4bdr

Participate in this event as a volunteer! As a volunteer, you will:

• be ushering & marshalling
• look after athletes
• be back in RI Boarding by noon

Your help will be needed on Sunday, 20 July 2008, in Bishan Park (just a short walk from RI Boarding).

Contact your respective block/cluster tutors to sign up as a volunteer. Hope to see you there!

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Being a Morrison boarder myself, I have always surprised my friends when they ask me what I do every day. They always presumed that scholars and boarders only mug, mug and mug, but the truth is that mugging is hardly the case for most of the boarders here. So, ever thought what a boarder does for the whole day? Especially RJC & RI boarders who live right beside school and enjoy the wonderful luxury of 1 minute travel time to school (no offence to those living 1 hour from school :D)?

We Have Social Live

Despite outsider’s perception that our time table revolves around mug, eat and sleep, we actually do have a social life. So what do we do every day during our free time? Actually Morrison has been a home to quite a few CCALs(Co-Curriculum Activity Leaders). May it be sports CCA, academic CCA or student interest groups. This stands as proof that boarders can be as versatile as normal students.

Even if we are not CCALs in sports CCA, most of us enjoy sports as hobby, be it basketball, soccer, badminton, tennis, swimming or floorball. All thanks to the myriad of first-class facilities in Raffles Institution. With the Intra-boarding sports days and pool competition coming up, RI boarding has its share of activities to let boarders have some fun once in a while.

In addition to being healthy normal teenagers when it comes to sports, we also hangout frequently with our friends at malls or have a movie or two once in a while. Sometimes prefer a good game of snooker or bowling when we feel like having a break. If boarders are fed up of travelling out of Bishan, we can always see boarders from RI boarding at the famous haunt – Junction 8 anytime of the day, maybe to get some groceries, buy some stationary or just to have a breather from the boarding’s atmosphere.

Yet we study

Of course, a boarder or student cannot be complete without some occasional mugging. Rest assured, we are quite capable of sitting down and studying independently. Other than the boarding rule of preparation time (a.k.a. prep time) or study time from 7.45pm to 9.45pm on Sundays until Thursdays, you will also see some boarders studying in their rooms or at RI S. Rajaratnam Block or RJC canteen and library during weekends.

So all in all, RI boarding school boarders, especially Morrison boarders, as a whole are just line any other normal teenage student. We study hard and we play hard too!

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“Hey, your boarding is so cool: Big room with only two people living in each room, some even have air-conditioner! Our boarding is everything opposite to yours!”

This was what I kept lamenting to my friends from other boarding school every time we had batch outing, with sullen faces as compared to those all-too-happy faces of people staying in supposedly superb and decidedly better boarding than ours. How bad of last year’s boarding I am talking about? 4-people rooms, one ceiling fan and one shared toilet, which were not always kept in tip-top conditions.

With all these said, I suppose you or whoever reading this article has so dreaded this boarding. However, before you have any weird idea of buying gasoline and trying to burn down the boarding so that the school has to build a new facilitity, let me remind you that this place, in its respectable thirteen-year history, has housed thousands of scholars, who have evolved from simple teenagers into independent, knowledgeable and responsible adults. In fact, boarding life has been improved much since the first time this boarding went into service, as told to us by Mr. Chow Kia Meng, our dear former senior boarding master.

While we all have had issues with the boarding in one way or another, none can deny that boarding life has helped us to make friends with people from various countries and to appreciate many unique cultures and customs through various activities, such as soccer and basketball tournaments, and various events, such as formal dinners,  RIB Idol and etcetera. Such exposure has undoubtedly broadened our perspectives. Personally, I am grateful to be exposed to a myriad of good friends who are willing to help us whenever we have problems. Even the food, while remaining our favorite “punching bag”, becomes edible after a while, when you came to enjoy other countries’ cuisines.

Live changes

Honestly, life is getting better in RIB as I came back to RIB after a long break in January. From January 2008 onward, secondary school boarders would be able to live in the brand new thirteen stories block, featuring two speedy lifts, spacious game rooms and two-people bedrooms! No longer that we have to bring our heavy suitcase all the way up to our rooms after a home trip thanks to the new lifts! There is more as we are going to have our very own wireless connection in our room this August. Some of our non-RIB friends are even jealous of what we get here,  Indeed, all things keep getting better and better.

With many shortcomings that I have mentioned above, one would have low expectations of this boarding, and that would exactly be my advice to you: Keep your expectation low, and you will find yourself indulged in some pleasant surprises that are unlikely to forget.

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The competition is held in the dining hall on 18 May 2008. Below is the list of the winners

Chinese Chess

Winner: Ji Fang (H2)
Runner up: Li Bui Yang (H3)

International Chess

Winner: Vu Minh Hoang (H2)
Runner up: The The Gia

Scrabble

Winner: Julian Tay (Bayley)

Monopoly

Winner: Luo Chen (Moor)

Risk

Winner: To Phung Huy (H2)

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In solemn scenes broadcast on state television, Chinese soldiers performed the daily raising of the national flag at Beijing’s imposing Tiananmen Square, then lowered it to half-mast in memory of the estimated 50,000 quake dead.

China will hold three minutes of silence at 2:28 pm (0628 GMT), the exact moment a week ago that the powerful tremor — upgraded to 8.0 on the Richter scale — reduced entire towns to heaps of steel and concrete.

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