Accents

by Moses Tan
Edited by Priyanka V
Published 10 Nov 2006
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Accents are a curious phenomenon. Even within a single language, variations in which a word can be pronounced are so different that they may come out sounding like an alien tongue altogether. Think of an English Cockney cab driver and a Singaporean hawker. Both speak basically [...]

I Hate Orientations, Except Temasek’s

by Timothy Chen
Edited by Ho Yi Jian
Published: October 18, 2006
I was terribly excited about coming to NUS, having built up an image of what on campus living would be like in my mind. I imagined a lot of wild partying, hooking up with random people, and various other scandalous activities. The lack of parental supervision [...]