Entry to the festival in front of Botanic Gardens MRT (PHOTO: Claire) After 4 years, Singapore’s very own garden festival is back, with flower and horticultural shows free for the public to enjoy from 30 August to 9 July. Originally supposed to be held in 2020, plans for the biennial festival were nipped in the...
I’m not a good student, but there are those who are. I’m not a bad student, but there are those who are. I’m just somewhere in between. Good, bad, just somewhere in between – all of us choose our seats in tutorials with our own rationales, subconscious or intentional. I’ve interviewed students who identify as...
Taking in the rows of students dressed in suits in the Auditorium on Monday, 25 July 2022, one might think that they were there that evening to attend a private screening of Minions: The Rise of Gru. Instead, the members of the Pro Bono Group (PBG) had gathered in the Auditorium to celebrate its annual...
The atmosphere was alive with anticipation and excitement as the freshmen flooded into the auditorium for Law Camp 2022. Held from 7-10 June 2022, this was the first edition of Law Camp to be held in person in the last two years.
Hey guys! You might be surprised to see me again, since the post about exercises for legal success was supposed to be my last. However, I was returning a library book and discovered that I could borrow books until Commencement, which suggests that I get to enjoy all of the other privileged that I enjoyed...
Hey guys, it’s Shou Pin again: the Year 4 student who still has the time to write on Justified. I can’t say confidently that I’m speaking for the rest of my classmates but I’m utterly terrified of the prospect of graduating and being thrust into the big scary world of practice! How sure can anyone...
For those who are puzzled by the incomprehensible title, I started a series of posts back when I was in Year 1 called the Law of Gains Act, unsurprisingly, focused on fitness and exercise. (I wasn’t overweight at the time so it appeared more credible than it does today. I might also add that it...
Rachel Wam is a final year student in the Double Degree Programme in Law and Liberal Arts at NUS Law and Yale-NUS College with a minor in literature. In her free time, she enjoys scuba diving and making pottery. Dear first-year Rachel, I’m not sure what you’re looking for here, because I actually don’t have...
Bao Huei is a recent graduate from NUS Law, where he organised student activities and took part in moots. He is a recreational reader, tennis player and a full-time cat slave dad. Dear Bao Huei, You’ve just lost the Grand Finals of the LAWASIA Moot for your team – a moot that you spent 7...
Erin Chua is a recent law graduate that enjoys volunteering. In her final year, she had the fortune of applying what she learnt from the textbooks in real life by volunteering with Students for a Safer NUS. Before graduating, outside of attempting to complete her never-ending list of readings, she exercises, dances in her room...
Darren Chen is a third-year law student and author of the novel “The Good Guys”. He spends his time trying to balance the arts and the law – the jury’s still out as to whether he’s any good at either. Dear younger Darren, I want to tell you a story about your time to come...
Darren Ang is a third-year law student, creator of the “What Is Law Even” series of law cartoons, and an absolute nerd over copyright in online environments. To a first-year me: You think you’re really good at law. You may not say it aloud, but you know your heart—you think you’ve put in more work...