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The selected theme for this year’s magazine To explain music, we must first dive into
is “Exploration”. As mundane as it may the instruments within us, the receptors
sound, this simple word single-handedly that allow each tune to seep through our
encompasses many of the struggles, the senses, and bring mystique into everyday

challenges that we adolescents face in life. What is it that truly allows us to
these trying times. At its core, exploration indulge in music? Through the integration
enables the pursuit of knowledge on various of music in our daily lives, we see changes
subjects, encouraging the expansion of our in emotions, thought process, neurons and
intellectual boundaries. In this case, readers more. No matter the mood, it seems that
are able to delve deep into the realms of music is always there for us, a companion
culture, individuality, music and science. through the best and worst, almost as if it
were a friend. Yet, perhaps there is more to

xplo Culture breathes life into our pasts, a music and its makers than we may hear.
symbolic preservation of our identity. We
meanwhile,
expanding
is
pride ourselves in the vast cultures present Science,
ration in Malaysian soil, stemming from the faster than any of us could expect. The
multiracial traditions our ancestors fought groundbreaking innovations made in
to pass down. Yet we youngsters rarely take AI and self-driving cars, just to name a
notice nor actively care about this culture, few, far exceed the expectations that our
he wind pays no heed as evidenced by the decline in traditional ancient ancestors ever imagined. The era
“Tto the sails it steers, and art, games, and customs, fading into the of new technology is coming, and it is up

yet its fabrics capture every realm of history books. To explore culture to us to keep up with the times and not be
gust, every opportunity, every is to look back and reflect upon our roots, eliminated, left behind by the sweeping
chance it gets. It advances to appreciate the legacies of our ancestors, currents of society. We explore science, the
forth in an endless sea of and to carry out the mission to pass it along. leaps we made, the challenges we face, to
possibilities, engulfed in foggy prepare ourselves for the next industrial
mists and malignant gales. Adolescence is a phase where we are revolution.
It may rip, tear, wear down emotionally charged, where we start
through time and distance, to question more than we can answer. As such, the analogy of the sailboat emerges.
but no matter the price or Thoughts of depression, anxiety and self- The depiction of how a sailor finds their
prize, the sailor’s tales always doubt fill our mind, inhibiting a part way through trials and tribulations even
find their way. They arise from in our head that we just can’t shake off. through the unpredictability of the seas,
the sea, their stories, borne by We need to be able to cope and find our the same way we may struggle through life

the depths of the ocean, the footing, to explore this new part of us yet still strive in due time. Thus, it is from
product of such escapades.” without dismissal. Personal exploration these journeys, we collect and compile,

bridges itself between understanding and presenting finally to those who will lend
Written by acceptance, to form a balance between their ears and eyes, after countless reviews
Jess Khoo Sr2ScA what we may or may not know. Only and revamps…
then will we be able to find solace within
ourselves, building up our headspace and “Papyrus Issue 1: Exploration”.
being rightfully comfortable with our
individuality.

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