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We’ve finally hit the double digits!

Week 10 has come around pretty freaking fast. If the time warp doesn’t freak you out, the fact that your major assignments and exams are just around the corner probably will. Or if they weren’t, they probably are now that I’ve gone and made a big deal about it.

Awkward. Sorry guys.

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Exam time can take its toll. My study ammo includes Oreos and peanut butter, which, while delicious, are not the best things to fuel the brain during a bender ( studying, of course). But even though I know this to be true, pretty much nothing short of a loaded gun can to stop me from reaching for the buttery goodness of the Oreo/peanut combo.

Emily Cones-Browne Blitz Editor blitzeditor@arc.unsw. edu.au

So how do you overcome an adverse addiction similar to mine before you end up turning into an Oreo? Blitz has the answer for you (it kind of goes without saying doesn’t it?!). We’ve put together a whole issue on health: we explain how to annihilate those bad habits you’ve accumulated while being a super hard-working student (let’s blame the schools), chat to fitness guru Tiffiny Hall about her exercise advice (and guilty pleasures), and we get an inside look at a day in the life of a med student, which actually made us feel like we’re not working hard enough.

On that note, I think another Oreo is in order.

From Monday to Thursday this week, Arc board elections are happening. This is massively important- a whole bunch of candidates are asking you to trust them with the future of your student organisation and elect them to be one of Arc’s two new directors. It’s your chance to have a say in the future of Arc, so I can’t stress the importance of getting online and voting.

Next Thursday (May 23) is the Arc Annual General Meeting.

This is a good opportunity to find out more about the way your student organisation is being run. We will be voting on some constitutional amendments too, which we need as many members attending as possible. So don’t be a stranger, make an appearance and vote!

On this issue’s topic of healthy living, my tip is to prepare your food as much as possible. You can even use the microwave spaces on upper (Mathews lounges), middle (opposite Quad G042) or lower campus (at the side of Blockhouse, facing Tyree Building) to reheat last night’s dinner!

See you around, Alex

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See you on the flip side, Em

This semester is definitely now in full swing and some pretty big things are going down (without even mentioning exams and assignments) before we can even think about the home stretch.

Alex Peck Chair of the Board

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05 Bitz and Pieces 07 A Quickie with…Tiffiny Hall: We chatted to this wonder woman about how to stay healthy when hitting the books (and her number one guilty pleasure) 08 Kicking Student Habits: Old habits die hard, especially student ones—we can be a lazy, crazy bunch when we want to be. We’ve got some solutions to combat your problem areas and help you kick the nasties to the curb.

10 A Day in the Life of a med student: Blitz gets a first-hand look inside the life of a med student (you’ll be in awe) 11 Whats On: Your must-have guide to the happs at UNSW and some cheap ass stuff to see and do in Sydney 15 Stay Healthy on Campus: UNSW is bursting with health-related services including a museum full of diseases that will scare you into joining the gym 16 5 Things: Jokes that went horribly wrong.

Think you have life regrets? You won’t feel so bad once you read about these fails 17 Model Students: We snapped the super stylish Ben and Evie, presenters of the weekly ‘What’s On at Arc’ video 18 Reviews 19 Trending: Pugs. Reporter Krystal Sutherland examines the endearing pups, and why you need to adopt one (or at least some pug-paraphernalia) 20 Mind Games: Squinting at the page will not help 21 Go Clubbing: Blitz goes clubbing with the vegetable fanatics at VeggieSoc. Mum and dad were right when they told you to eat your veggies, and these guys will vouch for it!

23 Vox Pops: Were you lucky enough to get your vox popped?

2013 Arc Board Elections

Voting noW opEn opens Mon MAy 13 / Closes thurs 16 MAy there are two (2) ordinary Director positions up for election.

you DeCiDe Online voting will commence on MONDAY 13 MAY 2013 and conclude on THURSDAY 16 MAY 2013.

All ordinary Arc members as at 28 March 2013 are eligible to vote.

arc.unsw.edu.au/board-election

An email containing the voting link will be sent to all ordinary Members of Arc eligible to vote (to the email address provided when signing up for Membership). the link will lead eligible students to a page where candidate photos and statement can be viewed.

Members then vote in preference of the candidates they want elected.

MorE info returning.officer@arc.unsw.edu.au or 02 9385 7711 or arc.unsw.edu.au/board-election

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1. The Med Revue is here

again! It’s the oldest running revue on campus (which must say something), so don’t miss out on getting your tickets.

2. Tiffiny Hall’s great advice

SHIT 1. Missing the bus by 0.01 of a second. You can feel the lucky commuters sniggering as the bus pulls away.

2. Spending the weekend

for staying healthy while studying- check it out on page 7.

being paralysed by the thought of upcoming assignments, so you’re being unproductive and missing out on fun.

3. Exam-free exam period.

3. When it’s too cold to eat

Gotta love being in the Arts faculty.

ice cream- perhaps the most depressing part of the colder months.

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ULTIMATE FRISBEE In preparation for the upcoming UNSW Ultimate Frisbee Interfaculty Games, Blitz sat down with team captain Yew Eng Ng to find out about regular Frisbee’s hardcore, badass cousin.

Let’s start with the basics, give me the lowdown on Ultimate Frisbee.

It’s a fun, fast paced and non-contact sport.

It’s played on a rectangular field with two end zones, with a goal scored when the disc is caught in the opposite end zone. Players cannot run with the disc and must pass it among their teammates to score. This leads to a game full of spectacular throws, catches and dives.

How long has Ultimate existed at UNSW and how did it begin?

The Ultimate Frisbee club at UNSW was founded in 1995 by Jonathan Potts who set up a stall at O-Week and played a bunch of Frisbee videos. He recruited a bunch of keen first years who learned the game and who would eventually become regular features of the Australian Ultimate scene. Jonathan later went on to become the President of the World Flying Disc Federation, so he’s a pretty big deal. The club has since grown tenfold and has produced all the top elite players in Australia.

For those not in the know, just how big is Ultimate Down Under?

It’s one of the fastest growing sports in the country. We regularly feature in the top

5 teams at any world championships. At the Australian University Games, Ultimate Frisbee is regularly one of the largest sports in terms of student participation. 2012 saw 26 universities represented for Ultimate Frisbee at the Adelaide AUGs. What’s a fun fact about Ultimate Frisbee that people might not know?

There are no referees! Ultimate relies upon a Spirit of the Game that places the responsibility for fair play on every player.

Players on the field make their own calls when violations occur. If there is disagreement regarding an incident, the Frisbee returns to the player who made the last pass and the game resumes. The Spirit of the Game award is a highly coveted award at tournaments.

What do you do when your Frisbees get stuck on roofs?

Happy hour.

Interfaculty Games

by UNSW Ultimate WHERE: UNSW Village Green WHEN: 2.30-5pm Thurs 16 May WHO: Everyone is welcome. Email

unswultimate@gmail.com with your name, student ID and faculty and they’ll sort you out into a team.

UNSWeetened 2013 R

oald Dahl once said, ‘Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.’ Well kids, get set to teleport yourselves. UNSWeetened Literary Journal, UNSW’s annual creative writing anthology, is back for what is sure to be another bonanza year in 2013. They’re looking for the absolute best poetry and prose from undergrads and postgrads alike.

Whether you study bimolecular engineering or English, this is your big chance to score a legit publishing credit in a highly regarded literary journal. The most bitchin’ entries will be printed and bound and handed to you like it’s your firstborn child, except without all the crying and nappy changes and a lifelong commitment to a living thing.

You even get to attend a swanky launch party during Artsweek to rub shoulders with other peeps on the Sydney writing scene. You totes know you’ve made it big in the literary world when people are willing to give you free food and wine just for tapping away at your keyboard. Who knows? Maybe it will lead you further down the writing path until someone starts throwing cold hard cash at you for your pretty words.

Entries close in June and can be up to 3000 words long (80 lines for poetry), so get your quills out and your little Shakespearean hearts prosing away!

Visit onlineforms.arc.unsw.edu.au/ unsweetened to enter now!

Krystal Sutherland

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TIFFINY HALL Former Gladiator, ex-Biggest Loser trainer, author and taekwondo black belt Tiffiny Hall (AKA Wonder Woman) is a guru when it comes to all things health and fitness. Blitz was lucky enough to chat to Hall (our unofficial life coach) about her student days, advice on how to stay healthy while studying, and why she would beat you in a fight.

You attended Melbourne University, graduating with a Bachelor of Media and Communications and a Diploma in Modern Languages. What was your favourite part of university?

Finally studying what I wanted to. Having the freedom of subject choices and doing an arts degree with the media was just such a fantastic opportunity to broaden my writing skills. I was doing professional writing and editing as well as creative writing, which I really love; that was something that wasn’t fostered at my school.

What kind of student were you?

I’ve always been very conscientious, always on time, and studied hard. That’s just my personality; I’ve always been an overachiever.

Looking back I wish I had chilled out more, I wish I’d been in the uni bar drinking beers with the others and joining a few more clubs.

On the topic of sport, you have a fifth dan black belt. Have you ever needed to use those skills to kick ass in a threatening situation?

Oh I wish. I think the testament of a good black belt is someone who has the confidence and the skills so they don’t put themself in a position where they would have to use their

martial art. The only place I have ever used my martial arts is in the Gladiator arena. But not on the streets yet. Maybe one day!

How did you handle stress whilst studying?

I was one of those students who made a lot of mistakes especially through my early years of uni. I think the worst mistake I made was giving up exercise to study. If you do that then chemically your brain isn’t firing as it should be. I also think that nutrition is so important throughout your study, making sure you’re eating lots of vegetables and vitamins.

Alcohol is the worst thing for your brain when you’re studying. After a night of drinking you wake up and you’re not exactly motivated to get up and hit the books. Laying off the grog is usually the best advice.

I know many people struggle with staying healthy when the cold weather sets in. Do you have any tips on avoiding winter weight?

Because I grew up doing exercise in a class environment doing taekwondo, I’m very social with my exercise. I’m not one to go to the gym alone, I hate that. I’m not very motivated. Get some friends together, start running groups together, do group fitness together. Even if you’re strapped for cash, hire a personal trainer, split it between five or six students

and do that once a week. Doing exercise with your buddies is the best, otherwise it can be pretty tough to get off the couch. So that would be my best advice, find friends and exercise together.

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HE Finally, if you could choose anything, WAS what would your last meal be?

Oh my God, my most favourite thing on the planet is donuts. And I know that’s probably a surprise but I just love them. I mean, I don’t cave in at the Krispy Kreme at the airport…u.au .unsw.ed but every now and then that will beblitz@ aarctreat.

So it would probably be two of those. Or two.

Maybe a box. If it was my last meal it would probably be a box.

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For your chance to win a signed copy of Tiffiny’s ‘Lighten Up’ cookbook, email blitz@arc.unsw.edu.au with ‘TIFF’ in the subject line and tell us your favourite workout regime.

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STUDENT HABITS S

peaking from personal experience, students are a lazy bunch. There are so many better alternatives to exercising (like sitting on the couch playing Xbox all day or drowning your food in gravy) that being healthy is often the last thing on our minds. With this in mind, Blitz has tested out a range of awesome solutions to the worst of student behaviours, which we guarantee will transform you into a superhuman in no time!

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Lack of exercise

THE PROBLEM: We get it: you have people to Facey, Hunter Hero status on Buck

Hunter to maintain and UNSW Love Letters to scroll through. The result? You’re so unfit that you’ve seriously considered a wheelie bag to carry your text books around in and are passionately campaigning to get escalators on campus.

THE SOLUTION:

Don’t get overwhelmed; start small. You’ve heard it before: take the stairs, get off the bus early, yada yada yada. But you can easily overcome your resistance to these ideas by making it a fun activity with friends: next time you have to go up the Basser Steps, take a hula hoop. Not only will this be fun, it’ll double the sweat-factor and knock people out of the way. Win-win!

Alternatively, next time the pesky Ibis’ run up to steal your food while you’re sitting on the library lawn, hunt those motherf**kers down. This wild goose chase could literally go on for hours and is a simple way to squeeze in a quick bit of cardio.

Drinking

THE PROBLEM: Every night out since who knows when is a blur followed by a painful post-mortem the next day where you hide in your room cringing with a vague smell of vomit in your hair (I have a friend who unwillingly dyed her hair with the help of vodka raspberries).

THE SOLUTION: Maybe it’s time you find yourself an actual hobby? We suggest stamp

collecting, bird watching or flying a kite. Don’t even try and say you need a drink to dance.

Turn that big sloppy mess with flailing limbs into a perfectly choreographed Gangnam Style dance routine and repeat it for every song.

Fast Food Diets

THE PROBLEM: You eat Mi Goreng noodles so much you’ve had scurvy. Twice.

THE SOLUTION: Cheap shit like those fast food dollar deals sure are enticing, but

a diet sustained on eating pure lard is only going to lead to you being pure lard. You’ll resemble Jabba the Hutt in no time and spend a great deal of time on the toilet. Hit up the weekly VeggieSoc lunch or become a member of the Thoughtful Foods Co-op. Homer Simpson once said that you don’t make friends with salad, but trust us when we say he was dead wrong.

Lack of sleep

THE PROBLEM: You’re so effing tired that that you’re a mindless zombie, traipsing around the campus half-asleep with drool hanging from your mouth. So hot.

THE SOLUTION: Staying up ‘til 4am in the morning watching Nek Minnit videos does

keep you in the know and you’ll impress the ladies/fellas with your witty one liners but it’ll catch up on you. I could say the same for late night cramming, but we all know that just doesn’t happen. If you’re at uni collapsing from exhaustion, drag yourself to the Welfare Room in the Blockhouse: they have a spare bed perfect for a decent kip.

Smoking

THE PROBLEM: You love smoking on a death stick so much that you wake up with one in your mouth each morning.

THE SOLUTION: Although you may think puffing away on a cigarette makes you look like James Dean, there are way healthier ways to be a rebel without a cause. Start a racing career, exclusively wear red leather jackets, or invest in a lifetime supply of hair gel. The options are endless.

If you find that you really can’t cope without having a cigarette hanging out of your mouth at all times then why not just buy yourself some Chupa Chups? Or invest in an E-Ciggy (Google it).

Poor Sanitary Behaviour

THE PROBLEM: You find yourself so strapped for time that instead of showering, you simply slather your armpits with endless amounts of deodorant. We call this the ‘Ke$ha Shower’.

THE SOLUTION:

In just about every neighbourhood there has to be at least one house that gets their early morning sprinkler on. Find this house, make sure it is on your way to uni, and go for a daily frolic on the front lawn. Surely that grass isn’t so greedy that it can’t spare a little water for you as well? You won’t even need a towel as you’ll dry off when the police chase your naked arse down the street.

Simon Anicich

Alternatively, the uni gym has showers you can use between classes, although if you aren’t a member you’ll have to get past the muscle-bound gym junkies first. Throw a tub of Creatine in the other direction and they’ll all go running.

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A Day in the Life of a 6am: Wake up Alarm detonates and rips you from the warm respite of sleep. You were dreaming of a world without clocks. Next minute you’re in a car sipping extra-strength instant coffee from an oversized plastic mug and squinting at the dark freeway, the first flares of morning light leaking into the sky.

8am: Handover You sneak into the back of the conference room and hide behind the junior medical officer while the residents update the rest of the team on new patients that have come under the department. Your heart pulses in your chest (an acute tachycardia) when the consultant asks you to interpret a recent X-ray.

Med Student.

12pm: ‘Learn medicine’ There is a gap between the end of ward rounds and your department meeting.

Your registrar tells you to go off and learn medicine. You wander the hallways in a daze. Eventually you find a lady with congestive heart failure. You introduce yourself and ask if you can examine her chest. She says no. You thank her and walk out of the room.

12.45pm: Meeting There are many doctors outside the conference room for the meeting to begin.

Lining the walls are tables covered with food. You are glad you memorised the timetable for department meetings because you can’t afford lunch. Everyone shuffles into the room while you push as many sandwiches into your mouth as you can.

You are glad you memorised the timetable for department meetings because you can’t afford lunch.

Everyone shuffles into the room while you push as many sandwiches into your mouth as you can.

8.15: Ward rounds You scramble behind the team, holding notes and trying to follow what’s being said. The registrar is talking to you: ‘What can you tell me about this patient?’ All you see is page after page of illegible scribble and unknown acronyms. After listening to an elderly man’s heart, you notice it sounds strange: ‘I think there’s some extra sound there’. ‘You mean the pan-systolic murmur consistent with his history of mitral regurgitation?’ Yeah. That’s the one.

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1pm: Afternoon clinic The registrar has a patient he wants you to see who ‘has vWD’. He says it as if it were an explanation. While the consultant is busy taking a history you quickly Google search ‘vWD’ on your phone. Von Willebrand’s Disease: a bleeding disorder. You run the doctor from ‘factor XII’ through to ‘fibrinogen’. ‘Good, but what can you tell me about platelet adhesion?’ You go silent. You look down at your phone.

4pm: Finish up You’re making your way to the common room to get your things and leave when you finally spot your teaching supervisor leaving a clinic. You run her down in the hallway to mark off your overdue learning plan. She asks you who you are.

4.30pm: Drive home On the drive back home you fall asleep at the traffic lights and are woken up to the blaring of car horns behind you. You still have half an hour to drive home so you pull off into a side road, kill the engine, let the seat down, and close your eyes.

7.30pm: Drive home (take two) 8pm: Home There is leftover food left out on the table. It is cold but you shovel it down gratefully.

You settle down at your desk and open your pathology textbook: Von Willebrand’s Disease. You start cramming the pathogenesis of vMD under a reading lamp because you can’t afford to replace the light in your bedroom.

6am: Wake up The alarm goes off and wakes you up. Your face is pasted to the page by a puddle of drool. Today is a new day.

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THE WHITE HOUSE 2nd BIRTHDAY The White House is turning two—hip hip hooray!

All birthdays deserve a solid celebration to mark the significance of turning one year older (and wiser), and The White House’s birthday is no exception. To celebrate the milestone, The White House will be partying all week long, so there’s no excuse to miss out on all the birthday cake, dancing, balloons and piñata (yes, there’s birthday piñata).

Birthday week kicks off on Monday with a free cupcake with every purchase til 12pm. Then there’ll be free popcorn and lolly bags if you head along to Movie Night (you totes should, we always do).

Tuesday will see the same awesome cupcake deal, but with $2 White House coffees to accompany. Careful you don’t overdose on the awesome prices. Lucky the deal is for regular size only, or shit could get intense.

The big day falls on Wednesday, where there’ll be a Mexican Fiesta happening all day. Free sombreros for the first 100 people, $4 Pacifico beers, a mariachi band, a PINATA! We could go on and on…

Don’t miss Thursday or Friday either: Thursday is themed in ‘twos’, where there’ll be two bands, two pizzas and two drinks for $20, and Friday is the official cake day, complete with balloons (and a balloon guy!), streamers, helium and a jazz band from 7-9pm (of course).

Happy birthday White House!

The Roundhouse encourages the Responsible Service of Alcohol *Not available during major events

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THE ROUNDHOUSE

CLOTHES SWAP The most enjoyable way to revamp your wardrobe!

Got some clothes in your closet you haven’t worn since the dinosaurs roamed the earth? Keen to go shopping to pick up the latest fashions but can’t even afford to buy one sock out of a pair? Well then, this is the event for you! To be held in week 13, the Roundhouse Clothes Swap is the best way to score yourself some cool new free shit (up to 10 items), in exchange for any pre-loved items you bring along.

So what are you waiting for? Start rummaging through your cupboard in preparation for the most fashionable event of the year! Roundhouse Clothes Swap, so hot right now.

Check out http://www.arc.unsw.edu.au/events for more deets

WHERE: Roundhouse WHEN: 12-6pm, Thurs 30 May (Clothes Swap) / 9am5pm, 20-29 May, until 10am 30 May (to drop off clothes) COST: Free

Daily Mass @ Quad The Catholic chaplaincy at UNSW hosts a daily mass for students to pray and celebrate together.

Med Revue 2013: Cirque du Surgery

Roundhouse Happy Hour

Tues 14 May – Fri 17 May @ Science Theatre

The happiest place at UNSW would have to be the Roundhouse during happy hour. The drinks are flowing, music is playing, and classes are over for the day.

Make sure you definitely don’t miss it on Wednesday from 5-7pm, as the fun extends for an extra hour (only if you can handle it though, it’s not for the rookies).

UNSW’s oldest revue is back for its 38th show! You can expect a night of skits, comedy, musical inspired songs, and a crap load of laughter. BYO medical dictionary, you’ll probs need it to get all the cool med in-jokes.

5-6pm

COFA Exhibition: MorphologyUntil May 18

@ Kudos Gallery, Paddington Morphology is an exhibition that presents the participating artists’ personal understanding of science, nature and all things natural. This group exhibition is a multi-disciplinary exploration of art forms in nature, with participating artists including Ainsley Wilcock, Anitta Smith, Louise Zhang, Mathew Purchase and Emma Davey Jenkins.

ALL WEEK

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MAY 13

Free Cupcakes!

8am-12pm @ The White House Score yourself a free baked treat with every purchase.

Daily Mass

12.10pm @ Quad, G055

Bingo

1pm @ Roundhouse BeerGarden Feeling lucky punk?

Queer Collective Meeting

4-6pm @ Queer Space, L9, Chemical Sciences Building

Double Happy Hour

4-6pm @ The White House

Roundhouse Happy Hour 5-6pm @Unibar

Poker

5pm @ Roundhouse Aces high!

MuSoc Open Mic Night

6-8pm @ Club Bar, Roundhouse An opportunity to get up on stage in front of a friendly audience and play some originals or covers. Free for MuSoc members, gold coin donation for everyone else.

Outdoor Movie: The Castle

7pm @ The White House Free popcorn and lolly bags.

TUE

MAY 14

Free Cupcakes!

8am-12pm @ The White House Score yourself a free baked treat with every purchase.

$2 Coffees!

8am-Close @ The White House NB: Regular size only.

Celebration of Marriage Equality 12-1pm @ Globe Lawn Show your support and celebrate marriage equality with a campus wedding!

Free Pool

12-2pm @ Roundhouse Put the wallet away.

Daily Mass

12.10pm @ Quad, G055

VeggieSoc Lunch

Wom*n’s Collective Meeting

Daily Mass

1pm @ Blockhouse L2 Cost: $15

1-2pm @ Wom*n’s Room, East Wing, L1, Blockhouse

Australia Ensemble @ UNSW Free Lunch Hour Concert Series

1.10-2pm @ Leighton Hall, Scientia Building Who doesn’t love a free concert?

Roundhouse Happy Hour 5-6pm @Unibar

Trivia

Med Revue 2013: Cirque du Surgery

7.30pm @ Science Theatre A comedy extravaganza guaranteed to have you in stitches!

WED

12.30pm @ Blockhouse L2 Cost: FREE for Arc Members

12-2pm @ Arc Precinct Cheap and delicious!

12.10pm @ Quad, G040

Theatresports

1pm @ Club Bar, Roundhouse Get your funny bone moving.

Mexican Fiesta

4pm-Close @ The White House Free sombreros for the first 100 people, Mariachi band and much more Mexican madness!

Roundhouse Degrees: How to Swing Dance

5-6pm @BeerGarden

MAY 15

Flea Markets

Pottery Studio Induction

Blitz picks

Pottery Studio Wheel Intro Lesson

@ Arc Precinct No need to leave campus today to spend your hard-earned Centrelink cash. Vintage, bric-a-brac, food and loads more. For info, go to arc.unsw. edu.au/markets

5pm @ Roundhouse

Jitterbug!

Roundhouse Happy Hour 5-7pm @Unibar

Live Music & DJs: Oscar Wuts

5-7pm @ BeerGarden Celebrate hump day with some rockin’ tunes.

Med Revue 2013: Cirque du Surgery 7.30pm @ Science Theatre

MONDAY

TueSDAY

WEDNESDAY

Outdoor Movie: The Castle

Pottery Studio Induction

Roundhouse Degrees: How to Swing Dance

This week’s movie is the Australian cult classic The Castle. For this week only it’s accompanied by free popcorn and lolly bags to celebrate The White House’s 2nd birthday. A free movie and snacks is never a bad thing.

Before you hit the pottery wheel for real, you must take a lesson in safe pottering (we don’t want you hurting anyone, or making clay mugs so bad that you scold you and your guests during hot-chocolate hour). Don’t put off the induction any longer- we know how badly you want to get behind the wheel.

Swing dancing is one of those skills that are sure to pull the ladies/fellas. It’s a dance accompanied by jazz music, so it oozes with old-school sass. Check out this degree if you want a spectacular way to impress the Roundie dance floor at the End of Session Party in Week 13.

7pm @ The White House

12.30pm @ Blockhouse L2

5pm @ Roundhouse

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FREE Roundhouse Weekly Activities

Wed 23 May

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The White House is turning two, which means it’s time to reminisce and say things like ‘time just flies so fast’, and ‘I remember the day that it opened, I feel so old’. Come along and get amongst the various birthday festivities! Hip hip hooray.

@ Library Lawn Grab a cuppa and a bikkie and help raise money for cancer research.

MON Bingo 1pm, Poker 5pm TUES Pool 12-2pm, Trivia 5pm WED Theatresports 1pm WED-FRI Live Music and DJs 5-7pm

Composition to Movement Festival Fri 24 May-Sun 26 May

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8.15-9.30pm @ Swimming Pool, UNSW Lifestyle Centre The world’s most exciting threedimensional, weightless sport plays at UNSW. Meet at the deep end of the UNSW pool with your mask, snorkel and fins if you have them. For more info go to the Facebook page UNSW Underwater Rugby.

Deftones

1-2pm @ Welfare Room, L1, Blockhouse

Queer Collective Meeting

2-4pm @ Queer Space, L9, Chemical Sciences Building

Wom*n’s Collective Meeting

4-5pm @ Wom*n’s Room, East Wing, L1, Blockhouse

Roundhouse Happy Hour

7-11pm @ Roundhouse

5-6pm @Unibar

SOLD OUT.

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Equity & Disability Collective Meeting

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White House 2nd Birthday Open-Close @ The White House

Come along and get amongst the festivities! Happy second birthday White House.

Enviro Collective Meeting 12pm @ Outside Blockhouse

Daily Mass

12.10pm @ Quad, G054

Pottery Studio Induction 12.30pm @ L2 Blockhouse

Live Music: Tokyo Denmark Sweden 5-6pm @The White House

Med Revue 2013: Cirque du Surgery 7.30pm @ Science Theatre

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Amazing Raise 2013: Cirque du Surgery 9am Library Lawn

A fundraising bonanza modeled after the hit TV show to raise money for Medical Students Aid Project (MSAP). Email charities@ medsoc.org.au for more details and to register your team!

Australia Ensemble @ UNSW Subscription Series 8-10pm @ Clancy Auditorium

Go to http://www.ae.unsw. edu.au for details. COST: $26 Concession/$17 Student Rush

Nuff Jockeys DJs

5-7pm @ Roundhouse Start your weekend here.

Jazz Club

7-9pm @ The White House All aboard the soul train.

@ Io Myers Studio Brings together emerging artists, arts professionals, students and the community to experience the work of established Australian composers and choreographers, artists and academics to experience and discuss the art and process of collaboration.

Student Exchange Application deadline Fri 24 May

If you fancy going on exchange in Semester One, 2014, make sure you get your application in today!

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Roundhouse Clothes Swap Thurs 30 May

@ Roundhouse Got some old clothes you want to get rid of? Keen to revamp your wardrobe? Instead of chucking out that terrible knitted sweater your parents gave you last Christmas, bring it along and swap it for something even better (just don’t tell your parents).

WEEK 13

Student Cookbook Launch Wed 5 June

For details, go to www.arc.unsw.edu. au/cookbook

End of Session Party: Back to the Future Thurs 6 June

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@ Roundhouse Start preparing yourself for the big daddy of all parties!

ENGSOC Ball Fri 7 June

@ Roundhouse For details, go to http://www. unswengsoc.com/ball/

Dud party?

Med Revue 203: Cirque du Surgery

Live Music & DJs: Nuff Jockeys DJs

What’s better than kicking off your weekend festivities with a night of laughs, skits, dancing and medical injokes? That was a rhetorical question, because nothing matches the hilarity or talent of this revue. Running for its 38th year, the Med Revue never fails to impress.

Get down to the Roundhouse to start your weekend with some talented live music and DJs. Food, beer, plus music= the awesomest math.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas WHERE: The Soda Factory WHEN: 8pm Monday 20 May COST: Free Free entry, free popcorn and free Johnny Depp? Could a Monday night possibly get any better? Check out The Soda Factory’s screening of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for an unforgettable night of bitchin’ quote gathering. To top off the awesomeness, all house wine, Tiger Beer and food go for $5 a pop! ‘You poor fool!’ as Raoul Duke would say. ‘Wait till you see those goddamn bats!’

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BELVOIR THEATRE: STORIES I WANT TO TELL YOU IN PERSON Co-produced by Malthouse Theatre, Belvoir has done it again with this stellar theatre production.

Writer Lally Katz is one of the most performed writers in Australia. Stories sees Katz trying her hand at being a one-woman show, performing and writing the entire thing. Katz has written some of the funniest and most original plays in the country (like Neighbourhood Watch), so it’s only natural that she would try her hand at the acting side of things. One of the advantages of being a writer is that you get to leave the nerve-wracking experience of performing to the actors: so why did Katz really decide to take to the stage?

The main part of the story centres around Katz going to a fortune teller (which Katz apparently regularly attends for creative inspiration) when she was really meant to be researching a commissioned play about the Jewish Golem instead (writer’s block and procrastination: we’ve all been there). Featuring Katz as her own true self, she embroils herself in a tale of art, love, shoes, money and the apocalypse (naturally). Although Lally calls Stories a ‘play’, it’s more of a spoken-word performance where she narrates a series of anecdotes about her life (and the trials and tribulations of writing).

WHEN: Until 26 May WHERE: Belvoir St Theatre COST: $35 for concessiony

As reviewers have noted, ‘anything could happen: it’s Lally Katz’.

What makes for better theatre than a bit of ad lib?

Belvoir Theatre creates some of the most visionary, innovative, quirky and acclaimed Australian plays, right here in Sydney. You’d be crazy to miss out on such awesomeness.

WHERE: The Rocks Square and Laneways WHEN: 12pm Saturday 18 May COST: Free Catch one of the very first events kicking off this year’s Sydney Writer’s Festival this Saturday. Troubadours and Minstrels features Miles Merrill and performance poet (and UNSW alumnus!) Scott Sandwich leading four small audiences through the nooks and crannies of The Rocks to secret performance spaces. Experience poetry readings set against a backdrop of music, couches, rugs and curtains nestled in peculiar places.

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Pulp Kitchen WHERE: The Soda Factory WHEN: Every Wednesday 5pm – midnight COST: $5 menu Chow down on classic feeds from Pulp Fiction like the Big Kahuna Burger, the Royale with Cheese or maybe a $5 Martin and Lewis shake. Tunes from Tarantino’s masterpiece play softly in the background while you reminisce about the time Marvin got shot in the face. Be cool Honey Bunny!

STAY HEALTHY ON CAMPUS It can be assumed you spend a great deal of time at ye olde UNSW, whether it be studying, working or partying at the Roundhouse. But did you know there are plenty of ways to get your health kick on campus as well? With this in mind, Blitz presents our pick of the top health-related services right here at uni (and a museum that will scare you into taking better care of yourself), with the aim of turning you into a fitness freak Happy Harold would be proud to call his mate!

Did you know there are over 3,000 examples of diseased human tissue right here at UNSW? The Museum of Human Diseases is the only public museum of its kind in Australia and contains such disturbing things as pneumonia-ridden lungs and gangrenous feet. Don’t forget to lather yourself with Dettol before checking out these exhibitions!

UNSW Museum of Human Diseases

The UNSW Museum of Human Diseases is located on the ground floor of the Samuels Building, and is open 10am-5pm Monday to Friday. Entry is free for UNSW students.

CAPS is a free and confidential service provided to all UNSW students. They offer numerous programs such as individual counselling, workshops for skills development and numerous self-help resources promoting adjustment to the uni lifestyle.

UNSW Counselling & Psychological Services (CAPS)

So if you’re a bit bewildered by the whole uni thing, drop by and book yourself an appointment.

CAPS is located at Level 2, East Wing, Quadrangle Building. They also have an office at COFA located at Room 5, Ground Floor, G Block. For more information go to counselling.unsw.edu.au

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Thoughtful Foods

For more info, pay the co-op a visit at Shop G05c at the back of the Roundhouse, or head to their website at thoughtfulfoods.org.au/

Winter is coming, which for the people of Winterfell may lead to Wildling invasions.

However, here in the real world it just means a shit load of germs are floating about. If one of these little guys gets you, the UNSW Health Service is your best option. The clinic has doctors, nurses, a mental health nurse, visiting psychiatrists, and even an orthopaedic surgeon on staff. One of these people will surely get you on the mend!

Domestic students are bulk billed and international students will be billed directly if they have insurance with Medibank Private or OSHC Worldcare.

The UNSW Health Service is located on the ground floor of the Quadrangle Building.

It operates as a walk-in clinic, though appointments can be made by calling: 9385 5425.

Thoughtful Foods is a not-for-profit food cooperative which provides cheap, minimally packaged and ethically produced wholefoods and household products. These will not only keep your body in excellent shape, but will also keep Mother Nature chipper.

Members score a 10% discount on all products in the store, with this discount increasing up to as much as 40% if you volunteer a few hours of your time to help run the place.

If you’re looking to take your love interest on a date they are not likely to forget (let’s face it, what’s more romantic than a cancerous penis), this is one place you should check out.

If you’re keen to become a lean, mean, fitness machine, this is the joint for you. Containing a heated indoor swimming pool, weights/cardio room, and a multitude of fitness classes, you are guaranteed to find the exercise that suits you. Get off the couch, head on down to the uni gym and sign up today! How much do you lift bro?

UNSW Fitness and Aquatic Centre

The UNSW Fitness and Aquatic Centre is located on Lower Campus, High St. Head to their website at www.unigym.unsw.edu.au/

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The War of the Worlds

On October 30, 1938, a radio station in the US aired an uninterrupted newscast about an unfolding alien invasion. While it was meant to be a Halloween special, a shitload of gullible peeps took it as fact and flipped the eff out. The small town of Concrete in Washington even happened to lose power at the same time the Martians were supposedly invading, causing all the residents to kick into full apocalypse survival mode (mainly they made for the hills to guard their moonshine).

Sex bomb

It was muck-up day in 2006 when Tyell Morton set out to cause some mischief on his last day of high school. Disguised in a hoodie, Morton crawled through the window of the female bathroom with a mysterious package under his arm. Cue panic. A bomb squad and $8,000 later, the cops eventually discovered the only thing inside the box was a sex doll. Morton paid for his prank: he was charged with institutional criminal mischief, a felony in the US that can land you in prison for up to eight years.

Sister act

How far would you go to score concert tix? In an attempt to grab some freebies to see Kanye West, a woman agreed to call her husband on live radio and tell him their kid wasn’t actually his son. What did hubby dearest have to say to that? ‘I’ve been screwing your sister for the last year!’

Dammit Kanye. Haven’t you ruined enough lives?!

Leaping lawyer Chicken run

If you’re gonna pull a dick move like pelting chicken bum nuts at cars, you gotta accept that shit comes with consequences.

Thankfully the price isn’t always as high as the one paid by 14-year-old Danny Crawford, who was shot and killed in 2006 by the guy whose car he’d been egging.

‘Of Dogs and Drugs...’

Dear Blitz, I got stopped leaving the pub by a policeman with a sniffer dog. The dog sniffed me and sat down and I was asked to go with them to the station. I decided to fess up (I was worried they would proceed to a cavity search!) and showed them 22 grams of pot in my pocket.

Now I have to go to court - what penalty can I get and are police are allowed to use sniffer dogs like that?

Garry Hoy had an interesting party trick he’d break out at boardroom functions.

While trying to prove that the glass windows of the Toronto-Dominion Centre were unbreakable by throwing himself against them, Hoy fell 24 stories to his death. In a way, Hoy got the last laugh: the glass itself didn’t break; it was the window frame that gave way, causing the entire pane of glass to pop out.

Krystal Sutherland

Hammertime.

Weeded-out Dear Weeded-out, The sniffer dog search was within police powers. Police can use dogs for ‘general drug detection’ on any person leaving or entering pubs, bars, music/sporting venues, buses and trains or tattoo parlors.

Ideally you want a ‘Section 10’ which means that the court finds you guilty of an offence, but dismisses the charge without anything going on your criminal record.

This penalty is discretionary and based on a number of considerations including age, prior history, mental illness and any mitigating circumstances that may reduce your guilt; but keep in mind that for drug offences, it is difficult to get.

Even though 22 grams is considered a ‘small’ amount under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act, you could be looking at a fine of $2200 and/or two years imprisonment.

As far as cavity searches go, you have no need to fear them (unless at Customs), as NSW Police don’t have that power.

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The latest of the multi-million dollar Die Hard series, A Good Day to Die Hard is a very deceptive film. Its opening minutes see multiple plot threads being set up with Nolan-esque aplomb, seducing you into letting your guard down. This is when the film’s putrid awfulness strikes.

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It’s not the meagre script, nor is it Bruce Willis’ disinterested performance, the absence of any remotely interesting or intimidating villains or the fact that this film turns Willis into a bloody sidekick.

Did the producers think that the public wanted to see John McClane being made to look like a useless twat by his punk kid? I don’t think so.

The issue was definitely the cinematography. They probably would have gotten better filming if they had given the camera to a drunken geriatric.

Shaky-cam, zoom-ins and shutter-speed are just some examples of the visual savagery Moore employs in this magnum crapus.

Even the stupid ending can’t overshadow the horribly rough look of this film, though it does try. I won’t spoil it for you, but suffice to say, it makes the fighter jet antics of Die Hard 4 look positively Dogme 95 in comparison. Yet that’s to be expected when you get the guy who wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine to do your screenplay.

If you can get over the aesthetic and intellectual deficits, this film DOES have a lot of explosions.

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There is something truly beautiful about reading a blog and feeling like you are drooling but with a sense of despair and longing as you wished you were eating the cakes and pastries pictured before you.

Written by one of UNSW’s very own students (Katherine Eugino), KatCakes sits in a niche patisserie-based blogging world on Tumblr. Scrolling through the blog you will find an insurmountable range of delectable cakes and pastries.

The presentation is classy and sits well within the niche food blogging market. KatCakes provides the recipes for traditional cakes, cakes with a spin and reviews of cafes and restaurants in Sydney. The blog is full of fun facts about cooking, which liven the writing and recipes (like her recent review of High Tea at the Gardeners Lodge near Broadway that reveals that this popular pastime traditionally included savory foods).

One of the best things about KatCakes is that it highlights a specific ingredient and takes the reader on a journey of discovery about bringing it into a new and fun recipe.

After scrolling through the blog I continue to dream about all the recipes I wish would magically appear in front of me. Maybe one day soon I’ll try my hand at making the ‘Mini Jam Doughnut Muffins’. Delish.

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Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman Directed by: Antoine Fuqua Olympus has Fallen is the latest action-thriller from director Antoine Fuqua (director of Training Day and Shooter). Gerard Butler (Law Abiding Citizen, 300) plays Mike Banning, who is head of security to the President of the United States of America, played by Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight, Battle for Los Angeles). The film is set in modern day America, where a North Korean extremist group decides to attack the White House in an attempt to overthrow the US government. Taking the president and the majority of the cabinet hostage in the president’s bunker below the White House, it’s up to Agent Banning to take back the White House from within, single-handedly.

This film had hundreds of opportunities to be predictable, corny and just another try-hard, Die Hard movie, but it didn’t. The script is punchy and well written, and the bad-ass comments made by Banning leave you feeling satisfied, unlike some of the corny action one-liners that often populate other movies of this genre. The special effects were quite awful though; I think The Little Mermaid had better action sequences, which kind of detracted from the intense nature of the film.

Morgan Freeman is also in this film—if that isn’t a good reason to see it, I don’t know what is. There are quite a few political elements that have been woven into the plot and are quite interesting to watch. Overall, Olympus may have fallen, but my expectations of the film did not.

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- A willingness to commit fully and wholeheartedly to hashtags. How else will people be able to understand how deeply you love your bug-eyed puglet? #puglife #pugsnotdrugs #pugstagram #pugs4life - Boatloads of novelty shirts that say things like, ‘I didn’t choose the pug life. The pug life chose me.’ So gangsta.

- An appreciation of quirkiness. Pugs pack a whole lot of personality into their stocky little bodies and have been known to treat humans like their bitches.

The final verdict: Famous German comedian Vicco von Bülow once said ‘A life without pugs is possible but pointless,’ and we here at Blitz totally agree.

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Arc is calling on all volunteers interested in being involved with Artsweek 2013, happening on the 26th - 30th August. Volunteers will have the chance to be involved in a wide range of areas in event management.

Roles vary from constructing installations to posting on the Facebook page, to even running an entire exhibition!

Head to http://www.arc.unsw.edu.au/ volunteer to submit an application.

The Volunteer Army is collecting volunteers from UNSW who will get out into the community and assist not for profit organisations at their events.

The army engages in various volunteering missions in and around the local community in a fun and organised manner. Students who join can partake in as many or as few missions as they choose, but a minimum commitment of 20 hours over the year is required to qualify for AHEGS. Head to www.thevolunteerarmy.com to join.

For further enquiries, email: volunteerarmy@ arc.unsw.edu.au

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The UNSW Vegetarian Society (VeggieSoc) is one of the most delicious clubs on campus and their weekly lunches offer a cheap and highly tasty food option for students. Blitz chatted to President Anuj Kumar to find out why their club is one of the best ways to get your health kick on at UNSW. How did VeggieSoc get started?

There was a guy who was really keen on this sort of thing and realised that there were really not that many vegetarian options on campus. I have personally been involved since 2010. For a couple of weeks I pretty much went to every weekly lunch stall and then I started to help out the guy running it.

It’s really cool that you provide students with such cheap lunch. Why did you decide to do this on campus?

A few reasons. One is obviously to get like-minded people together, like vegetarians or people who are not vegetarian but appreciate the food. So you have a bit of a community. Secondly, to provide us vegetarians or others who like the food with another option on campus. Because admittedly in the past there haven’t been too many great options. Also, it’s just really tasty food. That’s the key thing as well.

Do you run any other events besides the weekly lunch?

Not really but I am open to ideas. I’m looking for cool new ideas from all the new enthusiastic University students and then I’ll just roll with it. If there is enough demand I am definitely willing to try new things.

Definitely! I recommend it.

Do you have a favourite veggie dish?

I think Pad Thai. It’s something different. And definitely the Hare Krishna food that we are getting for VeggieSoc. I really like it because it’s just so simple, it’s all about getting the best flavours out of the food and that sort of thing. The Hare Krishna food is more to the core; they don’t use cream or excessive amounts of oil, so it’s more about the flavours and getting the best out of the vegetables. So that’s why I really like it and really have had a keen interest in being involved with them as our catering company for the lunches.

Why do you think it is important to promote vegetarianism on campus?

We are just like other clubs who are trying to get like-minded people together, that’s the main thing. We’re just raising awareness that this is the kind of food we have and it’s actually quite delicious—that’s one thing we are really trying to promote…it is nice food that anyone will enjoy; you don’t have to be a vegetarian. You’ll be surprised that we actually have a lot of non-veg people who come every week to have our food and love it, so hopefully they all go and tell their friends about our food.

Veggiesoc hold their weekly lunch every Wednesday from 12-2pm in the Arc Precinct near the Roundhouse.

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(VOXPOPS) ANDREW (Journalism)

ALEXIY (Biochemistry)

What kind of exercise do you do to stay in shape?

I go to the gym and shout, ‘Come at me bro!’ at the guys lifting weights.

What’s your biggest weakness when it comes to junk food?

Everything. The smell of greasy food intoxicates me.

How do you de-stress while you’re studying?

I play Ed Sheeran songs on my guitar. Oh Ed. I’d go gay for him.

Where’s your fav place on campus to grab a snack?

The Quad pharmacy. Their lollies and $1.50 Korean energy drinks keep me going.

What’s your opinion on pugs?

I’m not a fan. They’re so ugly and useless they’re practically evidence of genetic cruelty.

Are you looking forward to the cold?

Absolutely. I spent summer in Hawaii and it was miserable.

TASH (Media, PR and Advertising)

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How do you de-stress while you’re studying?

I listen to Taylor Swift or play my banjo.

What kind of exercise do you do to stay in shape?

I go to UNSW. Those Basser Steps are better than a gym membership.

Where’s your fav place on campus to grab a snack?

I don’t eat on campus because I’m gluten intolerant. I bring my own microwave popcorn and heat it up here.

JAKE (Masters of Gifted Education)

MOSES (Media, Screen and Sound)

How do you de-stress while you’re studying?

By telling myself that repeatedly asking, ‘Do you want fries with that?’ is a legitimate career option.

What’s your biggest weakness when it comes to junk food?

Chocolate. I can down a family size block of Kit Kat for breakfast. Diabetes is a conspiracy theory.

Are you looking forward to the cold weather?

Yeah. I come from Singapore where it’s really hot all the time. Bring on winter fashion I say.

Food you crave the most during winter?

Hot chicken soup with corn, but that’s probably because I’m Asian.

What’s your biggest weakness when it comes to junk food?

French Fries are my poison.

CHRIS (Commerce, Science) Food you crave the most during winter?

I crave lots of fruit- mandarins especially, and Granny Smith apples too.

Definitely the best fruit.

Are you looking forward to the cold weather?

Yes. It means that skiing is possible in Australia (even though skiing in Australia isn’t that great).

Where’s your fav place on campus to grab a snack?

Yummba, the new place at Gate 2.

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