Nexus 2020 Issue 5 - The Quarantine Chronicles 1

QUARANTINE CHRONICLES

fvmzm

89.8 WEEKDAYS 6-10AM

FLETCH VAUGHAN MEGAN

LAY-BY

YOUR NEXT TRIP WITH A DEPOSIT AND PAY THE REST BEFORE YOU GO! BOOK NOW, PAY LATER

FLIGHTS

DEPOSIT FROM $99*

PACKAGES

DEPOSIT FROM $149*

TOURS

DEPOSIT FROM $200*

David Bennett MP for Hamilton East 07 834 3407 DavidBennettMPforHamiltonEast davidbennettmp@parliament.govt.nz

STA TRAVEL WAIKATO Waikato Uni, Gate 1 09 856 1300 waikato@statravel.com *Terms and conditions apply, speak to your Travel Expert or visit statravel.co.nz/layby.htm for more details.

Funded by the Parliamentary Service. Authorised

by David Bennett MP, Parliament Buildings, Wgtn.

DISTANCE YOURSELF PHYSICALLY, NOT SOCIALLY.

! CALL YOUR MATES

Editors

Josh Umbers josh@nexusmag.co.nz Donnella Ngohe donnella@nexusmag.co.nz

Uncle

Yam

t

ponden

as Corres

Overse “I DON’T KNOW WHY HE’S COMPLAINING, IT’S ONLY BEEN A WEEK AND HE GETs TO KEEP HIS BALLS”

14

25

QUARANTAINMENT

17

Luka Love luka@nexusmag.co.nz Harry Malcolm harry@nexusmag.co.nz

Design + Centrefold Ashlea Curran design@nexusmag.co.nz

Cover

Wenyue Ruan wenyue@wsu.org.nz

18

Digital Assets

Nat Calvert Nat@nexusmag.co.nz

Advertising + Production James Raffan + Kendrah Worsley comms@wsu.org.nz

20

Cartoon - Pg. 14

BRIEFING

Jack Stack

Contributors Nathan Rahui Alexander Nebesky

6

28

4

HUNG

12

Bronwyn Laundry Kyla Campbell-Kamariera Caitlin Walters-Freke

y ngr

Dylan Todd Grace Mitchell

O VE

R + hu

26

Lyam Buchanan

30

CONTENTS

Nelson Cooper Dadon Rowell Wenyue Ruan

Harry Malcolm / harry@nexusmag.co.nz

Trump, a Pandemic and the Chernobyl disaster, three things I thought I’d never correlate with each other.

Throughout history we’ve often seen regimes that strive to appear all-powerful and all-wise, incapable of making a mistake.

Narcissism, and an inability to reflect inward and admit these mistakes are an identifiable trait among history’s most powerhungry groups. The Nazi party, the North Korean dictatorship, the Soviet Union and now, apparently, the Trump administration.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not trying to compare the United States to murderous, human rights violating entities like those mentioned above, but in terms of their egregious lies and appalling dismissal of the truth, they are one in the same.

Recently, the Trump administration has been fabricating lie after lie about the coronavirus and has been focusing anger towards China while Covid runs rampant in their country.

Trump’s desire to have the nation’s economy and people “opened up and just raring to go by easter” as the number of infected soar has been noted by CNN. He has also been spreading misinformation about the virus at a rate of knots. “when we get into April, in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus” and “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear” These lies are an attempt to cloud any perceptions of weakness and ill-preparedness from himself in order to keep the saviourlike status perceptions of him alive.

According to “Emergency Medicine, reviews and perspective”, over half the US is expected to become infected. If Covid’s 1-2% mortality remains true in the coming months the US can expect over 1 million deaths. Hardly a miraculous disappearance more of a major fuck up.

So what does this have to do with the Chernobyl disaster?

Chernobyl, the most largest and most magnificent fuck up of all time, was one massive, thermonuclear fuck up. Essentially, it was the explosion of a Soviet nuclear reactor in the mid 80’s.

This event was met with government denial, a refusal to accept the science and a corruptive spread of misinformation. It was a major catastrophe which resulted in the death of thousands.

The Soviet Union, a regime with an incapability of accepting any responsibility, an inability to admit mistakes and an ambition to appear all powerful. A regime that made lying the standard.

Sound familiar?

I’ve always been fascinated with the American political landscape. I swear they’re the only country on the face of the Earth that loves their elected leaders. The rest of us in the democratic world are of the opinion that politicians are all a bunch of wankers.

This may seem funny, and it is, but I think it represents something much more sinister. This lack of “my-local-politician-isa-prick mentality” inhibits a constituents ability to poke holes in and question their leaders. This blind following we see in America has resulted in a public incompetence to rationally consider their democratic options. If you blindly vote for a leader out of loyalty rather than independent thought that’s not actually democracy, that’s you being a fuckwit.

This misinformation stemming from the commander-in-chief combined with his supporter’s blind devotion has resulted in a cascade of detrimental effects. The proper practices for dealing with this virus aren’t in place, people are dying and America now has the highest amount of infections globally. A part of the American public has been misinformed, an act comparable to the inaction and lack of responsibility seen in the Chernobyl disaster.

Stay safe out there, make the right choices, stay inside.

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

5

Life as a Weak Link - Alex I’m built for disaster. I say that entirely from the safety of my first world existence, from the comfort of my desk, but most of me believes that, should the world genuinely turn to shit, I’d be one of the rangers criss-crossing the wasteland.

In reality, no matter how much I back myself to remain mentally unbroke, no matter how much I relish the relative suffering and hardship of a four-week lockdown, how much I thrive under the restrictions of cloistering myself away and eking out an existence in a world that still has essential services, and doesn’t need me to buy new bugout boots and stockpile mountains of tinned food and knives, I am a high-risk individual.

I have diabetes. Not only does that mean that in a true Mad Max end-of-the-world scenario I’m tethered to a supply of essential medicine, it also means that in our current situation I find myself more susceptible than many to our unseen enemy. I take the fact that I am young and relatively fit as some solace, but when there are international footballers hooked to ventilators on the other side of the world that thought offers little protection.

I’ve already done a week of isolation at the time of writing this. I left working at my office the moment the government recommended it, and now I find myself in the immensely gratifying position of pretending I’m living in a survival scenario.

Simultaneously, I find myself completely at the mercy of those around me, and the greater public, to observe lockdown procedure and keep me safe. Like an octogenarian I have to trust the rest of the world, and especially those I live with, to wash their hands, to be the designated shopper, to stay indoors, to not make exceptions.

Even though I did just cop a sick pair of bugout boots, and even though a mass wave of deaths might seem or be unlikely, all I can really do is hope everyone else follows the rules as closely as I do.

6

Home School - Donnella

Leaving London - Bronwyn Friday 27th March Until 12 days ago I lived in London and had no intention of moving back to NZ. I had a visa until July 2021. I had a stable job. I had a flat to live in. It was a normal Saturday.

Quaran-Teen Again - Nathan Too often lately, I’ve found myself starting my sentences with “I love *BLANK*, but…”, like “I love your idea, but…” or “I love you as a person, but…”. Maybe it’s the state of the world turning me into a coldblooded cynic, or maybe I just lack emotion like my ex said - I’ll let you know when I figure it out.

I LOVE my parents, but living with them is a test. Self-admittedly, I’ve been one of those people that has not stressed too much about this whole situation--we’re millennials! We’ve seen Ebola, Zika, Swine, Bird and we’ve survived. But as our Alert levels rose and the thought of being trapped in the Tron seeped in, it only felt right to return to the Naughty North. At most, I usually only give myself a week back home with the olds, and that’s when I can leave the house. But lockdown logic assured me 4 weeks would be fine.

One thing you need to know about my parents is that they are HUGE on conspiracy theories: “the world’s flat” and “Hillary’s evil”, that sorta thing. So with the internet spitting out an arsenal about COVID-19, I knew they would be locked and loaded. Within the first 24 hours, I heard mum use the words “end of the world” and “New World Order” on at least 6 separate phone calls. It reminds me of drinking tequila: it doesn’t look that bad even though you know it’s not going to be super pleasant. Then you drink it and your eyes water, your stomach spins and you question your life choices: “yes mum, I’ve heard about 5g”.

Life isn’t going to be normal for the next few weeks, that’s obvious. All we can do is try and use this time wisely, productively and not add to any more domestic violence stats.

For me, that looks like making a weekly schedule. The first night mum said “everyone has to be up by 9am”. So, the next day I went and chatted to her about this while she was in bed. It was 11.30am.

Saturday 14th March I was a nanny for a cashed up family in Wimbledon and following the government releasing their official COVID-19 plan to do Sweet Fuck All, my boss made a point of telling me on Friday afternoon that my employment was secure. His wife and him would be working from home more. The boys’ posh school may close down. Then I’d be needed for longer hours. But this Coronavirus nonsense would blow over. Boris Johnson was right - we just needed herd immunity. Everyone will get it. But hey, we’re not at risk, and unless you are, we’re good. Keep getting on the tube to work. Wash your hands. Pick up toilet paper for us whenever you can please. Go to the pub. Maybe don’t go to the pub.

Act normal.

So my Saturday started normally.

I walked to my usual local yoga class, I went to lunch at the Italian restaurant next door with my best friend. Well that wasn’t normal, we shared a flat, but we never got to share a weekend. She had lost her job as a bartender on Thursday. The brand new multi-million pound bar they’d just finished fitting out couldn’t open. Nobody was going out. Hundreds laid off.

The Visas in our passports said very clearly “no recourse to public funds.” She would have to find a new job, surely that wouldn’t be too hard! We lived in London. She’d been in hospo her whole life - maybe this industry collapsing was a sign she should try something new. Could she try something new?

Everything was new right now. Every day new cases and pseudoscientists and BREAKING NEWS. She had three weeks worth of rent saved to find a job.

After lunch we went for a stroll. We lived right on the Thames.

The sun was out. In intervals. The daffodils had bloomed.

London was beginning to come out of the winter cocoon.

Windows were open; people still didn’t make eye contact, in fact, they went a little out of their way to avoid you. Nothing new here. No friendly ‘Kia Ora’ as we passed, but we’d made peace with that months ago.

That was Saturday.

We were halfway back to New Zealand by St Paddy’s Day on Tuesday.

For more stories visit Nexusmag.co.nz

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

7

Nexus fixes drug education 8

Josh Umbers

University, the epitome of New Zealand’s binge drinking and drug culture. Some of you who are reading might be in your first year and don’t have much experience with substances, illicit or not. Or you could be a seasoned fourth year sesh gremlin who has smashed back more gear in their time than rebel sports. The reality is that for some of you, this year will be the year where you first experiment with drugs or alcohol.

We can talk about alcohol all we want but to be quite honest I want this to be more focused on MDMA, or gear as it is colloquially called. All I ever see about MDMA is news articles about police raids obtaining “dangerous party drugs that could easily kill” which probably doesn’t help anyone get educated about the substances they’re taking every weekend. This stuff just isn’t talked about in an educational and mature way, and this is an opinion piece based on my experiences on how we could change that.

I’m not going to sugarcoat it, we know that drug use amongst young adults in New Zealand has been rampant in recent years. Just from what I see out on the sesh every weekend I know that people are doing it way too frequently in large amounts. In terms of use, a recent study done by the New Zealand Police and their wastewater testing programme revealed that MDMA use was high in a lot of regions, particularly those with a University. The wastewater test tested for five different drugs; Heroin, MDMA, cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl. In the Dunedin Tahuna wastewater plant, MDMA accounted for 68% of the drug use, while in Canterbury the average mg consumed per day per 1000 people was sitting at 300, the highest in the country.

You really don’t have to venture far on a night in town or at a party before you run into someone who is on MDMA, or trying to source it. Before I go off on a tangent, I ought to inform those who don’t know what MDMA is. It’s a class B psychoactive substance

that is commonly used by party and festival goers all over the world. It usually comes as a pill or in powder form, and can be taken orally, snorted, or even up the bum (yikes). Consuming it will result in effects such as altered sensations, increased energy, euphoria, empathy, as well as pleasure. These effects can last for up to 6 hours after taking it, which usually takes around 30 minutes to kick in. However these effects occur because MDMA triggers a large release of three different chemicals in the brain.

One being dopamine, which causes increased energy and activity. Norepinephrine, which increases heart rate and blood pressure, which are particularly risky for people with heart and blood vessel problems. Serotonin, which affects mood, appetite and sleep. It is associated with the cause of emotional closeness and elevated mood. It’s the reason why you have those “I love you bro” moments on the hill at Rhythm and Vines. However there are a list of short term adverse effects that can come from it such as depression, anxiety, insomnia, loss of appetite. Those few days afterwards where you may feel sad, unmotivated or just overall depressed is what everyone calls the ‘comedown’.

The levels of the feel good chemicals in your brain get massively depleted after the use of MDMA, which is why you don’t quite feel happy for a couple of days after.

In my time at University and festivals I have seen a lot of people do a lot of MDMA, during this I’ve wondered if it’s actually not that dangerous to take, which has encouraged me to research about it and learn about any possible adverse effects. Adverse effects from abuse consist of permanent damage to serotonin receptors, which can cause a loss of effects felt by the user.

I’ve seen mates who have gone through a rough time because of their continued use. It just astounds me that doing MDMA regularly is the norm while not knowing anything about it. Why didn’t I know about these effects earlier? Why does no one talk about the aspects of party drugs? Wouldn’t education go a lot further than prohibition?

I was never taught about drugs in my high school health science classes, well I kind of was to the extent of weed. All I was ever taught about that was if you smoke it you’ll get addicted, it’ll ruin your life and you’ll become a bum. So don’t do it. That sort of carry on. But I think there is a critical flaw with that style of teaching, we get told everything is bad, so don’t touch it. But there’s that one cunt who will always do it anyway and say it’s all good, then tell his mates it’s all good and they try it and so on and so forth. This definitely happened with my group of friends with MDMA. Anything we’d been told in some form of education suddenly goes down the drain as soon as someone tries something, realises it’s not going to end their life as they were probably taught in year 11 health science, then suddenly all their mates are doing it because it’s actually fine. A key flaw here is the fact that only a handful of us will take the time to do proper research on the drug as I’ve noted in my time. It’s clearly something that isn’t talked about enough for people to know about the dangers of doing it frequently, otherwise I wouldn’t see people doing it as recklessly as they do.

got told to stay away from them, didn’t learn about any effects of what the drugs actually do when used. Someone will try something and will realise it won’t kill them and will just keep doing it while not being properly educated on the substance. Another factor on why I think drug use among young adults in New Zealand is high is because of the peer pressure environments and egos that can arise from it. Some people just straight up think they’re the man if they can slam a gram in a night, which is very clearly a high dose as the recommended dose rates according to rollsafe.org are 1.5 mg/kg, and a maximum of your weight + 50mg if you’re looking to push things. I could tell you hand on heart right now that I’ve never seen anyone adhere to these guidelines. I guess you could argue that someone only taking a cap (100mg) and calling it a day is adhering to it, but who really goes on one of these websites and weighs out an exact dose for them to take at a party or festival. For festivals the general attitude is “oh I’ll take either 1 or 2 grams and we’ll just see how we go”. Bit fucked isn’t it?

Anyway, we’ve established that breathers and breatherettes will eat it like dinner, so what can we do about it?

As I’ve said, this needs to be talked about and not just in the old fashioned “it’s bad don’t do it” way. There needs to be proper education being given about this stuff and it should start in high school, I know people who did it in high school and I doubt they knew anything about it apart from it making them feel good.

There are many aspects of it that need to be talked about, you can’t just tell people not to do it and not give them any information. People are going to do drugs regardless of the law, and will do more damage to themselves if they haven’t been educated about it properly or at all. Education needs to start when we’re in highschool, get it in our heads from a younger age so it stays that way. Or even university, I wouldn’t mind having some sort of health class where you could be educated in depth about substances. The approach needs to go from “don’t do it, you’ll ruin your life” to “drugs are bad BUT if you do somehow end up in this situation, here is what you need to know to make a rational decision about doing them”. These bits of information that should be given to us should consist of the following; Desired effects, the stuff that you should expect to feel on your high, adverse effects both short term and long term, correct/recommended dosages, what to do if something goes wrong, how to stay safe with it, knowing your limits, and one of the biggest ones; testing your stuff. It’s taken me awhile to get to this point, but I think it is easily one of the most important. There is an organisation in New Zealand called Know Your Stuff and they do free substance testing for those at festivals who want to see what is really in their gear.

Their tests often turn up awful substances such as bath salts, methamphetamine, paint, washing powder, just shit stuff really.

We should be taught fully about this stuff, we should be taught about what this stuff does to us if we choose to take it, we should be taught to test for what’s really in the shit we put in our bodies.

We have failed in proper drug education in this country and you only need to venture to a regular party to see the evidence.

So, essentially the problem is broken down like this. In highschool we were never properly educated about drugs. We just NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

9

FEEL GOOD NEWS The SPCA has been overwhelmed with massive adoption numbers before the countrywide lockdown. SPCA centres across the country had over 900 animals in their facilities and over 800 of them have now found forever homes.

Jake Johnson, the voice of Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, has offered to record personalized voice messages for kids who may be having a hard time coping with the COVID-19 quarantines.

Medical dramas use real medical supplies as props and some of their production crews are donating them to hospitals and firefighters combatting the COVID-19 outbreaks. Some of the shows in Station

19, Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Doctor and The Resident.

10

15-year-old Shaivi Shah has given away hundreds of free ‘sanitation kits’ to homeless people around California. Each

kit contains hand sanitizer, lotion, antibacterial soap, and handmade reusable face masks.

CBS Reporter Steve Hartman has been broadcasting 30-minute lessons about kindness through the CBS News Facebook Live stream. He does this to offer some

educational content to America’s children during their time in self-isolation.

New research suggests damage done to the Earth’s Ozone layer has paused and might even be repairing. Highlighting the

introduction of the Montreal Protocol,an international treaty that phased out the use of ozone-depleting chemicals, as a major factor.

Homeless people across North America and Europe are being offered shelter in unused hotel rooms and designated self-isolation centres during the COVID-19 response.

Diminutive post TOP 10

Activities for the duration of isolation

books - Attempt to appear smart by reading while 10. Read you simultaneously piss your degree away

Stay Inside Huntly, Nobody Wanted To See You Lot Anyway

Loud rounds of applause could be heard all around the country last thursday morning as the nationwide lockdown came into effect. Although the intention of this lockdown is to prevent the spread of the deadly disease COVID-19, New Zealanders are stoked at the fact that it means nobody has to go to Huntly, or even worse, see people from Huntly. A petition has been launched online arguing that the government should never lift the lockdown on Huntly when it gets lifted on the rest of the country. So far it has garnered more than half a million signatures nationwide and been given widespread media attention.

9.

Train your dog - Having a mutt is good. Having a mutt that can sit is better

8.

Put off your uni work - Just treat it like a holiday and live with the consequences later, you can always claim a derived grade for world pandemic related stress later ;)

7.

Start exercising - Lying to yourself about how healthy you’ll be will take your mind off your constant failures

6.

Piss off fake health experts - Argue with tools on Facebook.

Nothing passes the time like rarking someone up

5.

Update your Spotify playlists - Go out there and break away from the same albums you’ve been listening to for 4 years

4.

Fight with your family - One outs dad, winner gets the hand sanitiser

3.

Keep writing for Nexus - An essential job, keeping me afloat while I leech off my parents for the entire time

2.

Masturbate excessively - Self explanatory

1.

Stay inside - Follow the rules so you don’t kill someone’s grandparents you prat

WHATS HOT My same sex flatmate, times are tough in lockdown

Man With Tinfoil Hat Thinks The Government Is Trying To Chip Us

A middle aged tinfoil donning man named John, 48, has recently been letting his rather small following on facebook know his opinion, or rather, “truth” about the nationwide lockdown. He has been spouting dialogue such as “The government is using this to keep everyone inside so the military can come around and microchip everyone as well as replace the batteries in the birds, it’s the end of the world as we know it”. Such claims have been dismissed by John’s close friends who told Nexus that he hasn’t been the same since he took those three tabs of acid at once 3 years ago. Good on you John.

WHATS NOT

Staying inside

The 60 people who had a party at a backpackers in Queenstown - absolute tools

Dua Lipa in her new music video for ‘Let’s get physical’

Donald Trump’s abysmal response to coronavirus

Dua Lipa - She deserves two spots on here, she is fucking gorg

My mate in a locked house party room with his ex >:(

David Seymour giving information on where to buy nangs during lockdown

The until tomorrow trend

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

11

SPIN BOWLING Listen, I’m not the most knowledgeable man about cricket, but from what I can gather spin bowling is the way to go. Shane Warne, Dan Vettori, Muttiah Muralitharan, all of them great New Zealanders. What do these men have in common? Putting.

Revs. On. The. Rock. The lazy man’s option, spin bowling seeks to bamboozle the batsman into making a complete tool of himself at the crease.

Picture it, you’re a pace bowler, you’ve just sprinted full noise to the crease, all cylinders firing, you launch the ball down the pitch at a blistering pace. The ball is blocked for the 49th consecutive time, you have permanent back injuries as your disk slips.

Now cometh the spinner. He trots to the crease in a leisurely stroll, lobs the rock down pitch, it looks wide, the batsman leaves. Suddenly, it fucks off in the other direction as it hits the dirt. The wicket falls, you’re left questioning your life choices.

The spinner has so many tools at his disposal. So you’ve gotten used to the spin? Watch me turn in the other way and fuck your stumps up. Oh you’re playing defensively guarding your pads?

Watch me find your outside edge and banish you to the shadow realm.

Too often it’s the spin bowlers are left out of the equation when it comes to praise on the cricket pitch, it’s a job that’s got to be done with few willing to roll up their sleeves and put in the work. Pace bowlers seem to get all the kudos, all the attention.

Well no more.

Quick bowlers are the equivalent of backs in rugby. A little showboaty, a little prettier….. a little more cunty. They’re a real vodka cruiser in comparison to the spinner’s handle of Waikato.

It may not come with all the esteem of pace bowling, nor all the ladies. But it’s a grittier option and anyone who can turn a ball has my respect.

SPONSORED BY

PACE BOWLING Pace bowling. When you think cricket you think pace bowling.

When you think pace bowling you think Brett Lee, Lasith Malinga, Shane Bond, Mitchell Johnson, the list goes on and on. These are the names of men who probably paved the way for your love of cricket as a young whipper snapper. The style of which these men bowl is envied by millions, flinging a red cherry out of their fingertips consistently at 150 clicks, striking fear into the unlucky man at the other end of the crease who had to don the pads and put themselves up against such a monster bowling attack. Spin bowling is boring as fuck, the entire field comes close in, the balls rarely reach the 100 kph mark, which doesn’t spark fear inside the batsman’s brains and make them shit their undies. Pace bowling is far more entertaining than watching someone painfully lob a cherry

12

20 metres. You see all sorts of shit with a good pace bowler bowling wheels; amazing one handed catches in the slips, Neil Wagner bowling bouncers, smashed helmets or even broken toes from a batsman being caught out by a yorker right on his toes. They’ve also produced some of the best moments in the history of a game, remember when Shaun Tait bowled an over in a T20 against Pakistan with the slowest ball being 150? Fuck me! Just rewatching that on YouTube gives me the chills. Or when Peter Siddle took a hat-trick on his birthday, that is just ingrained into my memory from when I witnessed it live as a 10 year old. Truly epic stuff. If you want to see a batter block balls all day, then spin bowlers are your type. On the other hand there are pacebowlers that are sure to have you on the edge of your seat.

R T

REO TAUIRA Te Noho Mohoao Kyla Campbell-Kamariera

Last week Aunty Jacinda called it and now it is our new reality for the foreseeable future. Lockdown. But life goes on! UOW students have now come off the one week semi breather known as teaching suspension and classes and assignments have ramped up again albeit all in an online format. Despite what other institutions may be doing, the decision has been made by the higher ups that the show must go on!

Funnily enough, we’re actually used to somewhat studying in isolation you know... When the going gets tough we retreat to our rooms, skip class, spend our time catching up on course content and panopto like it’s Netflix (or is that just me?). But actual NZ wide lockdown puts a whole different spin on it.

We are now ACTUALLY supposed to be working from home. Few days down deep into iso and it’s not all that it’s cracked out to be. So studying from home during iso – but how?!?!

Well, tikanga tips coming in hot for this one!

1. Set up a daily routine Don’t laze around all day, especially with uni kicking in again.

Definitely enjoy a little sleep in (cos you’ll regret it once we’re out of lockdown and back to ‘reality’), exercise, breakfast, study blocks and breaks, down time etc. The days will go by quicker if you’re actually being productive. Don’t feel obliged to spend the weekend that way. Blob out, Netflix, do the tasks that you can’t seem to shake out of your mind, bake, spend quality time with your bubble, go outside, drink lol.

2. Differentiate your spaces It can seem like the easiest option to do everything from the comfort of your bed like lazing around, studying, video calling, eating. If you can then it’s definitely recommended to differentiate your spaces around your house.

Wāhi mahi = somewhere associated with getting your mahi done. A place that you can leave your study resources and come back to later.

Wāhi kori tinana = somewhere you can take some time to focus on your mind and body. This space might be outside (within the regulations of course) small enough for you or big enough to get the whole whānau moving.

Wāhi kai = keep kai to the kitchen table or bench or wherever there is a table like surface besides your desk or wāhi mahi. It can be really easy to take a break from study and eat at your desk for convenience, but differentiating your spaces for this lockdown period will help combat the cabin fever that’ll surely come.

Wāhi auaha = a creative space that will give your brain a break.

Maybe to paint, draw, write poems or songs, do puzzles, anything that’ll get the creative juices flowing!

3. Give your uni mahi a good crack!

How often do you blame not meeting deadlines and your grade for not having enough time to do your mahi? This is a paradoxically strange way to get the best out of uni. Yes we are in a National State of Emergency, but this is your chance to prove to yourself (and to your lecturers muahaha) that given the circumstances, left to your own devices magical things can happen!

As you are well aware we are all journeying through unprecedented times. Who knows how long our current situation could go on for. But DO NOT drop the ball on your studies. After this (not that life will ever be the same again) we’ve still got lives to live, degrees to chase and papers to make. So listen to the advice from our government, health professionals and Aunty Nix from CWK lol. See you on the other side.

Wāhi oki = somewhere you can rest and focus just on that.

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

13

FROM THE EDGE OF THE APOCALYPSE #1

“I DON’T KNOW WHY HE’S COMPLAINING, IT’S ONLY BEEN A WEEK AND HE GETs TO KEEP HIS BALLS”

14

Liam Gray and Jarred Tooley are the resident DJ duo at The Outback, The Back Bar and The Factory Hamilton known as TwoFöld. These two local battlers bring together a fun, often drunk, multi genre, high energy DJ set with plenty of D&B for you frothers. They’ve got mixes frequently playing on Nz’s biggest dance music station, George FM and have supported some of the DJ world’s biggest names at shows and festivals all around the country, these include Jauz, Sigma, Peking Duk, The Upbeats, Valentino Khan, Quix, Flux Pavilion, Example and they are soon to be supporting Macky Gee here in H-town...

DJ DUO

TwoFöld

twofoldnzdjs.com

PLAY NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

15

16

AQUARIUS JAN 20 - FEB 18

LEO JUL 23 - AUG 22

Your powers of conversation are effectively useless at the moment and your housemates are tired of your diatribes about 5G. If it weren’t for the internet you would be out looting.

We all know this is hard for you being out of the public spotlight but sending nudes to strangers to get attention is not a substitute for genuine human connection.

PISCES FEB 19 - MAR 20

VIRGO AUG 23 - SEP 22

When the going gets weird, the Pisces turns pro. People will look at you and panic because who can stay so calm while the world is ending?

You cannot impose order on the chaos right now, all you can do to be helpful is stop watching television and clean the toilet. It’s honestly better than the news.

ARIES MAR 21 - APR 19

LIBRA SEP 23 - OCT 22

Your stubborn refusal to play by the rules is about the meet immovable object of the New Zealand Police force. Stay in your house like everybody else.

None of this fair right now and there’s nothing you can do about it. You’ll just have to get used to it, but while you do confusion is a lovely colour on you.

TAURUS APR 20 - MAY 20

SCORPIO OCT 23 - NOV 21

As the old saying goes “You have made your bed and now you must lie in it.” It’s just a really good time to be you right now.

The virus isn’t trying to hurt your feelings, it’s trying to kill you. You might be able to beat it through sheer intensity but you should probably ask your doctor first.

GEMINI MAY 21 - JUN 20

SAGITTARIUS NOV 22 - DEC 21

You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool an inanimate microscopic harbinger of doom any of the time. It will not be a good house guest if you let it in.

Enjoy your witty banter on social media right now, with Leo locked away this is your time to shine. You are the life of the quarantine party.

CANCER JUN 21 - JUL 22

CAPRICORN DEC 22 - JAN 19

Home is where the heart is. Home is where everybody’s heart is actually and if it’s not there is going to be trouble. You have everything you need except cigarettes.

This is your time to shine. All of those unfinished projects in your backyard are just waiting there for you to finish them. Don’t neglect them like you neglect your family.

Mullet of the Week - Hannah Nelson Cooper

Nexus: Hi! Do you want to run us through who you are and where you’re from?

Nexus: Sure, that’s excellent. Can you walk us through some of the reactions you’ve received because of your mullet?

Hannah: I’m Hannah and I’m from Denver, Colorado. I’m living on a farm right now down in Maheno in the South Island. I lived in Denver for about 10 years, but grew up in Montana and went to high school and middle school in the midwest in Iowa.

Hannah: My partner was not thrilled, it’s probably one of the worst haircuts I’ve had. There have been pluses and minuses.

People that know me think it’s just a phase and the people I really like tend to like it so yeah.

Nexus: Awesome! What are you doing in New Zealand?

Nexus: Excellent! Have you had any interactions with other people with mullets?

Hannah: I came over to play a little bit of footy. I was here back in 2016 and I was playing for the North Otago Union until I broke my ankle. I met a good family here, their daughter and her best friend came to visit the states last year and yeah I just sort of wanted to come back, do some tramping, some hiking and play a little footy.

Nexus: Can you walk us through your decision to get a mullet?

Hannah: Yeah absolutely. It’s a pretty big step. Figured I needed to go big, you know, nothing bigger than a luscious mullet. I only had hair so long at the time anyway, but figured I’d give it a little bit of shape and a little bit of style and ended up pulling it off pretty well I think. It’s a fan favourite, not a family favourite.

Nexus: Did you experience it affecting your rugby playing abilities at all?

Hannah: To be honest I just felt the entire history of the rugby world was pretty much behind me. It lifted me up, more than putting pressure on my shoulders.

Hannah: You know, I think it’s probably different being a woman with a mullet ‘cause I don’t really get any of the guys who want to talk to me about it. It’s a little intimidating you know.

Nexus: Okay. If you could describe your mullet in a few short words, what would those words be?

Hannah: Growing on me, physically and emotionally. I feel a sense of pride, I think it’s obviously unique, but more like luscious and flowy.

Nexus: Do you have any words of advice for people considering growing mullets?

Hannah: Listen, if I could I would definitely like, do a dreaded mullet, just because I think those are the most committed people I know. Some types of hair don’t work but anybody who’s trying to and can commit to that, they absolutely should.

Anybody who aspires to a mullet - you can do it, anybody and everybody can do it.

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

17

@tinkerbellethewobbledog Dogs in wheelchairs is cute as fuck

Continue to follow these diaries and more on nexusmag.co.nz

QUARANTAINMENT 18

INSTAGRAM FEED

@shityoushouldcareabout Easy alternative to watching the news. Keep up to date with shit happening around the world that you should probably know about.

Also features the occasional meme.

YOUTUBE

NetFLix Reviews

Vsauce

Shameless

Shower thoughts explained.

Outrageous Fortune but with way more tits.

Contagion What better way to convince yourself to self-isolate than with a deadly-pandemic themed flick.

FREE ONLINE SERVICES

Brooklyn Nine Nine

UniRec

TVNZ

UniRec is offering a free 4 Week Challenge. This is free to

TVNZ is screening daily group fitness classes with Les Mills.

students - jump over to their Facebook Group and join in

These will be available Monday through Friday at 9am on

on the sweaty fun at ‘UniRec 4 Week Challenge’

TVNZ 1. Classes will also be available on TVNZ OnDemand

Just a Thought

Pornhub

Free online therapy to improve your mental health. It’s

Pornhub is keeping y’all busy at home with free Pornhub

easy to use anywhere and anytime.

Premium making self-isolation just a little bit easier

This series is cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

WINNER

22

Keen for some free BurgerFuel? Simply snap us the shitfest of your student lifestyle for the chance to win.

Vouchers will be stored for the winners until we are allowed back outside.

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

23

HOW TERRIBLE ARE YOUR FLATMATES? Some of you will have just moved into a flat and now you have four to six weeks of really close contact to figure out how horrible a mistake it was.

Here is a checklist to see how screwed you are:

MY ROOMMATES...

They aren’t washing their dishes.

Their room looks like it needs to be quarantined.

Leaving the front door unlocked or open at 2 am.

No noise control at the moment means their party never stops.

They drink milk straight from the bottle. Social distance or not, that’s disgusting.

My god, the snoring!

Suddenly you realise they have a pet.

No respect for personal boundaries.

Don’t do their laundry for a month making the flat smell like a sweatshop.

They use the same towels for two weeks.

They take over the living room. No one cares about your Netflix choices.

Putting wet laundry in a basket doesn’t “dry it over time”.

Empty beer bottles and caps aren’t a decoration style.

They have never used a fucking toilet brush.

Contributing towards groceries for everyone is not optional.

TERRIBLE GRADE

24

15

Neighbours at War? Try flatmates at war - we don’t envy you during this lockdown.

5

Ok so they aren’t that bad but maybe use the Nexus issue four “Chore Wheel”

10

Release your inner tiger mum and lay down some ground rules

0

You are so lucky! Swap?

Uncle

Overse

e Uncl

Yam

as Cor

Yamespondent

seas Over

respon

dent

Corr

Yam Uncles Correspondent a Overse

As the lockdown increases in severity, these issues seem to be mellowing out. Maybe it’s because all the hearty racists are staying locked in, or maybe the fear has spread from specific cultural groups to just everyone who isn’t part of your Oversea s own household. Either way, once this all passes hopefully this can just be another ‘one of those things’ that we sweep under the rug and pretend never happened.

Uncle Y

As a serious news organisation we take our cues from Simon Dallow and TVNZ. They have a European Correspondent so we thought it was a smashing idea and scoured our respective Facebook accounts. Our first sixteen options had all been evacuated. Lucky for us, our former Editor Lyam Buchanan is a dual citizen so he is Ireland’s problem now and our weekly crisis correspondent.

In terms of quarantine, supermarket chaos, and stunted cunts who think social distancing doesn’t apply to them, there’s little difference between non-continental Europe and New Zealand.

We’ve probably got more cases, deaths, and the chance for it to get out of hand – but when you’re living in a melting pot of culture that’s to be expected. Despite this, xenophobia really is the flavour of the month.

C

We might be living in the cruel wet dream of Auckland’s white supremacist community, but surely it’s not all doom and gloom. There’s no doubt that the introverts could quite happily keep posting about how they’ve “accidentally been quarantined for years � – but a lot of us are making an active effort to not fall into an endless state of cabin fever and boredom wanks.

đ&#x;¤Ł

I’m not saying this is an issue specific to Europe, but for somewhere so fluid with cultural integration, you’d think the average person would realise life exists outside their own little bubble. Sadly not. Without the accent of where you’re living, you’re a threat, and dependent on the pandemic status of where your accent originates, you could quite quickly become vilified. As a Kiwi I’m lucky to get off scot-free, nobody seems threatened by my ‘Australian-Esque twang’ as I buy my third Red Bull of the day, but you can genuinely watch the Tesco’s checkout queue ascend into silent panic when someone sounds even vaguely Italian.

Beyond the distanced and brief outdoor social interactions, I now so dearly crave, there’s really fuck all else going on.

Working from home is what it is, my diet still consists solely Yame e l c of meals that require a microwave and no preparation, U the n s Corr BBC has a steady stream of depressing news to remind usversea O how pointless existence really is, and I still wake up dusty and alone on a Sunday morning. We’ve just gotta ride it out. As European correspondent, I hope to have more exciting news as quarantine progresses, but for now, the summary remains “cunts love racism, running is hard, and if Boris Johnson carks it by the end of next week someone owes me ÂŁ20â€?.

Uncle Yam

pond Overseas Corres

ent

While you could pin it to misinformation and scaremongering, there’s still a subset of blatant racists admitting themselves to hospital because a Chinese takeaway gave them every COVID-19 symptom they’ve skim-read online. It’s embarrassing, moderately entertaining, but still embarrassing.

It’s all good and well to remind yourself to be thankful you’re not currently stuck in the red zones of South Korea, Italy, or New York, but with the way everything is going, we could probably reach those points quite easily. I’ve found popping out for my daily ‘state-sanctioned outdoor activity’ brings me far more joy than any previous freedom ever could have; nothing beats the feeling of bounding down the street, laden in activewear that’s never seen the light of day, heaving through tar coated lungs as pedestrians panic to maintain the recommended 2-metre distance, the subtle nods of solidarity between runners who’ve also never ventured beyond treadmills prior to pandemic. It’s thrilling.

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

25

Alright. Let’s take a good look at some facts. There is no way that tradies are better drinkers than uni students.

Picking up a hammer doesn’t automatically make you this hard cunt who’s been drinking beer since he was 6 but it certainly makes you think you are. Look mate, Uni students are the only demographic on the planet that have the ability to drink 4 times a week. Repeating this action week in week out means most students could absolotuely fuck a tradie up in a drink off. Yeah you make more money than us and yeah you probably did the right thing doing a trade but iI’ll be damned if you think you could sink more than me. I’ll see you in town. Cheers.

DRINK OF THE WEEK Waikato Draught

Being the Waikato child that I am, it would be classed as a war crime if I didn’t spout off about this beautiful piece of liquid engineering that is Waikato Draught. It’s the more well rounded version of it’ss cousins Speights and Lion Red. Speights? It’s just for people who won’t shut up about speights.

Lion Red? No thanks, I’m not from Northland, nor do I smoke meth. Sure these might taste similar to each other but with this drop it’s not about the taste. It’s the loyalty, committing yourself to your regional beer for the remainder of your life. It represents something greater than just drinking beer. It’s a lifestyle. Thank you.

26

BRIEFING RED CARD IDEA David Baine challenge

The David Baine challenge involves some mates, terrible sweatshirts and a lot of piss. The idea of the game is to, like the fabled David himself, take a shot in every room of a house. This can easily be adapted for the halls, for example a drink on every floor. You are required to find, obtain and wear the shittest opshop cardigan or woolen jersey you can find, the more colours the better. Bonus points if you bring a newspaper with you. Warning: these are alcohol shots, please do not murder your family

SESH WARS EPISODE 6: Move In Day

A wide eyed second year moves into his flat with a hopeful year of education laying in front of him. That went down the drain in about 4 seconds. First night. The boys. Beers. Sesh rigs out. So we proceed to break in the house by getting spasticated. My flatmate sees a lone couch at the end of our driveway. The cogs in his head started turning, an idea was formed. He grabs a lighter and sprints to the end of the driveway in a drunken canter. Now at the end of the driveway, in another house, was a den of sesh gremlins (just 5 absolute bogans in a house yelling encouragement). The flames weren’t catching so the local gremlins threw him down a can of lynx. With fuel in his hand in combination with the spurring on from the neighbours he was finally able to set the couch ablaze.

When the cops and the fire brigade showed up the cops went door to door hunting for my flatmate. It got to the point where he was trying on new clothes in front of us like some sort of fucked up fashion show so as to select the perfect disguise to conceal himself from the law and any potential description. However, before the law reached the door the local gremlins started chucking bottles at the cop car. They were arrested and we escaped all blame. We woke up the next morning to some of the local gremlins having a full on fist fight in the driveway. The charred skeleton of a couch that graced our street corner for another week became very reminiscent of my uni grades that year. What a year that was.

NEXUS CREATIVE SPACE

My Poems I want my poems to hurt you cut your cheeks like a Sheffield razor make you cry like the day you punched her bedroom wall – she should have framed it shown it to your mother taken a photo with your Leica M3 and fed you the negatives while you slept I want my poems to say no girls will be girls you were the one lining your stomach with Stella she’s got a bright future – you carry it to full-term birth it through closed legs in the dole queue I want my poems to cry dig their bones into the earth and scream until God notices and says sorry sorry for witch-hunts locker rooms stones And for the time she had the shit kicked out of her for being ‘one of those female gays’ - Dadon Rowell

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

27

Why Smart People Fall for Shit Cunts...

And Advice For Getting Out Allow me to paint you the picture of my first love: Nissan Skyline. Unemployed. Backwards cap. A two-monitor gamer kind of lad. The guy who introduced me to sex, drugs and hard liquor when I was 17. The whole thing - from the way my friends and family hated him, to his possessiveness, to the way he eventually cheated - is so clichéd it hurts. So how did an overachiever with no daddy issues end up obsessed and traumatised by an absolute dropkick? Oh, the usual way, i.e. by caving to the subconscious belief that no one else would ever love me. That, and sex.

I know, I know. In hindsight, this one comically screams bad boy.

But here’s the thing; it’s SO much easier to judge a situation from the perspective of an emotionally uninvolved bystander than it is when you’re in the deep end - especially when it’s a ‘frog in a boiling pot’ type of situation. Like, I knew I wanted a guy who could fit in with my life and get along with the people that mattered to me. When he started off by taking me to parties, introducing me to new friends, chatting amicably with my mum, I thought it was awesome. Again, by the time he’d started beef with most of his and my friends, had to be kicked out of the house by dad, and whined to my mum on his weird suicidal shit whenever him and I were having problems, it was many months down the line and my loyalty was too far in. After all, he was my first proper boyfriend. The guy who was ‘my

“ SO HOW DID AN OVERACHIEVER WITH NO DADDY ISSUES END UP OBSESSED AND TRAUMATISED BY AN ABSOLUTE DROPKICK? “ person’ to go do stuff with. The guy who could get me dinner, fuck me five times in a night (tmi?), wake me with french toast and more fucking afterward (still tmi?). That intimacy, that emotion, that sense of having something that’s well and truly ‘yours’ is what gets us to say (and also, as previously mentioned, sex).

It always starts so well. They act perfectly. We’re physically attracted. We fall fast. Time wears on, true colours start to show, but our sense of attachment means we’ll put up with shit we would never have signed up for at a first glance. A person can only be on their best behaviour for approximately the first three months of a relationship. After that, pretences start to slip, but we’re already loved up from the honeymoon phase. So what can we do? How can we possibly avoid unhealthy relationships

if we can’t even see them coming until it’s ‘too late’? How do we switch off attraction to somebody that we know isn’t good for us?

If we experienced an abusive past, grew up around seeing unhealthy relationships as normal, or we know we’re prone to an attachment style that’s anxious, clingy or overly reliant on a partner (it takes some self-reflection to be able to avoid getting sucked into toxic relationships, btw), those are some of the more obvious signs we might fall for someone that’s a bad fit for us. There are more subtle cues, too. When we approach a new relationship from a place of emptiness, low confidence, or we’re rushing straight from one bad relationship into a new one without resolving our underlying personal problems, we’re setting ourselves up to fail. In any of these scenarios, we should try some counselling sessions, by the way. They’re free at university, so god, take the opportunity - it’s scary at first, but squeezing out the truth about our trauma/whack headspace into conversation with a clinically qualified stranger is a mental relief we mightn’t have even known we needed.

helped push me. One night, after a (rare) movie trip where he packed a sad with me for not replying during the two hours I was in the movie theatre), they had a mini intervention to tell me that his behaviour wasn’t normal, that I was putting up with far too much and needed to break it off; that they would literally drive me to and back from meeting him so I could do it with support. That’s exactly what happened. And yes, for the next little while there were times where I was so heartbroken it was as if life was over. But then there was also freedom; the ability to rebuild the relationships I’d nearly destroyed along the way; the removal of the rose-tinted glasses and the realisation that he was no good; and, despite all of my unspoken fears that no one else I could be interested in would ever be interested in me, there were of course new love interests that came along in due time.

“ YOU JUST CAN’T TRULY OPEN YOURSELF TO THAT POSSIBILITY IF YOU’RE STUCK ON THIS ONE TOXIC CRUSH (WHO AIN’T SHIT) “

If you’re currently in a potentially toxic relationship, but you’re scared to pull the pin, listen up. Write a list of all the things this person has done/said/the way they make you feel/their qualities that you don’t like. Be SUPER honest. I know you’d rather repress it, but let’s say if they fucked your best mate while you were on a relationship break, then sweetie, you’re going to have to write it down. Look at that list and ask yourself - are these things you can seriously put up with for the rest of your short, precious life? Come up with another list, this time spelling out the qualities you’d want from an ideal partner. And if you’re not a list person, for some insane reason, just think about it. Do you seriously think the story you want to tell about your future wife involves having to skip parts where she would have weekly screaming tantrums and fling accusations if you hung out with your mates? Do you think this relationship would be a healthy model of what love’s supposed to look like for your children? Is the hurt you’ve experienced really worth it? While I’m sounding like a self-help book, let me say that when it came to getting out of my toxic relationship, it took me far too long to act on the doubts that were niggling at the back of my mind. Before it even started, when I realised he’d played a friend of mine (then lied about it and made her out to be the crazy one, as these type of people always do to shift blame) I should’ve saved myself some time and cut it there and then. In the end it was my friends who

Fuck, let me say it again: life is too damn short. I know that the pure drama of the relationship keeps your life interesting, but please realise that you can have a super fulfilling life that’s insanely interesting (plus great sex) in a way that doesn’t have to damage your self-worth. You are better than your hormones, people. There are millions more people where this one came from, you just can’t truly open yourself to that possibility if you’re stuck on this one toxic crush (who ain’t shit). This person is insecure and acting out because they know you deserve better. Love is not supposed to hurt you, that’s not love - true love is easy, light, good for you. And if you’re considering spending your life with this person, you need to make damn sure they’re going to be around for you during the hard times (because there will be) and not the cause of your hard times (because if they’re completely wrong for you, they will be). You may feel like a lost soul right now, but you sure aren’t going to find your happiness in a trash person. Just because you love them doesn’t mean you have to stay. If there’s more bad and more doubt than there is good, leave. There’s so much more that could be said here, so I would encourage you to Google it, talk about it, reflect on it, start a fucking Pinterest quotes board about it. The phrase ‘taking time to work on yourself’ is super vague and unhelpful, but that’s what you need to do. Whatever you have to do, just don’t continue getting yourself stuck on a bad chapter; you have a choice. Don’t even start the chapter if you can tell it’s going to be a repeat of past mistakes. Turn the damn page.

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

29

Baked Potato Ingredients: 4 large clean Potatoes or Kumaras 200ml of Sour Cream Salt and Oil

COUCH

y ngr

O VE

R + hu

POTATO Has being on lockdown put you in a state of permanent couchbound relaxation? Or are the rations getting low, forcing you into potato-based nourishment?

Whatever the case, these recipes are sure to see you and the rest of the flat/family through these dark times by making use of nature’s swiss-army knife. The potato.

Filling: 50g cheese, grated 4 rashers of bacon, cooked and chopped 4 spring onions, thinly sliced And anything else you’ve got lying around. We suggest using those cans of baked beans that have been sitting in the cupboard for months.

Method: Heat oven to 220C Rub 2 tsp olive oil over 4 large baking potatoes and put on the top shelf of the oven.

Bake for 20 mins, then turn down the oven to 190C/170C fan/ gas 5 and bake for 45 mins-1 hr until the skin is crisp and the flesh soft.

HUNG

Cut the top off, Take out some of the potato filling and mix with bacon, cheese and spring onion. Fill potato with mix and add sour cream and your favourite toppings such as sweet chilli sauce.

30

Hash Stack

Potato Bake

Ingredients:

Ingredients:

4 cups loosely packed finely grated potato

2 kilograms of all-purpose Potatoes

- (3 potatoes yield ~ 4 cups)

300 grams of Sour Cream

1 medium shallot, very thinly sliced

250 grams of grated cheese

1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley (or other herb of choice)

Salt and Pepper

1/2 cup corn

Olive oil spray, for greasing

2 Tbsp melted butter 1 Tbsp cornstarch or arrowroot starch (for binding) 1/2 tsp each sea salt and black pepper

Method: Preheat oven to 190 C. Generously grease a standard muffin tin with oil of choice, otherwise the potatoes will stick.

Add finely grated potatoes to a large mixing bowl with shallot, parsley, corn, melted butter, cornstarch, salt and pepper and stir to thoroughly combine.

Divide mixture evenly between 12 muffin tins, filling each tin with about 1/4 cup of the potato mixture. Press down gently to form. Sprinkle the tops with a pinch more salt and pepper and bake for 20 minutes.

At the 20-minute mark, increase oven temperature to 220 C and bake for 10-12 minutes more, or until the tops appear golden brown, and the edges are dark golden brown.

Remove from oven and let rest for 5 minutes, then loosen the sides with a butter knife and gently lift out with a fork. Serve immediately as is or with a sauce of your choice.

Method: Preheat the oven to 175°C. Slice the potatoes as thin as you can.

Transfer the potato slices to a large bowl, sprinkle over the salt then pour over boiling water to cover. Wearing rubber gloves, spend a moment separating the potatoes so that they don’t stick together. Set aside.

Line an ovenproof dish with baking paper and give the paper a spray with oil.

Drain the potatoes in a colander, then return them to the bowl and pour over freshly boiled water. Leave the potatoes to sit in the water for 4 minutes, then drain them very well and return them to the empty bowl.

Add the sour cream and half the cheese, season lightly and toss together well to coat the potato slices evenly.

Arrange potato slices in the prepared dish. Spread them out evenly by feeling how they sit in the tray with your ďŹ ngers and rearranging as necessary. Top with the remaining cheese, transfer to the oven and bake for at least 45 minutes, or until its bubbling and looking golden and delicious on top.

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

31

WAIKAT BUNKERS

THE GRAPEVINE Tucked away in the shittier part of the South Waikato, The Grape Vine was first envisioned as an AirBnB for two parents with an empty nest.

Times have changed, and thanks to a global pandemic, and I’m back to leech off my parents and take advantage of this quaint little space.

Comes with a TV, toilet and canine companion to help guide you in the apocalypse.

If you want to show us pictures of how your quarantined then send eight pics to editor@ nexusmag.co.nz and we will reward you with pizza from Sals when all this is over!

32

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

33

Name: Created with TheTeachersCorner.net Word Search Maker

R

T

B

K

T

Q

B

S

H

I

J

Z

W

Z

J

Z

J

D

R

X

B

Q

J

D

C

D

S

V

F

K

B

E

A

P

K

G

O

F

X

F

U

A

P

R

Q

L

L

A

Z

O

J

T

U

I

P

L

G

G

P

A

G

N

I

H

T

E

M

O

S

W

A

R

D

V

Z

A

V

E

Q

Z

Y

B

N

M

N

I

M

F

R

B

I

J

G

N

I

T

A

E

O

N

X

F

C

Z

X

U

Z

I

I

H

W

R

J

J

A

J

N

N

J

P

C

A

B

K

D

N

B

U

H

U

P

N

N

T

V

N

H

V

B

S

W

G

S

R

A

X

B

K

Q

H

R

P

I

D

A

G

E

A

J

F

D

Q

G

E

M

M

T

M

T

N

E

O

O

Y

S

D

N

L

C

K

L

B

E

E

W

B

E

C

E

H

S

W

V

T

A

S

X

O

N

T

A

O

U

F

O

A

Z

L

G

R

M

P

I

Y

B

C

I

O

I

E

G

W

B

L

W

H

Z

F

S

E

U

X

C

I

A

A

H

W

Z

X

D

Z

B

N

G

T

R

L

A

O

S

U

T

V

A

N

Z

P

F

N

Q

G

U

P

E

G

H

I

D

N

R

V

A

D

U

W

J

A

A

S

D

I

N

R

F

B

O

F

O

U

Z

T

X

E

I

T

Q

Y

M

Q

O

H

A

C

V

R

V

E

X

G

B

M

S

H

W

Q

U

R

R

P

A

U

U

B

C

Z

B

Y

Z

Z

Y

H

U

E

D

C

Y

U

Q

W

C

C

R

S

P

F

B

S

S

T

H

W

G

C

L

T

K

A

D

E

K

S

I

M

B

H

S

S

Q

O

V

U

Y

D

Y

Y

L

I

C

O

R

N

A

H

A

T

O

Q

C

R

Q

I

D

R

H

U

U

J

J

S

R

B

H

N

X

V

L

Q

S

K

O

Y

O

W

N

U

Y

V

K

S

U

S

P

D

Z

M

C

A

H

X

Y

Q

G

E

H

P

Z

V

B

I

N

O

P

S

E

G

P

L

P

I

U

P

D

H

A

L

N

M

F

B

O

E

D

D

E

C

S

Y

P

N

M

R

B

N

G

U

T

X

G

N

I

T

A

B

R

U

T

S

A

M

C

O

G

L

I

O

O

T

G

P

O

M

X

E

K

D

J

W

Q

R

U

T

Z

R

W

U

A

G

Y

L

A

S

J

G

R

Z

I

S

O

S

B

Q

O

A

J

C

G

U

Q

Z

G

J

F

P

N

A

Y

E

P

O

P

O

O

O

X

G

T

E

X

T

I

N

G

O

S

O

R

I

G

O

Q

C

R

R

E

O C R I I O T E R O O Y Y WORD LOCATORL- FORMS OF PROCRASTINATION

Y

I

U

X

U

Q

Q

O

O

P

R

O G E O H A P R N J M L L C F Y EATING ONLINE SHOPPING YOUTUBE CLEANING PUZZLES TEXTING DRAW SOMETHING NAP EATING GAMING INSTAGRAM INSTAGRAM MASTURBATINGCALLYOURMUM ANOTHER NAP ONLINESHOPPING DRAWSOMETHING CALL YOUR MUM FACEBOOK TINDER FACEBOOK HAVEABATH LAUNDRY HAVE A BATH ANOTHERNAP GAMING

L

V

U O H D A COOKING COOKING CLEANING CATVIDEOS TEXTING PUZZLES LAUNDRY CAT VIDEOS MASTURBATING NAP YOUTUBE TINDER 34

B

X

1 7 7 5 3 8 96 3 34 2 61 2 79

SUDOKUS

http://1sudoku.com http://1sudoku.com

EASY

2 9

56 72 46 93 2 8 1 9 4 2 6 33 9 7 3 4 78 26 2 77 5 8 2

5

6

http://1sudoku.com http://1sudoku.com

82

2

5

4

1 5 8 28 9 7 4 2 4 56 1 7 3 87 35

118146 - Level Easy n° 24646 - Leveln°Medium

5

1 2 1 94 2 6 3 6 3 2 1 91 7 14 55 4 3 69 8 5 4 2

119911 - Level Easy n° 214262 - Leveln°Medium

LABYRINTH

7 6 3 68 1 1 97 8 1 8 6 1 3 4 5 4 5 1 21 8 8 6 87 42 9 5 18 7 1 9 5 4

http://1sudoku.com http://1sudoku.com

4 9 3 4 8 9 41 61 5 5 3 9 1 6 3 1 3 1 39 98 1 2 62 8 5 http://1sudoku.com http://1sudoku.com

8

1 76 69

93 32

7

4 6

7 8 2 6 4 8

56 2 2 7 3

214954 n° 36837 - n° Level Hard- Level Medium

6 9 1 6

8 13 3 6 7 2 3 6 2 4 5 4 1 5 2 7 4 7 1 1

2 3 8 1

9

5

4 5

2

2

4 7 9 9

5 9 3 2 3 1 1

n° 326964 - Level Hard

6 7 8 5

9 4

9 6

n° 28174 n° 315283 - Level Hard- Level Medium

RIDDLE

2 1 4 8 3

http://1sudoku.com

HARD

7 5 84 15 4 1 8 5 2

MEDIUM

6 2 9 4 91 8 9 4 2 16 4 7 2 8

2

7 8

5 6

6 9 1 4

http://1sudoku.com

2

2 4 3 5

n° 324517 - Level Hard

ng the codes belowthese : Play on your mobile these puzzles and find their solutions by flashing the codes below : lay on your mobile puzzles and find their solutions by flashing the codes below :

° 214681 n° 118146

n° 227495 n° 115898

40 n°by 35 delta maze 24646 n° 119911 n° 322364 n° 214954

n° 324050

n° 214262

n° 36837

n° 28174

n° 326964

n° 315283

n° 324517

What can you fold but not crease?

Issue 4 answer: A bed

Page 1/1 - Check solutions, print more free sudoku and play online : http://1sudoku.com sudoku and play online : http://1sudoku.com Page 1/1 - Check solutions, print more free sudoku and play online : http://1sudoku.com

DRAW WHAT IS OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW

Copyright © 2020 JGB Service, http://www.mazegenerator.net/

NEXUS MAGAZINE / ISSUE 5

35

Boost your career prospects with MyCareer

Career Development Services provides University of Waikato students, recent graduates and alumni with career development tools and support.

MyCareer is an online system that allows you to manage your own career development.

Use MyCareer to: • Register for workshops • Request an appointment with a Careers Advisor • Build your CV • Find out about graduate and internship opportunities • Access the career resource library • Learn about volunteering opportunities

• RSVP to our career expos and employer campus visits.

Sign in to MyCareer via the Student Portal under Support. mycareer@waikato.ac.nz waikato.ac.nz/students/careers

NEED A NEW STUDY BUDDY?