Seventh Edition | 2018

THE VOICE

Robert Menzies College

May 2018

Seventh Edition

In this week’s edition...

Inter-College Soccer

Block Events

Arts Week!

Editors Zoe Walters & Jennifer Good

Contents Arts Week ........................................ Pg. 2 Monday ...........................................

Tuesday ..........................................

Pg. 3 Pg. 4

Wednesday ...................................... Pg. 6 Thursday ......................................... Pg. 8 Memes of RMC ................................

Pg. 10

Friday .............................................. Pg. 12 Saturday .......................................... Pg. 13 The Winning Recipes .......................

Arts Week Chalking .........................

Pg. 14 Pg. 16

Inter-College Soccer ........................ Pg. 17 B-Block Whiteboards .......................

Block Events ....................................

Pg. 18 Pg. 19

Couples of RMC ............................... Pg. 20 Procrastination Article .....................

Pg. 24

Match the Feature to the RA ............

Pg. 26

May Calendar ..................................

Wiretap ..........................................

Pg. 25 Pg. 28

Almost there!

Hey guys! We hope you’re still keeping on top of assignments now that the exam period is almost here!

These last few weeks always go very quickly so keep focused and don’t forget to take care of yourself! Particularly if you have exams make sure to get organised early and start studying! A study schedule isn’t a bad idea at all!

Hope you’ve all enjoyed Arts Week, it’s definitley been lots of fun for us!

Jen & ZOe

ARTS WEEK! Arts Week at RMC is a chance for all our talented residents to show off their artistic and creative skills.

It’s been a wonderful week of events and has shown us how talented you all are!

The first event of the week was the Monday Shakespeare performances.

The Shakespeare competition kicked off Arts week with a dramatic start. The stage was set with candles as participants channelled their inner actor, reciting lines from Romeo & Juliet, King Lear and Macbeth just to name a few.

Congratulations to Matt for taking out the big prize!

And special mention to Anna and Kailash for recreating Romeo and Juliet including the tower!

Thank you to everyone who participated and made this week great!

And a big thank you to the Community RA’s for putting on Arts Week, we all thoroughly enjoyed it!

Monday

Shakespeare Readings

Tuesday ‘Wanted’ Story Slam With an intriguing theme of ‘wanted’ the story slam was filled with funny and

interesting stories. Everyone who read stories performed really well and should

be proud of their efforts! And a big congratulations to Ailie on her winning story, it adopted the theme really well and kept everyone wanting more!

WEDNESDAY

BOB Ross painting, playdough and bridge building

Thursday

RMC REvue

On Thursday night the majority of the college ventured out for one of the most highly

anticipated events. This year we had a number

of acts; kicking the night off was the Community RA’s who presented us with ‘Vines that cure my depression’. The night featured a number of

dancing acts including Alex, Bethany and Amber, Bethany with a solo performance and Caitlin

with Lauren singing. We also had a number of

singers including Mitch with Seb accompanying, Em S, Dan and Michael. We were also privileged

to a performance from the Exec to ‘Status quo’.

Closing the night was a time machine skit by our

hosts, Brian and Darian. Thank you to the Exec for putting this night on!

Memes of rmc This years meme collection was one of our best! Here’s a select few that we loved!

Friday

Mocktails and movie night

On Friday night Mitch and Seb helped us create some interesting mocktails.

The mocktails demonstrated included; Safe sex on the beach, the Citrus Supreme and the Flaming flamingos. With some interesting techniques the beautiful drinks were created. Congratulations to Raman for winning the make your own mocktail.

Saturday

Biggest morning tea and the great rmc bakeof f

On Saturday we were treated with a yummy feast, with all money raised going to the Cancer Council. There were a mixture of different foods available catering to everyone including fairy bread, brownies, muffins and slices.

Congratulations to Anirudh, Ashleigh, Anisa and Cian with their Cookie Pizza for winning the Block Bake Off.

The winning Recipes m m m UM

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RECIPE 1

After some vigorous taste testing

by Katrina, the winning recipes were selected. Here are the recipes for two of the winners, make sure to try them yourself and maybe even cook them for some of the other residents! We know lots of people would love that!

Don’t forget to ask around for the other recipes if you liked any in particular that we haven’t included!

the pizza cookie!

YUM

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Serves: 10 Ingredients 125g butter 1 cup brown sugar 1/4 caster sugar (or white sugar) 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 cup self-raising flour 3/4 cup plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 cup milk chocolate chips Instructions Mix it all together and bake for 15 mins at 180 degrees Celsius!

RECIPE 2

Estranged Vegan Hummingbird cupcakes Servings: 18 cupcakes. Prep Time: 15 minutes. Cooking Time: 20 mins.

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Ingredients: Cupcake Mixture 2 cups self-raising flour 1 tsp baking soda Pinch salt 1 tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp ground nutmeg 440g can of crushed pineapple with juice ⅓ cup olive oil ¼ cup maple syrup 1 tsp vanilla extract ⅓ cup granulated sweetener (e.g raw sugar + stevia) 2 medium mashed bananas ½ cup desiccated coconut

Icing Mixture ½ cup nuttelex (i.e margarine) ¼ cup coconut cream ½ cup granulated sweetener (e.g icing sugar, raw sugar + stevia) 1 tsp vanilla extract ½ - 1 lime (juice) Pinch salt Lime zest for garnishing

Instructions Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celcius and line muffin tray(s) with cupcake papers.

In a large mixing bowl add together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.

In another bowl mix the raw sugar, pineapple juice, olive oil, maple syrup, vanilla extract and mashed banana.

Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir until thoroughly combined.

Then add the chopped pineapple and desiccated coconut.

Pour ingredients into cupcake tray.

Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, or until skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.

While waiting for the cupcakes to bake, make the icing by putting the nuttelex and coconut cream in a food processor or mixer. Then add the sugar a bit at a time, until all incorporated. Lastly add the vanilla extract, salt and lime juice.

Once the cupcakes are cooked, cool on a baking rack for at least 30 minutes and then top with icing.

Arts week Chalking

inter-collegE SOCCER Our intercollege sports competition continued on Sunday with soccer games.

Everyone played great, with the girls beating DLC by 1 and the Village girls being a no show. Unfortunately, the boys lost their games. The next intercollege sport will be in next semester!

the B-Block whiteboard

Each week the fabulous B-Block captains write a new topic on the whiteboard at the entrance to the block.

These are just a few of the funny answers people have responded to some of the recent topics!

Make sure if you’re ever walking through B-Block to check it out and maybe write something on there yourself!

Block events

D-Block SOCIAL Pizza night

It was a hard night, cold and dark.

The wind slapped our cheeks and wormed away at our confidence. The food was late. With low morale our numbers fell.

The first wave of pizzas was met with hungry hands and happy hearts.

Conversation grew warm, even a little heated, as temperature fell. All in all, would rate 8/8 full family fun go D Block.

- Matt (D-Block Captain)

B-Block Movie Night “What’s wrong McFly? You chicken?” There are so many classic quotes from the back to the future series... “B”ack to the future block got together to encounter this cinematic phenomenon, some for the first time, others to relive childhood memories. We really enjoyed having our minds slightly boggled by the second movie and the complexities of time travel. Most importantly though, we had really good supper spreads so no one went hungry...

- Lachlan (B-Block RA)

couples of RMC

the exec is working with really cool people to pull off fun and exciting events for everyone. Especially in organising O-week, which was

one of the most hectic, stressful, fun and rewarding things I’ve

ever done. All the work is worth it when you see everyone enjoying themselves.

What do you study? And what is your favourite part of your

Human #11 Tamsin Nagaiya What is your favourite memory of RMC so far?

My O-week when I was a fresher, getting to experience freedom

from my family and making crazy

new friends while doing crazy new things was something I’ll never

forget. Scav hunt was hilarious,

because one minute I was drunk swimming through a filthy pond in the botanical gardens, the

next I have to sober up because my parents wanted to meet me

halfway through scav to say their final goodbyes.

What has been your favourite things about being on the Exec?

My favourite thing about being on

degree?

I am studying a Bachelor of

Applied Finance with a Bachelor of

Actuarial Studies. My favourite part of my degree is getting to study something that I truly enjoy and

have wanted to do for many years.

I feel very privileged to be able to study what I’ve always wanted to.

What’s an interesting fact about you?

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t actually shag sheep.

What’s a funny fact about Tom? A funny fact about Tom is that when he’s really happy he snorts like a piggy.

What’s an embarrassing story about Tom? The most embarrassing thing that has

happened to Tom that I have witnessed

was when he came to meet my family in New Zealand over summer. My family

really liked him, but I have a crazy family friend that has no boundaries. When she met him she proceeded to ask him a list

of detailed questions about certain body

parts and certain intimate acts… in front of my whole family and some friends (including my grandparents)! It was

extremely awkward, embarrassing and my dad was not impressed.

Don’t forget! If you want to be a Human

of RMC all you have to do is contact one

of the editors and we’ll happily send you

the questions and feature you in our next issue!

that you already gossiped about with that Exec member. You know who you are. In

seriousness though it has been becoming

better friends with all of the Exec members and enjoying the fruits of all our hard work and planning throughout the year. I look

forward to the rest of the journey with this collective of 9 (including moi) amazing people!

Human #12 THOMAS BUNTING What is your favourite memory of RMC so far?

O-week and teaching the fresher dance.

Some would say that O-Week is a

traumatic experience for Exec members who are lucky enough to MAYBE get

5 hours of sleep each night, but in all honesty, it was one of the funnest (it

should be a word) weeks of my life. What

made the hard work worth it was winning

the fresher dance and seeing the smiles on everyone’s faces as well as the cheers of victory.

What has been your favourite things about being on the Exec?

Exec meetings and exchanging a cheeky glance with another Exec member when a controversial topic is being discussed

What do you study? And what is your favourite part of your degree?

I am currently studying concurrent degrees – B Psychology (Honours) & B Applied

Finance. Favourite part of my degree by far is…definitely not the Psychology. It is interesting for sure, but not what I

expected. So if anything, Finance is the beez kneez, the duck’s nuts, the tick’s prick, the cat’s pyjamas and it goes

without saying, the favourite part of

my degree. I think the only thing that

lets it down is some of the people with gargantuan egos doing the degree.

What’s an interesting fact about you?

For or better or worse, I enjoy the food at

RMC. Oh and I have also recently made the

executive decision that I am going to retire in New Zealand. That country is legit fire.

What’s a funny fact about Tami?

If you ever get the chance to intensely tickle Tami you will be greeted by an

evil witch cackle. It is by far the lamest/ funniest “laugh” I have ever witnessed.

What’s an embarrassing story about Tami?

One cool winter evening Tami thought it was a wise idea to drink about $150

WORTH OF CHAMPAGNE. Later that night when I left her hunched over the toilet to

fetch a bucket elsewhere, I came back to a familiar scene I once saw in a movie.

For those who have had the common sense of watching the Wolf of Wall Street, I came

back to the drunk brown female version of Leonardo DiCaprio crawling to his white

Lamborghini whilst high on super Ludes.

The only difference in this case was that

she was muttering “I’m nearly there” even

though her intended location (the bed) was on the other side of the room.

How did you and Tami meet?

One day when I was playing Ping

Pong shirtless in the commo, Tami

serendipitously stumbled into the room and enjoyed the privilege of witnessing

me vanquish my opponent. Once I won

the battle and claimed my title of Alpha Male, Tami couldn’t stop herself from

falling madly in love with me. Likewise,

after wiping the blood of my fallen enemy off my face I too fell in love with her at first sight and the rest is history. Nah

but real talk we met each other at lunch

one day when she sat next to me. As she was wearing a crop top, Cameron Nieger

complimented her on her really nice belly

button. After my own personal assessment of her anatomy, I nodded in agreement and spoke my very first words to Tami, “Yeah it is a nice belly button!”

Procrastination

An Article from Meredith the RMC Councellor One of the most common topics of conversation I have with students concerns struggles with procrastination. “Why do I always leave things til the last minute?””I feel I could do better but I seem to sabotage myself by wasting the time I do have until it’s too late”…. Sound familiar??

One view is that it is all about avoidance- not just of the task but of the thoughts and feelings (or experiences) that accompany these demands. We are really tough on ourselves and our thinking can trap us in a vicious cycle.

Humans are designed to avoid facing painful or scary thoughts, emotions, memories etc, even when they are not even aware of them, so in a sense putting off a dreaded assignment is normal!

And a little build up of pressure (like in a rubber band if you’re shooting peas) can be an effective strategy for some.

But the problem is, procrastination can mean you miss out on really important things (not just grades, but also living a rich and meaningful life), and end up feel guilty to top it off.

Part of my job is to help you gain clarity around what thoughts might be pushing you around and what you might be avoiding, changing your perspective on them so they have less impact on your behaviour, and to connect with and do what matters to you.

THE VOICE Match

the feature to the RA #1

This week is time to see how well you know the RAs around college! We’ve taken photos of them all and now you are going to have to match their name to the feature you think is theirs!

Good luck!!

Julian Aenishaenslin

Helen Ramsay

Jonty Boshier

Nicole Cairney

Cindy Diep

Sarah Toohey

Fadzai Pasi

Jonty WangBoshier Yue

Jake Beattie

Lachlan Field

Zoe Speer

Minh Long Nguyen Vu

Tami: “What kind of animal would you be” Lauren C: “A dog, so you could put a collar on me”

Em *aggressively*: “Go down!”

Mark: “Geez, take me to dinner first” Lucy: “Oh my god, my heart is so alive right now!”

Dave: “I’m really impressed you did Shakespeare” Katrina: “I’m an english PhD. If I can’t quote Shakespeare off the top of my head I’m not sure what I’m doing!”

Caitlin G: “I don’t think I could be the Queen of England...I don’t like wearing dresses” Raman P: “I’m like a brown Ed Sheeran”

Jeremy *asking about the kettle*: “Is the toilet boiled?”

Amy: “I don’t know, is it?”

Darian: “I’m single by choice...but not my choice”

Pasi: “A year away from Seb would have been super good for Bill”

Tyla: “Is this the Magic Mike playlist?”

Em: “This is just my playlist...”

Daniel: “I’ve got YouTube red don’t worry” Em: “Omg isn’t that the porn website?”

Lydia: “I can’t eat any more sticky date pudding because then my tummy will be overfull and I’ll feel sick” Cindy: “No but your heart will be overfull and you’ll be happy!”

Sam: ”I love the sound of babies crying while I eat dinner”

Em: “I made it in the hole, that’s all that matters” Tyla: “It is though” *Talking about pageants* Sarah: “Wait what? Pigeons?”

Amy: “Yeah Sarah, I love them in their pigeons” Sam: “I grew up on soy milk” Cindy: “I grew up on breast milk”

MAY 11 - may 23

Jack: “You can open your mouth pretty wide Hannah” Matt: “Wait so you poked her and now she’s sick” Darian snorting salt: “Mama didn’t raise no b**ch” Anna F: “So basically, Caesar got shanked af”

Hannah: “Does anyone know the difference between a legistlative council and a legislative assembly?”

Tyla: “Just search it up on Google maps”

Daniel: “When a guy’s super awkward, yep I’m flaccid”

THE Wiretap Julian *talking to Mark*: “I’ll drop my pants...I’m keen”

Darian *handing out free drink vouchers at Ranch*: “With great power comes great responsibility”

Tami: “You’ve got a firm ass Maddy” Maddy: “Yea it’s quite tight, it needs to be stretched out”

Emily S: “Ok but beauty is subjective” Carly: “Yea but I feel like a big dick isn’t subjective”

Darian: “Would you like to see images?”

Tyla: “Um I’m okay thank you”

Sam L: “I’m pretty easy you know”

Alice: “I mean look at it, it’s so big”

Murad: “I don’t know how to use it, I’ll put it back”

Daniel: “It just tastes so warm”

Mark: “I just wanna...put it in the ukelele”

Share your voice!

Are you a creative soul and want to contribute to The Voice?

Send through your work as a message to our Facebook page or submit it annonymously to one of the editors!

Any contributions are

accepted - drawings, poems, stories, articles etc. And don’t forget any to send in any funny submissions to the Wiretap.

If you want to be featured in the Humans of RMC section, let us know and we will interview you!

Or feel free to talk to one of the editors Zoe Walters (A207) or

Jen Good (A203)