The White House

First things first, to everyone assessmenting, Everything is going to be ok.

Now, on we go. Tomorrow, on Thursday, there’s going to be an excellent comedy night upstairs, come in for some great laughs from some excellent sydney comedians.

ALSO, coming up in the week of the 18th of may (i think it’s next week, week). The whitehouse is turning 1. Which we are pretty happy with. To celebrate we are passing on the presents to you, because without you guys the whitehouse is just an excellent empty building, full of toys and broken dreams. From free cupcakes in the morning, to high noon pinatas (potentially full of spiders) and plenty of schooners to go around, it’s going to be a party to remember.

So come down this week, on thursday in particular for comedy and stay through till next week for the party. It’s going to be the best.

Happy days loyal blog readers.

What up sneakers, have I got news for you…not really, but I’m sure we can cobble something together over the intervening paragraphs, before the giant reveal at the end, or is it in the middle…I DON’T EVEN KNOW ANYMORE, BETTER READ EVERYTHING.

We got a new artist in the stairwell gallery. The etchings of the very talented Cecelia Jackson. Check out her website for more of her works www.drawingwithoutaneraser.com.au

Following on from the extremely popular scotch tasting 3 weeks ago, we have a delicious wine and cheese night tonight in the whitehouse. $10 gets you more wine and cheese than you can poke a bloated belly from too much wine and cheese at.

The Iron President competition continues with 2 teams currently vying for the $500 Bar tab. Who will be the victor, Double Rainbow, or Two Kilomockingbird. Only time and challenges will tell.

Could it be time for the reveal…I think it is. The Whitehouse is almost 1 year old. Who would’ve thought that a year ago we’d be looking at glasses and worrying that construction wouldn’t be finished in time. NOT ME DEFINATELY. Well the week that ends on Friday May 18 is going to be so full of excellent activities, including, but not limited to pinatas, cupcakes and cheap beer (not in that order). So keep coming in, and the presents will fly your way.

WHITEHOUSE OUT

So what is an Iron President and why would I want one?

The Iron President is a semester long multifaceted scavenger hunt style competition which will determine the White House’s first Iron President. What benefit is there determining an Iron President? I hear you say. Well, a $500 Bar Tab at the President’s inauguration should be a pretty great reward.

Part One of the list is as follows:

- Coat of arms for the whitehouse (120 points)
- Pizza Box design (50 points)
- make the best chess set (80 points) if it gets used bonus 50 points
- Propaganda poster for the whitehouse (100 points)
- win a connect 4 comp (20 points)
- win an uno comp (20 points)
- best costume for andre (30 points one outfit, 90 points for 2, 130 points for 3, 250pts for a matching 4 part costume)
- best artwork made of bottle caps…bottlecaps to be sourced from the whitehouse (150 pts)
- best 10 second ad for the whitehouse (160 points)
- best cocktail recipe (50 points)
- pizza flavour (50 points)
- whitehouse haiku (30 points)
- best decopage coffee cup (80 points)
- decopage cup in robot theme (100 points)
- decopage cup in dinosaur theme (100 points)
- decopage in theme of your own choice (100 points, best theme bonus 50 points)
- most beautiful chair donated (200 points)
- best home made taxidermy (10 points)
- most inelligent jenga piece graffiti (40 points, 10 points for other funny ones)
- coolest whitehouse mixtape, on an actual tape (80 points), 100 bonus points for recorded straight off the radio
- best model of the whitehouse, (200 points) bonus other points depending on the substance the model is made out of
- Instructions on how to do the whitehouse dance (90 points)
- best photo taken in the whitehouse (40 points per photo)
- best set of playing cards (no porn cards) 30 points, bonus if they are home made (100 points)

So now you’ve seen the list, and you figure, let’s give this a shot. Here’s how to register your team.

Send an email to whitehouse@arc.unsw.edu.au and include the following:

- President’s Name; that’ll be your team name, the president you want to be the Iron President, give them a strong name

- President’s motto

- Team Captain’s email; All communication regarding the competition will be done through this email

- Number of people in the team

Once that’s happened, we’ll register your team and keep you updated with new challenges and tasks as they appear.

Other than that…have a great week, and We look forward to seeing you and you’re president in the whitehouse.

Good Luck,

The Returning Officer of the Iron President Competition and Election 2012

Hey there Whitehouse blog readers. Hope you had a great leap day, beccause you’re not getting one for another 4 years. In honour of that glorious day, here are 2 things that happened/are happening this week, and one exciting thing happening tonight.

Where’s Wally Wednesday

Five pictures of Wally were hidden. When they were found secret prizes were given away in the form of drinks. Next week it could be anything, so keep your eyes peeled on a Wednesday.

Introducing Cocktail of the Month, this month, The Wicked Orchid

Also known as the “We need more water bottles”. This cocktail is based on the beautifully tasting, little used liquor, St Germain. With some strawberry, pear juice and gin, it’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever had.

Book Club This Saturday

If you want to talk about the book that invented princes; On Saturday, The Culture Club is doing Book Club in the early afternoon. Come on by for a drink and a chat on saturday.

****** BREAKING NEWS STOP PRESS *******

Tonight we have a business card draw for a $50 Bar Tab, we’re drawing it at 6pm, so make sure you’re down here, with a business card to be in with a chance.

And just like our opening hours sign says, we’re open 8am-11pm.

WHOA! What’s that piling through the door, filling our chairs, playing our games (and packing them up neatly without losing any pieces)? It’s only customers, beautiful, money-spending, jibber-jabbering, socialising customers.

Now our tears of loneliness can become tears of joy as you guys fill our empty halls, and in doing so we have some exciting news:

-News Item The First: We have a new artist in the stairwell gallery. The beautiful and talented Laura Carey (COFA Graduate and in general Irish excellent person), come on in and have a look at her work.

-News Item The Second: The latest line up for the Whitehouse is out, IN EYE BLISTERING A2 poster format. Get your limited edition poster, and start collecting now.

-News Item The Third: We have a new safe full of games, and a new policy with game players: People who don’t pack up games lose fingers.

-News Item The Final: Finally in Week 2 Blitz, the first list for the Iron President Challenge, the semester long competition for a $500 bar tab. Stay tuned and see you soon blog lovers.

Have a great rest of the O-Week
Miles