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Saturday, June 24, 2006

No ifs, ands or UTS

The UTS building: Boring or Boring through the layers of cranium into the imagination of us all?

It doesn't look so bad here because you've got Sydney University's beautiful Victoria Park in the foreground. So lets separate it from its context: It's a giant brick in every sense. I'm not paying out the university though, it's fine, it even gets a comma in its abbreviation as the full name is "The University of Technology, Sydney". Not to mention, their library requires the scanning of a student card to enter. At Sydney's Fisher Library, anyone from the Queen of England to Homeless McTransient can walk in and start flipping through Quebecoise dictionaries. I'm UTS brown with envy.

Part of me hopes it's just a big brown tarp over the top because Oprah's hiding a Cessna underneath to give to Boquicsha for her ghetto wedding. Alas, not so.

Interestingly though, in spite of all this, the Japanese actually borrowed the design of UTS and made a cartoon character from it. I kid you not! His name is Domokun, if you've never heard of him, here he is:

He's a lovable fluffball who's probably majoring in Applied Chemistry or something. According to Wikipedia: "Domo's favorite food is seasoned beef with potatoes and he has a strong dislike for apples (an unexplained mystery in his DNA). Domo is known to pass gas repeatedly when nervous or in a bad mood." I cannot think of a better description of UTS either. You can understand the connection more when considering the name of the UTS building is Domokun Campus.

I dying with jealousy now, Sydney Uni could never have a mascot made out of it unless it was a pair of mutated conjoined twins with tennis courts for hands. Oh well

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