Student 24/7 Apr 2014 | Page 3

VUVU’S SOAPBOX Vuvu’s Soapbox... I feel like a kid in a candy store – QUACK! I mean, I literally cannot choose... will be jam-packed with no less than two public holidays! So many hours, so much to do... For starters – I can really see myself getting used to four-day work weeks! Add to this the ridiculous amount of caramel centered chocolate eggs I have consumed during the past long-weekend and I am sold to the (utopian) idea of living the good life – or EGGstravaganza, as I like to call it! Just thinking about that heavenly combination of sugar, caramel, cocoa and caffeine ... oooooh, I can feel myself soaring in the open skies like an eagle! (The fact that I also – after completely overindulging, momentarily felt like a teary-eyed stuffed chicken, will remain our little secret...) Whilst looking for some more Easter eggs at Building 13, I met up with (my very academically inclined) cousin, who told me the most interesting news. Apparently – although this sounds very far-fetched to this goose, a recent study showed that countries that eat the most chocolate also have the highest number of Nobel Prize winners per capita! Quack! Forgetting about the sheer bliss of my recent eggstravaganza for a while, I want to jump for joy when the prospect of yet another long-weekend sets in. That’s right – next week Apparently researchers say that a group of antioxidants known as “flavonoids” can improve one’s thinking ability... I tell you, if this is true I am in for one serious bout of overindulgence... I was not the brightest gosling in our biology class, but I understand that