YUP FRESHER'S 2016

5 DAYS - 5 PLACES - 1 OFFER - ALL DAY LONG

(Exclusively for Kolkata Amitian's joining in 2016)

College is one of the best phases of life. A whole bunch of new friends and a whole lot of freedom to enjoy.

We at YUP were thinking on how can we do both of this together. We did some thinking and came up with 5 awesome days, with 5 awesome deals where you can go with your new college groups and chill. Go to Caafe 360 Degree, One Sports Lounge, Winning Streak, Beer Republic and Pour House on the respective days and see all your new college mates. Chill, interact with each other and find all those who you should hang out with.

12th September, 2016 - Monday        --    Caafe 360 Degree     --    1:1 on Hookah

13th September, 2016 - Tuesday       --     One Sports Lounge   --    1:1 on Hookah

14th September, 2016 - Wednesday  --     Winning Streak         --    1:1 on Hookah, Cocktails & Mocktails

15th September, 2016 - Thursday     --     Beer Republic           --     1:1 on Hookah & Beverages

16th September, 2016 - Friday         --     Pour House               --     10% off on total bill excluding alcoholic beverages

It happens only once in a lifetime. You don't want to miss out.

5 Days of awesomeness comes at a price of Rs. 100 only.
Get your Fresher's Band from Mrinal (9830501633) or Sonal (8509809092).

Sign up for your band.

To continue all year round awesomeness, get your YUP Card at Rs. 499/- and get your YUP Fresher's band complimentary.

YUP FRESHER'S 2016

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You may have touted yourself to be the loner type. When your friends complain about their partners you roll your eyes around for several minutes and sigh, then comes your most taunting “I am a free bird and I can do whatever I want” speech. A speech that secretly kills you a little inside, yet you put up a brave front. I am the lone wolf with a prowl of pride, yet I am unhappy and sad inside.

It is ironical that sadness is always met with anger from others. People attack you when you are the most vulnerable. And getting attached to someone means that you are so sensitive to everything about them that even a slight change in their tone makes you churn the thoughts about what you might have done wrong.

But there is a reason you took to the path of solitude, someone left you scarred and now going through the same things is giving you the uneasy jerk of PTSD! But think of it in this way – if you could love the wrong one so much, imagine how much you can love the one that’s right.

So, put your best foot forward and ask out your crush on a date, Kolkata is India’s Paris for those with the right eye.

Here are the most amazing date-worthy places in Kolkata:

Take her out for some coffee:

The best way to get to know people is to have an interesting conversation over a cup of smoking hot coffee. Accompany it with some freshly baked cookies and you have two perfect pairs in the setting! 

Tip for first date: pick the perfect outfit that makes him/her go ‘Wow’ when they lay their eyes on you, but also it should not seem like you are trying too hard. Keep 30 minutes for getting yourself ready so, that you do not need to rush, but also not make your date wait. 

A good place to have coffee in Kolkata is at the Caafe 360 degree. They serve good quality cuppa and also an assortment of lounge menu. To make the most out of this special day we recommend getting a YUP Card subscription. A YUP Card is only available to college students in Kolkata and offers amazing student offers on restaurants.

Make Ice Cream better:

If you and your date both enjoy a sweet tooth, then the place to take her out on a date is at Mama Mia. Also associated with YUP Card one can enjoy exclusive studentoffers on Mama Mia.

 

Tip for those going on a first date: while your instinct might compel you to ask several questions but, do you really want you date to appear like a college or job interview? All you need to do is to make the conversation going. You could even try making funny observations like – “Don’t you feel awkward when you make accidental eye-contact with people who have stopped next to you at a Red light”.

Show her your adventurous side with a themed restaurant date:

The best way to connect with people and have real chemistry; is to be your own weird self. So, if you think roller-coaster rides and arcade games are the best places to date or a quiet walk by the old cemetery is romantic! Then so be it. 

You could further mix it up with a themed-restaurant lunch or dinner date at Jaisalmer, this is a north Indian restaurant with amazing ambience and a la carte and buffet menu worth salivating for hours! With a YUP Card subscription you can get student discount at Jaisalmer of up to 10% off on the total billing amount. 

Here were a few from the long list of date-worthy spots in the City of Joy! For more such articles and news on best deals for students stay tuned to the updates from YUP Card.

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Do your glasses make you look older? Are you still sporting a pair of specs that people would wear when Reagan was the President of US? If you are just shopping for reading glasses or simply want to grab a pair of shades to carry your rad look. With the right choice of frames you may be able to take years off your face. So, we recommend that you spend in one of these frames to get that youthful, stylish, college heartbeat look.

Which colour should I go for?

The colours are back with a splash and the one topping the charts are reds, browns, mauve and purple. The geeky retro frames are still standing strong (Byomkesh or not). Thick rims still make the ladies pay more attention to the owners inspired by the classic ‘Mad Men’ look wayfarers.

The best for the boys...

For the boys who are keen on transitioning into the man whose apparel screams dapper. Then try out those tiny frames that Johnny Depp is wearing always. Those are the ones that seem like he is peeking from behind a newspaper or a novel. These frames are the perfect marriage of retro meets Boho along with the cool meeting the intellectual with a dash of fashion meets geek.

Massive thick rims also look amazing and come in a variety of designs. Think about Ryan Gosling sporting those 70s large frames in his movie “All good things”. 

The rounded thick rims can also give you the stylish professor or mad genius look with an attractive vibe.

 Something for the girls...

Women have it better as we can choose from all those stylish frames as well as much more with an array of cat eye inspired glasses with bolder shades of colours. May be the thin rimmed glasses redesigned with modern panache which used to adore the eyes of 70s French girls would be more to your taste. Also you could combine this look with that of 90s thin metallic rims. 

If you a square face then soften it out with a softened square frame. Something like this:

The best way to choose these frames is to think about nerdy but hot Demi Moore in her super cool Retro but future glasses. These frames also helps eye colours pop with dark hair.

And if you want your frames to be understated rather than standing out, opt for the old school thin ones that go unnoticed. A soft round wire is a subtle pair that will keep you in the spotlight instead of hogging all the attention from your hazel eyes.  

If you would like such stylish frames at a discounted price then try a YUP Card subscription to grab your favourite pair from Optical Palace. With a YUP Card subscription you can get up to 20 percent student discounts on all eyewear including sunglasses and contact lenses.

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With the risk of sounding like your nagging parents, we are going to start off by suggesting that college students mostly spend their pocket-money on junk foods, or as they might want to call them – SOS foods. 

If you have decided to read on further through this blog after reading the title, then it means that you definitely understand which part of your monthly expenses is ‘eating’ away your budget. Before we begin our list of cheap yet filling snacks for college students, read the incident mentioned below to ascertain that we are the right people to take food advice from! Almost all of us may find this story highly relevant to some of our own experiences with hunger.

You get off from the endless hours of class after class daily grind and some more tuition classes when you hear a bone-chilling almost haunting sound, like that from a man-hungry haunted mansion and you soon realize that it is nothing but the sound of your stomach. You remember that in this daily grind you completely forgot to refuel your stomach and start imagining how you can indulge in some fast food to satiate your hunger.

You head off to a nearby Indie-Chinese joint with a menu of delicacies that are mostly spelt wrong and suddenly the smell of freshly cooked tandoori or Chinese food whooshes into your nostrils making you drool uncontrollably. So much so, that while ordering the food you can barely keep your bodily embarrassment in your mouth and the waiter is slyly smiling seeing your hunger. Seeing this unspoken exchange between you and the waiter you choose to get out of the situation fast and do not even ask you about the total and order as much as possible. Soon the food arrives and you pounce at it embodying a lion in his conquests. After you’re done you ask for the cheque and seeing the amount mentioned in the bill what leaves your mouth is not a satisfactory burp but an exclamatory sigh! Darn it...you know have to diet and live on bananas for the next two days to compensate for this impulsive indulgence!

Relevant right?! But fear not as we have some other convenient options other than plain old banana for snacking within budget. Here’s a list of such foods:

Go nuts for nuts:

This is an easy way to find a healthy dose of protein while not compromising the health of your pockets. To keep things interesting try a mixed bunch of nuts for some added sweetness and combination of different textures. And the best bangs for your protein buck are pistachios and almonds.

If you want to get especially adventurous then you can also try some pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds.

You get Yogurt:

Again to save your pocket from getting hurt (rhyming unintended) you could get some yogurt which is a healthy and economical snack that is also readily available. This food has also got some recent buzz as a pop culture favourite, but it does have some valid points for staying. A snack low in sugar with a good content of protein and being a creamy delight (Greek yogurt) to be a good replacement or ice-cream makes this a weight loss staple.

Eggs for eggs-treme hunger:

Too hungry to think straight?! Do not get lured into buying that oil dripping cutlet, simply reach for the hard-boiled egg instead. They are fast filling as well as light on the pockets being around INR 5-6 only. They are also a primo protein source and are packed with healthy amino acids. The compound choline present in eggs is also known to be fat fighting.

Here were our best examples of cheap yet filling snacks that do not taste blunt, or in other words are not Oats! But jokes aside sometimes college students get really hungry and the wait to getting a healthy food when there are so many easy unhealthy options available around them is difficult. So, we recommend that you step into a quality eatery that make their foods from scratch and use fresh produce. And if you are worried about your budget, then try out a college student discount card to save on every order.

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Do you often end up with too much month at the end of your money? Have you been trying hopelessly to save as many Gandhi Ji’s headshots as possible with futile results?

It may often seem impossible to save money especially for college students, living on a tight budget and too many items on their To-do list of fun and hangouts. But if you invest a little time and planning into your budgeting and financial discipline you can always save more than you were, for stretching your money a tad closer to the end of the month.

The battle of saving vs. spending:

A common idea for saving money is to just use it less often! But this basic idea does not seem too enticing to most people, especially youngsters who have the least of care in the world apart from almost mandatory social obligations of having the ‘raddest’ parties with friends. So, saving is often the last of their thoughts.

But in this bewildering battle between spending and saving, most of the times, as life is unfair saving wins. So, here are a few tips on saving more money, while you are in college:

1. Make a list: those who were simply scowling at this blog but still reading on to find a way out from the depths of debt have probably starter rolling their eyes now that we mentioned two dull tasks in a go. Yes, we dared to pen two outrageous ideas in a go, first being budgeting and the second of making a list! While most students leap to reach for their mouse to click through more cat videos on YouTube, let us explain why we think this is a good plan. By writing down all your expenses you can analyse the areas where you spend the most. Then determine which ones are necessary and which are not and plan accordingly.  
2. Set up saving goals: simply planning to save will not be the right motivator for helping you to save. You must have a bigger goal in sight. So, plan something you have desired to own or do for a long time and start accumulating funds for that. It could be a new phone, a camera or a trip, whatever sets your savings muscles rolling will do. And at the end of this bitter struggle you will still have a new amazing experience to look forward to.  
3. Determine your priorities right: it is evident that what you most value be it a hobby or a person that will be the one eating away most of your funds. So, sit down and prioritise where your finances must go.  
4. Automate your savings: a good plan for extreme shop-a-holics to have frugal discipline is to automate their savings or fund expanding investments. The idea is that if you cannot see it then you cannot use it hence, you will not spend it! So, automate transfers from your expense account to your savings account the moment you get your monthly allowance that way it is locked in safely away from your own robbing hands.  
5. Try and create an obstacle course whenever you get in the mood of unnecessary spending: whenever you see something that may actually be completely unnecessary in actuality but for the moment you feel like you must have it. We recommend you take a walk or find something else to do before you drop in your precious pennies to make an unnecessary purchase.  
6. Bonus tip – Use a student discount card like, YUP Card: YUP card is a discount card for college students only, with a yearly subscription as low as 499/-. The card comes with a plethora of offers valid in different chains of cafes, restaurants, hookah parlours, pubs, entertainment centres and shopping and retail sites and stores. With a YUP Card one can save up on every billing amount starting from minimum 5 percent to maximum 20 percent or higher. And the card has unlimited usage without any hidden preconditions.

Saving should not be a struggle for temporary change:

In closing thoughts, most youngsters end up paying more than they should due to either bad habit or Naiveness about expenses and costs. If they can simply change their outlook to find an opportunity where they can save more without compromising their quality of entertainment then the whole pattern of spending will undergo a revolutionary change. Thus, saving should not be taken as a short term plan but instead should be proactively built into the lifestyles so, that one’s financial health remains balanced but not completely deprived.

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Thinking of inviting your college mates on a night out at a nearby pub? How about playing some games to celebrate your thirst? Let’s have a look at the four most popular drinking games played at renowned restaurants by college students.

1. Old is Gold, so try your hands on some beer-pong: The age-old game of beer pong is a favourite among college-goers. Over the years rules for playing this game have undergone changes depending on the members, but the basic norms have remained unaltered. The basic ingredients for the game remain the same and include – a ping-pong table and classic red plastic cups. To play the game first, set up a formation of 10 cups on each side of the ping-pong table. Note that the cups should be placed in a triangle. Fill each cup with roughly three to four ounces of beer. If you have big groups then divide them in two teams. Then the players while standing on either side of the table must aim to toss a ping-pong ball into one of the cups of their opponent team. The team clearing all the cups is deemed as the winner.


2. The All-in-one party hit: Drink-a-Palooza is originally a board game involving each member using their skills. This way no one feels left out in the party. Given the challenges are not repetitive; the social gathering won’t get stale. This monopoly of party games combines both old and new drinking games into one box.


3. The King’s Cups: You need plastic cups or glasses placed on the table and spread a deck of card removing the jokers. This forms a circle of cards around the glass. Players stand in a circular position with their drinking glasses and are asked to draw a card. What makes this game an absolute favourite is the fact that people can socialise.


4. The Bomb shot: A game also called as Depth charge is a game that suits just right for people who simply can’t do without alcohol. Alcohol, pint and shot glasses are used for playing this game. Restaurateurs hosting the party have to mix two types of drinks. The proportion will be three-fourth of beer placed on the table with a shot glass of whisky floating in the beer mug. When the glass tips over into the beer, players need to drink it all and those that lose must perform a funny stunt.

Now that you are aware of what to play it will also be wise to save your pay at boozy parties. YUP card takes care of your bills once you subscribe to the card to get exciting student offers on restaurants.

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1^st paintball place in Kolkata: The Breakout

Are you looking for a fun place to hang out with your friends or have an adventure with? Then a serious game of paintball could give with the rush you are seeking while not actually hurting your friends. Paintballs are non-toxic, biodegradable weapons of pure fun instead of destruction made of water soluble polymers.

Have you always had a knack for warfare and watch the Hollywood war movies packed with tension, anxiety and heavy military action? Did you often secretly role play yourself in such a scene where the nation’s safety and security resided on your shoulders and you were surrounded by the opposing militant or vicious terrorist forces. A place where no law exists and the only norm is to kill or get killed otherwise? Then this game of paintball has been created for you. Take your team and choose your weapons of choice load up the ammunition of happy colours and get prepared for exhilarating yet ecstatic fun with your friends and foes. This is a one of a kind form of adventurous entertainment attracting the whole young generation of Kolkata infused with geekdom which has revolutionarily transformed into being the new cool of the present world.

At Breakout in Kolkata one can choose from a variety of packages for that best game of paintball war with friends and family whether it is for a quirky birthday bash or even just because you feel like it. If all this still does not excite you enough to bunk those boring lectures and rush out to the grounds formulating strategies and shooting with precision, then let us tell you that even the military forces, law enforcements officers, security organizations and para-military forces use paintball to train and get into some serious business of role playing. This serious game is also good for training such personnel in non-lethal danger management and suppression of threats in role playing manner.

How it works:

One needs to put on various accessories to ensure their safety even though there are very little chances of this game to cause any serious injuries. But still as per the regulations players are required to put on safety gear like Kevler vests, body guards, helmets, eye protection etc.

The game itself is played with potentially unlimited kinds of rules and regulations with variations to the same depending upon different groups.These rules ought to be outlined before the game begins as is customary for most multi-player games. The basic outline mostly remains the same where the teams are given a certain goal or task that they must complete without getting shot (with paint) to win. So, both teams fight against each other attempting to reach the goal without themselves being shot and trying to shoot down the team members of the opponent group. The legality or validity of a hit can vary according to the rules. This could range from anything counts (all kinds of hit with paint is sufficient to eliminate the players) or to the common variation where the paintball must break and leave a mark on the surface of the players. The players eliminated are made to leave the field and elimination could even bring on points to the opposition team.

Now that you know all about how the war of paint works, ready for a game? We have even better news for college students, if you get a YUP Card subscription then you can get a discount of 10 percent for all the players of your team! Isn’t that neat? Get a YUP Card and head on for a friendly war right now.

For more such, best deals for students carry your YUP Card with you everywhere you go!

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