Federal budget review

Federal budget review It's taken me THIS long to finally read this federal budget section from THE AGE, dated May 9, 2007. It's been sitting on my bed for THAT long, a main reason in why I wanted to read it, was that as a consumer, I should be notified of my benefits I can rip off the government. So here, I list the ones that are applicable to me, or many who also fall into the category of uni/tafe student with elderly people :P Here goes: - Carer payment recipient to get $1000 lump sum. Can I get some for "caring" for an 80 year old :P - Child care benefit increased 10%. Maybe I should start giving birth just to get some "kaching" in my pocket - $2.1 billion to be spent over next decade encouraging young people to join and stay in defence forces. Maybe I should join the army and be MACHO -$457 million for student tuition vouchers. GIMME A TUTOR NOW!!! -Extra $15.8 million over four years to help disadvantaged job seekers, including those with mental illness and drug addictions find employment. YES YES I'm weird and I overdose on Panadol. So help me, help me! -Diabetes, obesity, dental care and medical research are the main recipients for $51.8 million health spending.OK if I start overindulging on sweets and chocolate, and what not, I'll need all the above just in time for next year...and yes dental care AGAIN...no problems you can cut me up for some research..just ignore the fatty tissues :P -$20.6 million extra over the next four years for mental health services. Here, here, look at me, look at me!!! -$566 million for Victorian roads and railways next financial year.WOOP DI DOO DA, make it wider, coz I'm hopeless at driving...please :P -$25 million to upgrade Whitehorse/Springvale Road intersection in Nunawading. YAY that way I can get to my other house easier (I hope) coz traffic sucks there -Junior apprentices to get annual $1000 payment to top up wages. Quit uni, and become an apprentice bricklayer eh? Chick bricklayers HRMMMMM??? -Government to make one-off payment that doubles co-contribution for 2006 for low-to-middle income earners.YAY another $1500 for my retirement -For every $1 of after-tax super contributions, government's co-contribution will be $3 instead of $1.50, up to maximum of $3000 for eligible taxpayers. HEEHEE *sniggers* I'm gonna be filthy rich when I'm 65!!! Gonna use retirement money for house buying, bungee jumping and skydiving, OH what a life for a 65 year old fart. If you wanna enjoy this pleasure and leisure at that age too, start working the superannuation benefits. Those who don't think now, and think "oh I'll be $1000 less of money to spend this year" then you're stupid. That amount will work up to be many thousands, and possibilities of withdrawing that amount earlier is possible to. So why not rip the government co-contributions??? Free money!!! Stupid if you don't (implying brother). Side note-don't kill me, unless you have been guaranteed as a recipient of my superannuation, if I die. -From July 1st, income threshold increased THE NEW TAX RATES Tax rate Thresholds 2006-2007 New Thresholds 2007-2008 New Thresholds 2008-2009 % $ $ $ 0 0-6,000 0-6,000 0-6,001 15 6,001-25,000 6,001-30,000 6,001-30,000 30 25,001-75,000 30,001-75,000 30,001-80,000 40 75,001-150,000 75,001-150,000 80,000-180,000 45 150,000+ 150,000+ 180,000+ Although the real benefits aren't till 2008-2009, there is still a way to get taxed less. Start increasing your tax-deductibles, start donating to those Salvos and ask for a receipt :P Well that's all from your future tax accountant For I am Wendy Ng, remember that name, I won't be tax-deductible, and charge you full fare (friend or no friend) I gotta make a profit somewhere ya know? Yours truly ~Wacky Wendy

And when I thought it was over....

And when I thought it was over.... I'd been told I have to have retainers for another 6 months. I mean yeah, it's good in that it helps it keep the teeth in a sturdy position until they have become accustomed to its new feel and all. But a top and bottom retainer gets annoying. I had them in for one evening already, and I think I need to attend speech pathology classes or something, I can't speak properly, I sound like a baby, and probably when dad gets back again, he's gonna judge me on my speaking again and call me a spastic. It's an annoying feel, having this bit of smoothened plastic which my tongue rests on, and I am so tempted to just lift it and catapult it to whoever sits infront of me :P Had to get up early for 8:15am debanding appointment, which involved taking the braces off, all that clipping and wire pulling, filing and electronic drilly thingy, I still got the whole image in my head. Seriously I had like an audience watching, the trainee dental nurse, the actual dental nurse, the receptionist, a dentristy student and of course the orthodontsist. First Dr. Wong clipped between the metal pieces and where the tooth was, so where the glue is basically, it sounded soooo metallic. Then when he got to the ends where there is a PIECE of metal wrapped around my back teeth, something similar to a screwdriver was used to unskew it, so that the entired of the metal stuff came out in one piece. That was excruciatingly painful. After that came the filing tool (manually), scraping away any excess glue stuck on my teeth, reminds me of nails on chalkboards. But that's not it, more refined filing required, this time with the electronic drilly thingy, a suction and water at the same time, I mean seriously how many more tools do you need in there. He also had the little mirror thing. OMG I nearly gagged coz one of the metal things went down my throat, lucky Dr. Wong saw it and suctioned it out. Or I woulda killed the trainee dental nurse. But that's not all, he changes the drill end to what seems like a mini-disc, a rotating disc that is attached to the end, and by looks of things it didn't look tight at all, in that it could fall off any soon and give someone a very gruesome plastic surgery. Finally the process of removal is done, but wait theres more...MOULDS!!!! If you have ever done this, you would know it is so hard to breathe through your nose, when there is cement looking thing going down your throat and attached to your teeth, and that could very well rip em all out. It gets messy. But the retainers, I got a fluro mauve colour, I didn't wanna go for pink, I was very tempted to get green, but thought to myself, people might think why I still have toothpaste in my mouth or something. I did get a green box for em though :P I didn't get the retainers till 5:30pm. Having no braces and no retainer yet, was quite a strange feeling. At first it seemed like I had aged, and that my lips felt like they were drooping, then the tongue gets touchy and runs down the front of the teeth like it's never done that before, and realising how smooth it was (yeah they missed each other :P) And then looking into the mirror and realising the teeth to gum ratio was such a difference, not used to having soooo much WHITE hehe. Now I shall have to practise smiling more. AND I did get that Toblerone I was after, however haven't started at it, I had my first meal braces free, the minute I came home from the orthondist. Fatty salmon, fried rice and chicken, which was at 10am. When I went back to him in the arvo, he's like what you eat...I said breakfast LOL It was true though, I didn't have anything else to eat after that. So next time you see me, please try not to say "sorry, say that again" too many times, it might hurt my feelings, coz it's not like I don't know how to speak, it's now that I have a new lisp (man I can't even say that word properly) Cheers Wendy

How much can one change?

I’ve heard the words “you’ve changed” so many times in the past year or so, I wonder the actualities of it. Have I changed that much??? I know I have gone through a lot of physical changes, in that going through braces was a general procedure, not that much of a difference, then came the surgery in July 2006, which changed my facial bone structure, having incisions to the top and bottom jaw. BUT did that change ME???

Dad said to his sister in America: “when she was ugly she had a kind heart, now that she’s beautiful she’s a bit of a snob” in Chinese. Seriously, am I THAT much of a snob now eh? I know my dad jokes around in a mean sense, but sometimes it causes me to dwell on the thinking of why and what, and THINK TOO MUCH.

I asked mum once, “am I THAT DIFFERENT???” she said “yeah, you’re not as nice as you were, you don’t do the dishes unconditionally no more, I missed the old you that did chores for me with no questions asked” also in Chinese. Hmmm then I think…do people just use me coz of my kind, kind nature (am I kind?).

Seriously if they knew it was gonna change me, would they have brought me to the dentist in the first place? What was the idea of fixing my jaw? What’s the idea of making me look all beautiful?

My brother went through the same process, having the same jaw operation and the same duration of braces, but thing is he has a retainer, and doesn’t bother to wear it, doesn’t bother to keep his jaw condition the new way. Instead he leaves it, doesn’t take care of it, and complains to the parents (mainly mum) why did you make me go through the process of this? Why did you make me have the surgery? He’s changed; he’s become more of an idiot, more of a person who doesn’t listen, more of an imbecile. A jaw surgery isn’t a cheap surgery, it costs a lot, many thousands, and he neglects it like THAT??? =.=”

I’m not like that, I am grateful that I look better. Just the change is contradicting my own thoughts, and any time I get complimented with “you are sexy/beautiful/lovely” by absolutely random people (on Myspace, gotta stop that addiction) I just can’t help but crack up and laugh, or something. I just don’t believe such words, coz I feel so negative about myself, such words just seem unbelievable. I’ll be amazed if anybody compliments my negativity- “Wendy your demented eyes are beautiful”, “your lope sided ears are my honour” MEH, I’m just making stuff up, it’ll never happen, or I would crack up as well, coz that is just so strange to say without cracking up personally.

Tomorrow I’m getting my braces off, that’ll mean I’ll look different again…more contradicting thoughts. I’m happy, and unhappy at the same time…not that I would really want braces for eternity. Just that I’ve had it for so long, without it would be quite strange. Will my teeth shift? Etc etc. The friends that have gone through it, have told me that it’ll feel like your teeth are gonna fall out when you first talk, I’m like WTH??? Getting worried, I gotta get up super early too for it, then have uni during the day, and then have to go back in the afternoon to get a retainer done.

I was looking at supermarket catalogues last night, and said to myself, once you get your braces off, the first thing you’re gonna buy is TOBLERONE. Wishful thinking is always good thinking.

Anyhoo, wish me luck, and my teeth don’t fall out :P
Cheers
Wendy

People come and go

People come and go It's so sad to know that certain people come and go, without being noticed, or without your acknowledgement (not that they have to), but life is life and people have their ways. I can't keep them infront of me all the time. Thing is, I just find it strange lately that a certain someone, with a certain name leaves, and another person with the same name reappears. Well, it's not like it's not possible, seeing that you probably have the same name as like many thousands around the world. I just find it weird sometimes how it seems like they haven't left, they just came back as another person...but now that just sounds insane, so I'll shut up. But to build a friendship after so many years of working together or being with one another, it's just like a little bit of "something" being taken away from you. Not being able to joke around, have a little laugh together, give one another a hug or hi-five. I guess it will just get missed. A manager that I've gotten quite used to; with his existence around the company, finally finished his manager traineeship and moving to another store. I'm gonna miss his funny jokes, his limping leg, his gigantic bodice, and friendly HI's. In general I will miss him...I didn't even know he was only 20 LOL...he reminded me of a High School friend, in that he would always say "Hi Wendy" everytime, and then make fun of me or something of that nature...it's really hard to bond well with managers these days, coz most times they shut off people, and stick to their managerial positions, hardly any of them will have a friendly chat with you...I guess that's why the store manager gets so lonely, and everybody hating him. I'll miss Sam very very much. But I met another Sam in my day-to-day basis, he's my group member for a group assignment, and SUPER SMART...I wonder what benefits I can rip off him HAHA :P And another colleague of mine is leaving as well. I'm gonna miss her, she was awesome, a good pal, and always so happy to see me working (coz I do so much to help her :P ). Yeah, but she's gonna work for another business after 5+ years, she's been working longer than I have at that Target. But she was cool. Her name was Molyka, nicknamed Mo, or Mojo, but the awesome bit was she didn't mind being called Mojo, just like I don't really care being referred as Wing-man now, coz it is my name. But I'll miss her too. Bye Bye Mojo. I wonder when I leave the Target store will there be people missing me...that way, and not just my hard work and efforts in the business. I dunno. I don't really talk to other staff, the way I talked to Mojo, besides work and how crap work is, or how crap customers is, or how crap the store looks, and the amount of work we have to do. I dunno, sometimes a few would go "Where have you been Wendy, I haven't seen you in AGES" but yeah, people come and go, as with good relationships.

Do you ever do things just to get noticed???

Do you ever do things just to get noticed??? Do you??? Just to get people to notice you... to know that you DO exist...and IS around??? I guess it DOES have something to do with me being the middle child, or that I find ways to entertain myself by entertaining others first. I don't know, sometimes I do things to entertain others even if it means putting myself in a bad position, and seriously embarassing myself...but it's only ever appears in people who know me. IN an outside environment, that wacky wendy nature DOESN'T appear. But lately I've opened to alot of new people at university...suddenly I have a HELL LOT more friends now. I'm lovin' it though. A main reason was that I joined mid-week social night, not because "I needed friends, and need to join a social night to do so", no that is not the case, I went because my friend was a volunteer and wanted me to join, but then after attending a few, I quite enjoy being with a group of people that not necessary have to be talking about study, but to generally have fun. I must say doing these social nights, I am actually having fun. I had been to Salsa dancing, partnered up with a lad and learned the sensual dance, though two people with two left feet, we sorta stepped on each other many times, then another night I went to, was Aikido Self-defence, again pairing up with a lad, because all the chicks had paired up with chicks, but I didn't care. The point of the night, to protect yourself with little effort, so ended up strangling, holding, gripping onto each other, and learning the steps to get out of the situation. It was funny seeing everyone strangling/purposely hurting one another. And just last Wednesday, I went to Japanese night, which involved watching the art of flower arranging called Ikebana (I swear the dude was talking about kabana sausages LOL), did origami, made sushi, eats lots of sushi, drink green tea and had fun. But I enjoyed it all, and I plan to go to the rest of the social nights, which involve chocolate night, bingo night, etc etc. But what's the point of this blog. WHAT am I doing to get noticed in the household? What did I do? ...I tied my fringe up, so it looked like a fountain (my brother called it that), so I waved it to my brother and go "are you jealous I have hair (still waving it)" He said no, but I'm sure he did LOL. Why because he recently shaved his own head. And then mum goes "you look like a candle wick, can I light it up" but then my sister wasn't on a funny note, and said "you look absolutely ridiculous" but that didn't crush me, tying it up and making a fool of myself and enjoying and laughing was the idea of it. If only everyone else enjoyed my crazy moments...noone would be sad. Cheers Wendy

The coming of age???

Would you feel bad if you had a huge desire to put your grandma in a nursing home, because of old age, and what follows with that???

I mean, I'm slightly getting to the point that I can't take it. I mean I don't know how my mum works with it everyday, but her tolerance of it at home is just not the same, she doesn't get paid for it at home. And I totally feel the same way.

What on earth are you on about Wendy???...when your grandma/grandpa/any other elderly relative begins to not be able to control their bladders, how would you put recommending TENA aka nappies??? It's not once it's happened, and it's definitely not just liquids I'm talking about here. Sorry for the graphic images, but there is only one way to tell the story, and that is being all graphic about it :P What to do when you start seeing smudged crap in wrong spots??? Now who smudges that stuff near the the buttons of the toilets???...well the facts are obvious, someone had a bad time and obviously did a crap job in hiding their incapabilities to get to the toilet ON TIME.

And HELL NO I'm not cleaning it, coz I ain't angry...and then mum goes on about "how angry do you need to get before you'll clean the toilet again Wendy"...lets just say, not in a long while, coz I've gone for the silent treatment method, coz I'm not going to clean the toilet, and my room is still looking clean since its revealing :P

Back to old age, yes how do those family members decide whether to put their ancient ones to other peoples care??? It may seem easier in Western cultures, but ASIANS O_O they would get all iffy about it, and those that I do meet at the elderly home, are indeed "gu dook lo yun" (lonely old people) with no close relatives at all, with droopy unhappy faces on them...seriously should put a Mahjong table there, that way their fake teeth will fall out, from too much happiness.

Off the elderly topic, onto the generation above mine, my mum went and bought a record player o_O to play 50c records that come from the OP SHOP, of artists I've never even heard of...Garfunkle, that sounds like some new mouthwash name, Neil Diamond (is he an actor as well???) and Kamahl (he sings??? I only know him from the Vanilla coke advert..."the taste is REALLY smooth") and many more that I have no idea who they are, and where they come from. The only band that I would know, would be ABBA, great Karaoke classics, that I can actually sing to. Mum actually went and bought an ABBA record =.=, coz she thought I would like it...to an extent, I was only singing it that day, coz I was slightly high on something (perhaps, or thatisme4u).

(HAHA sooo god damn sexy LOL)

THE END

Movies shit me

Well not really...just that it's annoyed me over the weekend, and put me off watching Spiderman 3. But I did want to see ANY movie that wasn't quite my "cup of soup"...whatever that is. I mean I went to the cinema, after uni to Chadstone, my friend goes "why, everything would be closed when you get there", and my reply "bleh I just wanted to". When I got there, it was like one minute before Spiderman 3 was about to screen...just that, I WASN'T INTERESTED.

Everyone has been raving to me about how great it is, what a good movie it was, what anticipation they have gone through waiting for it to screen, oh what hairy arms Mary-Jane has. BLEH DON'T CARE, NOT SEEING IT.
Instead I went and saw "The Reaping" a suspense horror film, the other option I was gonna choose was "The number 23" starring Jim Carrey...and the other movies, well they just didn't appeal to me AT ALL. I just wanted to be freaked out, somehow.

Who wants to know the plot of the movie??? Fine, I'll ruin it all for you. Actually I didn't think the scary bit was the movie, despite many images that would probably scare the living shits out of you, which sent many shivers down my back(many times) watching it alone (yes, I was the only one in the cinema, me and the person screening it for me to watch). Actually there was a Hoyts staff with a torch coming in to actually check to see if I was in there, which was kinda scary, coz who expects people with torches shining at you in a HORROR film???
It's about a science professor, Katherine believes in facts as to miracles, after the lost of her daughter and husband in Sudan. She has proven supposed miracles in all places of the world, with scientific investigations. Until she is brought upon a town with a "bloody" river, and what seems to be a reoccurence of the 10 Biblical Plagues(which had been scientifically proven). But despite her strong will to prove what seems to be happening with cold hard facts, the evidence that is taken from the investigations don't add up. Slowly she starts to believe the existence of the story, and that Satan's existence is real. And all ten plagues evolve, killing the livestock, killing the first borns, etc etc, to create a perfect child.

Okay think I scare you all. Thing is, I don't get the the point of the film, she is summoned to solve the mystery of the town, and that they all seem to die, but then she has the "perfect child" within her, and Satan(within the spooky child) continues to exist...yeah I was lost, but also scared, I still have the freaky images in my head. I didn't really sleep all the well after it. Seriously the things I do to myself. I must reconsider. My uni friend couldn't believe I went and saw The Reaping by myself, and called me insane...so there.

Word of warning : Wendy is insane.
Final words: M Rated my arse :P
(I'm still shivering talking about the movie)

Random thought of the day

"We're so imbecile, we're searching up how to spell imbecile"- quoted to my sister

Why??? Because we're imbeciles, it's not that we didn't know what it meant, but we didn't know how to spell it. Picking my sister up, I just randomly said "do you know how to spell imbecile" coz I wasn't quite sure myself, but for that 5-10 minutes drive going home, we felt soooo stupid, trying to figure out how to spell this stupid word.

But it was hilarious. First came with things like imbosile, imbisile, imbesile, and then after saying the words over and over again, we began to feel the meaning of it- yes that is MENTAL RETARDATION

LOL actually the reason behind the word coming to existence that day, was that my brother being a complete imbecile, you'd reckon by the age of 23 that you'll realise not to put something metallic in the microwave. Well there you go "WHAT AN IMBECILE". Ok the microwave didn't explode, we're all safe, coz SUPER MUM came to the the rescue!!!