What a day to start off with: WATER RESTRICTION STAGE 10

Thursday, June 07, 2007

What a day to start off with: WATER RESTRICTION STAGE 10

I'd reckon this is probably what Water Restriction STAGE 10 would be like: ABSOLUTELY NO WATER within certain times of the day. They should do that more often, if councils REALLY wanna save water...do it by cutting peoples' water supplies off *wink wink nudge nudge*

Our neighbourhood had its water cut off for the hours of 10am to 3pm today, although there was available drinking water supplied at the end of the street, I didn't really wanna walk all that way to get it. I waked up late, so I couldn't do the normal stuff with our natural water supply. So I had to brush my teeth with yesterdays urn water, and clean my face with a serviette and that water...I said to myself, I might continue to save water this way, though in the long run, might not be too good on my health. That water is umm errr a bit OLD and ....brown.

So all day, limited water drinking, toilet usage, and eating. Coz it would be nasty if I happened to have any upset stomach, requiring a toilet and then the HORROR of not being able to flush, that would be awful :P If worst comes to worst I was gonna drive up to Box Hill and use their public toilets(maybe that's why I sometimes see people brushing their teeth there).

I did survive the water drought of the household for the day, and some dimwit forgot to turn off the tap this morning, and it was gushing when the water came back, and overflowing in the bathroom. I dunno if that dimwit was me...but I'm normally not that careless, so I'll just shift blame and blame the elder ones.

Naturally without water, hygiene becomes a major issue to worry about. What does my brother do? PEE in the garden, great eh? Total privacy eh? How'da heck am I to know when his peeing schedule is? Though I think it's totally wrong (I didn't see anything though). HE'S KILLING THE PLANTS, not fertilising, I mean the amounts of liquids he drinks, I reckon he's peeing acid. So DRINK MORE WATER LADS!!!! I don't wanna know when he needs to take a dump, I sure don't hope the ones he finds in the garage is his (lately there has been piles of crap in there, his accusing possums, dogs, cats and even grandma LOL). And seriously, do guys wash their hands after they pee pee, or simply just dip it in water and call it clean? I dun wanna touch anything my bro touches after he pee pee :S Makes me wanna do what the mums does in that TVB drama and carrying cleaning materials all the time, and wiping everything that may or may not have BACTERIA on it.

Remind me why are we saving water? Because it's a limited resource right? Then why is it sooo cheap? I checked the last water bill, and it was only $18 for a month. Why don't they just UP the price? That way people might actually STOP wasting water. Now I don't get why I spend more to BUY water at supermarkets, when it's like $1 a a bottle, which ain't even one litre. So save water, drink your home water, saves money in your wallet too. Or I shall go and become a water accountant (no joke, there is such thing, began February 2007, that's your teaching for today).

Cheers
Wendy

So annoying...

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

So annoying...

When I'm actually in the mood to ACTUALLY study, the timing ain't right.
People just have to put things infront of me to postpone that studying...and then after I just loose interest, and it's procrastinating time again.

MUM wants me to tape her TVB dramas.
You might ask why don't I just set the timer? Thing is that she wants the commercials skipped, and that manual taping will overrule anything going wrong, bits being cut off, etc etc. But sometimes I fall asleep, or accidentally forget to repush the record button, and then I have to retape it at it's repeat time, which is like midnite onwards =.="

And cooking, mum doesn't get home till late late, or that she runs away to the casino or the local RSL, makes her sound like a addicted gambler, but she just goes to take out all her stress...even if that is loosing money.
We all have our stress relief. One form or another.

In a recent convo my sister had with her counsellor, discussing her problems, family problems etc, she was asked how our brother took over the stress of the parents relationship, he implied that Jackie did so by being rude, Jennifer by crying and being upset, and then when he asked her "how do you think you sister releases her stress?" her answer was "nothing, she's the most normal one".

When she told me this, I was like SUPER HIGH, I AM NORMAL- in a weird way. She did say weird after telling me, but naturally that doesn't affect me. But I am HAPPY I am NORMAL, and perceived NORMAL
LOL BAH HA HA HA hearing that just makes me slightly mental, but in a good way.

And then when I told people, they were like OMG what is your sister saying, you're absolutely insane and that's why I love you.

GEE WIZZ so what am I then? Insane, weird or normal? - I'll be happy to take them all AS ME. Coz infact...ssshhhh don't tell anyone...but...I...do...think...I...am...the...most...normal...one...out of the three. HEEHEE

Despite middle child syndrome...eeehhhhh...WHAT middle child syndrome?

Don't worry, thatisme4u, so deal with it!!!!!!!!

I'm Deaf

Monday, June 04, 2007

I'm Deaf

I had another bad dream, a dream that I was going to be deaf.
A dream that I was hearing impaired.
A dream that I needed a hearing aid-AGED 19

OMG WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME...WHY AM I HAVING SUCH WEIRD WEIRD DREAMS?
I'm not stressed, well I don't think I am. I'm telling people I'm not stressed about exams.
People ask me whether I was worried? I said no, "worrying is for worriers" like "loosing is for losers"

Anyhoo, I gonna add to my slogan wallpaper the A3 piece of paper, which says "Stress less, stay fresh and god bless" - a new associate in Uni told me this one, he told me he used to say it to his old Human Resource Manager, which happens to be my current Human Resource Manager. I still have yet to say it to her though. I think it's a good saying, despite being non-religious, you can always god bless people.

It sure beats the other two slogans I have on my wall: TOP BALLS (for the Top Notch Balls thing, though I added the Notch on the computer, so Top Balls is what I hand-drew) and STOP BUYING CRAP (which really doesn't help, coz I still manage to buy crap, it was an idea for myself to save money, and not waste it on silly pointless items, though it doesn't really work well).

I tend to cover my wall with personal wallpaper, or anything really. Coz it's PINK!!! I dun like pink, the walls are pink, the curtains are pink, the wardrobes are pink, even a painting I have in the room is pink (though I like this painting it's like sunset in the country). So basically I try to cover the pinkness. Looks to girly. At the moment I've got the postcard thingy happening, collecting them free postcards and sticking them on the border of the ceiling, though only one is a REAL postcard. Send me one if you happen to go overseas. I even have an old Mr. Potato Man calendar dismantled and stuck to my wall, and I intend to finish some of these puzzles I bought (crap) and put em up. I got 7x 1000 puzzles, I'll never get 'em done, but it's worth trying right?

Cheers
Wendy

Perceived elder son, perceived maid, perceived responsible one...

Perceived elder son, perceived maid, perceived responsible one... ...any more with that? So much so, that I had a bad dream last night. A dream that I HAD A PENIS!!!! Musta been a combination of calling my older brother-little brother, parents trusting me TOO MUCH, and the banana story that happened last night. So what's the banana story you say? Nothing huge. Just last night I went to the casino for a birthday, one of the guys were carrying his entire schoolbag and in his lunchbox, he had a banana. The staff made him take out the banana and carry it around, coz they weren't allowed to mind their fruit, I think it's coz people my gamble till some ungodly hour and the fruit might go off or something like that. So here he is, a ~6 foot white guy with a banana in his pocket. Tell me that is FUNNY PLEASE!!! I mean you can't carry weapons but you can carry a banana around??? o.O I mean, how often are bananas used for a replacement gun stick-up. OMG I can see how lame it is, every single commuter of the casino carrying bananas for self-defence, what will this world come to? Then it reminds me of this scene in the Chasers war, when the banana market got seriously wiped out by a hurricane, which raised the price of bananas to $13 or something, they started to make banana as a new currency, and went around trying to buy stuff with banana currency, where nobody would accept it. It was funny. I guess the main concern of this blog is what prompted the PENIS dream, suggestions please. It's not like I haven't had weird dreams before, I've probably been known to have wacky dreams, if you haven't heard so already. Though that was a time of major sleep deprivation, insomnia, sleeping pills, and living day and night(through dreams, coz they were just so real). Here are a few: Being stuck in quarantine with a bowl of noodles at HK airport, with mum, grandma and sis(no guys apparently). We all had bowls of noodles whilst walking with 'em. Then a moment later they all DIDN'T have their bowls and chopsticks anymore, but I still had mine, so what did I do with it, went to the restroom, leave the bowl and chopsticks and went to the loo. My friends(not mutual) joining forces and dissing another friend on a rollercoaster ride that seemed to surround a tall glass building, though it was slow...I was pretty sure it was a rollercoaster...then I wondered how they talked at such fast speeds. Was it going in slow motion? Someone stealing my already done Rubix cubes and replacing it with screwed up 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, swapping them each time I had completed them, each time getting harder and harder. Meeting up with an old primary school pal, that I hadn't talked to since then, and skydiving into a very deep deep valley. Observing the view from a toilet on a balcony with glass surrounding at all the uni students walking past, not knowing people on toilets above are watching them. One friend seriously hurting another friend whilst walking through a hardware store. Final words, if I ever have a normal dream, I will tend not to remember them, it is only dreams of wacky nature that tend to stick, and the weird thing about it. It's SOOOO realistic. Though I still hate the ones where I get chased and having to wake up panting, they were tiredsome and scary. THE END

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