I apologise for the infrequentness of this blog because as of today and my untimely ascent into Sydney, I've been depressed, thoroughly depressed. Now is my summer of discontent, which stems from various facets of my life, which I will endow on you as a
Firstly, "I don't want to wait for our lives to be over!" For those with an ounce of urban culture, you'll notice that the quote is the opening line of the chorus to the theme song for Dawson's Creek. Yes, Dawson's creek is over, after years of watching with a dictionary in hand we can finally say goodbye and good ridanance at the drawn out and superviously love triangle between Joey, Pacey and Dawson and for those who missed it, Pacey bagged Joey! You'd probably noticed that I've used a variety of words that is not common in everyday venacular - I call this Dawson Creek sydronme, where the suffer is convulsed to use superlative synomyns in place of easier and I dare say, colloquial language.
But why is Dawon's creek demise a source of discontent - simply because I have been watching it everyday because I am unemployed. Yes, I'm still unemployed and the greater shock to me is that the government has decided that I'm no longer a full time student and promptly usurped me of my right to claim welfare payments. As of today, I've had no income for this year and my total income stands at a handsomely amount of $220.52. Including the potential expenditure available on my credit card, my total sources of funds tallys to $370.87. I don't think that in my whole adult plus adolescent life I've ever been this poor; and it scares me! On thursday, I ventured unwilling into Parramatta westfields and baulk at the fact that this is NSW biggest shoppping centre. But the real shocker came when the shops were actually having a real sale. By this, I mean that prices have been reduced sufficiently to satisfy the cheap and cheerful criterion, but given my
As I mentioned briefly, my lack of funds is another reason that I've had to endure the endless and mundane that is summer television. Cricket, tennis, BW movies and B-grade sitcoms have taken their toll on me. Even DVD rentals are out of my league now. Yesterday I had to put back Legally Blonde 2 because I didn't have enough cash to pay for the rental, which incidently went up one buck and they didn't (!) accept credit cards, which is outrageous. To quote another famous blonde, "I'm financially poor but luxury rich" Carrie Bradshaw
On the otherside of the coin, or rather, the otherside of the world, the continual strength, or rather, the bravado of the RBA's interest rate policy and George W Bush incompetence has resulted in an even stronger AUD/USD exchange rate. The consequence is that my aussie dollars can now buy more overseas, but alas, I'm in australia. The very thought of cheaper foreign goods only causes more groans of pain which futher ingrains my discontent.
But not all is barren and empty. There are things to look forward to. Chinese new year is coming up and that is another, albeit, temporary source of income! Yay! But don't think I'm a greedy little asian bugger because I work my arse off before chinese new year. Previous years have seem me slave away in the kitchen preparing food; cutting, chopping, slicing, dicing, shredding, grating - you name it, i've done it. And only to wake up the next morning at the crack of dawn to start the cooking of the food which all must be completed and presented before noon all before a bunch of extended family who only helps in setting the table while i'm licking my wounds from the spit of hot oil. But not this year, with the death of my grandfather, i suspect that there won't be as many family members over which will mean less food to prepare. *sigh* my grandfather always gave a big red pocket...
Chinese new year will also see my at first interview of the year. At 8:30 in the morning, I will be at centrelink, being interviewed for Newstart allowance. Yes, I will be back on welfare and am looking forward to it. But don't think its that easy. Firstly, I'm going to tell stupid Centrelink off for cutting my only source of income and forcing me to live frugally for the past 3 weeks. They are going to get an earful and hopefully, a formal complaint and request for back payments!
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posted by tykang @ 1/20/2004 03:12:00 PM
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