Friday, 16 December 2011
RIP Jason!
To all the motor racing fans, we have lost another celebrity in the motor racing world. A young 35 yo Jason Richards had passed away at his home address yesterday. He was a driver for the V8 supercars that race regularly throughout the country, NZ and Japon between February and November. Jason lost his 14 month battle from adrenocortical carcinoma. This diagnose is an aggressive cancer originating in the cortex (steroid hormone-producing tissue) of the adrenal gland. Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare tumor, with incidence of 1-2 per million population annually. Adrenocortical carcinoma has a bimodal distribution by age, with cases clustering in children under 6, and in adults 30–40 years old. Adrenocortical carcinoma has often invaded nearby tissues or metastasized to distant organs at the time of diagnosis, and the overall 5-year survival rate is only 20-35%.
Monday, 5 December 2011
Where's RESPECT gone?
I'm really beginning to hate living in this city. I gave up walking because of all the insults about my weight from passers by in cars. Now everywhere I walk into schools or shops I get unusual looks or smart comments made from people or back stab behind my back. I don't understand why they do it because there are more highly obese people out there then me. These obese people I have seen are twice the size of me but why am I the one targeted of being bullied by strangers?
It's no wonder why I don't trust anyone new no more? I don't know if I can trust them to be my new friend or not. A good thing about the internet: It's more comfortable chatting to someone they don't intend to meet in person. It takes me about a year before I send a photo of myself to someone I become email buddies with.
Now it makes me wonder if I can get employment because of the way I presented myself. To any employer they might be narrow minded to say I am not fit to work. It's bad enough to find employment with limited experience at the age I am now at and going through. Why can't people just don't judge a book by its cover?
It's no wonder why I don't trust anyone new no more? I don't know if I can trust them to be my new friend or not. A good thing about the internet: It's more comfortable chatting to someone they don't intend to meet in person. It takes me about a year before I send a photo of myself to someone I become email buddies with.
It doesn't help with the stress level from home causes me to gain more weight. Tonight my 13 yo tells me if I return to work I will need to lose weight. What is wrong with people today? Where did the respect of others go? Why can't children be seen but not heard anymore?
Now it makes me wonder if I can get employment because of the way I presented myself. To any employer they might be narrow minded to say I am not fit to work. It's bad enough to find employment with limited experience at the age I am now at and going through. Why can't people just don't judge a book by its cover?
I am starting to have second thoughts about studying next year as well. I don't wish to waste my money on something I won't be able to achieve successfully after all the hard work of studying.
Saturday, 3 December 2011
Christmas celebrations
It's only 22 days until Christmas! Do you celebrate Christmas? What are your traditions? Do you still believe in Santa Claus?
The best thing I love about Christmas was seeing Santa and getting gifts because I wasn't a spoilt brat on getting alot of stuff other things while growing up. My parents weren't rich and we had to survive on only one income. Back in the times when I was a kid interest rates for home loans were very high and my parents had to survive with the standard of living expenses on one low income my father used to come home with weekly.
What happened to respect of today's kids? Should naughty kids be rewarded at Christmas?? I pretty sure in my times kids didn't get their wish list for Christmas if they were naughty. I grew up believing kids should be seen and not heard! And be thankful for having a roof over their head, clothes on their backs and freshly cooked food on the table. Today kids aren't like that...no respect for their elders, no manners used and definiately they are fussy eaters. Who's fault it is? The parents.... because they intend to spend money on modern technology and allow them to use computers, ipads, etc for many hours. I understand the parents want what's best for their kids to stay off the streets but what happened to family time these days when kids overtime spend with modern gadgets?
When I was a young kid, I used to celebrate Christmas with my parents and my belated Nanna (who used to travel by train and stayed for two weeks over the festive season) at home. My mum used to make our Christmas cake and pudding weeks in advance. By this time of the month we had our ceiling decorations and tree up in the lounge room. On Christmas Day my parents were up early to start preparing lunch. After breakfast we opened our presents and had a traditional roast for lunch. We had turkey and ham served with roasted potatoes and other vegetables. I don't know how I fitted dessert in but we had plum pudding served with warm custard.
By the time I got married our celebrations changed. We had our inlaws and our children to celebrate the festive season with. Up until three years ago we all used to meet at one house and had a big lunch with either chicken, turkey and ham served with either vegetables or salad. For dessert the traditional plum pudding went out the window because some members didn't like fruit based desserts.
But now as I grow older and had experienced some unpleasant events, my spirit of Christmas is never the same. If it wasn't for my children, I wouldn't even bother celebrating the weekend. But I would like to celebrate totally different now as I am getting bored with the years I had been celebrating with. I would love to experience at least one white Christmas in the northern hemisphere or see how my other extended family members celebrate with their families across the country.
So share with me on how you celebrate your festive season? Are you happy with the way you have done it over the years? Or are you like me, wish to have a change of scenery?
The best thing I love about Christmas was seeing Santa and getting gifts because I wasn't a spoilt brat on getting alot of stuff other things while growing up. My parents weren't rich and we had to survive on only one income. Back in the times when I was a kid interest rates for home loans were very high and my parents had to survive with the standard of living expenses on one low income my father used to come home with weekly.
What happened to respect of today's kids? Should naughty kids be rewarded at Christmas?? I pretty sure in my times kids didn't get their wish list for Christmas if they were naughty. I grew up believing kids should be seen and not heard! And be thankful for having a roof over their head, clothes on their backs and freshly cooked food on the table. Today kids aren't like that...no respect for their elders, no manners used and definiately they are fussy eaters. Who's fault it is? The parents.... because they intend to spend money on modern technology and allow them to use computers, ipads, etc for many hours. I understand the parents want what's best for their kids to stay off the streets but what happened to family time these days when kids overtime spend with modern gadgets?
When I was a young kid, I used to celebrate Christmas with my parents and my belated Nanna (who used to travel by train and stayed for two weeks over the festive season) at home. My mum used to make our Christmas cake and pudding weeks in advance. By this time of the month we had our ceiling decorations and tree up in the lounge room. On Christmas Day my parents were up early to start preparing lunch. After breakfast we opened our presents and had a traditional roast for lunch. We had turkey and ham served with roasted potatoes and other vegetables. I don't know how I fitted dessert in but we had plum pudding served with warm custard.
By the time I got married our celebrations changed. We had our inlaws and our children to celebrate the festive season with. Up until three years ago we all used to meet at one house and had a big lunch with either chicken, turkey and ham served with either vegetables or salad. For dessert the traditional plum pudding went out the window because some members didn't like fruit based desserts.
But now as I grow older and had experienced some unpleasant events, my spirit of Christmas is never the same. If it wasn't for my children, I wouldn't even bother celebrating the weekend. But I would like to celebrate totally different now as I am getting bored with the years I had been celebrating with. I would love to experience at least one white Christmas in the northern hemisphere or see how my other extended family members celebrate with their families across the country.
So share with me on how you celebrate your festive season? Are you happy with the way you have done it over the years? Or are you like me, wish to have a change of scenery?
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