Jul. 27th, 2007

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Went to deposit a cheque at Kiwibank today and only realised when I got to the counter that the person who issued it hadn't updated their records since I changed my name - when I was two.

(My mother didn't change her name when she got married and my parents aren't keen on hyphenation, so the name on my birth certificate is Tui Rachel [mum's name] [dad's name]. When my brother was born, though, they decided a better pattern was to give the girls mum's surname and the boys dad's surname, so my name was changed to Tui Rachel [dad's name] [mum's name]. They followed the pattern with my other brother and sister, so both my brothers have my mum's surname as a middle name, and my sister and I both have my dad's name as a middle name. I like it a lot, because I feel connected to both my parents.)

Anyway, fortunately I had my driver's license on me to prove my middle names and the bank lady (extremely nicely) didn't make me run home to get my updated birth certificate which records the name change.

I then went on to Westpac to try to get one of their fancy debit plus cards, which basically function as credit cards - buying things on the internet, overseas, etc - without the big downside of credit cards, which is to say, credit. I just don't have the kind of income that justifies me having a credit card right now, but the things I want to spend money on - having more than six LJ icons, getting the latest Young Wizards book without waiting three months for Borders to get it - are things I have the cash for upfront. So basically this is like a BRILLIANT solution to all my problems, except... apparently I have to have "regular income" going into the account. My regular payment of $60/week into the card apparently doesn't count as regular income, despite the fact that the payment's run uninterrupted for nearly two years. It has to come from outside. So I can either put my student loan in there, and wait three weeks, or put my fortnightly work salary in there, and wait six freakin' weeks. Neither of these are good solutions for me, either, because the westpac account is purely petty cash - all my main banking gets done through my Kiwibank accounts on the grounds that they're eighteen thousand times easier and cheaper to handle and are also a lot more prompt. Whatever I choose to do it's going to screw up something, like, my rent payments. GOD WHY, I really want this stupid card. Siiiiiiigh.

In other news: Castaways: Wrecked on a Subantarctic Island is probably my favourite article in Te Ara right now.

Your Maori words for the day:
tamaiti means child.
tamariki means children.
tuakana means older sister of a girl, or older brother of a boy.
teina/taina means younger sister of a girl, or younger brother of a boy.
tuahine means sister of a boy.
tungane means brother of a girl.

I think that if I wanted to talk about my family, I would say:
Ko mataamua ahau. Tokorua aku tungane, kotahi taku teina.
I am the eldest child. I have two brothers and I have one younger sister.
But I'm not 100% confident about that, so if anyone knows it a bit better, please correct me.
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Also, it's illegally leaked pre-air pilot season! This is my first illegally leaked pre-air pilot season and I'm finding it kind of a twin AWESOMENESS - getting my hot little hands on all this stuff, which is also in beautiful quality because the screeners apparently are - and pain because I have to WAIT for the rest of it. Today I watched Bionic Woman, The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Pushing Daisies.

ExpandI'm bionic, I'm supersonic, I am superhuman, I am supernatural )

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