Noob question: How to draw HUD with glOrtho?

Hi, I want to draw a healt bar to the top of my screen and then to scale it based on how much health I have left.

I found 2 functions that enable me to switch from projection to 3d drawing:
   private void viewOrtho(GL10 gl, int x, int y){                     // Set Up An Ortho View
      gl.glMatrixMode(gl.GL_PROJECTION);               // Select Projection
      gl.glPushMatrix();                     // Push The Matrix
      gl.glLoadIdentity();                  // Reset The Matrix
      gl.glOrthof( 0, x , y , 0, -1, 1 );            // Select Ortho Mode
      gl.glMatrixMode(gl.GL_MODELVIEW);               // Select Modelview Matrix
      gl.glPushMatrix();                     // Push The Matrix
      gl.glLoadIdentity();                  // Reset The Matrix
   }

   private void viewPerspective(GL10 gl)                     // Set Up A Perspective View
   {
      gl.glMatrixMode( gl.GL_PROJECTION );               // Select Projection
      gl.glPopMatrix();                     // Pop The Matrix
      gl.glMatrixMode( gl.GL_MODELVIEW );               // Select Modelview
      gl.glPopMatrix();                     // Pop The Matrix
   }

Then I use them to draw a cross in the middle of the screen in the main loop

     viewOrtho(gl, width,height); //Starting to draw the HUD
      gl.glScalef(0.025f, 0.005f, 0.0f); //Have to scale it otherwise the screen would be filled with it
      square.draw(gl); //Draw horizontal line
      gl.glLoadIdentity();
      gl.glScalef(0.005f, 0.025f, 0.0f);
      square.draw(gl); //Draw vertical line
viewPerspective(gl); //switch back to 3D drawing

I tried placing gl.glTranslatef to different places, but the + would still be drawn in the middle of the screen and glrotatef won't rotate it either. I want do move it to a corner of the screen.

How can I do that? And why isn't the glTranslate moving it? Can you give me to some other examples? A la
gl.glThisAndThis()
gl.glTranslatef(TopRightCorner.x, TopRightCorner.y, 0.0f);
drawYourHUDsTuff();