Car Accident

I got into a car accident at the traffic light! A "car accident". Virtually thankfully, yet to experience one in reality and hopefully I never will. I moved close and closer to the car in front of me slowly at the traffic light. Unfortunately, I forgot to brake and the car continued to move in first gear. Then, it hit the car in front of me! "Bop" was the sound that was made when the car went front bumper to rear bumper. Even more unfortunate that the driver in the car in front was HIM and I could see an evil laugh coming from ahead. Heh...

Huh, looks like my subconscious mind thinks I am a lousy driver...

or could it be a sign from the Almighty, that it is best not to hitch a ride tomorrow?

Suspicious, suspicious, suspicious...

Belated

Seems pretty obscene but,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAVIN WU !

I forgot to post the day before after I found out your birthday was on the 28th of April.

World's Most Expensive

World's Most Expensive Kit Kat, priceless

Do you see Jesus?

I was reading the news online and there was this man who claimed that Jesus appeared to him in a bat of Kit Kat, that very Kit Kat in the picture above. First the Virgin Mary appears on a pretzel two years ago, now Jesus appears in a Kit Kat. Hmmm... this is not an expensive food.

World's Most Expensive Ice Cream, $1000.00This is the world's most expensive ice cream which, is served at Serendipity 3 at the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It basically contains 5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla, 23K edible gold leaf and Armedei Porceleana (one of the world's most expensive chocolates). Talk about a daily dose of minerals...

World's Most Expensive Teabag, $15200.00
Then you have the world's most expensive teabag which is basically English tea leaves in a diamond studded teabag. I wonder if they would throw the teabag away after making tea...

World's Most Expensive Shirt, $46700.00Eton Shirts decided to create the world's most expensive shirt to celebrate their 80th birthday so they came up wth a shirt that has seven coloured diamonds that adorn the shirt buttons and cufflinks. Heh...

World's Most Expensive Cocktail, $51200.00Served at Second Floor Bar at Harvey Nichols in Manchester, this cocktail is made of rose champange and strawberry and lychee liquer with an 18k white gold ring with pink tourmaline and diamond stones. There's also the Diamond Cocktail served at the Piano Bar in London.

World's Most Expensive Iphone 3G, $2.5millionSolid 18K yellow gold, white gold and rose gold, a total of 138 brilliant-cut diamonds along the sides and a rare 6.6K diamond as the 'home' button. There's also the world's most expensive mobile phone that costs 1 million EUROS and looks like a sock. Heh, I should go and bling my Nokia N95 with rhinestones or swarovskis since bling-ing seems very popular nowadays and then I can blind out eyes.

World's Most Expensive Hourglass, $6.4millionThat is sold in a little shop in Thailand. They replaced the sand in the hourglass with diamonds, 10000Karat of diamonds. This piece of decoration would be a good thing for those with too much money and nothing left to buy.

Grand Valse & Birthday Song

Yesterday I was watching "I Know Who Killed Me" starring Linsay Lohan, I saw Chopin's Grand Valse Brillante in A Minor, Opus 34 No 2 being played on the movie and I thought "hey that is very nice" and I went online and searched up for it.

Well, it is another nice piano piece from the Romantic era,

And the score can be obtained here.

Hansley demanded I sing him a solo birthday serenade so here goes...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HAAAAAAANSLEY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!

Bigger Car

I recalled that after my very first experience with switching from driving a Perodua Kancil to a Toyota Prado, I was horrified by how hard it was to drive a big and vowed to never drive a Prado ever again. So, I have been driving a Proton Wira ever since that day.

But today, I decided okay I will take the Prado out today and drive up to Padawan to visit my grandmother up at the plant nursery. After 5 minutes of driving it, I was like "damn, it is so much nicer to drive the Toyota Prado than the Proton Wira!"

Steering wheel feels so much lighter and smoother compared to the Wira's.
Brakes are more sensitive, a light press of the foot and the Prado will stop.

Being a big car, going at 60-70kmph feels relaxing because psychologically it doesnt seem to feel like I am driving that fast.

The Prado is so BIG, that all the SMALLER CARS steer clear of my way when I drive. Muahaha!

When I drove the Wira, some of the stupid small cars will try to squeeze around me, try to overtake my car especially Kancils and that was just irritating. Today, the only cars that overtook my car did not consist of any Myvi, Viva, Kancil, Kelisa or members of the petite vehicle family.

I changed my mind about liking Mini Coopers, I don't want a Mini Cooper and end up road bullied for my entire life.

Out...and lost

I woke up in the morning and "honk honk!" went a car outside my house. So, I had laksa for breakfast with Jonas at Chong Choon Cafe and amazingly, he did not get lost this morning on the way to our multiple destinations (just to get a John Mayer album and succeeded).

But not very amazingly...

He got lost in the Hock Lee Center carpark basement, couldn't find the exit and drove in the opposite direction. But hey, I'll give him some credit because he has a pocket full of money and petrol.

Morning turned to late evening at 6.45AM...

Jonas picked me up. We set off on our "journey" to fetch Stefan and with me as the "GPS device". Yay for me because I successfully directed Jonas to get to Muara Tabuan from BDC without getting us lost (Stefan, you owe me McFlurry because I succeeded).

Now with Stefan already in the car, he took over as the better "GPS device" and we went to pick Hansley at 4th Mile. Stefan successfully navigated Jonas to 4th Mile without getting lost. So far so good this "journey" seems... but it was already 7.40PM...

Next destination...Trinity Methodist Church to meet up with Lilian for the Enoch Fernando instrumental piano concert that would start at 7.30PM... Let's flashback to this morning for a brief moment...

Gabrielle: By the way, tonight it is at Trinity Methodist Church at Ellis Road not Holy Trinity Church. The church has a green roof. It is opposite this blue roofed building that is packed with lots of people during Chinese New Year to buy drinks, groceries and all the things. Do you know that one? But I do not what else is around it, can't remember.
Jonas: Okay okay I know.

And back to the story...Jonas and Stefan were discussing where Trinity Methodist Church was located at and then...

Jonas: That one!!! Oh I know already! I know! I know! I know where is it! It is near my church! *stuff about location of the church*
Stefan: Ya! Ya!

And so, Jonas drove and was near Kenyalang Park...

Gabrielle: Why are you driving here?? You're heading to St. Faith Methodist Church! *hysteria*
Jonas: EH?? You mean that is St. Faith?? Not Trinity Methodist??

S.T.R.E.S.S. Basically, we were lost for about 40 minutes trying to find Trinity Methodist Church. Finally, we arrived at 8.30PM! And the concert ended at 9.30PM.

Then, the same four of us went for supper at Open Air Market successfully without getting lost.

A plate of char kueh that was wrongly delivered to our table and Jonas wrongly paid for it because he wrongly thought that one of us had ordered it

Some "ice kacang" that Jonas strongly recommended us to try but it was really just shaved ice with sugar water, bits of barley, 4 thin slices of dates and bits of jelly.

Hansley was successfully dropped off at 3rd Mile without us getting lost.

Stefan was successfully sent home without getting lost but perhaps with a few new kilos gained.

So, it was my turn to be sent home and we got "lost" this time because Jonas took the wrong turning away from Muara Tabuan that led us to Bintawa instead. I was successfully sent home too anyway, eventually but we got lost too many times today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANSLEY LIEW!

If I Have RM1,000,000...

I would get myself a weird dress like this bubble dress. Har, har. Never.
...I would get myself a Buggati Veyron, a car that goes up to 407kmph...But oh wait, this quadro turbo-charged touring car costs €1100000 or RM5212912.00 wthout tax, so scratch out the Buggati Veyron. Still too "poor" to afford the Buggati Veyron despite having RM1 million.

Gabrielle: If I have one million...haha, I spend it on the Buggati Veyron. It goes up to 400kmph. Jonas: And your top speed is only 10% of that.

Tell you all what, if I really have RM1 million and don't mention education, family and charity, I will book myself a two-way economy class flight ticket to Thailand and get myself one of these notebook bags with spikes on them. I saw a man in Kuala Lumpur carrying a durian-flesh-coloured bag just like that. Interesting eh?I mean, who needs a car that can go up to 407kmph when I only drive at 60kmph?

O-Sick-One

Burned a fever, suffered from angioedema due to God-knows-what-food-I-was-allergic-to (thank goodness for the availability of anti-histamines in my wallet) and from a splitting headache as if my head was being compressed by metal plates with the force of 100GN. I spent my whole day yesterday sleeping. Then, later in the evening, I went to my family doctor, Dr. Lim at Kenyalang Park.

After I was diagnosed, Dr. Lim spent about 15 minutes discouraging me to not study medicine. Mind you, I was sick and standing upright for 15 minutes while he gave his "brief talk". Pity the poor sick people outside waiting for their turns to see Dr. Lim.

Dr. Lim: Become a doctor, quality of life not good. Tough life. No life. Look at me, morning till night time, I sit in this room and face the same four corners every single day. I am already sixty years old, I have spent half of my life in this room.

O-Sick-One: *smiles politely*

Dr. Lim: This job is not like other jobs, if you don't show up to work, you won't earn any money! Unlike lawyers or other professions, you can prepare the paperwork and don't have to be there. I tell you, go be a petroleum engineer, work with Shell Company. Don't be a doctor!

O-Sick-One: Haha. *smiles poliltely*

And later that night, I had a blackout episode a.k.a I FAINTED while sitting. Reminds me of my blackout episode before Biology during SPM 2008.

Problematic, it seems like the older I get, the more health issues I have.

Tagged by Cordelia

Photo taken last week.

Upload your fave picture and answer the question below.

Why did you choose the photo?
-Must be because of the Turkish old man.

When was the last time you ate pizza?
-The last time I went out with Franklin to Bella's.

The last song you've listened to?
-For The First Time from some musical cast.

What are you doing besides answering this tag?
-Browsing through photographs, breathing and pretty much alive.

Besides your own name, how do you like people to call you?
-I don't mind whatever they feel like calling me although I commonly get Gab (from most people), Gabby (from fellow Red Crescents), Gabriel-lee (from those who cannot pronounce my name), Ket (commonly from and Stefan), Pau (usually from Lilian) and AH JEEEEE! (from Liza)

Tag 6 person, the following questions are related to them.
1) Andrea
2) Lilian
3) Gavin+his new partner
4) Sean
5) Perry
6) Amy

Who is number 1?
- My chimpanzee junior.

No.3 has a relationship with?
- Vincent Tan.

Say something about number 5.
- He dislikes pumpkins and brinjals.

How about number 4?
- He was my BM tuition mate and once a while in Chemistry class.

Who is number 2?
- My classmate since primary 1 in SRK. ST. Teresa.

Say something to number 6.
- I'll say this just to make you happy, LINKIN PARK LOVES AMY LYNETTE.

Tagged by Amy

01 Who was your last text from ?
The poppiah stall waiter, Stefan Lim

02 Where was your default picture taken?
Kuala Lumpur

03 Your relationship status?
Unmarried

04 Have you ever lost a close friend?
No

05 What is your current mood?
Neutral and sleepy

06 How many siblings do you have?
One

07 Whats your brother(s) or sister(s) name?

Beatrice

08 Where do you wish you were right now?
In bed, sleeping

09 Have a crazy side?
Maybe, perhaps, who knows?

10 Ever had a near death experience?
Not that I recall of

11 Something you do a lot
Watch the television

12 Angry at anyone
Not at the moment

13 What's stopping you from going for the person you like?
Not going for anyone currently

14 When was the last time you cried?
A long time ago probably

15 Is there anyone you would do anything for?
Probably

16 What you think about when you are feeling asleep?
Uh...??

17 Who was the last person you talked to on the phone

Perry

18 What is your favourite song?
For The First Time

19 What are you doing right now
Answering this tag

20 Who do you trust right now
People that I trust

21 Where did you get the shirt you are wearing?
School

22 Have you kissed someone in the past week?
No

23 Who is your friend that lives closest to you?

Franklin? Rhema?

24 Describe your life in a word
Good

25 Who are you thinking of right now?
Nobody in particular

26 What should you be doing right now?
Answering this tag

27 What are you listening to?
Voices from the television

28 Who was the last person you gave a hug?
Nishanti at Topshop

29 Who was the last person who yelled at you?
Not certain

30 Do you act differently around the person you like?
Do I?

31 What is your natural hair colour?
Dark brown

32 Who was the last person to make you laugh?
Not too sure, Stefan? Jonas? Theodora? Perry? Rhema?

33 Who was the last person that made you sad?
Don't know

34 What do you hear

Peace and quiet

35 Is your hair curly or straight
Straight

36 Has anyone ever called you "scrumptious" face?
Edible face? Weird. No.

37 Do you have a best friend?
I prefer calling them close friends

38 Held hands with the opposite sex in the past 3 days?
No

39 Do you use smiley face on your computer?
No

40 Have you ever changed clothes in a vehicle?
Yes

41 Are you happy with your life now?
Yes

42 Are you currently jealous?
No reason to be jealous currently

43 What jewellery are you wearing?
White gold necklace with a cross and a topaz pendant

44 What are you doing on Friday night?
Routine web-cam conversing with Perry and chatting with several others

45 Have you ever had your heart broken
It is made of duralumin and magnalium. Heart of steel. Heh.

46 Have you ever broken someone's heart?
I didn't just break it, I blended it. Heh. Lame.

47 Is there anyone you're really disappointed right now?
No

48 What was the last reason you went for the doctor for?
Sick?

49 How late did you stayed up last night and why?
1.00AM, routine Saturday phone call with rich-spoiled-brat-who-is-in-Australia. Heh.

50 Have you dated someone longer than a year?
Redundant

I hereby tag these few unfortunate souls... cheers
1. Perry
2. Theo
3. Josephine
4. Sean
5. Andrea
6. Popiah Waiter
7. Gavin+his new partner, Vincent

Kuala Lumpur: Leaving

Woke up at 9.00AM frozen from the air conditioning in the hotel room. I had toast with poached eggs for breakfast at Heritage Cafe. But I de-yolked the eggs before eating them.

Hairclips of average size

Dropped by BB Plaza to look for weird hairclips at the little stalls and I got three hairclips for the price of just RM10.00 and so, I guess it was quite a bargain. I squeezed in some opportunity to buy some white chocolates with sesame seeds, almonds and macadamias from the Chocolate Boutique.

A random photo outside the hotel area at Mid Valley

About 12.00PM, we checked out of the hotel and headed down to KLIA LCCT. I slept in the taxi. Today's taxi driver is a Foochow man who spent the whole journey yelling at somebody over the phone. My parents and I had our lunch at the airport.

Our flight arrived at Kuching around 6.00PM. The plane we took had to make two attempts to land due to bad weather, spent extra five to ten minutes circling in the sky. Before the landing attempts, the Thailand tour group was extremely noisy but during the five to ten miutes, they were dead silent. After the plane successfully landed, boom, they errupted noisily...again.

Happened to meet Jonas at the arrival hall. Ah...back in Kuching, where shopping choices are limited and night life is scarce. Back to square one.

Random Asian lady on the streets in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur: Day 4

THURSDAY, 17th MARCH 2009:

Random shots at Gloria Jean's Coffee, above and below

I woke up at no idea what time and had my breakfast of toast with strawberry jam at Heritage Cafe at the hotel. After that, my dad decided to try Gloria Jean's Coffee. I had a cup of strawberry cream ice blended. It wasn't too bad and it was cheaper than drinking at Starbucks. Later, I got a blue Pulcine blouse with little white flowers. Spent the whole afternoon shopping with my mum while my dad retired back to the hotel. However, I ended up not buying else except for a pack egg sandwich from First Cup Cafe.

My dad, who took 90% of the photographs

After a good evening's nap, my parents and I went over to Times Square. Again, nothing interesting there except a lot of junkie stores with ugly junkie stuff. I managed to convince my dad to bring me to Pavilion to get a Tocco by Toscano leather handbag although he said that I would probably regret after that for buying such a pricey piece of a dead cow. On the way out of Pavilion, got a MNG top for RM19.00 to go with the blouse I got this morning.

The leather Tocco by Toscano handbag my dad got for me

My dad and I tried the Turkish man's ice cream. He's the guy that sings, dances and rings a bell while preparingthe ice creams.

Hawker stall food tastes better than most others

Had dinner at the hawker stalls again. The tom yam was tasty. There were these two men who suddenly started singing and playing the guitar. One of them sang "No Woman No Pride" and he was really good at the guitar and he sang pretty well too.
My mum got my sister and I each one of those keychains with our names twisted using wires. Cute. Hung it on my new bag.

The end product of the man's wire-bending skills

Kuala Lumpur: Shell Interview

WEDNESDAY, 15th MARCH 2009:

Logo outside Shell House

Woke up at 7.15AM after a night of restless sleep due to my dad's loud snoring and a dream that Stefan grew long curly hair. I arrived at the Shell House around 9.30AM and met Irene who was there with her parents. I was called for my interview around 10.50AM. The interviewer was friendly. However, the interview itself was brain-draining, throat-parching and it certainly WASN'T EASY.

After my parents and I had lunch at Chopsticks, we migrated to Bintang Warisan Hotel. Lots of free wireless network connections over at the hotel but unfortunately the line was not too good on the 4th floor. Shopped a little bit at Pavilion, bought a green Martina Pink top and a white Ylang Ylang blouse.

Seashells called Lala, that you don't find in Kuching

Had awesome roadside hawker stall food at Bintang Walk of seashells, kangkung and grilled fish. After that, got a blue blouse and a blue belt from Bossini before we went back to the hotel.

Kuala Lumpur: Day 1 & 2

MONDAY, 13th April 2009:
7.00PM... arrived at KIA with my parents and had dinner at the airport. Saw and greeted a few familiar faces. Unfortunately, our 8.50PM flight was delayed to 9.30PM. Major BUMMER. I spent 1 hour and 45 minutes drawing random things, having a Kit Kat and a box of milo and doing nothing while on the plane. I flew using Air Asia and finally arrived at KLIA LCCT at 11.40PM. I saw the Tune Hotel that my dad mentioned, it looked rather interesting in a good way and mind you, it can be as cheap as RM9.99 per night! We took a taxi from the airport to Cititel Hotel. The taxi driver was a "fantabulous" man who drove at 120kmph when the speed limit was 80kmph.

TUESDAY, 14th April 2009:
Woke up at 7.30AM and had my breakfast of bread, ham and raw cabbage in the hotel cafe. Disappointing that the Wi-Fi service at Cititel costs RM15.00 per hour!!! What a sky-high price. After breakfast, my parents and I went to check out the location of Shell House. Turns out, it was just a 20 minutes drive. Today's taxi driver was an Indian man who stuck black shades at the back windshield of his car. The shades were so dark that you can barely see a thing behind the car.

Shopping at Gardens

From the moment we got back from the Shell House and had lunch at Chopsticks until late in the evening, I tagged after my mum doing shopping in Mid Valley. I ended up with nothing but just a blouse, a pair of flip flops from Roxy and a headache.

At Dragon-I

My parents and I had our dinner at Dragon-I in the hotel. The food was pretty good. They had this offer going on, called the RM1.00 roasted chicken promotion. For RM1.00, it was ONE WHOLE ROASTED CHICKEN. One of the waitresses there was rather rude. I was holding some papers in my hands, reading and she wanted to lay out the cutlery on our table. She just shoved my papers aside. What happened to EXCUSE ME??

Time Killer

New glasses

Two days ago, I accidentally sat on my old pair of glasses and the whole thing bent 90 degrees.

Again, another time killer early in the morning.

Graphics-editing using a widescreen desktop is much easier than using a notebook. But well, this incomplete drawing is going to be my source of entertainment (graphics editing, I need MORE practice at refining and colouring) at night for the rest of next week at Kuala Lumpur.

PS: Perry Xavier Tan Siew Shien, stop wasting money buying another notebook.

Shell Scholarship Interview

Green tea latte at Starbucks

Now, I am sitting in Starbucks with half a club sandwich, half a mug of green tea latte and quarter of a blackforest cake in my stomach. In conclusion, holidays with my sister is a very fattening process. A five hour wait in Starbucks until my dad comes to pick us up and hence, I brought my notebook along to do some e-research.

Sitting at Starbucks, I see so many middle age people and I wonder, how come these people don't have to work?? Or what do these people work as?? So free. Then, there was this hip old lady around the age of 70 who dresses pretty much like any other old-fashioned Chinese grandmother with short grey curly hair except for the fact that she goes to Starbucks! Oh and sitting behind me right now, another one.

Random man from Shell Company

Scholarship interview... face to face interview or phone interview?

I picked to attend the face to face interview at Kuala Lumpur this coming Wednesday.

I can just imagine myself during a phone interview if I ever picked it...

Interviewer: Barack Obama was recently made President of the United States---blahs on...
Gabrielle: Uhuh, uhuh... *stares at fingernails with great interest*
Interviewer: So, what do you think of his latest plans to sell toxic assets?
Gabrielle: Uhuh, uhuh... *not paying attention, looks at ceiling*
Interviewer: Oi, are you listening to me or not?
Gabrielle: Hah? What?? I'm sorry but can you repeat what you just said?
Interviewer: The interview is over now. Thank you for your time.

So, leaving to Kuala Lumpur this coming Monday night and will be back home this coming Friday, taking the opportunity to shop in Kuala Lumpur.

Vaio VGN-CS26G

14.1 inch Vaio CS26G

Just got that yesterday from the Sony shop at The Spring. Stefan, you can put on the "wtf" face again. A 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 3GB DDR2 ram, 320GB hard drive and Nvidia Geforce 9300 graphics card. Specs aren't too bad for this pink Vaio in my opinion but the graphics card isn't very impressive for me, would have preferred it to use a Nvidia Geforce 8600. The Vaio is basically a pretty thing to own. Then again, I still love my hardcore Dell XPS 420 desktop way more but I would love it even more after Windows 7 comes out. Windows Vista is terribly shitty.

Drove Perry up the wall during my notebook scouting session with 101 questions.

Perry: Gah! Can you just pick ONE notebook?? *wtf expression*

PS: It would be great if they opened an Alienware store in Malaysia. The lowest range of the Alienware notebook cost roughly RM4000 but unfortunately after tax and shipping fees all the way from the UK, it skyrockets to around RM5800. Precisely why I gave up the idea of shipping an M15x notebook in.

Noisy sister is coming back tonight.

A Very Shitty Yesterday

I drove to TJ and in the process I encountered a man who suddenly jumped in front of my car. Asshole. I had to step on the brake in a hurry. Car stopped in a jerk. He took his sweet time instead of hurrying across the road. Even stopped and look at my car. Asshole. RUN LAH!!!

Then, I stopped at one of the traffic lights and three annoying motorcycles squeeze ahead of my car. They stopped right in front of my car. Asshole. Don't they know that motorcycles should stay on the side of the road not in the middle of the road??

I was looking for a parking space and I found out. A couple got into a white Kelisa so I jumped to the opportunity of waiting for them to reverse out of that parking lot. Asshole. They took such a long time just to get into the car, such a long time to start the engine, such a long time to get moving and such a long time getting out of the parking lot. Almost tore my hair out.

Encountered stupid problems while launching LOTR: Conquest, had to drive to Everrise to trade the discs. Traded for Crysis instead. Went home, at least Crysis could be installed and launched or else... I probably would have yelled asshole at my desktop.

But then... CRYSIS CRASHED ON MY XPS 420 AFTER 15 MINUTES OF PLAYING!!! Ass...

Killed Time

A very good way of killing time.

Why is it that women use make (some cannot survive without makeup) and men do not?

Dad: Because women are uglier than men.

Talked to Chun Hoe about computer games...

Me: Stupid Vista, the games I bought all can't be launched. LOTR, Sims 2...
CH: Play DOTA. It works on Vista and can learn foul words too.

University Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

My idea of awesome artwork

Anyway, I was busy installing "Lord of The Rings: Conquest" on my computer. Then, my dad came in with a thick envelope and he said that it was for me. Hmmm... I've never received any snail mail before and so, it was pretty cool to receive snail mail for the first time.

I saw that it was from University Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia and it was an offer for me to study any degree to do with commerce at their university. Shame they do not offer medicine. I did apply to UIAM through the Ministry of Higher Education for a spot in the university to pursue medicine.

I read the letters, leaflets and forms that UIAM sent and then, I saw...

"...on Registration Day, please wear baju kurung, full shoes and a white tudung/headscarf..."

Wow...