Chemistry

They say that love requires chemistry between two individuals. I say that love is like a periodic table. We have the Group 18 which are chemically inert or in other words, the hopeless romantics who never react chemically with other 'elements'. Then we have the Group 1, those who donate electrons easily or in short, fall head over heels for other 'elements' easily. There's the Group 17, those who recieve electrons easily or in short, constantly chasing other 'elements' all around the clock. Oh, and there's the transition elements which are hmmm...stable 'elements'.

We had a clean up today in school and they call it the "Perdana Gotong Royong". Some thing throughout Sarawak, I think? Frankly speaking, the cleaning up seemed to be a "dirtying up" instead as after the floors were mopped, they look dirtier... Basically, school clean ups only end up making the school even grubbier unless its only picking up rubbish.

New look

New look, green again. Done in thirty minutes including Photoshopping. Got to run to read about Khulafa al-Rasyidin in History... *heaves a sigh*

Sony Ericsson W850i

That's my beloved W850i Sony Ericsson Walkman phone. And when I purchased it two weeks before Chinese New Year, which, was in erm...March?? It was RM1849.00 for crying out loud!


See that price tag?? It reads out loud 1.849K! And two days ago when I happened to make a pit stop by the Sony Ericsson retail shop at Tun Jugah, out of the blues a bombshell fell. The W850i now cost 1.3K! For crying out loud, thats a total difference of approximately RM500! With that RM500 I could have bought the Sony Ericsson bluetooth earphones that cost RM490...sigh. Market stocks and economy, blame them.

That's a macro shot of Lodge School's Form Four Second Examination 2005 Additional Maths testpaper and yes, Additional Maths is my idea of fun as it is your idea of crossword puzzles for fun. But the negative side is that, I am uberly careless when it comes to numbers. I have a tendency to overlook numbers. Anyway, nowadays donkeys go to the extreme to call people crazy for wanting to do add maths...

Futuristic, nutritious, healthy

I used to think that I was already so futuristic when I used the claw hammer to hammer nails into my woodwork projects given by Puan Wong during Kemahiran Hidup also known as Living Skills as translated by me. I always thought the professionals used claw hammers to hammer nails into floorboards, floors, walls or furnitures until today when I saw the most futuristic sight ever at Crown Plaza.
I saw the cook of the Japanese Restaurant at Crown Plaza, using a meat hammer to hammer a nail in the tiled floor. I was amazed by this futuristic sight. He obviously used the same meat hammer that he uses to hammer the beef in your teriyaki to hammer nails in the floor. Maybe its best to make sure he washes the meat hammer before he hammers your slab of beef. Make sure there are no bits of white plaster in your beef or sniff your teriyaki to ensure it doesn't smell of cement before you consume it. How terribly futuristic...I feel so "zaman paleolitik" now... Cooks are so "futuristic".

It was Parents Teachers' Day today or in short, it was Report Card Day except the e-report is just a piece of paper so, its more like Report Paper Day. So, the comment I got was that I talk healthy. Yes, I TALK HEALTHY. So, listen up to me everyone for I talk healthy. My talk is very nutritious as it contains all the needed minerals and vitamins that helps to boost your ears immune system and helps in the growth of your ears. This is I, Gabrielle speaking very healthily and nutritiously.

Japanese Occupation

It was Red Crescent Youth Unit #8 phototaking today. I procrastinated and used 'jarum peniti' to pin my stripes onto both sides of my sleeves instead of sewing them on. I had to pack my white shoes and white socks and carry my uniform on a hanger to school. Oh, I wear black shoes and black socks to school that's why I had to pack the white set.

I prepared that unbelievably eye catchy notice for the Prefects' Night dinner. We, the council for 2007/2008 are organizing it. And it'll be in Sarawak Club this year and I'll tell you the posts of the council members on the 10th of August 2007, which is the date of the Prefects' Night.

I was so bored this afternoon at school that I did so many pages of logarithm. A total of six pages worth of logarithm. The only amusing thing I could find to do for two hours besides text messaging a donkey.

The Japanese once conquered our RCYU#8 sickroom!!! That's why they left their mark there on our wall (which, I only noticed today). It says 'Japanese Red Crescent Society'. My remarkably 'smart' theory was that, we had that hanging on our sickroom wall because it was given during the Japanese Occupation period whereby the Japanese took over our school and used it as a military base. But then, the Japanese were very concerned about humanity so they set up a Japanese Red Crescent Society in our school during their Occupation period. (utterly fiction)

Here's a more recent Japanese Red Crescent Society 'banner'. I have no idea what is that flag-like thing called. Hence, I call it a 'banner'.

Pre Teachers Day

We cut, wrapped and stencilled sixty-four of those stars as decoration for the school hall for Teachers Day which, was held on the 19th of June 2007. We did the hall decorations the day before and the stars a couple of days before. The Form 5 council members planned it all and we helped out after we were elected as new council members. Basically, they were the ones who did it all and pulled it all off.
Sticking the stars on the runway...
The banner and the stars and the stack of chairs that have not been arranged. The chairs were arranged the next day.
Stars, stars, stars and more stars stuck on the stage doors. The cake for Teachers' Day looked great, smelt great but did it taste great? I'm sure it tastes great, Joanne (Head Unit of Cleanliness for 2006/2007) kept mentioning how it was THE TWO HUNDRED RINGGIT cake. It was an 8kg cake. The whole thing was great, nice performances. The guitarists were really hmmm...skilled? Their fingers moved faster than a Ferrari. I confiscated a Nokia handphone that day. That afternoon, I went to the Red Crescent Headquarters with Melanie and Wendy. And basically, that was all my day was about. I'm too lazy to blog today.

Photoshopping

Hmmm...

HE THINKS HE IS HOT! For those no idea what this is all about, refer to The National Debate at Jonas' blog. A reminder to all guys out there, never photo-edit yourself to claim you are hot!!! Not to forget, Jonas photo-edit his scenarios using PowerPoint and Paint. Therefore, the Photoshop-ed picture below was made by me for him. Jonas, you got to do better if you're trying to pick up girls! Perhaps setting yourself on fire is a much better option of appearing hot eh, Jonas? And...right... Stefan Lim wants credit for taking the photograph above. That's why his name is mentioned in this post.

Hopeless Romantics

Hopeless romantics?

Jonas says...

"I love you so much Jonas. I mean, Jonas...you're really all I ever wanted and I've been wanting to tell you this all along. Jonas... Will you marry me? I've been thinking of a little place down by the lake. It has a dirty road leading up to a home. I really wonder how long it'll take till we're alone, sitting on the front porch of that home, stamping our feet on the wooden board and never worry about being alone. I love you Jonas. Why are you so hot? When I look at you, I can only think of two things hot and panas mee maggi panas kind of panas. So panas you know. Will you be my sweet thing? I really do love you."

Perry says and claims that every girl hates him...
"I have 'issues' with female homosapiens *cough*. And I will die at the "ripe old" age of 30 a bachelor and a holder of a Phd in rocket sciences."


PS from Gabrielle: Perry demanded to have his quote modified to make him look one seventh less of a hopeless romantic.

Jason says...
"Is saying 'I like you' to a girl cheeky?"





Gabrielle says she can be equally as hopeless like them too...
"I have everything from A to Z except U. I got A for Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History, EST, Maths, Additional Maths, Moral, English and BM. I don't want any B, C, D, E or any other except U. All I want is U to complete my list of alphabets."

Gabrielle Jee

How to make a Gabrielle

Ingredients: 3 parts intelligence 1 part silliness 1 part ego

Method: Add to a cocktail shaker and mix vigorously. Top it off with a sprinkle of lovability and enjoy!

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The Lotus Eater

Nightmares... school starts tomorrow, bummer as that means getting up at 5.30am just to get ready for school and force breakfast down my digestive system, head down to school and study until 1.15pm and then head off for shooting until 6.00pm and then go for tuition at 7.00pm until 9.00pm and then finally, some time for myself. To add to that, I had the worst dream ever in my entire life. Not that it involves anything macabre but it involves a certain human being and that is the reason why I classify it under a nightmare.

Anyway, I discovered the Lotus Eater of 2007 unlike the Lotus Eater of 1913. For those who have no idea what is the "Lotus Eater", then simple check it out in Wikipedia. Let me explain shortly about The Lotus Eater of 1913. It is about this man who made up his mind that he was going to die at the age of 60 in the Island of Capri by killing himself when he runs out of money. Now, moving on the The Lotus Eater of 2007 or rather in short, Perry Tan of Kuching. Let me quote his exact words...

"...I will die at the age of 30 as a bachelor or either due to rocket science." ------the words of a donkey

My conclusion is that, 4A students of St. Joseph are always making my blog due to their eccentric behaviors such as random futuristic predictions and naming things after me or naming me after things.

Perry the Donkey, Jonas the Pumpkin

Codename : Peanut says:
i've finally finalised my desicion for my nickname for u
Codename : Peanut says:
its....
Gabby says:
WOW
Gabby says:
wad d heck!
Codename : Peanut says:
tabby
Gabby says:
WAD D HECK!
Gabby says:
LOL!
Gabby says:
ppl name cats tabby
Gabby says:
WHY TABBY??
Gabby says:
LOL
Codename : Peanut says:
coz u r like one
Codename : Peanut says:
firstly
Gabby says:
wow
Gabby says:
LOOOL
Gabby says:
do u nickname every1 u come across?
Codename : Peanut says:
u can't seem to know where the camera is
Gabby says:
hahahahaha
Codename : Peanut says:
cats are the same
Gabby says:
HEY!
Gabby says:
i NOE WHER D CAM IS!
Gabby says:
hmff
Codename : Peanut says:
secondly cats are almost always bored
Codename : Peanut says:
u r too
Gabby says:
HMF
Gabby says:
lol
Gabby says:
now thats amusing
Gabby says:
lolz
Codename : Peanut says:
thirdly cats chase rats
Codename : Peanut says:
u do to
Gabby says:
I DUN CHASE RATS! LOL
Codename : Peanut says:
tomyams are brats
Gabby says:
they aren RATS
Codename : Peanut says:
almost the same anyway
Codename : Peanut says:
fourthly
Gabby says:
tat doesnt make ense
Codename : Peanut says:
cats are scrawny
Gabby says:
i am NOT SCRAWNY!
Codename : Peanut says:
u seem to be too
Codename : Peanut says:
so
Codename : Peanut says:
tabby
Codename : Peanut says:
u r
Gabby says:
u noe wad
Gabby says:
i reasonized
Codename : Peanut says:
fifthly
Gabby says:
a nickname for u
Gabby says:
Heehaw
Codename : Peanut says:
it rhymes with ur name
Gabby says:
bleh
Codename : Peanut says:
tabby gabby
I came across the most amusing conversation today. I mean, who ever comes across somebody who decides to nickname you! Only a Perry would do such a thing and he supposedly nicknames everyone and apparently, mine is not as bad as the others. Nice going donkey.

How is it possible that in one day, people decided to name me things or decide to name things after me. Jonas named that balloon Gabby after he supposedly "save" it from getting pricked. Am I supposed to be touched or what? Well, I decided to repay his "sweet" thought by naming a pumpkin that I found, Jonas.

That's Jonas the Pumpkin. Jonas, meet Jonas. Isn't that a nice pumpkin?
And here is a snapshot of Aaron the dog's supposedly "hot", hairy and brown arse that I snapped last night to show off through MMS while reading about hydraulics in Physics. You could see the wire the charger connected to my phone and Pooky the pink bear hovering in the background trying to grab attention.

New and green

New look again for probably the 10th or 11th time or more. Once again, it's green. Why green? Because I'm feeling in a green mood.

All that smoke, all riddiculous

You probably end up with "dashing" teeth that your dentist will "love"... You probably end up six feet under earlier than anybody else...
You probably end up coughing your lungs into shards...
You probably end up looking like some old prune...
You probably end up end up nicely infertile...

I seem to be rattling on about society lately but nevertheless I don't find it against the law or anything for me to voice up my opinions about people who smoke. I don't understand the person who first decided to invent what people of today call as, cigarettes. What was running through his mind?? Frankly speaking, he was clearly an idiot. He had obvious grabbed a bundle of dried leaves, rolled them up in a piece of paper, burnt them, stuck the roll of leaves into his mouth and started inhaling it. Real smart. What can actually possess a man to carry out such a riddiculous act decades ago?? And who was the imbecile who actually decided to market the product? And create all these riddiculous cigarette companies, all competing with one another to produce the most outstanding pack of cigarettes! Look at the variation nowadays, they have so call light, menthol and hot cigarretes. It's like cigarettes are taking over tea or something.

Now, what is so great about smoking that delights all these young teenagers to smoke. Oh for the information, I am leaving out about adult smokers as I am not an adult, I don't think I would be in the position to go on about them. However, I think that any smoker is still a thoughtless human being in society no matter what age group. Back to the topic, some teenage boys think its very manly to smoke. Let me tell you what, how manly can you get if you're going to end up infertile anyway?? Some teenage girls think they look hot when they smoke. Tell me, does a set of yellowing choppers look very hot?? Don't start going on about scaling or bleaching agents for teeth. It's still not hot to smoke. And what's the deal with the so-call excuse of "I was influenced". You should know better than to try especially after all the education given unless you had daydreamed in school throughout your whole school life, then you are excused for your stupidity.

And all that money spent on heaps and heaps of cigarette packs, does it seem worth it to you?? All that money is enough to be pooled up for those poor kids in Africa or Peru or any third world country. All that money spent on cigarette production could be used for other beneficial uses such as cancer researches rather than manufacturing cigarettes that cause cancer, how ironic... Okay, some say it's the feeling you get from smoking. Go sniff you car exhaust for goodness sake! No, that was just rubbish. It it's the feeling that is supposedly so great, if that's just what you want everyday then it's rather pointless. What's the point of supposedly feeling great everyday when actually you are just lying to yourself behind a puff of smoke!

Honestly, the person who invented cigarettes is weird and the people who smoke the cigarettes are thoughtless, senseless human beings. You know 2nd smokers can get cancer, what are you trying to do?? Help me get cancer??

"Scheduled" activity needed

It's my grandfather's birthday today. We had seafood at that Ling Loong Cafe. We had crab, yam and fish dish, steamed fish, some belacan vegetable dish, some vegetable dish again, some sort of meat dish and braised toufu. Frankly speaking, I am just bad at describing food. This is something that I had not mentioned for ages in any of my posts, I have a confession to make...I am severely BORED. I have absolutely nothing to do and particularly today. Everybody seems to be away doing something "scheduled" such as the La Salle Convention or away at Singapore busy deciding to get a new accoustic guitar or a Creative mp3 player. You know what? I need a "scheduled" activity to run my life for these last few remaining days of the holidays. I need a camp. I am so bored that my brain refuses to function to come up with anything to blog about today but I am blogging for the sake of wishing my grandfather a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY. My grandfather would be...hmmm, do the maths, 2007 subtract 1929. I remembered that it is 1929 thanks to the BOH blinder hanging from the Ling Loong Cafe.

Ah Lian all harajuku

Ah, a pretty bad shot if you ask me. Mainly because I was sitting pretty far from the shop so I zoomed in and I did not have my flash on. I was at Jalan Song, the Ling Loong cafe taking my dinner at around 10.00pm and then my mum suddenly commented on that the manequins. As you can see, the big manequin did not have a head while the small one had a head. So call theory is that the shop couldn't afford a head for the large manequin because it cost too much and they could afford a head for the small manequin because it was cheaper. Anyway, the storekeeper wore lots of stripes, stripes, stripes, stripes and more stripes! And I also noticed that many of the clothes hanging in there, women clothing of course, had beaded necklaces sewn onto the shirts. I mean what's the deal with them?? Are people lazier these days to throw neckalces over their heads until they need it ready sewn onto their clothes??? Wait... that would mean that women are lazier these days or the fashion designers intend on pampering women to make them lazier.
I should dress like this tomorrow... Anyway, nowadays look at teenage girls or even those twenty-plus year olds who still think they are prancy young teenagers, all dolled up like harajuku girls! With those thigh-high stripe hights and over-accessorizing with clashing clothes. I mean, they think it's what, fashion?? Style?? I call them all "cutesy Ah Lians". I mean, come on I understand that if you live in Kuching there is not much clothing stores to pick from but if you love funky so much what happens to MNG or Miss Sixties or some other more sensible clothing lines?? What's it? Personal style?? Oh please. This is just some stupid copycat from Japan. And then these "cutesy Ah Lians" will pose with the "cutesy" pouts and big goggling eyes upwards at them camera. All these "cutesy Ah Lians" just find some way to get on my nerves. This is the shocking and terrible fashion sense that had suddenly hit Kuching. I have several reasons why I think harajuku dressing in Kuching is nothing but plain stupid.

1. The weather here is warm and humid and you slap on layers and layers of clothes, trying to prove what? That you can withstand humidity under layers of frabic??
2. You already have on a skirt or shorts, why need tights?? People invented tights in the northen countries to keep them warm. Here, what's it for? To ward off UV rays??
3. It's okay for the pattern and colours to not match but clothes pieces that don't match?? So wrong! For example, you wear slippers and socks, any 3 year old kid can tell you that it is so freaking wrong!

Three ways on how the Malaysian government can solve this harajuku epidermic...

1. Issue free issues of fashion magazines along with the newspapers. Black and white print also doesn't matter.
2. Educate these teenagers starting from primary school on how to dress themselves properly.
3. Set up campaigns on "Kata Tak Nak" to harajuku dressing.

Lundu 2007

I left to Lundu yesterday at 9.00am and reached home at 4.00pm today and for the information, there was no television there whether cable or not or Internet or heater or air conditioning. What that saved my life there was non other than my faithful and loving companion or in short, my Walkman phone W850i which served to provide me music and communication. Oh, and I went with my dad, Uncle Raymond, Uncle Ah Choon, Ah Bie and Ah Bie's older brother.

That was my breakfast before I left to Siah Beach. It was chicken mushroom mee. As usual, I would eat all the mee and the mushroom and leave the chicken bits behind. I know it's weird...

That's how Siah Beach looks like in the wee morning at... 10.00am. Hey, it's remarkably early for me okay. Anyway, it's amazing how some people don't get up until late in the afternoon. Pigs.

They sell shark skin at Siah Beach... Oh oops, my mistake. That was a decomposing carcass that we found in sea. I think it's a sting ray becaise it looks pretty much like one?? And it has those tiger-like prints on it. Last time it was a jellyfish carcass, next what?

Ah Bie's older brother came and he was exploring around the place and we followed him all the way to a swamp. Or at least, my expert Form 3 level Geography tells me its a mangroove swamp. You know what's the amazing part? Digi 016 is serious about their fat yellow men tagging around with you. I could even sms at a swamp. Must be that fat yellow man behind me.

We got scammed for potato chips. This is RM1.60 and then the other is RM1.50. What was onions more expensive by 10 cents compared to tomatoes??

Ah Bie's brother wanted to go fishing. So, Uncle Ah Choon and Uncle Raymond took Ah Bie's brother, Ah Bie and I to check out fishing spots and we had to go behind this creepy little wooden shack and into the shrubs and down a long stretch of sand and up a bunch of charcoal black rocks and from there... the view was simply spectacular.

Down that long stretch of sand...

Look at that breathtaking view that I managed to capture from the pile of rocks. And note, the rocks are not just one feet above the water that you could dangle your feet into the water but several feet above the water and the water was pretty deep I guess, that's why it was pretty blue.

That's Ah Bie's brother and he's in the process of fishing. Unfortunately, there was nothing there. A really nice place but a very fishless place as well.

That night, Ah Bie's brother took my dad's flash light and brought Ah Bie and I down to the beach to catch prawns. So much for prawns. We ended up with an assortment of seafood and it looks as if in our opinion, starfish was edible and puffer fish as well. We walked for I have no idea, I think it was three hours in ankle-deep icy-cold seawater. It was kind of interesting to catch prawns with bare hands.

The next morning I woke up at 6.00am and it was freezing cold I tell you despite the fact that the sun was already up. Oh, that's the 6.00am view of the ocean. People always snap photos of the sea horizontally but I decided to go diagonally.

It was freezing cold that I even had my Nike windbreaker on while I took a stroll on the beach with Ah Bie. It looks pretty sunny in this picture though. Must be the light reflection off the windbreaker.

That's Ah Bie and I taking our eary morning stroll at the beach. Yeap, people snap full-body photos of them walking but I decided to snap pictures of our feet doing the walking. They should get some credit for all that walking.

I snapped a photo of a large, round, orange pumpkin. Why? Because it amuses me and it appears cute to me. Yes, I know it's a pumpkin but it was love at first sight.