HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2012 HERE WE COME!

Wishing you ladies and Nico a very Happy New Year!

It's not quite new years here, but it will be for you guys very soon! I still have about 11 hours to go!

May this year bring you all joy, wealth, health and success. May you continue to grow spritiually, intellectually and as a person. May you continue to learn every single day and spread cheer and love where ever your life takes you.

Love you guys and hope to see you soon in the new year! <3

OH AND YEAH!

I am a person who believes in NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS or GOALS!

So, you gotta post yours before January 1st, 2012!

MANDATORY!

 

I have so many things to talk to you guys about.

But my schedule is not cooperating with me so I can't even start on a post about my volunteer work and my internship that is about to start next month.

However, in the next few days I will be trying to wake up early to get some stuff here (and in my blog) done, so you can look forward to THAT.


I hope you guys had an amazing Christmas :D I did, even though half of the day I was working my ass off! But working on Christmas was an experience that I have never had and it was amazing to feel the Christmas spirit even in a country where Christmas is not an official holiday.

Simple Christmas dinner with family.

Santa got me an Ipad :) And yes, I guess I am an Apple addict by now.

My paycheck disappeared in heaps of gifts for my family but it was all worth it.

Tell me about your Christmas my loves :)
BTW. We need a Skype date really soon!!!


muchos of love,
Joyce from Japan

The secret to looking youthful

I thought one of my co-workers was in her 20's cause she looked so young and her skin is FLAWLESS. Found out she is almost 40!!! you would never guess. Her secret...Sunscreen every day.

Ladies you know what we gotta do...lol

Merry Christmas!! Feliz Navidad :)

I am blogging in bed now to you guys because it is Christmas!!
We all know that all of us have been naughty ( different types of naughty) this year so Santa would not be too eager to give us our Christmas present! What did you guys askedmformthisnyear?? Let me know and sorry for the sudden MIA stint, was busy :( miss you guys!!

-Joyce

Golden Fog

I can't exactly remember where I found this picture, but I love it so much. Hope you like it too =)

Skype Reunion (- Nico, + Christa)

So, I was assigned a very important job just right now with tons of pressure by Joyce. I have to make this post funny. Wow. Does she know who she is talking to? Of course I'm funny, but getting it across in writing is a bit difficult. Joyce, darling you are insane!

-----So I wrote the above a while ago and left it as a draft because I had gotten busy with life. So I'll try to remember the details of that conversation but I think I'll just put some key points out for us so that when we look at this post we will let our memories do the reminding. This did happen on the 18th of November, but I'm going to finish typing it out today, November 21st.

It was the first time that all of us (excluding Nico) and Christa were on skype at the same time! That only took us about 4 months. =)

The conversation was soon going to end because Asyah had just gotten home from partying at abut 5am and she was tired but we convinced her otherwise to stop being an old man and to stay up (however, she eventually passed out on skype).

The conversation went from clean to chips and salsa and pretty much all aimed at Asyah. Christa and I did most of the salsa talk. It was quite fun. I mean how can we ever forget chunky salsa sauce? Oh and TED? HAHAHA. Good god, I made a great acronym without even realizing it (not that I'm trying toot my own horn).

Throughout this whole time I was home alone and trying to make food but wasn't allowed to remove my headphones because you lovely ladies kept saying you heard echos. I say otherwise. It was all in your heads. Don't worry, once I finish my masters and am certified as a psychologist I shall provide you with treatment. You guys kept also hearing my family's dog whimpering cause he's a pig and likes to stuff his face with human food.

Eventually Christa had to leave us to go watch a movie with Nico and others from Ihouse and our conversation turned slightly cleaner. Oh and before I forget, before all of you ladies signed in, Christa and I were spamming Delendra's status about him having a comb for his facial hair.

Anyway, we then started to spam Nico's wall to tell him how much we missed him. Then that spamming turned into spamming Joyce's status about how much it was to hang out with all of us.

Finally Joyce had to get ready for work and left and by this time our lad Asyah was fast asleep, we could tell by her snoring (just kidding)! Finally it was just Tinu and I who were calm as feathers and at bliss with life.

It finally felt like we were all back together, and it truly was a blessd night. It made me feel like we were back in Ihouse in my room, half of us on my bed and the other half on the couch with food and my ice caps. One day soon, we'll be all back together laughing about our crazy times together.

Cheers!

I thought of you guys when I read this :)

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, will you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.”

—	Bob Marley

 <3<3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb7zjKkLCoQ

Ok this is the book I am talking about yow.

It's called HALF THE SKY How to Change the World.

 

By: Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn

Bye, tissue faces!!!!

-Joyce

;)

“And all around, people fall like leaves in the snow. But those who cut you down, do not know, they are planting a forest.”

Coloured-Pencil Drawing

 

A. Saif. 11-11-2011.

Something I was randomly inspired to draw.
I was drawing it based on something I wrote a while ago:
"I am an artist, and every day is a canvas, every moment is a colour. Today, I will paint you in. Today, you become part of my art, standing in the gallery of good memories. The past. And when I want to smile again, I will walk into that gallery and find you."

The One That Got Away

Katy Perry's new song, got me crying.
Watch it :D

It finally snowed in E-town today? Yesterday?
I never thought I'd say this but the statuses of people back in E-town with the word SNOW in it just made me want to go back and stay there all winter. HAHA.

Have a good weekend, dorkfaces.
I don't have one this week. I work 3 days straight from Friday to Sunday :(

Love you!!

-Joyce

My Morning

My day today: I woke up got ready for the school and ran. Luckily, I caught it just as it was pulling up to my stop. WAIT! It wasn't all fine and dandy there ladies and gentleman. I got on the bus, all out of breath 'cause I was running (yes, I need to start working out), but this time I kept feeling uber sick. I was like meh, I just ran to fast, but no I kept feeling worse and worse. I started to feel nauseous. I kept thinking 'Ok. Aman, just breathe.' Alas, I started to get dizzy on the bus and I started to see swirling dots, and I began to black out! Luckily, I didn't fully, and I kept control of my body, as hard as it was from just collapsing. I got off a few stops from where I got on. As soon as I did, I threw up. It wasn't much actually, there wasn't really anything there. Anyway, thank goodness, I was right next to a gas station, so I got myself tea and water and some hashbrowns just to get some food and liquid in me. I contemplated going home, but calling my Aunt and going home would have resulted in more lectures than what I would have gotten at school. So I waited for my next bus (a bus I haven't ever taken before), and it was really nice to see a different side of where I live. I got to school late but in the end I was happy I went because the group presentation today was on Vancouver and the riots. I was grinning the whole time as a Flames fan because of how much I wanted to say but obviously to keep it civil I refrained, plus there was no time left at the end for my comment.

Why did all that happen? Not completely sure, I've been eating lots of greens and stuff so my iron shouldn't be too low but then again I am lacking meat in my diet lately so that might have contributed to me not having a significant amount.

Anyway, I hope you guys had a better start to the day than I did!

Love,

Aman

So as requested by Asyah, this is the picture of what my sister sent me yesterday.

The story goes like this, I forgot my glasses about a month ago, and I didn't want my parents to ship them to me because it really wasn't urgent and I could just survive on my contacts. So, I finally got them yesterday in a bag with a bunch of stuff!

My sister included all this stuff:

-an old picture of us

-note tabs- "To: Fatty, for your book, hope this helps!!! Love you, Skims"

-Pumpkin chocolate balls...

-3 mini highlighters

- lip chap

-clear nailpolish

-mechanical pencil that looks like a regular pencil

-2 post-it note pads -an empty letter with a note on it saying "Write to meee!"

-And a lovely note full of love =)

Well let's keep it all coming eh?

Nicolas :)

Tinu, Joyce, Aman and Asyah

Just because this blogs needs our poopy faces in it :D

Much love,

Joyce

PS: I still have more so the coming posts from me will be of pictures!!

So, there is this song that I can't stop listening to. She is one of my favourite singers.

Asyah she's Colette's (Shay's wife) sister, her name is Callie Moore. I hope you guys enjoy this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNp0rZ8

Some of her other songs:

Woman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3sGODaL8QI&feature=relmfu (for some reason i think Tinu might like this)

October:

Bonjour!

Holla to the world!

I think this is a better blogging space than what we had before. Kind of sad though that our older posts won't be here. I feel like we should transfer them, since there are only a few.

One month till I'm back somewhere in Alberta!