☆Joy-Ce☆ says:
 cham la i got flu ler..dunno is swine flu anot
 
Adrian says:
 ONG
 OMG
 DID U SNORT
 SEE MIRROR !
 SEE MIRROR !
 SEE YA NOSE GOT TURN ANOT !
 OR EARS !

☆Joy-Ce☆ says:
 turn what
 no a..i seem normal oni
 
Adrian says:
 INTO PIG !

☆Joy-Ce☆ says:
 HAHAHAHAA
 crazy
 
Adrian says:
 machiam transformers
 PIGUMON ROLL OUT !

Hola everybody!! I is back from Espanya!

Right, actually I've been back for sometime. I was just down with this very bad stomach ache that hurts till I cried for so many nights to sleep. :(

At first I thought it was some normal stomach ache caused by irregular meals and all, so I thought I should give myself sometime to adjust my diet. But then, after a week, it did not get any better. No matter how much I had, no matter how frequent I ate, I still couldn't stop the pain. The worse part was I had to rely on paracetamol to at least soothe me a bit. Oh, and ginger water with sugar was my best friend for about a week too.

Then I couldn't stand it anymore, thought of making an appointment with the GP, and it dragged for another week. So I relied another week of paracetamol and ginger water.

...Till the doctor finally had some time to diagnose me.

and it turned out to be that I had gastritis - too much hydrochloric acid in my stomach. and now I have to take this gastro-resistant medicine for a month. D'oh. :(

Surfed the web and found out that there are lotsa food I can't take during this period. At first I didn't believe and went to take tea. and then bingo! the pain was back again. :(

...then I tahan-ed for another week, and I couldn't stand this chocolate-less diet anymore so I went to buy a tub of ice cream and WhEE!! still nothing wrong with me for now. :)))

How to resist the temptation, tell me?? when the sun is out and everyone's in short sleeves, how can you resist the temptation of feeding yourself with a tub of Ben & Jerry, tell me tell me??! :P

Now that there's this May Day holiday tomorrow, I'm quite free (or more like procrastinate, not wanting to finish up my work), here's this backdated entry of Kah Lin's visit last month. two months ago! 

She reached Bath at night, so I just simply cooked some simple noodle soup (which did not taste too horrible I hope) and we chatted the night out.


Yea, two of us squeezed on a single bed. I'm not that fat okay.. :P



Thats Kah Lin enjoying using my lappie. She must have missed the internet. :)

and I forced her to pose for a picture with my teddy. hehe..I'm good at forcing people to do things. :P

Next morning! This is Avon river. *yawns*

and that's the both of us in front of the Abbey. This is why I dislike asking people to take photos for us. They just don't turn out nice. :( See, the Abbey got cropped out!! :( *emo*


Here's a very happy Kah Lin with the entrance ticket to the Roman Bath. I could have sneaked her in with two discovery cards, but my bad for not bringing along my proof of residence.


That's her again!

and the both of us just right beside the hot spring

Hai! It was my first time to the Roman Bath as well, so everything there interest me as well. heh.


Heat exchanger! Those stokes used to heat up the room last time. (or something)


Sigh. Tourists throwing NOTES into the spring. NOTES! USD!! POUNDS!! SIGH!

Just when we were touring around, I accidentally saw some ang moh bathing at the spring. *insert shy emoticon*


See, they not shy oneeeeeeee...*blush* :P

After about 2 hours in the Roman Bath, my stomach decided to tell me it was time for some food, so we proceeded for lunch.


That's Kah Lin playing with her hot chocolate.

..and then we walked around the city, to the royal crescent, pulteney bridge,... and the weather was not good. it started to rain and rain and rainedddddd.. we both felt so cold. :(

It was also partially my fault, cause I heard Kah Lin's train time wrongly. I thought it was earlier so I was worried that she'll miss her train if we go somewhere further. Sorry Kahlin!



I really won't blame her for looking like this by 4pm.

I left her to do some shopping while I went back home to get her luggage, and we both sat in McDs after that.

We were both tired. Well, I was - can't remember for what reason.

Nevertheless, it was nice to have her around. :) Brings back lotsa uni memories.. Time really flies!! It was already what, 4 years ago?? When we were both flatmates back in my year 1. Those were the days we would disturb each other to kill boredom. and now? We're both graduated lo~ She'll soon be a working adult and me? Still killing time in uni. heh.


This was how I looked like on the 8th of March, 2009. :)

p/s: Thanks everyone for your concern when I was emo-ing over my stomach ache. Much appreciated. I'm now feeling much better already. :))) ..and I feel loved.

Heya!! Am now an hour nearer to all of you~ (but that depends where you are)

and I realised that I'm really bad at adjusting my own body clock. My life has becomed so organised that a slight change in the time makes my life go haywire.

I couldn't fall asleep at my normal bedtime (11.30pm) and I couldn't wake up at the normal time too (7.30am)

Maybe it's time for me to travel to the East, and travel back here again to adjust my body clock once again. :P

Btw, the sun is out longer now. so hurray! :)


xxx

Finally I'm updating the remaining part of my CNY at home. *phew, wipes sweat* I don't think people really bother about it but who cares. :P

My CNY started rather slowly.. Like other years, I was the one putting money into those red packets for my mum cause I'm, apparently the free-iest person in the house.

I asked for british pounds for angpau this year, but dear daddy gave me cheque instead. No point bringing the cheque over here and convert it so in the end it still goes to my account in Malaysia.

Sigh. Didn't get to smell money in the packet this time round.

...and also, the packet's so so thin. It used to be a full packet of RM50 notes.

*********

As usual, the darlings came over at night for our AGM (annual gossip meeting) And like every other years, we'll surely miss someone in the meeting.

This year, 2 missing T_T

One in the UK, the other one in Johor.



 That's the stairs in front of my house. I love my house *emo



More photos of the darlings.



If this is a beauty pageant photo, I'm sure I'll get the last. T__T Look at those fat and flabby arms my gosh!! Why is my photoshop program not working tell me why!!

******

Fast forward to the 3rd day of CNY.

The Arifans all decided to gather in Chen Yi's house for a change. (and her mum makes good cookies, too!)

I was pretty late for the gathering. My excuse being... having terrible jet lag which lasted for the whole of 3 weeks I was home. :P



A groupie before Yee Mang went back.



Couple picture. :P Ironically it was Chen Yi's dad who called them to sit on those two rotan chairs and pose to the camera. hahaha.



Then Yoga Gan decided to be braver and showed his affection in front of all. :P



Hui Yi and Eunice came over slightly later, so we took another picture together. Look at my legs! *shakes head* really mou-tak-gao la me... So chubby still refuse to do anything about it.



Another group picture.

*******

Went out to Jusco to meet some other Arifans. I thought there were just a few of them there so I just cincai wear and go.

Turned out to be a huge group of them crowding the already crowded shopping mall.



Yoga trying to get closer to Siew Yeng but Kang Soon (a.k.a PPS) got jealous.



Scandal! Caught ya! Sigh. I knew Yoga has been going after my darling Yeng for some time d...finally now got evidence. :P

and if you're wonder why am I calling my friend Yoga, he actually said that himself. He said he looked like Yoga Lim -- the Taiwanese Singer.



 Ok-la, there're in fact, some similarity in them. And btw, when I was searching for Yoga Lim's photo, it led me to his friendster account. This Taiwanese Singer has his freaking own friendster account and is open to public. *open eyes big big*



 More pretties and no leng jai. (handsome guys)

We were then shoo-ed away by the shop owner for being kiamsiap (stingy) cause we all just ordered drinks and occupied the longest table in the shop. So we proceeded to Ker Li's house.

And Darling Yeng being herself... upon arrival, she screamed so loudly in KerLi's house, as if no one was home. I could see KL's face expressionless and then told us, "erm, my mum's in the study room"

Then Yeng was like, "Oh? OH NO! Why didn't you tell me earlier! I thought no one was home!!"

...and I was there thinking, "Haih. Some things never changes."



Please take note at Yoga Gan's hand in this photo.



 Poor Ngiow-Ngiow got pushed by Siang Feng a.k.a. Yoga's hand. Initially he was aiming for Yeng's head but his hand was too short so poor Sin Yee was pushed instead. Look at his hamsap smile. *geli*



 Pretty ladies at the supposedly bar counter of the house. Look ma, I'm glowing!! I think I'm turning into a vampire soon. *dreams*

Since we got together once in God-know-how-many-months, we decided to go lou sang (捞生)

Then we realised that all Chinese Restaurants will be packed with people, and us being us, we didn't have enough money to pay for chinese food. (or so we claimed) So we ended up in a mamak stall, bringing in our very own yee sang.

Whose brilliant idea was that?

...yours truly *shy*



 Yoga pouring the syrup into the yee sang before we start. We couldn't find any chopsticks in the shop *duh*, so we decided to use our fingers as chopsticks instead. :P



The Yee Sang deserves a picture of its own too!



 After 'lou-ing' for prosperity, good health, youthful, happiness... everyone decided to have 'eating pose' pictures of themselves.

...and the one above was obviously spoilt by Kang Soon, or more well known as PPS.



 Please ignore my expression. But as you can see, I'm glowing again. I swear it wasn't the flash in my camera! I was just...glowing :P

I hope Victoria or the Volturi won't hunt me down. *shivers*

(sorry, too much of Twilight Saga)

Lets continue...



The couple. :) Jovy's 'eating pose' needs more practise leh...



 It was that night, where I realised Kang Soon's sexual orientation. Sissy sial... *gelis*



 Another glowing picture. We were obviously the spotlight of the shop cause we brought our own food (and was charged an extra ringgit for it) and also, who on earth will snap photos in a freaking MAMAK stall??



Then we called an English-speaking Ah Neh (brother, in Tamil) to snap our final group picture of the day.

...I guess, it'll be quite some time before everyone gets together again.

Times like these made me missed school days so much. :(

************

It was Wilayah Day, Mr. Busy-all-the-time decided to bring me to Malacca to satisfy my craving for Gula Melaka. (the most God-like sugar in the world!! :P)



 Us, while driving.

Now, kids, please do not snap pictures when the driver's driving, ya... unless you're really skillful like how I am. :P



 And thats me attempting to take a nice picture with the aid of the bright sunlight.

After an hour's drive (or so) we finally reached Malacca!! The town of fattening Gula Melaka!!!



 Beautiful tanglungs at Jonker Street. I <3 tanglungs. They're pretty. :)



 World Heritage City!!! and it was only declared as one last year. :) Penang's the other Heritage City in Malaysia I think.



 As you can see, the sun was really really really hot. So hot that I would need the umbrella even when I was walking along the corridor.

and if you're wondering, the reason why I didn't open my umbrella was because the corridor was too narrow for my brolly.



 Fountain of Youth. I think it was built by the Dutch? Or Portuguese? Should be Dutch cause the surrounding buildings were by them.

Please forgive my ignorance...I didn't score well for my history last time. *shy*



 Us again!! With the shades my mum forced me to wear. Fake Gucci. =.="



 That's me again, overlooking A Famosa on the hill.Ok, more like I was asked to pose that way actually.



 and one for himself too.

Seriously, the sun was so hot that my brain started to go cuckoo.

At some point in time, I started to sing Captain Planet's song aloud. I couldn't remember how the conversation get there but I think it was something about saving the earth from Global Warming.

So I proudly sang my favourite cartoon's song. So loud that Mr. Cheah decided to leave me at the opposite side of the street so as not to embarrass himself.



 See!! :(



 And here's a Free Malaccan Model posing beside the polluted Malaccan River as an advertisement to urge the people not to further pollute the river.

I swear that's not my normal self. It's the weather I tell you, it's the weather.



 Malaccan River.

Then Mr. Cheah decided to bring me for a treat of cendol as my much overdue dosage of medicine to keep me sane in the extremely melting hot weather. (OK, I don't think this sentence makes sense but I'm not going to edit it cause I don't know how to)

...lets proceed...



CENDOL!!! Not the best, but at least cool down my temperature a lil, and keep me much more sane after that.



 Chicken Rice Balls!! How would a Melaka trip be complete without having those Chicken Rice Balls??

I know I've missed out lotsa other nice food around, but then, at least my cravings for gula melaka was satisfied. And that's what that makes a happy Joyce. :)



 Stopped by to meet up with Li Wen and Will before we made our journey back home.



 and lookie here, lonely eye on malaysia overlooking the Straits of Melaka.

and that ends our Malacca trip...

**********

The rest of the days I was just busy getting more stuff to pack into my bag, eating more food, emoing, enjoy staying on my bed as much as I could, packing more food into my bag until it's overweight, and if its impossible to bring back those food, I'd stuff them into my mouth...

and this time round, the farewell was fairly short.

My mum was over excited to meet her high school friend who was there in the airport to send her niece off. So excited that she'd totally forgotten about me. T_T She was really busy chatting with her friends at one corner while I was just standing at the other corner.

My dad was, as usual, shoo-ing me away as soon as possible. He was ALWAYS running out of time, ALWAYS in a rush to go to the temple that he has to shoo me away ASAP so that he can leave the airport. (and also not to pay the sky-high parking fee)

...and my brother, was trying to squeeze me thinner by pushing me to the side of a escalator (I dunno for what reason really) Maybe he secretly thinks I'm too fat.

**********

The journey back this time felt different, very different...

This time round, I can't say "See you in few months' time" cause I don't know when will I be home again. T______T

Sigh.

Life goes on, life still goes on...:)

It has been a month now...

a month away from home.

away from my lovely bed.

away from all my dear friends.

away from my family.

away from Pepper. :(

away from Mr. Cheah. wuwuuu..

...and I've not blogged about my trip home yet.

So I shall procrastinate no more! :P I'm currently in the office, 'listening' to TVB drama, and happily blogging on my computer. hehehe... I did my experiments okay~ please don't say I'm lazy and wasting EPSRC's money sponsoring me! hmmph!

I was dragged to the temple the night itself I touched down on Malaysia. Who call me to have superstitious daddy. =.="


The temple was really pretty with the lanterns all hanging all over the place. <3


Another view. I like this photo! <3333  This is the temple my daddy built! *proud. hahaha


They even had choi san yeh that night to give ppl ang paus. Apparently that night was the night all the 'God and Goddess' returning to 天庭. Which was why my dad was in such a rush to bring me to the temple. If not I'll miss them, apparently.


Look at the crowd! Seremban is just such a small place, everyone had no where else to go, all ended up in the temple for the night. But it's a good sign tho'. That means the place is sorta a tourist attraction now :)


In the midst of wandering around, I heard the MC announcing the name of the gu zheng performance and I heard '李梓婷' and then I thought, ah, there're lots of liziting around anyway. Maybe it's just another person with the same name.

Then after a while, I saw this very familiar figure on the stage, leading the whole gu zheng performance.

and I thought I was seeing illusions so I asked my mum to reconfirm.

then my mum just went, "yalo, that's her"


Everyone!! See this sweet pretty girl? Thats my friend performing on stage. hehehe.. *bangga

The next day, went up to Sungai Wang for shopping :)

...and also to meet the darlings. :)


Thats me with my carrot milk.


The pretty ladies that made me feel...ugly? *beautiful sigh* why my friends all so pretty one...


Da dudes. Mr Cheah is hoping to get a contract from Colgate. :P

The next few days, I was just at home doing this...


This!


and this!

Nah, obviously I was kidding okay.. I can't remember what did I do for the next few days cause I didn't take any pictures.

So I resulted in taking photo of my home. In case I suddenly forget how my house looks like. =.="


Please ignore that reclining chair and the model on the chair. My dad dem weird one... he was the one insisting on having antique furnitures and then decided to get that cheapo reclining chair cause it's more comfortable.

I remembered telling my mum to get 4 reclining chairs when I was young. Then my mum answered, "young ppl no need reclining chairs!" *sobs*


Thats my dad! Dem layan lo he, call him to smile then he'll raise his eyebrows. hahaha

Fast forward to new year's eve.

Since grandma has decided to celebrate her following new years in a better place, with her parents and siblings and my grandfather; we decided to have our reunion dinner in a restaurant instead.

...just for two families. Cause the rest's families were too big. (all with grandchildren and great-grandchildren)

Yee Sang!! Me <3 Yee Sang!! Me <3 food!!! (cause I'm always hungry, sigh)


I seriously don't know why was my dad's face so red. and, I didn't take this photo. My phone was sabotaged by my cousin.


See!! camwhores camwhores!!


Then she felt paiseh so decided to take a picture with the phone's owner too.


and the phone's owner decided to take a photo with the mummy.


My cousin brother looking unusually happy to eat 寿包. (longevity bun?)


Three of the youngest female Tiongs of the generation. The rest of our cousins are either married or mothers or grandmothers or great-grandmothers.


An all-cousins pic.


Erm.. Siblings and their other halves. :) Can see the resemblance in my dad and my uncle in this picture. Just one fairer one darker oni :P


Family picture. sorry, my mum yawning. =.="


Groupie!!

stop here now, want to go toilet xuxu. :P

p/s: the project student beside me is now typing super duper fast on the computer. know why? chatting on MSN lo!!
（cause normally type report where got so fast oneeee)

toodles

...when the camera is not working

and

...the horn is not working

and

...the key is missing

and

...when you wake up to see turned-over rubbish pile in the kitchen with ketchup all over the floor and chicken bones lying everywhere.

Maybe today is just not my day.

Oh well, life still goes on. :(

I think these photos are in my facebook for quite some time already, but I've not blogged about it yet. Sigh. Life of a working woman. hahaa..

If there's a place in Wales you want to go to, Cardiff will always be at the top of the list.

This pretty place is some sort of tourist attraction, surrounded by all the Welsh history and culture. and of course, Welsh (language and people) as well.

It was quite a sudden trip. So I did some very last minute homework by snapping the bus route into my camera as a reference.


Nah, bus route of Cardiff Central. Just part of it actually.. but since Cardiff is not really that big, we managed to find our ways without getting lost. :)

Whereever there's Joyce, there's always a case of embarrassment.

We were both at the train station, and I approached an officer to ask which direction is it to get to the city.

Then the officer said, "What? This IS the city."
Me, "But, isn't it like some distance away? That was what it says in the map."
Officer said, "No?! It's only 2 minutes away from here!"

*shyshyshy*

And since we were in Wales, we see weirdly spelled signboards everywhere.

There was once my boss showed me a Welsh CD, and I just went, "Okay, I don't understand a single thing written on the CD."
then my boss said, "Yea I know. Now you know how I feel when I was in Malaysia."

Oh well, at least they had English translated signboards as well. :)

There, it says Caedydd Canalog. Ya, not to say I really care how it's supposed to be pronounced.


Here's the supposedly two-minute walk from the station. It's cool to have a huge castle in the middle of the city. Like some sort of kingdom surrounded by shops and residences around.

Oh hai, thats me in front of Cardiff Castle btw. *shy*



And that's the castle on its own, without me blocking it.


Another angle of the castle.


And as you all know, Europeans love to erect statues everywhere, anywhere. Some to remember their child, some to remember their dogs, some just..dunnoforwhatreason really.

This statue behind me is the founder of NHS apparently. Not that it really interests me but since my mum gets her pension because of the presence of NHS, I should show a tiny wheeny bit of respect to him for starting it.

fyi, NHS = national health service.

I think my mum gets like 10 pounds or something for her pension. When she turns 60 that is. Haha..


That's me again, on the way to the University of Cardiff.


Here's Stonehenge-alike. In front of the museum.


And thats me, squating like a monkey beside the 'girl'.

No. I'm serious! The statue's name is 'GIRL'. How creative is that!!


Museum sounds really different in Welsh. I'll faint if I start reading it.


What are these called? Mammoth? Aw..I love the mammoth in Sesame street~ It's just so cute when it swings its tusk.


Me in front of Cardiff University. How nice to have a place like that right infront of your uni aye??


Lookie lookie!! I saw Daniel Radcliffe-alike statue!! With small birdie birdie too!!!!


SEE!!!

Ok, enough of hamsapness. Lets continue.


The Winter Sonata-ish path.


Me being a siao cha boh looking up at the clock tower.

I was then gradually turning into an angry-hungry person so we went off to the bay to grab some lunch.

Since we were both undecisive person, we ended up having the worst dim sum ever in my whole life. Sigh.

More photos.


Seagulls fighting over food with the ducks. Poor duckies. Seagulls sure win one lor, they can fly ma.. :(


Dunno what statue again. Dunno la, take up space oni. ceh. :P Probably Cardiff doesn't have enough nice sceneries for tourists like me to snap pictures kut.


Some random sculpture, me and sunset. Damn sad one lo that time. It was somewhere in January, the sun was setting at like..4pm?? And the weather was freaking cold. Not to mention we were at the bay that time. So that explains my attire.

Oh that sculpture is supposed to be a Mermaid or something. But it looked more like King Triton to me (Little Mermaid's father)


I is bored.


This is the erm.. Cardiff's Millenium Centre. For performing arts and all one. Was planning to get a train here to watch a show sometime. But I guess that won't be anytime soon cos me is broke now and is saving money desperately.

I know everyone's bored with my entry..and I guess everyone will ended up looking like this... after reading the whole entry.


Everybody say, Awwwwwwwwww... :)

:P

...kthxbai!

I've not been blogging for so long that even my friends started to wonder if I'm still alive...

☆Joy-Ce☆ says:
Hello khor
yenli says:
hello Tiong
yenli says:
still alive?
☆Joy-Ce☆ says:
yes
☆Joy-Ce☆ says:
unfortunately

Sigh. I guess if I were to stop facebooking, msning, and blogging all together, no one will know whether I'm still alive anot. Like seriously.

Until they read newspaper and found out something had happened to me la.

*touch wood*

So yala, I'm now back to Bath already. For better, or for worse. (wah lau, like wedding vow only!) I seriously don't feel like coming back after staying at home for the three weeks cause I just don't have enough of my own time. Like.. time for myself to do nothing for the entire day.

And I've been complaining to everyone that England is so cold but still refuses to snow, then on the third week, just before I come back here, it snowed like cats and dogs and monkeys and chimpanzees my gosh. It was so beautiful and I missed all those! The snow just decided to melt off the moment I step my foot back onto UK land. Giler babi sial. =(

So in other words, I didn't get to witness those heavy snow. But I did get to see the white surroundings along the way back to Bath from the airport. And also got to experience those slippery road surfaces. Ish.

I've so many pictures to post up but then today's just not the day haha. It's 9.04pm now and it'll soon be my bed time. I sleep at latest 10pm and wake up at 6-7am in the morning, fyi. Very healthy lifestyle right? But then why are those pimples still popping out on my face?! Now even my nose got infected. NOSE! the painful part, NOSE!! *hides self and emo at a corner*

Ok, I'll go to bed now and emo over my pimple.

Just to let the world know that I'm still not dead, and more pictures up to come! =)

To those in Malaysia, I miss all of you already!!! *sobs*