Day 246: Not Happy

So I got lazy during my last couple of weeks summer vacation and ended up not finishing this family commission. I'm not so happy with my laziness, and so I'm punishing myself by drawing this every chance I have.. weekdays and weekends. Just two more faces to go, and I'm off to continuing my Glee drawing >.<

Day 245: A Silver Marriage

Today I went to a 25th anniversary silver wedding. The cool thing about this wedding is that the couple who are getting married have NO IDEA about this day! This event was actually set up by the kids, and I'm amazed at how hard they all worked for this day to come true, especially because this was their mother's dream. It's actually the couple's 27th anniversary but since they couldn't have their silver wedding in the past, the eldest child thought of this great surprise plan to have them renew their vows. They planned months before and asked everyone involved to make this as secret as possible. It was a great wedding. The bride cried nonstop lol. Those tears of happiness also got to a lot of people, especially my mom and auntie. I guess I can confess, I got a little teary when their children had to say some things to their parents. The girls were crying, and the guy was holding back his tears. It was pretty emotional on different levels. Anyway, I was so full after. And at the end when everyone else left, our family friend took some helium balloons and used it to make his voice higher. It was funny! I also tried it myself, and it actually worked. LOL. Anyway, I heard doing this was not good for you... hmm I shall check that out on a different time. PEACE :)

Day 244: Avatar and Armored

My friends and I planned to hang out today at my house. It was a sudden plan from yester-night actually and I'm glad we went along with it! Today was fun guys! We actually rented two movies. Two of my friends watched Avatar since they haven't seen it yet, and the three of us watched Armored. It was funny on how we kept on changing our preference while watching Armored on the second floor from the basement. Since Lanie and Jomar were watching the Avatar with a loud volume, it was hard for us to concentrate on Armored. SO I first lowered their volume down and we turned our volume up. Though I think they turned theirs up again lol.. you sneaky bums. Then we decided to go to the basement and watch there instead. HOWEVER, the huge TV there wasn't working. SO we used the small TV and connected the red, white, and yellow plugs. BUT THEN the screen was black and white, so it wasn't plugged in right. We couldn't figure out how to bring the color back, so we decided to watch the movie in black and white as we wasted a long time trying to get comfortable on watching Armored. lol. It was actually more dramatic in black and white actually, and it was intense! We kept on screaming and jumping and shaking on the climax LOL. It was that intense. You should watch Armored when you get the chance, it's a pretty good movie. :) After that we had to wait for Avatar to finish, since it wasn't done yet. Later on we played some card games: big two and signal. It was so much fun! Thanks guys for today, I had a great time once again! :)

Day 243: Miss Them Already

Now that school's starting, I see Nathaniel and Arielle less. I miss them more than before, and I hope I won't be too busy to play with them after school. I find myself kissing both of them on the cheeks more than before too. Anyway, today was picture day. They have a new ID holder so that no one can claim that their ID is broken anymore (IDs before had a hole punch, now they have a plastic holder to put the ID in). Tomorrow will be my second day of school, though today wasn't even a normal school day... just picture day.

Day 242: Might Forget

I was surprised when my mom told me that it was my aunt's birthday today. Surprised because I've forgotten her birthday. But I did know that it was around September.. though I've forgotten it. Whenever it's an elder's birthday, I keep forgetting the date. And I think it also goes with teens my age. You see, I'm not good when it comes to remembering things such as a person's name on a first meeting. But I think it depends on the impact that thing/person does to me. Actually, these situations happen when my mind is set somewhere else while I try to pay attention to a thing/person. Does this happen to you too? But I can't say that's true all the time. There are different ways I forget things and also ways I remember things such as those that I feel strongly about. Then again, I would also remember the less important too. Anyway, aside from that... I made sushi today! It's my second time making sushi, and I'm probably going to make more since my friends want to set up a date to make these. I actually made these for my aunt. After finding out it was her birthday today, I asked my mom if I could make sushi for her. So I did. :D

Day 241: Downtaaaawn

My friends and I (G.O.B) decided to go to downtown to hangout. We just planned it yesterday night and actually set out a pretty good plan for today. This was actually a hangout for Charlotte, since we haven't seen her in a while. Since she hasn't arrived at downtown, the rest of us decided to walk around. In this picture we were in Chinatown. These men are playing Chinese Checkers. By the looks of the game, it was hard for me to understand it. Anyway, I had a really GREAT time today guys! It was so much fun walking around downtaawn and recording the moments via camera with you all! Haha, we should do it again in the future when we are not busy. Anyway, our plan today was to meet Charlotte then eat lunch with her, head to Chinatown and shop there for a while, then head to TD square and shop while I exchange a clothing (sewn incorrectly), then go to Body Worlds OR watch a movie if not that. We ended up doing a WHOLE lot of other things and taking pictures of places we've been to. Also, we didn't end up going to Body Worlds. Instead, we went to Prince's Island and took pictures there haha. It was a fun day. So much things happened in between but I'll let the photos remind the moments and the things we did hehe. Today's experience was fo'sho what we needed before school starts! :D

Day 240: Washroom

My family went to downtown today.. to shop. Haha, we haven't done any shopping so we decided to go downtown instead of the usual malls we go to. I took this picture using the reflection of the hand dryer if you were wondering.

Day 239: Studying Abroad

We got this souvenir from the Philippines..obviously ahha. Anyway, I took this picture because I was thinking about studying in the Philippines after High School. It was just a thought... so I don't think it would be anything serious. Though I did thought a while about it and even asked my mom, "What if I did? Would you let me?" We had this conversation a while back, about how I should just go to the Philippines and study there. Then I asked that same question and I could see her going uneasy about it lol. I guess she thought I wouldn't consider it. But yeah I asked it again today and she told me to ask my dad haha. *sigh* I can't believe it's my senior year... but at least I get to spend it with amazing people! :D

Day 238: Family Day

A Family Day event was set today at Eagle Lake for the Couples for Christ, Singles for Christ, Youth for Christ and the Kids for Christ. We had mass first thing and then later on ate. There were a lot of people too! Then there were games and cheers for each groups. Our YFC cheer was not well done, since we made it at the spot. Then we decided to just sing Just the Way You are by Bruno Mars with a Ukulele! I took this picture of Arielle during mass... even though I shouldn't have. I remember the priest talking about The Confessions of St.Augustine. I'd like to read that in the future. I also remember that if we claim to be something... like being good people, we should celebrate it by going to church. He said something about a man saying to a priest that he knows a family that is very good, but doesn't go to Church. How can you claim to be good if you don't celebrate it? Something like that... >.< Anyway, I met new people today too :D Good day!

Day 237: Last Day of S.HOU.T!

This morning, after the girls woke up and got ready for the day, the boys prepared something special for the girls. We couldn't even go to the kitchen! It said "No girls allowed beyond this point!" It was something special indeed and as we kept guessing in the basement, three boys finally went down stairs and told the girls what was on their menu.. in other words, what they prepared for the girls for breakfast! Then we came up and lined up. No one wanted to go first, so I decided to go in first. I thought everyone else would follow but they closed the door and all the boys were clapping and saying "Yaaaaaay!" lol. I proceeded to one of the seats around the table. That same thing was repeated for all the other girls too. And as they were coming in and receiving standing ovation, some of us started to read the little diamond cards and the letters on it. I admit, some of the messages were really cute! Haha like, "Are you tired? 'Cause you've been running through my mind all day!" And a lot of other cute messages. After eating, the boys presented to us a song.. and some dancing haha. After one special rose given to a girl, all the other boys took a rose and gave it to each of us. IT WAS SO CORNY! Hahahah but cute. Anyway after that and the things in between, we went to downtown and attended mass at St. Francis Church. After mass we were surprised by an AMAZING (G)RACE! So each house were given clue card and had to find the person around after doing all the requirements to get the next card. It's like Amazing Race. After a whole lot of funny, crazy, interesting things in between, our team finally went home. We had around 4 hours to finish the race. We were last... lol. The consequence? We washed the dishes. Then one of the teams cooked us dinner. They cooked barbeque steak. It was really good!

After that and a lot of things in between, we had our last and final talks/sessions. I was tired and I'm sad to say that I almost fell asleep near the end of the talk. This was when the emotional part came actually... just like how Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, we were freely given the chance to wash the feet of our friends. By washing their feet, we let that person know that we are willing to serve him/her. I didn't get to wash everyone's feet, but I did get to wash a few. I thought I wouldn't cry (others began crying) but then a brother took a bucket and a cloth, came toward me, washed my feet, hugged me, and told me some things that got me crying. Then a few more came to wash my feet, and it was hard for me to stop the tears from flowing. It was just that meaningful to us. I'll miss this S.HOU.T! I really will.. especially the new bond and friendship we developed. No need to be sad though, since there'll be more of these in the future! HOORAH! :D

Day 236: Not in Order

Second day of S.HOU.T! Last night a friend told the girls a couple of scary stories.. in the dark... with a flashlight.. past midnight. Haha, I slept pretty well after that actually. A few more people came today too. We went to St. Thomas Moore Church to attend mass. For breakfast we were presented with cereal from the Blue House (New Born Blueberries). They did a good job behind the meaning of their food preparation. We did more talks/sessions. My team made CHICKEN ADOBO during lunch!!! And to expand, we didn't have enough ingredients but we cooked it anyways. After over 30 mins of waiting, we tried it and it tasted pretty good! It wasn't the normal chicken adobo taste, but everyone liked it :D We played more cards. We were caught again by the "barkers" for breaking the house rules (complaints, talking in tagalog etc). Punishment? This time, it wasn't an easy one. It was night time and we were told to go outside... to jog. Actually these punishments are called "love punishments". They are not meant to make us feel bad, but rather to help us because they want to look out for all of us. And in order for everyone to get that and the house rules, we went jogging. I was dead tired by the second lap, then on the third.. somehow my body functioned like an athlete and the only thing that was annoying me was my heavy breathing... which wasn't even doing anything to make me tired. I was just.. running. Then we stopped and finally learned our lesson. Had more talks. Made sushi for dinner! Each group had the chance to make their own. It tasted great! My team washed the dishes. We had a Forum at night. There was a girls forum and a boys forum. A lot more things in between from morning to nighttime. *sigh* I wish I was able to put these together with meaning, but so much things happened that all I want to do is list out the things I want to remember. Anyway, I can't say these are in order... but yeah I'll add more when I remember them just for my sake of remembering when I want to in the future.

Day 235: To Remember

Today was a good start for S.HOU.T! We went to church first in the morning, saw some friends from Edmonton, went to our venue, met new friends, and the usual but unique awesome things that happen in YFC. Things that you guess will happen and surprises that you won't know will happen 'til much later on. One thing that happened today was that we had to minimize our baggage. They gave us plastic bags to get the necessities such as towel, clothes, shampoo, soap, etcc and also the unmentionables... (panties and etc lol). The rest such as cell phones, ipods, Nintendo DS and etc were not allowed in the bag. They also gave us little notebooks to take note on the talks/sessions, things we learned and I guess to doodle and draw. Then we were put into "houses"/"groups". I was in the red house and named ourselves "Old Spice" LOL. I didn't really cared about the name, and since there were boys in my team I decided why not. There were a lot of things that happened today, but I guess I'll just list some of them for me to remember it in the future:
- The Green house (ahaha so green) who couldn't think of a group name and was picked to make lunch first. (They made hot dogs :) Yupp, we had to make our own food on our own but had the leaders to help us out when needed. We also had to present our food and what it meant to us..so we had to organize it in a way and find a meaning behind it.
- All the groups teaming up to make dinner (spaghetti, salad (my team made salad), juices, etc.). I organized the food and the amount I wanted... only to find out that we had to give our plate to the right and feed the brother/sister with our plate. I was pretty sad for a while... as the plate I got had little salad and my original plate had a lot.. lol oh wells.
- The whole teams getting caught by the "barkers" for breaking the house rules such as leaning against the wall and couch while in session, complaining, talking in tagalog (we had to speak in english since some couldn't understand tagalog), some swearing and etc.. PUNISHMENT?! We did some push ups and this other exercise..mountain climbing I think lol dunno.
- Playing cards at night was SO MUCH FUN! I learned a lot of card games.. hopefully I remember them all!
A lot of other things happened but I guess I'll stop for now. I'll probably add the rest some other time!


**P.S** Sorry if this might be boring to you, but to me it's an important part of my journey in becoming a real servant and in serving the Lord. I'm learning a lot in the process... and pardon me for my not so well memory but I'll try my hardest to take in the things I've learned to heart and apply it to my life. I might lose my way in this journey, but I trust and have faith that God will bring me to my place in this world. Alrighty, I could say more but that will be all for now. THANKS FOR READING! :) **