It was a simple Sunday today, but it was also brother Doc's birthday today. There was a celebration in church after the service. I was very tired when I woke up, and after going home, I just took a nap. There was no after practice for the youth. I was passing out.

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It's a full Saturday. There was the youth practice at 2pm in church to develop their skills playing instruments. Not to mention so that there will be substitutes during the Praise and Worship. I'm hoping to find a substitute as soon as possible, because I have a feeling September will become really busy.

After the youth practice, the Praise and Worship team practiced for tomorrow's service. We ended at 6pm. There was a lot of commitment today that I had to re-schedule tuning the drums of my sister in the Lord to another date. Fasting ended at 8pm and I had to go to Kildonan Park next, because my sister's cotillion are taking a pictorial there and they needed someone to look after them. The photoshoot lasted until 7:30pm and I was very hungry.

My cousin K and I went to KG next to eat. There was hair at the calamari platter. I'm not disgusted, but I asked them to replace our order. They did and I'm very happy.

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It's Friday and finally there's a change of pace at work. It has been pretty monotonous and tiring for these past few days. It's also my much awaited 'weekend' shift. So it's always exciting to go home.

I wanted to chat with my girlfriend but she was busy with their church anniversary preparations. Our church anniversary is still on November; I wonder if I'll be busy that time too? I guess both of us are preparing for major events right now, because of my sister's debut on October. Even though it's still on October, but they wanted to make it really grand so crunch time is near.

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I videochat with my girlfriend for about 15 minutes. It's enough for her and for me, because she said she just wanted to see me. I could still go on, but she said that she had to go. I was updating my videocard driver early in the morning. I wanted to check out the new ATI catalyst for my eyefinity. I also had trouble playing the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection after updating it, but I managed to solve the problem in the end. I slept around 4am. I had mussels for lunch and then off I went to work in the afternoon. Work was somewhat productive as it's crunch time for me. I got home around 10:21pm. I was craving for a shake when I saw the avocados on the table. Also, I purchased a replacement knob for the timer of the dryer. eBay. $25 for a simple knob. I hope the knob is a standard and would fit on our dryer. If not, then it's just a waste of money. Speaking of eBay, still no watches.

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It's just Wednesday and I've worked a pretty unproductive day. It was exhausting. I got home and tried to resume on my literature to move on. In the past, I was able to write about something after getting tired. But I guess the juice isn't flowing in my head. I wasn't able to write anything tonight. And the watches I ordered from eBay are still missing.

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We're back to work, baby. And work was somewhat productive today. I changed my schedule again. I got home past 10pm, and they're asking me about the dress my mom wants in eBay. I can't find it anymore. Oh yeah. I subscribed to the Nerdblock's new Arcade Block. What have I done? The irony is, I don't know if I would cancel my Nerd Block classic.

And nope, the watches are still not here.

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We're back to Monday again, but it's the last practice for the cotillion. It's the last day, because school is starting again. It'll be difficult to hold a practice now that the kids are studying. Anyway, I woke up in the afternoon in this day-off. Despite the break, my girlfriend and I are both busy. I pretty much wasted the day with nonsense, I'm afraid. There's still no sign of the watches I bought from eBay. I'm not worried... yet. Speaking of just doing nonsense, I thought we would edit some videos today. But it's raining and I changed my mind; I would rather write. I couldn't finish my writing though. It's also the first time to bid for an item on eBay. I really like to have it. I hope I win.

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I got home past 12am from yesterdays busy-ness. When I got home, it feels like this house is falling apart. The TV is already broken, we're spending money for my sister's debut, we're going home and we're supposed to be saving, now our dryer won't turn on. I slept at 4am.

Woke up really tired. Like really tired. I woke up with eyes blood-shot while on my way to the bathroom. This feeling felt familiar. It's like I'm back to my high school days in the Philippines where I come home after 7pm and go to school at 6am. And that's waking up after sleeping at 12am from doing homework.

We went to church at 10am and there was light rain. It was especially hard to get up when it's raining Sunday morning. All I could say that it's a super lethargic Sunday, but I want to play the drums. I need to. After the service, I wanted to go home, but I had to celebrate a birthday there. While staying there for the birthday, I might as well teach the youth prospect to play the drums. I got home past 2:30pm and I'm just so tired that I napped until 9:30pm. The rest of the family went to Tita B for dinner. I went to the kitchen to get something to eat. Now that August is almost over, I knew that September will be busy. I posted my deadlines on the fridge.

Anyway, I just enjoyed the remaining Sunday night and took it easy. Tomorrow is a day off too.

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Time to start this awesome Saturday. I know there's a lot of things to do. I sent a text message to my cousin yesterday that we should start the video shooting in the morning. I would then leave in the afternoon to attend the Youth practice and the PW practice for tomorrow. Finally, I would go back to the studio to finish whatever we can finish.

I woke up at 8:53am and I was still hesitating to get up, since I was expected to be at the studio at 10am. There's still a full hour left, but I kinda' lost my sleep the moment I got up, which is weird. Anyway, I got ready at 9:30am. We reached the studio past 10am, and I knew time was running, so we got down to filming quickly. Looking back, it's not really an effective way to make a film when you're in a hurry, because the video would be rushed as well, if not bland. However, we're so far behind on our schedule and we aim to come up with a finished video today.

To find out which Nerdblock would be opened and featured first, since we both have subscriptions, I decided to toss a coin. It determined that my Nerdblock would go first. When I received my block, customs opened it and taped it all over to seal it back. I guess they were jealous and got curious of its contents too.

A lesson learned is that filming in rush is not a good thing. The product will also look rushed. We filmed while opening our August Nerdblock in Kapampangan language. And then I went home at 12pm. I just thought that I could do better than this. For the mean time, onto the next business.

I'm headed to church at 1pm next. Today's the start of our youth training and team-building. I don't know if they got the message but the instructors were all there at 1pm and the youth was missing. We waited until 2pm. 2pm was actually the start. Before everything, there was devotion first. All I could say is that today's a good start for everyone. We finished at 4pm. And when our team-building ended, it was the start of our music ministry practice. We practiced until 6:30pm.

I got dropped off at the studio to resume our next filming. I had dinner first since it's the end of my fasting. The next item on the list is the Lootcrate. We're going to open a Lootcrate for our Youtube channel Taramamusni ("Let's open it" in English). My other cousin dropped by to take part. He's always an extra. Peace, Mac.

I was super tired at this point. I couldn't help take a nap while the two of them drove off to buy beer for my uncle. I was just napping on the bed and then they woke me up with a Starbucks in hand. A little bit of caffeine gave me a boost to film the next video. But it didn't end there. Video editing commenced until 12am.

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Friday. At last. Different pace at work and I came home early too. When I got home, I started on organizing what needs to do tomorrow, the Youth practice and video filming. I've already accepted the fact that the bank's gonna charging me for my checking. A simple fact that I just can't get over instantaneously. Okay, they need profit. Whatever. I think it's absurd that the interest rate hardly counts anything in my savings account and then they'd charge $10 every month. Anyway, it's Saturday tomorrow. I hope it's going to be a bright day.

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I'll just keep it brief today. I woke up tired, and I still don't know why. Work was blah and I'm just glad that I'm home. Tomorrow's Friday, but I'm not sure if I'll get my rest on this weekend. I don't know if I'm getting paid tomorrow since I took two weeks off and already claimed my pay beforehand. If not, I'm just gonna cry.

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Chat with my girlfriend early in the morning. She said that the're having a non-working holiday on Thursday. Cool.

I went to sleep around 4am.

I don't know why, but I felt tired when I woke up today. I got up to get ready for work. I thought today's the day, but there were no packages that arrived. Those watches still haven't arrived. I also received a notice from my bank that they're removing my student plan and my checking account will be turned into any regular checking account. They'll charge me every month. At first, I thought that I didn't need this news since the expense is unnecessary that we're going home. I'll deal with it again in winter when I'll my load is considered full.

Speaking of notice, I also received a notice from the music ministry about the Youth practice on Saturday. I think they're pushing it to 1pm. My cousin is also asking me if we'll film this weekend. The VLOG has been long overdue, our Kenora trip this past August 10. So I'll need to edit that as well. Man, I woke up tired, there's this bank notice that I'm getting charged for putting my money in their hands, the music ministry and then I have to finish that video so that I can make my cousin content. It's still Wednesday and to be honest, I felt tired during that moment preparing for work. I told myself to focus on what's happening right now. I prayed.

Work was super productive today. Like super. I'm glad.

I came home hungry and tired, but still glad. I published an entry and tried to resume my fanfiction, perhaps my super productivity carried over until I got home. Well, I certainly need the boost in writing, because I'm having a drought. I feel much better than what I was feeling in the afternoon. Let's see what happens on Saturday.

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Two for one, my Nerd Block and my Silent Hill 3 Heather figure arrived today. So stoked. I'm not going to open these yet. I'll be reserving them for my unboxing videos in Youtube. I left home after 3:20pm. It's work again in the Tuesday afternoon. I'm telling you that this new schedule feels rather odd. I'm gonna have to get used to it for a while. For a long while. Like I feel like crap at the first hour and it only feels good when I'm an hour away from going home.

I don't know if I'm tired today or not. When I got home past 10pm, I felt like blah. I hope I did my job productively today. It's been a difficult shift. And I have a feeling that it would still be a difficult shift tomorrow. I thought I'd find relief when I got home. I found out that the TV upstairs, that 50" flatscreen no longer turns on. They just watched on it this morning. I don't know what's wrong. I have a feeling that the expense would be mine. I just shake my head on this problem.

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Lootcrate arrived today! It's the heroes theme! I'm subscribed to two and I received both of them today. Awesome. Unfortunately, the only date available to video opening the crate is this Saturday. Ugh. And I don't want to spoil anything yet. Well, my sister had their last practice for the cotillion today. And so one of the guest, he's a friend of mine, decided to peek inside one of the crates. Good thing I grabbed it away before it was completely opened. I want to surprise myself too. I'm still waiting for my replacement Lootcrate from last month, the one that Canadapost lost or perhaps kept from me.

I think I scared my girlfriend today. It's a funny story. Well, we were videochatting and it's night at their time and she said she was by herself. She knows that I can see the unusual. I told her that I was planning to see a 'special' place in the Philippines when I get home. Of course I don't want her to go with me. I told her about my spiritual battle every night, and I also told her about one story when we were camping and that her younger brother was with us. Well, a girl got possessed. Well, hearing that subject made her scared in her bedroom. Can't help but feel bad about myself since I'm a bit odd on this side.

I also started getting worried of my mobility when we come home. I only have a learner's license right now and I virtually have no time to wait for the intermediate, because there's not time and we're going home next January. I can drive provided that the passenger is a full driver for at least 3 years. I'm just afraid that I'll be a hassle during our dates. I don't want that.

There was a cotillion practice at the house today. I couldn't do anything productive in my end. I just wanted to laze off in this day-off. I just hope that their dance is coming along well. I stopped seeing it, so that it will surprise me.

Seeing that my schedule is full for this fall, I don't know if I'm able to wing it or not. I mean, school and work during weekdays and Youth practice plus Sunday service in the weekends. Fun times.

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It's Sunday morning. I tried to wake up early and leave early. I thought that we were going to be late. We were hurrying like I thought that she'll be in charge of the morning Bible Study. Not really. We were just hurrying up.

After the church service, just before we're gonna have our lunch, I briefed the youth for a moment about what we'll try in the future. Well, we're looking for substitutes for instrumentalists and we're looking for young Worship leaders too, so I pitched in our plan in front of the folks. I'm used to talking to a crowd by the way. Our first practice is scheduled this coming Saturday.

Honestly, I can't wait for a new drummer in our church. I want to lead on the Praise and Worship as I found it -- let's just say addicting. I feel like the thirst for Christ when I sing Praise and Worship.

Got home at 3pm and I went to take a nap. It's hard for me not to take a nap on a Sunday afternoon. Maybe it's just in me to take a nap.

There's no video editing today and I didn't spend my money on Tales of Xillia Collector's edition. I'm totally lazy today and I want my money in my pocket.

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There's no video edit today. I think I'm still tired from yesterday's video editing. Instead, I went to church for practice around 4pm. It's the first for me after a long time and it will be like this for a very long while too. It's time to straighten my priorities from here on, because my vacation is officially over. I'll be back at work next week by the way.

Before going to the practice, I was waiting for my dad to come home and pick me up. It's just expected that their Bible Study would get extended further than 3:30pm. If I could sum up our church in one word, I'd pick "prayerful." It's a prayerful church. I'm not surprised that our service gets extended every Sunday, because everyone prays a lot. Being as a deep Christian, a long prayer isn't a problem, but time is a factor to a Sunday service. We'll have trouble introducing people to Christ if we always extend further than 12:30pm every Sunday. Realistically speaking, we have to watch out for the babes in Christ who aren't used to long services and continually foster their spirit so that in time they won't mind if the service gets extended numerous times.

The truth is people are willing to attend every the Sunday service. It's just that the service takes long. I mean we already have other programs such as the Bible Study in the Sunday evening, Youth Wednesday, Bible Study at homes, Dawn Watch and the Bible University every Saturday. I was thinking that we should have an evangelical Sunday where we would keep the service short but retain the core aspect of a Sunday church meeting and use that day to evangelize people. We would have the Opening Prayer, Praise and Worship, Testimonies, the Pastor's Message, and then the Benediction. This is just what I think.

Anyway, back to waiting... it turned out that the Bible study got extended, because the topic involved statues. Anyway, I practiced and then got home at 7pm. My head was aching a bit. I was also called to do some more intricate work for the music ministry in the future. To put it simply, I'd be teaching my substitute. This is what I've been doing in the past too. I can't help feel frustrated and disappointed when my student left the church due to family issues. And it's not even him that decided to leave church. He's very much willing, but I just shake my head at their circumstances. Moving on, so yeah, I'll be teaching again. Back to phase 1. I'll also be teaching Praise and Worship leading.

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Keep calm and enjoy the Friday! Tomorrow's the weekend and I'm ever nearing the end of my vacay time! Say it ain't so!

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Still on vacation mode. Thursday was just a simple day. And here's me still wanting more vacay time. I still don't want to go to work next week. We're still preparing for the debut.

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Talk about impulse buying. I bought the Silent Hill 3 figure of Heather today. It took me just a moment to decide on it. I bought it from eBay. It's addicting I tell you. As long as you have the time to wait and the money, you'll find wonders in eBay. I also posted the video today, another music video that I put up for my girlfriend. The song playing on the video is I Would Do Anything For You by Foster the People. She loved it. Sigh. I have fallen in love. I posted it in the afternoon while she was still asleep. I've been working on it for a week. I also had to make a drawing and make it look like we were staring at each other. It's pretty simple, but I'm just very happy that she loves it.

In the evening, I went to my cousin's to assemble that trailer video from our roadtrip. Perhaps my mind was exhausted from my personal video, but I just couldn't get any juice in my head to edit the videos into a VLOG plus the parody movie. We posted the trailer instead. I find it funny when the folks comment that it kept them hanging. That's the purpose of a trailer or a teaser for that matter. I just think that there's a lot of work that would be involved into this video. There should be effort. Of course. We just need to figure out now how to make it funny.

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I woke up in the afternoon since I'm still in vacay mode. I'm just running down the string of my last week too. I went to my cousin's to edit some videos, but we still haven't finished the proper video. We tried sorting out the videos and planned to make a trailer instead. I also ate dinner at my uncle's then I came home at 10:30pm. My serious video is still incomplete.

Lootcrate replied to my inquiry about my missing crate and they said they'd happily send me a replacement. I'm very much relieved from their news. Anyway, Canadapost also replied to my email and saying the same thing that Lootcrate should contact Canadapost about it. Anyway, I just had this small hope that I would get an extra crate if they find my missing crate.

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I woke up with my sister knocking on my room and was crying. I recall that there are guests in the living room and that there's also a practice for the cotillion. I got up to check why she was crying. Apparently she's crying because my mom scolded her in front of her guests. I didn't know the whole story so I got upstairs to her room and I knocked on the door. I asked her why my sister was crying, but she didn't know why she was crying too. My mom said that she only told her to make some calls and make sure everyone makes it to today's practice. From there, I thought that there was just a misunderstanding. My sister didn't like the tone of my mom.

Today's the 11th of August and I think they better step up and practice properly. And so my mom insists that she would make some calls to fetch the missing folks. And then there's about my ate C. I'm not gonna bring it up. It's just a mess and it's on my day off. Ugh. I didn't want to let this day finish without trying to amend some thigns. My mom left for work and then my sister went back to rejoin everyone to resume their practice. Only one person was missing and she has missed all of the sessions until now. It's also part of the mess. I listened to their pitch on how to solve this problem, and in the end, I suggested not to make any changes for the people participating in the cotillion anymore. I said that we'll be expecting the missing person on Monday.

My sister left in the afternoon and said they'd watch a movie. I told them go ahead and so I was left at home and I needed the time off. I talked to my ate C about what had happened. And then my mom and I had a lengthy conversation at night. I told you, I didn't want the day to end without resolving the issue. Conclusion, we did arrive on something. And it turns out that there are more issues that appeared. Talk about moving backwards. My mind just got exhausted afterwards, but everyone calmed down. It's frustrating how I tried to tell her the other perspective, and end up with more issues at hand.

Speaking of issue, I sent an email to Lootcrate about my missing July crate today. Yes, it's still missing.

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Today's the long drive. Too tired to write long I'll give you a timeline instead. Take note that our plan was to leave Winnipeg at 10am, be there at 12pm and go back after 3pm.

11:13am - We left uncle P's house to get the cars gassed.
11:26am - Still at the gas station. The vehicle in front of us is taking so long.
11:29am - We finally started riding.
1:08pm - We reached the Ontario marker.
1:18pm - We started riding to Kenora. Still about an hour of drive to go.
2:55pm - Finally reached Rushing River Provincial Park.
3:00pm - We disembarked and ran like kids.
3:30pm - Started filming a video about being lost in the woods.
4:55pm - Left the park.
5:15pm - We stopped over at the park in Kenora where there was a statue of a big fish and a scenic view of the lake that has a fountain in the middle of it. We also filmed stuff there.
6:11pm - We're officially going home.
8:00pm - Gassed the tank again for $50.
8:30pm - Ate at Logan's Corner in Winnipeg for dinner. My treat.

See? We are so on time.

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Too tired to leave home today. We're preparing for tomorrow's long drive. Driving 200 plus kilometers. Today's the photoshoot for my cousin's daughter at the Assiniboine Park. I've already asked for permission to go to Kenora tomorrow. I don't even know if we have food for the trip. There's virtually no plan at all. Anyway, the weather looks beautiful tomorrow according to the weather forecast. We'll make sure to stay away from swimming too after I heard of a drowning incident at the venue. Plus I'm skeptic if we'll ever leave Winnipeg at 11am and get there at 1pm. I'm thinking we'll probably wake up late and get in the middle of the afternoon already.

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Today's business is some more video editing. I called my cousin to check his schedule. I was hungry, so I wanted to get something to eat first. But we gassed up the car yet, before going to eat. After putting gas, we went to BestBuy first to check up on that thing I'm planning to get for my mom.

We drove to KP mall in the afternoon. I thought we'd run into my sister because I know she went to the mall as well. Well, we found another surprise instead. My cousin S had a shift today in Koya. She's the one insisting that we roadtrip to Kenora, Ontario. We were already in the mall so we walked to the bookstore first. I couldn't find the books I'm looking for. We went to Ebgames next. Two JRPGs for the PSV caught my attention. But man, they're so expensive. Since when did videogames become this expensive?!

After the mall, we were off to capture still-videos. There's the railroad shot and a greenery shot on my list. My cousin finally got the train shot that he was looking for too while we were walking to the railroad, the train-crossing lights flashed and he ran to film the approaching train -- from a safe distance of course.

We walked to my auntie's house next which was nearby. We just wanted to check out the folks and the newcomer. They offered us something to eat, but I told them that we were still full. Back in the mall, my cousin K bought this big cup of fries and I thought he was out of his mind buying something that big. He couldn't even finish a small cup of fries. So instead, he wanted me to help him finish it. The two of us left auntie's house after spending about 20 minutes of hanging out and then we drove to the studio. Everyone's houses are just nearby.

Video editing ensued until the nightfall. Then I remembered asking for the folks who want to go to Kenora, Ontario. At 10pm we drove to my cousin S's house to see if they're serious about the roadtrip. Hey, I can't fund this trip by myself. In the end, it looks like they want to go.

Came home around 11pm. My girlfriend sent me a private message about that weird video we recorded yesterday. She said she loved it. She even showed it to her bestfriend and said that her friend almost flipped from laughing. I'm sure that parody would've turned her off, but I'm glad that she had her laughs with it.

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We've scheduled today to record still-videos for my serious video project. I called to assemble the team and I had a place in mind. It was just a pond, but the day was beautiful. Since I knew that there's a 'despedida' or a going away party for my relative tonight, we started shooting in the afternoon. At first we weren't sure of the address, but that's where the GPS came in handy. The pond was nearby the Dr. JP Rizal street here in Winnipeg. I'm surprised that the Philippine National Hero has its own street named here. Anyway, like any nature filmmaker (as if), we braved through the poopy grass to place our camera. Well, Canadian geese chose that pond like their natural habitat and these geese are big so expect a lot of poop landmines. Hey, I also thought about that whole birdflu deal when we were there. I've already had my birdflu shot. I don't know about the other two. Anyway, we carefully placed our equipment away from the bird poops and I think I also saw a small geese floating lifeless in the pond. This pond wasn't that beautiful than I thought it would be. On with the filming. The pond was still reflecting the blue sky on the cam and we'll just pan it away from the nasty stuff.

After capturing the still, my cousin suggested right away that we do a weird video about pretending this pond is actually my fishpond. They wanted me to make a parody or spoof video. Just like that. I meant as quick as a snap of a finger. I thought that they were just kidding, even though the idea itself was a joke. But in short, we did it. At first I told them not to post it on my FB, because I seriously thought that it was silly and I don't want to turn off my girlfriend (haha). I'm weird enough to start with. And to remove all doubt from this video would be fatal.

We left the ground at 6:30pm, but we stopped over at Supreme's first to get bubble tea and two shakes. I insisted. I was in the mood. And then we drove to the despedida. My dad and my sister were there and also the rest of my close relatives. We ate, and then we walked to the nearby playground / basketball court. I think the last time we went to that same court was 6 years ago. Much memories. So nostalgia. Very missing. The same three of us along with my sister, and my cousin's husband, just shot the basketball around. We can't really play, because we just had dinner. Past 9:30pm, we went back. Then we went home.

I got nappy afterwards. I thought I was forgetting something.

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Lord, I don't know if I am over my head reaching the point where I am now. I don't have much, I'm weak and I'm poor, but I'll love her with all I got. You know that I have this fear of disappointing other people. I know that there will be a point of struggle in the future and I'm scared. This is what the devil tells me, but with You in my life, and from what You've shown me, I know that I just have to press on and follow Your lead. She doesn't know that I cry, because I'm so happy. It's just that until now, I can't believe that she's my girlfriend. It's still a long journey ahead of us, I love her more than ever, but I haven't even begun. When we'll see each other on that day, I'm a bit afraid. That fear is creeping in my head. I've got all sorts of worries in my head, but I'm not going to leave her. I will court her again if I have to. She holds my heart and I want her to be by my side. I'll bring her family if I have to. All sorts of concerns and thoughts are popping in my head. A lot of what-ifs. I don't want to ruin anything and that's what's scaring me. But I have to be strong.

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I posted the pics from yesterday. While surfing FB, I noticed that my girlfriend changed her profile pic. Nothing big about it. I just thought that I like her older profile pic better, but I still like her new one. As for making changes in FB, I changed my cover pic instead, because I think I don't have a better profile pic worthy enough to top my current one.

Just moments after the upload, my girlfriend commented that she loves it (joking that it made her fall out of her seat). I know it's not a big deal for other people, but it's kind of a big deal for me, because what she said gave me self-confidence. I'm not particularly good looking and here I am going out with this gorgeous and beautiful person. I couldn't help smile at the monitor reading her message.

Also, I found out from there that she said she wasn't feeling well. I asked her what's wrong, and she said that she's feeling under the weather with a cough, mucus and achy muscle joints. Sounds like the flu. I think she's caught it from the office, since she remarked that there were people who seemed sick when she was at work. Anyway, I prayed for her afterwards.

She also got a bit worried about some post on our group chat (along with another couple) on FB. But I told her that it's not really a big deal for me. I meant that it's nothing for her to be worried about. Her friend also asked me if the post bothered me, but I told her that it didn't. I also wasn't sure if what post they're referring to. I had an idea, but I wasn't sure. Still, I told both of them that I wasn't bothered at all. I didn't really pay much attention to it.

Everyone has their past. It kinda' sounds cruel to laugh about a person's past. It's true that I'm fine and not bothered by it, but if a person is bothered by it that he / she would cry about it, then we should comfort each other. Like I said, I'm willing to give my shoulder if she wants to cry. And I'll cry with her too. I can't blame them if she got worried about it and if she acted cautious. I'm flattered actually. It meant that she wanted to be extremely careful when it comes to me and she didn't want to trouble me with any unpleasant thoughts. She cares. And why would I be unhappy with that?

What else happened on this fine Tuesday? I'll tell you what didn't happen. My second Lootcrate didn't arrive. Sigh. What happened?

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Everybody's still up until now. It's already 2am and I can still feel the everyone's energy at home. That's because it's a holiday, August's civic holiday. I decided to videochat with my girlfriend. She was wondering why I was still up this late. Actually she always wonders. Well, today's not that different, but I told her that we're staying up because of the holiday. We talked about random stuff again until it's 4am and I decided to go to sleep.

We're still up talking about the new life event. We've announced to our friends in Facebook boyfriends and girlfriends with our relationship change. However, she wrote the date as July 1, not August 3. But the truth is I asked her out on her birthday, July 14. That's a lot of dates, eh? Anyway, it felt like we've rocked our friends with such news.

Since it's a holiday and I slept late, I didn't get up right away. I got up when my cousin texted me and asked me what we're going to do tonight. I told him that we're going to capture nature scene. We left the house at 6pm and went to the riverside first. We filmed the Red River, and then the Esplanade Bridge. I called my brother and asked him if he wanted to join the photoshoot, but he said that he'll think about it. I think they're resting from their Vancouver trip.

We drove to Kildonan Park next. We reached there at 7am and did some photoshoot and filmed still-scenes on the flowerbeds. I called my brother again if he's interested and he said maybe next time. The park wasn't really crowded, but we had a hard time shooting without the cars passing by.

We weren't finished yet and then we drove to the Assiniboine Park afterwards. We reached Assiniboine around 8pm and there was still daylight. After going to the washroom first, we filmed another shot of the river and a crowd over the bridge. Then we took different photos of flowers in the park garden. The daylight was fading and we called it a wrap.

Picked up auntie from work, but I told them that I was hungry. I asked my other cousin M if he wanted to eat out, and he said yes. Well, since they're with me, and they were looking at me, I said it was my treat. I said I'll treat them with congee. But it turned out that it was a different congee treat that I agreed on. I ordered Sea Food fried rice, Chicken Congee, Shrimp with Spicy Salts, and Sea Food noodles. We didn't go home just yet, as I was craving for Iced Cappuccino afterwards and so we drove to Tim's late night.

On our way home, my cousin S called and she was asking if we're up for outing, a roadtrip per se. She said she wanted to go to Rushing River. Little did she know that she was on speakerphone and that she didn't know that all three of us we're listening in. My cousin K confirmed that it was more than a 200km drive there. My cousin S said that she really wants to go this weekend. I said okay out loud and she got surprised; well she was talking to my cousin K and they're close to each other and so she spoke differently with her own lingo. I asked how much gas money do we need and she said $50. I just told them that we'd think about it. I don't know what'll happen. But $50 isn't much for me considering you have 200+ km worth of sight seeing plus the roadtrip experience plus the sight you'll see on your destination.

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What would stuck on me for today? August 3, 2014, well it was the day when my girlfriend and I discussed changing our relationship status in FB. It's a simple idea, but a commemorative one for me. That's how I perceived it to be a special day. Even though it's not stated on our FB, I'm in a relationship with her. But she asked me if we could change our relationship status, and I thought immediately, -- Finally! My heart lit up early Sunday, and man it's such an inspiring moment.

We both know that we're in a relationship now. But I didn't know that it would bring sheer joy to me now that she asked me if it's okay to change our relationship status in Facebook. See, I was still a bit embarrassed to ask her we change our relationship status. For me, at least just for me, since I was the person courting her and the person that asked her out, I thought it would seem demanding that I ask her to change our relationship status. But as usual, God was ahead and made her notice that we change our relationship status altogether. When we changed it, our old high school friends, our co-workers, my high school classmates here, my university classmates, and relatives were shaken with joy by the news. Enter #Jenielle. My brother prefers #Jednielle, but whatever.

It was a long Sunday afternoon for me at the church. After the service, we were assigned to cleanup the church anyway. Church service ended past 1pm and then there was the monthly meeting. In addition to the lunch and then the cleanup, we had to stay over until 4:30pm. The four of us, my dad, mom, my sister and I, didn't go just yet as we decided to chill with our Pastor and his family about to talk about some things. You know, I had a flashback right there. I remembered a similar incident where we had to stay with my old Pastor and his family after the PW practice and chat about different issues.

We left past 5pm and the funny thing is there's a scheduled Bible study at 6pm. So they folks that had already come home and attending the Bible study would be catching us still in the church if we haven't left. Before going home, we stopped over for halo-halo. It was hot and I was craving too. My mom and dad asked me different things about my trip home, but they still didn't know about my new life event in FB and the whole relationship status. I wondered if it would be a big deal for them. I told my sister to keep it secret. At the back of my head, I'm pretty sure that our friends are liking and commenting like crazy. So anyway, we ordered out because I wanted to go home.

I came home around 5:25pm. I lingered around, but it's normal for me to feel drowsy every Sunday. I took a nap. When I woke up later this evening, I tried to write stuff, but I couldn't. Perhaps I was too lazy. However, my smile's from ear to ear just reading the comments on my Facebook about my new life event.

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I woke up past 1pm and I heard my mom and dad leaving. I thought that I guess today's a different occasion in church. I was wondering why they didn't give me a heads up to today's practice. It turns out that it was a barbecue afternoon. They came home past 6pm. Do they always practice this.

It's the second Saturday where I don't work. I'm loving it. I want to get used to it. But believe it or not, I'm not used to it. I'm still thinking that perhaps I'm forgetting something and I can't enjoy the day to the fullest. Like I'm thinking there's a catch to it and something would happen later. But the truth is I'm just paranoid. But I tell myself to just shut up and enjoy the day.

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August already, huh?

I thought that today would be a difficult day at work. I swear that bus driver always stops at KFC and I don't know why. Last Friday he did as well, and I think it's the same driver. Today, he stopped by at KFC while I was rushing to be on time at 4pm in the office. I thought I was going to get late on my last shift before my vacation, but I just kept the faith. I always pray before leaving for work. Perhaps God wanted me to do some cardio. So I ran for it after I got off on my stop and I made it in time with 3 minutes to spare. The first four hours was straightforward enough, but the last three hours were a bit different. I also thought I would be going home early, but I left after 10:30pm.

I called my dad to check if he could pick me up. To my surprise, he said that he needed to pick up mom and my little sister. I didn't know that everybody was working today! I looked at the clock and it was about 10:40pm. I told him that I'd call back to see if I could run for the late bus. I put my backpack on quick and rushed out of the building. Then I saw the bus just driving by from the distance as I ran through the parking lot as the shortcut. If I haven't talked to my dad for a minute, I would've caught it! I was catching my breath when I called dad back and said that I didn't make it. I told him I would just walk through the street to meet up with him.

It was already 10:50pm and we were on our way to pick up mom. Both my sister and my mom leaves work at 11pm. And I just shook my head when dad said that ate C was at home with her girl and she can't leave her girl for work. I was thinking we're going to wing it. We picked up mom past 11pm and we had to drive on the other side of downtown all the way to Henderson to pick my sister. I recall that ate C goes to work around 11:15pm and again she can't just leave her little one in our house. My sister was supposed to look after her, but now that she's working part-time too, I guess there will be more changes to discuss. I called my sister on her cellphone to make ready so that we could just zoom home and let ate C go to work. It felt like an amazing race on wheels. There was this feeling that since we made it all in one piece, we wanted to go home and let ate C go to work without any problem. Bring home the bacon!

We arrived home at 11:25pm and ate C said that there wasn't any problem at all. Again, if I didn't call my dad at all, and remembered that there is still that bus towards home after 10:40pm, I could've gone home already. But enough about that, it's vacation time and I'm just going to laze for a while. *puts feet up and drinks a cold Pepsi*

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