365 Days of Frances Nicole

Day 25. SHABU-SHABU.

I skipped one day. :| Oh well. :))

So I had an extremely looooong day. I woke up at like 6am, took a bath, ate breakfast with baby and went to church around 7:30 for last practice before the service. After two services, I had vocal training and bonding with the music team. :) FUN FUN FUN! :)

Around 4pm, my family and I went to Makati to meet our family friend, Mr. Horii. We had Starbucks at Greenbelt 3. Just 5 more holiday beverage stickers and I’m getting my planner! :) After that, we had dinner at Thousand Cranes, a Shabu-Shabu resto. It was first tiiiime! And I had so much fun cooking and all that that it is definitely the highlight of my day. I got a stomach ache afterwards, though. Haha. :)

Later, we went to Powerbooks and I got three new books! I’m definitely getting back to reading this sem. I got one design book which turned out to be an interior design book! I thought it was a contemporary art one. XD). I also decided to join the bandwagon and bought Hunger Games and my mom got Eat Pray Love so I’ll get to read that, too. :)

Anyway, the photos are some snapshots from just today. Can you imagine how much photos I take everyday ever since I started this project? :))

Day 24. LOLO DAD’S.

I spent all morning sleeping because of the all-nighter I pulled at the Pages’! Haha. After lunch, Yan went to LB, picked me up from the apt and we traveled back to Manila. I went to Greenbelt and met up with our Japanese family friend, Mr. Horii (he’s almost like a grandpa to us). :)

Later, I met mom at Tita Marj’s party and there, I got to bond with two girls I missed a lot — my cousins, Dani and Julia. :) I had so much fun catching up with them and talking about their plans for school and stuff. :) <3 I just realized how they’re all grown up naaa. And Juy, let’s bond over guitar next time, k. ;)

Day 23. SLUMBER PARTY.

I spent the daytime eating with Hydra and Aix. :)) We had lunch at KFC with Aix’s baon food from Pao’s mom and bonded over froyo at Chillet. Later we had our first HFDS121 (Human Sexuality) class and it was awesome. ;) Hydra and I also had another cup of froyo at S.U. some time after class. Haha.

So I had dinner with Nini, Tim, Ina, Guia, Ariana, Katrina, Nowie and Earl (all good friends from church) at Submarine (LB Square). Later, we decided to sleep over at Guia’s but we ended up staying at the Pages’. :)

Pictures are from the photo session with Guia, Ina, Ariana, me and Katrina (L-R topmost photo). :) We had a great time laughing our asses off over the smallest things like Ariana’s tiknik, Tren’s shorcut and Guia’s eb. :)))) 

After much, much, much delay, we finally watched 3 Idiots (the movie Guia recommended that we see). It was 2 hours and 44 mintues long! And we enjoyed every bit of it (MUST SEE!). Only Tren and I were able to finish it though. And right now, I’m the only one still up typing this. :))

Thank you for tonight, you guys. I had so much fun! :) I hope next time we can do this with Nini, Tim, Jishi, Jenra, and Rox, too. :)

Day 22. GOING AWAY HANGOUT FOR TEMON.

Today, one of my closest friends, Monica (who I call Temon) went to LB today! She recently graduated and is going to the States next week so this is the last chance the gang will get to be with her ‘til she gets back in December. :)

After a lot of persuading, she finally decided to stay in LB for the night! The two of us hanged out at kuya Ivan’s place for a while with mommy Kate. The four of then decided to have dinner at Bonito’s where Hydra caught up with us. After that, we had fray at Chillet where Joyce caught up with us. :))

All of us later went to my apartment and bonded over Scott Pilgrim, funny video clips and iMovie ‘11 (I love my geeky friends). :)) Temon and I also rewatched Mean Girls for the nth time and went gaga over Aaron Samuels. <3

Super fun night! Have an awesome and safe trip, Temon. Love love. :)

Day 21. STREET FOOD.

Anywaaay. I spent the day on short class meetings and vacant periods with some of the the Ninjas (Hydra, Sosep, Aix and Joyce). But most of those vacants, I hanged out with Ninya (pictured), my housemate and superfriend here in LB. :) I even sat in her Math11 recitation class with Podi. Who does that?! Haha.

At around 3pm, Nini and I went to the provenan area along Raymundo to have, duh, proven but there wasn’t any. :( So we just decided to have some isaw instead. I had 9 so I probably won’t be eating that in a while. :))

Thanks for today, Niniboooold! :)

Day 20. SM CALAMBA.

Today is yet another cheat day. Haha.

I spent the morning sleeping and a few hours of the afternoon doing typical reg stuff.

Later that day, I tagged along with Hydra and Jutt to SM Calamba. There Hydra and I bought some school stuff, toiletries and a lot of cute (and unnecessary!) things. :)) After a while, we met up with Dianne and her boyfriend AJ. We had all dinner tgogether at Kenny Rogers and coffee at Sbux. :)

It was indeed a good time with friends. :D

Day 19. SPAM AND EGGS.

Nope, my family and I did not have those for breakfast.. But for an almost midnight snack. :)) And I really do not wonder now why I’m not getting any slimmer.

My brother, Justin, got hungry around 10pm and suddenly we were all hungry. So we fried some Spam, eggs and the rice leftover from dinner and voila, everybody was full. :D

Pictured are my brother, my mom (who thought I was taking a picture of her when in fact I was taking a picture of the food, and laughed over it) and my baby sister, Sam. :)

Gah. I’m going to miss nights like this with my family now that I’m going back to LB in the morning. :(

Day 18. HELLO BABY.

After a more than a month, I finally saw my love — JC (or Yan as my LB friends know him). We met each other with a really tight and long huuuuug. I missed him. And I missed him a lot. We talked about what has been happening in each other’s lives and then saw “You Again” and it was one hell of a laugh! Definitely worth the watch. :) We got into a bit of a fight, though. But we talked it through before we separated. :)

I also bumped into some LB friends at the mall (Jenra, Ina, Tal, Alex and Edi) and then I had dinner out with my family. :)

Day 17. DARE YOU TO MOVE.

Tonight, we put last night’s and this afternoon’s practices to action during the Youth Service. :) We performed Dare You To Move by Switchfoot for the special number, btw. I really had a great time of worship and bonding with my spiritual family. :) This is probably the last time this semester that I’ll get to play for the youth team so I really made the most out of it.

I had dinner with Kariz, Aubrey and Mark again at KFC again. Yes, two agains. :))

Pictured are Adrian, Jervies, Mark, me, Kariza and Aubrey. Photo credit and editing goes to Lyka! Thank you. :)

Day 16. YOUTH MINISTRY.

We had band practice today for the resume of the Youth Service tomorrow. Supposedly, I was going do just back-up vocals and then Nate, our guitarist, went on a birthday leave (HAHA) and bespren Mark, our worship leader, made me play the acoustic guitar! :> I had to learn how to play the songs on the spot but I was more than happy to do so. Hehe. Practice ended with me doing a solo concert. Hahaha. And then Bis, our bassist, and I threw knock knock jokes. ;)

Pictured are Mark, Aubrey (keyboardist), Kariza (my buddy singer) and myself while having dinner at the nearby KFC. :)

Thanks for a great night of music and bloopers, you guys. :)