What I miss…

I miss the tiangges. The really cheap clothes, accessories and bags. Things are so expensive here.

I miss shopping for clothes that actually fit me. I have to shop at the juniors section to buy clothes. Not only that, I have to find sizes 0-2 (Yes, at the Juniors section) . There are some ladies clothes that fit me, but it’s difficult to find them. So once I see something I like that fits me, I don’t get second thoughts. No matter how expensive they are.

I miss Burgoo Cheesecake. Lately I’ve been making cheesecakes at home, but they’re really nothing compared to Burgoo’s. Even if my officemates tell me that they’re amazing.

I miss the constantly warm weather. It’s really cold here right now. Cold weather is fine, I can manage (Plus, I have a great excuse to buy more jackets). What I don’t like about the weather here is that we have 70F today and 30F the next. As they say, “You don’t like the weather in Texas? Just wait. It will change.”

I miss my independence. I stay here at home with my parents. Suddenly you have to tell them your every move again. You have to tell them what time you’ll come home, where you’re going and with whom. Suddenly they control (I’d like to call it ‘highly encouraging/discouraging‘) what you buy and what you don’t buy. Suddenly you see them in and out of your room. If you lock the door and they want to come in, but you say “Why?” before opening the door, they’ll get angry for not letting them in first. Suddenly you notice that someone ‘checked‘ your purse (What it there to check?). Ohhh… I can go on and on about this.

I miss going out. Weekends are boring. Sometimes I go to the mall and go buy things I don’t need. Other than that, most of the time I just stay at home and watch tv.

I miss DoTA. Game, game, game!

I miss my friends. People whom I can play DoTA with. People whom I can go out with. People whom I can actually talk to. Here, other than work friends, I don’t really know anyone.

And of course, I miss my Ozzie beaw. I miss going to tiangge’s with him. I miss what he does (making a tapa-oho) when I see another distraction (i.e. tiangge). I miss eating Burgoo cheesecake with him. I miss that even in the warm weather, Ozzie and I will still shnuggle up. I miss that Ozzie and I are always together. No need to tell him where I am, what time I’ll go home and with whom. Because most of the time, I’m with him. I miss ‘consulting‘ him what to buy (actually I base 50% of my decisions on his). I miss being with him in our apartment. Ozzie, Joee and I just hanging around. I miss weekends with him. Sometimes there’s nothing much. Just a lazy Saturday/Sunday. We just go to the mall, watch some movie and eat outside. Other weekends plan on a trip somewhere. Other weekends we go crazy and go on road trips. I miss playing DoTA with him! It wouldn’t be the ‘lightning osos‘ if there were only one of us, wouldn’t it? I miss going out with Ozzie and our friends too. I miss talking to him. I miss arguing with him. I miss making pa-cute. I miss him being so pa-cute. I miss the shnuggles. I just miss everything about him.

Gobble Gobble <:>~

(Cmon! Use your imagination. That’s supposed to be a turkey emoticon, not just some random keys I pressed)

Today was the company’s pot luck feast. Boy, was it yummy. There were lots of food cooked by my officemates. Turkey and ham was provided by the office. I brought chicken menudo, cheesecake and pili tarts. The menudo and cheesecake were such great hits. I’ve had officemates who really got addicted to the menudo (they called it chicken soup). They were literally eating it the whole day. I got compliments the whole day. I got several emails telling me how good it was. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depends on how you look at it), I didn’t cook the menudo. My dad did. He’s such a great cook. To be completely honest, my dad cooks better than my Mom. Don’t get me wrong, though. I love my Mom’s cooking. I just find my dad’s cooking better.

I’m not sure if my officemates were just being polite about the cheesecake. To describe it in my officemate’s words, “It was amazing!”. I told him I personally didn’t like it. Hahahaha. I cooked it the other day (Wednesday, pot luck was Friday) and the cheesecake seemed to be a bit too soft. I should have sticked with the Cooking for Engineers recipe. Although it’s still not the Burgoo recipe. Ohhhh… I wish I had the recipe for that cheesecake. Although I can’t really tell if it’s just the raspberry sauce that’s making the cheesecake so yummy. I remember I ate it without the sauce and I didn’t like it as much.

After lunch everybody was sooo full. I wasn’t able to work the whole afternoon since I was so full and sleepy. I’m sure my officemates were, too.