She had an interesting Thanksgiving.
Finals are coming around the corner, and things are getting difficult. Just to think, by next week's Thursday, I'll be back home again. And that also means I would have finished all final projects and finals. ...ugh.
So let's see... this entry is going to be about what I did during Thanksgiving weekend.
My Thanksgiving this year was different from my other Thanksgivings because my aunt and her two children (both who have graduated university and have jobs) weren't coming this year. They were the ones that normally brought western style dishes like cranberry sauce (which doesn't look like sauce...), help cook the turkey, mashed potatoes... things like that. Sometimes my sister would help make the mashed potatoes.
My aunt this year is in New York. My cousin Lucy lives in near Sacramento, and my cousin Johnny lives in San Diego. They both had something else to go to. But this year is also different in the sense that Ron was here. Ron usually comes home with me during Thanksgiving break and he visits his uncle in Hayward.
This year, he stayed with us. We had my mom cook all of the food, and Ron made dessert. Because my aunt and cousins weren't here, we had no western dishes. My mom didn't know how to make them, and my sister wasn't home until after work. Our dishes included fried rice, pork and beef slices (dim-sum like), a soup with daikon (I forgot what it's called), and a dish with fish, snow pea, broccoli, shrimp. Okay, well, we had some other dishes I can't remember, but it was all Asian stuff. And then, we had our turkey. Mom didn't have time to prepare it, so we bought it from Lion Supermarket. The way the turkey was cooked was similar to how we cook duck, so it was a really Asian turkey!
The food were good. We had Ron's dessert afterward. It was made from rice flour, and other things... can't remember right now. But it tasted good. Hard to explain, but let's just leave it at that.
After that, my sister asked me to go to what most retail working people know as "Black Friday"... it's the day after Thanksgiving sales, and tons and tons of people wake up at the break of dawn and wait in line. Her boyfriend wanted to go, and so she wanted to go, and then I figured, well, I've never done it before and I haven't seen my sister since moving back to school (and she moved out of the house again) so I might as well. I dragged Ron with me. This was my first time.
I have never seen so many people up so early! Being up early was interesting... there wasn't as many people as I thought there were. We first headed to Valley Fair, where I got two articles of clothing at Macy's, at EB 3 games (Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Orphen, and one I'm not saying) and SOULCALIBUR III special edition BradyGames strategy guide (pretty pictures and soundtrack!? SOUNDTRACK!?!? :D!)... and a memory card for Ron, a few items from Sanrio, and finally... a hat and two thin turtleneck sweaters from GAP. The rest of my time waiting for my sister was spent visiting the Apple store. The new iPod is pretty cool that it can play movies and such, but I could only imagine how distracting it might be for some people. And the nano is really small. I don't think I'll ever buy an iPod for myself.
Afterward, they drove to DSW... that shoe place. I didn't want to go in, and neither did Ron, so we both took a nice nap in the car. The hour they spent at DSW, I was thinking that the stuff I wanted to get at Fry's were already gone.
And by the time we got to Fry's Electronics (it was 2PM? Noon? I don't remember.) the 10-cup 10-dollar rice cooker was gone, the 8-dollar 256MB USB flash drive was gone, and the 10-dollar Bluetooth headset was gone. But I did manage to pick up the scanner that I wanted! It was the last one of its kind and the other one was refurbished. I'll try it out when I get home in two weeks.
Overall, I had an interesting weekend. It was tiring, though.
I am sure that I left my backpack at the studio yesterday. When I went there today, there was a class. So I might go back later just to see if it's there... sigh... I'm so absent-minded.
So let's see... this entry is going to be about what I did during Thanksgiving weekend.
My Thanksgiving this year was different from my other Thanksgivings because my aunt and her two children (both who have graduated university and have jobs) weren't coming this year. They were the ones that normally brought western style dishes like cranberry sauce (which doesn't look like sauce...), help cook the turkey, mashed potatoes... things like that. Sometimes my sister would help make the mashed potatoes.
My aunt this year is in New York. My cousin Lucy lives in near Sacramento, and my cousin Johnny lives in San Diego. They both had something else to go to. But this year is also different in the sense that Ron was here. Ron usually comes home with me during Thanksgiving break and he visits his uncle in Hayward.
This year, he stayed with us. We had my mom cook all of the food, and Ron made dessert. Because my aunt and cousins weren't here, we had no western dishes. My mom didn't know how to make them, and my sister wasn't home until after work. Our dishes included fried rice, pork and beef slices (dim-sum like), a soup with daikon (I forgot what it's called), and a dish with fish, snow pea, broccoli, shrimp. Okay, well, we had some other dishes I can't remember, but it was all Asian stuff. And then, we had our turkey. Mom didn't have time to prepare it, so we bought it from Lion Supermarket. The way the turkey was cooked was similar to how we cook duck, so it was a really Asian turkey!
The food were good. We had Ron's dessert afterward. It was made from rice flour, and other things... can't remember right now. But it tasted good. Hard to explain, but let's just leave it at that.
After that, my sister asked me to go to what most retail working people know as "Black Friday"... it's the day after Thanksgiving sales, and tons and tons of people wake up at the break of dawn and wait in line. Her boyfriend wanted to go, and so she wanted to go, and then I figured, well, I've never done it before and I haven't seen my sister since moving back to school (and she moved out of the house again) so I might as well. I dragged Ron with me. This was my first time.
I have never seen so many people up so early! Being up early was interesting... there wasn't as many people as I thought there were. We first headed to Valley Fair, where I got two articles of clothing at Macy's, at EB 3 games (Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Orphen, and one I'm not saying) and SOULCALIBUR III special edition BradyGames strategy guide (pretty pictures and soundtrack!? SOUNDTRACK!?!? :D!)... and a memory card for Ron, a few items from Sanrio, and finally... a hat and two thin turtleneck sweaters from GAP. The rest of my time waiting for my sister was spent visiting the Apple store. The new iPod is pretty cool that it can play movies and such, but I could only imagine how distracting it might be for some people. And the nano is really small. I don't think I'll ever buy an iPod for myself.
Afterward, they drove to DSW... that shoe place. I didn't want to go in, and neither did Ron, so we both took a nice nap in the car. The hour they spent at DSW, I was thinking that the stuff I wanted to get at Fry's were already gone.
And by the time we got to Fry's Electronics (it was 2PM? Noon? I don't remember.) the 10-cup 10-dollar rice cooker was gone, the 8-dollar 256MB USB flash drive was gone, and the 10-dollar Bluetooth headset was gone. But I did manage to pick up the scanner that I wanted! It was the last one of its kind and the other one was refurbished. I'll try it out when I get home in two weeks.
Overall, I had an interesting weekend. It was tiring, though.
I am sure that I left my backpack at the studio yesterday. When I went there today, there was a class. So I might go back later just to see if it's there... sigh... I'm so absent-minded.