Things That I Miss

• Hanging out with the Pilak Girls
• Road runs
• The 20 minute bus ride to PMA where from the window, all you can see are rows and rows of pine trees
• Looking at mountains abloom with sunflowers, a.k.a. marapait
• The mildewy smell of our house in Baguio
• Studying my ass off for an exam
• The local inihaw na mais – not those Japanese ones
• Fog
• Binatog with evaporated milk and sugar
• Intellectual orgies with my classmates
• Wearing turtlenecks, mufflers and bonnets
• Fixing my sister’s hair before she goes to school
• Traditional, handwritten love letters
• My grandmother's cooking
• Attending the numerous parties (a.k.a. fiesta) at Jen’s place where even the barangay’s basketball court couldn’t accommodate all the guests
• Sans rival
• Going through my mother’s books to find a good read
• Reading real newspapers, not the online version
• Going to the movies
• Singing in the choir
• Benguet coffee, brewed
• Chicken mami loaded with paminta and paired with siopao at Sunshine Lunch
• The Panagpagna Festival