got this from stacey's site, hope she doesnt mind =)
ARE Y0U REALLY FiLiPiN0? =). bold = yes. italicize = sumtimes//kinda
1. You point with your lips 2. You eat using hands--and have it down to a technique. 3. Your other piece of luggage is a Balikbayan box. 4. You always have at least three other people taking you to the airport. 5. You're standing next to eight big boxes at the airport.
6. You nod upwards to greet someone. 7. You put your foot up on your chair and rest your elbow on your knee while eating.
8. You can cut your toenails with a pair of scissors. 9. You use a rock to scrub yourself in the shower 10 .You have to kiss your relative on the cheek as soon as you enter the room. 11. You have to make mano or put the back of the hand of the elder people to your forehead as a sign of respect. 12. You collect items from hotels or restaurants "for souvenir."
13. You smile for no reason. 14. You flirt by having a foolish grin in your face while raising your eyebrows repeatedly. 15. You go to a department store and try to bargain the prices. 16. You use an umbrella for shade on a hot summer days. 17. You scratch your head when you don't know the answer. 18. You never eat the last morsel of food on the table. 19. You like bowling. 20. You know how to play pusoy and mah-jong. (i used to...) 21. You find dried up morsels of rice stuck on your shirt.
22. You turn your plate around when someone leaves the table so that person does not get into an accident. 23. You prefer to sit in the shade instead of basking in the sun. 24. You add an unwarranted "H" to your name, i.e. "Jhun," "Bhoy," "Rhon." 25. You have a nickname or know grown people with nicknames such as "Poochie," "Butch," "Peachie" "Chuchi" or any other seemingly incongruous name. 26. You put your hands together in front of you as if to make a path and say "Excuse, excuse" when you pass between people or in front of the TV. 27. Your middle name is your mother's maiden name. 28. You like everything imported or "state-side." 29. You check the labels on clothes to see what label it is and/or where it was made before buying it. 30. You hang your clothes out to dry.
31. You are perfectly comfortable in a squatting position with your elbows resting on your knees. 32. You consistently arrive 30 minutes late for all events. 33. You always offer food to all your visitors. 34. You always insist that your visitors get second helpings or more of food even if they're already stuffed x__V0CABULARY 35. You pronounce F's like P's and P's like F's. 36. You say "comfort room" instead of "bathroom." 37. You say "for take out" instead of "to go." 38. You "open" or "close" the light.
39. You ask for "Colgate" instead of "toothpaste." 40. You ask for a "Pentel-pen" or a "ball-pen" instead of just "pen."
41. You refer to the refrigerator as the "ref" or "pridyider."
43. You pronounce the word ALREADY as OLREYDI. 44. You say "Kodakan" instead of take a picture. 45. You order a McDonald's instead of "hamburger" (pronounced ham-boor-jer) 46. You say "Ha?" instead of "What." 47. You say "Hoy" to get someone's attention. 48. You answer when someone yells "Hoy." 49. You turn around when someone says "Psst!" 50. You say "Cutex" instead of "nail polish." 51. You say "cottonbuds" instead of "cotton swabs." 51. You say "he" when you mean "she" and vice versa. 52. You say "aray" instead of "ouch." 53. Your sneeze sounds like "ahh-ching" instead of "ahh-choo." 54. You prefer to make acronyms for phrases such as "OA" for overacting, or "TNT" for, well, you know. 55. You say "air con" instead of "a/c" or air conditioner. 56. You say "brown-out" instead of "black-out." x__H0ME FURNiSHiNGS: 57. You use a "walis ting-ting" or "walis tambo" as opposed to a conventional broom. 58. You have a "Weapons of Moroland" shield hanging in the living room wall. 59. You have a portrait of "The Last Supper" hanging in your dining room. 60. You own a Karaoke System. 61. You own a piano that no one ever plays. (someone plays it)
62. You have a tabo in the bathroom 63. Your house has too many burloloys. 64. You have two to three pairs of tsinelas at your doorstep. 65. Your house has an ornate wrought iron gate in front of it. 66. You have a rose garden. (uhh. . juss roses, not really a garden) 67. You have a shrine of the Santo Ninyo in your living room. 68. You own a "barrel man" or a "barrel woman" (you pull up the barrel and you see the wooden figure with his/her huge assets).
69. You cover your living room furniture with bedsheets.
70. Your lamp shades still have the plastic covers on them. 71. You have plastic runners to cover the carpets in your house. 72. You refer to your VCR as a "beytamax." 73. You have a rice dispenser. 74. You own a turbo broiler. 75. You own one of those fiber optic flower lamps. (what's that?) 76. You own a lamp with the oil that drips down the strings. 77. You have a giant wooden fork and spoon hanging somewhere in the dining room. 78. You have wooden tinikling dancers on the wall. 79. You own capiz shell chandeliers, lamps, or placemats. x__AUT0M0BiLES: 80. You own a Mercedes Benz and you call it "chedeng." 81. You own a huge van conversion. 82. Your car chirps like a bird or plays a tune when it is in reverse. 83. Your car horn can make 2 or 3 different sounds. 84. Your car has curb feelers or curb detectors. 85. Your car has too many "burloloys" like jeepneys back in P.I. 86. You hang a Rosary on your car's rear view mirror. 87. You have an air freshener in your car.
88. You like to have tinted windows in all your cars.
x__FAMiLY: 89. You have aunts and uncles named "Baby," "Girlie," or "Boy." 90. You were raised to believe that every Filipino is an aunt, uncle or cousin. 91. Your Dad was in the Navy. 92. You have a family member or relative that works in the Post Office. 93. Your mom or sister or wife is a nurse. 94. Your parents call each other "mommy" and "daddy," or "ma" and "pa." 95. You have family member that has a nickname that repeats itself, i.e."Bong-Bong," "But-But," "Deng-Deng," "Ling Ling," or "Bing Bing," etc.
x__F00D: 96. You put hot dogs or vienna sausages in your spaghetti. 97. You consider dilis the Filipino equivalent to french fries. 98. You think that eating chocolate rice pudding and dried fish is a great morning meal. (haven't tried it) 99. You eat kanin and ulam using your hand. 100. You order things like tapsilog, tocilog, or longsilog at restaurants. 101. You distinctively grab a toothpick after a meal. 102. You order a "soft drink" instead of a "soda." 103. You dip bread in your morning coffee. (used to. . .) 104. You refer to seasonings and all other forms of monosodium glutamate as "Ajinomoto" 105. Your Cupboards are full of Spam, Vienna Sausage, Ligo, and Corned Beef, which you refer to as Karne Norte or "salmon baka." 106. "Goldilocks" means more to you than just a character in a fairytale. It can also mean eating foods you love but at prices you consider to be a rip-off. 107. You appreciate a fresh pot of rice. 108. You bring your "baon" most of the time to work. 109. Your "baon" is usually something over rice. 110. Your co-workers complain about your baon when you microwave or "nuke" it. 110. Your neighbors complain about the smell of tuyo on Sunday mornings. 112. You eat rice for breakfast. 113. You use your fingers to measure the water when cooking rice. 114. You wash and re-use disposable plastic utensils and Styrofoam cups. 115. You have a supply of frozen lumpia in the refrigerator. 116. You have an ice shaver for making halo-halo. 117. You eat purple yam flavored ice cream. (ube?)
118. You gotta have a bottle of Jufran or Mafran handy. 119. You fry spam or hot dogs and eat them with rice. 120. You think that half-hatched duck eggs or balut can "strengthen the knees" (pangpalakas ng tuhod) as the embryonic eggs are aphrodisiacs and you consider balut to be a delicacy. 121. You know that "chocolate meat" is not really made with chocolate.
LOL, i guess i really am ONE  |