You know you're Filipino if...

[LeonInverse]

I saw that topic about Chinese and I thought I'd make one for Filipinos too ^^
Try posting how many traits you have, even if you're not Filipino!

If any of the following sounds familiar to you, then you're probably Filipino. Admit it, some halo-halo sounds pretty good right about now.

• You answer to "Pssst!!"
• You point with your lips.
• You have relatives whose nicknames consist of repeated syllables like Ling-Ling, Bong-Bong, or Che-Che.
• You have uncles and aunts named Boy, Girlie or Baby.
• In your dining room there's a picture of "Last Supper" - and on either side of it are a giant wooden spoon and fork.
• The furniture in your house is wrapped in plastic or covered in blankets.
• You use shopping bags as garbage bags.
• You have a piano no one plays.
• You keep a tabo in your bathroom.
• You own a barrel man from Baguio.
• You can't resist buying items on sale even if you don't need them.
• You eat with your hands.
• and you cut your meat with a spoon and fork.
• You know a meal isn't a meal unless there's rice.
• There's Spam, Vienna sausage and corned beef in your pantry.
• You eat or have eaten fried spam and eggs with rice for breakfast.
• Whenever friends come over, they ask for "meat rolls" and you know they mean lumpia.
• You greet your elders by touching their hands to your forehead.
• You always kiss your relatives on the cheek whenever you enter or leave the room.
• Your relatives sing karaoke when they come over.
• A party isn't a party unless there's line dancing (who doesn't love the Todo Todo, Chilly Cha Cha and September???)
• You don't get grossed out by balut.
• Your mom puts sugar and hot dogs in her spaghetti.
• Your Lola taught you to gargle with warm salt and ginger water when you have a sore throat.
• You always take your shoes off when you enter a house.
• You know what the "chocolate sauce" in dinuguan is actually made of
• The tissues in your bathroom came from Holiday Inn.
• You "open" and "close" the lights.
• Your friends know what it means to be on Filipino Time.
• You think Christmas season begins in October and ends in January.
• Your second piece of luggage is a balikbayan box.
• You've mastered the art of packing a suitcase to double capacity.
• You've ridden in a tricycle that doesn't require peddling
• You hold your palms together in front of you and say "excuse, excuse" when you pass in between people or in front of the TV.
• Goldilocks is more than a fairy tale character to you.
• You say "prijider" instead of refrigerator
• Your Dad is/was in the Navy or your mom is a nurse or in many cases both.
• You leave a party with more food than you came with.
• You pronounce "v"s as "
• You're seen with a boy who's not Filipino and he's automatically your boyfriend and everyone knows about it
• You have Chinese furniture and walls screens in your house
• Your mom or dad came from a family with at least 10 children
• Your parents over exaggerate the time (ex:" hoy gising na ! its almost 12 o clock," when it is really 11:15am)
• You pronounce "f's" as "p's" and "p's" as "f's" eg. pliffing = flipping , pork = fork [or vise versa ]
• Finding relatives at the airport entails scouring the crowd for a bunch of people fussing with a balikbayan box.
• Anyone whose name you can't recall in conversation is referred to as "si ano".
• Somehow there is always room for one more on the motorcycle or tricycle!
• You take off your shoes in the house.
• Your mom tells you to wear your "chanelas" when you go outside.
• You ask your mom what your "ulam" is when shes cooking.
• Your mom likes oriental furniture.
• You can speak one or more: tagalog, illocano, kapangpangan or cebuano
• You can understand either: tagalog, illocana, kapangpangan or cebuano
• You always have sardines in your pantry.
• You've eaten the bird of the balut at least once was
• You know the "Otso-otso".
• If you're not the youngest in the family, you look like your mom.
• You like Kare-Kare.
• Church is a must on Sundays.
• The first thing you offer your guests is food.
• You like the "Black Eyed Peas" because one of the guys is Filipino.
• Taho is Deeeelish!
• You believe its bad to waste food.
• Your mom tells you that its bad luck to sleep with your hair wet.
• You own a "walis ting ting".
• You like ALL of the following: Sinigang, Nilaga, Tilapia, Dinuguan, Pansit, and Lumpia.
• Mango is a dessert.
• You get excited when you see a Filipino on an American channel.
• if you're living abroad, you have family in the philippines that expect you to bring pasalubong that's fancier than anything you even own yourself
• you know that the "white" version of "come here" is palm-up, fingers waving toward the body, but the pinoy version is palm-down, fingers moving toward body in sort of shoveling motion
• You nod backwards to say yes
• You raise your eyebrows to say yes
• You know that Adidas is more than just an athletic company
• You or your parents have a santo nino on the mante and a big wooden rosary hanging on the wall somewhere in the house
• When you know that "dat white one" means a CLEAR object and NOT white at all!
• You can measuring the water for cooking rice with two fingers
• The house you grew up in had a chandelier made of shell (capice)
• Your parents believed in various superstitions: like turning the plates at dinner if someone had to leave; saying "tabi tabi, po

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YOU MAY BE MARRIED TO A FILIPINA IF . . .

♥ your refrigerator is always full but you cannot find any food that you recognize.
♥ instead of a dowry, you got the whole bill for the wedding and honeymoon.
♥ most of the decorations in your house are made of wicker.
♥ you are expected to be able to read her mind just by watching her eyebrows move up and down and which way her lips are pointed.
♥ all her relatives think your name is Joe.
♥ the instant you are married you have 3000 new close relatives that you can't tell apart.
♥ your house isn't really on fire, but there is a very charred fish right on top of the stove burner.
♥ all the desserts are sticky and all the snacks are salty.
she eats her fruit with giant salt crystals and her fried chicken with ketchup.
♥ even the ketchup tastes weird . . . very weird.
♥ you throw a party and everyone is fighting to chop the leathery skin off a dead pig.
♥ all your kids have 4-5 middle names.*
♥ your in-laws take 10 years to acknowledge your existence and to call you by something other than "that white guy."
♥ you try to call her up on the phone and someone tells you "for a while" and you want to know "for a while, what??"
♥ you are trying to go to sleep and she keeps asking for the comFORT'r, and you ain't got a clue what she's talking about . . .
♥ your first Christmas present is some funny looking baggy see-thru shirt made out of leftover lace doilies.
♥ your phone bills are all international and average 3 hours per call.
♥ she sweeps with something that witches usually fly around on.
♥ her idea of classy, expensive champagne is Asti Spumante
♥ the rice cooker is on 24 hours a day and uses up 50% of your electric and food budget.
♥ on your first trip to the Philippines, you have 18 giant boxes that weigh 1000 pounds each and your "carry on" luggage requires a small forklift truck.
♥ the same luggage is over filled with things that cost an average of 15 cents each like old magazines and M&Ms -- the worst part is when you get off the plane, the same stuff you've been hauling around half way around the world is available in every store in the airport for half the price!
♥ all her pajamas look like they were worn by the Dalai Lama until they got too faded.
♥ the first time she's pregnant you have to go out at 4:00 in the morning looking for some weird type of greasy sausages, green mangoes and bagoong.
♥ You buy a new $500 freezer so she can store 200 pounds of SPAM and CORNED BEEF that was on sale.
♥ everything in your house was bought on sale, even if you don't need it .. as long as it was a "bargain" is all that matters.
♥ she gets really excited by sucking the fat out of pig knees.
♥ your daughter gets her ears pierced when she's 2 minutes old but your sons are not circumcised until they turn 21.
♥ all your postage bills instantly double.
♥ you hire a yaya because your wife thinks you clean mirrors with soap and a sponge and the yaya seems cheaper than a divorce.
♥ the only "white meat" she likes is You, and that's if you're lucky . . .
♥ her favorite sauce is called patis, Americans call it turpentine.
♥ she actually thinks that bowling and golf and billiards are real sports and are more important than baseball and football.
♥ you were married 5 years before she explained to you that "ARAY!" doesn't mean "ooh, baby!"
♥ she prefers bistek to beef steak.
♥ her idea of new upholstery is rinsing the bagoong stains out of the slip covers.
♥ she can eat and talk at the same time, in fact that's her especialty!
♥ her favorite meal is leftovers, her favorite fancy dessert is Jello mold and for something REALLY romantic, she'll offer you a halo-halo with 2 straws.
♥ you still don't know what's the difference between manong and manok.
♥ she and the kids are always saying "Daddy made utot" and you still don't know what it means but they think it's pretty funny.
♥ other than eyebrow raising and lip puckering, her next most expressive form of communication is grunts and pssst's
♥ she goes to the movies just for the AC.
♥ her homeland has more Megamalls than islands.
♥ before every holiday and visit, her sisters fax you a 10 page "bilin" list which says "suggestion only."
♥ your kitchen table has a merry-go-round in the middle.
♥ all the vegetables she buys at the Filipino store look like they were grown at Chernobyl.
♥ your in-law's first visit lasted 5 years.
♥ her friends are named Chinky, Girlie, Boy and Bimbo and you are not allowed to smirk.
♥ her home economics course only taught shopping, eating and siesta; cooking, cleaning and sewing were not electives.
♥ her idea of edifying reading is gossip magazines.
♥ all your place settings has the silverware backwards and there are no knives.
♥ she washes her hair with a bucket and her car with a broom.
♥ she uses an umbrella even if its not raining.
♥ her favorite book (she has 3 copies) is "1001 New Recipes for Pig Parts You Were Gonna Throw Out"
♥ you are the only family in a 200 mile radius with 6 DVD player, 5 televisions.
♥ she's done her best job planning a surprise party for you if she manages not to tell you about it until a week or two before.
♥ she "cleans" her closet by throwing all the crap into your closet.
♥ you are pretty proud of yourself because you think you snagged up for yourself some unique, rare, tropical goddess type until you go to the Philippines and can't tell her apart from anyone else in the whole country (unless she's taller than 5'1", then it's a bit easier).
♥ there's always singing in your house, even when the radio's off.
♥ your own mom, who was lukewarm about your marriage originally, now calls you long distance...to talk to your wife, not to you.
♥ your family announces that in the unlikely event of a divorce between you and your wife, she will always have a place to stay, but you better find a new family.
♥ your wife asks to get a job so that you will both have a little extra money, then thanks you for not complaining about having to drive her to work.
♥ your wife has a contagious smile.
♥ you both decide to divide your spare income, and you spend yours on a computer game or a power tool, only to learn that she spent her money buying clothes for you
♥ she might not have had a second pair of shoes growing up, but she's rapidly making up for lost time.
♥ everything in your house is "namebrand".
♥ you have a Western Union "Preferred Customer" card. Really.
♥ you complain when your wife tells you that longaniza is only for breakfast.
♥ you learn to like rice, even plain.
♥ you have a budget.
♥ she may only tell you she loves you once in awhile. But, she shows you that she loves you in everything she does and says.
♥ you go to sleep each night knowing you're the luckiest man in the world.  

[LeonInverse]

here's More

* you have a "barrel man" in your house, you may be filipino...(you know..the wooden man...when you lift up the barrel----schwing!!!)
* you wash your clothes by hand, you might be Filipino.
* you use walis tambo and walis ting-ting, you just might be Filipino.
* you nail all photographs on your walls in the living room, you're a Filipino.
* you have a very good sense of maniana habit, you might be Filipino.
* you smoke in your house
* you put up your knee while eating
* you eat kanin and ulam using your hand
* you are pakialamero
* you say Sugarol, babaero at tumador
* you are chismosa
* you say Comfort Room instead of Restroom.
* you say For Take Out instead of to go.
* you point w/ your lips, then you might be a Filipino.
* you say open or close the lights, then you might be a Filipino.
* you nod upwards to greet someone, you might be a Filipino.
* your nickname is "boy", you might be a Filipino.
* you ask for a Colgate instead of toothpaste, you might be a Filipino.
* you say "Canteen" instead of cafeteria, then you must be filipino
* you eat under-developed duck eggs.
* you call it a "ballpoint" or"ballpen" , not a "pen"
* you pronounce the word ALREADY as OLREYDI.
* you say, Kodakan, instead of take pictures.
* you do "mano po" to older people in the house you're about to enter.
* you refer to to your refrigerator as "pridyider"
* your grandma smiles and her teeth are all red because of "nga-nga"
* you say "pliers" when you meant "fliers"
* you say "b***h" when you meant "beach"
* you pronounce "hippopatamus" and "comfortable" in a funny way
* you say "Boose" for "bus"
* you cover your sofa with bright red and green blankets
* you have a Last Supper quilt tacked on your dining wall
* your "walking doll" is still new even though it was bought years ago because your mom kept it in the china cabinet and never let you play with it.
* you drive a Mercedes-Benz with maroon seat covers
* you hang a rosary on the rear view mirror of your car.
* you have a Santo Nino shrine in your living room.
* you buy the karaoke system first before the stereo and TV
* you have an out of tune piano and nobody in the family ever learned to play.
* you know what "chocolate meat" is
* you say chok-o-late.
* you have a "Weapons of Morroland" shield.
* you didn't hear or understand something and your first expression is "HA?".
* you're standing next to big boxes at the airport.
* you say 'hoy' to get someone's attention.
* you like peanut butter with chocolate.
* you make para on a bus.
* your car churps like a bird when it's in reverse.
* you turn around when you hear somebody say "psssst."
* you instinctively grab a toothpick after a meal.
* you order the langunisa meal on a PAL Balikbayan flight.
* you laugh seeing somebody slip.
* you burp when you're busog (or after sipping a beer)
* you call somebody "psssst."
* you smile/grin a lot even for no reason,
* you sit by squating down and leaning your elbows on your knees.
* you use a Bolo to cut the grass in the yard.
* you refer to keorosene as "white gas."
* there are pairs of flip-flops outside your door
* you have power failures every day at the same time that you can set your watch to.
* your biggest frying pan is shaped like a wok.
* you own both a rice cooker, and an air pot.
* you refer to "Accent" and all other forms of monosodium glutimate as "Ajinomoto"
* you go to a department store, and try to bargain the price.
* you drink with your friends and share the same glass, and pass it around.
* you have a cartful of corned beef during a sale.
* you say kutex instead of nail polish, you are one too.
* you are stumped when asked what kind of bread in a deli.
* you're the plane passenger with the largest hand-carry luggage.
* you scratch your head when you don't know what you're doing.
* you don't want to eat the last piece of food on the plate, but offer it to others.
* you say "she" when you should say "he"
* you say "ano" this and "ano" that
* you put your hands together and point them in the direction you are walking to pass between other people
* you say that everybody is your cousin/niece/nephew/aunt/uncle/...
* you have a big Buddha at home for good luck( not the serene Buddha like what the Thais have, but the big, fat, laughing one with those pesky little kids crawling all over him).
* you bring a "baon" to work everyday, you're probably a Filipino.
* your ice cold beer really has ice cubes in it.
* you eat balut and wash it down with beer to bulk up.
* you have a parol hanging outside your house during the Christmas holidays.
* you say things sorta backwards like towelpaper instead of papertowel and stick bread instead of breadsticks.
* you say guper instead of gopher.
* you eat rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
* you say "aray" instead of "ouch ".
* you look up and say "ha!" when somebody says "what's up".
* you write "Filipino" but pronounce it as "Pilipino".
* you can sustain jokes like this one indefinitely.
* you often say 'Bulaga!' when you want to scare someone.
* you fire your gun like crazy on new year's eve
* you drive a jeep with your family name written on the back.
* you preceed anything pluralized with "mga."
* you put a little bowl of patis on the table for dipping, and your guests complain "who farted."
* you cover your living room furniture with bed sheets.
* you have toyo circles on your table cloths.
* you wash and reuse disposable styroFoam cups, forks and spoons and of course, aluminum wrapper (Reynolds wrap) or cover paper plates with waxed paper so you can reuse it.
* you cover your carpet floors with plastic liners, you might be Filipino.  

[LeonInverse]

And some more...

Your middle name is your mother’s maiden name.
Your parents call each other “Mommy” and “Daddy.”
You have uncles and aunts named “Boy,” “Girlie,” or “Baby.”
You have relatives whose nicknames consist of repeated syllables like “Jun-Jun,” “Ling-Ling,” and “Mon-Mon.”
You call the parents of your friends and your own parents’ friends “Tito” and “Tita.”
You have four or five names.
You greet your elders by touching their hands to your forehead.
You always kiss your relatives on the cheek whenever you enter or leave the room.
You follow your parents’ house rules even if you are over 18.
You live with your parents until and at times even after you’re married.
You decorate your dining room wall with a picture of the “Last Supper.”
You keep your furniture wrapped in plastic or covered with blankets.
You have a Sto. Nino shrine in your living room.
You have a piano that no one plays.
You keep a “tabo” in your bathroom.
You use Vicks Vapor rub as an insect repellant.
You eat with your hands.
You eat more than three times a day.
You think a meal is not a meal without rice.
You think sandwiches are snacks, not meals.
Your dining table has a merry-go-round (lazy Susan) in the middle.
You bring baon to work everyday.
Your pantry is never without Spam, Vienna sausage, corned beef, and sardines.
You love to eat daing or tuyo.
You prop up one knee while eating.
You eat your meal with patis, toyo, suka, banana catsup, or bagoong.
Your tablecloths are stained with toyo circles.
You love sticky desserts and salty snacks.
You eat fried Spam and hot dogs with rice.
You eat mangoes with rice–with great GUSTO!
You love “dirty” ice cream.
You love to eat, yet often manage to stay slim.
You put hot dogs in your spaghetti.
Everything you eat is sauted in garlic, onion, and tomatoes.
You order a “soft drink” instead of soda.
You hang a rosary on your car’s rear view mirror.
You get together with family at a cemetery on All Saint’s Day to eat, drink, and tell stories by your loved ones’ graves.
You play cards or mahjong and drink beer at funeral wakes.
You think Christmas season begins in October and ends in January.
Your second piece of luggage is a balikbayan box.
You’ve mastered the art of packing a suitcase to double capacity.
You collect items from airlines, hotels, and restaurants as “souvenirs.”
You feel obligated to give pasalubong to all your friends and relatives each time you return from a trip.
You use paper foot outlines when buying shoes for friends and relatives.
You’re a fashion victim.
You can convey 30 messages with your facial expression.
You hold your palms together in front of you and say “excuse, excuse” when you pass in between people or in front of the TV.
You ask for the bill at a restaurant by making a rectangle in the air.
You cover your mouth when you laugh.
You respond to a “Hoy!” or a “Pssst!” in a crowd.
You’ll answer “Malapit lang!”–no matter the distance–when asked how far away a place is located.
Goldilocks is more than a fairy tale character to you.
You refer to power interruptions as “brownouts.”
You love to use the following acronyms: CR for comfort room, DI for dance instructor, DOM for dirty old man, TNT for tago nang tago, KJ for kill joy, KSP for kulang sa pansin, OA for over-acting, TL for true love, BF for boyfriend and GF for girlfriend.
You say “rubber shoes” instead of sneakers (or trainers as the British calls it), “ball pen” instead of pen, “stockings” instead of pantyhose,
“pampers” instead of diapers, “ref” or “prijider” instead of refrigerator,
“Colgate” instead of toothpaste, “canteen” instead of cafeteria, and “open” or “close” instead of turn on or turn off (as in the lights).
You use an umbrella for shade on hot summer days.
You like everything imported or “state-side.”
You love ballroom dancing, bowling, pusoy, mah jong, billiards, and karaoke.
You have a relative who is a nurse.
When you’re in a restaurant, you wipe your plate and utensils before using them.
You can squeeze 15 passengers into your five seater car without a second thought.
You wave a pom-pom on a stick around the food to keep the flies away.
You always ring a doorbell twice, assuming that the first ring was not heard.
You let the phone ring twice before answering, lest you appear overly eager.
You use a pumice stone or bath stone to scrub yourself in the bath or shower.  

[M e e G g y]

HAHAHA TOOTOO YAN!
The Filipina marriage part is my mother all the way with my tay. He gets so annoyed that she just wants to throw all the crap away. And I got my ears pierced when I was only 4 months old. And I have a freaking long name. .-. My tay is actually getting annoyed from the past 16 years of marriage even though he can have no one else. My ma likes to say "hug-me-papa" which means that she wants a hug and my tay runs away.. My family is weird, and I have rice every meal, The pantry is stocked with brownie mix, Vienna sausage, spam and corn beef. MY PARENTS LIKE YELLING AT EACH OTHER BECAUSE SOMEONE LEFT THE RICE COOKER ON! They also yell at each other because they "love" each other. But...My tay is filipino so he's used to it...I think.

I'm not going to be a wife like that...Hopefully. If I am, poor me. sad
Oh well...
walang akong problema sa tipong asawa yunn.
sympre naman, pinay talaga ako...so, meron akong gene at "sakit-ng-ulo".

talk2hand  

[KatMG]

Lmao This is so true, man. xd  

[LeonInverse]

Hahaha yeah... we cant do anything about it xd
nearly everything is true for me, except for a few bits and pieces xd  

[mkdarpas]

haha for my 15 yr stay here on earth, its the first tym i heard that meat rolls r lumpia xDDD  

[saguittarius]

ahahaha!!!

I can't deny on what you have posted!!!

ahahaha!!!  

[Sesshomaruka]

i'm to lazy to read it all xD
but i read like the first 5 and they were all true lol

pinoy's ftw.  

[LeonInverse]

mk cullen

haha for my 15 yr stay here on earth, its the first tym i heard that meat rolls r lumpia xDDD

Lol xd I was laughing so hard on the *prijider* one... rofl  

[hikari megumi 15]

well, part filipinos counts, right? sweatdrop

i cross out the things i DONT do:


• You answer to "Pssst!!"
• You point with your lips.
• You have relatives whose nicknames consist of repeated syllables like Ling-Ling, Bong-Bong, or Che-Che.
• You have uncles and aunts named Boy, Girlie or Baby.
• In your dining room there's a picture of "Last Supper" - and on either side of it are a giant wooden spoon and fork.
• The furniture in your house is wrapped in plastic or covered in blankets.
• You use shopping bags as garbage bags.
• You have a piano no one plays.
• You keep a tabo in your bathroom. (LOL. i never knew it meant tabo)
• You own a barrel man from Baguio.
• You can't resist buying items on sale even if you don't need them.
• You eat with your hands. (o.o *stare)
• and you cut your meat with a spoon and fork.
• You know a meal isn't a meal unless there's rice.
• There's Spam, Vienna sausage and corned beef in your pantry.
• You eat or have eaten fried spam and eggs with rice for breakfast.
• Whenever friends come over, they ask for "meat rolls" and you know they mean lumpia.
• You greet your elders by touching their hands to your forehead.
• You always kiss your relatives on the cheek whenever you enter or leave the room.
• Your relatives sing karaoke when they come over.
• A party isn't a party unless there's line dancing (who doesn't love the Todo Todo, Chilly Cha Cha and September???)
• You don't get grossed out by balut.
• Your mom puts sugar and hot dogs in her spaghetti.
• Your Lola taught you to gargle with warm salt and ginger water when you have a sore throat.
• You always take your shoes off when you enter a house.
• You know what the "chocolate sauce" in dinuguan is actually made of
• The tissues in your bathroom came from Holiday Inn.
• You "open" and "close" the lights.
• Your friends know what it means to be on Filipino Time.
• You think Christmas season begins in October and ends in January.
• Your second piece of luggage is a balikbayan box.
• You've mastered the art of packing a suitcase to double capacity.
• You've ridden in a tricycle that doesn't require peddling
• You hold your palms together in front of you and say "excuse, excuse" when you pass in between people or in front of the TV.
• Goldilocks is more than a fairy tale character to you.
• You say "prijider" instead of refrigerator
• Your Dad is/was in the Navy or your mom is a nurse or in many cases both.
• You leave a party with more food than you came with.
• You pronounce "v"s as "b"
• You're seen with a boy who's not Filipino and he's automatically your boyfriend and everyone knows about it
• You have Chinese furniture and walls screens in your house
• Your mom or dad came from a family with at least 10 children
• Your parents over exaggerate the time (ex:" hoy gising na ! its almost 12 o clock," when it is really 11:15am)
• You pronounce "f's" as "p's" and "p's" as "f's" eg. pliffing = flipping , pork = fork [or vise versa ]
• Finding relatives at the airport entails scouring the crowd for a bunch of people fussing with a balikbayan box.
• Anyone whose name you can't recall in conversation is referred to as "si ano".
• Somehow there is always room for one more on the motorcycle or tricycle!
• You take off your shoes in the house.
• Your mom tells you to wear your "chanelas" when you go outside.
• You ask your mom what your "ulam" is when shes cooking.
• Your mom likes oriental furniture.
• You can speak one or more: tagalog, illocano, kapangpangan or cebuano
• You can understand either: tagalog, illocana, kapangpangan or cebuano
• You always have sardines in your pantry.
• You've eaten the bird of the balut at least once was
• You know the "Otso-otso".
• If you're not the youngest in the family, you look like your mom.
• You like Kare-Kare.
• Church is a must on Sundays.
• The first thing you offer your guests is food.
• You like the "Black Eyed Peas" because one of the guys is Filipino.
• Taho is Deeeelish!
• You believe its bad to waste food.
• Your mom tells you that its bad luck to sleep with your hair wet.
• You own a "walis ting ting".
• You like ALL of the following: Sinigang, Nilaga, Tilapia, Dinuguan, Pansit, and Lumpia.
• Mango is a dessert.
• You get excited when you see a Filipino on an American channel.
• if you're living abroad, you have family in the philippines that expect you to bring pasalubong that's fancier than anything you even own yourself
• you know that the "white" version of "come here" is palm-up, fingers waving toward the body, but the pinoy version is palm-down, fingers moving toward body in sort of shoveling motion
• You nod backwards to say yes
• You raise your eyebrows to say yes
• You know that Adidas is more than just an athletic company
• You or your parents have a santo nino on the mante and a big wooden rosary hanging on the wall somewhere in the house
• When you know that "dat white one" means a CLEAR object and NOT white at all!
• You can measuring the water for cooking rice with two fingers
• The house you grew up in had a chandelier made of shell (capice)
• Your parents believed in various superstitions: like turning the plates at dinner if someone had to leave; saying "tabi tabi, po

 

[LeonInverse]

Yeah... I did say that non-Filipinos can do it too as well xd  

[PhilippineNaruto_Pride]

DarkAzure_Twilight

Hahaha yeah... we cant do anything about it xd
nearly everything is true for me, except for a few bits and pieces xd

Same Here..
~Funny, all the examples of names of aunts and uncles ( Boy, Girlie, Baby ) They really r names of my aunts and uncles,
~ My mom's a nurse
~ I heart Goldilocks food
~ My mom is from a family w/ 12 kids
~ I know Filippino time
~ I understand and speak Tagalog
~ My brother and i used to love doing the otso otso
~ EVERY time i see a filippino or filippina on USA TV, i'm excited and happy..
~ I cook rice every night
~ My parents call each other mommy and daddy..
THOSE R JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS!! cool xd  

[LeonInverse]

PhilippineNaruto_Pride

DarkAzure_Twilight

Hahaha yeah... we cant do anything about it xd
nearly everything is true for me, except for a few bits and pieces xd

Same Here..
~Funny, all the examples of names of aunts and uncles ( Boy, Girlie, Baby ) They really r names of my aunts and uncles,
~ My mom's a nurse
~ I heart Goldilocks food
~ My mom is from a family w/ 12 kids
~ I know Filippino time
~ I understand and speak Tagalog
~ My brother and i used to love doing the otso otso
~ EVERY time i see a filippino or filippina on USA TV, i'm excited and happy..
~ I cook rice every night
~ My parents call each other mommy and daddy..
THOSE R JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS!! cool xd

xd YEah!!! WHoo!!! Filipino PRIDE xd
(Go Manny PAcquiao! *he kicked Hatton's a** in 2 rounds rofl *)  

[o-re-sa-ma_Elegance]

so many!