MANNERISMS:
1. You point with your lips.
2. You eat with your hands and have it down to a technique.
3. Your other piece of luggage is a balikbayan box.
4. You use a rock to scrub yourself in the bath or shower.
5. You smile for no reason.
6. You love to buy sale items even when you do not need them.
7. You scratch your head when you don't know the answer.
VOCABULARY
1. You say "comfort room" instead of "bathroom"
2. You say for "take out" instead of "to go".
3. You "open or close the lights".
4. You ask for Colgate instead of Toothpaste.
5. You say "for a while instead of please hold on the telephone"
6. You say brown out instead of black-out.
7. You turn around when someone says, "PSSt"..
8. You refer to the refrigerator as the "ref" or "pridyider"
HOME FURNISHINGS
1. YOu have a portrait of "The Last Supper" hanging in your dining room wall.
2. You own a karaoke system.
3. You have a "tabo" (dipper) in the bathroom.
4. You have two or three pairs of tsinelas at your doorstep.
5. You have a rice dispenser.
6. You have a wooden tinikling dancers on your wall.
FAMILY
1. You have aunts and uncles nambe "Baby, Girlie or Boy"
2. Your mom or sister is a nurse.
3. You have a family member that has a nickname that repeats itself, i.e. "LENG-LENG", DON-DON, JOK-JOK" (Not joc-joc bolante ha)
4. You live in a compound with other relatives
5. Your grandparents or atleast one aunt, uncle or cousin--lives with you.
FOOD
1. You put hotdogs in your spaghetti. (sa ibang countries kasi they don't usually put hotdogs kasi )
2. You instinctively grab a toothpick after meal.
3. You dip bread in your morning coffee.
4. You use your fingers to measure the water when cooking rice.
5. you have an ice-shavers for making halo-halo.
6. You fry spam and hotdogs and eat them with rice.
7. You think half-hatched duck eggs are a delicacy.
SOME FOREIGNers tell us that we have a damaged culture and point to the glee with which some of us relieve ourselves in front of walls that scream "BAWAL UMIHI DITO" I think its the thing that make us unique...don't you think so? sabi nga, ONLI IN THE PHILIPPINES!
IKAW PINOY KA BA TALAGA?
Ako is may lahing intsik. My father is half chinese. My mother is purely breed Filipino. Ikaw? ano ka?
