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You know you're a Filipino if...
15 years ago
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~PoisonKills
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INSTRUCTIONS:
BOLD the sentences that you do/ relate to.
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. -My sister
• You have uncles and aunts named Boy, Girlie or Baby. -Three of 'em named Boy, a Shirley and two Girlies.
• 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. (LOL, at least we're resourceful :D)
• You have a piano no one plays.
• You keep a tabo in your bathroom. -I dont care how they do it in the Western Hemisphere... in this country you use a DIPPER and you will LIKE IT!
• 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. -Yummy organic flavor. and its easier to debone fish with.
• 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. -Heck I used to kiss my cousins on the lips.
• Your relatives sing karaoke when they come over.
• A party isn't a party unless there's line dancing
• You don't get grossed out by balut. -Duck fetus is yummy.
• Your mom puts sugar and hot dogs in her spaghetti. Heck... I do.
• 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 ...Chocolate?
• 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. To me it starts on the -ber months. But officially on the first night of Misa de Gallo
• 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. -LUV their dinuguan.
• You say "prijider" instead of refrigerator
• Your Dad is/was in the Navy or your mom is a nurse or in many cases both. close. My dad was a navigator, my mom is a Medical Doctor.
• 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 wall 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) (Yes, kinda silly of them :D)
• 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". alternatively "si kwan"
• Somehow there is always room for one more on the motorcycle or tricycle! Some people say 3 people in a bike is too much... but that's only if you haven't ridden with 4 others on the same bike.
• You take off your shoes in the house.
• Your mom tells you to wear your "chanelas" when you go outside. Mang Kulas, pabili nga po nang tsinelas~ pudpod at gasgas ang luma kong tisne~las.
• You ask your mom what's your "ulam" is when she's cooking.
• Your mom likes oriental furniture.
• You can speak one or more: tagalog, illocano, kapangpangan or cebuano Purong tagalog ako dine.
• 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 -The fetus is the tastiest part.
• You know the "Otso-otso". -Oh how I wish I didnt
• If you're not the youngest in the family, you look like your mom.
• You like Kare-Kare. Recently acquired taste
• Church is a must on Sundays. -Even if its just for the attendance
• 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. Pwera busong.
• Your mom tells you that its bad luck to sleep with your hair wet. -What I heard is that it makes you crazy.
• 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 a family in the Philippines that expect you to bring a 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 (YEAH)
• 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 measure the water for cooking rice with two fingers
• The house you grew up in had a chandelier made of shell
• Your parents believed in various superstitions: like turning the plates at dinner if someone had to leave; saying "tabi tabi, po
~PoisonKills-=--==-=-==-=--==--=-=
INSTRUCTIONS:
BOLD the sentences that you do/ relate to.
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. -My sister
• You have uncles and aunts named Boy, Girlie or Baby. -Three of 'em named Boy, a Shirley and two Girlies.
• 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. (LOL, at least we're resourceful :D)
• You have a piano no one plays.
• You keep a tabo in your bathroom. -I dont care how they do it in the Western Hemisphere... in this country you use a DIPPER and you will LIKE IT!
• 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. -Yummy organic flavor. and its easier to debone fish with.
• 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. -Heck I used to kiss my cousins on the lips.
• Your relatives sing karaoke when they come over.
• A party isn't a party unless there's line dancing
• You don't get grossed out by balut. -Duck fetus is yummy.
• Your mom puts sugar and hot dogs in her spaghetti. Heck... I do.
• 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 ...Chocolate?
• 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. To me it starts on the -ber months. But officially on the first night of Misa de Gallo
• 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. -LUV their dinuguan.
• You say "prijider" instead of refrigerator
• Your Dad is/was in the Navy or your mom is a nurse or in many cases both. close. My dad was a navigator, my mom is a Medical Doctor.
• 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 wall 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) (Yes, kinda silly of them :D)
• 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". alternatively "si kwan"
• Somehow there is always room for one more on the motorcycle or tricycle! Some people say 3 people in a bike is too much... but that's only if you haven't ridden with 4 others on the same bike.
• You take off your shoes in the house.
• Your mom tells you to wear your "chanelas" when you go outside. Mang Kulas, pabili nga po nang tsinelas~ pudpod at gasgas ang luma kong tisne~las.
• You ask your mom what's your "ulam" is when she's cooking.
• Your mom likes oriental furniture.
• You can speak one or more: tagalog, illocano, kapangpangan or cebuano Purong tagalog ako dine.
• 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 -The fetus is the tastiest part.
• You know the "Otso-otso". -Oh how I wish I didnt
• If you're not the youngest in the family, you look like your mom.
• You like Kare-Kare. Recently acquired taste
• Church is a must on Sundays. -Even if its just for the attendance
• 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. Pwera busong.
• Your mom tells you that its bad luck to sleep with your hair wet. -What I heard is that it makes you crazy.
• 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 a family in the Philippines that expect you to bring a 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 (YEAH)
• 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 measure the water for cooking rice with two fingers
• The house you grew up in had a chandelier made of shell
• Your parents believed in various superstitions: like turning the plates at dinner if someone had to leave; saying "tabi tabi, po
gargling salt and warm water for a soar throat, I'm Mexican and i was always told that helps i figure it was a common home treatment for sore throats XD
pronounce V's as B's i think most Mexicans with an accent do that as well :P lol
take your shoes off when you enter a house, i thought that was a general Asian thing i know Hmong, Korean, Japanese etc. do that XD
Church is a must on Sundays, i think that goes for any dedicated religious person regardless of race :P
You believe its bad to waste food, doesn't everyone? im pretty sure people in Africa believe that XD
pmsl xDDD