Being A Fake Filipino

My niece, Phoebe, published a list about how to tell that you are Filipino.

Ways To Tell You Are A Filipino
This is fun, fun, fun.... though not entirely true. har har! :P

1. You point with your lips -- guilty! haha! -- I don't do this.
2. You nod upwards to greet someone -- it is called kihat! -- I still do this.
3. You collect items from hotels or restaurants "for souvenir." -- I collect and encourage folks to collect toiletries from hotels and make hygiene packets to distribute to the folks at the soup kitchens.
4. You smile for no reason. -- guilty all the time, lol! -- Especially when I think of people I love or recall a nice memory.
5. You flirt by having a foolish grin in your face while raising your eyebrows repeatedly.-- Never learned how to flirt, actually considered attending flirting school.
6. You go to a department store and try to bargain the prices.- Never!
7. You add an unwarranted "H" to your name, i.e. "Jhun," "Bhoy," "Rhon."-- Nah!!!
8. You put your hands together in front of you as if to make a path and say "excuse, excuse" when you pass in between people or in front of the TV -- Still do but say "excuse me or pardon me"
9. You like everything imported or "state-side." -- I am in the states.
10. You check the labels on clothes to see where it was made before buying.-- Yes, yes, yes to make sure that it is not made with sweat shop labor.
11. You always offer food to all your visitors. -- Always, always
12. You say "comfort room" instead of "bathroom." -- Comfort room is soo much more genteel and civilized.
13. You say "for take out" instead of "to go."-- "Take out" for Chinese/Indian - "to go" for fast food.
14. You ask for "Colgate" instead of "toothpaste."
15. You ask for a "pentel-pen" or a "ball-pen" instead of just "pen."
16. You order a McDonald's instead of "hamburger"(pronounced ham-boor-jer)
17. You say "Ha?" instead of "What." -- me, me, me!!! -- Huh or beg your pardon
18. You say "Hoy" to get someone's attention.
19. You answer when someone yells "Hoy." -- Yup!
20. You turn around when someone says "Psst!" - Yup
21. Your sneeze sounds like "ahh- ching" instead of "ahh-choo."
22. You prefer to make acronyms for phrases such as "OA" for over acting, or "TNT" for, well, you know.-- Need a glossary to interpret
23. You say "air con" instead of "a/c" or air conditioner. -- yep!
24. You say "brown-out" instead of "black-out." -- yes. black means total darkness and that's what we mean.
25. You have a portrait of "The Last Supper" hanging in your dining room.-- Of course!
26. You own a Karaoke System.-- Nah!
27. You own a piano that no one ever plays. -- it was a gift. lol -- I used to play so did Rosanne
28. You own a "barrel man" (you pull up the barrel and you see something that looks familiar. schwing...)
29. You refer to your VCR as a "beytamax."
30. You have a giant wooden fork and spoon hanging somewhere in the dining room.
31. Your car has too many "burloloys" like a Jipneys back in P.I.
32. You hang a Rosary on your car's rear view mirror.-- "Yes, Yes, Yes - I also say the rosary when driving long distances and on airplanes. -
33. You order a "soft drink" instead of a "soda." -- We say Pop in Michigan and most of the Midwest.
34. You refer to seasonings and all other forms of monosodium glutimate as "Ajinomoto" -- Just say No to Ajinomoto or any kind of MSG
posted by feebee at 8:44 AM

Thanks, Feebs - it was fun to do. I guess you can take a girl out of the Philippines but never completely take the Philippines out of a girl.