If any of the following sounds familiar to you, then youre 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 theres 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 cant resist buying items on sale even if you dont need them. • You eat with your hands. • and you cut your meat with a spoon and fork. • You know a meal isnt a meal unless theres rice. • Theres 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 isnt a party unless theres line dancing (who doesnt love the Todo Todo, Chilly Cha Cha and September???) • You dont 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. • Youve mastered the art of packing a suitcase to double capacity. • Youve ridden in a tricycle that doesnt 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 vs as • Youre seen with a boy whos not Filipino and hes 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 fs as ps and ps as fs 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 cant 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. • Youve eaten the bird of the balut at least once was • You know the Otso-otso. • If youre 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 youre living abroad, you have family in the philippines that expect you to bring pasalubong thats 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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