Signs You migh be Filipino if Options

[mystical]

MANNERISM AND PERSONALITY TRAITS
1.You point with your lips
2.You eat with your hand and have it down as a technique
3.Your other piece of luggage is a "Balikbayan Box"
4.You nod your head upwards to greet someone
5.You put your foot up on your chair and rest your elbows on your knees while you eat
6.You use a rock to scrub yourself in the shower
7.You kiss relatives on the cheek when you enter the room
8.You're standing next to eight big boxes at the airport
9.You collect items from hotels or restaurants as "souvenirs"
10.Your house has a distinctive aroma
11.You smile for no reason
12.You flirt by having a foolish grin on your face while raising your eyebrows repeatedly
13.You go to department stores and try bargain with the price
14.You scratch your head when you don't know the answer
15.You never eat the last morsel of food on the table
16.You go bowling
17.You play pusoy or mahjong
18.You prefer to sit in the shade instead of basking in the sun
19.You add an unwarranted 'H' to your name: Jhun, Bhoy, Rhon
20.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
21.Your middle name is your mom's maiden name
22.You like everything that is imported or 'stateside'
23.Your perfectly comfortable in a squatting position with your elbows resting on your knees
24.You consistently arrive 30 minutes late for events
25.You always offer food to your visitors
26.You put your arm on the other person's shoulder if he or she is a close friend of yours
27.You draw a rectangle in the air when asking for the bill, which never fails to baffle the restaurant staff
28.You don't sit on the bowl in public toilets, no matter what part of town or if your thighs ache like hell; and you flush the toilet with your feet
29.You think 'tuck out' is the opposite of 'tuck in'
30.You tell everyone you meet where you studied and the intricacies of your family tree-just to show them you come from good stock - it never occurs to you that people may not have heard of your university or your clan's last name
31.You show up late for work and your excuse is 'I forgot to on the alarm' or better yet 'traffic eh'
32.You linger over the Tonite and Balita tabloids available at the Star Ferry, but quickly buy the Asian Wall Street Journal when other Filipinos start browsing
33.Brushing your teeth after lunch in the office lavatory is an unbreakable habit, even if your colleagues can't bear touching the taps after you've drooled and spat all over them
34.Namedropping is your favorite sport when you meet up with new acquaintances from back home
35.Toni Braxton, Basia and Swing Out Sister are your idea of party music, you hardly listen to anything else
36.You sell Amway and Herbalife as sideline
37.You fight noisily with Cathay Pacific check-in staff over the size of handcarried luggage-which could be anything from oversized suitcases to major appliances
38.You underdeclare your income when you pay Phil tax, even if it's peculiar that a consultant is paid little more than a domestic helper's wages
39.At Immigration, when they call out 'Maria', you and 46 other women stand up
40.When they play 'Anak' anywhere, your chest swells with pride and say 'that's Filipino'
41.You think taking a shower and taking a bath are the same thing
42.You use shopping bags as garbage bags
43.You use laundry detergent to wash your dishes
44.You use print rags from an imported fashion magazine as cover of your textbooks and notebooks
45.You enjoy watching Pinoy action films with the same plot: Hero and villain are mortal enemies. Hero's family's killed by villain. Hero seeks revenge. Hero meets bar girl with sad tale of past love. She comes from a poor family, that's why she's working in the bar. They fall in love. Villain kidnaps girl, threatens to kill her if hero won't stop harassing him and his henchmen. Hero rescues girl, they run away. Chase goes on in a dilapidated car. Hero finally kills villain and police arrive. Hero and girl live happily ever after.
VOCABULARY
1.You say 'for take out' instead of 'to go' ('take away' for Singaporean)
2.You 'open' and 'close' the lights
3.You ask for 'Colgate' instead of toothpaste
4.You ask for 'pentel pen' instead of a ballpen or pen
5.You refer to refrigerator as 'ref', 'Frigidare', or "pridyider"
6.You say 'kodakan' instead of take a picture
7.You order 'McDonalds' instead of hamburger, which you pronounce 'ham-boor-jer'
8.You say 'Ha?' instead of 'what?'
9.You say 'Hoy!' to get someone's attention
10.You answer when someone yells 'Hoy!'
11.You turn around when you hear 'pssst'
12.You say 'Cutex' instead of nail polish
13.You say 'for a while' instead of 'Please hold' on the telephone
14.You say 'he' when you mean 'she' and vice versa
15.Your sneeze sounds like 'Ahh-ching' instead of 'Ahh-choo'
16.You say 'Aray' instead of 'ouch'
17.You make acronyms for phrases: 'OA' = overacting, 'DOM' = dirty old man, and 'TNT' for... You know
18.You say 'aircon' instead of 'A/C' or airconditioner
19.You pronounce the ff. words: 'Hippopo-TA-mus', 'com-FOR-table', 'Bro-CO-li', and 'Montgo-marry Ward'
20.You say 'brown-out' instead of 'black-out'
21.You say 'Ay' or "Uy" instead of 'oops'
22.You start with 'actually' when you're trying to explain something
23.You say 'comfort room' instead of bathroom
24.You pronounce 'fax' as the four letter word
25.Ano' and 'di ba' regularly slip out during conversations
26.You say, 'my girlfriend will fetch,' when foreigners think fetching is for dogs
27.You try hard to speak English and when you don't know what to say next, you say 'you know...'
28.You change your accent according to the person you're talking to
29.When someone's pregnant, you say 'she's on the way'
30.You say 'ayyss---!' in kolehiyala accent to show any kind of extreme emotion - 'ayyy, shheeettt, nag-split na sila? 'ayysss, shheeettt talaga?
31.When somebody gives you a compliment, instead of saying thank you, you say 'hindi naman'
HOME FURNISHINGS
1.You use 'walis tambo' and 'walis ting-ting' as opposed to a conventional broom
2.You own a karaoke machine
3.You own a piano that no one ever plays
4.You have a portrait of the Last Supper hanging on your dining room wall
5.You have a 'tabo' in your bathroom
6.You have a rose garden
7.Your house is cluttered with 'burloloys'
8.You display a big laughing Buddha for good luck
9.You have a Santo Nino shrine in your living room
10.You own a 'barrel man' (schwing!) from Baguio
11.You have 'parol' displayed during the holidays
12.You cover your living room furniture with bed sheets
13.Your lampshades still have plastic covers on them
14.You have plastic runners to cover your carpets
15.You refer to VCR as 'Betamax' even if it's a VHS
16.You own a rice dispenser
17.You own a turbo broiler
18.You own a lamp with oil that drips down to the strings
19.You have a giant wooden spoon and fork hanging in your dining room
20.You own Capiz shell chandeliers, lamps or placemats
21.You have a pair of wooden tinikling dancers on your wall
22.You have 'Weapons of Moroland' shield hanging on your living room wall
23.Your wall to wall carpeting includes the ceiling
24.You own one of those fiber-optic flower lamps
25.Your microwave, washer, TV, VCR, computer, printer, toaster and doorknobs are hidden under quilted covers
26.You have the entire Apo Hiking Society collection, plus maybe some Tito Mina and Pops Fernandez thrown in
27.There's a pail in your bathroom, just in case there's a water shortage or the toilet won't flush
28.You have fly swatter in your kitchen
29.You have multiplex tapes
30.You buy song hit mixes like "New Wave Disco Hits"
CLOTHING AND APPEARANCE
1.There's Angelique eyeliner and Johnson's Baby Powder compacts lurking in your makeup drawer
2.You use Perla soap on your face
3.You have several pairs of 'tsinelas' at your doorstep
4.You deliberately flaunt your pager and cellphone
5.You find dried-up morsels or rice stuck to your shirt
6.You check labels on clothes to see where it's made
7.You hang your clothes out to dry
8.You've had the same bobbed hairstyle since high school
9.You wear fake or original Tommy Hilfiger shirts in bold and shouting prints
10.Your next goal is to buy Polo or Burberry's bag
11.Your ponytail ribbon covers half your head
12.You wore kung fu shoes in high school
13.You use an umbrella for a shade on hot summer days
14.You play basketball in you chinellas (slippers)
AUTOMOBILES & DRIVING
1.Your car chirps like a bird or plays a tune in reverse
2.You have a rosary on your car rear view mirror
3.Your car horn can make three or more different sounds
4.You have those air fresheners in a bottle
5.You own a Mercedes Benz and call it a 'Chedeng'
6.Your car has curb feelers on it
7.You have a fake banana display attached to your car window
8.You own a huge van conversion
9.You do not try to avoid pedestrians
10.A traffic cop says "your license expired eight years ago"
11.A road sign that says "Dangerous curve, Death toll 19" causes you to make another accident
12.For you a yellow light means " go paster"
13.A traffic cop is known to you as a "crocodile"
14.You refer to a female driver as a "lesbian"
15.You insist on fitting 8 people into a taxi, much to the distress of the driver, and say, 'we're making 'kandong'
FAMILY & FRIENDS
1.You were raised believing every Filipino was an aunt and uncle
2.Your dad or uncle was in the Navy
3.Your mom or sister is a Nurse
4.You get smelling kisses from your grandma
5.Your parents call each other mommy and daddy
6.You know someone with a name that repeats itself, i.e. Jon-Jon, Len-Len, Jong-Jong, or Bing-Bing
7.You have aunt & uncle named Baby, Girlie or Boy
8.You know a veteran dynamite fisherman called "Lefty"
9.You have a dog named whitie, blackie or bantay
10.Your parents call each other 'Mahal' and they call you 'Anak' or by your wonderful Filipino nickname you've had all your life (Jang, Cici, Meng, Choy-Choy, etc) ....and you KNOW they're mad at each other or at you when they use actual names

Please don't flame me on some of the "ways" i did not make this up.

[nas]

it never occurs to you that people may not have heard of your university or your clan's last name

Haha. Clan? Quite amusing.


I kinda read up only to there though.

[Jiggapin0]

Hahaha, yeah. A lot of those things apply to me and a lot don't, but cool though.

You refer to a female driver as a "lesbian". Hahaha, never heard that before. LMAO.

[immersion31]

yup, i'm filipino.

[dani41790]

haha lol. im definatly filipino. man its scary how me n mai family fit lyke 9/10 of that stuff.

[sweetpna1]

omg..lol..most of them are really true..lol..

[X serenity]

i'm not filipino/filipina, but the one about the mom and sister being a nurse is true. every filipino/filipina person i met, their moms are always a nurse.

[*CJ1*]

w00t I'm a true Filipino. Hey, did you get that off a magazine called Manilla something? It looks familiar.

[ComradeRed]

Are we going to make one for every Asian country now? Anyway:

+1) When you write your LD cases on Hello Kitty Stationery

[pikimoo]

Holy crud! How do these people know so much? I think only like.. 4 of those didn't describe me o.O;; Yup, I'm filipina.

[ComradeRed]

+2) When you invent words like "Filipina"

[pikimoo]

You mean Filipina isn't a word?

[ComradeRed]

You mean Filipina isn't a word?

No... It's Filipino regardless of gender.

[xquizit]

Haha, I've read that before. A lot of it is true!

[fiji_kid]

filipino/filipina and fijian are the same ???
becoz they got the same kind of behavior.. accept filipino/filipina hair's are like straight

[pimpin231]

my aunt calls me boy

[fiji_kid]

my aunt calls me boy

huh
what has this do with the topic??

[the dispatch]

haha so true, so true

[psychoticangel]

lol!! so true! haha mystical, you filipino too?

haha some comments:

24.You consistently arrive 30 minutes late for events << should be an hour. after all, a 7:00 appointment means you meet up at eight =P

44.You use print rags from an imported fashion magazine as cover of your textbooks and notebooks << all of my notebooks and books are like that until now o.o;;

27.You try hard to speak English and when you don't know what to say next, you say 'you know...' << lmao. true xD

[eboarder2020]

Yep im pinoy...Mark one more...

[177emories]

hehe i guess i'm not one lol, i'm chinese =)

[tinababy143]

im definetely flip...hehe

[Winter]

All these 'You're ___ if' are pretty alike to me. I've read through the Chinese, Korean, Viet and Phillipino ones and according to all of them, I am all of them. They're all the same to me. I do quite a lot of things from each list. And I'm Chinese...

[eggscezz]

i am filipino. most of them are true..

[im like hoy]

yep most of them are true