| You Might be Filipino If ... Signs that point out you're from Philippines |
| - you have a "barrel man" in your house. You know, the wooden man. When you lift up the barrel, schwing!!! - you wash your clothes by hand. - you put up your knee while eating. - you eat rice using your hand. - you say “comfort room” instead of “restroom”. - you say “for take out” instead of “to go”. - you point with your lips. - you say “open or close the lights” instead of “turn on or turn off the lights”. - you nod upwards to greet someone. - your nickname is "boy” or “girlie”. - your nickname is composed of double syllables like “TingTing” or “DonDon”. - you ask for “Colgate” instead of toothpaste. - you consider Coke and Pepsi the same thing. - you say “canteen” instead of “cafeteria”. - you eat under-developed duck egg (balut!) . - you call a pen a "ballpoint" or "ballpen". - you say “Kodak-an” instead of “take pictures”. - you kiss the cheek of older people in the house you're about to enter. - you refer to to your refrigerator as "pridyider". - you add the letter “s” to collective words like “furniture” and "equipment" (as in “furnitures” and "equipments") to pluralize them. - you say "pliers" when you meant "fliers". - you say "bitch" when you meant "beach". - you pronounce "comfortable" (com-FOR-table) in a funny way. - you say "boose" for "bus". - you have a Last Supper quilt tacked on your dining wall. - your "walking doll" is still new even though it was bought years ago because your mom kept it in the china cabinet and never let you play with it. - you drive a Mercedes-Benz with maroon seat covers. - you hang a rosary on the rear view mirror of your car. - you have a Santo Nino shrine in your living room. - you buy the karaoke system first before the stereo and TV. - you have an out of tune piano and nobody in the family ever learned to play it. - you say "CHOK-o-late" instead of "chocolate". - you have a "Weapons of Morroland" shield hanging somewhere in the house. - you didn't hear or understand something and your first expression is "HA?". - you're standing next to big boxes at the airport. - you like peanut butter with chocolate. - your car chirps like a bird when it's in reverse. - you automatically turn around when you hear somebody say "psssst". - you instinctively grab a toothpick after a meal. - you laugh seeing somebody slip. - you call somebody by saying "psssst". - you smile/grin a lot even for no reason. - you sit by squatting down and leaning your elbows on your knees. - you refer to kerosene as "white gas". - there are pairs of flip-flops outside your door. - you have power failures called "brown outs" every day at the same time that you can set your watch to. - your biggest frying pan is shaped like a wok. - you own both a rice cooker and an air pot. - you refer to "Accent" and all other forms of monosodium glutimate as "Ajinomoto". - you go to a department store and try to bargain the price. - you drink with your friends and share the same glass, passing it around. - your grocery items always include corned beef and Spam. - you say “Cutex” instead of nail polish. - you are stumped when asked what kind of bread you want in a deli. - you refer to white bread as “pan americano”. - you're the plane passenger with the largest hand-carry luggage. - you scratch your head when you don't know what you're doing. - you don't want to eat the last piece of food on the plate but offer it to others. - you always offer food to guests even though you know they’ve already eaten. - you initially decline an offer of food because it’s expected but then you wait for another offer because it’s also expected. - you say "she" when you should say "he". - you say "ano" as a generic way of expressing things (as in "She was so ano"). - you put your hands together and point them in the direction you are walking to pass between other people. - you say that everybody is your cousin/niece/nephew/aunt/uncle. - you have a big Buddha at home for good luck (not the serene Buddha but the big, fat, laughing one with those little kids crawling all over him). - your ice cold beer really has ice cubes in it. - you have a parol (Chinese lantern) hanging outside your house during the Christmas holidays. - you say things backwards like towelpaper instead of papertowel and stick bread instead of breadsticks. - you say “guper” instead of “gopher”. - you eat rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. - you say "aray" instead of "ouch ". - you write "Filipino" but pronounce it as "Pilipino". - you light enough fireworks to illuminate a small country and ruin your backyard during New Year’s Eve. - you drive a jeep with your family name written on the back. - you preceed anything pluralized with "mga". - you put a little bowl of patis (soy sauce) on the table for dipping. - you cover your living room furniture with bed sheets or plastic covers. - you have toyo (soy sauce) circles on your table cloths. - you wash and reuse disposable styroFoam cups, forks and spoons and of course, aluminum wrapper (Reynolds wrap) or cover paper plates with waxed paper so you can reuse it. - you cover your carpet floors with plastic liners. - you can't pronounce the letter 'F'. - you call all of your parents’ friends "Tita” (aunt) or “Tito” (uncle) and your grandparents’ friends “Lola” (grandmother) or “Lolo” (grandfather) even though you’re not related to them. - you look at clothing labels to see where something was made. - you call the waiter 'boss' or 'brud'. - you burn your trash in the back yard. - you KNOW who your third cousins are and can rattle off their names with no hesitation. - you ask for the “chit” instead of the “bill” at a restaurant. - you're related to everyone. - your parents call each other "Mommy" and "Daddy". - you have uncles and aunts named Boy, Girlie, or Baby. - all of your children have four or five names. - you always kiss your relatives on the cheek whenever you enter or leave a room. - your grandmother greets you by giving you "smelling kisses". - you live with your parents until -- and sometimes even after -- you're married. 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