Are You Really A Filipino?
115 ways to make sure.....

Scoring (Points):
3- if you can relate to the following characteristics to yourself.
2- if it relates to an immediate family member.
1- if you know who has the characteristics.

Mannerisms and Personality Traits:
1. You point with your lips.
2. You eat with your hands-and have it down to technique.
3. Your other piece of luggage is a balik-bayan box.
4. You nod your head upwards to greet someone.
5. You put your foot up on your chair and rest your elbow on your knees while eating.
6. You use a rock to scrub yourself in the bath or shower.
7. You have to kiss your relatives on the cheek as soon as you enter the room.
8. You’re standiing next to eight big boxes at the airport.
9. You collect items from hotels or restaurants “for souvenir’s sake”.
10. Your house has a distinctive aroma.
11. You smile for no reason.
12. You flirt with a foolish grin on your face while raising your eyebrows repeatedly.
13. You go to a department store and try to bargain the prices.
14. You use an umbrella for shade on hot summer days.
15. You scratch your head when you don’t know the answer.
16. You never eat the last morsel of food on the table.
17. You go bowling.
18. You play pusoy or mah-jong.
19. You find dried-up morsels of rice stuck to your shirt.
20. You prefer to sit in the shade instead of baking in the sun.
21. You add an unwanted “h” to your name i.e. Jhun, Bhoy, Rhon.
22. 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 T.V.
23. Your middle name is your mom’s maiden name.
24. You like everything thats imported or state-side.
25. You check labels on clothes to see where it was made.
26. You hang your clothes out to dry.
27. You are perfectly comfortable in a squatting position with your elbows resting on your knees.
28. You consistently arrive 30 minutes late for all events.
29. You always offer food to all your visitors.

Vocabulary:
30. You say comfort room instead of bathroom.
31. You say “for take-out” instead of “to-go”.
32. You “open” or “close” the lights.
33. You ask for “colgate” instead of “toothpaste”.
34. You ask for a “pentel-pen” or a “ball-pen” instead of just a pen.
35. You refer to the refrigerator as the “raf” or “prigyider”.
36. You say “kodakan” instead of “take a picture”.
37. You order “McDonalds” instead of a hamburger (pronounced ham-boor-jer).
38. You say “Ha?” instead of “What?”.
39. You say “Hoy” to get someones attention.
40. You answer when someone says “hoy”.
41. You turn around when someone says “Pssst”.
42. You say “cutex” instead of nail polish.
43. You say “for a while” instead of “please hold” on the telephone.
44. You say “he” when you mean “she” and in vice versa.
45. You say “aray” instead of “ouch”.
46. Your sneeze sounds like “ahh-ching” instead of “ahh-choo”.
47. You prefer to make anonyms for phrases such as “OA” for over-acting, “DOM” for dirty old man, and ”TNT” for, well you know.
48. You say “air-con” instead of “a/c” or air conditioner.
49. You pronounce the following words: “hippopo-TA-mus”, “com-FOR-table”, “Bro-CO-ili”, and “Montgo-merry Ward”.
50. You say “brown out” instead of “black out”.
51. You say “uy” instead of “Oops”.
52. You start with the word “actually” when your trying to explain something.

Home Furnishings:
53. You have “Weapons of Moroland” sheild hanging in your living room wall.
54. You use walis tambo and a walis tingting as opposed to a conventional broom.
55. You own a Kareoke system.
56. You own a piano no one ever plays.
57. You have a portrait of the Last Supper hanging in your dining room wall.
58. You have 2 to 3 pairs of tsinelas at your doorstep.
59. You have a tabo in the bathroom.
60. Your house is cluttered with burloyloys.
61. You have rose garden.
62. You display a big laughing buddah for goodluck.
63. You have a shrine of the Santo Nino in your living room.
64. You own a “Barrel Man”.
65. You have a parol during the holidays.
66. You cover your living room furniture with bedsheets.
67. Your lampshades still have the plastic covers on them.
68. You have plastic runners to cover the carpets in your house.
69. You refer to your VCR as “Beytamax”.
70. You own a rice dispenser.
71. You own a turbo broiler.
72. You own a lamp with oil that drips down to the strings.
73. You have giant wooden spoon and fork hanging in the dining room.
74. You own capis shell chandeleirs, lamps, or placemats.
75. You have a wooden tinikling dancers on your wall.

Automobiles:
76. You own a Mercedes Benz and call it “chedeng”.
77. You have a fake banana display attached to your car window.
78. You own a huge van conversion.
79. Your car chirps like a bird, plays a tune or plays la cu cu racha while it’s in reverse.
80. You hang a rosary on your car’s rear view mirror.
81. Your car horn can makes three or more different sounds.
82. You have those air freshener in a bottle.

Family:
83. You have aunts and uncles named “Baby”, “Girlie”, or “Boy”.
84. You were raised believing that every Filipino is an aunt, uncle, or cousin.
85. Your dad or your uncle was in the navy.
86. Your mom or sister is a nurse.
87. You get smelling kisses from your grandma.
88. Your parents call each other mommy and daddy.
89. You have a family member that has a nickname that repeats itself i.e. “Deng-Deng”, “Ling-Ling”, or “Jong-Jong”.

Food:
90. You put hotdogs in your spaghetti.
91. You consider dilis the Filipino equivalent for french fries.
92. You think eating chocolate rice pudding and dried fish is a great morning meal.
93. You order things like tapsilo, longailog, tocilog.
94. You instinctively grab a toothpick after a meal.
95. You order a “soft drink” instead of a soda.
96. You dip bread in your morning cofee.
97. You refer to seasonings and all other forms of monosodium glutamata as ajinamoto.
98. Your cupboards are full of corned beef, spam, and vienna sausage.
99. You appreciate a fresh hot pot of rice.
100. You bring your baon to work everyday.
101. Your baon is usually something over rice.
102. Goldilocks means more to you than just a character in a fairy tale.
103. You wash and re-use plastic utensils and styrofoam cups.
104. You eat purple yam flavored ice cream.
105. You know that “chocolate meal” isn’t really made with chocolate.
106. You think half batched duck eggs are a delicacy.
107. You have an ice shaver for making halo halo.
108. Your tablecloth have tell tale toyo circles on them.
109. You gotta have a bottle of Jufran Sauce handy.
110. You use your fingers to measure the water when cooking rice.
111. Your neighbors complain about the smell of tuyo on Sunday mornings.
112. You fry Spam and hotdogs and eat them with rice.
113. You eat rice for breakfast.
114. You have a frozen lumpia in the freezer.
115. You put your arm at the person’s shoulder if he or she is a close friends of yours.

Well you're done, now add up your score and see how many points you got and compare them to the score at the bottom of this sentence.

259-345: Welcome to America! Judging from your high score, you are an obvious transport from the Philippines. There’s no doubt what your ethnic identity is! You’re Filipino, though and through.
173-258: Congratulations, you’re retained most of the Filipino traits and tendencies your family has instilled you.
172 and under: You are an OFT (Obvious Filipino Tendencies). Go with the flow to reach full Filipino potential; Prepare for assimilation; resistance is futile.