MANNERISM & PERSONALITY TRAITS:

• You point with your lips.
• You eat using hands and have it down to a technique.
• Your other piece of luggage is a Balikbayan box.
• You nod upwards to greet someone.
• You put your foot up on your chair and rest your elbow on your knee while eating.
• You use a rock to scrub your self in the shower.
• You're standing next to eight big boxes at the airport.
• You collect items from hotels or restaurants "for souvenir".
• You smile for no reason.
• You flirt by having a foolish grin in your face while raising your eyebrows repeatedly.
• You go to a department store and try to bargain the prices.
• You use an umbrella for shade on a hot summer days.
• You scratch your head when you don't know the answer.
• You never eat the last morsel of food on the table.
• You know how to play pusoy and mah-jong.
• You find dried up morsels of rice stuck on your shirt.
• You prefer to sit in the shade instead of basking in the sun.
• You add an unwarranted "H" to your name, i.e. "Jhun," "Bhoy," and "Rhon."
• 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.
• Your middle name is your mothers maiden name.
• You like everything imported or "state-side."
• You check the labels on clothes to see where it was made before buying.
• You hang your clothes out to dry.
• You are perfectly comfortable in a squatting position with your elbows resting on your knees.
• You consistently arrive 30 minutes late for all events.
• You always offer food to all your visitors.

VOCABULARY:

• You say "comfort room" instead of "bathroom."
• You say "for take out" instead of "to go."
• You "open" or "close" the light.
• You asked for "Colgate" instead of "toothpaste."
• You asked for a "pentel-pen" or a "ball-pen" instead of just "pen."
• You refer to the refrigerator as the "ref" or "pridyider."
• You say "kodakan" instead of take a picture.
• You order a McDonald's instead of "hamburger" (pronounced ham-boor-jer)
• You say "Ha?" instead of "What."
• You say "Hoy" to get someone's attention.
• You answer when someone yells "Hoy."
• You turn around when someone says "Psst!"
• You say "Cutex" instead of "nail polish."
• You say "he" when you mean "she" and vice versa.
• You say "aray" instead of "ouch."
• Your sneeze sounds like "ahh-ching" instead of "ahh-choo."
• You prefer to make acronyms for phrases such as "OA" for over acting, or "TNT" for, well, you know.
• You say "air con" instead of "a/c" or air conditioner.
• You say "brown-out" instead of "black-out."

HOME FURNISHINGS:

• You use coconut husks to polish your floor.
• You use a "walis ting-ting" or "walis tambo" as opposed to a conventional broom.
• You have a "Weapons of Moroland" shield hanging in the living room wall.
• You have a portrait of "The Last Supper" hanging in your dining room.
• You own a Karaoke System.
• You refer to your living room as your "sala."
• You own a piano that no one ever plays.
• You have a tabo in the bathroom.
• Your house has too many burloloys.
• You have two to three pairs of tsinelas at your doorstep.
• Your house has an ornate wrought iron gate in front of it.
• You have a rose garden.
• You have a shrine of the Santo Ninyo in your living room.
• You own a "barrel man" (you pull up the barrel and you see something that looks familiar. schwing...)
• You cover your livin room furnitures with bedsheets.
• Your lamp shades still have the plastic covers on them.
• You have plastic runners to cover the carpets in your house.
• You refer to your VCR as a "beytamax."
• You have a rice dispenser.
• You own a turbo broiler.
• You own one of those fiber optic flower lamps.
• You own a lamp with the oil that drips down the strings.
• You have a giant wooden fork and spoon hanging somewhere in the dining room.
• You have a wooden tinikling dancers on the wall.
• You own capiz shells chandeliers, lamps, or placemats.

AUTOMOBILES:

• You own a Mercedes Benz and you call it "chedeng."
• Your can horn and can make 2 or 3 different sounds.
• Your car has too many "burloloys" like a Jipneys back in P.I.
• You hang a Rosary on your car's rear view mirror.
• You have an air freshener in your car (those lemon-smelling ones).

FAMILY:

• You have aunts and uncles named "Baby," "Girlie," or "Boy."
• You were raised to believe that every Filipino is an aunt, uncle or cousin.
• Your Dad was in the Navy.
• You have a family member or relative that works in the Post Office.
• Your mom or sister or wife is a nurse.
• Your parents call each other "mommy" and "daddy," or "ma" and "pa."
• You have family member that has a nickname that repeats itself, i.e., "Deng-Deng," "Ling Ling," or "Bing Bing." etc.

FOOD:

• You put hot dogs in your spaghetti.
• You consider dilis the Filipino equivalent to french fries.
• You think that eating chocolate rice pudding and dried fish is a great morning meal.
• You order things like tapsilog, tocilog, or longsilog at restaurants.
• You distinctively grab a toothpick after a meal.
• You order a "soft drink" instead of a "soda."
• You dip bread in your morning coffee.
• You refer to seasonings and all other forms of monosodium glutimate as "Ajinomoto."
• Your Cupboards are full of Spam, Vienna Sausage, Ligo, and Corned Beef, which you refer to as Karne Norte.
• "Goldilocks" means more to you than just a character in a fairytale.
• You appreciate a fresh pot of rice.
• You bring your "baon" most of the time to work.
• Your "baon" is usually something over rice.
• You eat rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
• You use your fingers to measure the water when cooking rice.
• You wash and re-use disposable plastic utensils and styrofoam cups.
• You have a supply of frozen lumpia in the refrigerator.
• You have an ice shaver for making halo-halo.
• You eat purple yam flavored ice cream.
• You gotta have a bottle of Jufran or Mafran handy.
• You fry spam or hot dogs and eat them with rice.
• You think that half-hatched duck eggs are a delicacy.

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