YOU KNOW YOU’RE A FILIPINO WHEN…

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* your car chirps like a bird when it's in reverse.

* you turn around when you hear somebody say "psssst."

* you instinctively grab a toothpick after a meal.

* you order the longanisa meal on a PAL Balikbayan flight.

* you laugh seeing somebody slip.

* you burp when you're busog (full or after sipping a beer) and laugh like a loon when you start burping competitions

* you call somebody "psssst."

* you smile/grin a lot even for no reason,

* you sit by squatting down and leaning your elbows on your knees.

* you use a Bolo to cut the grass in the yard.

* you refer to kerosene as "white gas."

* there are pairs of flip-flops outside your door

* you have power failures 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 glutamate as "Ajinomoto"

* you go to a department store, and try to bargain the price.

* you drink with your friends and share the same glass, and pass it around.

* you have a cart full of corned beef during a sale.


 

* you say kutex instead of nail polish

* you are stumped when asked what "kind of bread?" in a deli.

* 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 say "she" when you should say "he"

* you say "ano" this and "ano" that (‘what?)

* 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 like what the Thais have, but the big, fat, laughing one with those pesky little kids crawling all over him).

* you bring a "baon" (snack or prepared meal) to work everyday, you're probably a Filipino.

* your ice cold beer really has ice cubes in it.

* you eat balut and wash it down with beer to bulk up.

* you have a parol hanging outside your house during the Christmas holidays.

* you say things sorta backwards like towel paper instead of paper towel 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 look up and say "ha!" when somebody says "what's up".

* you write "Filipino" but pronounce it as "Pilipino".

* you can sustain jokes like this one indefinitely.

* you often say 'Bulaga!' when you want to scare someone.

* you fire your gun like crazy on new year's eve

* you drive a jeep with your family name written on the back.

* you precede anything pluralized with "mga."

* you put a little bowl of patis on the table for dipping, and your guests complain "who farted."

* you cover your living room furniture with bed sheets.

* you have toyo 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.