Signs you are a FILIPINO (4)

CLOTHING AND APPEARANCE

There's Johnson's Baby Powder compacts lurking in your makeup drawer
You use Perla soap on your face
You have several pairs of 'tsinelas' at your doorstep
You deliberately flaunt your pager and cellphone
You find dried-up morsels or rice stuck to your shirt
You check labels on clothes to see where it's made
You hang your clothes out to dry
You've had the same bobbed hairstyle since high school
You wear fake or original Tommy Hilfiger shirts in bold and shouting prints
Your next goal is to buy Polo or Burberry's bag
Your ponytail ribbon covers half your head
You wore kung fu shoes in high school
You use an umbrella for a shade on hot summer days
You play basketball in your tsinelas (slippers)

FAMILY & FRIENDS

You were raised believing every Filipino was an aunt and uncle
Your dad or uncle was in the Navy
Your mom or sister is a Nurse
You get smelling kisses from your grandma
Your parents call each other mommy and daddy
You know someone with a name that repeats itself, i.e. Jon-Jon, Len-Len, Jong-Jong, or Bing-Bing
You have aunt & uncle named Baby, Girlie or Boy
You know a veteran dynamite fisherman called "Lefty"
You have a dog named whitie, blackie or bantay
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


FOOD

You think eating chocolate rice pudding and dried fish is a great morning meal
You order breakfast items like tapsilog, longsilog, or tocilog at restaurants
You always grab a toothpick after each meal
You order a 'soft drink' instead of soda
You dip bread in your morning coffee
You refer to seasonings and all forms of MSG as 'Ajinomoto'
Your cupboard is full of corned beef hash, spam and vienna sausage
You appreciate a fresh pot of hot rice
You bring your 'baon' to work everyday
Your 'baon' is usually something over rice
Goldilocks means more to you than a fairy tale character (bakery)
You wash and re-use plastic utensils and styrofoam cups
You eat purple Yam flavored ice cream (ube)
You know that 'chocolate meat' isn't really made with chocolates
You think half-hatched duck eggs (balut) are a delicacy
You have an ice shaver for making 'halo-halo'
Your cloth tablecloths have telltale 'tuyo' circles on them
You have to have a bottle of Jufran handy
You use your fingers to measure the water when cooking rice
Neighbors complain about the smell of 'tuyo' on Sunday mornings
You fry Spam and hotdogs and eat them with rice
You eat rice for breakfast
You have a supply of frozen lumpia in the freezer
Your buy ketchup made from bananas and named after alien spaceships
You've eaten hotdogs made from worse things than lips and ass
You put hotdogs in your spaghetti
You consider dilis the Filipino equivalent to french fries
You know the meaning of double dead egg. double dead chicken
The pasalubong you want from Manila is cornik, which you snack on eight times a day in the office
Your idea of a diet is a diet coke with a McDonald's meal
You serve coffee in small glass coffee containers
You drink beer with ice

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