– You point with your lips.
– You eat using hands and you 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 think that half-hatched duck eggs are a delicacy.
– You have to kiss your relative on the cheek as soon as you enter the room.
– You’re standing next 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 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 like bowling.
– 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,” “Rhon.”
– You put 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.
– You say “comfort room” instead of “bathroom.”
– You say “for take out” instead of “to go”
– You say “open” or “close” the light.
– You ask for a “pentel-pen” or a “ball-pen” instead of just “pen.”
– You asked for “Colgate” instead of “toothpaste.”
– 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” get someone 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 “array” 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.”
– You use a “walis ting-ting” or “walis tambo” as opposed to a conventional broom.
– You use 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 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 Niño” in your living room.
– You have a “barrel man” (you pull up the barrel and you see something that looks familiar. Schwing…)
– You cover the living room furniture with bedsheets.
– Your lamp shades still have the plastic cover 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 boiler.
– You own one of those fiber optic flower lamps.
– You own a lamp with oil that drips down the strings.
– You have a giant wooden fork and spoon hanging somewhere in the dining room.
– You have a giant wooden tinikling dancer on the wall.
– You have capiz shells chandeliers, lamps, or placemats.
– You have a Mercedes Benz and you call it “chedeng.”
– You own a huge van conversion.
– Your car chirps like a bird or plays a tune when it is in reverse.
– Your car horn can make 2 or 3 different sounds.
– Your car has curb feelers or curb detectors.
– Your car has too many “burloloys” like a Jeepneys back in P.I.
– You hang a rosary on your car’s rear view mirror.
– You have an air freshener in your car.
– You have aunts and uncles named “Baby,” “Girlie,” or “Boy.”
– You were raised to believe that every Filipino is a aunt, uncle or cousin.
– Your Dad was in the Navy.
– Your mom or sister or wife is a nurse.
– You have a family member or relative that works in the Post Office.
– 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”
– 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 thing like tapsilog, tocsilog, or longsilog at restaurants.
– You instinctively grab a toothpick after each 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 glutamate 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 fairy tale.
– You appreciate a fresh pot of rice.
– You bring your “baon” most of the time to work.
– Your “baon” is usually something over rice.
– Your neighbors complain about the smell of tuyo on Sunday mornings.
– You eat rice for breakfast.
– You use your fingers to measure the water when cooking rice.

Very true. lol. I’m proud to be one. 🙂