- 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.
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