Sunday, April 20, 2008

Are you really a Filipino?

Take this quiz and find out how Filipino you are:

Rule : change the color for those things that you think is true to you (take mine as a sample: RED = True to me)


Mannerism and Personality Traits
You point with your lips.
You eat using your hands - and have it down to a technique.
Your other piece of luggage is a Balikbayan box.
You always have at least three other people taking you to the airport.
You're standing next to eight big boxes at the airport.
You nod upwards to greet someone.
You put your foot up on your chair and rest your elbow on your knees while eating.
You use a rock to scrub yourself in the shower.
You have to kiss your relative on the cheek as soon as you enter the room.
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 day.
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 mahjong.
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 - Bhoy, Rhonnie,...
You put your hands together in front of you as if to make a path and say "Excuse, excuse" when you pass between people or in front of the TV.
Your middle name is your mother's 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 pronounce F's like P's and P's like F's.
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 "ballpen" 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 a 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 overacting, 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 a walis ting-ting or walis tambo as opposed to a conventional broom.
You have a "Weapons of Moroland" shield hanging in your 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 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 living room furnitures with bedsheets.
Your lamp shades still have the plastic covers on them.
You have plastic runners to cover the carpet 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 a capiz shells chandeliers, lamps, or placemats.

Automobiles
You own 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 horn can make two or three different sounds.
Your car has curb feelers or curb detectors.
Your car has too many burloloys like a Jitney back in P.I.
You hang a Rosary on your car's rear view mirror.
You have an air freshener in your car.

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 a family member that has a nickname that repeats itself - Deng Deng, Ling Ling, Bong Bong, etcetera.

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 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 fairytale.
You appreciate a fresh pot of rice.
You bring your baon to work most of the time.
Your baon is usually something over rice
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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.
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.
You know that "chocolate meat" is not really made with chocolate.

Now count all those that you have changed color (that's your score) and CLICK HERE for the result and post it below


  • Mae score is 55 - You have OFT (Obvious Filipino Tendencies). Go with the flow to reach full Filipino potential. Prepare for assimilation; resistance is futile!
  • YOU here

Now i wanna share this to Ruby, Flor, Bevs, Ellen and Mylyn..

Source : Romeo DeGuzman Fremont, California

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