Ways to tell if you're a real Pinoy

1) You're related to everyone.
2) Your parents call each other "Mommy" and "Daddy."
3) You have uncles and aunts named Boy, Girlie, or Baby.
4) You have relatives whose nicknames consist of repeated syllables, such as Jun-Jun, Ling-Ling, Mon-Mon.
5) You call the parents of your friends and your own parents' friends "Tito" and "Tita." 6) All of your children have two or more names.
7) You greet your elders with respect by placing their hands to your forehead and asking for their blessing.
8) You always kiss your relatives on the cheek to say hello or goodbye.
9) Your grandmother greets you by giving you "smelling kisses."
10) You live with your parents even after you've married, divorced, separated or have children of your own.
11) You can't build or buy a house unless you first consult a feng shui expert.
12) Your house has a distinctive smell of the orient.
13) You display in your living room your family's framed diplomas, certificates, trophies and photos of relatives.
14) You decorate your dining room wall with a giant wooden spoon and fork and a picture of the Last Supper.
15) You keep your furniture wrapped in plastic or bed sheets to keep the dust away.
16) Most of your home decor is made out of wicker.
17) Your house has a "dirty" kitchen and a "clean" kitchen.
18) Your kitchen table has a vinyl tablecloth.
19) You recycle plastic shopping bags as garbage bags.
20) You have a piano or electronic music keyboard that no one plays.
21) You keep a "tabo" in your bathroom.
22) You own a "barrel man."
23) You use a stone to scrub yourself in the shower.
24) You use Vicks Vapor Rub as an insect repellent.
25) Your meal isn't complete without white rice.
26) You use your fingers to measure the water you need to cook rice.
27) You can't eat a meal without a spoon and fork.
28) When there is a party, you always cook three times more than what your
visitors can consume.
29) Your pantry is never without Spam, Vienna sausage, corned beef, and sardines.
30) You can't enjoy a meal without suka, patis or bagoong.
31) You eat fried fried-chicken, Spam or hotdogs with rice.
32) You eat mangoes with rice - with great gusto.
33) You enjoy chocolate rice pudding and fried dried salted fish together for breakfast.
34) You tail an ambulance or a police car just to beat the traffic.
35) Your car horn can laugh, bark, or moo.
36) Your car plays a song when it backs up.
37) You can squeeze 15 passengers into your Mini or Honda Civic without a second thought.
38) You think traffic regulations are recommendations, not rules.
39) You think that traffic signs apply to everybody except yourself.
40) You think the best drivers are Filipinos.
41) You point to a direction by pouting your lips.
42) You eat using your hands and have it down to a technique.
43) Your other piece of luggage is a balikbayan box.
44) You always try your luck at check-in before departure by being overweight with your baggage.
45) You return after a holiday from the Philippines by smuggling karaoke or Filipino movie CDs/VCDs, exotic foods and fresh veggies that cannot be found anywhere in the world.
46) You collect items from hotels or restaurants "for souvenir's sake."
47) You go to a department store or any shop for that matter and try to bargain the
listed prices.
48) You use an umbrella for shade on hot summer days.
49) You scratch your head when you don't know the answer.
50) You play pusoy, mahjong, or tong-hits.
51) You put your hand in front of you to make a path and say "Excuse, excuse" when you pass in between people or in front of them as a respect.
52) You buy tons of bath towels when they go on sale.
53) You still keep or even wear those outdated clothes you had when you first came to your adopted country.
54) You say, "comfort room or c r " instead of "bathroom."
55) You say, "for take out or take away" instead of "to go."
56) You "open" or "close" the lights.
57) You ask for "Colgate" instead of "toothpaste."
58) You say "Kodak an" instead of "take a picture."
59) You turn around when someone whistles or whispers "Pssssssst."
60) You say "Cutex" instead of "nail polish."
61) You say "he" when you mean "she" and vice-versa.
62) You say, "air-con" instead of "a/c" or air conditioner.
63) You pronounce "F" for "P" or "P" for "F".
64) You own a karaoke system.
65) You have 5 pairs of tsinelas or slippers on your doorstep or shoe cupboard.
66) You refer to your VCR as the "Betamax."
67) You have a rice dispenser with a matching rice cooker.
68) You own a Mercedes Benz and call it "chedeng."
69) You have a holy article or a "My Shaldan" air freshener or a miniature fake banana toy hanging somewhere inside the car.
70) You were raised to believe that every Filipino has an aunt, uncle, and cousins.
71) Your mom, sister, or another female relative is a nurse or teacher.
72) You consider "dilis" or fried dried anchovies the Filipino equivalent of French fries.
73) You dip bread/toast/biscuit in your drink, coffee or hot chocolate drink.
74) "Goldilocks" means more to you than just a character in a fairy tale.
75) Your "baon" or pack lunch is usually something over rice.
76) You eat rice for breakfast.
77) You wash and re-use plastic utensils and styrofoam cups.
78) You have a supply of frozen "lumpia" or spring roll in the freezer.
79) You have an ice-shaver for making halo-halo.
80) You got to have a bottle of "Jufran" handy at all times.
81) You know that chocolate meat isn't really made out of chocolate.
82) You spend Holy Week either performing acts of penitence or vacationing.
83) You get together with the family at a cemetery on All Saints' Day to eat, drink, and tell stories by your loved ones' graves.
And finally,
84) You think the Christmas season begins in September and ends in January.