You know you're Filipino when...

1. You point with your lips
2. You nod upwards to greet someone.
3. You collect items from hotels or restaurants “for souvenir”.
4. You smile for no reason.
5. You flirt by having a foolish grin in your face while raising your eyebrows repeatedly.
6. You go to a department store and try to bargain the prices.
7. You add an unwarranted “H” to your name, i.e. “Jhun,” “Bhoy,” “Rhon.”
8. You put your 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
9. You like everything imported or “state-side.”
10. You Check the labels on clothes to see where it was made before buying.
11. You always offer food to all your visitors.
12. You say “comfort room” instead of “bathroom.”
13. You say “for take out” instead of “to go.”
14. You asked for “Colgate” instead of “toothpaste.”
15. You asked for a “pentel-pen” or a “ball-pen” instead of just “pen.”
16. You order a McDonald’s instead of “hamburger”(pronounced ham-boor-jer)
17. You say “Ha?” instead of “What.”
18. You say “Hoy” to get someone’s attention.
19. You answer when someone yells “Hoy.”
20. You turn around when someone says “Psst!”
21. Your sneeze sounds like “ahh-ching” instead of “ahh-choo.”
22. You prefer to make acronyms for phrases such as “OA” for over acting, or “TNT” for, well, you know.
23. You say “air con” instead of “a/c” or air conditioner.
24. You say “brown-out” instead of “black-out.”
25. You have a portrait of “The Last Supper” hanging in your dining room.
26. You own a Karaoke System.
27. You own a piano that no one ever plays.
28. You own a “barrel man” (you pull up the barrel and you see something that looks familiar. schwing…)
29. You refer to your VCR as a “beytamax
30. You have a giant wooden fork and spoon hanging somewhere in the dining room
31. Your car has too many “burloloys” like a Jipneys back in P.I.
32. You hang a Rosary on your car’s rear view mirror.
33. You order a “soft drink” instead of a “soda.”
34. You refer to seasonings and all other forms of monosodium glutimate as “Ajinomoto”
35. This you ‘ll agree 100% … Goldilocks” means more to you than just a character in a fairytale.

Writing again.

For 3 years, I was writing in my MySpace blog. I used to be really prolific writer back in the day with observations about life, my life, events I see and just random things in general. It all came to a end when a couple of things happened.

1. I got a bad feeling when someone in real life that I was good friends with, got offended with an entry and said that I was "coincided" and any other bad word that you can think of.
2. When I first started dating my future wife to be.

Those two events made me decide to stop blogging. Why? What was I thinking? Blogging was a outlet for me in those days to reflect on what was going on. I stopped for the sake of one person? I am feeling better because I am writing again and I still don't feel motivated enough to write all the time. I am married now and that makes it not easier to write what comes to mind that you want to share to the world and to express just to get it out of your system. When I got married, I just wanted to limit the amount that I do just to make my wife happy but I found out that was not the case. Why limit yourself after you got so much in the world in the palm of your hand?