How Filipino Are You?

1. You say "comfort room" instead of "bathroom"
2. You "open" or "close" the lights
3. You ask for "Colgate" instead of "toothpaste."
4. You ask for a "pentel pen" or a "ball pen" instead of just a pen
5. You refer to the refrigerator as the "ref" or "pridyider."
6. You say "Kodakan" instead of "take a picture."
7. You order a "McDonald's" instead of a "hamburger" (pronounced ham-boor-jer)
8. You say "Ha?" instead of "What?"
9. You say "Hoy!" to get someone's attention
10. You answer when someone yells "Hoy!"
11. You turn around when someone says "Psst!"
12. You say "Cutex" instead of "nail polish."
13. You say "for a while" instead of "please hold" on the telephone
14. You say "he" when you mean "she" and vice versa
15. You say "aray!" instead of "ouch!"
16. Your sneeze sounds like "ahh-ching" instead of "ahh-choo."
17. You prefer to make acronyms for phrases such as "OA" for overacting, "DOM" for dirty old man and "TNT" for, well, you know
18. You say "air con" instead of "a/c" or air conditioner
19. You pronounce the following words: "hippopo-TA-mus," "com-FOR-table," "bro-CO-li," and "Mongo-mery Ward."
20. You say "brown-out" instead of "black-out."
21. You say "Uy!" instead of "Oops."
22. You say "for take out" instead of "to go."

1. You have a "Weapons of Moroland" shield hanging on your living room wall
2. You have a portrait of "The Last Supper" hanging on your dining room wall
3. You own a karaoke system
4. You own a piano no one ever plays
5. You have a tabo in the bathroom
6. Your house is cluttered with burloloys
7. You have two or three pairs of tsinelas at your doorstep
8. Your house has ornate wrought iron gates in front of it
9. You have a rose garden
10. You display a laughing Buddha for good luck
11. You have a shrine to the Santo Nino in your living room
12. You own a "Barrel Man" (you pull down the barrel and you see something that looks familiar ...shwing!)
13. You have a parol hanging outside your house during the holidays
14. You cover your living room furniture with bedsheets
15. Your lampshades still have the plastic covers on them
16. You have plastic runners to cover the carpets in your house
17. You refer to your VCR as the "Beyta-Max."
18. You have a rice dispenser
19. You own a turbo broiler
20. You own one of those fiber-optic flower lamps
21. You own a lamp with the oil that drips down the strings
22. You have a giant wooden fork & spoon hanging in the dining room
23. You have wooden tinikling dancers on the wall
24. You own capiz shell chandeliers, lamps or placemats
25. You use a "walis tambo " and a "walis ting-ting " as opposed to a conventional broom

1. You own a Mercedes Benz and call it "chedeng."
2. You own a huge van conversion
3. Your car chirps like a bird or plays a tune when it's in reverse
4. Your car horn can make three or more different sounds
5. Your car has curb feelers on it
6. You hang a Rosary on your car's rear view mirror
7. You have an air freshener in your car
8. Your car has too many "burloloys" like the Jitneys back in P.I.

1. You have aunts and uncles named "Baby," "Girlie," or "Boy."
2. You were raised to believe that every Filipino is an aunt, uncle or cousin
3. Your Dad was in the Navy
4. Your mom or sister is a nurse
5. You get smelling kisses from your grandma
6. Your parents call each other "mommy" and "daddy."
7. You have a family member that has a nickname that repeats itself i.e.,"Deng-Deng," "Ling-Ling," "Jong-Jong" or "Bing-Bing.")

1. You put hot dogs in your spaghetti
2. You consider dilis the Filipino equivalent to french fries
3. You think that eating chocolate rice pudding and dried fish is a great morning meal
4. You order things like tapsilog, longsilog, or tocilog at restaurants
5. You instinctively grab a toothpick after a meal
6. You order a "soft drink" instead of a "soda."
7. You dip bread in your morning coffee
8. You refer to seasonings and all other forms of monosodium glutimate
9. as "Ajinomoto."
10. Your cupboards are full of Spam and Vienna Sausages, Ligo, and Corned Beef, which you refer to as Karne Norte
11. "Goldilocks" means more to you than just a character in a fairy tale
12. You appreciate a fresh pot of rice
13. You bring "baon" to work every day
14. Your "baon" is usually something over rice
15. Your neighbors complain about the smell of tuyo on Sunday mornings
16. You eat rice for breakfast
17. You use your fingers to measure the water when cooking rice
18. You wash and re-use plastic utensils and styrofoam cups
19. You have a supply of frozen lumpia in the freezer
20. You have an ice-shaver for making halo-halo
21. Your cloth tablecloths have tell-tale "toyo circles" on them
22. You eat purple yam-flavored ice cream
23. You gotta have a bottle of Jufran or Mafran handy
24. You fry Spam and hot dogs and eat them with rice
25. You think half-hatched duck eggs are a delicacy
26. You know that "chocolate meat" isn't really made with chocolate

Now add up all your scores and find out how filipino you are: