Filipino-Chinese

My fil-chi friend tagged me in this note in facebook.. and i just wanted to see how many of them applied to meee :D

1. your standards for evaluation are limited to "not bad" (bwe-phai) and "good enough" (ham-ham).

* Hahaha not really..my comments are usually expressed in the superlatives. Like "nindota ana uy!! (That's so great!) or Batia ana uy!! (That's so NOT great!) hahaha

2. you watch the old chinese variety shows on cctv and the rest of the chinese channels on cable.

*Hahaha sometimes I do. But I really really love old Chinese movies, especially the nostalgic Chinese ghost movies. And a recent IP Man movie night has me quite taken too :)

3. the only thing you can read in a chinese daily newspaper is the daily's name .

* Correct!hahahaha

4. your pinoy friends ask for tikoy/hopia/mooncake from you, and they're more excited eating it than you are.

* Quite right. I never did seem to like these delicacies...only the ube-flavored hopia from OngPin.

5. you're usually not allowed to wear black, although you want to look thinner.

* Super NA! I have a lot of blacks... and I want to look fatter!hahaha

6. your family car's plate number begins with 8.

* The family car doesn't, but my car does. Though I don't think that was done on purpose :))

7. when you speak to an elder and you forget the chinese term for a particular item, and say "hio-nge hio-nge hio-nge basta hio-nge, la!".

* Haha, for lack of better things to say, mouth hio-nge three times:))

8. your friends greet your parents "a-pe" or "um-a" or auntie, or uncle.

* Yes we doooo=p

9. you affix "-la", "-lo" to your pinoy/taglish sentences.

* Hahaha, no I don't!!:))

10. you affix "ba", "naman" or "pa" to your chinese sentences.

* Hahaha super guilty of this one. But really, hello? Gua bui KA kong STRAIGHT eh Chinese MAN!hahahaha :))

11. your food vocabulary consists of kiam-peng, cha-peng, am-beh, mi-sua , cha-sio,ma-ki-mi, hee-chee, mazhang.

* All my favorite foods in the world =p

12. your parents think that a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship is the same as getting married.

* To that effect..yes!:))

13. you speak chinese at home, speak filipino with friends, and write in english!

* I speak Bislish, and Taglish to friends ; Chinese to the oldie Chinese and parents of friends; and whatever language at home!hahaha

14. you love lao fu zi even if you could never figure out what they were talking about.

* No I don't. I tried to read, and maybe even muster a fake laugh...but nooo, I dont really get lao fu zi.haha!

15. you know the beneficial effects of chrysanthemum tea and black duck soup.

* Haha I don't, but I love tea ^^

16. you say "wa-kong-ah !" or "wah-pai-ah!".

* No no...

17. you have a cough, and your mom insists that you drink 'pei-pa-koa' and for stomach ache, 'tsing-lo-ing'.

* Hahaha YES! Pei pa koa is my staple cough medicine, along with the coconut extract, and the ball medicine in wax. :))

18. when seated around a chinese lauriat, you insist back and forth that other people take the first serving.

* I thought that just meant I had good manners^^ Hahaha!

19. you mix the hard-boiled egg cooked in adobo (lo-neng) with your rice.

* Yes, it's my favorite!! :D

20. you had culture shock in college.

* No, not really. :)

21. your pinoy friends ask for the chinese translation of "i love you", and certain "curse words".

* They also ask me to baptize them with Chinese names!hahahaha :D

22. the only first aid kit you bring with you is white flower.

* And the ever reliant jap Stick.hahaha :))

23. you are a tsinoy, when in math class, you mumble the chinese multiplication table when mutiplying numbers. ex. di it di (2x1=2) ; di di si (2x2=4).

* So truuuueee! LOL

24. you understand why "kai-shao" is more complicated than a "blind date".

* I dooo.hahaha

25. the first reaction from new pinoy friends is "mayayaman ang mga intsik!".

* Yes, this one is true as well.

26. you greet a friend on the phone by asking if he's eaten (dee chia beh?) or what he is doing (leh tshong shia?).

* But that's how you should always greet people right??

27. you say: (a) 'kain ng gamot' instead of 'inom ng gamot' (chia iyo kasi, eh) (b) 'hugas ng picture' instead of 'pa-develop ng picture' (swe siong kasi, eh).

* hahaha, d sad uy!:))

some of the "down sides":

1. your 'howe' must be a chinese too.

* Nope, but I have a partiality for cute oriental looking guys man.haha!

2. literacy in fukien is a must.

* Yes if you hang out with the older peeps!

3. black is a big no.

* N/A :)

4. you should be home by 9pm or 10pm (for girls with extremely strict families) or 12pm max (for girls with medyo strict families)

* Extremely strict diay ko na category!hahahah :D

some of the "good sides":

1. you get a lot of "ang pao" during your birthday, christmas, chinese christmas, new year, and chinese new year.

2. you get new set of clothes during chinese new year.

3. you get a lot of stuff during mooncake festival at "pua tiong tsiu"

4. you are always fetched by car (for girls with extremely strict families :)