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Sun, November 8. 2009

You know you’re a Filipino if.. [Home Furnishings]

  1. You use ‘walis tambo’ and ‘walis ting-ting’ as opposed to a conventional broom
  2. You own a karaoke machine [Magic Sing is a karaoke machine. Bleh!]
  3. You own a piano that no one ever plays [Keyboard lang yung sa amin. But people play it naman. :P]
  4. You have a portrait of the Last Supper hanging on your dining room wall
  5. You have a ‘tabo’ in your bathroom
  6. You have a rose garden
  7. Your house is cluttered with ‘burloloys’
  8. You display a big laughing Buddha for good luck
  9. You have a Santo Nino shrine in your living room
  10. You own a ‘barrel man’ (schwing!) from Baguio
  11. You have ‘parol’ displayed during the holidays
  12. You cover your living room furniture with bed sheets
  13. Your lampshades still have plastic covers on them
  14. You have plastic runners to cover your carpets
  15. You refer to VCR as ‘Betamax’ even if it’s a VHS
  16. You own a rice dispenser
  17. You own a turbo broiler
  18. You own a lamp with oil that drips down to the strings
  19. You have a giant wooden spoon and fork hanging in your dining room
  20. You own Capiz shell chandeliers, lamps or placemats
  21. You have a pair of wooden tinikling dancers on your wall
  22. You have ‘Weapons of Moroland’ shield hanging on your living room wall
  23. Your wall to wall carpeting includes the ceiling
  24. You own one of those fiber-optic flower lamps
  25. Your microwave, washer, TV, VCR, computer, printer, toaster and doorknobs are hidden under quilted covers
  26. You have the entire Apo Hiking Society collection, plus maybe some Tito Mina and Pops Fernandez thrown in
  27. There’s a pail in your bathroom, just in case there’s a water shortage or the toilet won’t flush
  28. You have fly swatter in your kitchen
  29. You have multiplex tapes
  30. You buy song hit mixes like “New Wave Disco Hits



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