You know you’re a Filipino if.. [Clothing | Driving]
- There’s Angelique eyeliner and Johnson’s Baby Powder compacts lurking in your makeup drawer
- You use Perla soap on your face
- You have several pairs of ‘tsinelas’ at your doorstep
- You deliberately flaunt your pager and cellphone [No way. Don’t wanna flaunt my phone uii. Ma.snatch pa lang. tsk2x.]
- You find dried-up morsels or rice stuck to your shirt
- You check labels on clothes to see where it’s made
- You hang your clothes out to dry
- You’ve had the same bobbed hairstyle since high school
- You wear fake or original Tommy Hilfiger shirts in bold and shouting prints
- Your next goal is to buy Polo or Burberry’s bag
- Your ponytail ribbon covers half your head
- You wore kung fu shoes in high school
- You use an umbrella for a shade on hot summer days
- You play basketball in you chinellas (slippers) [Not that I play basketball much. haha.]
Your car chirps like a bird or plays a tune in reverse
You have a rosary on your car rear view mirror
Your car horn can make three or more different sounds
You have those air fresheners in a bottle
You own a Mercedes Benz and call it a ‘Chedeng’
Your car has curb feelers on it
You have a fake banana display attached to your car window
You own a huge van conversion
You do not try to avoid pedestrians
A traffic cop says “your license expired eight years ago”
A road sign that says “Dangerous curve, Death toll 19” causes you to make another accident
For you a yellow light means ” go paster”
A traffic cop is known to you as a “crocodile”
You refer to a female driver as a “lesbian”
You insist on fitting 8 people into a taxi, much to the distress of the driver, and say, ‘we’re making ‘kandong’
[CAN’T RELATE TO ANY OF THE DRIVING THINGIES AS I DON’T DRIVE YET. HAHA!]
