Being Chinese-Filipino

1. Your standards for evaluation are limited to "not bad" (bwe-phai) and "good enough" (ham-ham).
2. You count every single centavo that comes in and out of your wallet.
3. You watched the PROC national day celebration on sky/home cable.
4. You watch the old Chinese variety shows on CCTV and the rest of the Chinese channels on cable.
5. You voted/wanted to vote Ping Lacson for president.
6. People have told you, "magaling ka pala managalog.".
7. You're the prime target of 'kotong cops' in Binondo.
8. You make today's rice tomorrow's fried rice.
9. Today's leftovers are tastefully mixed in tomorrow's "bi-hun" or "ma-mi".
10. The only thing you can read in a chinese daily newspaper is the daily's name .
11. Your pinoy friends ask for tikoy/hopia/ mooncake from you, and they're more excited eating it than you are.
12. You're usually not allowed to wear black, although you want to look thinner.
13. Your family car's plate number begins with 8.
14. 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!".
15. Your friends greet your parents "a-pe" or "um-a" or auntie, or uncle.
16. You end up being the tour guide every time you and your pinoy friends make an expedition to Binondo.
17. You went bananas when Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat, Jet lee, and Zhang Zi Yi went international.
18. You affix "-la", "-lo" to your Pinoy/Taglish sentences.
19. You affix "ba", "naman" or "pa" to your chinese sentences.
20. Your food vocabulary consists of kiam-peng, cha-peng, am-beh, mi-sua , cha-sio, ma-ki-mi, hee-chee, mazhang.
21. Your parents think that a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship is the same as getting married.
22. You speak Chinese at home, speak Filipino with friends, and write in English!
23. You talk a lot at home but when relatives from china come to stay, you become as meek as a goat around them and all you say is "ho", "tam-po", "eh hiaw".
24. You love Lao Fu Zi even if you could never figure out what they were talking about.
25. You know the beneficial effects of chrysanthemum tea and black duck soup.
26. You say "wa-kang-ah !" or "wah-kwee-ah! ".
27. You've eaten food after it has been offered to your dead ancestors.
28. You pronounce "c" or "k" like "kh" like "khas" instead of cash, "khomputer" for computer.
29. You have a cough, and your mom insists that you drink 'pei-pa-koa' and for stomach ache, 'tsing-lo-ing'.
30. When seated around a Chinese lauriat, you insist back and forth that other people take the first serving.
31. You mix the hard-boiled egg cooked in adobo (lo-neng) with your rice.
32. Tinutusok mo nalang iyong fish/meat/squid ball with your chopsticks!
33. Kung hindi mo na matusok ang fish/meat/squid ball with your chopstick, kinakamay mo na lang.
34. Your parents (esp. the mother) claim they're both Buddhist/Taoist and Christian!!!
35. You have to work on the 24th, 25th, 30th, and 31st of December.
36. You had culture shock in college.
37. Your Pinoy friends ask for the Chinese translation of "i love you", and certain "curse words".
38. You go to Hap Chan for a mid-night snack.
39. The only first aid kit you bring with you is white flower.
40. You think the center of life in the Philippines is around the 3 mile radius of Binondo church.
41. 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). (hahahahahaha.)
42. If you are male, you have a name that ends with "-son", i.e. Jefferson, Emerson, Wilson, Stevenson, Michaelson, Kingson.
43. You understand why "kai-shao" is more complicated than a "blind date".
44. The first reaction from new Pinoy friends is "mayayaman ang mga intsik!".
45. At least one member of your family has already gone to china to "tian-jin".
46. You greet a friend on the phone by asking if he's eaten (dee chia beh?) or what he is doing (leh tshong shia?).
47. 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).

Like wildlife, sad to say, there is an endangered Chinese culture in the Philippines.

While this culture is great, it does has its down sides. it "might" be the right thing but it's just kind of frustrating.

Some of the "down sides"
1. Your 'howe' must be a Chinese too.
2. Literacy in Fukien is a must.
3. Black is a big no.
4. You are required to work during your free time... no excuses
5. You are required to know everything, ignorance won't be tolerated.
6. You should be home by 9pm or 10pm (for girls with extremely strict
families) or 12pm max (for girls with medyo strict families)

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 :) but sometimes it can be annoying for the girls).
5. Asking for discount in 168 mall or Divisoria mall is easier.