1. You point with your lips.
2. You eat using your hands and have it down to a technique!
3. Your other piece of luggage is a balikbayan box.
4. You nod your head upwards to greet someone.
5. You put your foot up on your chair and rest your elbow on your knee while eating.
6. You use a rock to scrub yourself in the bath or shower.
7. You have to kiss your relatives on the cheek as soon as you enter the room.
8. You're standing next to eight big boxes at the airport.
9. You collect items from hotels or restaurants "for souvenir's sake."
10. Your house has a distinctive aroma.
11. You smile for no reason.
12. You flirt by having a foolish grin on your face while raising your eyebrows repeatedly.
13. You go to a department store and try to bargain the prices.
14. You use an umbrella for shade on hot summer days.
15. You scratch your head when you don't know the answer.
16. You never eat the last morsel of food on the table.
17. You go bowling
18. You play pusoy & mah jong
19. You find dried up morsels of rice stuck to your shirt.
20. You prefer to sit in the shade instead of basking in the sun.
21. You add an unwarranted "H" to your name (i.e., "Jhun," "Bhoy," or "Rhon.")
22. You put your hands together in front of you as if to make a path and  say "excuse, excuse" when you pass in between people or in front of the TV.
23. Your middle name is your mother's maiden name.
24. You like everything that's imported or "state-side."
25. You check the labels on clothes to see where it was made.
26. You hang your clothes out to dry.
27. You are perfectly comfortable in a squatting position with your elbows resting on your knees.
28. You consistently arrive 30 minutes late for all events.
29. You always offer food to all your visitors.
    
    VOCABULARY:
30. You say "comfort room" instead of "bathroom."
31. You say "for take out" instead of "to go."
32. You "open" or "close" the lights.
33. You ask for "Colgate" instead of "toothpaste."
34. You ask for a "pentel pen" or a "ball pen" instead of just a pen.
35. You refer to the refrigerator as the "ref" or "pridyider."
36. You say kodakan instead of "take a picture."
37. You order a "McDonald's" instead of a "hamburger" (pronounced  ham-boor-jer).
38. You say "Ha?" instead of "What?"
39. You say "Hoy!" to get someone's attention.
40. You answer when someone yells "Hoy!"
41. You turn around when someone says "Psst!"
42. You say "Cutex" instead of "nail polish."
43. You say "for a while" instead of "please hold" on the telephone.
44. You say "he" when you mean "she" and vice versa.
45. You say "aray!" instead of "ouch!"
46. Your sneeze sounds like "ahh-ching" instead of "ahh-choo."
47. You prefer to make acronyms for phrases such as "OA" for overacting, "DOM" for dirty old man and "TNT" for, well, you know.
48. You say "air con" instead of "a/c" or air conditioner.
49. You pronounce the following words: "hippopo-TA-mus,"  "com-FOR-table,"  and "bro-CO-li,"
50. You say "brown-out" instead of "black-out."
51. You say "Uy!" instead of "Oops."
    
    HOME FURNISHINGS:
52. You use a walis tambo and a walis ting-ting as opposed to a conventional broom.
53. You have a "Weapons of Moroland" shield hanging in your living room wall.
54. You have a portrait of "The Last Supper" hanging in your dining room wall.
55. You own a karaoke system.
56. You own a piano no one ever plays.
57. You have a tabo in the bathroom.
58. Your house is cluttered with burloloys.
59. You have two or three pairs of tsinelas at your doorstep.
60. Your house has ornate wrought iron gates in front of it.
61. You have a rose garden.
62. You display a laughing Buddha for good luck.
63. You have a shrine to the Santo Nino in your living room.
64. You own a "Barrel Man" (shwing!)
65. You have a parol hanging outside your house during the holidays.
66. You cover your living room furniture with bedsheets.
67. Your lampshades still have the plastic covers on them.
68. You have plastic runners to cover the carpets in your house.
69. You refer to your VCR as the "Beyta-Max."
70. You have a rice dispenser.
71. You own a turbo broiler.
72. You own one of those fiber-optic flower lamps.
73. You own a lamp with the oil that drips down the strings.
74. You have a giant wooden fork & spoon hanging in the dining room.
75. You have wooden tinikling dancers on the wall.
76. You own capiz shell chandeliers, lamps or placemats.
    
    AUTOMOBILES:
77. You own a Mercedes Benz and call it "chedeng."
78. You own a huge van conversion.
79. Your car chirps like a bird or plays a tune when it's in reverse.
80. Your car horn can make three or more different sounds.
81. Your car has curb feelers on it.
82. You hang a rosary on your car's rear view mirror.
83. You have those air fresheners in a bottle.
    
    FAMILY:
84. You have aunts and uncles named "Baby," "Girlie," or "Boy."
85. You were raised to believe that every Filipino is an aunt, uncle or cousin.
86. Your dad was in the navy.
87. Your mom or sister is a nurse.
88. You get smelling kisses from your grandma.
89. Your parents call each other "mommy" and "daddy."
90. You have a family member that has a nickname that repeats itself (i.e., "Deng-Deng," "Ling-Ling," "Jong-Jong" or "Bing-Bing.")
91. You put hot dogs in your spaghetti.
92. You consider dilis the Filipino equivalent to french fries.
93. You think that eating chocolate rice pudding and dried fish is a great morning meal.
94. You order things like tapsilog, longsilog, or tocilog at restaurants.
95. You instinctively grab a toothpick after a meal.
96. You order a "soft drink" instead of a "soda."
97. You dip bread in your morning coffee.
98. You refer to seasonings and all other forms of monosodium glutamate as "Ajinomoto."
99. Your cupboards are full of corned beef hash, Spam and Vienna Sausages.
100. "Goldilocks" means more to you than just a character in a fairy tale.
101. You appreciate a fresh pot of hot rice.
102. You bring baon to work every day.
103. Your baon is usually something over rice.
104. Your neighbors complain about the smell of tuyo on Sunday mornings.
105. You eat rice for breakfast.
106. You use your fingers to measure the water when cooking rice.
107. You wash and re-use plastic utensils and Styrofoam cups.
108. You have a supply of frozen lumpia in the freezer.
109. You have an ice-shaver for making halo-halo.
110. Your cloth tablecloths have tell-tale "toyo circles" on them.
111. You eat purple yam-flavored ice cream.
112. You gotta have a bottle of Jufran handy.
113. You fry Spam and hot dogs and eat them with rice.
114. You think half-hatched duck eggs are a delicacy.
115. You know that "chocolate meat" isn't really made with chocolate.
116. 
     

       IT ALL STARTED WHEN..... when a software company asked me

if i was free tomorrow (technically its today...) at 2pm for my 2nd interview...and i obliged.....

then i thought i had a previous engagement to accompany my sister at pasay city sports complex....

THUS, the adventure begins....

I literally.had to sleep early because i have to wake up early in the morning which was 4:00 am...can you believe it?

my sister's class was 7:00 am so we have to hurry.....

we boarded the bus to manila at 5:15 am i even watched the opening song of UNANG HIRIT.....for the first time....

got down at MAGALLANES at exactly 6:00 am well...no troubles....yet

got to pasay city sports complex via libertad-malibay jeepney at exactly 6:15 am and left my sister there..

got to a jeepney back to buendia at 6:20 am....and rode a bus going to ortigas at exactly 6:45 am...well so far so good...my plan was to kill time strolling in SM MEGAMALL

well HERE IT BEGINS.....since i woke up early i got into the bus and not the MRT to kill TIME... i mean HELLO...it was 7 hours till my interview what the heck would i do in those hours? but since i woke up to early...i slept through the bus ride...no worries there....

but then when i woke up i realized that the MRT wasn't in my sight any more welll...i panicked inside...where the hell am i???

i saw that i was already in QUEZON CITY!!! what the---- MUÑOZ MARKET to be exact....the last time i checked i was still in BONI AVE....where the hell am i?

Then i realized that i already passed my original destination! my original plan was to go to SM MEGAMALL in ORTIGAS not to go to SM NORTH EDSA!!

i quickly got out and rode a bus back......to ORTIGAS and this time i was surely wide awake....

the only good thing i got from this situation? well...when i got to MEGAMALL i only had to wait 1 hour till it opens...lucky me...

CONCLUSION: PAY ATTENTION!!!.and wake yoursef up....

Damn. what a MISADVENTURE i had today.....

would tomorrow's adventure surpass what i've experienced today???

well see.........