C says:
Chinese New Year is coming up! As we welcome the year of the Ox, I got to wondering how the celebration of this special occasion managed to influence the lives of the Filipino people. Filipinos are super-adaptive in nature, they absorb other cultures like a sponge so it's no surprise that they too will celebrate January 26 with firecrackers, tikoy, dragon dances, ampaos and round fruits.
E sent me this hilarious email a while back:
Truths about Chinese-Filipino People
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." ("you speak Tagalog well").
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 everytime 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! (soo true)
23. you talk a lot at home but when relatives from china come to stay, u 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. when you could not catch your fish, squid or meat ball with chopsticks, you use your hands.
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).
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!"(chinese people are filthy rich!).
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: 'kain ng gamot'(eat medicine) instead of 'inom ng gamot'(drink medicine).
I died laughing when I read this. It's dead-on. bwe-phai.
E says:
hahaha... and people seem to think that we celebrate 2 new years - one is always on January 1 and the other is on a date which is not constant, oh yes because we look on the Chinese calendar to determine the Chinese New Year date. :)
E sent me this hilarious email a while back:
Truths about Chinese-Filipino People
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." ("you speak Tagalog well").
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 everytime 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! (soo true)
23. you talk a lot at home but when relatives from china come to stay, u 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. when you could not catch your fish, squid or meat ball with chopsticks, you use your hands.
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).
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!"(chinese people are filthy rich!).
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: 'kain ng gamot'(eat medicine) instead of 'inom ng gamot'(drink medicine).
I died laughing when I read this. It's dead-on. bwe-phai.
E says:
hahaha... and people seem to think that we celebrate 2 new years - one is always on January 1 and the other is on a date which is not constant, oh yes because we look on the Chinese calendar to determine the Chinese New Year date. :)
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