Another contribution from Kevin...
The 50 Best Things About Being Filipino
1. Yelling "pssst!!!!!" at a gathering of pinoys and watching everyone turn around
2. Crashing a pilipino association picnic at some park and getting
yo'grub on....if questioned....claim your mom's name is "baby"..or dad's is
"boy"
3. Being able to cook rice without the measuring cup
4. Hot pandesal
5. The smell at the pilipino store (whoa, i feel dizzy)
6. Getting a glimpse at the look on your white neighbors' faces when
they get a whiff of the tuyo your mom just cooked
7. Getting anything free
8. Having relatives visit you've never met and gettin $40
9. New slippers
10. Dried mango and bagoong
11. Receiving bootleg Polo or Guess shirts as presents
12. Opening a new bottle of patis and letting it spill on your hand
13. Bypassing the limit on sales of 2-liter soda by bringing your whole
family to the store to buy 4 each
14. Drinking alak with foods like goat or edible beef bile soup with
beef tripe
15. Getting polvoron candies from friends who were vacationing in the
Philippines
16. Eating tocino with newly cooked rice at anytime of the day
17. Having a mini plantation or out of the ordinary vegetables like upo
and chayote and ampalaya or going to someone's house who does have a mini
platation and getting vegetables for free
18. Watching your Titos suck the brains out of the bangus head
19. Eating ox tail, beef tripe, and green veggies in a peanut butter
broth with fried bagoong on the side...(kare kare) [what were they
thinkin??]
20. Singing minus-1/Karaoke
21. Pointing with your lips
22. At parties being told incessantly that you are big now...and asked
how many boy/girlfriends do you have??
23. Flirting with opposite gender by raising your eyebrows rapidly
24. The ablity to feel the underside of a mahjong tile and knowing the
character just by touch....(oooh, what a skill)
25. Tripping over shoes and slippers in the front door entrance of your house.
26. Rice
27. Explaining to your white friends why your front door looks like a
Foot Locker.
28. Burning your tongue on freshly fried lumpia
29. Watching filipino movies and understanding them
30. That cool smell in the house after your parents fry fish
31. Plastic outdoor runners inside the house...looks cooool man!
32. Spam, Corned Beef, and Vienna Sausage, the gourmet meats of
Filipinos!!!
33. Turning over them plastic runners and watching a family member walk
over the spikey side (ouch...hahaha)
34. Spam, Corned Beef, or Vienna Sausage on sale, and buying them by
the case loads
35. When your parents come home from the commissary (groceries bought at
mass quantities at a time)
36. Desserts from "Goldilocks"
37. Eating solely with the use of your hands (no need for utensils)
38. That comfortable feeling you get by eating with your hands, having
one foot rest on the chair you're sitting on, and using that bent knee as
support/balance for your elbow
39. Taking food home from a party
40. Going to a relative's/filipino friend's house and their parents
offer you food (ie. snacks, a meal, a drink) ...actually they don't offer
it, they just kinda give it to you and you take it out of respect and to be
polite (but you know you're really hungry)
41. Cooking rice and having it come out perfect (not too wet or dry)
after you measured just the right amount of water by using the "finger
method"
42. BALUT!! (mmmm..Yummy!)
43. Being exposed to harsh weather (ie. rain, wind, snow, etc.) and your
high aqua net hairsprayed hair is still in place (think back to those high
hair old school days)
44. Bibingka...hot or cold
45. Arrozcaldo or Champorado on a cold, rainy day
46. Seeing the excitement in the faces of your Titas and Titos as they
dance the electric slide, macarena, or any other type of line dances
47. Rice
48. The smell of hot, fresh pandesal in a filipino bakery store
49. When an uncle offers you a beer
50. That sound you make when you run in slippers