Facts about filipino chinese

Filipino Chinese teen actress Kim Chiu

Here's a list of facts about filipino chinese(Fil-Chi). I really can relate this in real life and being a Filipino Chinese is fun and really tough because it has pros and cons. Read the list below. Kim Chiu's so cute in this photo.^^

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 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!

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. kung hindi mo na matusok ang fish/meat/squid ball with your chopstick, kinakamay mo nalang.

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!".
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.

Jupiter, Venus and the moon make a smile

Last December 2, I was going home after school. It was around 8 in the evening somehow I gazed upon the sky and look I saw a smiley in the sky. The two stars forming the eyes and the shape of the moon clinching up the smile. It was really cool to see this once in a lifetime event, unfortunately I wasn't able to get pictures of it since I was in Divisoria and scared that my cellphone will be snatched. Well, the next day It was featured in the inquirer magazine. Amazing!

From the inquirer

MANILA, Philippines—Now showing in the Philippine night sky: A smiling face formed by the rare alignment of planets Venus and Jupiter and directly below it, the crescent moon.

Jose Pepe Mendoza, of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), told the Philippine Daily Inquirer Tuesday that Venus had aligned with Jupiter to form the right and left eyes respectively, while the moon, on its first phase, had formed a happy mouth.

Mendoza said there was a similar “planetary conjunction” of the same planets in February “but only in the morning sky ... It is pretty rare to see this in the evening sky.”

He explained that the moon was “waxing crescent into its first quarter” together with Venus and Jupiter against the background of the constellation Sagittarius.

The conjunction can be viewed, Mendoza said, in the country’s south-western horizon.

No smileys in US, Europe

The smiling face can also be seen in Australia. However, the sky show in the United States and Europe will have Jupiter, Venus and the moon in a frown, a survey of news reports on the Web showed.

Mendoza said the unusual alignment will be visible until January next year. Astronomers are in for another heavenly treat, he added, because on Dec. 13, there will be a meteor shower.

Is a smiley in the heavens a good or bad omen?

Good luck?

“There are people who believe that the smiling face would bring good luck. Or good results in whatever one undertakes,” Mendoza said.

However, he could not say if the alignment would be good for the country’s political situation.

According to an astrologer, Resti Santiago, the alignment bodes well for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in forming alliances and partnerships—a fortuitous coincidence, as her allies are marshalling moves to amend the Constitution allegedly to extend her term.
Her good luck, however, could be short-lived, he warned.

Turbulence next week

Basing his analysis on the astrological chart of the President, Santiago said: “Her chart shows that these days, there will be some luck for her in forming partnerships and alliances. This good luck has been activated by the recent alignment of three heavenly bodies ... but next week will be a turbulent time because the sun and Mars will form a negative alignment with Saturn and Uranus.”

Nonetheless, Santiago said, the “smiling face” will bring good luck since Venus and Jupiter are considered lucky planets.

Also in luck are those born in the signs of Taurus, Capricorn and Virgo, he said.

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Asian Backstreet Boys and Moymoy Palaboy

A few years ago, lip singing and posting it in Youtube was the so called "in" thing. The wacky face expressions people used to do. Just rekindling last night about the chinese backstreet boys and our country's very own version Moymoy Palaboy who got into showbiz just by posting their videos on youtube.

Asian Backstreet Boys-That Way

Moymoy Palaboy-Wanna be

You could check out other videos of Moymoy palaboy at their site: Moymoy Palaboy

Chat with me with Yahoo Pingbox

I've recently found a cool widget that bloggers can make a good use of. It's called the Yahoo Messenger Pingbox, basically all you need is a yahoo messenger account and you can get your very own widget that you can post in your blog like this one or any other social networking sites that you have like friendster, multiply etc.

The application enables you to chat with the owner of the site when he/she is online in his ym account. Cool right! I've just added one in my blog so if ever you see me online, say hi to me and introduce yourselves.

31 ways to make a girl smile

31 Ways To Make A Girl Smile

1. Dont hug her friends or your friends that are girls cause she'll feel left out

2. Hold her hand at any moment . . . even if its just for a second.

3. Hug her from behind

4. Leave her voice messages to wake up.

5. Wrestle with her

6. Don't go hang out with your ex when shes not with you, you might not realize how badly it hurts her.

7. If you're talking to another girl, when you're done talking, walk over and hug her and kiss her.... let her know she's yours and they aren't.

8. Write her notes or call her just to say "hi"..and not just at night after you've already been out with other girls.

9. Introduce her to your friends . . . as your girlfriend.

10. Play with her hair.

11. Pick her up

12. Get upset if another guy touches her and she doesn't like it.

13. Make her laugh, if you can make her laugh, you can make her do anything.

14. Let her fall asleep in your arms.

15. If she's mad at you, kiss her.

16. If you care about her, then tell her

17. Every guy should give their girl 3 things: a stuffed animal(she'll hug it every time she goes to sleep), jewelry (she'll treasure it forever), and one of his t-shirts (she'll most likely wear it to bed).

18. Treat her the same around your friends as you do when you're alone.

19. Look her in the eyes and smile.

20. Hang out with her on weekends

21. Kiss her in the rain

22. Kiss her just for the heck of it

23. If your listening to music, let her listen too.

24. Remember her birthday and get her something, even if

its simple and inexpensive, it came from YOU. it means all the world to HER. it's the thought that counts.

25. When she gives you a present on your birthday, Christmas, or just whenever, take it and tell her you love it, even if you don't (it'll make her happy.)

26. Always call her when you say you will, it may not seem like it, but it does hurt her and makes her think you don't care so call even if you can only talk for a minute. Girls don't necessarily have to have hour-long conversations every night but its nice for us to hear your voice even for a quick hello.

27. Give her what she wants

28. Recognize the small things . . . they usually mean the most.

29. Tell her shes beautiful, she needs to know her striving is working.

30. Hang out with her whenever you are free and u should be free to hang

with your girlfriend all the time

31. If u care about her...SHOW her!

Gmail now has new themes

When I checked my email, I was surprised that Google Mail( Gmail) is now offering new themes to your mail account. There's a wide variety of themes that you'll surely like. I wonder when yahoo will make the same as gmail. Checking your email never have been this fun.

Console vs Online Gaming

I remember the first time I played console games with the Nintendo system. Those were Street Fighter and the famous Super Mario Bros. It me took countless hours of playing - until I finished the game and then play them all over again. Meanwhile, new Playstation and PS2 games have been published to grab a significant portion of the market share.

With the evolution of technology, game developers have crossed through another medium called the Internet and massively multiplayer PC games have been produced. Thus was born the MMORPG.

Which is better? You decide.

CONSOLE GAMES

A big advantage of console gaming over online games is that you don’t have to update the hardware to play. Console games are also compact, you can bring it whenever you want to. Another advantage of console games is you can feel at ease playing. Just sit back and relax while playing with your friends.

Now let’s look at the darker side, a somewhat negative aspect of consoles would be new developments and upgrades in software and hardware. This means you will have to buy their new product just to play. An example is Sony’s PS2 to PS3. Another setback: some game titles are offered in other consoles but not on the rival ones. An example would be Metal Gear Solid series and Tekken which are published in the Playstation but aren’t offered in the rival Xbox systems. This means you have buy their consoles just to play the game. Note that gaming isn’t cheap.

ONLINE GAMES

With online games, there is a wide range of games to choose from - from action games to casual games and more. The community is also a big advantage. As a member of the online community, you get to meet a lot of people worldwide and gain friends or guildmates/clubs and then play together while defeating bosses or finding a rare item. People usually want to express themselves through the virtual world, and online games offer customization through your characters. Game developers also release new updates and content giving you more reasons to play the games and be stronger (or just look cooler with your character.)

One sad fact of online gaming is that it’s not easy for game makers to develop new updates and content. Players constantly want new innovations. If game developers couldn’t give new updates, surely their community (and the game) will falter.

Choose what suits you the best.

Deepest Diving Pool in the World

Nemo 33, located in Belgium is a small recreational scuba diving center. The pool is 33 feet deep filled with rooms and passages that await the divers who want to venture in. It was designed by John Bernaets, also a Belgian and a diving instructor as a multi-purpose diving instruction, recreational, and film production facility.

It has been opened since 2004 attracting tourists and divers. Not your usual indoor scuba diving activity. I wonder if our country have our own recreational scuba diving center. LOL

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