so filipino!

This looks like an interesting tag. I'll just highlight the things that I still do as a filipino.
1. You can speak Filipino (erstwhile Tagalog).
2. Whenever necessary, you take the hand of an elder relative and pat the back of the palm of that hand to your forehead and say “mano po”
3. You know “bayanihan” and had witnessed it personally at least once.
4. You’ve seen a bahay kubo at least once.
5. You’ve ridden on a jeepney at least five times.
6. You have separate clothes for in-house and outside use (pambahay at panglakad)
. 7. You’ve eaten adobo, dinuguan, kakanin, tuyo, dilis
8. Your meal is incomplete if without rice
9. You hear Sunday masses and attend Misa de Gallo with your family.
10. You can sing “Lupang Hinirang” very well, with no lines missed.
11. You don’t care donning ragged and torn clothes exclusively for use inside home
12. You have bought items in a “sari-sari store” at least ten times
13. You have played patintero, tumbang preso and piko during your childhood.
14. You can sing at least five OPM songs, and know what OPM means
15. You know the Philippine presidents from the year of your birth onwards.
16. You have witnessed “balagtasan” at least thrice.
17. You’ve been recounted with stories involving aswang, tikbalang, manananggal, nuno sa punso.
18. You’ve been read, have read or have heard Filipino legends (Ang Alamat ng…).
19. You’ve lived, stayed or visited Philippine places other than your city or town at least seven times.
20. You’ve visited local (or public) wet market at least five times.
21. You have heard guys trying to sing Englebert Humperdink songs on a karaoke machine.
22. Your main means of expressing anger is tampo.
23. You eat with your hands or use your fork and spoon together.
24. You visit home taking with you a few balikbayan boxes. (never tried yet)
25. You use “po” at “opo” when talking to older people.
26. You don’t feel comfortable calling people older than you by their first names.
27. You know what a “karitela and “balut”, ” bagoong” are.
28. You know who is Jose Rizal.
29. You know who killed Magellan.
30. You know the Story of Noli Mi Tangere and El Filibusterismo.

Here’s the gauge to tell how Filipino you are: [It increases as you add your own items so adjust your gauge according to your # of items. For those that I tagged…your highest score now is 30 because of the last 3 I added. Make sense? Hopefully…] ———————————————- 22 - 30 = The Filipino blood, spirit and flame burns intensely in you. You are the typical Filipino, who takes pride of your nationality. 17 - 21 = You are proud of your being Filipino and that the traits unique to most Filipinos live in you. 13 - 16 = You are the Filipino who, even adopting strongly the cultures of other nations, still don’t forget some old ways of the Filipino life. 9 - 12 = The Filipino culture has little by little been forgotten by you. You need to at least try some of the items mentioned. 5 - 8 = The Filipino culture has substantially faded in you, or that you have not been exposed to the true, authentic traits of being a Filipino. 1 - 4 = You’re a Filipino, only that you may have not been born and raised in the Philippines and had not lived up or been accustomed to the ways of Filipino living. 0 = You’re not a Filipino.

tagging ate Thess, ate Rose, ate Rissa, ate Idealpinkrose and ate Yen

I don't think I will ever forget my filipino roots. My mom has done a great job in teaching me the true filipino values and I thank her for that. I will be teaching my son the same way even if he grows up here in the states. I feel bad for my cousins who don't know any single thing about being a pinoy, my aunt is really something else for not teaching her sons about their pinoy roots.