| 100 Best Things of Being Pinoy |
| 91. Sunday Family Gatherings. Or, close family ties that never get severed. Sundays will always have a special touch. You don't have to win the lotto or be president to have 10,000 relatives. Everyone's family tree extends to all over the archepelago & it's at its best in times of crisis. Notice how food, hostesses, money & support materilze during a wake? 92. Calesa & Karitela. The colorful & leisurely way to negotiate when loaded down with a year's provisions. 93. Quality of Life. Where else can an ordinary employee afford a stay-in helper, a yaya, unlimited movies, eat all you can buffets, the latest fashion (Baclaran nga lang), even Viagra in the black market? 94. All Saint's Day. In honoring our dead, we also prove that we know how to live. 95. Handicrafts. Shellcrafts, rattancraft, abaca novelties, wood carvings, banig placemats & bags, bamboo wind chimes, etc. Portable memories of home. Hindi lang pang turista, pang balikbayan pa! 96. Pinoy Greens. Sitaw, okra, ampalaya, gabi, munggo, dahon ng sili, kang kong, luya, talong, sigarilyas, bataw, patani. Lutong bahay will never be the same without them. 97. OCWs. The length & mileswe'd go for a better life for our family, as proven by these modern day heroes of our economy. 98. The Filipino Artists. From Luna's magnificent "Spolarium," and Amorsolo's "Sun Kissed Ricefields," to Ang Kiukok's jarring abstractions & Borlongan's haunting ghosts & everybody else inbetween. Hang a Filipino painting on your wall, and you are hanging one of Asia's best. 99. Tagalog Soap Operas. From "Gulong ng Palad & Flor de Luna," today's incarnations like "mula sa Puso," they are the story of our lives & we feel strongly for them. And it goes on, and on, and on. 100. Midnight Madness, Weekend Sales, Bangketas & Baratillos. It's retail therapy at it's best, with Filipinos braving traffic, crowd & human deluge to find a bargain. |
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