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| Pilipino in Japan are you really a Filipino in Japan |
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Are You Really a Filipino in Japan? How does one know when he has lived in Japan long enough to pack his bags and go home? Here are some sign. 1. You say "Putang-ina mo!" when the one in charge of issuing passports at the Philippine Embassy refuses to accept your application for a passport when your birthname is different from your baptismal name. 2. You take a taxi to go to a place even when it takes only 7 minutes on foot. 3. You go first to the basement at the embassy to eat dinuguan before submitting your application 10 minutes before lunch break. 4. You eat sushi with a fork. 5. You take miso soup from a rice bowl with a spoon. 6. You eat your fish with your hand instead of chopsticks. 7. You serve adobo in the caldero (pan). 8. You put the rice cooker in the middle of the table. 9. You are the only foreigner who orders pig's blood from the butcher. 10. You buy all the fish heads at the fish stall. 11. You save all the wrappers, polyethylene containers, etc. 12. You collect free tissue papers distributed at train stations and send them to Manila for your mother to sell. 13. You send your remittances through your neighbor instead of a bank. 14. You carry a keitai (cellular phone) to church. 15. Your telephone rings in the middle of a mass. 16. You peddle tinapa, tuyo, nata de coco, drugs, langonisa, etc. on the sidewalk near the church on Sundays. 17. You drive a car with an international driving license issued to you by proxy. 18. You work in a gemba (construction) if you are male, and in a mise (bar) if you are female. 19. You call yourself a singer when you accompany a customer in a karaoke. 20. You wear leather jacket and boots when you travel to the Philippines. 21. You wear jeans all year round. 22. You wear gloves, ski cap and ski jacket inside the house in winter. 23. You wear a formal kimono as nightwear. 24. You check in big boxes of electric appliances at the airport but refuse to pay the charge for excess baggage. 25. You go to the food section of department stores when you do not have money and designate yourself as a food tester. 26. You do not own a jewelry box. Your body serves that purpose. 28. You wear rings on all fingers and toes. 29. You have strings of necklaces on your neck. 30. You have an average of 3 holes in your earlobes. 31. You have an anklet or anklets of gold on one or two legs. 32. You prefer gold to platinum because you think it is silver. 33. You call Japanese money "lapad." 34. You think shabu (a stimulant drug) is for dieting. 35. You call your husband by his family name. 36. You call your lover "hoy" or "anone" because you don't know his/her name. 37. You ask your fellow churchgoers to pay your maternity bills. 38. You stick your chopsticks in your rice. 39. You do not slurp your ramen. 40. You don't bring the rice bowl near your mouth when you eat. 41. You wear colorful clothes even in winter. 42. You send chain letters to your friends thinking that God will reimburse you for your mailing expenses. 43. You have a pair of big wooden spoon and fork in your storage because you cannot hang them on your wall. 44. You love scavenging (digging the gomi or trash). 45. You take home toothpicks from the restaurant. 46. You don't flush tissue papers you use in the toilet. 47. You wear shoes in the house when nobody is looking. 48. You take things not yours and say that "God will understand!" 49. You introduce your ex-husband to your new husband as your brother or cousin because you have the same family name. If you are able to answer "Yes" to all or even just a few of the above, then you are a 100% pure Filipino who is entitled to a Philippine passport! Courtesy of:THE PHILIPPINE WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF JAPAN |