You are a true blooded filipino if...

@Patzi_md (129)
Philippines
January 25, 2009 6:10am CST
We are only the ones who use tabo in the bathroom for taking a bath. We eat dirty ice cream, and sometimes call it sorbetes. We use our hands to pick foods we eat and sometimes with foot on the chair while eating which makes us comfortable. We had simbang gabi, puto bumbong, bibingka, christmas caroling, Parol, and noche buena during christmas.
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@angelia286 (2029)
• Singapore
25 Jan 09
Well that is really interesting ! Are those mentioned by you still practised today and still a part of your Phillipino culture?? ANd what is simbang gabi, puto bumbong, bibingka and noche buena? Are they food? Hehe, I just love to learn the cultures of others as it is really interesting to find out more about others who are different from us. For me, I am a Singaporean Chinese and we do not practice our Chinese culture any longer. In fact, majority of us have become so Westernised that our Chinese customs and practices are lost in our modernisation. However, the sure sign of being a SIngaporean is the five kia (scared) - kiasu (scared to lose), Kiasi (Scared to die), Kiabor (Scared of wife), Kiabo liu (Scared no money), Kia Jin Hu (Scared of Government). THat about sums up what makes us uniquely Singaporean! Hehe.
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@lrglara (1334)
• Philippines
25 Jan 09
That's funny... anyway, to enlighten you a little about the Philippines: simbang gabi is not food... Simbang Gabi is the Filipino term for the evening mass during the Christmas season. it goes from 16 December until 24 December (the Christmas eve). its a tradition in the Philippines. other countries / nationalities maybe practicing this but Filipinos sure do love going to Church during the Christmas season. This mass is more of an early morning mass (its at 4:00 am). Puto bumbong and Bibingka are native delicacies in the philippines. They often serve this during the Christmas season and churchgoers love to eat these after the mass. most of the vendors are assemble near the church. "noche buena" - its a spanish word. This is the meal during Christmas eve, served at exactly when the clock strikes 12:00 am, the Christmas day itself. i dont know what noche buena means exactly but that's what we call it. just to give a glimpse of the filipino traditions...
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@online_jon (1476)
• Philippines
6 Feb 09
Hi and hello to all my co-mylot members here in the Philippines. . . Well this is my response to your forum topic entitled " are you a true blooded Filipino". Me i am sure i am a true blooded Filipino because i was born in our country land Philippines and i am very sure because my mother and father are really born also here in our country land. By the way i am very proud being a Filipino for the reason many Filipinos are popular here in our world. I also proud with my dark brown color because it helps me to look nice to other people. And by the way in addition being a Filipino is very useful especially when making friends with other foreign country citizen,because they know that Filipino people is really great and having a great attitude like honesty, kind, thoughtful, caring and many more. If ever you have a chance to visit our country you will experience the good thing about the FILIPINO people. . . Well i think my response was already too long. . . Thank you very much! Happy earning and happy posting. . . Godbless you all always. . . Mabuhay! ! ! Nice forum topic. . .
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@cherriemae (3370)
• Philippines
25 Jan 09
Yes, kababayan.. i'm a true blooded Filipino.. i used tabo in bathroom for taking a bath. Love to eat dirty ice cream with my daughter. Love to eat street foods, bbq's, balot.. Its great to be in the Philippines, with lots of simple things makes me happy..
@mods196621 (3652)
• Philippines
25 Jan 09
That was our way of culture here in the Philippines. We are doing this things only here in our place with no other people to see us. We can do that also even we are in other country only around the Filipino races who knows us. The feeling of comfortable as you have said. That was our native way of being a Filipino. But we are also known of being hospitable.
@Patzi_md (129)
• Philippines
25 Jan 09
What other customs and practices do you think are only in the Philippines? Let's say Fiesta, festivals, etc
• Philippines
25 Jan 09
Yes we also have fiesta and mant more things we recognize as Filipino. And other are not really existing to a new generation. But being a Filipina I am proud of it.