You know you are married to a Filipina if....

[RonnieKris 26]

I know my bride to be is a Filipina because:

~ She says "open" or "close" the lights.

~ She asks for Colgate instead of toothpaste.

~ She does "mano po" to older people in the house she's about to enter.

~ She refers to the refrigerator as "pridyider".

~ She has a rosary on the rear front view mirror of her car.

~ She buys the karaoke system first before the TV.

~ She says "hoy" to get someone's attention.

~ She goes to a department store and try to bargain the price.

~ She has a cartful of corned beef during a sale.

~ She wears her fancy clothes and jewelry whenever she travels to and fro the Philippines.

~ She eats rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

~ She points with her lips.

~ She says "kutex" instead of nail polish.

~ She puts her hands together and point to the direction she is walking to pass between other people.

ROFLMAO

[bevs 0]

I just find it amusing...

proud to be a pinay, and proud to have those aspect being a pinay wife

[liraC 2]

Perhaps the American men will find these more humorous than the Filipinas. Guys, be prepared for some change in your life when you get here home....

You may be married to a Filipina if...

While this has circulated on the internet for quite some time, I have no idea who originally wrote it, though there can be NO doubt that the fella has a Filipina wife...by the way, this is all in good fun, so I hope no one is offended by some of the broader generalizations here. Some of these items I didn't understand myself, but most struck a familiar chord, and my wife enjoyed it (well, most of it), so I figure it's safe for public consumption.

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You may be married to a Filipina If... (written by an American guy who loves his Filipina wife in spite of the numerous irregularities):

* Your refrigerator is always full but you cannot find any food that you recognize

* Instead of a dowry, you got the whole bill for the wedding and honeymoon

* Most of the decorations in your house are made of wicker

* You are expected to be able to read her mind just by watching her eyebrows move up and down and by the way her lips are pointed

* All her relatives think your name is "Joe"

* The instant you are married you have 3,000 new close relatives that you can't tell apart

* Your house isn't really on fire, you've just got a very charred fish on top of the stove burner

* All the desserts are sticky and all the snacks are salty

* She eats her fruit with giant salt crystals and her fried chicken with ketchup

* Even the ketchup tastes weird...very weird

* You throw a party and everyone is fighting to chop the leathery skin off a dead pig

* All your kids have 4-5 middle names

* Your in-laws take 10 years to acknowledge your existence and to call you by something other than "that white guy"

* You try to call her up on the phone and someone tells you "for a while" and you want to know "for a while, what??"

* You are trying to go to sleep and she keeps asking for the comFORT'r, and you ain't got a clue what she's talking about

* Your first Christmas present is some funny looking, baggy, see-thru shirt made out of leftover lace doilies

* Your phone bills are composed mostly of international and calls that average 3 hours each

* She sweeps with something that witches usually fly around on

* Her idea of classy, expensive champagne is Asti Spumante

* The rice cooker is on 24 hours a day and uses up 50% of your electricity and food budget

* On your first trip to the Philippines, you have 18 giant boxes that weigh 1000 pounds each and your "carry on" luggage requires a small forklift truck

* The same luggage is over filled with things that cost an average of 15 cents each like old magazines and M&Ms -- the worst part is when you get off the plane, the same stuff you've been hauling around half way around the world is available in every store in the airport for half the price!

* All her pajamas look like they were worn by the Dalai Lama until they got too faded and he discarded them

* The first time she's pregnant you have to go out at 4:00 in the morning looking for some weird type of greasy sausages, green mangoes and bagoong

* You buy a new $500 freezer so she can store 200 pounds of SPAM and CORNED BEEF that was on sale

* Everything in your house was bought on sale, even if you don't need it ... that it was a "bargain" is all that matters

* She gets really excited by sucking the fat out of pig knees

* Your daughter gets her ears pierced when she's 2 minutes old but your sons are not circumcised until they turn 21

* All your postage bills instantly double

* You hire a Ya-Ya because your wife ckeabs mirrors with soap and a sponge and the Ya-Ya seems cheaper than a divorce

* The only "white meat" she likes is YOU. And that's if you're lucky...

* Her favorite sauce is called "patis." Americans call it turpentine

* She actually thinks that bowling and golf and billiards are real sports and are more important than baseball and football

* You were married 5 years before she explained to you that "ARAY!" doesn't mean "ooh, baby!"

* She prefers bistek to beef steak

* Her idea of new upholstery is rinsing the bagoong stains out of the slip covers

* She can eat and talk at the same time; in fact that's her specialty!

* Her favorite meal is leftovers, her favorite fancy dessert is Jell-O mold and for something REALLY romantic, she'll offer you a halo-halo with 2 straws

* You still don't know the difference between manong and manok

* She and the kids are always saying "Daddy made utot" and you still don't know what it means, but they think it's pretty funny

* Other than eyebrow raising and lip puckering, her next most expressive form of communication is grunts and pssst's

* She goes to the movies just for the AC

* Her homeland has more Megamalls than islands

* Before every holiday and visit, her sisters fax you a 10 page "bilins" list which says "suggestion only"

* Your kitchen table has a merry-go-round in the middle

* All the vegetables she buys at the Filipino store look like they were grown at Chernobyl

* Her friends are named Chinky, Girlie, Boy and Bimbo and NO, you are not allowed to smirk

* Her home economics course only taught shopping, eating and siesta; cooking, cleaning and sewing were not electives

* Her idea of edifying reading is gossip magazines

* All your place settings have the silverware backwards and there are no knives

* She washes her hair with a bucket and her car with a broom

* Her favorite book (she has 3 copies) is "1001 New Recipes for Pig Parts You Were Gunna Throw Out"

* You are the only family in a 200 mile radius with 2 Betamaxes, 3 televisions

* She's done her best job planning a surprise party for you if she manages not to tell you about it until a week or two before

* She "cleans" her closet by throwing all the ####### into your closet

This is just partly true and partly not.. Some of them are different than what other people think of.. I dont think this post is funny.. it is more kind of humiliation..

I agree w/ you..i dont think its funny..

[Noh81 0]

I know my bride to be is a Filipina because:

~ She says "open" or "close" the lights. -----I don't say those....

~ She asks for Colgate instead of toothpaste. ----- I say toothpaste

~ She does "mano po" to older people in the house she's about to enter. ----no mano po at home...father says it's traditional Kastila style or way of discipline which he doesn't like so he doesn't impose

~ She refers to the refrigerator as "pridyider". ---- I rather say ref

~ She has a rosary on the rear front view mirror of her car. ----no rosary we're not catholics

~ She buys the karaoke system first before the TV. ----- tv only no karaoke, hehehe

~ She says "hoy" to get someone's attention. ----- Bingo! hehehe

~ She goes to a department store and try to bargain the price. ---- not at the department store! heheheh maybe in tiangge

~ She has a cartful of corned beef during a sale. ----- just a few, not fond of canned goods

~ She wears her fancy clothes and jewelry whenever she travels to and fro the Philippines. ---- no jewels, and more on shirts and jeans....hahaha

~ She eats rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. ---- Bingo again!...

~ She points with her lips. ----- sometimes!

~ She says "kutex" instead of nail polish. yeah sometimes...heheheheh

~ She puts her hands together and point to the direction she is walking to pass between other people. ....i rather say " excuse me" but in front of people watching tv at home, bow a little while passing, and say excuse me...

and I'm 100% pinay!

[Key 0]

i think i read this before coz my husband search this it is written by a foreigner who married a filipina their is a website that ung mga foreigner they are sharing and writing their experiences to how their filipina wives act.

its sound funny but i really know that its really true most. we filipino knows na mostly mga pinay come from the province is married with a foreigner talaga..but as what i read before they are not trying to make fun with their wives but they are just sharing how they adjusted and thought their filipina wives.

I forgot the websites where my husband found it but im pretty sure it is written by a foreigner as what i remember:-)

It sounds funny but i really saw when i was a college and we have a tourism tour in bohl and we stayed in a nice resort and their is a foreigner who have a filipina gf that his the one who teaches her how to used the utensils?! its funny but itr true..

This one is not to offend filipinas me myself but its really true talaga na some of us are like that hindi naman all sa lista makita mo for one person but each talaga merong ugali na nandiyan sa lista:)

[nathanp 6]

haha a lot of that is so true.my fiance and i arent married yet.....but we have been together for over 2 years and i noitced a lot of that.especially the broom thing and then the family being so big.every time i talk to her.she has a new cousin behind her watching me.i started making jokes that her family is made up of every filipino.(she laughs at it and agrees).i dont think there is 1 thing on that list that isnt my fiance.but in spite of it.i love her to death.shes the best.