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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Ways To Know You Are A Filipino

I found this while browsing the Internet and I think it's really funny while somehow informative. Enjoy!


Ways To Know You Are A Filipino

1. You point with your lips
2. You nod upwards to greet someone.
3. You collect items from hotels or restaurants "for souvenir".
4. You smile for no reason.
5. You flirt by having a foolish grin in your face while raising your eyebrows repeatedly.
6. You go to a department store and try to bargain the prices.
7. You add an unwarranted "H" to your name, i.e. "Jhun," "Bhoy," "Rhon."
8. You put your hands together in front of you as if to make a path and say "excuse, excuse" when you pass in between people or in front of the TV
9. You like everything imported or "state-side."
10. You Check the labels on clothes to see where it was made before buying.
11. You always offer food to all your visitors.
12. You say "comfort room" instead of "bathroom."
13. You say "for take out" instead of "to go."
14. You asked for "Colgate" instead of "toothpaste."
15. You asked for a "pentel-pen" or a "ball-pen" instead of just "pen."
16. You order a McDonald's instead of "hamburger"(pronounc ed ham-boor-jer)
17. You say "Ha?" instead of "What."
18. You say "Hoy" to get someone's attention.
19. You answer when someone yells "Hoy."
20. You turn around when someone says "Psst!"
21. Your sneeze sounds like "ahh-ching" instead of "ahh-choo."
22. You prefer to make acronyms for phrases such as "OA" for over acting, or "TNT" for, well, you know.
23. You say "air con" instead of "a/c" or air conditioner.
24. You say "brown-out" instead of "black-out."
25. You have a portrait of "The Last Supper" hanging in your dining room.
26. You own a Karaoke System.
27. You own a piano that no one ever plays.
28. You own a "barrel man" (you pull up the barrel and you see something that looks familiar. schwing...)
29. You refer to your VCR as a "beytamax
30. You have a giant wooden fork and spoon hanging somewhere in the dining room
31. Your car has too many "burloloys" like a Jipneys back in P.I.
32. You hang a Rosary on your car's rear view mirror.
33. You order a "soft drink" instead of a "soda."
34. You refer to seasonings and all other forms of monosodium glutimate as "Ajinomoto"
35. This you 'll agree 100% ... Goldilocks" means more to you than just a character in a fairytale.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Enrile fumes over lost phone load

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=472052&publicationSubCategoryId=68

I had the same problem like this when I was a prepaid subscriber. I thank the good Senator Enrile for bringing up this issue in the Senate and I hope that the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) will do something about this and will not be forgotten in a few months. This has been a long problem with this telecommunications company and the public has been suffering long enough regarding this exploitation and NTC haven't done anything.

It might be a blessing in disguise that Sen. Enrile was victimized by this scam because this won't be brought up if it didn't happen to him or to any public official. I'm hoping that he has the political will to pursue this case, just like what he did with the PPA of Meralco.

NTC should protect us consumers from scams like this from the 3 telcos. There were several instances when my 12 year old brother complains about his prepaid load because he lose it in a couple of minutes after loading up P30. These Telcos deserve to be punished with the full force of law.

This is long overdue. Ordinary people have suffered so much, being robbed with their hard-earned money. I hope this matter would have an early & effective resolution.