Hello Hivers! @baby.magic here, back again with another funny story that will surely put a smile on all yo' faces.
So let's get to it.
This is this the first part of a series of post that I'm gonna do about us Filipinos.
How To Spot A Filipino
I think you've heard about Filipinos being crazy about basketball despite our obvious lack of height. We just love the game. And we join a lot of international tournaments so we've gotten a lot of SHORTcomings. But it doesn't keep us on the LOW though. As a matter of fact, it even makes us aim HIGHER 'coz we don't want others to look DOWN on us.
But how do you tell us apart from other Asians?
If you see an Asian in your city that's wearing a mixed-up basketball uniform then that's a Filipino.
It's true. It's like our national costume. If tunics are for Arabs, Kimono for Japanese then its basketball jerseys for Filipinos.
I was in Abu Dhabi back in 2014 and I went to a Baqala, it's like an Arab 7-Eleven, and when I entered the store the Arab owner greeted me..
"Welcome Kabayan! What do you need?"
So I was wondering in my head..
"How the fck does this guy know that I'm a Filipino?"*
And I was looking at him, confused. And he tells me,
"It's the jersey."
So I was in Abu Dhabi and I was new in the city so I took a walk around the neighborhood to see if there are Filipinos near where I live. But I didn't have to go far 'coz all I had to do was look for a basketball court.
And sure enough, I found my Kabayans.
In our national costume.
Wearing slippers.
We live in a tropical country and wearing basketball shoes while playing basketball under the hot sun is not advisable 'coz your feet can get really uncomfortably hot.
We are always wearing a basketball uniform. It's either shorts or jerseys. We like to be ready to play all the time...
...'Coz there's a basketball court in every block.
Sometimes I wonder why it hasn't been included in the Guinness Book of Records yet.
You know..
"Most basketball courts in a country."
Some basketball hoops are even installed to a coconut tree.
So every year it gets harder to dunk on.
There's a lot of basketball courts in my country.
So if you go to the market by foot, there's a big chance that someone's gonna challenge you to a game of basketball along the way.
That's why we always have our jerseys on.
And you know you're in a Filipino community if you see a lot of trash around the trash bin.
A white dude would be like,
"Why are there a lot of trash around the trash bin? Are these people blind?"
Then a Istambay (Jobless bystander) would tell him,
"No, Joe. We are not blind. We just need to work on our shooting. More shooting practice."
If others see a trash bin. We see a basketball hoop.
Sari-sari Store Everywhere
If you don't know what a sari-sari store is, it's our version of convenience stores. And just like basketball courts, there's a sari-sari store in every other two houses.
You know you're in the Philippines if you see a sari-sari store in every other 2 houses.
If somebody actually owned all the sari-sari stores in my country he'd be a billionaire.
If a barrio doesn't have one single sari-sari store in it. Then the people living there are not Filipinos.
Probably Indonesian immigrants.
I don't know why they would migrate to a poor country.
The main reason for moving to a foreign country is to have a better life.
Anywho.
7-Eleven decided to come to the Philippines. I see a lot of their stores in every town I go to.
BIG MISTAKE!
How are you gonna compete with sari-sari stores when you can find 2 or 3 of them in every block.
7-Eleven jacks up the price of their items by 20%, I think. That's not gonna work with us Filipinos.
Filipinos are cheap.
If you sell us something at a high price we're just gonna go to a different store.
We don't care if we walk 4, 5 blocks just to find a store that fits with our budget.
Sari-sari stores only puts 1 peso for every item.
1 peso...that's 2 cents USD.
I don't care if 7-Eleven is a billion-dollar company.
They're not gonna survive in the Philippines.
Filipinos in restaurants
If black people in the US love their fried chicken. Then we Filipinos love our Adobo.
You can spot us in restaurants if you see us go through the whole menu.
We browse through the whole menu coz we're looking for a Filipino dish.
In an Italian restaurant.
And if we can't find what we are looking for then we'd ask the waiter..
"Do you have Adobo?"
And the waiter would be wise enough to say..
"No, sir! But we do have Steak that tastes like Adobo."
"I want that!"
"Give me 5 orders of it."
"And give me a platter of rice too."
Yep. We pair everything with rice.
I know you're not supposed to eat steak with rice but we can't live without it.
We even pair spaghetti with rice 'coz we think it's Pancit.
It's a carb on carb diet. What are you gonna do about it?
We like to take in a lot of carbs into our body 'coz we're gonna play a game of basketball afterwards.
And if there are some leftovers we would ask the waiter to pack the leftovers.
And then we tell the waiter it's for the dog.
But we all know that's what we're having for breakfast the next day.
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