Jinra ([info]jinra) wrote,
2005-07-17 01:49:00
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BROWN PRIDE aka my mom and grandparents are back from the Philippines

My home smells like dried fish and old people (With the exception of my room.), my karaoke song book just got thicker, and I've got enough brand new pairs of Third World underwear to win myself a foreigner groom in search of a mail order bride. Could life be any more sweeter than this? I think not.

Instead of me going to the Philippines this year, the Philippines brought itself to me -- my grandparents are home! It's been 7 or 8 years since I last saw them, and they're still the same awesome *Nanay and Tatay that I knew them, only...shorter and more arthritis affected than before. As expected, they've lost some of their English speaking ability but I'm so used to speaking to people with limited English speaking abilities that it's not even a big deal. My Nanay looked at my cellphone and noticed that I had Kwon Sang Woo's AND Daniel Henney's face on the LCD screens (haha yeah I have two LCD screens on my cellphone) and she asked, 'JEEN-RAH WHO EES DAT ON JORE CELLPONE, HA? WHOS DAT?' I was totally like, "They're my boyfriends Nanay!" And she believed me. 'WOW JEEN-RAH JORE BOYPRENZ ARE BERRY HENDSOME OOOH HENDSOME HENDSOME POR MY *GWUAPA GWUAPA GRANDDOTER!' Isn't that awesome, no one else but my grandmother would believe that I am dating hot sexy Asian models and/or celebrities. She sees past my mediocre single-girlness, I guess. And the fact that I am a nerdy 20yr old girl that keeps pictures of male celebrities on her phone, among other places. Yeah, okay you can stop laughing at me now. I had to tell her that I was, '*MAGKATAWA SIYA! JOKE ONLY JOKE ONLY NANAY!




* = In the Bisayan dialect of the Filipino language Nanay and Tatay (na-nai and ta-tai) means Mom and Dad and Lola and Lolo mean Grandma and Grandpa, but when I was little I could never call them Lola and Lolo because I would always hear my mom call them Nanay and Tatay and my brother and I would just copy her and it stuck. So we really call our grandparents...mom and dad. Which is okay because we don't call our own parents Nanay and Tatay. Just good ol' Mom and Dad. 'Gwuapa'= pretty. 'Magkatawa siya' = She laughs!/She's laughing!. My bisayan spelling might be way off though, haha.

ps. Dang, I'm slacking on reading through LJs...but only because I figured my whole friends page would be jam packed with 'OMG HARRY POTTER!' entries.

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[info]hwee

July 17 2005, 09:12:40 UTC 6 years ago

Haha well i'm an exception :D I dislike Harry Potter.

[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 20:24:20 UTC 6 years ago

Whoa really? Why? I don't hate or like Harry Potter, but I'm wondering why you dislike Harry Potter.

[info]hwee

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[info]floodbeast

July 17 2005, 09:26:04 UTC 6 years ago

Oh snap speaking of Tagalog, I saw some cheesy Filipino horror movie called "Feng Shui" I was laughing. I had a beer during the movie and laughed a lot more. I just realized that Pogi means handsome. That movie made me want to learn Tagalog!

[info]kristinthegreat

July 17 2005, 19:44:54 UTC 6 years ago

my parents call one of the dogs at home Pogi :) [his real name is Buddy]

[info]jinra

6 years ago

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[info]city_of_walls

July 17 2005, 09:52:13 UTC 6 years ago

Sounds like you are having fun! :^)

[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 20:27:02 UTC 6 years ago

Indeed!

[info]aiturnizzle

July 17 2005, 10:18:39 UTC 6 years ago

omgz bisaya. i was wondering why you were calling them nanay and tatay seeing as they were your grandparents XD

GAH i wish i could speak bisaya. I can understand it completely, but when i trya dn string a sentence together... I SOUND SO TARDED

[info]malarosas

July 17 2005, 17:08:01 UTC 6 years ago

You and me both. I wish I could speak it but when I say it, UGH. I sound stuupid. :p

[info]jinra

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[info]gottalove

July 17 2005, 15:11:34 UTC 6 years ago

lol@dried fish and old people!.

like my house except kimchi and old people. old people rule tho. haha

[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 20:29:04 UTC 6 years ago

I think I can tolerate kimchi more than I can tolerate the dried fish haha. For awhile, I've always had a tub of it on hand...but I haven't been out to Koreatown to buy me a new tub. :( I miss buying kimbap too.

[info]malarosas

July 17 2005, 17:07:03 UTC 6 years ago

I love dried fish! It sticks so bad and our home is so small that we never cooked it here. But in Philippines, MAN, my parents can't get enough of that stuff. And with soy sauce and vinegar? MMMMM.

It's good that mostly everyone in Philippines understand English, so there snot communication barrier. But you might find some people's pronounciation not understanble but other than that...

[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 20:30:03 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah that shit is everywhere in the Philippines! I like it, when I'm in the mood for it.

And ditto on the English!

[info]jiltu

July 17 2005, 19:04:58 UTC 6 years ago

Your grandparents sound pretty funny. xD

'WOW JEEN-RAH JORE BOYPRENZ ARE BERRY HENDSOME OOOH HENDSOME HENDSOME POR MY GWUAPA GWUAPA GRANDDOTER!'
*cracks up*

[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 20:32:00 UTC 6 years ago

They are a riot!
DOSE KOREE-AHN BOYZ ARE BERRY BERRY *GWUAPA GWUAPA KAAYO!

*GWUAPA = pretty/handsome
*KAAYO = very

[info]jiltu

6 years ago

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[info]limonada

July 17 2005, 19:27:10 UTC 6 years ago

heppy pace!

did they bring you soen panties?! i love those giant vag-hammocks!

ok i need my harry potter book(s?) back! i gotta do some referring back to some chapters to clear my mind about this one! ahhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeee

you + me = fish balls soon!

[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 20:32:45 UTC 6 years ago

YES!
And I just called and left you a vmail ;)

[info]superkingpin

July 17 2005, 19:29:43 UTC 6 years ago

I'm so not into Harry Potter, eh I was at Barnes&Noble the other day and they were setting up some craziness for the people who were waiting for their reserved copies, blah.

[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 20:34:06 UTC 6 years ago

I KNOW, BITCHEZ GO CRAZZZY FOR HARRY POTTER! I had to grab my issue of Shojo Beat and B&N all fast like so no one would go crazy thinking I was gonna jack their copy of Half Blood Prince.

[info]kristinthegreat

July 17 2005, 19:49:15 UTC 6 years ago

i don't care for harry potter at all!
we all called my dad's dad tatay and my mom's mom mama, and i don't call my parents that either :)

[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 20:35:07 UTC 6 years ago

Okay good, I was thinking it was a little strange to be calling your grandparents mom and dad...but then again, we do have Filipino people walking around named 'Princess', so I guess it's okay.

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[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 20:37:06 UTC 6 years ago

Re: convert sinner

I CHOOSE PERISH! Don't nobody be speaking that shit in my family!

No humongous pillows, just third world underwear and a new chip for the karaoke machine. My mom didn't buy much because you can find all that shit they have in the Philippines here.

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[info]jinra

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[info]oranjepeel

July 17 2005, 21:45:05 UTC 6 years ago

old people smell = weird herbal medicine smell?

so cute!! my cousin would call my grandma/pa (in korean, "halmuhni/halabuhji") "halmi/halbi" because he couldnt make out all the syllables.

ooh, i love grandparents!

[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 22:28:48 UTC 6 years ago

Yes weird herbal medicine smell, and my grandma smells like sweet dried mangoes.

Okay, you'll probably think I'm the nerdiest ever but hahaha I knew what grandma was in Korean! But halmi is tooo cute!

[info]redhandbag

July 17 2005, 22:10:58 UTC 6 years ago

what can brown do for you?

third world undies! that's hot!

haha, reminds me of my mother. She comes home from Wal-Mart with a handful of $0.44 undies that I can use as sling shots.

oh! got a question for ya. my parents have a couple filipino friends who aren't genetically related to us, but they've known them and their family long enough that they refer to them as though they're related. and I end up referring to the parents as my aunt & uncle and their children as my cousins, but we're really not. do your parents do that?

[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 22:29:28 UTC 6 years ago

Re: what can brown do for you?

Yeah, pretty much.

[info]kaylistar89

July 17 2005, 22:20:02 UTC 6 years ago

I dont like harry potter. :(

[info]jinra

July 17 2005, 22:30:16 UTC 6 years ago

Aw. Why not? I don't like it, nor do I not like it...

[info]kaylistar89

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[info]andtheafterglow

July 18 2005, 00:01:43 UTC 6 years ago

my sister-in-law is half filipino and so her daughters are part filipino.. her dad is from the philippines.. anyway, my nieces call their grandpa lolo but they call their grandma just grandma (or "grandma puggy" because she's the grandma with, um, a pug) because she's white. ANYWAY. he teaches them some filipino words and tells them stories about how when he was a kid in the philippines, the only toys he had were live monkeys and they'd tie them to a tree and put honey on it so the monkeys would freak out because they couldn't climb it.

yeah. i dunno where this is going, you mentioning the word "lolo" made me think of it. :)

[info]jinra

July 19 2005, 07:38:59 UTC 6 years ago

HAHAHAHAHA! Man, I wish there were monkeys in the part of the Philippines my parents lived in. I'm sure that'd make for better storytime instead of listening to how your parent found bugs, put them in a can and made shakers out of the cans hahaha. Or how they picked fights with all the Muslim kids.

[info]bitch_train

July 18 2005, 00:10:17 UTC 6 years ago

i tried to read and watch harry potter. boring.

[info]jinra

July 19 2005, 07:39:31 UTC 6 years ago

:(

[info]liquidwith

July 19 2005, 20:41:23 UTC 6 years ago

holy shit... that's so freakin' funny. you capture the pilipino accent so accurately.

[info]jinra

July 20 2005, 20:48:05 UTC 6 years ago

It's my specialty!

[info]chiken_nugget

July 24 2005, 00:00:24 UTC 6 years ago

hahaha you crack me up silly. I found your journal somehow, maybe through are you chinky or something. anyways, i added you if its ok! I really enjoy reading thru your entries. anyways..yeah.

[info]jinra

July 24 2005, 00:04:11 UTC 6 years ago

No prob, I love new buddies!
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