1. When you're at family parties, you struggle to keep up with the family gossip and shade thrown in tagalog.
2. Your parents enforced the rule of "no boypren".
3. So, naturally, you probably had a secret boyfriend.
4. Even though this was a universal rule, every family member would ask if you had a boyfriend.
5. You're used to your Mom pointing with her lips instead of her fingers. 
6. Your parents either go through every one of your siblings' names before your own name.
7. But for the most part, your parents call you anak.
8. You still have trouble remembering the name of all your cousins(blood-related and not blood-related), so you resort to just calling them "Ate" or "Kuya".
9. Family party? You mean drunken karaoke night?
10. Saying no to karaoke is like stabbing your Mom in the heart.
11. You secretly loved karaoke.
12. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner isn't complete without "kanin".
13. Your Mom lectures you for becoming "americanized".
14. At the beginning of every family party, your aunts tell you that you've gained weight.
15. Later, at that same party, those aunts tell you to get more food on your plate.
16. Someone in your immediate family is a nurse.
17. Your curfew was 9PM even though you left at 7PM.
18. You're over 20 years old, and your curfew is still 9PM.
19. Running to the filipino store meant stocking up on pancit canton and begging your Mom for halo-halo.
20. Bringing your non-Filipino friends to a Filipino party means answering the pressing questions: "is that a roasted pig?" and "what is the chocolate in the chocolate meat?"
21. You literally always smell like food.
22. The fear of walking out of the house and smelling like residual tuyo is always at an all time high.
23. You know better than to NOT "mano"/"bless" your elders.
24. Walking around the house without tsinelas is a grave sin.
25. A Pacquaio fight was treated as a national holiday.
26. Miss Philippines winning Miss Universe this past year shook up everyone in your family.
27. You know that family is over everything.
