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crankylexIt was Rox's birthday yesterday.
(Rox, for those of you unfamiliar, is our adopted Filipina sister. We met her shortly after she arrived from the Phillipines. She went to work with my cousin Amy, and she was living in this boarding house, so Amy took pity on her and offered her a room in their house. Now Rox has been taken into the collective bosom of our family.)
And apparently, it is a tradition in the Phillipines that the birthday girl makes a meal for her family and friends. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
minniem, I needed you there to translate, because there was a handful of Flips there and they were chattering madly, and I could only pick out the two words I know. Hee.)
Rox made SO MUCH food. We stuffed ourselves. I drank two bottles of wine myself. The hangover started before the night was over. It was embarrassing.
Who gets drunk on Arbor Mist? It wasn't even real booze.
(Rox, for those of you unfamiliar, is our adopted Filipina sister. We met her shortly after she arrived from the Phillipines. She went to work with my cousin Amy, and she was living in this boarding house, so Amy took pity on her and offered her a room in their house. Now Rox has been taken into the collective bosom of our family.)
And apparently, it is a tradition in the Phillipines that the birthday girl makes a meal for her family and friends. (
minniem, I needed you there to translate, because there was a handful of Flips there and they were chattering madly, and I could only pick out the two words I know. Hee.)Rox made SO MUCH food. We stuffed ourselves. I drank two bottles of wine myself. The hangover started before the night was over. It was embarrassing.
Who gets drunk on Arbor Mist? It wasn't even real booze.
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Date: 2002-11-24 06:56 pm (UTC)And apparently, it is a tradition in the Phillipines that the birthday girl makes a meal for her family and friends.
It's a tradition in some places in the Philippines. In other places, it's the other way around -- friends and family make the meal for the celebrant. It's usually a mix of all her favorite foods.
(minniem, I needed you there to translate, because there was a handful of Flips there and they were chattering madly, and I could only pick out the two words I know. Hee.)
You get a crowd of Filipinos together and of course they'd be chattering madly. And simultaneously. I'll bet there were at least three conversations going on at the same time and everyone participated in them. Heh.
So what Filipino words do you know?
If they'd been speaking in anything but Tagalog (national language), Bisaya or Cebuano (two other dialects I know), I wouldn't be able to translate. There are too damn many Filipino dialects.
Rox made SO MUCH food. We stuffed ourselves.
Not a surprise there. It's all about the food when there's a Filipino gathering. Well, the food and the drinks and the talking.
Mmmm, I miss Filipino food. Lucky you!
Who gets drunk on Arbor Mist? It wasn't even real booze.
Ahahahaha! Okay, I'm not laughing at you but at the fact that there was Arbor Mist at the party. It's a running joke between my friends. That's the only kind of "wine" normally served at our parties because it's sweet. Filipinos like sweet wine.
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Date: 2002-11-25 11:33 pm (UTC)It's not just chattering, though--it's the laughter, too. My cousins make fun of each other by saying, "You laugh like an auntie."
Was there adobo?