Top 10 ways to know you’ve never backpacked in the Philippines
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1) You had no idea what a Jeepney was.
2) You had no idea there were 10 different remakes of Mariah Carey’s Hero. 3) You’ve never been woken up at 2am by beach Karaoke. 4) You never knew “Malling” was a verb. 5) You never knew that a sunny-side-up egg was considered a condiment. |
| 6) You didn’t know Cheez Wiz and crackers were part of a staple diet.
7) You had no idea that a ‘comfortable van’ is actually a packed-like-sardines van with A/C. 8) You operated under the assumption that ATMs existed in every high tourist-traffic location. 9) You had no idea people were buried in apartment-sized buildings complete with A/C, kitchens, and flushing toilets. |
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10) You’ve never been invited to the mayor’s house for beer. |
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Hey guys, love the list! Didn’t quite manage #10 although we thought we were going to – we certainly took a tricycle to the mayors house to get permission to get a boat to a sandbar… or something?
(ps – You sure there aren’t at least one dozen Carey remakes?)
Hey Hey Ange! Thanks for the comment! I’m glad you liked the list!! The inspiration came from sitting in a hammock eating crackers and Cheez Wiz after a ramen dinner. Ghhhhetto!!!
As far as #10 goes… Just saying that you had to go to the mayor’s house by tricycle to ask for permission to do anything definitely qualifies for bragging rights ;-)
On a side note I must have missed the other versions of Hero. I’m pretty sure I now have a switch set to ignore whenever a remake of some cheezy 90′s tune starts.
Journey, however, is still da bomb.