Alfredo Rodillas, a kailian who is a regular reader of our Journal sent the following:
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LEST YOU FORGET
Only in the Philippines will you find such amusing names as:
* Bread Pitt (a bakery)
* Maruya Carey (a fast-food place selling turon and maruya in Greebelt,Makati)
* Caintacky Fried Chicken (an eatery in Cainta, Rizal)
* Mang Donald's (a burger joint at the Naga City plaza)
* Candies Be Love? (Can anything be sweeter than this?)
* Doris Day and Night (a 24-hour eatery)
* Babalik Karinderia
* Holland Hopia (owned by Mr. Ho) and next-door neighbor Poland Hopia (owned by Mr. Po) in Chinatown
* Miki Mao (a noodle house)
* Tapsi Turbi (a tapa house)
* Cleopata's (a manukan and bakahan)
* Goto Heaven
* Cooking ng Ina Mo (a carinderia) and right across it, Cooking ng Ina Mo Rin
* The Fried of Marikina (a fried chicken house)
* Wrap and Roll (a lumpia outlet in Quad, Makati)
* Pansit ng taga-Malaboni (a panciteria on Boni Ave., Mandaluyong)
* Side-saki (a side street eatery beside Mandarin Oriental in Makati)
* Let's Goat-Together (a kambingan-cum-beer garden)
* Meating Place (a meat shop)
* Meatropolis (another meat shop)
* Happy Birthday Toyo (a soy sauce brand in the 1970s)
* Isda best, Pusit to the limit, and Hipon coming back (entrees on the menu of a seafood restaurant)
* Cinna Von (a laundromat)
* Pier Carding (a tailoring shop in Pier, Manila)
* Elizabeth Tailoring
* The Way We Wear (a boutique)
* Curl Up and Dye (a beauty salon)
* Felix the Cut (a barber shop)
* Goldilooks (also a barber shop)
* Saudia Hairlines (a beauty parlor)
* Sylvestre's Salon
* Bote Nga Sa 'Yo (used bottle shop)
* Christopher Plumbing (your friendly neighborhood plumber)
* Goldirocks (a gravel and sand shop)
* Fernando Pe's Box Office Hits (a video rental shop in Palawan)
* Leon King Video Rental (in Las Piñas)
* Memory Drug (a clone of Mercury Drug)
* Petal Attraction (a flower shop near UP Diliman)
* Susan's Roses (a flower shop, but of course!)
* Maid to Order (maids placement agency)
* Yag-Bulls (a beer house joint in Zamboanga City featuring live sex shows)
* Sign on the window of a restaurant in Baguio - Wanted: Boy Waitress
When we retire or get fired, we dream of putting up a vegetarian restaurant named Tokwa Tokwa (with apologies to the Ramoses' Tokyo Tokyo).
A PR lady friend wants to go into selling taho, which is a soy-good business these days. She already has a name for her taho outlet: Lake Taho.
If you're a commuter (a jeepsetter?) you must have come across these signs on some jeepneys and buses (which can drive you crazy):
* "Before pay, tell where get the on before get the off."
* "Full string to stop driver."
* "God knows Hudas not pay."
* "Don't get closed to me, get closed to God."
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I am adding a few ones:
At an eatery in Calamba:
Please do not order any food if you do not have any money.
Many display the following sign too: YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD, BUT WE NEED CASH
Saw the following signs along the McArthur highway on the way to Pangasinan: These are Chinese grocery stores:
TEK KI
OH KIM
A smart joker one time defaced a big TOYOTA sign on the roadside: He erased the letters: T, O, and A..
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2 comments:
Very funny. But I must add, its not only in the Philippines, you can find so much of these puns in most countries. But yes, those in the Philippines are most amusing to us, because we can relate to them well, and after all, we are Filipinos, hehehe
let me add about taho: we know that its from soya bean right? But as a young man near UP Diliman, I and my classmates didnt know it for a fact; one even debated it came from pigs. So, one morning we called the mamang taho vendor, and while he was decanting those creamy stuff to small plastic cups, we asked him: "Manong, saan po galing ang taho?"
In a perfectly serious voice and demeanor, without batting an eyelash, and without pausing from his decanting of the taho he replied: " Galing to sa Cubao."
Hahahahahahah!
And oh by the way, how shocking it tis to learn that the flourescent is not named after Agapito Flores, its suppossed inventor... that the Tasadays of Elizalde were a hoax, and the Code of Calantiao as well.
When asked reportedly why the fraud of the Code of Calantiao, some one said, you filipinos were thirsty of a civilization before the Spaniards, for national identity and pride of ancestors, ginawan ko na kayo ng history galit pa kayo?
Hahahahaha!
I was awed, and Im still continuing to be awed by the power of the computer and its off-shoot, the Internet. Maybe its because we havent it in our time, when our cerebrums were still able to expand with new undertakings.
Kids now take it for granted. Walk thru the many Internet and computer shops in Manila, and the wonder what they can do with computers. And I thought the USA was the numero uno!
Hell, any AMA or STI graduate will tell you they know more stuff than the average American. I said hhhmmmmm..... but the I love you virus came to mind...
Even the remotest barrio can converse computerspeak. And for sure at least one barrio mate has taken some course or another with computers.
Maybe Im just late for the times. The other day, I was browsing in the UP library, and I tried to use their computer. A computer with no windows? I thought windows was the OS? Oh they say theyre using Linux. Whats that? Its more powerful and simpler than windows and its free!
I said to the young working student, tell me young lady, how many OS are really out there in the world? Sir, you can make your own.
Its too much for me, I thought its windows and nothing more, and to be faced with the fact that there is really much to know about computers...
I still have that long pile of books I bought but havent read since teenager, I guess I have to doubletime before this hypertension of mine blows me into a paralyzed infirm. And please, can anybody stop this information explosion? I need badly to catch up!
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