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Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:57:08 +0000

[...] I do occasionally wear a Tommy Bahama shirt when it climbs past 30 degrees (that’s 86 for my American friends), but I have a genetic right: I’m from a tropical country and I can pass for Hawaiian. [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:18:00 +0000

I get that a lot, too! “Are you Hawaiian? Are you Hispanic? Are you Native American?” Nobody can ever guess Filipino, or in my case, one-half. It doesn’t bother me in most cases, but there -was- this one time where a drunken man in a wheelchair approached me in the store I was working at (Michael’s Arts and Crafts, custom framing department,) clutching a piece of religious poetry written entirely in Spanish. “Are you Mexican?”

“No sir, I’m not. I’m half-Filipino.”

“I know you’re Hispanic. C’mon. Read this! What does it say?”

“I don’t know, sir, I don’t speak much Spanish; only what little bit of it is found in my mother’s language.”

“You -gotta- be Mexican. Read this! C’mon!”

Exasperated, I read the words aloud, not understanding more than three or four words in the text, pronouncing it all as best as I could. The man’s face brightened. “See!” he exclaimed. “I -knew- you were Hispanic!”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:28:00 +0000

Oooh so your full name is Jose Martin! It’s such a “pogi” sounding name. Oooh.

Carla

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Aug 2003 03:10:00 +0000

I’d have guessed Filipino, or at least part Filipino. Of course, I lived in Hawaii, which has a pretty big Filipino population, so maybe that’s why. (It’s also probably why people think you look Hawaiian – they go to Hawaii, see all the Filipinos, and assume they’re Hawaiian.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Aug 2003 01:11:00 +0000

I was invited to a wedding two weeks ago with a Hawaiian theme to the reception. To my shame, I had not a single shirt fitting the bill.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:00:00 +0000

Oh and also I get told I look Italian a lot (mostly cos of my copious amounts of body hair) and also Greek (WTF?). Funny thing is I’m half Danish and half English-Welsh-Canadian.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:57:00 +0000

If I didn’t know you were born (and for few years raised) in the Phillipines I would say the same thing. As a an aside I also LOL’ed at your “lei’d back attitude” quip. Dude have I told you lately how much you rock?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:02:00 +0000

The guys at Asian Farm, the grocery store around the corner from my place, think I’m Japanese and still say domo arigato whenever I shop there.

And I hope you reply: “That’s ‘Mr. Roboto’ to _you_.

As a side note “domo …” is a Japanese transliteration from Portugese.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:59:00 +0000

The guys at Asian Farm, the grocery store around the corner from my place, think I’m Japanese and still say domo arigato whenever I shop there.

And I hope you reply: “That’s ‘Mr. Roboto’ to _you_.

As a side note “domo …” is a Japanese transliteration from Portugese.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:28:00 +0000

very cute picture! va va voom!

lex

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:40:00 +0000

In a second.

Course, there’s pretty much no chance of my white body being mistaken for being from Hawaii, and I don’t see cute girls sliding up to pasty white fellows and saying “Are you Norweigian” (I’m not, just a geek)… but if they did, hell ya!