- Slay!
(explosion)
- You really went there.
- There could be a few things that
I've never told my mom before.
I guess we'll find out.
- Could be some secrets that might be revealed today.
I'm not sure.
- Oh, Yaha
- Oh my gosh. Really? I'm learning so much today.
(laughing)
- Ooh.
- I'm scared.
(laughing)
- Today!
- Well, we're doing never ever have I ever with my mother.
- Hi, I'm Luisa, and I came here when I was 18.
- I'm Eli. I was born here.
- Hi guys. My name is Bianca
- And I'm Bambi.
- Hey, my name's Alex
- And my name is Sharon.
- I'm feeling a little bit nervous.
Mom doesn't really know what she signed up for, so,
we're just gonna figure it out as we go.
- Of course! Like that's the worst feeling thing ever.
- I'm sorry, but that's a Filipino trait
- Can you get that piece? That one?
- I'm like one which one? You're like, "this one."
- Over there.
Pointing with your fingers is considered rude.
- I didn't think that was rude.
- Someone points at you, you'd be like, why point at me?
- So you just do this to somebody?
- There
- Always
- Surely I have in the past.
- Of course.
- Yes.
- Like if something's just there,
like, why would I bend over with my hands?
- It's extra pair of hands.
- Yes.
(laughing)
- Oh my God.
- I've never.
- I have.
- Have I done that?
- I have.
- Oh, you have?
- Yeah.
- Oh you're older than me!
- Oh, I do-
No, because, I do it with my cotton candy.
- You always do. The pantry's full of empty ice cream boxes.
- It's so, like, disappointing
when you open an ice cream tub and you're thinking like,
"oh, ice cream" and then you open it
and it's like, what? Sinigang.
- Oh my God.
- I thought this was a normal thing!
- Yes, of course. You know, I got that from you.
- That's how you taught us.
- Yes.
- As well.
- It's the easiest way when we are rushing.
- You know how pants are just folded like this,
when you open them up, you can just wrap it
- Around, wrap it around your neck.
- If the circumference of it fits all the way to like the
back and it touches
- It'll fit.
- And it works every time.
- It does. Yeah. It's weird.
- No, but like, I think that it's-
- Because it's folded in half.
- I think it's something to do with-
- I don't know. It's literally magic.
- Oh yeah. That's the only way
- I think I picked it up from my mom.
- Yes, definitely.
- I'd say I'm half on this.
- Yes, but
- But it does work miracles.
- It helps when you put here
- Here, here
- And on your chest
- You used to put it on my back as well.
- The one with your feet and then you put socks.
- So I can't sleep, so I would put Vick's on my eyes
Like this!
- So did it make you close your eyes?
- Yeah
- I have.
- Of course I have. All the time
- I always have. It's always allowed.
- Never done it here, but
- I'm a law abiding citizen
- Especially dessert you know,
those things that are small and we love it.
- Every time mom always put cakes and tissues and just like
- Put it in my bag.
- All the time.
- I've never.
- Oh really?
- Never
- I have never
- Always
But you do the shy thing, of course, like,
"oh you're Filipino. Can you sing?"
You're like, "oh no, of course not."
And then you grab the mic and you're Celine Dion.
- Number 256 please
You know when you're Filipino.
I have never met anyone who doesn't have a magic mic
or a karaoke machine.
- That's true
- Oh yes. I have.
- I've never believed
- That's so true
- Yes. I have.
- Lots of superstitions. Lots. Those are just few
- You know like when it's really, really hot day, you go
(whistling)
you know, you just kind of do that and
and then like all of a sudden you feel the breeze.
- Yeah. And
- Mom would like say, okay, it's gonna be midnight soon.
So we'd just start jumping up and down.
So we'd get taller.
- So my grandma used to put a coin in my belly button
- But what's that for?
- I don't know
- It's just part of the culture.
- I have.
- You have?
- Every now and then.
- Yes. I have.
- I think I have too.
- All the time, I think.
- I know you do it all the time.
- If I get a chance
- I've never done that.
- Oh, that's such a lie!
That didn't specify Australia or Philippines.
- Okay.
- Okay. Well then.
And yes, I have.
- Can I have this for 50 pesos please?
- You call it tawad. We call it tawad.
Then you meet at a certain price.
- Yes.
- Yeah. Always.
- Who hasn't done it?
- Mom always makes me.
- Yes.
I always ask them.
- Of course you have to.
- Yes. Or else, I get angry
- I thought you were gonna say another superstition
- Respect
- Like the elders.
- Yes, definitely. It becomes automatic to you?
- Not automatic.
It's still a bit weird, but like
- But you will remember.
- Yeah, I'll do it. Yeah.
- Ah. That's good.
- I'll show. You go like this.
- Yeah.
- You don't do it with your kids! They're gonna get so old.
- No! The wrinkles are showing. I have to do the bless!
- It's only for lolos. You know, older than me.
- Maybe 60 up.
- I reckon 80 plus.
- 80 plus?
- I think I have.
- I've never
- Ah, yeah.
Every day still.
- Are you OK?
- Yeah. Like this.
- Oh. Oh that.
- Like that.
- What? What does that do?
- Make your noise taller.
- I don't know if it worked but I have a good nose.
- You have good nose 'cause daddy has one.
- Oh, so genetics, It's not because I was
pinching my nose when I was like seven.
- No, no.
Daddy has good nose.
- When you go to Philippines, that's why they always
have like whitening soap.
And then all the models, they usually, they secretly get
like nose jobs and like plastic surgery.
So like their standards there is just
like basically to not really look that Fili.
- That's just so part of colonization.
But we need to unlearn that.
- Yeah.
- Never?
- No.
- I have
- Really?
- Not gonna lie.
- I have actually.
- You have?
- Yeah.
- I've never. I'm already pale. I don't need it.
- Remember using it at some point,
but I didn't know what it was for
- But I don't think I've intended it to make you white.
I'm happy with your skin tone.
- I would get teased a lot at school.
I can't see.
I can't see anything because it's too dark.
(laughing)
- That's so mean.
- I know
- I went through that phase when I was younger
but now obviously I don't really care.
- I have never. I would say.
- I go to church. How about you?
- God forgives you. Alright?
Like I want to, I went for Christmas
celebrated his birthday and stuff, so.
- Yes. We would always go to church every Sunday.
Only really to checkout boys
- Oh my gosh. Really? I'm learning so much today.
- I have.
- I have
- You have never.
- I haven't.
- No, because we live in a different world now.
- Yeah.
- I even did that to you, right?
- A lot to a lot.
- Yeah. And to
- If I was allowed, I would've
(laughing)
- I thought I was a good child.
- Yeah, you are a good child.
- Yeah exactly.
- You did get hit when you were kids.
- That was like very old school, though
- Yeah. Old school.
- Like I don't hold anything against my parents.
Like, you know, they don't really know what they're doing.
- Yeah. I've even learned my lesson after doing it.
I think it didn't actually help.
- No
- Didn't
- I've never
- I've never.
- Yes, of course.
Oh my God.
- Never. And don't watch it.
My husband watches it
- I have never because I didn't think...
Oh! Manny Pacquiao is the, the, the boxing.
- I'm so into boxing though. Especially Manny Pacquiao
- Ever time he has a fight in the Philippines.
There's no crime.
- Everyone in the whole world stops
- Everyone's watching the fight.
- You maintain?
- I try to.
- I always speak Tagalog.
- I have never, you never taught me.
- I know I've failed you
- When mom is speaking fluent, Filipino
you know you're in trouble.
- Yes, definitely.
I can't express my feelings if I have to translate it in my
think about how to translate this to this.
- My mentality was everybody else speaks English
in the Philippines so you don't need to.
But now I kind of regretted it.
- You have? Ooh. Okay. Well then I have too.
- Ooh
- I have.
- You have been told?
- Yes. I have been told
- I, and I've never really.
Yeah. You, I have never really told you guys-
- You and dad always told me to go for whatever I like.
And I really like that.
- I think my mom wants me to become a stewardess,
but then growing up...
- Short.
- Like, short. Yeah. So I couldn't be a stewardess.
- I wanted to really do arts.
- Yeah.
- But my parents said no, do accounting.
- My dad's a programmer.
So I guess he, they kind of wanted me to follow
his footsteps.
Cause we know it's secure.
Yeah. It's secure.
It's financially stable.
But I sucked at that
- When I was younger, I wanted to be a tattoo artist because
it's the one to get tattoos.
But I didn't realize like no.
(buzzer)
The day I came home with my first tattoo, mom died.
- Oh my God, she's like, "can I scratch that off?"
- You really went there.
- Who doesn't? Come on?
- Share your secrets.
- You didn't?
- No, I'm pretty open, man
- I have, I have to always lie.
I was going out with your dad and I have to like
keep that secret for a long time.
Maybe about six years before my mom. Yeah.
- I've never smoked in front of my parents.
- And I've caught mom when I was younger.
How can you hide something like that?
- I am in an LGBTQ relationship, you know, obviously.
Yeah. But my girlfriend's mom doesn't so I kind of relate
to that feeling of covering it up saying,
"oh, we're just studying. Totally not getting ramen."
- I've never had that relationship.
- Yeah.
- So you're freaking lucky.
- I know
- It's good to have conversation
because it's not something that you do on a day to day.
- Yeah. That's true.
- Maybe we need to
- Yeah
- Do a lot more-
Oh, don't make me cry.
- No it's okay.
- Do we always hug you when you were younger?
- No. Never.
- Why not?
- I don't- You tell me.
- I don't remember.
I just did.
- Yeah. And this is how it would look.
- I've learned a lot of things about mom that I didn't know.
- Like what?
- Like that you'd go to church to look at boys.
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