Pas deux

These additions are courtesy of my high school batchmate Gina Lim-Bacolodan (a.k.a Aladin Bacolodan's better half)

-you know of a "kulangot" that is edible
-you can't swim
-your house has its decent share of woodcarvings
-you can pass off as an amateur tourist guide to visiting relatives who wanted to see the presidential summer house and ride horses around a park
-you bought stationery and hello kitty wallets from a white building called FRB
-you're a girl with the gargantuan legs of a boy
-you took the shortcut through shopper's lane despite your mother's constant warning not to, for fear of mugging
-you can climb trees, or hills, at olympian speeds
-you refer to any other city or province as "the lowlands"
-you start a trip to the lowlands with a tablet of Bonamine
-your pencils are from Rising
-you equate decembers with poinsettias and januarys with sunflowers
-you know the taste of gumamela nectar, strawberry jam, peanut brittle, and corned beef a la sayote
-unlike your cousins from the lowlands, you can tell a cauliflower from a broccoli, a Baguio bean from a sitsaro, and a pechay from a wombok
-the maximim number of times you've ridden the LRT is three
-you rode all the Festivale rides in Burnham
-your family was always designated to bring flowers on All Saints Day, whereas your lowland relatives brought candles and food
-your family thinks walis tambo is the standard pasalubong for everyone else
-you had your films developed at any of the three shops alongside Pines theatre, or at Cunanan's sa tapat ng plaza
-you treat every tricycle ride as a carnival ride
-you always compare every other city in the world to Baguio, and the other cities always come up short!!!!

From my elementary school batchmate Stephen:

-you know that when boys say cathedral, it wasn’t because they were going to mass, it was actually a challenge. Cathedral was one of the popular venues for rumbles.
-you remember a time when everyone one would freeze at the sound of the siren at 6pm (that is if you’re not yet home at that time. 6PM is already very late and you’re punished if you go home late.)