10 Filipino Traits & Habits We’ve Adopted as British Living in Philippines!

hey guys welcome back to another daily juice we'll let you in on a little secret we just filmed about 20 seconds of an intro and the memory card was then full vlogger problems literally like so close into the video it's like yeah that's enough anyway welcome to a new video today we have um an interesting interesting concept i suppose you join us on the sofa today nice laid back video chilled video grab yourself a drink grab yourself something to eat hit that subscribe button while you're at it and let's get in we have myself if you're new to the channel i'm george this is lucy why are you introducing us because we never say that i realize we've had so many new subscribers later we never see our names and this is my left knee which seems to be predominantly in the frame so recently we filmed a video a couple of weeks ago now that was 14 13. 13 or 14 reasons no things that filipinos do that british people don't understand so things having lived in manila for over a year now and been in the philippines for two years on and off uh we have picked up on some things that we've noticed that filipinos do so we wanted to do a video another similar style but a new kind of twist to it a new concept yeah and you guys seemed to really enjoy that video yes uh so we wanted to sit down and do something kind of similar but you'll see a different different kind of angle so that was more about things that we've noticed that filipinos do which is different to the uk this time it's things that we have actually started doing habits things we've picked up on and traits that we've actually adopted in our personal lives and are now part of us which is crazy since living here so things that are now normal to us things that we now do that we didn't before living in the philippines it was really weird for us because before we started thinking about this video and thinking of what can we talk about in this we didn't realize and then you start to like write a little list out or write some notes and we've changed there's things with different people now that we've lived in the philippines and we've spent so much time in this country obviously the philippines is asia in general is totally different from anywhere in europe and there's things here that we've we thought it'd be fun today just to go through and tell you guys because i don't know like if there's any british people watching it might be quite unusual for you guys and when we go back to ukc family there's some things that even our families have noticed that we've started doing there's some phrases i remember when we first went back my dad was like wait say that again and i said i said a certain phrase i can't remember what it was but he was like you didn't used to say that like even your vocabulary has changed and i think that would happen if you take yourself out of your homeland and you put yourself in another country and you spend time there you interact with the people you interact with the culture exactly the way of life the day-to-day living of another country is that how people pick up accents exactly i think you're gonna you're gonna pick things up so we're gonna dive in we've got ten things um we've thought of today and we're just gonna go through them and share with you what we think that we've picked up on since living here okay the first one is quite generic it's was quite general i suppose so i've written here adaptability and resilience so having spent a lot of time in asia we've said this a few times we've experienced a lot of natural disasters like to do with the weather like typhoons earthquakes volcano eruptions asheville asheville things things we would never deal with or come across in the uk you don't really get this kind of experiences living where we used to live and when a few of these things started happening the i remember the first earthquake in manila that we witnessed so the first time we felt an earthquake for example we found it really strange because we had never felt that sensation in our lives before if anyone's never felt it it's kind of hard to explain but it's just out of this world like it's like you go somewhere else for a bit it's just it's almost like it feels like it's just you at first it feels like you go a bit dizzy yeah you feel like you lose your balance or something and then you notice things are shaking around you but on top of that when the towel volcano erupted um and a few other things typhoons rainy season everything like that yeah we've noticed living here that the people just get on with it because they're used to it they've grown up with these things happening around them yeah exactly and when we are again messaging our family saying about these earthquakes and they're like what's happened tell us everything i hope you're okay we're not like i don't know if there's another earthquake it's like oh there's been an earthquake again it's not as shocking as it would have been yeah you told us that a few years ago if you said you're going to live somewhere where there's this and that and that we'd probably be too freaked out and scared to be honest but we've kind of adopted the way that everyone else thinks about it is that yeah it is what it is there can be unfortunate and sad side effects a lot of these things sometimes but it's expected in life out here in the philippines and we've now come to expect that as well exactly there's something quite funny here i mean i'm wearing the perfect outfit for it now wearing jeans in like 35 degrees yeah and like jumpers and things and adjusting to the heat in general really yeah england gets to around 25 maybe 28 30 if you're lucky on a hot summer's day but generally speaking in the winter england can be anything from zero to 15. oh like my degrees celsius but around that it's cold it's cold country yeah um i never thought i mean when we first went to asia ever and we went to thailand george and i were wearing like the smallest clothing possible remember like tiny little vests and shorts because we were so hot and we were sweating constantly but now we've lived here now it's like fine like i'd wear jeans outside i mean you get we occasionally wear jackets and you do get sweaty of course we still sweat and we do get hot but yeah we just kind of get used to it and we don't mind wearing longer trousers it's something small but it's funny like i walked out the balcony yesterday i didn't tell you this i remember thinking to myself you got hit with this wall of heat when you walk outside but it doesn't shock me you used to get that when you step over plane on holiday somewhere sunny like yeah or something but here it's like you go off the balcony it's like oh yeah i remember one of my friends when we'd been living here a little while he said how do you i saw one of your videos how do you guys how are you not wearing shorts every day yeah why aren't you wearing shorts how did is it not too hot it's very hot but we're used to it and we enjoy the heat number three is something i really like drinking coffee late at night and having an evening coffee shop culture and getting used to that and involving ourselves with that which especially when we're traveling around the philippines if we're on road trips and things coffee shops a starbucks will be our like go-to in england coffee shops close around maybe four or five p.m yeah and people generally only drink coffee in the mornings in england but maybe early afternoon yeah we've noticed here in the philippines as we've traveled around different cities towns provinces if you go to a mall or if you go to an area where there's coffee shops there's a whole social scene it's like so many shopping shops yeah there's a whole social scene nearly couldn't say that either in coffee shops in the evening it's really really nice i guess in the uk you have bars and pubs and clubs and things like that english pubs are a real evening thing but here we've noticed that coffee shops is an evening social thing friends gather their friends meet there and people are drinking coffee at 9 or 10 p.m which is cool i don't know how these people sleep at night but it's cool we went out on a night out once here and we had a toby's espresso with mike and nelly lois and james and wasn't that christina at midnight i was gonna say it wasn't midnight and they were just closing they'd nearly turn the machine off and we were like please can you make us a coffee that was coffee at midnight it was like as part of a bar crawl i guess it gave us more energy yeah so the next one is something i love and something that i feel like i'm gonna do forever now and that's like family style ordering in restaurants so family dining family dining like when you order things i mean here you get options for family size meals where you is for like two or three people uh which i guess you can probably get large portions back in the uk yeah but not like it's not as common like you're like uh sharing garlic rice or something yeah exactly that exactly or like a big bowl of soups in a gang or something like that yeah yeah so here i mean back home back in the uk if you go for dinner generally you'd order a meal for yourself and then you'd order a meal oh yeah you all would just order your own thing sometimes you might say oh let's order the pasta and the pizza and share because we do that as a couple yeah i would not do that with your family really you might or your friends i definitely wouldn't do that friends i've never been out for a meal and i've said to my mate sitting over there do you want to share food no always order your own thing at work at business dudes yeah in oral jobs company work meals and even when you do it it's normally just you have two meals still and you just split it in half that kind of thing but here we order like loads of different dishes like smaller dishes bigger dishes and your plate is just filled with all these different flavors you've got the rice as the base you've got the soup you've got some pieces of meats and vegetables you get like this lovely it's like a buffet style i guess everyone on the table has everything you got for a meal with a huge group of people you can do family style dining yeah which we love i mean at the moment maybe not a little bit you can't really do it but between us we went for breakfast yesterday and we ordered like three or four different dishes and we just shared it i personally love it because i'm often i'm the type of person on a menu i can't decide i want it all yeah and it means you can try different food and share food and talk about food with your friends exactly so number five is something interesting to us something we have to get used to yeah but strangely got used to very quickly true so this one's about us getting used to the security presence in the philippines in general so every shop has a guard and he'll have a gun and every building our condo here has security guards are some have guns yeah if you go to a restaurant there's a guard if you go to the beach there's guards yeah and in the uk there's really not that at all there might be a security guard that covers a whole mall or a customer that cover an entire mall but they're not at every entrance they're not outside every shop no not in the uk you can walk into shopping malls without any security yeah you don't get like the um scanners that you walk through at all that's more just an airport that you'd get that i remember the first time we really noticed this was when we went to a trip to boracay and it was our first time on the beach we were really amazed obviously people swimming walking around watching the sunset or whatever and then we see this guy this huge guy with the biggest machine gun you've ever seen oh yeah like huge and to be honest we were kind of like whoa is something going on has he been called well that's the thing in the uk if you see someone with a gun or like you'd be like oh something something must be happening because there's someone there yeah something's being reported something's going on right now but then we soon realized that no it's quite normal it's just a security thing they're there to make you feel safe any trouble kicks off they can deal with it so it's something that we're fully used to now but if you plonked old us into the philippines seeing that everywhere we'd be like what's going on like it'd feel a bit unusual but we're definitely definitely something we've adopted being not being phased by it seeing security and we say good morning to ev loads of security guards like down the high street yeah we say hi he's so friendly they always nod or whatever so yeah very very used to that now number seven is probably my favorite thing that we've picked up from living in the philipp one of my favorite things from living in the philippines and that is the shopping mall culture going to the mall in general going to the mall on weekends going to the mall constantly we go a lot you might if you watch our vlogs you know that we go to the mall a lot but we love it they're a place where you can escape from the heat they've got a ton of shops a ton of restaurants the cinemas are great and it's just nice to if we go on a nice long walk there's malls everywhere so like even in our area alone there's like four or five malls within walking five or six malls in walking distance and you go on a nice long walk you get a bit hot you fancy a drink you need the toilet whatever it is you can just go in the mall and just walk around before we'd go to the mall we had one more about a 30 minute drive from our house well i was going to say if you're watching this thinking okay big deal you're going to a shopping mall yeah let's let's elaborate let's give you some context in the uk there are shopping malls there's some huge cool shopping malls in london especially where we lived was a 30-minute drive to the closest big mall and there was only one wall but it wasn't it's not big now if we go back now we're like wow this is small it felt big when we were kids we might go there every three or four months and that's why we've been so impressed uh by filipino shopping malls because it's like well we're not used to this back home no not because we're not from london we don't actually live in london or anything so we didn't have these big extravagant malls growing up exactly there's not even a mall in our hometown in the uk there's a there's a high street there's a high street and there's a small shopping center but all the clothes and the shops in it are all closed so that was very cool for us we love filipino malls and it's like a go-to thing if you want to meet a friend for coffee you can like oh we'll meet at this morning if you want me something to do in the day if you're bored at the weekend you can go there and you can there's always like little stalls set up selling things like not just the shops like in the middle of it there's often events there there's like during festival times they do things like in the suburbs during synalogue and dinner gang in illinois there's always stuff going on yeah i realized during quarantine when we had no when when we could go out but the malls weren't open i was like so what do we do i really miss the shopping mall yeah it's such a big part of our life now handy for the toilet as well if you need to go when you're out definitely so this one i guess i'm gonna say it because okay you've never used one in your life using a rice cooker oh you're gonna say something else what do you think don't worry well what else do you think i don't know don't worry carry on you've been good it's what we do you can get my reaction anyway um it's a rice cooker so in the uk if you guys are seeing the uncle roger videos oh my this is so funny we love uncle roger we've reacted to loads of videos on juicy react which is our reaction channel link below if you're interested we had such a good time reacting to this video he basically is talking about someone in the uk someone in britain cooking rice the british way in a saucepan not in a rice cooker some people use rice cookers they do but this specific person most people that i know use a saucepan with the rice they put rice in then they strain the rice in a sieve to get rid of all the water using a rice cooker has changed my life and anywhere and in any kitchen i have in the future in my life now will have a rice cooker and i know it because it's so happy yeah because you've lived here it's just why wouldn't you use it you get to just make it and just leave you have to keep stirring it you just leaving yeah turn it on and our apartment came with the rice cooker yeah it did and it's really old maybe we should get a new it's from the 1970s yes number eight driving getting used to driving on i can't say the wrong side the wrong side in england people say the wrong side of the road but it's also a joke for americans or other people to say that england is the wrong side of the road because it's way less common to drive on the left which is what we do in the uk but yeah living in the philippines going on all these road trips if you've seen the vlogs we've driven a lot here a lot like we've done hours and hours and hours of driving covered thousands of miles driving and before coming here i had only very very limited experience of driving on the right-hand side of the road from some europe trips that we'd done very limited like one trip pretty much that prague trip yeah and that's just for a day or two driving so yeah living in philippines has taught us how to drive on the right yeah which i'm grateful for because it means we can then go to the us we can do a road trip any other country we go i think i think there's more countries that drive on the right than the left so anywhere we go now we're good because we've had the experience in the philippines of driving on the right hand side of the road so that's a good thing and that's now more normal than driving on the left so then when we go back do you not remember and we're like no lose do you remember when we hired a car and i pulled off yes and i stayed on the right you like cut the corner george what are you doing yeah i we parked on the right or something and i we i had to go we're so used to it that now we're better driving here probably than it just feels right sitting on this side of the wheel with the steering wheel okay number nine kind of leads on because this is about patience and i don't know if necessarily we've got this from filipinos or if we've got this just from living in the philippines and it's just personal to us but we're a lot more patient now with things like traffic things like waiting for deliveries things like i don't know we seem to be a lot more patient i don't know if that's because our lifestyle has changed as well and about maybe like how when you sit in traffic or if you're driving and someone cuts in front of you here they're probably not being horrible or being mean they're just they're just on their journey they're not trying to annoy you and you just you just adjust to it and you react we've spoken about driving in the philippines and videos before and it is chaos but you just accept it you're not if someone cuts you up in england you're honking your horn and probably swearing oh people oh i mean we don't there's a lot of aggression so there's a lot of road rage in the uk people get angry even if you go like two near their car or you indica if you overtake them too close people are beeping people are getting angry they're like putting their fingers up at you i've had people like textures beeping me when i'm literally like i didn't do anything i don't know what i've done wrong here and people are like people yeah and there's you look in your mirror and there's someone going like this yeah there's a lot of road rage in the uk there probably is roadways here yeah don't get us wrong it's true but we feel like we feel like it's less and we feel like for us we don't care we just let stuff go on around us and we don't get angry we don't get annoyed chill just go with the flight exactly people know that no way we know that manila especially is known for traffic yeah so we have to accept that we can't get annoyed at traffic but in the uk if there was a long traffic jam in the morning when we used to drive to work yeah we'd have somewhere to be at a certain time so we might be worried that would kind of frustrate us because it was traffic on roads where you wasn't usually traffic in the day yeah exactly so i don't know we've kind of got a little bit more relaxed which is a good thing i guess it's here all day every day we get comments actually that people say when they send out old videos since living in the philippines we look healthier we look more happy we look more relaxed and i think if we compare our lives and our lifestyles the food we the climate the walkway what we do every day the walking dead i think we have a great life here and i think we probably are in a better place physically and mentally than we were before i agree and you're also and i think also being surrounded by happy people all the time that helps that really helps people are very very friendly here we don't have to say that we've said that video so many times but it is true and we're not dissing england here like when we make these videos some people think you shouldn't say that about your home country we love england we do we there's things we love about england but there's also things that once we've been here we notice so many differences this is purely a comparison and it's not that british people are actually known to be friendly and polite right but there are a lot of kind of miserable people there's people who keep their heads down and here we notice an extra level of friendliness yeah whether that's because people think we're visitors to the country and they kind of want to welcome us probably an element of that but also generally speaking most people we meet are very friendly and open and the final one number 10 here we go something that took some getting used to but now i would say fully adopted filipino time yeah and i think we mentioned this in the other video in more of a broader sense of it's there and it happens but personally for us the slower pace of life the less worry about things being on time and being set to a set structure if now like we're we're arranging to meet someone and we're running for example yeah and we're running like 10 minutes late i'm not as worried 10 minutes or like an hour those guys are two or three hours after we say usually no we are but we're like we're all kind of cool with it so using that as an example just relax if we say to mike oh let's meet when you want to meet 12 okay cool if it's two if it ends up being two none of us care no we're just doing something else we can keep in touch are gonna let's do a little bit later yeah mata and it's like if you've got a delivery arranged between a certain slot and then it comes an hour after the last part okay cool you have to get used to it like it's children you have to deal with it if you decide to spend so much time here like we do and if you've like booked some work to be done like a service or something they're probably going to be late but yeah again like they don't turn up and say sorry for being late it's just like it's like hi we're here and it can work backwards as well yeah someone was three hours earlier than a scheduled appointment because it probably suited them better which is cool i know people in the uk some friends of us who would struggle with that there's people i know who like to keep a set diary every hour is scheduled every minute of schedule nice though think about it true we have a life where timing doesn't matter as much true but i think if we had our old jobs and things were late and it was a certain state of the day yeah it probably would be more of a struggle yeah true i think so that is ten things that we have adopted as british people living in the philippines um if you like this kind of video if you've got any other ideas imagine if it was like animals and we've like when people read the title they're like 10 things you've adopted and we're like here's a dog he's a giraffe he's a frog if you enjoyed this type of video then please give us a thumbs up if you enjoyed this type of video guys please give it a big thumbs up leave a comment if you've got any other similar ideas anything else you want us to like talk about we've noticed some of these videos online where it is people talking about certain things about their lives that is pretty much all what are you talking about i'm pretty much what happened to your voice i've pretty much just described vlogging i thought i'd rain what was that goodbye who are you [Music] moment