you DEFINITELY know you are an architect when....

1. ...the alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.

(celphone counts? useless din at may snooze, or di natutulog kaya no need)

2. ...when someone offers you a Bic pen, you feel offended.

(naman!)

3. ...you know what glue stick tastes like.

(like paper...hehehhe)

4. ...you CELEBRATE space

(ay promise! pag may libre kahit konti s sahig na pwd daanan, masaya ka na!)

5. ...coffee and cokes are tools, not treats.

(forgot beer! most important san mig light of the day!)

6. ...people get nauseous just by smelling your caffeine breath.

(hoy! i brush ano!)(sometimes!) hehehehe

7. ...you buy 899 peso magazines that you haven't read yet.

(could i say salvan?)

8. ...you think it's possible to CREATE space.

(laging meron pag kelangan maglatag ng drawing, above the cooktop, under the sink...)

9. ...you've slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend.

(only 20 hours?)

10. ...you fight with inanimate objects.

( eh sa lagi akong inaaway ng mechanical ko eh, hide and seek)

11. you've fallen asleep in the washroom.

(drunk or otherwise?!)

12. .your brother or sister thinks he or she is an only child.

(sometimes they think im ampon)

13. ...you've listened to all your Cd's in less than 48 hours.

(hindi lang 48 hours, tapos paulit-ulit na...at memorize mo na pati novelty songs)

14. ...you're not seen in public.

(huy hindi ah! pag walang plate...larga!)

15. ...you lose your house keys for a week and you don't even notice.

(naka sabit kasama ng usb, other keys, locker keys, kisskiss)

16. ...you've brushed your teeth and washed your hair in the office washroom.

(sa school, brushed my teeth...)

17. ...you've discovered the benefits of having none or very short hair; and you've started to appreciate inheriting baldness.

(just got my hair chopped off!!!)

18. ...you've used an entire roll of film to photograph the sidewalk.

(ay sus sinabi mo pa...)

19. ...you know the exact time the vending machines are refilled.

(kung ano oras nagbubukas ang kubo!)

20. ...you always carry your deodorant.

(ha, i dont need to you know!)

21. ...you become excellent at recycling when making models.

(your mattress for trees, the sticks in the yard for fences, the ash in your cigarette for sky./..)

22. ...when you try to communicate, you make a continuous and monotonous whine.

(naku pag ala na ko sa mood)

23. ...you've danced YMCA with excellent choreography at 3 am and without a single drop
of alcohol in your body.

(i don't know about YMCA...pero otso-otso pwede?)

24. ...you take notes and messages with a rapidograph and colour markers.

(steadler and faber casteel for me)

25. ...you combine breakfast, lunch and dinner into one single meal.

(sarap!)

26. ...you see holidays only as extra sleeping time.

(don't call me during holidays, i am sleeping)

27. ...you've got more photographs of buildings than of actual people.

(promise! totoo yun!)

28. ...you've taken your girlfriend (boyfriend)on a date to a construction site.

(had him climb up the roof of a townhouse i was building!)

29. ...you've realized that french curves are not that exciting.

(they are NOT kasi i don't use them, i make my own curves! naks)

30. ..you can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can't make prints,it's
chaos.

(lalo na pag deadline tapos praning yung plotter, brownout, or kaya walang ink at walang mabilhan!)

31. when you're being shown pictures of a trip, you ask what the human scale is.

(oo, pang photo-montage!)

32. ...you can use Photoshop, Illustrator and make a web page, but you don't know how to use Excel.

(in fairview---i know how to use the damn computer!)

33. ...You refer to great architects (dead or alive) by their first name, as if you knew
them. (Frank, Corbu, Mies, Norman, Johnny, Jovito, Roie...)

(pareng jovits!, papa johnny! wazzup!)