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I’ve always been wanting to receive a call from a Filipino customer, and acknowledge his being Filipino. Sure, I’ve had others, but they were either 2nd or 3rd or nth generation already or they made no mention of it whatsoever.

The first encounter was a teen whose parents are Filipinos and he said he was going to the Philippines that Summer (last September) and he wanted to know how he could access the internet while he was here. But he does not speak any Filipino language at all since he said he was born in the States and grew up there.

The second encounter was an adult, with the surname of Alcala, although I’m not really sure if she’s Filipino or of Filipino blood. But she did kind of have that Philippine English accent. And she said that I was the very first person to pronounce her last name perfectly. She said that not even her neighbors or where she works in could say it correctly.

The third encounter was a real one. His surname is Crisostomo. And he actually asked me if I was Filipino, because I said his name right. After I acknowledged my nationality and country, he kind of loosened up and inserted the usual Filipino ‘no, ano, di ba, as well as comfortably slipping out of his Americanized accent for his English. (Think of SBC Packers but not too exaggerated).

I was glad that I resolved his wireless connection issue, although I had to inform him that for the playstation 3, they would have to reconnect that on their own.

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