numtah

those who know me very well can attest that i cannot drink beer and i dont have any social drinking life or lingo. in here, i found it hard to go to dinner without having to worry about the probability of drinking but my research adviser is kind enough to protect me from having allergy due to drinking.

until one day i was told to join a dinner without my adviser's presence. it was unplanned and i found it hard to refuse because i need to accompany a guest.

host: ok let us celebrate blah. blah. blah. cheers!
everyone: cheers!
host: kampai!
everyone: kampai!
guest: in our country instead of kanpai we say gezondheid or proost. how about in the philippines? how do you say cheers?
siraris: *thinking mode* (could it be mabuhay? well if i say mabuhay they might hear flight stewardess saying mabuhay or pinay candidates and expect drinking afterwards. ohh this is harder than physics. then i notice everyone was anticipating and i guess nangangawit na waiting for me to finally tell them. that was how long i was in thinking mode. imagine that.)
siraris: *raised y glass with confidence and blurted out* NUMTAH!
everyone: NUMTAH!

so from now on, for the sake of uniformity, i now declare that cheers would also mean numtah. with or without h will do as long as you say it with conviction the way i did.

explanation: ang mga bugoy sa amon kung maglabay ko ginatib-ong nila ang ila baso kag maghambal kanakon nga, "sir aris, inom ta." pero kung hubog na gani hambal dulang nanda, "numtah"