Filipino humor, the realistic kind
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Bill Gates organized an enormous session to recruit a new Chairman for Microsoft Europe.
5000 candidates assembled in a large room. One candidate was MARIO DIMAYUGA.
Bill Gates: “Thank you for coming. Those who do not know JAVA may leave.” 2,000 people left the room.
MARIO said to himself, “I do not know JAVA but I have nothing to lose if I stay. I’ll give it a try.”
Bill Gates: “Candidates who never had experience of managing more than 100 people may leave.” 2000 people left the room.
Mario said to himself, “I never managed anybody but myself but I have nothing to lose if I stay. What can happen to me?” So he stayed.
Bill Gates: “Candidates who do not have management diplomas may leave.” 500 people left the room.
Mario said to himself, “I left school at 15 but what have I got to lose?” So he stayed in the room.
Lastly, Bill Gates asked the candidates who do not speak Serbo- Croat to leave. 498 people left the room.
Mario says to himself, “I do not speak one word of Serbo-Croat but what do I have to lose?” So he stayed and found himself with one other candidate. Everyone else had gone.
Bill Gates joined them and said, “Apparently you two are the only candidates who speak Serbo-Croat, so I’d now like to hear you converse in that language.”
Calmly, Mario turned to the other candidate and said, “Kumusta ka, pare ko.”
The other candidate answered, “Mabuti naman, ikaw?“
Perhaps, it’s more than humor. It may also be viewed as tenacity, perseverance or the gambler’s mentality. It may even be the scammer’s mentality.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
naalala ko tuloy ang mga chance encounter ko sa mga kapwa pinoy overseas. normally, i can tell them a mile away kahit hindi sila nagsasalita. there’s something about being pinoy that you can tell immediately.
“kamusta, bossing” is always my first line sa mga airport at eroplano kung saan saang parte ng mundo and “mabuti naman” is almost always the reply back.
LOL! Considering that Filipinos are all over the place and Bill Gates convinced that those two were actually speaking Serbo-Croat, that incident could have easily happened. HAHAHAHAHA! That was a good one.
LOL. Ms. Sassy, I’ve wrote an article about this kind of attitude here in the Middle East. Ang lalakas nang loob kahit zero.
Ironically, Bill Gates should have left the room when he said that those who do not hold management diplomas should leave.
It is unfortunate that, while this anecdote may have a dash of truth in it, more often than not it causes trouble more than it leads to success.
I admire guts. But sometimes, when it is misplaced, well…
WAHAHAHA!! I love it!! Nothing can beat Pinoy humor…no matter what! This is the perfect way of illustrating our “bahala na” or “bahala na ang Dios” mentality.
Haha, ‘reminds me of a classic joke where an unemployed pinoy in the US was so desperate to have a job that he accepted the role of a man being thrown into the lion’s cage for the lion to eat at a zoo. Just when the lion started growling and looked like it was about to eat him, this pinoy prayed out loud “diyos ko, maawa naman po kayo. kailangan ko lang pakainin ang pamilya ko”. To the pinoy’s amazement, the lion stopped growling. Instead the pinoy heard him whisper “pinoy ka rin?”.
LOL. That was very funny. And yes, knowing how gutsy some pinoys can be, this can really happen.
@Ting
I heard that joke too. Turns out the lion was a Pinoy in disguise. Harhar.