You know you have a filipina wife in the UK when:

you should ask @BlueberryCheeseCake for some recipes. I don't tell lies or say things just to please people so I'm being truthful when I say she can really, really cook. I thought I could cook but now I'm just the kitchen porter. A candle next to the sun. Ask for her potatoes dauphinoise recipe it will blow your husbands mind.

This is one of the funniest posts that I have read for a long time.
Anyone dare me to show it to the Mrs?

go on. You know you want to. I bet you have some amusing examples of the Filipina wife syndrome to share as well.

She needs kan-on every day.
I've given up explaining that you are in bed and not on bed.
"Did I missed something" is not correct English.
And a classic that most of must have heard..."for a while"...

laugh. My particular favorite was when I accused my wife of being hard headed. "no I'm not hard headed I'm soft headed" was the reply. Makes me smile to think of it and a smile is worth ten dictionaries. PS. what's wrong with" for a while" ?

As you go along the relationship with your pinay, you will come up with your own list. It may or may not be same as in this post.

I thought on the bed is right.
Our biggest grammar problem is with regards to preposition because in Tagalog, prepositions are not quite confusing.

Good old traditional English food then.........

I really love potatoes and I would love to have a recipe for potatoes dauphinoise. I will pm your wife once I'm allowed to cook... I am waiting for the new kitchen but I don't know when it would be finished. The kitchen was totally wrecked by super typhoon Yolanda when I arrived. Hubby just explained he has been celibate for years and almost turned to be a hermit like his Normandy/barbarian ancestors that's why....And he's so proud of it...

Meanwhile,I'm banned in the kitchen after the disastrous pork steak. And I'm used to hear him saying , "My wife can't cook!" and he will laugh out loud....But I'm a bit naughty as well, so when he cooks curry, I will sneak in and put more chili powder without his knowledge. So, when he says, "Jesus Christ, it's too hot!" I will just say, "Oh, you know what? You just served it hot that's why. Let it cool down first." hehe.

(That's how we tease each other)..lol....

Yes. And he's very proud..hehe...In fairness, he can really cook, I mean he can really make nice bangers and mash (this is the only food that his ex-British wife would appreciate).....lol..

Apologies my comment was a little bit tongue in cheek as most of the dishes are actually not English

...Just the bangers and mash and forget the rest...lol ...

not only preposition it seems. Not as confusing .. As for the bed question it would be correct to say I am in bed. It would also be OK to say I am lying on the bed but that could mean you were not under the covers. I am in bed generally means you are intending to sleep.

I'm a bit confused @PatVen because above you say that you're no longer in the Philippines so I assumed you were in the UK, and yet then you mention here typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda in the Philippines).

Are you in Japan?

All East Asians solve the puzzle of prepositions in English grammar by using "on" as the universal standby preposition.

I'm on the car
I'm on the bed
I'm going on the town (this does not mean what it means in English vernacular!)

Nope.....


lol..Apologies for the confusion, I removed the word 'seemed'....

OK. anybody not had this conversation on mobile phone:

"Where are you?"

"Here!"

On the bed is fine if you're not in it.

In bed is fine if you are in it.

On bed? No.

In the bed. Sort of makes sense and kind of ok but not really used.

I remember a German student staying at my house who used to say she was going to "make a photograph". When I explained it should be "take a photograph" she informed me that this makes no sense whatsoever and English are strange.

I'm sorry I'm still confused. Are you in the UK then?

You know I never noticed that. It is strange isn't it?

I found this about it.

To photograph exists alongside to take a photograph, to take a picture, and so on.
This is an extension of a broad meaning of take 'to obtain or set down', as in taking notes or statements, 'to set down or get in writing'; more directly, it is an extension of a use recorded from the 17th century onwards in structures such as taking pictures, likenesses, or portraits 'to obtain or get a picture'. The specific photographic use seems to have driven out uses in relation to pictorial art - nowadays, we paint, draw, or produce portraits, and make or do drawings - so that taking a picture can only refer to photography.

My favourite is when she says "close the light"

Kills me everytime

All these things and more makes them so special and I wouldn't swap mine for the world.