THIS FILIPINA IS WEIRD - 10 Strange Things About The Filipina Pea!

Pea records a casual hotel-room chat while in Leyte preparing for her upcoming Christmas special. She breaks her usual rule of keeping her personal life private to share ten personal facts about herself, revealing personality traits, quirks, and opinions that flesh out who she is beyond the cultural commentary.

She's arrived in Leyte for the Christmas special ​

• Previous Christmas specials: two years ago went door-to-door with presents and food for an entire neighborhood; last year threw a feast for a whole barangay and gave away laptops to deserving students
• This year's will be even bigger — "10 days from now you'll see what centipede has up her sleeves"

Fact 1: She loves horror movies — but only if they're scary, not gory ​

• Loves creepy, edge-of-your-seat tension and even "cheap jump scares" (like the medicine cabinet mirror trick) as long as there's a good plot
• If the killer proceeds to saw someone's head off in graphic detail, she's out — "scary is the thing you know is there but don't necessarily see"
• Loves zombie movies, and specifically argues old-fashioned slow-moving zombies are scarier than fast ones — fast zombies having "superhuman speed despite having a brain full of worms doesn't make sense"

Fact 2: She's extremely frugal ​

• Makes a tube of toothpaste last six months by squeezing and twisting every last bit out
• When shampoo gets low, she refills the bottle with water to dilute the remaining shampoo, then repeats the process until there's essentially no shampoo left — calls it "homeopathic hair care"
• Traces this to growing up so poor that wasting a single grain of rice was "considered a crime, literally"
• Specific story: at Jollibee's in the airport with Lucy, she got a rice cake with her meal but is trying to avoid starchy carbs; she physically could not throw the rice away — "every fiber of my being was screaming at me and I could see my mom's pissed off face hovering above the table" — so she asked the guy sitting next to them if he wanted it, and he took it

Fact 3: She's a gym rat ​

• Used to go 3–4 times a week; now with YouTube taking up all her time, she manages twice a week
• Self-deprecating joke: "I can't be ugly and fat at the same time"
• Floats the idea of a workout video — "sweating with the Pea"

Fact 4: Her belly button is "freakishly deep" ​

• You can't see the bottom of it — "apparently an endless pit"
• Jokes that anyone spelunking in there would find "more than a license plate and a 10-pound tuna"
• Acknowledges no one has ever cared, so neither does she

Fact 5: She's an introvert who doesn't like crowds, doesn't go to parties, and has very few friends ​

• Hasn't been to any kind of party in over a decade
• Uncomfortable around more than one or two people at a time — prefers deep one-on-one conversation over entertaining a room
• Quip: "So I guess you know what I think about orgies too"
• Lives mostly inside her own head — "don't worry guys, my mommy had me tested, I'm not crazy"
• For the past three years, she's been too busy with work to socialize with anyone but her family
• The people from her videos (Fritchy, Yam, Angel) — she's never seen any of them except when filming
• Self-describes as a hermit

Fact 6: She has never used "tampo" in her life ​

• Tampo: when a Filipina gets angry and gives the silent treatment for hours to days depending on severity
• Pea thinks it's "really immature" and doesn't solve anything
• Her specific argument against using it with a Western man: "he's just gonna use your tampo tantrum to get some peace and quiet" — i.e., it backfires culturally
• She prefers to talk things out, staying calm and logical — the silent treatment is the opposite of that

Fact 7: She loves big band music from the 1940s ​

• Already known for loving 80s music (she's said before it was "the last time there were actual musicians" where talent mattered more than looks)
• Also deeply admires big band era — Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald
• Notes it still plays on Philippine radio sometimes
• Teases that her next song for the channel will be big band style — Danny Kaye specifically

Fact 8: She has almost no jealousy ​

• Claims jealousy is an emotion she rarely feels
• Says she's the kind of woman who'll point out the cute girl in case you missed her
• If a partner tries to make her jealous: "all you'll accomplish is making me disappointed in you for trying to upset me"
• Acknowledges this is "very un-Filipino of me"

Fact 9: Her guilty pleasure is french fries dipped in ice cream ​

• Makes a genuine pitch for the combo: "hot salty french fry and cold sweet ice cream — it's like every flavor and texture at once"
• Hedges with: "unless of course you don't like it, in which case you can totally forget who suggested it"

Fact 10 (the bonus): Her circumcision preference ​

• After her previous interview where nearly all the women said they preferred circumcised men, she got at least a dozen comments asking about her preference
• Her answer: she doesn't care either way, "unless there's a maintenance issue"
• Memorable line: "a hooded cobra is just as appealing as a topless torpedo"

Closing bit: Apollo 13 parody ​

• Pea does an extended comedy sketch where she's Houston Mission Control responding to Apollo 13's emergency with Filipino bureaucratic indifference
• Highlights: telling them they'll "have a problem in the future when the oxygen runs out" so why bother now; noting one whole side of the spacecraft is "in perfect shape" (glass half full); promising to fill out a "request for assistance form" when she gets back from lunch; mentioning there's a 20-peso fee payable in cash, in person

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