SOSYAL INDAY TEXTS: Funny Text Messages
By tryxiness
@tryxiness (4544)
Philippines
December 9, 2007 9:16am CST
For almost a year now, the inday texts have been circulating the country. The text messages are quite funny.
For everyone to know, INDAY is a helper who has a higher degree than her employer. Inday is well-versed and fluent in english. She is quite more intelligent but she chose to be a helper. She is called SOSYAL INDAY, because she is an elitist in her own right. :)
For this to be universal I am sharing some of the INDAY TEXT excerpts:
Because of poverty, Inday was forced to look for work in the city
Amo: Kelangan namin ng katulong para mag ayos ng bahay, magluto, maglaba, magplantsa, mamalengke, at magbantay ng mga bata. Kaya mo ba ang lahat ng ito?
(Employer: We need a helper to do the cleaning of the house, do the cooking, do the laundrying and ironing, do the marketing and to sit the kids. Could you do all this?)
Inday: I believe that my trained skills and expertise in management with the use of standard tools, and my discipline and experience will contribute significantly to the value of the work that you want, my creativity, productivity and work-efficiency and the high quality of outcomes I can offer will boost the work progress.
Amo: [nosebleed]
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FYI, I did not translate inday's statement because she is fluent in english already. The nosebleeding part of the amo is very normal for people who struggle in English. Actually, it just is an expression. :)
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For more Inday Texts:
http://jeffreybonita.blogspot.com/2007/09/mgalagaancoms-sosyal-si-inday-text.html
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11 responses
@tryxiness (4544)
• Philippines
13 Dec 07
Hahaha! Ederlyn is the best too. :) Anyways, their rivalry is funny. :D
@eden_shii (506)
• Australia
23 Dec 07
i hope more 'sosyal inday texts' will be posted here...it is really funny...
@tryxiness (4544)
• Philippines
5 Jan 08
Actually, Inday sent it in my email. I just had the urge to post it. :D
@tryxiness (4544)
• Philippines
3 Jan 08
More of Inday's Notoriety...
Nang sumali si inday sa deal or no deal...
Kris: Magandang gabi mga kapamilya, sa gameshow na ito importante ang sagot sa nag-iisang katanungang Deal or no Deal. Ang ating player ngayong gabi ay walang iba kundi ang fastest-rising household services manager na si Inday!
[umentra si Inday at nagpalakpakan ang mga tao]
Kris: Ok Inday, choose a briefcase.
Inday: Kris, I would opt for case #4 please.
Kris: Briefcase # 4... si Sharmel. Inday, matanong ko lang, how did you come up with the number 4?
Inday: Oh, do you really want to know Kris?
Kris: Oo naman. I'm sure kaya ko naman maintindihan yung sasabihin mo eh.
Inday: The number 4 was acquired based on a probability distribution function that involves integrating up to an area greater than or equal to that random number which should be generated between 0 and 1 for proper distributions.
Kris: Syet. tanong tanong pa kasi eh.
Kris: Ok Inday, choose 6 briefcases to open.
Inday: I would opt for 7, 24, 12, 2, 15 and 20.
Kris: Wait lang Inday, usually isa isa lang ang pagbubukas natin ng case...
Inday: Why is that? As if I can change the outcome if we're to open a case each time I blurt out a number as opposed to opening each case immediately one after the other right?
Kris: Hayyy...babaguhin pa talaga mechanics (bulong sa sarili).
Kris: Anwyay, di bale na lang nga... tuloy tayo. Number 7. Natalie buksan na!!
[Yung audience sumisigaw ng LOWER!! LOWER!!!]
Kris: Teka lang, bago natin buksan... Inday, usually ang mga contestants naten ay sumisigaw ng "LOWER" every time magbubukas ng case.
Inday: Kris, I guess that's not the way I was taught in grade school. You see, I was taught that we should only use the comparative form of the word or add "ER" to the adjective if we are comparing two things.
And since it is only the first briefcase that we are going to open, we have nothing to compare it to. Am I right?
[natahimik ang audience at napaisip]
Kris: Oo nga no!
Kris: Sige Natalie, Buksan mo na.
[Ang laman ng briefcase 7 ay Piso... Palakpakan ang mga tao]
Kris: Good start! Ano yung next case mo ulit?
Inday: Case number 24 please.
Kris: Chloe... buksan na...
[Audience sumisigaw ulit ng LOWER!! LOWER!!]
Kris: Wait lang guys, Inday may nabuksan ng case baket di ka pa rin sumisigaw ng "Lower"?
Inday: Oh my goodness Kris, how long have you been doing this? Have you ever encountered a value that is lower than a peso in this game? Tell me, is there any value left lower than the one we just opened?
Sheesh.
[Napaisip ulit ang audience at natahimik]
Kris: Aarrgghh!!!! Chloe buksan na lang nga, pati na rin yung 12, 2, 15 and 20 buksan na rin para matapos na. [naiirita na]
[At sunod sunod na ngang nabukas ang mga case ni Inday]
[nag-ring ang phone]
Inday: Ahh Kris, to save more time can you tell Banker that I'm not interested in his first offer. In the history of this game of chance, I have yet to see someone accept a first offer from the banker. It's quite pathetic and pretentious for contestants to pause and look
around the audience as if asking for advice before ultimately rejecting the first offer. I mean come on, isn't that a waste of airtime?
Banker: Potahhh!!! [narinig sa set kahit sarado ang kwarto ni banker]
- Ito ang unang pagkakataon na marinig ng mga audience ang boses ni banker sa Deal or no Deal.
Abangan ang susunod na kabanata...
@cefaz_21 (2596)
• Philippines
12 Dec 07
I've been receiving such texts for quite sometime now..what makes me smile is not how Inday responds to her employer but how the employer reacts..:) specially the nosebleeding part..:)
LAtely, I saw similar character in a soap opera in GMA7..and she's quite funny..Inday is becoming famous!!!
@tryxiness (4544)
• Philippines
13 Dec 07
Yes. That was in GMA, there was a nosy maid in the show. But I still love SOSYAL INDAY in the texts. :D
@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
10 Dec 07
I also have a Sosyal Inday text... here it goes...
Consul: Why do you want to go to the US?
AMO: To travel with friends and fly the airplane.
Consul: DENIED!
Consul: And you?
Inday: for like is a never ending pursuit of material and social satisfaction that i tender my great intent of actualizing a transpacific journey to the land of milk and honey. An affable sanctuary where dreams become realit and a perfect habitat where souls like mine can reach the pedestal of freedom.
Consul: LIFETIME MULTIPLE ENTRY!
I just love the sosyal inday texts...
@tryxiness (4544)
• Philippines
13 Dec 07
Hahaha! I wish were granted lifetime multiple entry. :D
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@tryxiness (4544)
• Philippines
3 Jan 08
This is one of the articles in one of INDAY's BLOGS. :)
Happy New Year SMS Message ni Inday
Dec 30th, 2007 by Inday
New Year is the moment to blossom forth new horizons & realize new cherished desires, to rediscover the strength & complete confidence within you, to jubilate in simple pleasures & gear up for new challenges.
Wishing you a truly satisfying 2008!
- Text message ni Inday sa mga kaibigan nya ngayong bagong taon
http://www.blogniinday.com/
@eden_shii (506)
• Australia
10 Dec 07
lol...really funny...i wish i have always received text messages from my friends in the philippines...i really missed messeges like this...i've never received these messages when i was in the philippines but i have read about inday's story in the joke book of mr. gary (i forgot his family name, he is a comedian)...and everytime i remember this character i can't help but smile...
@tryxiness (4544)
• Philippines
11 Dec 07
Hello eden, I wish I could send you a text message on Inday. You should buy a globe simcard so that I can forward u crazy Inday texts. :)
@eden_shii (506)
• Australia
23 Dec 07
well, i wish i can...but i am not in the philippines right now...i used to have a globe sim pack...anyway, when i'm back home, i will give you my number so that you can send me text messages about inday...lol
@glitzypurple (1477)
• Philippines
8 Jan 08
how did dodong and inday end up? haha..
yes I've received a lot of text messages about inday... nosebleed talaga!
@MaryKris (33)
• Philippines
12 Dec 07
ei!,,, inday sounds interesting!... could you send to me her stories through texts... pls... here is my # 09163309970...thanx!!!
@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
9 Dec 07
i have yet to receive from text an inday joke. with your example, i could tell that it was not a joke. a joke is supposed to be funny and make us laugh. this one did not put an effect like that. i think for some people who think this kind of joke is funny because they probably see inday as incapable of speaking in good english. oftentimes, we equate speaking english to intelligence and social status. but for me, i don't see the equation as true. speaking in english does not have anything to do with intelligence or social status. english is a language that anyone can learn through practice and exposure. english is not tied with prestige.
go on inday. show the world what you can. stand up and be proud as a filipina.
@tryxiness (4544)
• Philippines
10 Dec 07
Hello. It is not that I am not proud of being a Filipina. I am proud. English has been part of our everyday language here in the Philippines. The inday text jokes were just a breather of everything serious the we do here. I know, some may take this as a slur to helpers or whoever, but if you have read the rest of exchanges in the Inday texts -- the kind of assertion Inday makes, you will find Inday as an amazing helper.
Anyways, I for one does not see inday as someone who is not capable of speaking english,infact, inday is multi-lingual she could speak spanish and korean. Sorry if you took the particle joke sample as offensive.
@miiszheiress (140)
• Philippines
10 Dec 07
Inday is really funny but I somehow learn new words from her.
Have you seen her blog or should I say the site that was made to compile all the text messages? There is also a biography available. Gawd, you must see that biography I went *nosebleed* when I saw all educational background. Hahaha.
@tryxiness (4544)
• Philippines
13 Dec 07
I love the nosebleed part. I would always tease my foster brother then who is American that I go nosebleed whenever I converse with him. :D
