Greetings ASEAN Hivers, @justinparke here with a new challenge about sounds, particularly the familiar sounds of your home or where you live.

🧏 Sounds Of Home 🏡

👨‍💻 Week #174 👩‍💻

^{September 29th ➡️ October 6th, 2025}

My Cambodian family and I have been in the USA for around 3 months already, and something I can't get used to is the silence and isolation. I miss roosters crowing, neighbors coughing, dogs barking, knives slamming against cutting boards, kids shouting, motorcycles, karaoke speakers, rain, and I could go on and on, but I think you all understand. Most of all I miss houses with open windows and doors that allow you to hear all these things.

Southeast Asian homes have lots of familiar sounds, so for this challenge I would like you to show me all the things activities that create the soundscape of your home or living space. Perhaps it's bullfrogs, crickets, and karaoke, or maybe your soundscape is kids laughing, cows mooing, and a moto repairman at work, whatever it is, document it as best as possible and tell us what sounds you like, don't like, why, etc.

Week #173 ASEAN Hive Challenge Winners
🗣️ ASEAN Expressions 🤯

This challenge was very fun for me to read the entries. Despite all four winning entries being from Filipina ASEAN Hivers, each post is full of very different insightful wordplay. I particularly like the term "greedy look" when referring to eyeing someone's food, and also how @tegoshei provided some standard sayings and then some more humorous satirical twists on the originals. Please have a look and support anything of interest, and know that all four are worthy of your time and consideration, thanks.

Winner 💵 10% Beneficiary

Winners Don't Quit: A Mother's Unwavering Love
by: @diosarich

_(EXCERPT) Just like most proverbs the world over, most of us have probably heard all Philippine proverbs throughout our childhood—usually in the form of scolding or warnings from our parents. Most have been handed down from generation to generation and contain sayings that prescribe norms, impart a lesson, or simply reflect standard norms, traditions, and beliefs in our community. |

Winner 💵 10% Beneficiary

"Takaw Tingin": My Sister's Craving Ended with Me Finishing the Leftovers 🤷‍♀
by: @wanderelle

_(EXCERPT) Have you ever filled your plate with delicious-looking food but cannot finish it all? 👀 “Takaw tingin” is a Filipino idiom that exactly describes it. Its literal definition means “greedy look.” But it actually refers to a person who’s tempted by the sight of food, because of its beauty or novelty, but in the end, it turns out that they don’t like it or can’t finish it. It can also be extended to other situations like impulsively buying things because they look appealing, even if you don’t need or use them.| |---|---| |

Winner 💵 10% Beneficiary

ASEAN Hive Community Challenge #173: ASEAN Expressions
by: @tegoshei

_(EXCERPT) It's been ages since I last participated in ASEAN Hive Community Challenge, so I'm excited to do so again. For challenge 173, we are to share "ASEAN Expressions". People in the Philippines love inventing words or phrases. It's like we're creating a new language out of the original one. For instance, we say "LODI" instead of "IDOL. It's just idol but backwards. The same goes for "SAKALAM" instead of "MALAKAS".|

Winner 💵 10% Beneficiary

Aseanhive Community Weekly Challenge #173 Asean Expression : "Push Mo Yan Te" (Go For It)
by: @krissymayol

_(EXCERPT) This is an epic challenge! My entry is a famous tagline in my country whenever you are going to start, in the middle of it or you failed or it's a success. We Filipinos encouraged ourselves and others to go through things that hinders our goals by lively saying "Push mo yan te! " or in English it says "Go for it" I am going to elaborate how this expression is being used in my experiences.|

👨‍💻 Week #174 Challenge 👩‍💻

🏆 4x Challenge Winners - 10% Post Beneficiary Each

👨‍⚖️ Challenge Rules ⚖️

post body must contain a minimum 250+ word count
entry must be published in the ASEAN Hive Community
first tag must be #aseanhive
participants must share their post link in the comments section below
mention the ASEAN Hive Challenge "Sounds Of Home" somewhere in your title or post body
submit entries before this post countdown is finished

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