06 July 2009
Pimp Your Three-Wheeled Vehicle
It means "You're pretty!" and is followed by what is probably a list of family members sewn on vinyl.
Advertising, vinyl sewn over vinyl for
pabitin
and
palayok
party supplies.
Handpainted and amateur.
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