8 Signs You're a Certified Pisaynon
Have you, my fellow Pisaynon, experienced talking to your former classmate and comparing each of your respective high school lives? I’m referring to that time when your gang out-victimed each others in terms of academic workload and you ‘won’ in a clear landslide. Let’s look at some of the other signs that make me proudly say you’re part of the PSHS-WVC family, for better and for worse.
1. NONG DANTE’S PEAK
After hours of typing your Java or C++ codes, your tired fingers must be dying to pick up sweet and savory Piattos chips. Who you gonna call? NONG DANTE! Nong Dante’s role as the ultimate canteen staff is so significant to a Pisaynon’s everyday life that his name has been almost synonymous to either coop or cafeteria. Just don’t forget to clap when you hear the spoons fall in the coop.
2. MERRY-GO-ROUNDS
While eating your sour cream potato chips in the covered walk, a cute couple just passed by you. Then your Grade 7 friend say to you, in an exaggerated California accent, “Oh my god, did Nong *bleep* just dumped Nang *bleep* for Nang *bleep*?” To which you say “Welcome to Pisay!” Jokes aside, ‘rounds’ have been deeply imbedded to the Pisaynon culture. The people who walk and talk around the covered walk vary from group of friends to couples to couple-ish. There’s no other place to share intimacy than to keep changing place from time to time.
3. ZUMBA WITH MA’AM CERLA
Pisaynons also love to dance. Whether it is Foundation Day, Christmas Day, Fun Day, or just a happy day, nothing gets us more pumped than our very own P.E. teacher Ma’am Cerla Duarte leading a school-wide zumba session. It’s so engaging, even fellow faculty and staff cannot help but move their feet with the beat.
4. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
You and your friends are eating pizza with pineapple in the canteen when the most triggering sound in the school resonates in your eardrum. All of the sudden, your crew stopped eating and ran as if there’s a zombie apocalypse. On a side note, if you have survived the horror of eating pineapple in a pizza, I can’t see something that horrifies you more. Oh right, your class monitor will mark you tardy and you’ll miss a few minutes of lecture and sometimes, bonus points for the test.
5. PANIC!!! AT THE DISCO
Brendon Urie, vocalist of the band Panic! At The Disco, is well-regarded for his ability to belt his chest voice way up to E♭ above high tenor C. Occasionally, Pisaynons also dare to outbelt Brendon Urie. That happens when Pisaynons ‘write sins, not tragedy’ and together celebrate Fun Day, Intrams Night, Coup de grâce, etc. It’ll get all of us, jumping with the beat, screaming ‘hallelujah’ at the top of our lungs, and defining our youth like there’s no tomorrow. Of course there’s still tomorrow — only that our throat is heavily strained we could hardly speak. But the fun is definitely worth it.
6. TIRELESS FIDELITY
In between two hectic periods is a half hour break and you decided you may want to watch a couple of cheesy fast-food sponsored videos. Where do you go? Probably it’s somewhere comfortable, somewhere with internet connection, somewhere with ‘air-con’. Pisaynons just know the name of the place, the place. Second floor of Academic Building is where you can find the library and guidance office beside each other. Of course, watch out for the librarian’s bell. It’s the last thing you want to hear in the library.
7. JUST WALK RIGHT … OR WEST
It’s a Saturday and you’ve just finished your AdTech project. Your palms are sweaty, knees weak and arms are heavy. One thing came to your mind already, mom’s spaghetti. Unluckily, mom’s spaghetti is one hour away from you. Where do we go now? Where do we go? Just outside the campus, to the right, past the doves and the dogs and the chickens, is a bakery we baptised as Bakerite. To the left, are the talabahans and the new kid on the block, West 265. What are you waiting? GO!
8. MASTER CRAMMERS
Always save the best for the last. Why do you think a Pisaynon can easily out-victim his/her friends from other schools? Simple — in Pisay, everything is done in the last hour. Pisaynons work ‘better’ against a timebomb. During the so-called ‘hell week’, the lives of Pisaynons suddenly become the 1990’s Keanu Reeves movie where a bus would explode if its speed drops below 50 mph. We are all overspeeding beyond our reach. Though, all of those are generally considered worth after seeing our scores or grades, generally.
