The Wily Filipino

hah! madaming konyo din sa UP. nagpapanggap lang down to earth dahil nasa govt-funded school sila at may kakilala silang making tuhog da pishbols. di porquet galing ateneo ka automatic na konyo na (*ahem*). si mikee jolog yun. si kris a. pure konyo.

konyo for me at least ay yun talagang totally disconnected sa reality ng pinas. siguro ang pinakamadaling paraan para malaman kung konyo ang kausap kapag ang mga hinihirit nya ay mapapaiisip ka talaga ng 'Konyo!' in the truest sense of the spanish word: http://www.spanishdict.com/AS.cfm?e=co%C3%B1o

you know like 'shet pare I couldn't play water polo last night. my horse died kasi eh.' (KONYO!)

or 'kaiinis talaga may driver. was making tulog at 4am when i wanted to go home na.' (KONYO!)

tsaka di lang sa manila ang may konyo. sa mga urban centers tulad ng cebu at davao mayron. minsan mas malala pa sa kanilang manila-based ilk.

sabi sa yo pumunta ka ng rockwell sa makati or greenbelt sa gabi para tumaas ang presyon mo. hehe

Wala yatang konyo sa pasay. Konyong pasig yun... mga drag racing rice rocketeers.

Oy, stones stones in heaven, if you get hit, don't make galit :-) Bwahaha! Quoted nanaman ako. Salamat sa definition. My comment was actually a compliment. Tutoo! Let me revisit the original statement then -- mas hihigit ka pa sa conio. The short of it is, conyos are trying hard. Ikaw, you don't even have to try. Kung nalito ka diyan, ito pa ang isang re-statement.

Mga konyo, pasosyal. Ikaw, you are so sosyal, you don't even know it. Bow.

Sa 1970s/80s, ang mga cono ay ang mga may lahing kastila (tisoy at tisay, ika nga) na nagtatambay sa Manila Polo Club at nag-aaral sa mga eskuwelahang katulad ng Colegio de San Agustin sa Dasmarinas Village. Kaya sila tinawag na "Cono Kids" ay lagi silang gumagamit ng salitang "Cono" pag sila'y nag-uusap: "Shit pare, Inaki fell off his horse yesterday and won't be able to play tomorrow. Ay cono." O "Shit cono pare, I saw Ines and Mayo at the club kanina and they didn't want to make me pansin."

Hindi lahat ng kastila gusto maging cono kid, pero hindi ka pwedeng maging totoong cono kid kung wala kang halo na kastila (maski kakonti lang). Kung hindi ka tisoy na kastila, pero mayaman ka, nakatira ka sa isa sa mga Ayala villages sa Makati o Alabang (o sa Pasay, Valle Verde, Quezon City, etc.), nag-aaral sa Ateneo, La Salle, Assumption, etc. -- sosyal ka lang, pero hindi ka Cono. Kung ang isang sosyal ay parang gumagaya-gaya sa mga Cono, "trying hard to be Cono" lang siya.

Ergo: Mikee and Kris = not Cono (sosyal lang). Pero si Mikee OK siya sa mga Cono; si Kris hindi.

Galing naman! Kailangan kong i-upgrade yung comments into an entry of their own -- abangan!

Ay shet, pare, you don't know what conyo is. Conyo is both money and a state of mind. Yung bang you know you have money and you have nice clothes and nice wheels but also, kailangan you have time to make-porma. Kasi you can't be conyo and be unnoticed, na-gets mo? Other people need to see you and call you conyo para you become one. Walang closet conyo. Walang tisoy o tisay na hindi napapansin sa Pilipinas. Iba yon sa sosi ha (like the other person sa taas mentioned na already). Because Boy Adunda is sosi, but there's no conyo named "Boy".

At, when did you see naman someone who is conyo and wearing, like, a Habagat sandals, diba? You have to play out the part of conyo and have the conyo attributes to be conyo. And, chances are, the parents of the conyo are not conyo. There normal lang dahil they still speak English with a "Filipino" accent.

Conyo schools daw:

High School: Zobel, Woodrose, Xavier (although conyong matalino to), ICA, Assumption (San Lorenzo daw, di kasali yung Antipolo at yan daw ay mga jologs), LSGH, Poveda (tunay na mga conyotik to na nagsasalita nang Kastila sa bahay), mga Pinoy sa IS at sa British School, Miriam (pero matatalinong konyo to), and op kors, Ateneo.

College: Ateneo (Manila lang), La Salle (Taft lang), Benilde (lahat sila), UofAP (dating CRC, conyong mga Opus Dei), saka mga Mass Comm sa UP Diliman (patay ako dito sa comment na to)

Tama si Monica, walang conyo sa Pasay (pwera lamang sa Taft; see above). Lahat sila'y mga negosyante sa Chiang Kai Shek na nagaaral.

Favorite conyo line:

Uy, you make suklay naman my buhok, it's making tikwas-tikwas.

(After seeing that others have left the bar early) Pare, wala na ba the others? Tabla, tsong.

Favorite conoy accessory:

Rice rocket, bodyguard, cellphone, jeans, male jewelry.

Tama si gigi, ang conyo malimit ay may dugong Kastila (see some of my Ateneo friends who speak spanish at home, or povedans who are still required to study spanish in school). Pero medyo kelangan na natin i-expand ang definition ng conyo beyond that, after all ang tunay na tisay/tisoy na galing sa kastila ay bibihira mo na makita.

At, iba ang sosyal sa conyo. Sosyal is more money and lifestyle, minus annoying taglish and marked lack of social awareness.

Wala bang mga conyo dito who wish to defend themselves?

I think another indicator would be their surnames - kids with parents who made a name for themselves, living in their estates and who are filthy rich in the Philippines. Don't know if people would seriously think you're conyo if your last name sounds funny. I knew this girl years ago who I considered conyo. She was 'tisay', 'Miriam' grad and daughter of a rich family in the Philippines. She had pride in her last name and her parents. Filipinos around us knew them when mentioned. I think she lived in Forbes and her friends lived in Corinthian Gradens and Ayala Alabang and they had resthouses everywhere. She would tell stories of how she and her sisters would shop every summer at Hong Kong, the US and even Paris. Then she finally decided to stay in the US to be more independent and to prove herself to her parents while situating herself in the reality of living on her own (of course while calling her parents when she needs money). Yes, she migrated to the US to be independent from her family and was proud of it, although independence in her terms also equates to mooching off her parents wealth. Anyway, my favorite expression from her was -

(while talking to her then boyfriend and pointing to her car) "Hey, did you make pahangin the gulong na?"

It became the joke between me and my friends. We usually say that if a conyo family migrates to the US, they are probably in hiding, ashamed of something, on the brink of bankruptcy, or probably did something bad in the Philippines.

She wasn't rich here, she worked a regular job, didn't have a business, always wanted brand name stuff even if it means shopping at thrift shops in San Francisco and looking for the Banana Reps, the Kenneth Coles, the Armanis, the Pradas, etc. And yet appearance-wise, you really couldn't tell. She's not pa-sosi but really is sosi, it's just that her situation changed. The flipside is, it's interesting to see what kind of life they would have in the future coz sometimes their parents would divorce, or their business would go bankrupt, or they didn't marry into a wealthy family, etc. In the US, the same social heirarchies exists (socialites) but the indicators are different (and I guess shopping for them is more upscale - has to be one-of-a-kind designer couture), you have to be Yale or Harvard or Stanford and heirs of a wealthy family and 'white'. Their Ateneo or La Salle degree really means nothing here.

ON AC ANTIPOLO and MAKATI

i can't believe it's like that... what a pity... we all came from the same school... everybody (the people i knew since grade school, my batch and those before us) came from antipolo....we all went to san lo for prep, antipolo for grade school.... then went to san lo again for high school...there was no grade school in san lo yet at the time...

i can't believe there's a growing dichotomy of subculture within ac

what's wrong with assumption...we're all from ONE and the same school... (and certainly not to say that everybody's a cono...there are people who are simple...)

(i got an award for simplicity in grade 4... in ac antipolo!)

and to quote my friend from ateneo:
sorry to say that is the "rep" of antipolo ac.... sadly a lot of boys schools permeate this idea... including ateneans....

I definitely like your blog. I graduated from an exclusive school (elementary & H.S.) and then went to college in UP, but never in my life was I called a conyo kid. In fact, people would be surprised once I mention which school I came from. I take that as a complement, of course!
Being a conyo usually depends on the person's upbringing & environment (elite family, exclusive school, peers, etc) and because of these, conyo people would think they are better than anyone else. I wonder how & why?

Since I was a brought up in an enviroment full of conyos, I guess I don't really get affected when I see them esp now that I work for a call center (But that's another story). Though I always make it a point not to be close to a conyo, lest people assume, I am one of them. Thank God I wasn't brought up that way!

Anyway, to all conyo kids out there, get a life, a real one!