Pisay Has It's Own Vocabulary

25 words you learn to say and love when you're in PISAY

Pisay is a culture in its own right, and every culture has an intrinsic language. Here are some Pisay Vocabulary words (some, specific to batch 2010) you learn to love and treasure over your stay in Pisay:

1) Equilibrium
- Physics: a stable condition in which forces cancel each other out
- Chemistry: condition where the chemical reaction and its reverse reaction proceed at equal rates
- Economics: the break even point
- Social Studies: Peace and equality
- Relationships: the condition wherein your crush likes you back. Also known as MU or Mutual Understanding


2) LC
-A really cool girl from 1-Diamond, 2-Adelfa, 3-Potassium and IV-Photon
-Also, Laway-Conscious: to be unwilling to share drinks or food for fear of contracting or sharing saliva from people of the same/opposite sex

3) UBE
- A yummy purple treat made from native root-crops
- Also, Ultimate Bonding Experience, when studies get you down and you don't think anything else can cheer you up.

4) Walkout
- The scholar's dream come true.
- To escape the wraths of any teacher of a subject you dislike extremely because of his/her tardiness or general negligence.

5) STRess
- Pisay gives stress a whole new meaning: Stress starts with STR (Science and Technology Research), and ends with ESS (Economics and Social Studies)

6) Gaz
- Short for Gazebo; One of the three places batch 2010's cool people choose to hang out.

7) FLob
- Short for Front Lobby; the other place batch 2010's cool people choose to hang out.

8) Cafeteria
- Place where miscellaneous teachers go to escape their classes.
- Also the third place batch 2010's cool people choose to hang out.

9) Guidance Office
- GASP! There's a guidance office!? We wouldn't know. Batch 2010 doesn't hang at the guidance office.

10) Lib
- also known as: palamigan/bedroom

11) Nosebleed
- used to describe any requirement that is too difficult to accomplish, but we accomplish anyway.
- usage: "nosebleed yung econ test kanina"

12) P6
- Pisay's cute shortcut for everybody's FAVORITE subject, physics.

13) CAT
- 2010's second-year batch president
- Also: Citizen's Army Training. A component of PEHCAT which initially you can't wait to get started with until you reach drills and you can't wait for it to be over.

14) Blowout
- a word that Ma'am Bernal says does not exist
- but we don't care and use it anyway
- used to refer to anybody sponsored celebration for a special occasion (birthday, class plays, random libre)

15) Puyat
- A pisay scholar's standard and habitual setting

16) Cramming
- The art that every pisay scholar learns to master.

17) PDA
- Personal Digital Assistant - something most of us can't afford.
- Also, Public Displays of Affection; things that used to be rampant in specified areas until the installment of new security cameras

18) HHWWMPSSP
- Holding Hands While Walking May Pa-Sway-Sway Pa; a term coined by Mr. Rolando Reyes, first year ValEd

19) IR-man/woman
- Previously used to refer to a certain biology teacher but has since been revamped to refer to any discipline officer

20) UNO, DOS, TRES
- refer to different grade equivalents in increasing exasperation

21) shotgun
- the last resort to any impossible test; to throw random answers around when a test is multiple choice
- something all pisay scholars do at least once in their lifetime
- previously the primary medium for answering achievement tests until recent changes made achievement tests graded

22) laser
- the more high-tech from of shotgun: to pick one letter and go with it for the entire multiple choice test

23) penge-5
- phrase repeated to different people when scavenging for money to buy food

24) bat-6
- a phrase used for multiple purposes
- may be used to express disbelief: "Bat-6! May test ngayon!?"
- may be used to express frustration: "Bat-6, la kang kwenta."
- may be used at random: person to a random person: "Bat-6Bat-6Bat-6Bat-6Bat-6"

25) '010
- pronounced: o-ten
- a word with an ambiguous but somewhat vulgar meaning.
- Also, the best group of people I will ever meet. I love you guys <3

- Ada Agupitan