E di napagbintangan ako nang kaibigan ko na konyo. (“You are more conio than you think, Sunny. I will not even editorialize or moralize on the concept.”) Ako naman, medyo siyak — ako? Eh malinaw na malinaw sa akin kung sino ang mga konyo noong ako’y nasa kolehiyo sa UPLB — una, sila mga taga-Maynila — at kung sino ang hindi (ako). (Totoo nga na ako’y pa-blog-blog, at nag-aral sa isteyts, pero merong kasing natatanging kahulugan ang pagiging konyotik, at hindi naaayon sa akin.)
Now I asked two experts - a Atenista and a meeting in Manila - if I think a konyo, and yet assure that. The answer: "Oh, Sunny, far away from konyo. Tell your friend, he was wrong. "(Sigh.)
So here, from informants, the necessary conditions for branded konyo:
- Money. (Puno't-end, but there is another more important, which is ...) - Languages. (Not only wers, but basically college English.) - Clothes. ( "Gap," said the other, but he quickly kinorek his wife. "Prada, Calvin Klein jeans, Girbaud ...") - Where attended college. (Only two colleges, honestly: Stick Arreneyo La Salle. "There konyo in UP, but ...") - Where attended high school. (Nagsilistahan them in schools that I've never heard about the others: Assumption, Zobel something something, ICA, Wood something something, what else?) - Accommodation. (Forbes, Dasma, Greenmeadows, what else? "Except that the Konyong Alabang, Pasay Konyong - the Konyong Pasay, rice rockets with that.")
Me: "Can you konyo of the province?" Informant: "Often, but must in Manila you went to college or at least high school." Me: "Are there any artists konyo?" Informant (fast): "None . Concentrated jologs it. "[Nagisip a bit.]" Ah, there - Mikee Cojuangco. Kris Aquino. "Informant # 2:" Martin, you might as well. "
So please clarify that, my readers: who does the konyo?