You know you're a
Woodrose Senior when...
by Den Albert

(circa 1998)

  1. You carry a chapstick in your pocket and apply it twenty times a day.
  2. The washroom becomes your chismis headquarters.
  3. You wash your face (with soap that you bring to school) at least thrice in a day-- more when it's incredibly hot and sticky.
  4. You bring two blue ribbons to school--one for your uniform, another to tie your hair with.
  5. You call your Pinoy teacher Ginang.
  6. You hate the thought of wearing your gala.
  7. You go to confession regularly every week.
  8. You say "Pare!" even if you're a girl.
  9. You bring sandwiches to school and eat them while classes are going on.
  10. You opt to buy a slice of Goldilocks cake rather than eat the extremely expensive lunch in the caf.


  11. You spend more time in the washroom than in the caf.
  12. You kiss the mothers of your classmates and call them "Tita".
  13. Mang Rodel becomes the most important techie to you.
  14. You call your friends "guys" even if they're not -- example: "Do you GUYS wanna eat?"
  15. You speak faulty Tagalog.
  16. Your beeper is permanently in "vibrate" mode.
  17. Southridge becomes a source of interest to you.
  18. You memorize the color, type, and plates of the cars of the boys, plus their phone & beeper nos. even if you have no intention of calling them.
  19. Your classroom smells like a powder and cologne factory rolled into one after P.E.
  20. You're not very good in basketball.


  21. You say "squatter."
  22. You can't resist posing for a camera.
  23. You hang around in the faculty room longer than necessary to indulge in the aircon.
  24. You ask for the time in Spanish.
  25. You complain for the nth time that your classroom isn't air-conditioned.
  26. You cut your nails during class.
  27. You get emotional over the littlest, stupidest memories of the "good old days."
  28. You've "nibbled" while cooking in H.E.
  29. You talk to your tutor like she's your best friend.
  30. You graduate 7th grade after Mrs Estagle teaches you the proper way to walk: one foot in front of the other, never mind if you look like you're balancing on a tightrope.


  31. You greet teachers but stop without even saying their last names.
  32. On a day when you have school and the others don't, you complain like there's no tomorrow.
  33. You carry a small supply of two-peso coins -- the old, hexagon-sided one -- for the pay phone that is almost always for free call only.
  34. You have a pencil case that's at least three-fourths the size of a shoe box.
  35. Whenever it's someone's birthday, you tell each of your teachers as they enter the classroom and sing Happy Birthday To You over and over to waste time.
  36. The guard who won't let you out the gate becomes your enemy.
  37. You spend so much time in the clinic, the nurse and Dra. know who you are.
  38. You never wear your I.D.
  39. You bring a radio for P.E. and use it for playing music (jamming) when there's no teacher -- never mind that P.E. was last week.
  40. Your top excuse for begging off P.E. is: dysmenorrhea.


  41. You visit the library about once or twice in a year.
  42. You can talk about your period (and more!) without blushing.
  43. You eat your lunch during Recess and catch up on your homework during Lunch then complain you're hungry.
  44. Your parents don't understand that you're practically nocturnal.
  45. You know better than to argue with Ms. Garcia because you'll just end up getting frustrated.
  46. Your blouse has textile paint spots on it.
  47. Your school shoes are loafers and your socks are nicely "wrinkle-folded."
  48. You've vandalized the immaculate white desks one time or another.
  49. You sit on the teacher's table when there's no teacher.
  50. You feel incomplete without your brush.


  51. Your friends or classmates wear their skirts so low on the hips that the tops of their undies are seen.
  52. Your classmates wear printed bras under their blouses.
  53. You try to go to mass on the first Friday of the month.
  54. Some of your friends have worn the same uniform since sixth grade.
  55. You French your nails with Liquid Paper.
  56. You draw tatoos on your hand with Zebra pens and highlighters.
  57. Your blackboard is actually a piece of plywood painted green.
  58. Your slippers are Birks.
  59. Your friends bring their own electric fans to school.
  60. You know by heart the code to tell a girl that her straps are seen: "Charlie's dead. He jumped in the. . ." Lake for left, River for right. Never mind that guys know exactly what you're talking about, yet act as if they don't know what you mean.


  61. You've read nearly ALL the books in the "Anne" series.
  62. After reading The Island of the Blue Dolphins, you realized it had a profound effect on you.
  63. Upon flipping over your collar, doodles, I-Love-____ 's, and dedications are displayed like graffiti on a sidestreet wall.
  64. A deck of cards is considered contraband.
  65. No matter how much you study, you can never seem to finish Mrs. Oguing's impossibly long Long Test.
  66. To you, nothing sounds better than the four o' clock bell on a Friday afternoon.
  67. You don't memorize. You "familiarize."
  68. You leave your kitchen sink soooo "clean you can put your cheek on it."
  69. You wear butterfly clips even if your hair is short.
  70. Before interschool soccer/softball games or debates, your school team is the only one that prays before each match.


  71. You say "Hello!?!?!" so many times in a day it's practically subconscious.
  72. You call your cubbyholes, "lockers", when they're actually just holes in the wall and bear no resemblance whatsoever to those fancy ones in the States.
  73. "Spacing" is defined as a term used to let gray matter rest after absorbing too much information in one sitting.
  74. You have about three sets of classmates with the same names (Erika & Erica, Aileen & Aileen, Nicole & Nicole, Carla & Carla) and a handful more with names that rhyme (Denise & Eunice & Janice & Myris, Adi & Aggie, Riane & Joanne) and quite a few with the same last names (Benitez, Reyes).
  75. You look Pinay but speak Tisay (for most of us, anyway).
  76. You believe in celebrating any occasion from Valentine's Day to your best friend's brother's birthday to your one-week anniv.
  77. You bring a Kikay Kit to school, containing: cologne, a brush, your trusty chapstick, lip gloss, Cetaphil/Ivory/Ponds, and face powder or the paper-powder-thing.
  78. You know practically all the brothers, sisters, and cousins of your friends -- the more male relatives, the better!
  79. You can hum the tune of Eres Tu.
  80. You have those silver clips (the ones that look like paper clips) and attach them to your collar when not in use.


  81. You can sing Tantum Ergo in your sleep.
  82. You can pray in four different languages: English, Latin, Spanish, and Filipino.
  83. Your collar is substituted for tissue and table napkins.
  84. You have mastered the art of dressing up in the classroom.
  85. You reluctantly cut your once-long nails Thursday night before CAT on Friday.
  86. A regular day means having long tests, quizzes, and suprise quizzes that turn your brain into pudding.
  87. After putting on baby powder, you resemble an espasol.
  88. You know the meaning of the word: "abstemious."
  89. You've memorized the lyrics of da Crossroads.
  90. You share everything with your barkada: cologne, powder, food, softdrinks, kuwento--sometimes even boys! (but not at the same time, of course).


  91. You pass I.D. pictures of you (to teachers) taken about three or four years before because you have no time to go to Photo-Me.
  92. You know the difference between Esse and Essence.
  93. After all the hype before Soph night, you discover that you don't really remember half of those guys you met under the dizzying disco lights.
  94. You have sunglasses that are dirt-cheap (89 bucks) but don't look it, that you bought from that shop in Town.
  95. "Nice numbers" drive you crazy (not to mention "squigglies" and "wiggles").
  96. You have this fruity body splash that smells like an air freshener (in country apple or in deadly peach) that diffuses itself in the room like an air freshener.
  97. You have waxy, shiny, explosively fruity Body Shop lip balms that taste pretty good.
  98. You need not look very far for a mirror in class (chances are, one of those shoebox-sized pencil boxes has a generously-sized one on the lid).
  99. It seems like it was just yesterday when you walked the halls of the Main building as a first-grader.

  100. The ninety-nine points above are incorporated in you. And as you close this chapter of your happy-go-lucky teenage high school life, and hang up your blue ribbon permanently(sniff!), you will never forget the tears and laughter and completely kikay-istic habits that helped make your years in Woodrose some of the best years of your life. Those little moments can never be returned but will forever live on as the memories you made and will look back on with a smile, because Woodrose is a part of you as you are a part of her.



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