Me Against The World

Haha Whee! I heard this song when I was watching some AMVs on youtube, and I fell in love with it at first listen. I was looking for the lyrics when I found this site that gave the html lyrics for websites, so I decided to put it on my blog. WHEE!

Sadly, try as I might to find the blog background music, I couldn't find it. If any of you do find it, tell me k? Haha then I can put it on. WHEE!

Ok as you can tell, I'm really hyper right now. Listening to the song now. Couldn't download so I'm actually playing the youtube one over and over again. Hehe. Goodness I'm so in love with this song! Haha. Might even buy the album, just for this song.

Oh yes. Just in case, I'm talking about 'Me against the world' from Simple Plan. Not tupac or any other weird band which I've never heard of before. Come to think of it, I haven't heard of Tupac either...Weird name...not funky at all...Haha sorry if any Tupac fans read this! I'm an ignoramus ok? Haha.

Maybe part of the reason I like this song so much is because I can relate to it?

I won't give up my dreams for anybody. NO-BODY!

I don't care what society thinks of me. I am who I am, and I'm not gonna change. Whatever for? To become the same as everyone else? I want to be a unique person, not one who follows the latest trends and such. I follow my heart!

Hehe. And the chorus, I can sort of relate to.

My mum always complains about me. She seems to have an entire list of things she hates about me? Always comparing me to my sister. "Your sister so smart, can go RGS la." "Your sister never have teachers complaining about her la." "Your sister wasn't as tomboy as you la."

Goodness. When IS she going to realise that I am NOT my sis! I am my own person, and I'm not gonna follow in my sister's footsteps! I carve my own path in life, and I do what I do not cos my sis did the same, but because I want to!

Once, I asked a close friend what I struck him as. And he told me that I struck him as someone who went against the flow. Hehe.

Michelle! You know who that person is la. Haha is your SP. HEE.

Ok. Got sidetracked there. Back to how I can relate with the lyrics.

Yea. So no matter how much my mum considers me a lost cause, I'm gonna continue being who I am, and I'll prove her wrong one day. Then, she will finally see me for who I truly am, and not who she wants me to be.

Not that I'm ever going to conform to her wants anyway. Countless times, she has tried to get me to keep my hair long. She tried refusing to pay for my haircuts. I paid out of my own pocket. Like I'm gonna let a little thing like that stop me. And then, she tried a sort of debate on how I should let my hair grow, complaining that so many people were mistaking me for a boy.

My rebutt left her speechless. Hehe. I told her, "Why should I care what those aunties think? If they want to stereotype and think that just cos I've got short hair, I must be a boy, then let them! My face isn't very boyish anyway, so if they want to think of me as a boy, its their problem. Why should I conform to society's standards of how a girl should look and act? I want to stand out and be myself."

LOL.

And the teachers in school...I swear that they are trying to brainwash us! 2 years ago, they made my seniors go for some manicure course. UGH. And when I say made, I mean MADE. Those who didn't go got calls from the school, checking that they were really sick. EWWW.

Thank goodness they didn't have it for my year. I would have ponned, and if they called, I would have pretended to have lost my voice. Hehe.

They DID, however, replace it with an etiquette course.

You must seat this way, you must walk this way, you must behave this way.

UGH. Basic courtesy is one thing. Being forced to be something you're not is another thing altogether.

I'm not saying personal etiquette isn't important. It is. But there's a fine line between etiquette and...

I don't know how to say it. You guys know what I mean right?

After all, there ARE ways to be yourself, and be polite at the same time.

I got so pissed at the school for that course, that I did the exact opposite of what the instructors told me to. They told me to sit with my legs crossed, and I slammed my feet firmly onto the ground. They told me to walk nicely, the catwalk way, and I purposely slouched and stomped.

I've got an attitude problem? Haha maybe I do. I get this way whenever someone tries to force me into something I'm not interested in. Especially if they are trying to get me to be something I don't wanna be.

And that's that. Society can judge me however they want, I'm not going to change. I will not betray my heart.

Hmm...what was supposed to be a short, crappy post about the song and how much I liked it...became this uber long reflection of sorts?

Oh wells.

Ja' ne!

-Ade-