I was walking in the mall with my mom. And we bumped into one of her lady friends.. They talked for a while, so I patiently waited.. Aunties have a weird way of looking at me (or am I just being paranoid?)
ANYWAY, the point is, before we parted ways, my mom's friend asked: "
How old is your daughter?"
I replied for on behalf of mom: "
Eighteen"
The word eighteen has such a nice ring to it. It's the age where you're not too young, not too old. Just right. Just legal. And there's not much time left before I turn 19!! The last year of taanagehood! Then I'll be deemed "in my twenties" when someone asks my age! Eighteen.. I'm eighteen.. I just have to say it.. Haha..
After that moment of epiphany, I heard the song "fifteen" by taylor swift. It just inspired me to come up with my own version, how I spent my year of being eighteen!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, Eighteen:
*it's better to read this while listening to the original song, gives you a better picture =)
*Guitar intro
You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors
It's the morning of your very first day
You say hi to some people you ain't seen before,
Try and stay out of everybody's way
It's A-levels year and you're gonna be here
For the next one and a half years in this town
Hoping none of those senior boys will wink at you and say
"You know, you're in the wrong class, need help?"
'Cause when you're eighteen and somebody tells you they love you
You're gonna ignore them
And when you're eighteen, everything is something to figure out
Well, count to ten, take it in
This is life when you're becoming who you're supposed to be
Eighteen
You sit in class next to a tall girl named See Yi Koon
And soon enough you're best friends
Laughing at the other guy who thinks he's jay chou
We should find out his name as soon as we can
And then you're on your very first chem class and he's got a wig
And you're feeling like laughin
And he's stressing you to death, and his class ends really late,
And you pass out on your bed when the night ends
When the night ends
'Cause when you're eighteen and somebody tells you they love you
You're gonna ignore them
When you're eighteen, thoughts of your future
Make your head spin 'round
But in your life you'll do things funnier than
What shum says in the cinema,
It all happened at eighteen.
When all you wanted was to do better
We can't go back, so why don't we try a little harder now.
Back then wtf was a swear phrase
But I realized it could mean "what the fish"
Koon, nani, teck hing, and ze wen made a sequence that starts with oh em gee
It still works..
'Cause when you're eighteen and somebody tells you they love you
You're gonna ignore them
And when you're eighteen, don't forget to believe in yourself
Take your time, just relax
And you just might find what you've been looking for,
You might find what you've been looking for, at eighteen.
Your very first day
Take a deep breath girl
Take a deep breath as you walk through the doors
Sorry for wasting you time.. LOL!