Songlist from A levels

Studying is always a damn lonely process, even if you study with others. That's why the people who study the most usually have no friends. When you're in the zone, you're all alone (hey it rhymes!). If you talk cock with your friend, you're not actually studying. But if you don't, you might as well be studying alone. Then some idiots say they can talk about the intellectual stuff that they're revising, but then those people you call weirdos, not friends. So that leaves music as the ethereal companion for your soul throughout the tumultuous times of denial, anguish, frustration, humiliation, relief and joy, roughly in that order. Why that order? (Might have been blogged about before but i can't remember)

1. Step 1 is always denial. As follows "i am so bloody smart, i am high and mighty ah jay see student i refuse to believe i don't understand this!"

2. Step 2 is anguish. i.e., wah knnccb HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO MEEE!! This would be an appropriate time to change the song playing to How Could This Happen To Me by Simple Plan. An alternative scenario for the religious would be HOW COULD GOD DO THIS TO ME!! (Ans: Like that loh). You can even change the lyrics of the chorus to how could god do this to me.

3. Step 3 is frustration, i.e. Wah die liao sure fail A-levels howhowhowhow?!! Fail then cannot go university then cannot earn money might as well DIE! the mood then would be exemplified by Down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day.

4. Step 4 is humiliation. i.e. Cannot do this question, so humiliating go jiaksai la. But then pull out so much hair over this question liao cannot pull anymore later go bald even before NS, so you end up asking some higher authority, most likely to be members of your study group. There is a rule that governs study groups, and that is that members always get the same grades. so most likely, they also don't know how to do. Like that even more humiliating. Why my friends all so stupid. If you ask a teacher, then it depends on the teacher. Some can go doodeladey without answering anything, some use the i'll-get-back-to-you-later scam or the i'll-find-out-for-you scam, and of course some will do what they're paid to do and answer your questions. When you're humiliated, i suggest I Started a Joke by Bees Gees.

5. Whatever the case, step 5 is relief, after you find out that
case 1: your friends don't know how to do it,
case 2: your teachers don't know how to do it
or case 3: your teachers tell you the answer, it's all cause for relief.

6. Step 6 is joy. 'Heck la, whatever, won't come out for As". This statement has more than 90% probability of coming true. See, only 1 set of papers come out of As. Let's say you do 10 papers. Even a slacker like me would have done 10 sets of papers if you include the common tests and the prelims and the mock papers. Assuming everything that comes out of As comes from the papers you have done, only one tenth of what you have done will come out. So each question has one-tenth chance of coming out, but that's assuming everything that comes out of As comes from the papers you have done, so the actual probability of it not coming out for As is even higher. Of course, you can say the exact same question will never come out for As, but let's just give the definition more space. So after all the thinking, one reverts back to the natural state, which is joy, since the point of life is to be happy. happytime!

But i digress. This was meant to be about a songlist. So here goes

1. We Are the Champions by Queen
This is a classic. This guy who wrote and performed this is a genius... and a gay.

2. 笨小孩 by Andy Lau, Jacky Wu and Blacky Ke
Another classic. It tells you that god, actually more of dua peh gong, favours stupid kids. It says that if im stupid, god will favour me, but if im not, i don't need it anyway, so either way, i win. An inspiration to us all.

3. I Believe I Can Fly by R.Kelly
So popular when first launched, most people have forgotten it by now. It's suitable for all occasions where inspiration is needed, except when you're drunk and on high buildings.

4. Hero by Mariah Carey
Don't care about the singer, don't care about the music, the title says it all.

5. Always look on the bright side of life by don't know who (but i listen to the monty python version on youtube)
You got nothing, started with nothing, so you lost nothing!

6. YMCA by Village People, though the version by Hard Gay on youtube is funny.
Sometimes, you have to admit it, the gays make great music! One day i will go to the ymca and have a great time.

Songs you should not listen to while studying

1. 对面的女孩看过来 by 阿牛
Tut tut nonono.You can't have any distractions while you study.

2. Holiday by Green Day
Somebody said, everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to do what it takes to get there. It's not the same here, but sometimes we look so much at the destination (the holidays after As) that we forget the journey(studying for As). Ok so maybe it's only me, so change the we to I.

So this conlcudes my songlist, a little short, but effective nonetheless, assuming i listen to music when i work in the first place.

Note: My knowledge of songs is limited and i like it that way.