NN Stickman’s Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (many, many, many upside-down armless stick man to show my excitement!!! LOL)

HI ALL!

I just went to check my Nuffnang account and I am proud to say I have been a Nuffnang member since 2009 leh!!! That’s like 4 years already!!!

I still remember the good old days when I would sit in front of my laptop after having posted my blog post to Innit and refresh the page every 5 mintues for like 3 hours straight to see my Nangs increase!!! Wah…so nostalgic can!

Okay maybe I should mention that my Nangs rarely increased one and I only made it to the popular list  for only 2 times before wtf

But I still remember the day my first ever post went on to the popular list! I remember the title of my blog post was something about my teacher and when I found out it was on the popular list I was so excited I went to screen shot it wtf

I even copied it to Paint and then used the box tool to highlight my post in super bright red and then post to Facebook for people to see HAHAHAHA damn excited loh that time.

Good times, good times…

Anyway, I don’t know how I missed 4 years of the birthday bash (since I first joined) before this since I am avid readers of many Nuffnang bloggers’s blogs like Xiaxue, Chuckei, Cheesie, Fourfeetnine, Ash-Oh-Tonic, and even Nuffnang’s co-founder Timothy Tiah’s!!! So this year I WILL NOT MISS IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After 4 years, this year is finally my time!!

So I very carefully and meticulously followed every instruction by Nuffnang to win a pair of tickets to the birthday bash and honestly, so easy leh!!!

I have to talk about my favouritest music album ever? That’s all? NO PROBLEM! Can be done in 5 mins ok! So HERE GOES! (2.58am – help me keep the time ok! 5 MINUTES!)

And of course, my all time favourite band is SIMPLE PLAN and from their 4 albums so far, my favourite has to be their second one: Still Not Getting Any…!

I was first introduced to this album when I was maybe 15 I think, and those were during my teenage angst years.

I remember when I first heard Welcome to My Life I went wtfwtfwtfwtfwtfwtf for the duration of the song (3:22) because I couldn’t believe, the lyrics suited my life that time so perfectly! Aya you know lah, teens during that age like to complain about their lives one. Everything also stressful and everybody doesn’t understand them all those childish nonsense lol

I memorised the song ever since. It was a breeze to remember the lyrics because it was as if I was writing a story about my life!

Do you ever feel like breaking down?

Do you ever feel out of place?

Like somehow you just don’t belong and no one understands you…

It was as if Simple Plan was talking to me leh! That was the point where I started obsessing over Simple Plan. Since then, I have been consistently buying every album Simple Plan has!

Besides Welcome to My Life, there are also many other songs in Still Not Getting Any… that I love, love, love, even until today! Here is the track list of the album. I will make a short description of what each song means to me because seriously, every single song in this album has its own way of winning my heart!:

1."Shut Up!"

(Shut Up is a song about not wanting to be told what to do all the time, especially by people who aren’t worthy and I must say it was a really good song for me during my secondary school years because then was when I was most rebellious HAHA. Nothing you say today is gonna bring me down! This line from the song always made me feel very brave one wtf)

2."Welcome to My Life"

(As I said, it was like they wrote a song specially for me. I LOVE YOU SIMPLE PLAN. T__________T)

3."Perfect World" 

(Ahhhh…this is one good song as well. This song is damn nostalgic. I remember I used to loop this song over and over again when I fell out with one of my best friends in secondary school. It always made me cry because the words described the demise of our friendship perfectly. In a perfect world, this could never happen. In a perfect world, you’d still be here. And it makes no sense, I could just pick up the pieces but to you…this means nothing, nothing at all…wtf I feel like crying now. Seriously my eyes are watering wtf and her face keeps popping up in my mind… )

4."Thank You" 

(Ok Thank You was after I had gotten over my “break-up” with my best friend LOL you see now why I love this album so much? It describes my life leh! HAHA Here is one line of the song for you to get a gist of what the song meant to me that time: Thank you, for showing me, that best friends, cannot be trusted! Thank you for lying to , the friendship the good times we had, you can have them back! Impressive not I ask you!!!)

5."Me Against the World"

(Me Against the World is kind of like Welcome to My Life because it speaks of how we have big dreams but people keep trying to stop us from reaching our goals because they think we aren’t good enough. And so we’re not gonna be the victims anymore, we will take on the world! Hahahahaha so teenage right. It was perfect! I’m a nightmare, a disaster, that’s what they always said. I’m a lost cause, not a hero, but I’ll make it on my own!)

6."Crazy"

(This is one of my favourite tracks of the album too!!! I remember when the video or song came on air I confirm will listen/watch it UNTIL it finished EVERY SINGLE TIME WITHOUT FAIL. I will sit there, listen/watch the entire thing, and only after it had ended that I would leave to do something else! Haha damn obsessed! This was one of the most touching songs I’ve heard of Simple Plan because the lyrics are about how people these days have become so selfish and ignorant and only prioritise wealth and luxury. I love the acoustic version of this track too because it brings a much deeper feel to the song, with such meaningful lyrics: Tell me what’s wrong with society, when everywhere I look I’d see, young girls dying to be on TV, they won’t stop till they’ve reached their dreams, diet pills, surgery, photoshop pictures in magazines, telling them  how they should be, it doesn’t make sense to me…Is everybody going CRAZYYYYYY?)

7."Jump"

(Ultimate stress-release song this one! Everytime when I’m looping the album and I come to this song, I will sing damn loud one hahahaha because it’s a SING LOUD-LOUD song!!!And also erm, I always had especially strong feelings for this song during exam season because: I just wanna jump, JUMP! Don’t want to think about tomorrow, jump, JUMP! I’m just don’t care tonight, I just wanna JUMP! Hahahaha exam tomorrow mah, dowan to think about tomorrow loh LOL) 

8."Everytime" 

(The only love song in the whole album and one of my favourites too! I used to play this song with my guitar all the time and at the end of the song I always cry one. Sob sob, not only are the lyrics damn touching and meaningful, but the music/rhythm of the song also very emotions-evoking. Soft, melodious but soulful. Sigh…this is such a good song. If you haven’t heard it, please go listen to it and see what you think! Not gonna tell you the lyrics, go listen to the song yourself! )

9."Promise" 

(I guess this might be my least favourite track of the album but it’s still pretty good! It’s a simple song about making a promise to someone and assuring him/her that things will be fine. You know how we have comfort food, like ice-cream and homemade pasta? This is like a comfort song, I guess. )

10."One" 

(This song is also not at the top of my list but it’s Simple Plan’s song so it can’t be bad, obviously. Hahaha… It’s a song about how the choices of our lives are in our own hands and if we stand strong together, we’ll be fine. The lyrics in this track are quite deep and emotional so it’s good for when you are feeling philosophical and angry.)

11."Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me)"

(I think this is the second most famous song in this album (the first being Welcome to My Life) because of three reasons: 1. It’s for a good cause IE it advocates against drunk-driving or DUI (driving under influence), 2. It’s title is damn unique and it is…Untitled. LOL, 3. It’s Simple Plan’s first (and only if I am not mistaken) slow song with violin + piano coordination and very minimal drum beats!!!!!!!!!!! I love this song very much too because it’s so emotional! Really makes me think twice about texting while driving (oops) because if you drive without paying 100% attention to the road, you’re at risk of causing an accident which might not only kill yourself, but others too!!! How could this happen to me? I’ve made my mistake, got no where to run, the night goes on as I’m fading away… Main lesson of the song: Regret doesn’t turn back time. Prevention is the best.)  

12."Perfect" (Live, Australian and Japanese Bonus Track)

(A special track of their last album! Perfect was the song that shot Simple Plan to fame! Love, love, love this song as well! Love the video too! They all jamming on the roof under the rain hehe! I don’t think I need to say much about this song right, you must have heard it before (and love it), confirm! )

 

As you can see, every single track in this album has touched me (don’t think dirty haaa) in different ways. I can loop this album over and over until the day I die and I still wouldn’t be bored of it! Simple Plan will always be my favourite, favourite band because their lyrics always hit close to home one!

I think one of the most important things about music is that listeners should always be able to relate to it once heard. You don’t always have to have the best instruments or lyrics, as long as the listener relates to your song, you can consider yourself successful already!

And that’s how I think Simple Plan’s Still Not Getting Any… attracted me. All the songs speak of my (teenage) life so accurately with lyrics that even I myself wouldn’t be able to produce. But Simple Plan succeeded. Even without knowing who I am personally, they managed to reach out to me very personally through each song in this album…

And that’s why Still Not Getting Any… is my all-time favourite music album.

(Time: 3.56am wtf I ended up writing this in an hour haha… 55 minutes off schedule wtf LOL but not bad right given the content so detailed? )

 

I also did the second part of the instructions to win the pair of tickets to the 6th Nuffnang birthday bash and that is to create a playlist in www.deezer.com.

I’ve shared my (PERFECT, you all can close shop lah, sure lose to me one!!! HAHAHAHAHA) playlist on Fcaebook http://www.facebook.com/TanJoYee/activity/10151458683987722 (my message damn impressive confirm the judges will like one!!!) and Twitter https://twitter.com/TJoYee/status/304684586087116800 (this one less impressive because got character-limit but never mind, this blog post is impressive enough right!!! )!

I HOPE I WIN BECAUSE I PUT SO MUCH EFFORT INTO WRITING THIS BLOG POST AND TO CHOOSE THE SONGS FOR THE PLAYLIST!!! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE choose me I promise I will study very, very hard for my exams in future and won’t ever pick my nose in public anymore…PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE……………..

P/S: Got one more very impressive thing about this post: All the lyrics I typed in this post is without reference and 100% through my own memory! Am I awesome or am I awesome!??!! LOL!