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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 @ 21:50
Garbage, with its awesome frontgirl On his blog, Fajarjasmin listed 100 inspiring songs title and uttered this idea about writing a post that is inspired by music. When I heard about it, I get excited immediately and forced Kapkap to tag me so I can join the fun. I've always love writing about something that's got to do with music, but never really found a good topic about it. So now that I've got the chance, I can't wait to begin. Although I should warn you before that it is far from inspiring and may just contains useless rants from me. The song that I chose is Only Happy When It Rains by Garbage. To be honest, this isn't my favourite song from Garbage. My favourite one is I Think I'm Paranoid, but really any song from Garbage will do. Speaking of Garbage, there's a reason why I love bands with women as vocalist. There's just something powerful about it. I mean, I see rock bands as something tough and having a girl as a vocalist in a male majority group is just sexy. Beside Garbage, I also love The Cardigans and Sixpence None The Richer because of the same reason. I used to dream of being the only girl in a group of male friends and somehow always tried too hard to understand their point of view. Maybe that's why most guys end up just being my friends instead of seeing me as a girlfriend material.  I could say that I'm a bit of a feminist. I see myself as an independent woman and try hard to avoid that image of a woman being seen as a weak creature. I have this image of how my future will be that I'd have a successful career and I'm married to a successful man. We'd be living in this urban way of life. We'd be having our own activity in the day and we'd be having discussion over dinner when we're both home. I fantasize of having my own success and not being too dependent on my husband. It disturbed me upon seeing a woman so caught up in her own emotions. I'd be so enrage seeing a man treats his girlfriend as he like. Also like that time when there's this news headline about girls’ violent gangster that likes to beat up other girls, I was so enrage that I felt literally sick and nauseated seeing the news. All I can think was, how could they do that? It's bad enough that a lot of women are being mistreated by men (read: domestic violence, rapes, etc) that women have to endure violence from the same gender. We're supposed to be uniting, not fight against each other. Women are blessed with so many amazing things in life. Name a few like giving birth, breastfeeding the baby, enduring months of having period and still be the perfect mother and wife. It hurts me when we're being treated without respect. "Hey people, we gave birth to you", I want to scream. I'm not saying we're perfect, I'm just saying that we're more than sex object or a slave to serve other people. Women can also be whatever they want too, we can have a dream too. There's a popular quote that I hate usually said by the know-it-all men, "Why get a high education? Women will end up in the kitchen anyway". Say that to my face if you want me to hate you. And after saying that, they'll say stuff like women in career won't ever be happy, they'd be chasing career so bad that they barely have time to maintain a relationship and get married. I know I've seen a living proof of that, but I think it's just because those men are so intimidated that we can be in a higher position than they are. I'm so glad my Dad aren't like that, he forced me to have a high education and even allow me to realize my ambition. I idolized a co worker in my office, she's a mother with three kids, she's pretty. We're working on a average of 45 hours a week, yet she still have time to pamper herself, takes care of her under-age children and have a catering service as a side job. Not looking at all exhausted. I wish I could be like her when I grow up. There's also a family friend, my mom's friend, that has the kind of personality that I like. She's smart, friendly, attractive, funny, sociable and she can connect with any kind of people. She's open minded and her point of view is just very inspiring. She's been through rough condition, divorce, jobless, gossiped by other women, but she still has her chin up and faces it all with a smile. Now she's re-married and is currently pregnant with her first child and is a manager of an international company. Every time I see them (she and her husband), I make a wish of someday having that kind of perfect life. And of course, the most inspiring woman in my life is my Mom. She is the best mom in the world. But I guess that's how every child sees their mom as. And even though she’s not a career woman, I still look up to her because she has the perfect manner for a woman, she has the best fashion sense, and she can look effortlessly pretty just about every day, even when she just woken up in the morning. I don’t say this to her face, though. I have too much pride =P So that's the rant that was inspired by Garbage. And to continue the tradition, I shall tag two other people, namely Vibhy a.k.a LovelyPink and Pria a.k.a Anima to head over Fajar's blog and choose the song that most inspiring. Cheers! Labels: Friends, Music, Thoughts |