“You could teach me (Mandarin)”
My Associations are posts about songs that make me think of someone or something. This first one is about “Little Bit” and a girl named Jeanie. Enjoy and hit up the comments…
Props to Taj and Rizzie Hendrix for editing the original photo for me.
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Drake Feat. Lykke Li – Little Bit (Remix)
I heard this song for the first time while I was studying abroad (perhaps a pun or double entendre intended?) in Hong Kong. This was way before the So Far Gone madness – I was already a Drake fan because of Comeback Season and was starting to try to convince my dudes John and Jeff that they should give him a listen. But after hearing some joints off of the first Heart Break Drake mixtape, including “Say What’s Real”, “Ransom” and “A Little Bit”, my path to Drake stanhood began.
But also while I was out in Hong Kong, I started messing with, and I guess falling “a little bit in love”, with a girl named Jeanie. Jeanie went to the same school in America as me but I never met her until we were out there.
I hope they never find out what they already know.
As soon as its official, we’ll have to let it go.
So we don’t confirm the fling,
Keep avoiding all the questions.
You could teach me many things.
I’m just scared to learn a lesson.
There were maybe 25 or so of us that went out to Hong Kong together; and of course all types of scheming and promiscuous activities were going down between the few guys and girls. But Jeanie and I never put our business out there like the others did. I’m sure some people knew something was happening, but we never told anyone except maybe our best friends.
I can tell you that I never talked because one, I’m not the kind of guy to boast and brag about who I mess with anyway; and two, I don’t know, Jeanie was one of the most cute and adorable things I’ve ever experienced; and I guess that no matter what freaky shit we did or planned to do, I didn’t want to tarnish whatever image she had amongst her friends or mine. Hell, I’m still leaving everything up to your imaginations. But you should know that she is Asian and sometimes helped me with my mandarin homework. Hence the edited quote in the beginning of the post.
But whatever happened out there happened out there and I guess was meant to stay out there. I did tell Jeanie that if she ever wanted to be with me, all she had to do was ask, and I’d probably be down to take the next steps. So when we stopped doing us, I was frustrated, disappointed, and angry that another girl that I maybe would have been willing to give the world, stopped “messing” with me because she thought that that was all I was in it for – a sad story of me being misunderstood.
We don’t really talk now; but I guess we’re still friends. My heart was extremely hurt during a moment back in America when she explicitly told me that she “doesn’t like me like that”. But hey, I was drunk, barely remembered the conversation, and laughed at myself when I called her the next day and she reminded me what happened…
Jeanie, if you ever read this, I still want to know what my second Christmas gift was going to be. Yes, I still have the note you gave me with the “connect 4″ and I’m still mad I never got the said gift, whatever it was supposed to be…basta’d.
I guess I’m still a little, a little bit…
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Does this song make you think of someone or something? Hit up the comments…
