I don’t blame anyone much before this
In fact, I don’t remember being mad at anyone
Today I can’t find the reason
Why I shouldn’t blame you
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
I owe you all my teenage years, education and experience
My maturity, my dignity, my critical thinking
You gave me priceless experiences
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
I vowed to myself when I succeed I will serve you
For the sake of race, religion and country
Don’t make me change that perception
Please don’t make me rebel, please
I am an ambitious girl who wants a life
A life with the course I want.
A guarantee to give you the best results
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
Why do you have to be so picky?
Why do you have to entertain the elected ones only?
What happens to us, who used to be under your care all this
time?
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
Why do you deny our approval for your help?
We’d do our very best to come back once again
With a broad smile to thank you
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
Why is this happening?
What’s the use of being under your organisation?
After all this time, please explain.
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
I can’t believe you provide no speciality for us
We and the others from other schools are just the same
I’d rather spend my school days in a normal school
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
What happened to ‘I want to survey for Malays?’
What did you do with all the money?
What have you wasted them on rather than us?
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
We’ve got brains and abilities
You didn’t even measure us by that
All you see is straight lines of As on a slip
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
What’s the use of practicing for an interview?
When to you that doesn’t matter now?
You can’t do this to us, you can’t do this to me
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
What happened to ‘no one is chosen without curriculum
aspects’?
‘Those who are only smart’ aren’t the only thing you’re
mattering
You’ve said that in the hall, I remember
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
If I’ve known this a long time ago,
I shouldn’t waste my time on debates and etc
I should keep myself shut and not add more certificates
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
How is it that even if we get high distinctions
You still have to consider and think about approving or not?
Come on, we deserved it. We did it for you too
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
You don’t deserve my hatred on you
But I’m just so angry with you
I can’t say more on this anymore
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
I’d thank you for everything that I’ve gone through
Those 5 years being under your organisation
Is just so priceless compared to anything else
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
You don’t know what I am capable of doing
In fact, you never did and cared at all
I’ll change the thinking way of our society
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
I just can’t understand you anymore
Please, we have dreams, we have goals
We are proud being in your responsibility
Again, I am proud being under your care
But this sense of stupidity of electing who deserve your
help
Is just so unacceptable and hard to consider
I owe you my life, so is the rest
We finish school with hope you’d still care of us
You’ve said you’d cater those who are elected
When it comes to overseas financial fees
Even if we get good results
You have to be fair, please
You haven’t even made references on us students
You haven’t observed our eligibility on a course
All you care is them rather than us
Why does your system have to change this year?
Why didn’t it happen last year or previous years?
What did you spend your money on all this time?
I don’t want to critic you, but I’m just so angry
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
I don’t think you should even have boarding schools
Under your organisations in the first place
Waste of money, I assure you
Why? Because even if you sent us there
You give us no benefit when we want to apply for scholarship
I’d have to be a very much excellent student if so
But we’re born with special abilities
I gave my contribution on hard work and public speaking
I gave you my time to be a part of a global program
Aha, it didn’t even benefit me in the end
This is just rubbish, I’m sorry to say this
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
I shouldn’t show my disrespect
But even on the slightest thing as this
You can’t even control and manage it wisely
You gave me a new ignition now
The moment your new system on scholarships are told
I’d give up medicine and become a doctor
Because I want to make an end to this
I can’t stand to have my tears fall as well as my dear
friends
To have trusted your organisation since you loved us
You gave us lift ups to become successful
You gave us hope to get through the big world
And guess what? You are the barrier
A barrier to our own dreams
That you have always manipulated our minds on
That you’ve said everyday for 5 years
I would end this education system one day
You just watch me work hard on it
I don’t want my juniors to feel this way as well
To be given false hopes
‘Who told you not to get straight As?’
Well, who told me to balance between those aspects?
When does a country provide scholarships for straight A +
Without an election or interview?
Don’t you think it’s a waste?
To trash out us who a still considered smart
Not the most bright but eligible
And yet have extra bonus on soft skills?
Please don’t make me a rebel, please
I hate to accept you won’t give even a loan on us
Who are supposed to be a highlight
To your scholarships if we score high on our first year
I don’t want to go under your flow
I don’t want everyone to be as disappointed as I am
I don’t want to let this system go on for the next
generations
This is just so illogical to accept
I don’t want to be a rebel, again for the last time
But I can’t bear to let this education system be this way
We shouldn’t be elected by just a piece of sheet
We need interviews and etc
Make considerations please
No, who am I today to deny this
Who am I to stand out in front of your nose?
But really, just watch me in a few years time
You know, in the end,
There is a quote which says
I just owe and love you so much I can’t hate you
But really,
What did you spend those money on the country rather than
us?
Who are about to change and spread contributions?
What success have you spent on that is much important than
us?
Alas, please don’t make me a rebel to my own so-called
support Malay organisation.
Don’t make us all a rebel by your own actions
Remember, I’m not the only one
We’ve just kept it to ourselves
I wish to have someone to make the change
If not, then what’s left to do is
What a rebel does best at
Besides violence of course
