Song Lyric Interpretation

Vanilla Twilight

The stars lean down to kiss you
And I lie awake and miss you
Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere
'Cause I'll doze off safe and soundly
But I'll miss your arms around me
I'd send a postcard to you, dear
'Cause I wish you were here

I'll watch the night turn light blue
But it's not the same without you
Because it takes two to whisper quietly
The silence isn't so bad
'Til I look at my hands and feel sad
'Cause the spaces between my fingers
Are right where yours fit perfectly

I'll find repose in new ways
Though I haven't slept in two days
'Cause cold nostalgia chills me to the bone
But drenched in vanilla twilight
I'll sit on the front porch all night
Waist deep in thought because when
I think of you I don't feel so alone

I don't feel so alone
I don't feel so alone

As many times as I blink
I'll think of you tonight

I'll think of you tonight

When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh if my voice could reach back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear,
"Oh darling I wish you were here"

Introduction of the Song

This song is sung by Owl City, in Ocean Eyes album. Owl City is well known as one of electronic music project by Adam Young. He is a singer, songwriter, and also multi-instrumentalist. The genre of this song is electronic pop. And in this song, we can feel the cuteness of electronic effect, even though the story of this song is actually very sad and deep. With the uplifting chords and poetic lyrics, I never bored to hear and sing this song over and over again.

Adam Young wrote this song for his memorable ex girlfriend who passed away when they were High school students.

Song Interpretation

"The stars lean down to kiss you"

You know how people say that people that die are our shining stars?

I think that, that means the angels come to get her

"And I lie awake and miss you"

That means that he can’t sleep

"Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere"

He wants to be light as atmosphere so he could fly to get her ex girlfriend back

" 'Cause I'll doze off safe and soundly

But I'll miss your arms around me"

He tries to escape from reality, but he just can’t. He can't escape the physical reality of yearning and missing her caress and embrace

" I'd send a postcard to you, dear
'Cause I wish you were here"

It would be easy to send a postcard. And the irony is that he can’t because she has passed away.

" I'll watch the night turn light blue"

It means the sunrise

"But it's not the same without you

Because it takes two to whisper quietly"

Being with his lover, isn’t the same as being without her. He can’t carry on a whispering conversation because there is no one to reply back.

"The silence isn't so bad
'Til I look at my hands and feel sad
'Cause the spaces between my fingers
Are right where yours fit perfectly"

He’s sad because he can’t hold her hand right now.

" I'll find repose in new ways"

Adam trying to rest, but can’t because he misses his girlfriend

"Though I haven't slept in two days
'Cause cold nostalgia chills me to the bone"

Cold nostalgia are sad memories, these memories are keeping the speaker awake all night and reaches him all the way inside, to his bones.

"But drenched in vanilla twilight"

He thoroughly soaks himself into the white snow. As seen on the music video, vanilla twilight is a fresh blanket of snow, covering the ground giving it the color of vanilla.

" I'll sit on the front porch all night
Waist deep in thought because when
I think of you I don't feel so alone"

He’ll miss her and think about her so much that he’s deep in these thoughts because he feels lonely without her in his life.

"As many times as I blink
I'll think of you tonight"

He’s going to think about her a lot.

"When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again"

Here he’s saying that he’s going to move on; to learn to live without her but he’s not going to forget about her and what they had. He’s still going to miss her but he’s not going to let that hold him back from living.

And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh if my voice could reach back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear,
"Oh darling I wish you were here"

So in these lines, Adam Young is talking about how he misses his ex and that he would go back through time to talk to that girl. He says he wants her to still be here with him. He just really misses her.

Special Parts

Saddest Part:

The silence isn't so bad
'Til I look at my hands and feel sad
'Cause the spaces between my fingers
Are right where yours fit perfectly

For me, this part is a good illustration and somehow makes it catchy

My Favorite Part:

When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh if my voice could reach back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear,
"Oh darling I wish you were here"

It is really beautiful and captures the feeling of missing someone in a poetic, magical way.

Here is the official music video

Thank You!

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Education for Better Future in the World

Education for Better Future in the World

We live in the epoch of knowledge. We breathe in the air of curiosity. We all know that we are born to compete in this huge scientific world. A lot of meritorious and famous scientists we know from our text book (such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Alva Edison, etc) had involved. Many brilliant inventions have been simplifying our daily life. For example, I type this task with electronic equipments and then publish it with internet. But, many problems still have not finished yet. We need more progresses in science.

Beside about science, this world also has many more challenges, such us how to bring peace for all countries and nations, how to remove terrorism, how to keep our natural sources, etc.

So, what kind of education and learning that would help us address the challenges and create a sustainable world and a better life for all? Let’s elaborate it together.

First: MENTALITY AND CHARACTER.

I am very sure that a good personality will be needed in this modern world. Smart people are abundant, but the wise and honest, just few of them. Children should learn about character and religion seriously and continue at least until they are teens. Why? Teenager is the time where they sue for their freedom. And also in this age the permanent character for someone’s whole life is prepared and designed. It is very important to aim their spirit into positive things. Without this, they will lose their biggest potency in the young and risk their future.

We should prioritize age 6-12 at character building, because it is when they are still very flexible.

Second: MORE LEARNING BY INVENTING

Understanding theory is not the main goal of learning. But, finding or making something beneficial for human race is the real product of learning. So, learning by inventing since young age is very recommended. It will trigger their curiosity, responsibility, and automatically understanding something by their own point of view, which is important for their future. Learning by inventing also enrich problem solving skill, so the students will be ready for the competitive world after they are graduated.

But, this learning program should be supported by sufficient infrastructure, such as laboratory, etc. Keep in mind that inventing is not always about science and mathematics. Even, a discussion about how to make a good school organization can be considered as inventing action.

Third: INDIVIDUAL APPROACH TO EACH STUDENT

A lot of students face difficulties in learning from their teacher. It is not because they are lazy or something bad, but they need particular education method. We know that there are three main learning styles of students, audio (listening), visual (seeing), and kinesthetic (physical activities). Each student definitely have tendency to learn in one learning style from three mentioned styles.

For example, sometimes, teachers force their students for always focusing their sight to the teacher while explaining. It might be unpleasant for the student with dominant listening style. They get warned by the teacher because they seem like don’t paying attention while actually they do, by listening.

And usually the most troubled student is the kinesthetic one. They could not settle in their seat constantly because they need physical activity in learning. The best way for them is practice work or learning with media.

So, the conclusion for this point is teacher need to understand and be tolerant with all the difference. The teacher should be aware whether their students are pleased with the method or not. And teachers have to find the good teaching manner for all students with their learning styles.

Fourth: MAKE A GOOD COOPERATION WITH PARENTS FOR BETTER PROGRESS

Nowadays, tons of schools with international standard or high quality standard are mushrooming in a lot of capital city in Indonesia. Most of the students’ parents are too busy to control their child’s progress. They must go to office in the morning and go home when their children already fell asleep in the night. So, they entrust their children’s development to the school entirely. Actually, it is not good for both parents and their children. As teenager, they really need attention from their parents.

Teenagers need right person to share about their problems at school or anything else. And their parents are the best support for them with the advice and caring.  Just give a little time to ask how they pass their exam, how is the result of the tournament they joined, or whether they already have a crush.

It might seem so simple, but it has powerful meaning for their children. It makes them get closer, feel loved and cared. Also, parents need to consult their children’s progress with their teacher. The more parents know about their children, the more they become intimate. Parents can evaluate what lessons that their child is still weak at. They can discuss it together calmly to solve it and make a better progress in the future.

That’s all our discussion about education to make a better future in the world.

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My Holiday Experience

My Holiday Experience

I spent my last mid semester holiday very happily. I didn’t go to far place, but I found many interesting place near my city, Cimahi, which was hidden until I explored it with my motorcycle. The first interesting thing I did in my holiday is practicing to drive motorcycle. Before the holiday, I had already trained to drive it. But I wanted to make it better.

But my problem was not my ability to ride it, but I didn’t really know the road in Cimahi, because i passed it very rarely. It’s caused of usually I spent my activity in bandung. My curiosity was bigger than my fear, so I passed the road by sometimes asking to the pedestrian. That was Friday. I had to pray Jumat. Suddenly I arrived to one of the mosque I passed. It’s called daarut tauhid. The speaker was Aa gym, the owner of the mosque and one of the most popular Ustadz in indonesia.

After praying Jumat, I went home. Unfortunately I trapped in the jam an the fuel ran out. I must brought my motorcycle to the nearest gas station. So, as the result, I came home late.

The second interesting thing I did in my holiday was joining my futsal class team, X IPA 8, to play with X IPA 1. My team squad was me, Ghifari, Akbar, willy, Naafi, erlangga and atalla. We won the game. i scored a lot of goal.

The third was a little bit surprising. My clasmate, erlangga joined the same bimbel with me. I didn’t now what the reason of he left his previous bimbel. Maybe he just wanted to join me.

Next, my experience was accompanying my little cousin to go around Bandung. He came from Semarang. I accompanied him to Trans studio, zoo, pasar baru, etc. About visiting the zoo, I thought that was not the good zoo I used to visit in my childhood. The animals’ cage was not well taken care.

I accompanied him to the places in Cimahi too. One of them was Alam Wisata Cimahi. That was a natural safari place in Cimahi. As a 8 years old child, he was very brave. He took the flying fox for adult. I even couldn’t see him gliding.

At my holiday, if I stayed at home, I usually helped my mother to do house work. Although we had a housemaid, my parents asked me to do that to make me more competent. I usually washed the dish, take the dry clothes, feeding the pets, etc.

The good thing in my holiday, beside the playful activity, it made me went to the mosque more often. And I did my favorite sport, swimming, playing badminton, playing guitar, etc. I could increase my ability in picking my guitar. I learned it autodidactly. My favorit guitarist in Youtube are kelly Valleau, Sungha Jung, and Gareth Evans. I could learn at least one new fingerstyle song in a day.

The things I didn’t like in my holiday is the food in my home. My mother usually prepared the breakfast lately. So I just ate the the food that exist at the refrigerator. I forced my to learn how to cook too. But I thought I was not talented at cooking.

That’s all from me, I really enjoyed my holiday.

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DRAMA DIALOGUE

Group :

Adam Najmi K.

Annisa Julia S.

Kindyz Zulva

Kevin Lee

M. Akbar Kurniawan

Reyhan Widya Rahman

Salma Afifah

Tiara Shaniaputri

Dialogue

Tiara : “Hi, Kevin, I’m sorry to make you wait that long.”

Kevin lee: “Yeah, it’s okay. I didn’t wait that long, just… 2 hours.”

Tiara : “ Ohh, is my make up too much?”

Kevin lee: “No, not that much. I once hang out with a girl with worse make up than that! I have only hung out with her twice… I got TBC.”

Tiara : “TBC?”

Kevin lee: “Yes, the doctor said that I had powders in my lung.”

Kevin lee: “The weekend, I want to take Tiara, my new girl friend, to candlelight dinner. I have looked for that right place everywhere, and I finally got it! a romantic, cool, with delicious food, and the most important  75% discount!”

Kevin lee: “ I have made the reservation on the restaurant, if we go now, exactly one hour from now, we will arrive.”

Tiara : “ehh, wait.. wait.. wait… Actually there’s something that I want to say. This is my mother.”

Salma: “Good evening, young fella!”

Kevin lee: “Oh, yes mam! Why there’s your father?”

Tiara : “My mother needs a lift to the pharmacy nearby, Can she?”

Kevin lee: “ Of course!”

Salma: “Let’s go now”

Kindys : “Akbar? Why do you come so early? I have just finished my dinner!

Akbar : “Thers’s chocolate on your lips.”

Kindys : “Ohh, oops, I forgot.”

Akbar : “To night, I want to take my girl friend, Kindys, to watch stand up comedy. I’ve researched, if we can make a girl laugh, we can win her heart. I’m sure, the stand up comedian we’re about to watch to night, will make her laugh.”

Kindys : “ Why do you pick me up so early?”

Akbar : “It’s okay, if we leave earlier, we can get a better seat to watch!”

Kindys : “What are we going to wacth anyway? Stand komedo? Komdo? Ooh, we’ll watch komodo in Taman Safari? So we’ll have a safari night?”

Akbar : “Nope, nope, we’re gonna watch this, Stand up comedy! So it’s like Lawak, but different, the person is alone on stage, talking by himself.”

Kindys : “Huh? He’s crazy?”

Akbar : “Ergh, you’ll see it later!”

Kindys : “ Ohh, standup comedy is like OVJ, isn’t it?

Akbar : “No, no.”

Kindys :”Like a speech?”

Akbar : “No..”

Kindys :”Oh! The one where they wrestle on stage, right?”

Reyhan : “Evening, sir.”

Annisa : “Evening, sir.”

Adam : “Evening.”

Reyhan : “Tonight, I want to celebrate the 40^th days I know Maemunah. The maid from next door. The plan is I want to take her strolling around in a taxi! This morning I told Mas Akbar about my plan, Mas Akbar gave me 500 thousands! That means I wont have my salary until next month!”

Adam :”So, where are you going?”

Reyhan :”Here, sir we plan on going to the Kota Tua, want to see Fatahilah building, want to ride a camel.”

Annisa : “Onthel, mas. That’s a bicycle, not an animal.”

Reyhan : “Oh yes, onthel bike!”

Adam : “Wow, that’s so cool! Okay, lets go! Which way though?”

Reyhan : “I don’t know”

Annisa : “I don’t know”

Adam :” I don’t know, either.”

Kindys : “Stand up comedy is the one like circus?           

Akbar : “No..”

Kindys :”Oh, I know! Stand up comedy is the one on TV all night and people laugh at it?”

Akbar : “Yeah, that’s it. Right!”

Kindys : ”Kick Andy! That is Kick Andy! Hahaha”

Akbar : “No..”

(phone rings)

Akbar : “Yes, what’s up Mas Anca?”

Reyhan : “umm, we’re about to go to Kota Tua, but we don’t know the way, the adam driver also doesn’t know.”

Akbar : “From our home, Mas Anca should go through TB Simatupang, then to Sudirman, just go straight, then near the end there’s Monas, and it’s close from there, Okay?”

Reyhan : “okay.”

Akbar : “You’s disturbing me.”

Reyhan : “He said, we have to go through Simatupang, the Sudirman, the we see Monas.”

Adam :”Oh okay, lets go! Which way to go to Simatupang?”

Reyhan : “I don’t know”

Annisa : “I don’t know”

Adam :” I don’t know, either.”

Salma: “Why were you not talking at all?”

Kevin lee: “It’s okay sir.”

Salma: “it’s unesay, because im here? Just relax. Im hip, you know!”

Kevin lee: “really,sir?”

Salma:”really! Yesterday, I tried using skinny jeans.”

Tiara :”Dad, you’re too cheesy!”

Kevin lee:”Really, sir?”

Salma: “Yes, to be hip!”

Kevin lee: “Good then sir.”

Salma: “ it’s now comfortable.”

Kindys : “Stand up comedy is magic, right?”

Akbar :”No..”

Kindys :”Ergh, what it is?”

Akbar : “Okay, here, let me give you an example. Stand up comedy is comedy, but talking about daily life! So it’s not bland jokes like riddle, like what kind of “riding” is like being chased by egg? Riding rickshaw, becaue we got chased by the egg of driver!”

Kindys :”Hahaha, that is very funny!”

Akbar :”You think that’s funny?”

Kindys :”Yes! It is very funny!”

Akbar :”this is how you laugh?”

Kindys  :”So, tonight wil be better that that? Will be funnier? Hahaha!”

Akbar  :”it will. It will be funnier.”

Akbar :”I never thought, her laugh is like a possessed pig. I cant imagine taking her to a stand up comedy show.”

Adam : “Luckily, somebody sold a map! Wait a minute, Kota Tua, right? I think I know the place”

Annisa : “Mas Anca, could it be he got us lost on purpose?”

Reyhan : “No way, the driver looks kind. Sir, do you get us lost on purpose, for bigger pay?”

Adam :”Of course not.”

Reyhan : “See? He’s not”

Salma: “I’m sorry for the long waiting. My hermoholf medication ran out! So I have to buy it first.”

Kevin lee: “it’s okay, mam.”

Salma:”Where are we going now?”

Kevin lee:”After this, we want to go to the reataurant, actually. “

Salma:”Can I join you?”

Kevin lee : “Emm..”

Salma: “Yeah, I’ll join okay? How can I’m not join you? Can you see me starving? No, right? Okay?

Akbar : “Ergh, let’s go home instead, okay?”

Kindys : “What’s up?”

Akbar : “I just got the news, the place that we’ll watch stand up comedy tonight, caught fire!

Kindys : “Really?”

Akbar : “Yes, umm.. it says here there was a vigilante community, the had a meeting! Then, they rioted! Ergh”

Kindys : “Really?”

Akbar : “Yeah. Argh! Crazy, ergh! They also having an earthquake”

Kindys  : “Really? How can we not feel it?”

Akbar : “Yes, the radius is just 2 meters, the epicentrum is there!”

Kindys : “Ahh, it’s okay, lets go there anyway! I think it’s just your friend playing. Then when we arrive home, your friend suddenly calls, and then he says “Sorry Ya, I lied to you. We had fun here! The stand up comedy is blast!” Then you’ll answer with your sour face! Hahaha. Yes, that face, Bar! Really so dumb! Hahaha. It’s okay, Bar. Let’s go anway.”

Reyhan : “Mr. driver where are we?”

Annisa : “Yes, sir. Why does it seem so dodgy around here?”

Adam : “it’s correct right? You want to go to Kota, right?”

Reyhan : “To Kota Tua, sir! Not kota.. “

Adam  :”Ohh, they are different?”

Reyhan : “Yes, of course! It looks like a place where crimes often happenes”

Annisa : “Yes! Could it be here is… thugs of headquarter.”

Adam : “Ohh, how could?”

Tiara (thugs) : “Damn, you! You will not kill me! My family will take a revenge on you all! Don’t get any closer! Don’t get any closer!!

Kindys : “(laughers) wow, so that means, we will laugh all the way to night! Don’t we, Bar? So awesome! Bar, that’s a red light, why did you go through? Er.. Akbar! We got tailed by the cops! Argh.. I’m still on my probation! If we got cought, I can get back in jail! Argh, I don’t want to get back to jail! It wasn’t good! Ahh, akbar!”

Akbar : “I prefer police station, rather than listening to that horrible laughter voice all night!”

Salma: “Loh? What’s up there?”

Kevin lee : “Ergh, I think there is a raid check. They told us to pull over.”

Salma:”Do you want to see me play the cops?”

Tiara : “Mom.. don’t do strange things!”

Salma: “Ahh, to make it thrilling! So that’ll make Kevin happy.”

Reyhan (Police) :”Good evening.”

Kevin lee :”good.. good evening, sir.”

Reyhan (Police) : “License and registration, please.”

Kevin lee :”Here.”

(Salma playing with the medicine)

Reyhan (Police) :”What medicine is that, mam?”

salma: “What do you think?”

Reyhan (Police) : “Sir, what medicine is that?”

salma : “what is this, actually? Drugs, maybe?”

Reyhan (Police) : “don’t joke around about drugs. This is a serious case, mam.”

Salma :”Funny! An angry cops! Hahaha. Mr. cops is angry. Why so serious? Haha.”

(in police station)

kevin lee : “Tiara’s dad is still inside. I got dehydrated from all the urine test I have to take.”

Akbar :”You still better, Vin. I got questioned by there cops all the same time “why were you speeding all the way?””

Kevin lee : “What’s the problem, they said?”

Reyhan :”I was put in the database to be included in the witness protection program. Me and maemunah saw a druglord got shot to death by the cops.”

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