Dewa Athena is an annual sports competition held by the OSIS
for the 10th & 11th and it was held on Bali field in
several days. There are some match that being competed such as volleyball, basketball,
etc. Every class must take part in the competition, and we selected teammates
from our own class to compete in every match.
On the first day of Dewa Athena which is March 10, we were
told by the OSIS that we have to come at 7 to do the ceremonial opening of Dewa
Athena. So in the morning there’s a lot of students who came, and mostly they
use the class jersey that they have created before. My class didn’t, why ?
because the people that we pay to do the job runaway with the money, so one of
my friend ask the police to help us. Even though we didn’t use the class jersey
we still get to play the match.
I played in 2 games which are dodgeball and volleyball. On the
first round we win the match, we play against team from X Science 6 which is a
very strong team , unfortunately we lost on the second and third round, but that’s ok because we still have fun
together. I was waiting so long for the next match, i think the Dewa Athena
Commitee didn’t prepare the match schedule very well, because i had to play in
the last game at fifth o’clock, which is too late for a sport match. It was
raining quite hard that time, and there’s not much of my classmates who stay at
the field so we had to lost the match my opponent wasn’t really a quite good
player but my team was one of the worse.
On the next day, i had to play on basketball match because
of the match schedule was scrambled so we had to accept the consequent, the best
basketball player of my class hasn’t come that time so i had to play on that
match, and another lost came to my class. My classmates was really sad because
of that because of we always lost.
On the third day, i had to play on “gobak sodor” match
because most my classmates who take a part on that match hasn’t come, but it
didn’t went good, yeah you know what i mean. I had another lost but i didn’t
really care about it. But i will play again next year and win the game.
Not far
from the Praterstern subway station in Vienna, you end up at the border of the
Republic of Kugelmugel, a surface-minimizing micro-nation founded by Edwin
Lipburger. The Republic of Kugelmugel declared independence in 1984. Its
address is "2, Antifaschismusplatz" (2, Anti-Fascism Square, 2 refers
to the 2nd district Leopoldstadt)
The
story behind this globular nation is as follows: Edwin Lipburger wanted to
build a spherical house, believing that it was the shape most in harmony with
nature. He called the building "Kugelmugel", which roughly means
"Ball Hill". When authorities complained that he lacked building
permit and had to tear the structure down, Edwin responded by declaring the
ball a nation of its own and started issuing money and stamps.
After a
bit of to-and-fro, the house ended up being moved to the Vienna Prater, and
Edwin ended up being moved to jail for refusing to pay Austrian taxes. (The
Austrian president saw the comedy in it all and pardoned him.) Edwin continued
his battle with the bureaucracy, which, to anyone even vaguely familiar with
the Austrian "Amt"-culture, must be seen as a David versus Goliath
battle.
Hello everyone, now we’ll talk about a song, the
artist who wrote and sing the song, and also we’ll inform you about the
meanings of the song let’s start.
The song that we’re going to discuss is “stressed out” by Twenty One Pilot. This song was
written by Tyler Joseph the vocalist of Twenty One Pilots itself. Tyler Joseph
wrote all of this 2 man’s group band by himself. Now we’ll show you the lirics
of this song.
"Stressed
Out"
I
wish I found some better sounds no one's ever heard,
I
wish I had a better voice that sang some better words,
I
wish I found some chords in an order that is new,
I
wish I didn't have to rhyme every time I sang,
I
was told when I get older all my fears would shrink,
But
now I'm insecure and I care what people think.
My
name's 'Blurryface' and I care what you think.
My
name's 'Blurryface' and I care what you think.
Wish
we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When
our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
Wish
we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When
our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
We're
stressed out.
Sometimes
a certain smell will take me back to when I was young,
How
come I'm never able to identify where it's coming from,
I'd
make a candle out of it if I ever found it,
Try
to sell it, never sell out of it, I'd probably only sell one,
It'd
be to my brother, 'cause we have the same nose,
Same
clothes homegrown a stone's throw from a creek we used to roam,
But
it would remind us of when nothing really mattered,
Out
of student loans and treehouse homes we all would take the latter.
My
name's 'Blurryface' and I care what you think.
My
name's 'Blurryface' and I care what you think.
Wish
we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When
our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
Wish
we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When
our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
We
used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We
would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away,
Used
to dream of outer space but now they're laughing at our face,
Saying,
"Wake up, you need to make money."
Yo.
We
used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We
would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away,
Used
to dream of outer space but now they're laughing at our face,
Saying,
"Wake up, you need to make money."
Yo.
Wish
we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When
our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
Wish
we could turn back time, to the good ol' days,
When
our momma sang us to sleep but now we're stressed out.
Used
to play pretend, used to play pretend, bunny
We
used to play pretend, wake up, you need the money
Used
to play pretend, used to play pretend, bunny
We
used to play pretend, wake up, you need the money
We
used to play pretend, give each other different names,
We
would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away,
Used
to dream of outer space but now they're laughing at our face,
Saying,
"Wake up, you need to make money."
Yo.
That was all of the lirics from Stressed Out by
Twenty One Pilots
Now I’ll tell you about the meanings of this
song.
In the first verse, Tyler raps with a clear,
unaltered voice that he wishes his songs were better. He wants “better sounds,”
a “better voice,” to be able to put chords in a new order, and to not have to
rhyme. (In the part about rhyming, he avoids the line’s expected end rhyme.)
From these wishes, his sentiments become more serious: “I was told when I get
older, all my fears would shrink / But now I’m insecure, and I care what people
think.” This verse is stock Twenty One Pilots’s material-vulnerability and
sincerity. Tyler admits that he’s not sure of himself and that though he
doesn’t want to care “what people think,” he does.
The pre-chorus changes tone; Tyler’s voice gains
an airy, echo effect that makes him sound removed. He repeats, “My name’s
Blurryface, and I care what you think,” to show his audience that he knows he
values others’ opinion of him. Later verses suggest that he knows this is a bad
thing. The change in his voice suggests an alter ego (perhaps “Blurryface,” as
suggested by a user on Genius.com) or at least a self that Tyler knows is
afraid of being open and sincere.
The chorus is a simple wish for the “good old
days.” Back then, whatever had Tyler “stressed out” could be solved by his
mother singing him to sleep. No problem was lasting or serious enough that a
simple nap and a song couldn’t fix it.
In verse 2, Tyler raps about a smell that
reminds him of his childhood. That smell grants him a reprieve from stress, and
he imagines selling it as a candle but concludes that only his brother would
buy it since the smell would only mean something to someone who had shared
Tyler’s childhood.
Tyler mentions that the smell “would remind us
of when nothing really mattered,” suggesting that he wants to revisit that
time. He sings, “Out of student loans and tree house homes, we all would take
the latter.” For him, adult life loses a childhood innocence that comes with
feeling safe from worries. Instead of playing, he must work to make a living
and pay his bills.
The bridge continues the romanticization of his
childhood by describing times that he as a child would “play pretend.” He
mentions that he and his friends would imagine they were going to outer space,
suggesting a child-like belief in limitless possibilities. Now that he has to
think about paying student loans, his opportunities for dreaming about doing
big things and exploring are fewer.
At the end of the bridge and in the music video,
a crowd of Tyler and Josh’s family members shouts, “You need to make money,”
suggesting a social pressure to work and earn an income, which may have lead
Tyler to leave his childhood fantasies and fun. Even though he “used to dream
of outer space,” “now they’re laughing at [his] face.”
The outro builds onto the ideas in the bridge
and builds in intensity. Tyler’s voice becomes unnaturally deep (like it did in
the second verse of “Fairly Local”), and he repeats the lines, “We used to play
pretend, used to play pretend, funny / We used to play pretend, wake up you
need the money.” In the music video, two versions of Tyler sing this
deep-voiced outro. One version is visiting his childhood home, wearing a
backpack, and skipping through his old neighborhood. The other Tyler is perhaps
the alter-ego “Blurryface” who has red eyes and sings from a dark room. By
showing Tyler singing the outro in both personas, the music video suggests that
they are two sides of him. One longs for childhood; the other reminds him that
he must work and pressures him to keep from returning to his “tree house
homes.”
