The Silent Corner

Hello there!

I come from Indonesia

Sunset in Padang beach taken by Syayid Sandi Sukandi in 2011

For you who wants to know more about Indonesian tourism and culture, please click the picture below:

A Site of Department of Tourism and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia

In Indonesia, I am a Minangkabau person

In Indonesia, I am Sundanese too

ABOUT “ME” AND THIS BLOG:

I am Syayid Sandi Sukandi. You can call me Syayid. I am working as a lecturer in Indonesia. My field of study is English Language and Literature. I like reading and writing, especially dealing with literature and culture. Discussion is an unavoidable  interest for me to do with friends.

In addition, this blog is intended for my students who are studying English and for other people who might find this blog interesting and helpful.

For my students, you can use this blog to read all the materials that we will or have discussed in the classroom. The contents are generally related to our academic goals and achievement. However, please do not copy the materials. It is strongly suggested that you should paraphrase or develop the ideas into your own.

For readers in anywhere you are, please feel free to give your response to the posts in this blog. Any comments, feedback, critiques, or suggestion are highly appreciated. If you have any further intention to discuss, please don’t hesitate to contact me through: syayid@gmail.com

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Writing for Life - Syayid

The Meaning behind the Title of this blog. Why this blog is named as “The Silent Corner”. 

First of all, I love reading, writing, and discussing with people for positive purposes and for developing critical awareness of certain topics or issues emerging in the society and in academic sector. In order to fulfill the needs of mine to read and express further things beyond the discourse provided in books, I thought that it would be a wiser idea  to create a space  to practice my writing and share some ideas that I have through writing. The form of writing that I usually post here is not formal or like a research paper. It’s more like friendlier in tone so that the readers could get the meaning of what I write a bit.

In relation to writing, I find that writing is really interesting. It is not just like writing as what we like and then it’s done, but it is more about how to compose certain ideas into a piece of meaningful text that can be read and useful for the readers. Writing, for me, is the highest level of human intellectual engagement and development. It is the very fundamental thing created and needed by human to express what they have in mind and to things that they want to discuss one another.

In addition to that, writing is not the same as speaking. We might speak with someone else in the society as what we intend to do so. Writing needs its own space. An author needs his or her own space in which he or she could interact with what he or she has in mind so that the writing the writer produces could be useful and flowing as well as readable by readers in the society. In this global era and where people could communicate one another through written communication in internet, I thought that it would be a good idea for me to create a space for my students to know a bit of what I think as their lecturer so that they could be better than I do in the future. This blog is not that perfect but I am still trying to write useful and meaningful post for readers wherever they are. Some of the posts here might be personal but the intention is just to share. There might be some useful things that people around the world could find in my blog. In order to reach this way, as an author of this blog, I would prefer a space which is silent. This kind of place is exactly an appropriate space for me to articulate my thoughts so that the result of this “internal conversation”, as I may call, is a good one for me to release what I have in mind, either as a man, a child of my parents, a member of a society, a teacher, or as a writer of this blog.

Therefore, your reaction, comments, and other related responses are highly welcomed.

Please let me know about your opinion by typing it in a post you like so that I could improve myself to become a better writer, and essentially, to become a better listener and educator for my students.

Happy times for writing!

“I opened my eyes to see everything,

when it comes for me to see you,

I can see myself” (Syayid, 2011)

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Collection of Quotations:

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge” (Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, The Voice of the Master)

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorant” (Socrates, 469 BC – 399 BC)

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth” (Piogenes Laertinus)

“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think” (Edwin Schlossberg)

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations” (Charles de Montesquieu, 1689 – 1755)

“All men by nature desire knowledge” (Socrates, 384 BC – 322 BC, Metaphysics)

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