Sparkling Silent Silhouette

History of this Blog

First of all, this blog used to be named “The Silent Corner“. It was written and published for the first time since 2007. Then, on April 16, 2017, the blog name was “Peaceful Mind in the Silent Corner”. In 2019, a friend suggested that I revise the blog title into a shorter one. Then, on March 10, 2019, I transformed the name completely into a more relevant phrase to my favourite atmosphere of writing. I named this blog “Sparkling Silent Silhouette” – with the S capital letters for each word. Besides, it also resembles my name: Syayid Sandi Sukandi.

I enjoy reading, writing, and collaborative discussions that foster critical thinking and address societal and academic issues. As an Indonesian researcher and lecturer, I needed a way to express my ideas beyond textbooks. Therefore, I created a writing platform for sharing my thoughts and research. The form of writing that I usually post in this blog is informal, but some parts closely resemble academic writing. To improve readability, this blog uses a friendlier, more accessible writing style.

Why do I write a Blog?

About writing, I find that writing is interesting. It fascinates me. Composing meaningful and useful text for readers involves more than just writing whatever we like. Writing, for me, is the highest level of human intellectual engagement and development. It is a basic human need, especially now with digital communication, to express thoughts and ideas.

In addition, writing is different from speaking. We might speak with someone else in society about what we intend to do. On the contrary, writing needs its own space. An author needs his or her own space in which he or she can 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 society.

In this global era where people can communicate with one another through written communication on the internet, I thought that it would be a good idea 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. I cannot say that what I have in mind is the greatest, but at least, I try to offer ways that I have learned from different sources.

Furthermore, this blog is not intended to be flawless. Being a learner myself, I am continually working towards producing helpful and impactful content for readers globally. Some of the posts here might be personal. However, the intention is only to share. There might be some useful things that people around the world could find in my blog, hopefully. To reach this way, as an author of this blog, I would prefer a silent space. 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 it, 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. Then, after all those considerations and processes, I frame this blog as “Sparkling Silent Silhouette“.

For Lovely Readers

Readers of this blog are everyone. If you speak English, that would be better. If you are an Indonesian, I would encourage you to learn how to read texts written in English. Please consider that this blog is meant to be an example of a bilingual blog. You can find posts written in English, and you can also look for information written in Bahasa Indonesia. It’s open!

Even though I have created a few spaces in this blog for my students, you may also read additional posts in this blog. Not all posts in this blog are about teaching and learning. This blog is growing. Time to time. Therefore, I suggest you Subscribe or Follow this blog to stay updated.

Finally, your reactions, comments, and other related responses are highly welcomed and appreciated, dear readers. 🙂

Please let me know about your opinion by typing it in a post you prefer, so I could enhance myself to become a better writer, and essentially, to become a better listener and educator for my students and for everyone I meet on earth.

Happy times for reading and writing! Listen attentively and speak truthfully! 

I opened my eyes to see everything, when it comes for me to see you, I can see myself.

(Syayid Sandi Sukandi, 2011)

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)

Thank you for visiting, and reading Sparkling Silent Silhouette.

This image was created artistically by using my hands.