Silence is golden

Yeah right... silence is golden, most Indonesians are in to that phrase.

It was not unusual to see Indonesian pupils staring at their teachers with those big black eyes when the teacher giving questions. I don't know whether the symptom still remains nowadays, but that fact happened in my school era. Was it because we loved that phrase that much?

During my time in Europe I got a very valuable experience to get into touch with people from four corners of the world. There I could see more examples of Indonesians' attachment to the phrase. Some of us, ofcourse, were not that silent but if one had compared us with students from other parts of the world, it would have been apparent that we love "gold". I, myself, even found those friends too straightforward, too fussy. The impression died down in time, more understanding came about once I got along with them. They were not fussy, they were not too straighforward, not too noisy. They knew that people must talk to be heard.

I do think that it is not wrong at all to express the things we know, it is not wrong to admit that we don't know by simply asking question, it is right to think outloud!

Let other people know that we exist.

Salam.