An Opening Gambit

Assalamualaikum and hello to all cybernetters and bloggers out there.

Call me "the_cook".

This may well be my introduction to the global blogging community but definitely not the first one. Frankly, I have started once before, however due to lack of discipline I abandoned it. Just recently, there was this urge of having a place to voice out my opinion (regardless the subject) and after being encouraged by my wife (who is happened to embrace blogging and relaised its benefits way earlier) and friends so I decided to actually started one of my own.

"The Talking Corner".....which I personally think a good title for my blog. At a simple glance, the title really embodies the very spirit of blogging...that is openness and one-self entitlement for differing in opinion....as G.H.Hardy (1877 - 1947), a prominent English Mathematician once said.."it's not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that". The title also reminds me of the Hyde Park Corner (HPC) in London. Having gone through my days as students in the UK in late mid 90's, HPC is really an interesting blogging space without long before the Internet was conceived. The good thing about the HPC, people get to speak whatever they like and sometime those people there not doing anything except for dancing their way to a rap song. At the end of the day, after much debate and swearing, everybody would disperse calmly. So this space of mine is propagating the same HPC spirit, I talk/write, others would comments or observes (or send me hate mails if I strike it right) but at the end of the day everybody would disperse calmly.

Motivation is a strong pulling factor. I believe that on the onset, people do something driven by certain kind of motivation..good or bad. Same goes for me, I have my own motivation which leads to the creation of this blog. Besides able to voice out my differing opinions, I think the nobler motive would be the propagation of knowledge and information and with the Internet it is free for all, a buffet type..."eat all you can" kinda thing.

I think this would do for an opening, will keep on posting InsyaAllah (God willing) and stay tune for variety of subject matters to be rambled and mused.