Halal Bihalal, ILC dan MPO

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Entah saya harus minta maaf kepada panitia Silatnas atau malah tidak usah, karena datang terlambat. Ini karena Halal Bihalal (Habil) kali ini -juga tahun lalu- terasa "biasa" saja buat saya, walaupun panitia sudah berjuang habis-habisan mempersiapkan segalanya. Termasuk meja-meja depan (mungkin untuk para VIP) yang dibalut sprei putih dan berbentuk bundar. Dengan tampilan seperti itu, Halal Bihalal IKAA lebih terlihat mirip Indonesian Lawyers Club (ILC), acara besutan TVOne dan dikomandani Karni Ilyas. Bedanya, di TVOne suasananya nyaman, maklum ruangannya ber AC dan disain interiornya memang diniatkan untuk jadi studio. Di Habil kemarin, orang baru masuk saja udah keringetan dan langsung berkipas-kipas karena kepanasan. Padahal mereka sudah antri untuk daftar dan mencari-cari list angkatan nya. Thanks to Attaqwa Putri karena sudah punya aula yang cukup luas untuk menampung para hadirin.

Ramadhan dan Inflasi

Buka puasa bersama di kantor pada bulan Ramadhan tahun ini dilakukan pada suasana yang kurang enak. Pertama karena waktunya mepet, hanya 2 hari menjelang libur bersama seluruh kantor. Libur ini bakalan panjang karena dimulai tanggal 3-11 Agustus 2013 berkaitan dengan Hari Raya Iedul Fitri 1435 H. Faktor kedua adalah merangkaknya tingkat inflasi pada akhir paruh pertama tahun berjalan. 

Bai' Alwaraqah

Para ulama Jawa Timur sering membuat kagum para pendengarnya. Apa yang dikatakan para praktisi modern sebagai "out of box" justru sering dilaksanakan dan ditampilkan sebagai alternatif. Persoalannya kemudian itu menjadi kontroversial, itu urusan lain.

Efficiency vs socialization

A Muslim intelellectual once said that "It is easy for Muslim society to have many associations. A group of people who have resentments to their management might quit the organization and create their own assosciation. When this newly established association develops and  spreads over to the people, then a  group within the association who starts to have gruelties against its management will do the same thing as the founder did to their first organization. And this process will continue without anyone knowing until when."

Sumbit to Heaven

During last two weeks I have become a good listener to everyone who tell me their problem. The highest number of the complaints related to their present position in the job. I never know why people like to complain their concerns to me, not to Human Resource Department. May be because I am considered as "ustaz", and the ustaz can communicate to God  so their burden can be reduced via my communication ha..ha..

Had they known that I myself could only be promoted after being patient for 7 years in the position and having working hard for the duration without receiving good remark (sometimes just because the director doesn't like my criticism for their sharia non-compliace action), they might refused to talk to me. The only sentence I could say at the end of talk is always "submit it to heaven, because even we -who work in the best-managed financial center in this country- are promoted to higher rank by the way of like-dislike, and sometimes by sequnce of entering batch. Never think such good theories on human resources will work smoothly. Forget about stars you received during your bright years, it oftenly become decorating acessories in your filing sistem. 

Wallahu a'lam