Lailatul Qadar
Salah satu keutamaan dalam bulan puasa adalah "datang"nya malam lailatul qadar, malam yg keutamaannya setara dengan malam seribu bulan (Qur'an S. Al Qadar). Dalam beberapa referensi disebutkan bahwa datangnya malam lailatul qadar ini terdapat dalam 10 hari terakhir bulan ramadhan, utamanya pada malam - malam ganjil (HR: Bukhari 4/225 dan Muslim 1169.) Jika sudah memasuki malam - malam ini, banyak orang (muslim) yg beri'tikaf maupun memperbanyak ibadahnya demi mendapatkan keutamaan malam lailatul qadar. Suatu hal yg wajar mengingat Allah sendiri menjanjikan akan melipatgandakan pahala pada malam lailatul qadar tsb hingga setara dengan seribu bulan.

Kemudian timbul pertanyaan, apakah memang benar malam lailatul qadar itu hadirnya pada 10 malam terakhir bulan ramadhan? Apakah semua orang (muslim) akan mendapatkan keutamaan malam tsb? Bagaimana cara utk memperbesar kemungkinan mendapatkan malam lailatul qadar?

Menurut penulis, mengenai kapan hadirnya malam lailatul qadar itu, hanya Allah yg maha tahu akan segala sesuatu. Namun, dari beberapa referensi terdapat tanda - tanda fisik yg dapat kita gunakan utk memperkirakan akan datangnya malam lailatul qadar tsb, yaitu:

• Udara dan suasana pagi yang tenang
• Cahaya mentari lemah, cerah tak bersinar kuat keesokannya
• Bulan nampak separuh bulatan
  
• Malam yg terang, tidak panas, tidak dingin, tidak ada awan, tidak hujan, tidak ada angin kencang dan tidak ada yg dilempar pada malam itu dg bintang (lemparan meteor bagi setan)
  
• Orang yg beribadah pada malam tsb merasakan lezatnya ibadah, ketenangan hati dan kenikmatan bermunajat kepada rabb-nya tidak seperti malam - malam lainnya
  

Meskipun dg tanda - tanda diatas kita dapat memeprkirakan datangnya malam lailatul qadar, namun kapan tepatnya malam itu datang, sekali hanya Allah yg maha tahu. Wallahua'lam.

Pertanyaan selanjutnya, apakah semua orang (muslim) yg beribadah/berdo'a pada malam dimana Allah menurunkan Lailatul qadar akan mendapatkan keutamaannya?
Menurut pendapat penulis, keutamaan malam lailatul qadar hanya akan didapat oleh orang - orang yg bener - benar beriman dan bertaqwa kepada Allah, artinya adalah bahwa orang tsb baik pada bulan ramadhan maupun bukan bulan ramadhan selalu beriman dan bertaqwa kepada Allah. Logikanya adalah terlalu enak jika orang yg hanya pada bulan ramadhan saja beriman dan bertaqwa, sementara pada bulan2 lainnya bermaksiat ria kemudian mendapat keutamaan lailatul qadar.
Sekarang ini, banyak kita lihat orang muslim yg ketika pada bulan - bulan biasa tidak pernah sholat, tadarrus al-quran, sedekah dll kemudian pada bulan ramadhan tiba-tiba rajin beribadah, sholat jama'ah di masjid dan melakukan amalan-amalan lainnya dan akan semakin meningkat ibadahnya pada malam2 terakhir bulan ramadhan guna berharap akan mendapat malam lailatul qadar. Setelah ramadhan usai, orang2 yg demikian itu akan melepas pakaian ramadhannya dan memakai kembali pakaian maksiatnya yg telah sebulan ditanggalkannya. Ramadhan seolah-olah hanya menjadi pengekang sesaat atas nafsu maksiatnya. Ramadhan bukan menjadi bulan utk lebih meningkatkan keimanan dan ketakwaan kepada Allah yg akan diteruskan pada bulan - bulan selanjutnya sehingga akan semakin mendekatkan diri kepada Allah, namun hanya menjadi beban dan ketidaknyamanan dalam hidupnya. Apakah orang yg seperti itu akan mendapat keutamaan malam lailatul qadar? Wallahua'lam, tapi tentunya Allah maha adil. Allah hanya akan memberikan keutamaan malam lailatul qadar pada hamba-Nya yg mendapat ridha dari-Nya.

Lalu kemudian timbul pertanyaan lagi, apakah kita bisa mendapat ridha dari-Nya? Pasti bisa, karena Allah maha pengasih lagi maha penyayang. Bagaimana cara utk mendapatkannya? Ada beberapa hal yg bisa dilakukan, namun pada intinya kita harus selalu menjaga dan meningkatkan keimanan dan ketakwaan kita kepada Allah agar kita mendapat ridha-Nya. Hal2 yg bisa kita lakukan diantaranya:

• Pada saat awal bulan ramadhan, kita harus benar - benar niat utk menjadikan bulan ramadhan ini menjadi sarana bagi kita utk meningkatkan keimanan dan ketakwaan.
• Melakukan ibadah dg khusyuk dan tuma'ninah. Perbanyak do'a utk mohon ampunan kepada Allah.
• Setelah bulan ramadhan, usahakan ibadah yg kita lakukan pada bulan ramadhan tetap kita lakukan pada bulan - bulan berikutnya. Kalau pada bulan ramadhan kita bisa sholat jama'ah, usahakan pada bulan2 berikutnya kita bisa tetap melakukannya. Demikian juga misalnya kalau pada bulan ramadhan kita bisa melakukan qiyamul lail setiap malamnya, maka usahakan pada bulan2 selanjutnya kita tetap melakukannya.
• Mencoba mendalami ilmu agama, sehingga pemahaman kita akan menjadi semakin baik terhadap agama kita.
• Memberikan manfaat kepada orang lain.

Hal2 diatas adalah sesuatu yg sangat umum, hanya merupakan konsepsi saja. mengenai detailnya seperti apa tentunya kita sudah mengetahui teknis pelaksanaannya.
Intinya adalah kita harus selalu menjaga keimanan dan ketakwaan kita dan menjadikan bulan puasa sebagai momentum utk meningkatkan keimanan dan ketakwaan kita kepada Allah. Jika kita bisa melakukannya sepanjang tahun secara terus - menerus, maka pada bulan ramadhan kita akan lebih mudah utk mendapatkan keutamaannya, termasuk keutamaan malam lailatul qadar.
Semoga kita bisa menjadi orang - orang yg benar - benar beriman dan bertakwa kepada Allah, dan bukannya malah menjadi orang yg keimanan dan ketakwaannya mendekati kemunafikan. Amin.

Meningkatkan rasa percaya diri

Kadang kita berada pada kondisi dimana rasa percaya diri kita rendah, sehingga kita merasa enggan atau tidak mampu utk melakukan sesuatu. Hal ini biasanya terjadi jika kita berada diluar dari comfort zone kita. Atau bisa juga pada saat kita sendiri atau merasa sendiri.
Rasa percaya diri yg rendah jika dibiarkan terus - menerus akan dapat menimbulkan pengaruh yg negatif buat kita. Selain itu secara kesehatan katanya dapat menciutkan volume otak kita. Banyak hal yg seharusnya dapat kita raih akan menjauh gara - gara penyakit yg satu ini.
Hal - hal yg terkait dg rasa percaya diri yg rendah:
- Merupakan sumber penundaan, dimana kita akan dapat melihat org tsb seringkali menunda pekerjaannya atau melakukannya tanpa keyakinan. Alasannya karena tidak siap atau kurang persiapan. Inilah yg seringkali dilakukan oleh org tsb utk menutupi rasa percaya dirinya yg rendah.
-Penyebab rendahnya motivasi. Org dg rasa percaya diri yg rendah cenderung malas didalam melakukan sesuatu (beda dg bermalas - malasan y, klo ini kadang kita emang butuh utk relaksasi), tidak mempunyai achievement orientation dan krg mau berusaha.

Utk mengatasinya bisa dilakukan cara - cara sbb:
-lakukan hal2 yg menurut anda tidak pede utk melakukannya. Lakukan secara bertahap, terus - menerus dg target yg spesifik.Sedikit demi sedikit tetapi jika Anda lakukan secara kontinyu Anda bisa menjadi seseorang yang mahir dan memiliki rasa percaya diri yang tinggi."Long journey begin with little steps".
-evaluasi setiap pencapaian anda, dan buatlah rencana berikutnya.
-yakin terhadap apa yg kita lakukan dan selalu berusaha semaksimal mungkin. Logikanya bagaimana kita bisa berhasil jika kita tidak yakin pada apa yg kita lakukan, tidak yakin pada kemampuan kita??
-Persiapan. Segala sesuatu yg kita persiapkan dg baik sebelumnya akan membuat kita lebih pede dlm menjalankannya.
-Positive thinking, dg menghargai setiap kemampuan yg kita miliki. Tidak ada manusia yg sempurna, jadi kenapa kita merasa tidak lebih baik dari orang lain?
-Banyak membaca inspirational story, biografi, ataupun success story shg kita bisa terinspirasi dari usaha dan perjuangan mereka.
-Do'a. Sesuatu yg keliatannya sepele namun sering kita lupakan. Setelah kita melakukan semua usaha, selanjutnya adalah menyerahkan hasilnya pada Allah SWT. Tentunya kita ingat, bahwa manusia boleh berusaha, tapi tuhan yg menentukan hasilnya.

Get Promoted...

Having spent a long time on work without a promotion sometimes make several people being frustated. They often ask "why i don't get a promotion, meanwhile the other people that can be classified as newbie get this one?".

There are some reasons why some people stuck when dealing with this thing.
1. Seniority vs Contribution
Many people think that seniority will guarantee their career increases. In fact now almost companies doing their business based on performance so the company need persons that can give contribution and performance beyond expectation. The company will no longer consider the seniority as appraisal based.

2. Skills vs attitude
Divided into hard and soft skills, sometimes we think that we are fullfill the requirement for promotion only from hard skills (technical). we don't realize that there is one important that will be considered when someone want to be promoted. The one is attitude. No matter how smart is someone, when he had bad attitude it's almost impossible for him to be considered to get a promotion.

3. Chance
This is the most important thing but i just know it. Sometime we think that a promotion is based on our self. But how it can be, when there is no chance in our company? That's mean there is no empty position?

4. Need
Sometime we didn't have a chance for promotion for a while because of our manager or department still need us. That's also mean that they haven't meet a suitable person to replace our position or they still need us to do some project or work. But believe it, if you in this criteria you don't need to worry about your future

So if you now is still thinking about your career, you can consider some factors that i have explained before you make a decision about your work/career.

Memory 90an

lagi pengen mengenang masa kecil gue...ini gue ambil dari forum sebelah, cuma gue pilih2 yg gue suka dan gue edit berdasarkan pengalaman gue..hehe..

1. Paling suka nonton film kartun....

Power Ranger

dragon ball


Digimon



Ksatria Baja Hitam


Film kartun lain yg pernah gue tonton:
- Detective conan
- transformer (gue bela2in nonton di rumah tetangga gue yg udah pake parabola)
- saint seiya (tokoh utamanya ga pernah mati meski dihajar abis-abisan ama ksatria emas)
- knight rider (kalo ini nontonnya satu paket ama Ksatria Baja Hitam di RCTI, trus biasanya siarannya diacak ama RCTI, duhh...)
- Ultraman (sejatanya selalu sama, pake sinar laser yg keluar dari tangannya)

To be continued...

CDP (Competency Development Program)

This several day is long holiday. I have a plan to finish my CDP presentation material coz for the next week i have to ready for the review. CDP is one of development program on Sampoerna that give the trainee more experience and development, not only on the technical skills but also on soft skills. This program is a comprehensive development program that challenge the trainee to explore the material of the program deeply and also a chance to show to the manager their ability inlude communication skill, analyzing and problem solving. The program itself set into some level and to get higher level the trainee have to pass the lower level. CDP have some different approach, that can be described as follows:

1. In class training, to give a better understanding of the program material.
2. Self learning, this is the most challenging part where you can do "anything" you want to learn about the program material. Sampoerna give the freedom to the trainee to learn coz every person have different learning style, right?
3. The review, this is the exam for the trainee to present their learning result. The review include the written test, practical test, and management review.

And as i mentioned above, this several day i prepare my learning result for the review. For now, i have to prepare WE (work experience) 3, and it's about manufacturing planning and control (MPC) system. This week and probably this month is harder than usual coz in addition to the CDP, i also have to prepare for audit time (IR&IC audit and QA audit)....This is really2 "awesome"..work..work..work..i sell my life for work....coz my company always give me salary hehe...

CAMP!!!

Held on Feb 7-9 (Thursday-Saturday), my student board have a big event,i.e. IOC known as camp. This event is a follow up of SISTEM (orientation for new student), that have meaning that this event is an implementation of the concept of SISTEM and also an evaluation of the new student(maba). In this event, my friends and me (from 2003) participated as "warga", the alias of student who didn’t in charge again on student board (and often make problems hehe….)

We got our session on 2 pm (after friday prey) and our session was about internal solidarity and human meaning. We discussed about it someday before and we had quiet nice scenario to implement these concepts. The scenario was started with test about the name of their friends who didn’t participate on IOC. then the new students who knew all of the names would be separated with the others who couldn’t. I handle the student who knew their friends name and then "the treatment" was begin. The treatment was led by seto, coz he had a lot of experiences as field coordinator and he also had title AKBP on his name hahaha… In essentials, the treatment has goal that the new students will confess their mistake, i.e. they had no cares with the other students by not to help the others remember/know their friends who didn’t participate on IOC. Then after the new students confess their mistake, they had to take the consequency of their mistake (always like that, isn’t it?) We from 2003 gave them 2 options. First, they had to did some physics consequency (i like it very much), i.e. push up for men and bending for women, each 3 series. Second, they had to release all of their IOC attributes and they could go on. Very simple, isn’t (that we was always said to them) or very hard may be (that our opinion in the background,even for us). Arrghh, really2 two different face of 2003.

No one of the new students chose the second option and all of them chose the first one.I have no idea, why they didn’t chose the second one?? It’s may hard for the beginning, but they can participate on next IOC, aren’t they? Hahaaha, may be they can’t think anything anymore, right? In their brain, may be just one thing on there."JUST FOR SAVE and HOPE THIS EVENT WILL BE FINISHED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE".

When the new student did their consequency, we ask the new students to count loudly and hope the other students outside could hear it and gave some "help" to the executed students. And until the session for 2003 finished, all group of the new students could finished their consequency..ckckck really2 "ANGKATAN KULI". Whereas we hope when some of the new students was doing the consequency, the others would help and try to stop their friends. But it would be never happened coz some of my friends had ready on the door to stop the new students. Hahahaha, very nice i think that we still can run the concept, but also we can do what we "WANT"….Rocking the world baby…

After they finished the consequency, we pieced together again the 2 group of the new students. Then we confronted them by line up them face to face. First we ask the first group that done the concequency to speak their feeling and also their opinion about the second group and conversely. The goal was they could understand the meaning of "INTERNAL SOLIDARITY". The last we ask their commitment about what they’ve learned (aah, so nice…). If they showed their no care, emphaty and solidarity, they had to give over their HANDBAND to us (2003) voluntarily. I repeat VOLUNTARILY, so we wolud never "coerce" the new students to give over their handband which is like the tradition before.

finally our session finished and then we continue talked about what we had to did on "INITIATION NIGHT". i don’t know what the result coz i chose to lie in with hartono and arfi. The other reason that i assumed that the night would be same with the previous. So i talked with arfi and hartono about nothing…nothing important i mean. Hartono and i often ask about the family life of Arfi. I think it would be some refferences for us on the future hehehe.

We had time about 2 hours before "iNITIATION NIGHT" . Felling sleepy and i searched some place comfortable to take a bed.After turned around, finally i found an empty tent. Three of us, makmun, buyung and i finally could listened to our body willing to take some rest. I couldn’t even closed my eyes when the IC started to shout out to woken up the new students. SHIT…i fell so sleepy and have to perforce ending my rest.. and initiation night was begin. As usual, the IC started give some treatment to the new students. The goal was the new students could proved their commitment coz if they couldn’t, "WARGA" usually would take over the session and the committe of IOC would be punished fail. So the committe had two task, first they had to made the new students perform well and also protected them self from threat of WARGA.

All of things done well coz we (2003) had a promise not to make a chaos in the event and will try to keep the session run without any violence by made some coordinations with Steering Committe. This was according to our experience when we became the comitte of IOC which alot of incident that was caused by WARGA. So we had a precious promise to our self not to repeat the action like that from WARGA anymore. Time continue runs and we saw that the new students couldn’t prove their commitment so we enter the line and 2003 SESSION was begin. We asked the commitment of the new student, i.e. they had to released their handband for free. After some argumentations session, finally one of the new students wanna released his handband as a symbol of their commitment with us (i forgot his name). Then we finished the session by made a statement not to accept the new students as full member of HMTI (our student board).

The initiation night was continued by 2004 and 2002. oblik said that this wasn’t initiation night but "angkatan" session coz we enter the line by our self but..whatever..at least the chaos didn’t happen anymore. The night was finished by the new students kissed the HMTI banner and made a promise to give some contributions for HMTI.Tiring but exciting…..After that the committe made a bonfire and then each of "angkatan" gave some impression of the event. In this session we clearer our statement that we couldn’t accept the new students as the full member of HMTI then we immediately out from confabulation session.

All done…and then we go home after a tiring night…Quiet nice momment and even our friends who had worked still had time to come to IOC…Too bad that this is just for one night…One memorable night!!! (THE END)

Master League Update

I play master league about 70 hours…quiet long, isn’t it?? I think no coz i ever play a game until 230 hours. The game was oblivion (the best RPG Games ever made) and now i play master league on the 2009 season..actually it’s the pre-season of 2010 season. Until now, i haven’t lose even for one time coz i have a real "los galacticos" squad. I choose to play with barcelona and i step by step build a super team that even REal Madrid can’t do it. To manage the power of the player, i using 4-2-1-3 formation. It’s very effective formation to attack, but u have to have good defence skill coz the weakness of this formation is on the middle area..mmmh but nevermind, you still will have big chance to win when you can handle the 2 defensive midfielder well to cover the defence.
The attacking midfielder have unusual function. I use the AM to break the opponent attack and not to help my attack. So i need the AM that have good body balance rather than speed. On the reality, i always have less possesion than my opponent but i always have much shooting and goal too. Simple attack pattern but a lot of my afriend can’t defeat the formation…

This is my player for season 2009:

STRIKER:

• Zlatan Ibrahimovic (overall best player… strong, fast,good technique)
• Samuel Eto’o (fastest striker but have less technique)
• Fernando Torres (young and have high attack minded)
• Wayne Rooney (strong and have good pass)
• Leonel Messi (agile, fast, best assist)
• Cristiano Ronaldo (no doubt about him)
• Darren Bent (good assist, fast and good jumping)
• Y. Alqahtany (still remember him?)

MIDFIELDER

• Kaka’ (best player 2007)
• Danielle De Rossi (balance payer, both attacking and defence and can be played on many position)
• Sergio Ramos (actually he is a defender but i played him as midfielder)
• Andres Iniesta (this is one of remain original player of Barca hehe…)
• Cesc Fabregas (young and talented player)

DEFENDER

• Carles Puyol (good defence and leadership, best captain)
• G. Milito (fast and good heading)
• Vincent Kompany (next rio ferdinand)
• Rafael Marques (good defence and jumping)
• M. Taylor (best free kick taker, can beat even Pirlo)
• A. Del Horno (strong, fast and have good pass)
• Oleguer ( i played him sometimes…too bad)
• Zambrotta (still best of rest)
• Maldini (reborn as rookie, still trained to increase his ability)

GOALKEEPER

• Victor Valdes (now his ability can be compared with buffon or cech)
• Sebastien frey (good subs)

With the squad, i think there will be no team can beat me hahaha…my friend Fajar said that there will be no challenge, but who cares??? It’s more important to get fun, can scoring as many as possible and see the LOS GALACTICOS win all competition….
This is a dream that even Real MAdrid can’t realize it.