Ramadhan

This is the month of Ramadhan. For the Muslims it is the month where we fast from dawn to dusk.

To those who do not understand, fasting is thought to be of abstaining from meals, not eating and not drinking. There's more to it rather. Its a month of abstainance.

Some of the examples of abstainance and refraining from dawn to dusk; from:

• food,
• smoking,
• digging your nose,
• sex,

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• indulgence,
• talking bad of people,

It is also the month for;

• doing good,
• helping others,
• more of the religious rituals, prayers,
• giving,
• forgiving,

I am not a religious scholar, so what I had written there are more of the simplistic things that a Muslim need to refrain and encouraged to do.

What I do hope is that there is more tolerance in the world not only during this holy month but the months that follow.

The month is also for us to reflect. It is also not so much about the fight against the hunger pang but the fight against self, self control, victory over self. People tend to indulge during the breaking of fast during dusk. They eat as though to compensate their abstainance for the whole day, and defeat the purpose of fasting.

To all Muslims, Merry Ramadhan, to those who are not you can also joint the merriment of Ramadhan.

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Stupid tis those who has no faith

I read this with mixed feeling... Dalam pertikaian Siew Fook dengan pendakwah Islam Dr. Mohd. Ridhuan berkaitan soal anak luar nikah, beliau menulis dalam blognya http:sjsandteam.wordpress.com: "Has everything be reduced to your fucking religion."

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The statement, in bold above, can only be written or uttered by someone who has no faith to any religion. As a Muslim, everything that we do has got to do with the Allah and the religion. Thus I believe anyone who is alligned to any religion be it a Christian, Buddhist or a Hindu or even a Jew would alway go back to their religions.

It is not for me to judge but it won't be uttered by someone who faithfully believe in any religion or for that matter any understanding of any faith, or principled, who has grounding.

The most dangerous of a person as it can be, one without any principle in the core.

Because if he does, then he would understand why Ridhuan Tee said what he had said.

Siew Fook, maybe you can put it in some other ways that cares for the sensitivities of others.

Balance Scorecard, KRAs & KPIs... again!

I once visited an organisation that is also using the KPIs, but somehow or other people are no longer 'hot' about the KPIs anymore. What seem to had happened was that, initially people were happy with the KPIs as they had the idea that the KPIs would enable them to perform and thus in return will also help the organisation to perform, and now the KPIs had not function as they were intended to be.

What happened? Now it seems that the bosses are using the KPIs as a threat to the staff, as a stick, to make the staff perform. They state things like, "If you don't meet your KPIs you better watch out," "How come other met their KPIs but not you?"

So the intention of the KPIs as a measure to help people to be able to perform better was not achieved but it is now used as a stick to punish or a threat to punish people.

In the first place do people understand about the KPI? Or for that matter the bosses understand the intended purpose of the KPI?
On the other hand the bosses need to understand that the KPI is a measure of performance, but the thing is had the bosses had dialogues with the staff as to what would they require to enable them to perform?

The Malaysian government had embarked on the KPI thingy, as that is all very good. But what I fear is that the executioners of the KPIs are not properly brought up to speed as to what is the KPI all about, what need to happen before a KPI can be achieved to contribute to the KRA (NKRA) then also will the KPI that the government is trying to implement is driven by political needs or by the need to serve?


In the first place, do the organisations that implemented or intend to implement the KPIs go the full cycle of understand the Balance Scorecard? Do they understand what is the inherent intent of the BSC/KRA/KPI? Do they have the will to make it work? Or do have the right mind-set to make it work?

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