Happy Fasting :) It's the last ten of Ramadhan. It's time to maximize our prayers to get His rahmat. May this Ramadhan bring us to the brighter light in life :) aamiin. 

I just have some photos and going to tell a short strory about that. hehe

Cause a moment won't be back, it is so unfortunate if we have moments that we love but it's gone and we forget it. In the other hand, we can keep it so one day we can look back to that moment and say "alhamdulillah" again for that :)

One unremarkable moment happened to me in the middle of April. When there was Press Conference about Raef, an Islamic Singer from UK exactly in Washington DC came to Indonesia as a brand ambassador of Zatta Men. The Press Conference was held in Bandung.

So When I was entered the press conference's room, I saw the grand piano. My family and my close friends knew that I'm quite crazy about piano I'm so in love with it (and actually still hoping that I could learn more to play it to make me professional in it.) Well when I saw the grand piano oh I really want to play it but at that time it's quite impossible since I have to do many things as I'm a PR for the press conference. 

Since I do love Raef's song, I started to search the chord of his song while still expecting to play the grand piano later. And....! It was came true! The Press Conference had done, The piano looks sad alone in the quite huge room..I know he asked me to come to him and have a chitchat together. Well I sat in front of the piano.. "Hey.. do you mind if I play you?" "Sure, I'm waiting for you since the first time we met!" "Really? Oh me too!!" 

Then I played the grand piano with all of my heart. I miss it since many years. It's like I found my missing part of my heart. Oh I really love to play the grand piano. 

Then, When I was playing it, Raef came and recorded my piano playing! I was so surprised and I stopped my playing. "No no..keep going it's beautiful" he said.

"okay..but..um..would you sing your song and I play the piano?"

"Oh sure.. what song?"

"You're the one?"

Then finally Raef was singing You're the one while I was playing the Piano

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious Most Merciful

Hello & Assalamualaikum everyone, How are yoouu? Been so long! I'm so happy now because finnaly I can blogging again since it's hard to find any longer time to write because..well it's not because business thing but only because when I had free time, my body was asking me to irnaa...lay down..and...SLEEP!! >.< you know working life is so different from college life when it's quite easy to spend all night long without sleeping but now it's like soo hard for me to keep my eyes opened at night :3. On the other time when I had a time to write, I can be such a lazy bum at times. It is time to get my self motivation back on track. Or..I had too much thought in my head so when I'm gonna start to write it's like..you know..mmmm....which topic that I will talk about first? and finally I had no idea :p

Well I'm now on my lunch time in my office, guess it's quite a good time to write. But by the way do you know where I'm working right now? :") I'm gonna talk about that. My another phase of life; a workplace. :)

So here I'm, working in Shafira Corporation. A Fashion world! A Muslim Fashion world.
I was excited at the first time when I seen the videos about this biggest Islamic fashion company in Indonesia.
It's fashion, It's Islamic, It's the biggest in Indonesia. All I want is there!

And actually at the same time, I was in process in joining another place to work which is in Oil and Gas Company. (actually it was also my dream-workplace when I was in elementary school. I said to my self that one day I want to work in oil and gas company. Maybe because..ya, I was kid and it's cool to see my brother working in there. only because of that he he he I was kid I don't understand anything about work. ) As if you have read my older post, that dream was came true when I was doing my internship in Pertamina. I was feel so happy about that, I was learnt many things there I was sooo soooo sooo grateful because I think I can improve my skill (beside graphic design) and gained many knowledge. In my last period they asked me to come back after graduate. So then, before graduation, even before my thesis defense, they called me to apply ASAP and it's like they told me that I have to prepare my self to work there. Well but I didn't do that because at that time I was on my hectic period; preparing my thesis defense. And after graduate, I did what they asked..with my pleasure, of course. And followed the process.

I was remember when I'm in middle of my Internship period, one year ago... I had the most favorite serial movie in my laptop, it was Jane by Design. Have you watch it?? I'm sooooooo in love with that movie! And I was thinking to have experience in fashion world, I really want to have another internship experience; in fashion industry. When I saw Jane it's like I'm supposed to "live" in that world. And I also have a dream; someday if I have my own lil family, I think I don't wanna be a carrier woman who will spend their most of time in workplace because my main job at that time will be as a wife. or..mother? owww! >.< so I want to have my own business. And that kind of business is in fashion world. Have a boutique in my house will be nice! or..in a mall? plus web-store? or in front of my house? or....let's dream! he he he
So when I saw the video of Shafira Corporation, I feel like.. that's the one, maybe? And I tried to apply.

One of my best friend, also work in there! And she told me that HR department in Shafco was looking for a graphic designer but it's for internship or freelance. And I said well it's okay, so that while I'm waiting the process in Pertamina, I can use my time to work there as a freelancer or internee there.

SO, I went to attend an interview as internee/freelancer in Shafco, but suddenly the HR manager offered me to work full time there, to work with Digital Marketing team. I want to! but..what about Pertamina?

And, but, um, unfortunately, I mean..fortunately. :) the process in that oil and gas company was not as smooth as I imagined. the process was took a long time.. But let's skip this story. :) Let's say that all the things happen to us has already planned by HIM, the ONE who knows the best for us. So I believe that whatever happened before, it was for the best.

Before I joined this company, one of my friend said this to me:
Irna, bekerja dimana saja yang penting baik dan halal. Pilihlah pekerjaan yang bisa membuat Irna punya banyak waktu luang untuk Ibadah. Karena rezeki kita sudah terjamin, sedangkan Ibadah kita belum terjamin. Tapi, bukan berarti jadi malas-malasan..hanya saja jangan pernah sekali-kali menggantungkan rezeki kita dari pekerjaan tersebut, karena rezeki itu murni dari Allah.

I understood and kept that thought tightly in my head.
And this is what made me sure that this company would be a right & good place for me to work :

"InsyaAllah cocok di cultural nya Shafco yang Islami ya Irna. :)
Selain bekerja kamu juga bisa berdakwah dan ibadah secara positif. Insya Allah. Bismillah
Kita semua yang Insya Allah banyak belajar dengan Irna. Termasuk saya.
Keep up the Great Spirit! :)
Mencari berkah dunia akhirat dalam hal apapun yang kita jalani, Kita semua di Shafco yang masih harus belajar banyak dari Irna. Sama-sama ya kita saling sharing knowledge. :)
-from the HR Manager the day after I had interview.

Sooo....Alhamdulillah, now I'm in this place. Joining Shafco since August 25, 2014.
The dream come true? 'generally', yes. :)

I faced my first month in Shafco happily. I'm so grateful that beside working, I feel like I have new family there since people there are sooo lovely. And one thing that I love is I have a manager who..I dunno how to describe..He is smart! (of course! He's a manager x_x) when I had a sharing session with him I just feel so clicked and everything I talked were always conected and we have the same way in seeing things. My spirits always burned, it's like on-fires everytime I talked to him. That's the thing that makes me grateful the most. May be someday if you be a boss you should be that kind of leader ;) 

Then, reading Qur'an and pray together every morning before we start to work is an AWESOME culture in Shafco, especially in my department at that time. That also the thing that makes me grateful. We also go for having lunch together, "hajar rame-rame!" :)). By the way I also have learnt many things about HR world. It's like connecting the dots. I love to read about human capital, people development in my favorite blog; strategimanajemen.net since I was in High School. So! to be a part of HR department is a big wow for me. It's fashion, it's islamic, it's the biggest, I do design thing, and it's about people development! complete, MashaaAllah.

But because my contract was with Digital Marketing department, I have to start work with the DIGMAR team after have done some project in HR for about 1,5 months .
And it's like...new adaptation. Different environment, different team, different leader, all is different. There is no reading Qur'an every morning anymore, there is no go-for-having-lunch together, and..there's no another woman at the first time. I was the one and only. Fear, pain, all at the same time. But..

There will always be pain and pleasure.
And there will always be fear, that you can change into power.

And have you ever read this sentence? :
"Relationship is like a house. When a light-bulb burns out, you don't go and buy a new house, you fix the light-bulb."
Ya it might not always be for woman-man relationship but maybe for a men-office relationship :p
My friend also said to me that Allah will never ever put us in the wrong place. I also feel that this place is potential for me to "grow up" inshaaAllah. It's all depend on me.

And now my adaptation is getting better, I think. The Digmar Team are also nice, they are smart, and now, there is another woman in the room, finally. AND..we read Qur'an every morning before we start working alhamdulillah :') And I was so happy when I hear some of them reading Qur'an beautifully (I have to learn from them!). See, it's just need to start! the fact is, I can see that we all love this "morning spirit" habit. I'm really hopping that we can keep this habit "alive" not for a short time because actually this is Shafco's organization culture since it was built.

Well by the way some people doesn't know about Shafira Corporation. I can tell you a lil bit maybe?
So, Shafco was founded 25 years ago by Ibu Fenny Mustafa; a woman who has a very beautiful niyah; it's for da'wah. She wanted to make hijab become popular at that time because 25 years ago, hijab was still felt strange around people even for Muslim. And you know, Allah will help them who doing things for da'wah. We can see how Allah make this company survive for more than 25 years and it's growing bigger and bigger and if I'm not mistaken this company has about 2000 employees right now, mashaaAllah :)

And here they are, 11 brands of Shafira Corporation : 

So that's pretty much it. Alhamdulillah for HIS blessings. I believe whatever happened, it was for the best. Past is past. I'll embrace every moment of my life, while I can. I'm waiting for what's coming next. May Allah ease my journey (and your journey too) in this world and of course, in the hereafter.

See you, inshaa Allah :)

Salam. How are You? Thank you for coming again..so you really want to know what's inside the Amazing Qur'an Journal Book that I have made for my thesis project? But you haven't know what exactly The Amazing Qur'an project is, don't you? Sooner..Sooner In Shaa Allah I will publish it, I am really hoping that The Amazing Qur'an project could be very useful for us. 

But today since some of you keep asking me "what's The Amazing Qur'an Journal book looks like?" "What kind of journal?" "Can I see the inside of book?" 

Sure! Sure! Sure! huhu those excitement just makes me couldn't wait any longer to launch it like seriously :')

But I need more preparation to make it happen. 

But of course for you who want to see lil bit more about The Amazing Qur'an Journal Book, here I show you (a little) he he he but please keep curious, and wait for the launch, okay? :) 

This journal book is a kind of agenda and I put several quotes I have made about Al-Qur'an. In shaa Allah those quotes can make your spirits burned and you should be understand more about what is happiness, success, life, etc. I hope so XD

I also put many hadith about how important Al-Quran is for our life, you have to know like seriously those hadist really.. I was moved when I read about those hadith..it's like..Oh Ya Allah I really need to be closer to Al-Qur'an :'

And you should be amazed by some facts about Al-Qur'an that explained by some professor around the world! You will know what they said about Al-Qur'an.

Not only from some professors around the world, but also from some famous people who are success and they were inspired by Al-Qur'an (and I interviewed them directly). Who are they? 

One of them is Peter Gould, he is a successful international graphic designer, you can see his website in here www.peter-gould.com I am sure you will love him and you have to know that behind his successful, there is Al-Qur'an accompanying him. I asked him directly, we had lil chitchat, do you want to know what he said? Read in the journal book later yaa! hehe :"

Another one is Dewi Sandra as known as "Mba Hanna". you know who she is before and who she is right now. I was so curious what's behind her "transformation" into an amazing woman so I interviewed her. What I have got is amazing! and what she said about Al-Quran is also amazed me. You really have to read it, well you will, I promise to show you! in shaa Allah :)

By the way, 

here it is :

See inside the journal book :