Because of that Shoe
Today, I was struck by the very disease writers hate, “Writer’s Block.” I wanted to write something that has to do with the raising numbers of bankruptcy cases among young people under the age of 25 but that hasn’t been fruitful yet.
Every Tuesday night (like tonight) I’ll be having a weekly futsal hangout. My futsal shoe is wrecked so it needs to be mended. So why not take a spin outside while sending my shoe for treatment?
I sent my show at the cobbler at Taman Sri Gombak, Batu Caves beside the CIMB Bank. I always go past this area but never had the luxury to talk to the cobbler there.
I gave the pakcik there my shoe. He said that it’ll take him approximately 30 minutes to finish. I sat there beside him while watching him mend my shoe.
I asked him, “Pakcik, what advice would you give to a young man like me?”
The pakcik laughed at me and said “Nothing I can give.”
Both of us went quiet. The pakcik doesn’t talk much.
After some time, I asked him another question “How many customers do you get per day pakcik?”
The pakcik replied “depends, sometimes you get 7, sometimes 10.”
The service charge of each shoe differs, like my shoe it’s RM20 one pair of shoes. If the damage needs detailed mending, the charge is extra.
Let’s say per day, the pakcik gets 7 customers minimum. That means the pakcik earns RM140 per day. And in a month, the pakcik can makes a revenue of RM4200 a month! That’s like twice the pay a fresh graduate gets!
According to Malaysia Department of Insolvency, the total cases of bankruptcies among youth the age of 25 and under have quadrupled from 130 cases in 2012 to 579 in 2014.
And I wonder would youth have the guts to sit down at one alley and take this technical service as his life career? Because the pakcik did and he can maintain a family just from mending shoes of a building sidewalk.
My final question to him “How long have you been working as a cobbler pakcik?”
He said “It’s been 8 years in this sidewalk.”
What he said struck me.
He didn’t give any advice yes, but his actions; his life work is worth thousands of advice without him saying it to me.
Life is an inspiration, and today I learned something valuable just from sending my shoe to be repaired.
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[YouthACE 2015]
YouthACE(Youth Awards, Convention and Exhibition) 2015, adalah program tahunan anjuran LangitIlahi. Ia merupakan program besar yang menjadi tempat para pemuda-pemudi, belia, untuk berhimpun mendapatkan input bermakna, mencungkil potensi dan menambah jaringan untuk manfaat masa hadapan.
Tema tahun ini: Belia & Masa Depan.
Sasaran kami tahun ini ialah seramai 3000 orang peserta.
Tempat: Akan dimaklumkan selewat-lewatnya akhir Januari ini.
Masa: 08.00AM – 11.00PM
Tarikh: 25hb April 2015
Yuran asal: RM120
Yuran Promosi(Valid hingga 28hb Februari 2015):
Daftar 1-2 orang: RM80(seorang)
Daftar 3 orang ke atas: RM70(seorang)
Daftar minimum 30 orang: RM65(seorang) – mohon hubungi En Muhaimin Misran(0135041501) terlebih dahulu sebelum melakukan pendaftaran minimum 30 orang ini.
Daftar segera di: http://youthace.langitilahi.com/
Detail Program:
YouthACE terbahagi kepada tiga komponen – Awards(anugerah), Convention(konvensyen) dan Exhibition(pameran).
Berikut ialah apa yang mengisi YouthACE 2015
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Convention:
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MC sepanjang hari: Saudara Aiman Azlan
08.00AM – Pendaftaran
09.00AM – Slot 1: Ucaptama Pengarah YouthACE 2015 – Hilal Asyraf – Belia & Masa Hadapan
09.30AM – Rehat
10.00AM – Slot 2: Belia & Survivalnya di Masa Depan – Zul Fikri Zamir
11.00AM – Slot 3: Pentas Belia – dirahsiakan penyampainya.
12.00AM – Tayangan Perdana Filem Qawiem Khairi
01.15PM – Rehat
02.00PM – Slot 4: Forum – Belia Penggerak Islah Masa Hadapan
Moderator: Hafizul Faiz
Panel 1: Saudara Muhammad bin Zahid
Panel 2: Ustazah Fatimah Syarhah
Panel 3: Saudari Amnani Akhili
Panel 4: Saudari Azila Aziz
04.00PM – Penyampaian Anugerah Belia YouthACE 2015
04.30PM – Rehat
05.00PM – Slot 5: Mencari Makna Diri Sebagai Belia – Ustaz Hasrizal Abdul Jamil
06.00PM – Persembahan Petang
*Persembahan pemenang-pemenang anugerah belia(Short filem, spoken poetry, nasyid)
*Persembahan Ameen Misran
*Persembahan Nasyid pelajar-pelajar Khalifah Model School
07.00PM – Rehat
8.00PM – Slot 6: Sesi LangitIlahi -
*Pembentangan “Langit Ilahi” oleh Hilal Asyraf(15 min)
*Pelancaran Apps oleh Ammar Amran dan Fitri Yasin(15 min)
8.30PM – Slot 7: Forum – Belia & Peranan Terhadap Negara
Moderator: Saudara Jufitri Joha
Panel 1 – Wan Ahmad Faysal
Panel 2 – Dr Maszlee Malik
Panel 3 – Ummi Rose
Panel 4 – Saudari Amani Salim
10.30PM – Persembahan penutup Daripada Mirwana
11.00PM – Kesimpulan MC dan bersurai
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Awards yang dipertandingkan:
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- InstaVlog – Hadiah: RM350 + Piala
- Penasyid Terbaik – Hadiah: RM1000 + Piala
- Short Filem Terbaik – Hadiah: RM1500 + Piala
- Penulisan Artikel Terbaik – Hadiah: RM700 + Piala
- Penulisan Cerpen Terbaik – Hadiah: RM700 + Piala
- Rekaan Poster Terbaik – Hadiah: RM700 + Piala
- Fotografer Terbaik – Hadiah: RM700 + Piala
- Komik Terbaik – Hadiah: RM700 + Piala
- The Best Essay – Hadiah: RM700 + Piala
- The Best Poetry – Hadiah: RM1000 + Piala
Ada juga pertandingan peserta teramai.
Rujuk:
*Peserta YouthACE 2015 tidak wajib menyertai pertandingan-pertandingan ini, namun peserta pertandingan-pertandingan ini wajib menjadi peserta YouthACE 2015.
*pertandingan-pertandingan ini akan bermula semenjak peserta mula mendaftar. Syarat-syarat pertandingan boleh dirujuk di bahagian ‘pertandingan’ pada link http://youthace.langitilahi.com/awards/
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Exhibition:
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Akan dipenuhi dengan pameran daripada NGO-NGO Kebajikan dan badan dakwah, yang bakal mempamerkan aktiviti mereka, serta membuka peluang untuk belia berkenal-kenal dan mencari peluang beraktiviti bersama mereka.
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Jika berminat, daftarlah segera.
Sebar-sebarkan juga kepada rakan-rakan, sanak-saudara, adik-beradik!
Kami harapkan sokongan padu anda.
Kami menganjurkan YouthACE ini dengan niat agar ianya berjaya menjadi alternatif kepada perkumpulan-perkumpulan belia yang ada di negara kita.
Kami berhajat menjadikan perkumpulan ini perkumpulan yang bermanfaat buat belia di negara kita, sekaligus menginspirasikan generasi muda kita untuk hidup sebagai manusia yang memberikan manfaat kepada semua, menggendong mesej Islam – Rahmatan Lil ‘Alamin.
Komen peserta YouthACE2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw4ZKO48z-Y
Suasana YouthACE2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-EnY8Ou6P4
Mari sertai kami. Jadikan ini sebuah realiti!
Belia & Masa Depan,
Mari Menjadi Hamba!
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