Sana'a (ANTARA News) -
Untuk mendapatkan calon suami tidak tamak, seorang gadis Arab Saudi, yang memiliki simpanan senilai tujuh juta riyal (sekitar Rp16,8 miliar), sengaja mengaku sebagai wanita biasa, yang miskin.Tidak hanya sebatas itu, sang gadis juga mengaku berparas tidak cantik dan berkulit hitam dengan tujuan mendapatkan calon suami, yang benar-benar mencintainya secara sungguh-sungguh.
"Tujuan menyembunyikan jatidiri sebenarnya adalah agar si gadis mendapatkan suami, yang benar-benar cinta tulus, bukan karena cinta hartanya," kata harian "Al-Madinah" hari Selasa.
Jatidiri palsu tersebut ditulis dalam formulir, yang diberikan "khatibah" (mak comblang), yang bertugas mencarikan calon pasangan.
Akhirnya, calon suami, yang tulus menerima apa adanya sesuai dengan pengakuan dalam formulir itu, tidak menyangka mendapatkan sosok "bidadari", yang hampir sempurna.
Kenyataannya, selain kaya, gadis itu juga berparas cantik, berkulit putih dengan budi pekerti mulia, di samping berasal dari keturunan terhormat, yang memang pantas sebagai calon istri ideal.
"Aku menyembunyikan jatidiri agar abang benar-benar mencintaiku secara manusiawi, bukan cinta karena harta dan paras cantikku," kata sang gadis kepada calon suaminya, yang terpana dengan kenyataan sebenarnya itu. (*)
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Alienware
Alex Aguila and Nelson Gonzalez must not be from around here. As CEO and president, respectively, of Alienware Corp. Inc., they apparently haven't heard that you can't make money building PCs.
Conventional wisdom says desktops are low-priced commodities with thin margins--and analysts foresee a shakeout this year that will sideline some of the largest manufacturers. IBM already said "the heck with it" and sold its desktop operation to China's Lenovo. If the company that the PC was named after can't make money building PCs, then what chance do two thirtysomethings from Miami have?
Apparently, a good one. Alienware has become one of the country's fastest-growing private companies with revenues that zoomed past $112 million in fiscal 2004. That's a few zeros shy of the numbers Dell and Hewlett-Packard put up--but hey, you or I could live on it.
PC margins weren't great in 1996 either, when Alienware started. Prices were falling and so were formerly bright brand names. Soon, desktops were being given away to anyone who signed up for internet service. But Alienware never sold those kinds of PCs. Instead, the company markets fully packed machines to the backwards-baseball-cap crowd. It turns out that young gamers will pay $3,000 to $5,000 or more for something that will let them frag before being fragged.
So PC-makers like Alienware pack liquid-cooled CPUs, dual graphics engines and surround sound into cases with motifs that look like they belong on the bottom of a skateboard. Alienware's Area 51 line looks like a cross between Steven Spielberg's cuddly extraterrestrial and that silicon-dripping monster that keeps chasing Sigourney Weaver around.
Such machines account for a small slice of all PCs, says Alan Promisel, analyst with IDC Research in Framingham, Massachusetts, but they represent "a subsegment with attractive enough margins that large OEMs like Dell and HP have introduced game models." Intel has even created an Extreme Edition of its Pentium 4; game programmers might be the first to use all 64 bits in an AMD 64-bit processor.
A growing number of jobs--such as graphics design, video editing, publishing and engineering--require more than the average business PC. Obsessed with photo-realistic human-humanoid interactions, gamers have become a test bed for graphical applications and a core market supporting the high-cost components they require.
Aguila and Gonzalez are taking the next logical step and packing some of that expertise into business workstations, servers and portables--even a Bot desktop that touches down in the middle of Dell's backyard.
Bootstrapping
Never having worked at Dell or Intel, Gonzalez and Aguila didn't have the benefits of conventional wisdom or VC connections. But, says Aguila, Gonzalez is a "hardware guru," so when his friend suggested they start Alienware, he quit his clinical technician job right away.
Others were less receptive."Everyone told us, 'This is insane,'" recalls Aguila. "We got laughed out of every bank in Miami. So we maxed out the credit cards and went to work.
"That first year, the pair barely covered expenses, thanks to $10,000 of their own money and sales of customized machines to local gamers. But in the second year, Area 51 PCs scored well in gaming magazine reviews, and orders surged. Alienware filled them using the same revenue model early PC-makers used: First they pay, then you build.
Money upfront means no receivables to underwrite, no inventory to depreciate and no bad debt. Tight cash controls, just-in-time inventory and careful attention to its only distribution channel--its website--have enabled the company to fund growth from revenues.
Now, of course, Alienware gets supplier terms and merchant bank services, but life is no less challenging. What used to be a sweet little seam of color is being mined by everyone from Falcon Northwest and VooDoo to the PC giants. And now that it has corporate and government sales, Alienware also has receivables to support.
The company's saving grace continues to be the positive control and market feedback it gets by selling direct
Conventional wisdom says desktops are low-priced commodities with thin margins--and analysts foresee a shakeout this year that will sideline some of the largest manufacturers. IBM already said "the heck with it" and sold its desktop operation to China's Lenovo. If the company that the PC was named after can't make money building PCs, then what chance do two thirtysomethings from Miami have?
Apparently, a good one. Alienware has become one of the country's fastest-growing private companies with revenues that zoomed past $112 million in fiscal 2004. That's a few zeros shy of the numbers Dell and Hewlett-Packard put up--but hey, you or I could live on it.
PC margins weren't great in 1996 either, when Alienware started. Prices were falling and so were formerly bright brand names. Soon, desktops were being given away to anyone who signed up for internet service. But Alienware never sold those kinds of PCs. Instead, the company markets fully packed machines to the backwards-baseball-cap crowd. It turns out that young gamers will pay $3,000 to $5,000 or more for something that will let them frag before being fragged.
So PC-makers like Alienware pack liquid-cooled CPUs, dual graphics engines and surround sound into cases with motifs that look like they belong on the bottom of a skateboard. Alienware's Area 51 line looks like a cross between Steven Spielberg's cuddly extraterrestrial and that silicon-dripping monster that keeps chasing Sigourney Weaver around.
Such machines account for a small slice of all PCs, says Alan Promisel, analyst with IDC Research in Framingham, Massachusetts, but they represent "a subsegment with attractive enough margins that large OEMs like Dell and HP have introduced game models." Intel has even created an Extreme Edition of its Pentium 4; game programmers might be the first to use all 64 bits in an AMD 64-bit processor.
A growing number of jobs--such as graphics design, video editing, publishing and engineering--require more than the average business PC. Obsessed with photo-realistic human-humanoid interactions, gamers have become a test bed for graphical applications and a core market supporting the high-cost components they require.
Aguila and Gonzalez are taking the next logical step and packing some of that expertise into business workstations, servers and portables--even a Bot desktop that touches down in the middle of Dell's backyard.
Bootstrapping
Never having worked at Dell or Intel, Gonzalez and Aguila didn't have the benefits of conventional wisdom or VC connections. But, says Aguila, Gonzalez is a "hardware guru," so when his friend suggested they start Alienware, he quit his clinical technician job right away.
Others were less receptive."Everyone told us, 'This is insane,'" recalls Aguila. "We got laughed out of every bank in Miami. So we maxed out the credit cards and went to work.
"That first year, the pair barely covered expenses, thanks to $10,000 of their own money and sales of customized machines to local gamers. But in the second year, Area 51 PCs scored well in gaming magazine reviews, and orders surged. Alienware filled them using the same revenue model early PC-makers used: First they pay, then you build.
Money upfront means no receivables to underwrite, no inventory to depreciate and no bad debt. Tight cash controls, just-in-time inventory and careful attention to its only distribution channel--its website--have enabled the company to fund growth from revenues.
Now, of course, Alienware gets supplier terms and merchant bank services, but life is no less challenging. What used to be a sweet little seam of color is being mined by everyone from Falcon Northwest and VooDoo to the PC giants. And now that it has corporate and government sales, Alienware also has receivables to support.
The company's saving grace continues to be the positive control and market feedback it gets by selling direct
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Tip Jadi Cepat Kaya ~ Irfan Khairi (Jutawan Internet)
1. Perlu mempunyai daya fokus yang tinggi. Tetapkan matlamat kita untuk menjadi kaya, dan tetapkan jangka masa sasaran. Kemudian, berusaha dan beri tumpuan untuk mencapainya tanpa menghiraukan perkara lain yang boleh menganggu dan melambatkan usaha kita.
2. Masa memainkan peranan penting sekiranya ingin cepat kaya. Uruskan masa dengan sebaik mungkin. Lakukan banyak kerja dalam masa yang singkat. Kebiasaan manusia kerja 5 hingga 7 jam sehari, anda perlu kerja 12 hingga 14 jam setiap hari. Dengan melakukan ini, anda dapat mencapai matlamat 2 kali ganda lebih cepat daripada majoriti manusia.
3. Berjimat bila berbelanja. Wang yang diterima jangan pula dibelanja sesuka hati oleh kerana kekayaan bukan bermakna berapa banyak kita peroleh, tetapi ia bermaksud berapa banyak kita simpan. Jauhkan dari skim cepat kaya, pelaburan internet yang hanya akan membazirkan wang anda saja.
4. Aliran pendapatan berganda. Fokus pada matlamat. Sekiranya matlamat menjadi kaya, cara menjadi kaya boleh dipelbagaikan. Mulakan perniagaan kerana sembilan per sepuluh rezeki datang dari perniagaan. Kalau kerja sepenuh masa di pejabat, mulakan perniagaan sambilan. Kemudian, melabur juga wang kita (bukan pelaburan internet) untuk mendapatkan aliran pendapatan berganda. Dalam masa yang sama, pelbagaikan peluang perniagaan dan pelaburan. Ini akan gandakan pendapatan.
5. Aturkan strategi. Kejayaan kewangan bukanlah nasib. Susun strategi simpanan, pelaburan. Aturkan strategi perniagaan. Apakah langkah yang perlu diambil untuk mencapai matlamat itu? Ilmu apa yang patut ditambah untuk menjadi kaya? Siapa perlu kita dampingi untuk memudahkan kita mencapai kejayaan? Sekiranya langkah tidak menjadi, apakah pelan B yang boleh dilaksanakan?
6. Menjadi cepat kaya, bukanlah nasib (selain menang loteri). Duduk dan drafkan perancangan seperti jurubina memerlukan pelan untuk membina bangunan yang megah, anda juga perlu pelan untuk mencapai kebebasan kewangan. Untuk kaya cepat, pelan lebih mantap dan sempurna perlu dilakukan.
Harap tips ini dapat memberikan motivasi kepada kita semua untuk mencapai kejayaan.
2. Masa memainkan peranan penting sekiranya ingin cepat kaya. Uruskan masa dengan sebaik mungkin. Lakukan banyak kerja dalam masa yang singkat. Kebiasaan manusia kerja 5 hingga 7 jam sehari, anda perlu kerja 12 hingga 14 jam setiap hari. Dengan melakukan ini, anda dapat mencapai matlamat 2 kali ganda lebih cepat daripada majoriti manusia.
3. Berjimat bila berbelanja. Wang yang diterima jangan pula dibelanja sesuka hati oleh kerana kekayaan bukan bermakna berapa banyak kita peroleh, tetapi ia bermaksud berapa banyak kita simpan. Jauhkan dari skim cepat kaya, pelaburan internet yang hanya akan membazirkan wang anda saja.
4. Aliran pendapatan berganda. Fokus pada matlamat. Sekiranya matlamat menjadi kaya, cara menjadi kaya boleh dipelbagaikan. Mulakan perniagaan kerana sembilan per sepuluh rezeki datang dari perniagaan. Kalau kerja sepenuh masa di pejabat, mulakan perniagaan sambilan. Kemudian, melabur juga wang kita (bukan pelaburan internet) untuk mendapatkan aliran pendapatan berganda. Dalam masa yang sama, pelbagaikan peluang perniagaan dan pelaburan. Ini akan gandakan pendapatan.
5. Aturkan strategi. Kejayaan kewangan bukanlah nasib. Susun strategi simpanan, pelaburan. Aturkan strategi perniagaan. Apakah langkah yang perlu diambil untuk mencapai matlamat itu? Ilmu apa yang patut ditambah untuk menjadi kaya? Siapa perlu kita dampingi untuk memudahkan kita mencapai kejayaan? Sekiranya langkah tidak menjadi, apakah pelan B yang boleh dilaksanakan?
6. Menjadi cepat kaya, bukanlah nasib (selain menang loteri). Duduk dan drafkan perancangan seperti jurubina memerlukan pelan untuk membina bangunan yang megah, anda juga perlu pelan untuk mencapai kebebasan kewangan. Untuk kaya cepat, pelan lebih mantap dan sempurna perlu dilakukan.
Harap tips ini dapat memberikan motivasi kepada kita semua untuk mencapai kejayaan.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
POS World Inc.
You've got mail: This IT manager for a concessions management company loved working in the POS field, but was so burnt out by the intense work hours that his doctor recommended a career change. One day, while reading a catalog with reseller pricing for receipt printers, cash drawers, bar-code scanners and other POS items, Bushey realized that not only was the markup outrageous, but also that there was nowhere to purchase POS hardware online. His vision: to create an online marketplace offering fair pricing on these items to the end user. "I wanted to be the Dell of POS," says Bushey.
Home economics: "I didn't have a dime to spare," says Bushey, who continued at his full-time job while starting POS World in 1999 in his off time at home. "It was a virtually no-cost startup." Early on, he focused on establishing vendor relationships and developing a website. His brother Jim moved into his apartment to handle website maintenance.
Image-conscious: One investment--a high-end Nortel phone system with voice mail--presented a professional image to callers, even though Bushey was handling calls for every department. It seemed to work--in 2001, when the Los Alamos National Laboratory's hard drives containing sensitive material went missing, they contacted POS World for recommendations on item-tracking technology. "I realized then we really had a presence," says Bushey, who moved to an office and hired his first nonfamily employees in 2000.
Big business: Most customers do business through POSWorld.com, but they can also visit the office or call in. Customers include many Fortune 100 companies, the Federal Reserve Board, Lockheed Martin and the U.S. court system. POS World is expanding into auto ID, warehouse operations and the biomedical field, and will partner with Microsoft to sell retail-management software in combination with the company's hardware.
Home economics: "I didn't have a dime to spare," says Bushey, who continued at his full-time job while starting POS World in 1999 in his off time at home. "It was a virtually no-cost startup." Early on, he focused on establishing vendor relationships and developing a website. His brother Jim moved into his apartment to handle website maintenance.
Image-conscious: One investment--a high-end Nortel phone system with voice mail--presented a professional image to callers, even though Bushey was handling calls for every department. It seemed to work--in 2001, when the Los Alamos National Laboratory's hard drives containing sensitive material went missing, they contacted POS World for recommendations on item-tracking technology. "I realized then we really had a presence," says Bushey, who moved to an office and hired his first nonfamily employees in 2000.
Big business: Most customers do business through POSWorld.com, but they can also visit the office or call in. Customers include many Fortune 100 companies, the Federal Reserve Board, Lockheed Martin and the U.S. court system. POS World is expanding into auto ID, warehouse operations and the biomedical field, and will partner with Microsoft to sell retail-management software in combination with the company's hardware.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Usahawan Noor Arfa Bangga Batik Kembali Popular
Wan Mohamed Ariffin Wan Long berjinak dengan batik semasa menjadi pembantu makmal di Kraftangan Malaysia pada tahun 1970an.
Dengan sedikit pengalaman dan dikuatkan dengan minatnya yang mendalam di bidang perniagaan, Wan Mohamed Ariffin, 50, meletak jawatan untuk menceburi perniagaan batik bertapak di Kuala Terengganu, negeri yang mengasaskan industri batik negara, untuk membina Noor Arfa Batik Sdn Bhd."Di sana (Kraftangan Malaysia) saya telah mempelajari selok belok membuat batik dan dalam tahun 1980 saya memulakan perniagaan batik di Kuala Terengganu," katanya.
Beliau memulakannya secara kecil-kecilan di rumah dengan bermodalkan simpanan RM1,000 dan pinjaman Mara sebanyak RM5,000 bersama isterinya, Noor Hijerah Hanafiah.Selepas 26 tahun, tuanpunya syarikat Noor Arfa Batik itu kini mempunyai sebuah kilang batik di Kawasan Perindustrian Cenderiang, Terengganu dengan 200 orang pekerja, mengeluarkan 150 produk batik."Batik berasal dari Terengganu, jadi adalah lebih mudah sekiranya industri kami bermula dari sana.
Selain daripada mempunyai ramai tenaga kerja yang mahir, barang-barang untuk membuat batik seperti kain dan pencelup juga banyak dan lebih mudah diperolehi di sana," katanya.Noor Arfa Batik kini mempunyai enam cawangan di seluruh negara iaitu dua di Kuala Lumpur, dua di Terengganu, masing-masing satu di Selangor dan Kedah.Keunikan batik Noor Arfa ialah dari segi corak, rekaan dan pembuatannya terutama batik lukisan tangan yang menggunakan canting.
"Kami banyak menggunakan pelukis tempatan yang boleh melukis secara terus ke atas kain, dan ini memberikan identiti tersendiri kepada keluaran batik itu," katanya.Keluaran batik Noor Arfa bukan sahaja diminati orang ramai dan pelancong, dengan rekaan corak terbarunya sering mendapat perhatian media fesyen, tetapi turut menjadi tumpuan selebriti tempatan seperti Siti Nurhaliza dan Erra Fazira, katanya.
Produk Noor Arfa batik ialah dalam bentuk lukisan tangan dan cetakan yang menghasilkan kain fabrik, pakaian lelaki dan perempuan serta cenderamata.Wan Mohamed Ariffin bangga keyakinannya terhadap perusahaan batik ternyata tidak silap sehingga kekal berjaya hingga kini dan ditambah pula dengan keluaran batik kembali popular dan diiktiraf negara.
Malah dengan perkembagan teknologi, sejak 10 tahun lepas syarikat itu menggunakan laman webnya, www.noor-arfa.com untuk mengembangkan pasaran ke luar negara, katanya.Atas daya usahanya, Wan Mohamed Ariffin semalam dipilih sebagai pemenang pertama dua anugerah Mara -- Anugerah Usahawan Cemerlang dan Anugerah Usahawan Berjaya.
Beliau menerima sijil penghargaan serta wang tunai berjumlah RM15,000 daripada Menteri Pembangunan Usahawan dan Koperasi Datuk Mohamed Khaled Nordin.
Dengan sedikit pengalaman dan dikuatkan dengan minatnya yang mendalam di bidang perniagaan, Wan Mohamed Ariffin, 50, meletak jawatan untuk menceburi perniagaan batik bertapak di Kuala Terengganu, negeri yang mengasaskan industri batik negara, untuk membina Noor Arfa Batik Sdn Bhd."Di sana (Kraftangan Malaysia) saya telah mempelajari selok belok membuat batik dan dalam tahun 1980 saya memulakan perniagaan batik di Kuala Terengganu," katanya.
Beliau memulakannya secara kecil-kecilan di rumah dengan bermodalkan simpanan RM1,000 dan pinjaman Mara sebanyak RM5,000 bersama isterinya, Noor Hijerah Hanafiah.Selepas 26 tahun, tuanpunya syarikat Noor Arfa Batik itu kini mempunyai sebuah kilang batik di Kawasan Perindustrian Cenderiang, Terengganu dengan 200 orang pekerja, mengeluarkan 150 produk batik."Batik berasal dari Terengganu, jadi adalah lebih mudah sekiranya industri kami bermula dari sana.
Selain daripada mempunyai ramai tenaga kerja yang mahir, barang-barang untuk membuat batik seperti kain dan pencelup juga banyak dan lebih mudah diperolehi di sana," katanya.Noor Arfa Batik kini mempunyai enam cawangan di seluruh negara iaitu dua di Kuala Lumpur, dua di Terengganu, masing-masing satu di Selangor dan Kedah.Keunikan batik Noor Arfa ialah dari segi corak, rekaan dan pembuatannya terutama batik lukisan tangan yang menggunakan canting.
"Kami banyak menggunakan pelukis tempatan yang boleh melukis secara terus ke atas kain, dan ini memberikan identiti tersendiri kepada keluaran batik itu," katanya.Keluaran batik Noor Arfa bukan sahaja diminati orang ramai dan pelancong, dengan rekaan corak terbarunya sering mendapat perhatian media fesyen, tetapi turut menjadi tumpuan selebriti tempatan seperti Siti Nurhaliza dan Erra Fazira, katanya.
Produk Noor Arfa batik ialah dalam bentuk lukisan tangan dan cetakan yang menghasilkan kain fabrik, pakaian lelaki dan perempuan serta cenderamata.Wan Mohamed Ariffin bangga keyakinannya terhadap perusahaan batik ternyata tidak silap sehingga kekal berjaya hingga kini dan ditambah pula dengan keluaran batik kembali popular dan diiktiraf negara.
Malah dengan perkembagan teknologi, sejak 10 tahun lepas syarikat itu menggunakan laman webnya, www.noor-arfa.com untuk mengembangkan pasaran ke luar negara, katanya.Atas daya usahanya, Wan Mohamed Ariffin semalam dipilih sebagai pemenang pertama dua anugerah Mara -- Anugerah Usahawan Cemerlang dan Anugerah Usahawan Berjaya.
Beliau menerima sijil penghargaan serta wang tunai berjumlah RM15,000 daripada Menteri Pembangunan Usahawan dan Koperasi Datuk Mohamed Khaled Nordin.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Ticketsnow
Mike Domek, 36
Crystal Lake, Illinois
Projected 2005 Sales: Over $120 million
Description: World's largest online marketplace for secondary event tickets
The Ticket Master: If you're an avid event-goer in the Chicago area, you might run into Mike Domek at a Cubs game or in the front rows of a Def Leppard concert. These days, the founder of online ticket reseller TicketsNow has no problem getting good seats. But that wasn't always the case. When he first began selling secondhand tickets the old-fashioned way, he sometimes had to call over 20 different ticket brokers looking for the best locations and deals for an event. Domek decided to take the inefficiency out of the system by moving his ticket service onto the internet.
$100 and 7 Years: Domek started his business with $100 and a one-bedroom apartment in 1992. He had run out of money for college and decided to try ticket brokering full time to save up for school. He never went back. It was seven years before TicketsNow, the online company, was launched from the foundation of that original ticket brokerage. All those years of slow growth and building relationships with ticket brokers across the country finally paid off. This year, TicketsNow expects to more than double its 2004 sales--money it won't have to share with investors. Says Domek, "I'm very proud to say we haven't had a penny of outside funding."
Size Matters: Since the website was launched in 1999 from a 1,600-square-foot building with seven employees, Tickets-Now has exploded to 170 employees and has filled its 16,500 square feet of assorted office spaces to capacity. That sort of rapid growth would send some companies reeling, but Domek takes it in stride. "My plans are to keep doing what's best for the company, and right now what's best for the company is to keep growing."
Ticket, Please: The secondary ticket market is hotter and more legitimate than ever, and TicketsNow's technology and security are a big reason. Domek is just excited to be a part of something he's loved since childhood. Says Domek, "There's so much emotion in buying tickets." And for Domek, frustration is no longer one of those emotions. --Amanda C. Kooser
Originally published in the November 2005 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine
Crystal Lake, Illinois
Projected 2005 Sales: Over $120 million
Description: World's largest online marketplace for secondary event tickets
The Ticket Master: If you're an avid event-goer in the Chicago area, you might run into Mike Domek at a Cubs game or in the front rows of a Def Leppard concert. These days, the founder of online ticket reseller TicketsNow has no problem getting good seats. But that wasn't always the case. When he first began selling secondhand tickets the old-fashioned way, he sometimes had to call over 20 different ticket brokers looking for the best locations and deals for an event. Domek decided to take the inefficiency out of the system by moving his ticket service onto the internet.
$100 and 7 Years: Domek started his business with $100 and a one-bedroom apartment in 1992. He had run out of money for college and decided to try ticket brokering full time to save up for school. He never went back. It was seven years before TicketsNow, the online company, was launched from the foundation of that original ticket brokerage. All those years of slow growth and building relationships with ticket brokers across the country finally paid off. This year, TicketsNow expects to more than double its 2004 sales--money it won't have to share with investors. Says Domek, "I'm very proud to say we haven't had a penny of outside funding."
Size Matters: Since the website was launched in 1999 from a 1,600-square-foot building with seven employees, Tickets-Now has exploded to 170 employees and has filled its 16,500 square feet of assorted office spaces to capacity. That sort of rapid growth would send some companies reeling, but Domek takes it in stride. "My plans are to keep doing what's best for the company, and right now what's best for the company is to keep growing."
Ticket, Please: The secondary ticket market is hotter and more legitimate than ever, and TicketsNow's technology and security are a big reason. Domek is just excited to be a part of something he's loved since childhood. Says Domek, "There's so much emotion in buying tickets." And for Domek, frustration is no longer one of those emotions. --Amanda C. Kooser
Originally published in the November 2005 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine
Monday, June 18, 2007
Pengusaha batik
TENGKU ARMAN HARIS
Negeri Terengganu terkenal dengan industri penghasilan kraftangan batik yang berkualiti tinggi. Industri ini turut mengetengahkan bakat salah seorang pengusaha Pekak yang paling berjaya dan disegani di kalangan komuniti orang Pekak dan masyarakat Kuala Terengganu.
Pengusaha batik Pekak yang dimaksudkan ialah Tengku Arman Haris bin Tengku Ismail. Beliau adalah bekas penuntut Sek Men Pendidikan Khas Vokasional Shah Alam, Sek Men Ibrahim Fikri Kuala Terengganu dan Sek Men Pendidikan Khas Persekutuan Pulau Pinang.
Pada tahun 1990 Tengku Arman menamatkan pendidikan vokasional dan bekerja sebagai pengimpal di bengkel kenderaan di Jalan Segambut, Kuala Lumpur.
Pada tahun yang berikutnya, beliau kembali ke negeri kelahirannya untuk mengambil alih tugas ketua keluarga berikutan kematian arwah ayahnya yang meninggal dunia dalam kemalangan jalan raya.
Namun demikian ia tidak melemahkan kekuatan semangat Tengku Arman untuk membantu menyara hidup keluarganya. Beliau terpaksa berkorban untuk meninggalkan bidang kimpalan yang merupakan kemahiran utama bagi dirinya disebabkan oleh peluang kerjaya dalam industri batik yang luas di Negeri Penyu.
Walaupun kekurangan pengalaman dalam industri batik, Tengku Arman diterima bekerja dengan bengkel "Romi Batik" di Jalan Cendering, Kuala Terengganu. Berkat daripada kesabaran dan kerajinan beliau yang mempelajari pelbagai teknik pembuatan batik selama tiga tahun, akhirnya beliau lebih yakin dan mengambil keputusan untuk berkecimpung dalam keusahawanan pembuatan batik.Atas dorongan yang kuat daripada ibu dan keluarganya, Tengku Arman mengeluarkan wang saku sendiri untuk mendirikan bangsal berhampiran dengan rumahnya di Jalan Bukit Tunggal. Di bawah bangsal yang uzur itu, pembuatan batik dimulakan secara kecil-kecilan dan menghasilkan pelbagai produk batik seperti kain batik, baju kelawar, baju kurung dan baju batik.
Kebolehan beliau sebagai pengusaha batik yang berbakat mendapat perhatian daripada Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat (JKM) Negeri Terengganu. Pada tahun 1996, beliau mendapat bantuan kewangan sebanyak RM 2,000 daripada JKM untuk memperkembangkan keusahawanannya dan membesarkan bengkel tersebut. Produk-produk batik yang direkanya juga telah dipasarkan ke negeri-negeri lain.
Selain daripada itu, Tengku Arman juga aktif dalam Persatuan Kebajikan Orang Cacat Pendengaran Terengganu (PKOCPT) sebagai Presiden PKOCPT yang pertama sejak PKOCPT ditubuhkan pada tahun 2001. Kecemerlangan kepimpinan beliau lebih terserlah apabila PKOCPT diiktiraf oleh JKM sebagai persatuan OKU terbaik peringkat negeri Terengganu sempena sambutan Hari Orang Kurang Upaya peringkat negeri pada tahun 2003.
(Sumber: http://www.mecd.gov.my/)
Negeri Terengganu terkenal dengan industri penghasilan kraftangan batik yang berkualiti tinggi. Industri ini turut mengetengahkan bakat salah seorang pengusaha Pekak yang paling berjaya dan disegani di kalangan komuniti orang Pekak dan masyarakat Kuala Terengganu.
Pengusaha batik Pekak yang dimaksudkan ialah Tengku Arman Haris bin Tengku Ismail. Beliau adalah bekas penuntut Sek Men Pendidikan Khas Vokasional Shah Alam, Sek Men Ibrahim Fikri Kuala Terengganu dan Sek Men Pendidikan Khas Persekutuan Pulau Pinang.
Pada tahun 1990 Tengku Arman menamatkan pendidikan vokasional dan bekerja sebagai pengimpal di bengkel kenderaan di Jalan Segambut, Kuala Lumpur.
Pada tahun yang berikutnya, beliau kembali ke negeri kelahirannya untuk mengambil alih tugas ketua keluarga berikutan kematian arwah ayahnya yang meninggal dunia dalam kemalangan jalan raya.
Namun demikian ia tidak melemahkan kekuatan semangat Tengku Arman untuk membantu menyara hidup keluarganya. Beliau terpaksa berkorban untuk meninggalkan bidang kimpalan yang merupakan kemahiran utama bagi dirinya disebabkan oleh peluang kerjaya dalam industri batik yang luas di Negeri Penyu.
Walaupun kekurangan pengalaman dalam industri batik, Tengku Arman diterima bekerja dengan bengkel "Romi Batik" di Jalan Cendering, Kuala Terengganu. Berkat daripada kesabaran dan kerajinan beliau yang mempelajari pelbagai teknik pembuatan batik selama tiga tahun, akhirnya beliau lebih yakin dan mengambil keputusan untuk berkecimpung dalam keusahawanan pembuatan batik.Atas dorongan yang kuat daripada ibu dan keluarganya, Tengku Arman mengeluarkan wang saku sendiri untuk mendirikan bangsal berhampiran dengan rumahnya di Jalan Bukit Tunggal. Di bawah bangsal yang uzur itu, pembuatan batik dimulakan secara kecil-kecilan dan menghasilkan pelbagai produk batik seperti kain batik, baju kelawar, baju kurung dan baju batik.
Kebolehan beliau sebagai pengusaha batik yang berbakat mendapat perhatian daripada Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat (JKM) Negeri Terengganu. Pada tahun 1996, beliau mendapat bantuan kewangan sebanyak RM 2,000 daripada JKM untuk memperkembangkan keusahawanannya dan membesarkan bengkel tersebut. Produk-produk batik yang direkanya juga telah dipasarkan ke negeri-negeri lain.
Selain daripada itu, Tengku Arman juga aktif dalam Persatuan Kebajikan Orang Cacat Pendengaran Terengganu (PKOCPT) sebagai Presiden PKOCPT yang pertama sejak PKOCPT ditubuhkan pada tahun 2001. Kecemerlangan kepimpinan beliau lebih terserlah apabila PKOCPT diiktiraf oleh JKM sebagai persatuan OKU terbaik peringkat negeri Terengganu sempena sambutan Hari Orang Kurang Upaya peringkat negeri pada tahun 2003.
(Sumber: http://www.mecd.gov.my/)
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