The Erikson and Brothers Corps

Assalamualaikum and Dear Ladies and gentleman….
As it is spread nationally, that The Erikson and Brothers Corporation is in a trouble, I am here standing before you all on behalf of that company to tell you what is going an actually, well, this company is a national company, there is no foreign intervention within, totally cultivated by itself. For the last few decades, it always makes profit and sustainably survives from any turbulence. For Indonesia, many lofty roles played by this company such as reducing the number of unemployment, conducting social devotion activities and giving scholarship for study and research.
The good things I told you, were conducted well and the profit gained was divided carefully not only for the company CEOs but also all its labors, it had Regional Wage Minimal above average more than stipulated by government. But nowadays all things in this world have changed, they follow the newest mechanism in all their activities, including marketing, then we call it ‘Globalization Era’. Indonesia, our this country, has open itself to follow that phenomenon. We do not know why, even we do not really know whether this nation has been ready for being evolved within or not. In Globalization Era there is no limitation to market products, goods produced in the USA can easily enter the Indonesian market, because in this global market, government intervention is minimum even could be nothing or just comes in vain.
And then, What is happening to our company??? the answer is the fact that the globalization market has led us into trouble. Many people consider what happens to us as a shock condition in facing the new era and they may be right, because at first when we realizes that we were in a new and different market condition from we had before, we just kept standing on ourselves, try to vie for many new our competitors that come from Europe or the US, but it was and is not as easy as we imagine, they are in high level of advancement in hi-tech usage, human resources and property, even their market are worldwide, not only Indonesia in Asia, but also Africa and Australia, meanwhile we still count on the market in the shout-east Asia, very ironic, right?
We already know that we will be in a great lost for the several next years if we don’t do any maneuvers to boost and to upgrade our product so that all the Indonesian people can give back their attention to us, that is our hope. We want to keep this nation survive no matter how hard the competition will be. Because there is a great amount of happiness for us if we can give an achievement for Indonesia among the global rivalry. The only way we can do to bring about it, is by doing Firing Work Cooperation toward our some labors and give them adequate early pension allowance, because we have to stand with not much profit that we make in this year.
Hopefully, all of you here can understand why we do that, and feel our good willingness to survive. Soon, we will open many vacancies if we can get back our stability and establish our existence as a national company giving wide opportunity to many Indonesian people to work for us, to work for this nation, thank you very much…
And now I am open to your question…
Wassalamualaikum

The Inauguration Speech of Mine at The Catalyst

Assalamualaikum
It is the catalyst toastmaster club, an English-speaking club, giving me more chances to boost my confidence in public speaking and leadership skill. I joined that club on june 2007, when I was already almost 1,5 years in my work, I knew about it by reading a brochure stickered in the wall-info of my office. Knowing about the schedule and spot, I dared my self to come and saw what toastmaster was. Then I found it interesting and helpful, really.

As the time passed by, now I have already completed several projects demanded in toastmaster, ten speeches for basic manual book and 5 speeches for two different advance manual books, for the advance, I take public speaking and occasional speech. Still, by playing roles in every single meeting conducted, I unconsciously finished my leadership manual book, for all those activities, I deserve for ACB CL (Advance Communicator Bronze Competent Leadership), a title in toastmaster educational and leadership program. Erikson Wijaya, ACB CL, I will be, one step more a head.

On the way that I enjoyed in toastmaster, I have been two times in a contest, the first one was Evaluation speech contest, I joined it on November 2008 and international speech contest that I joined on March 2009. It is the bravery to come forward and gaining more horizons being my concerns for joining a contest, it doesn’t matter whether it will end in a victory or in a lost.
Sometimes I keep asking my self, where the years had gone. I am sure it was just yesterday I was appointed as your vice president of membership, and now you give me a trusteeship to be your club president. Look back on one of the most challenging, rewarding and quickest years of my life, I can honestly say.. it’s been quite a ride!!! :D. well, it is Barrack Hussein Obama being the 44th American president, while doing so, he is creating his own history by presenting himself as the first afro-american president, and it is me standing here before you all as the president of catalyst toastmaster club and while doing this, I am creating my history by being the first guy president in this club J.

I will try my best to run my responsibility as president in this club, but it is not only me who is totally responsible for doing so, but it is all about us, the executive committees and the beloved members, by running this club together we can indeed achieve more benefit than expected. The benefit itself Is not about money and property but it is about our own self-development in leadership and communication skill. And much more than that, it is important to show it to our environment that we really have got something useful in our life after joining this club, these things will make others feel encouraged and grow their willingness to come and see what toastmaster is. Let them feel the benefit we ever got by themselves, and make them sure that we and they all have same opportunity to be good at communication and leadership, just invite them, those who live closely in our environment, but don’t force them, let them come by bringing also their curiosity and willingness, not with a coercion. Because there is no coercion in joining toastmaster and toastmaster is not a commercial club :D.

Giving support among members is an essential thing in toastmaster, never be hesitant to offer some feedbacks to us as fellow members, and I am sure that everybody here has their own time where they feel in down and missing encouragement to come and deliver speech, in this condition, we all here have a lofty duty to offer she/he an aid and inspire her/him to get a new idea to deliver a speech, because it is not good for us to leave our members friends behind too far while we keep creating our own advancement. The catalyst toastmaster club is very lucky club, we may never realize that, because we have our legendary toastmasters such as: Ibu Rosite Taufieq, Ibu Mien Soenari, Ibu Elly Juniarti, and many others who are so good at communication that we learn from them, also we have Muhammad Faizal Ahda who are very good at English grammar. We will really miss great opportunity if we don’t take our time to learn from them, they are our friend, they are here to share their skill, right? Even what I have in mind in my this presidency is I will make two regular-special sessions that I would like to call them as Speech Clinic and English Grammar Review so that those persons I mentioned above would have their time to assist us about the things that they good at.

Ok, friends.. it is our time to run this club with more optimism and beliefs that we can gain more benefit for ourselves and do not forget to share it with others outside there by showing how those skill are really helpful for our life.. Thank You :)
Wassalamualaikum

RA Kartini, Our Feminist.

Assalamualaikum.. mmhh.. yesterday was the 21st April, we commemorated the birthday of one of indonesian feminists, she is orginally from Indonesia, Jepara, Middle Java. her name is Raden Ajeng Kartini, one of her struggles was written in a book, written by herself, entitled Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang. having great number of willingnes and efforts, she had dissolved the ancient view of women in the past, at that time they spent their life to three things..
Kitchen, Well, and Bed.

but all the things have changed,nowadays women keep on catching up in order to similarize their position with the men..then, i just want to admit a reality that the women's success in various fileds is something common happened in our daily life now, not only in our country but also in abroad, let we count... how many women who have been decision makers in government institution or in company, or even higher than that, we have ever been led by a woman
president, right? it may be the results triggered by the feminists, including RA Kartini.

all their struggles, known as woman emancipation. in my opinion, woman emancipation is a figthing, figthing to do something and to be confessed of
their dignity and voices. based on KBBI (Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia), emancipation means the similarity among the rights on many aspects of life, including the rigth similarty among the men and the women.

but, hehehe.. frankly speaking, as far as i realized, the woman emancipation just goes partially, just tends to the favorable thing toward the women, we know that, even on behalf of woman emancipation, they are still hesitant to mend the roof, repair the broken television or just to fix the water pipeline. in short, they just want to be the same in terms of intelectuality and voices, not phsycally and behaviour.

i am afraid of this thing, have you ever imagined that, some women consider the woman emancipation as a mean of helping their egoism to keep standing in front and being admitted by many people. so they leave their nature, restriction
and function as a woman. if so, meaning that the woman emancipation has been misused to leave that lofty things, may be, all young kartinies nowadays, this our sisters, have to rethink by pondering and realizing the meaning of their
presence in the world.

well.. i don't agree if a woman come to the front as a leader, or president or a conqueror. because in my opinion, all that position can make a woman forget their basic nature as a mother, as a long-life friend for her husband, evenmore
if the thing they do expect is a leadership, actually indirectly they also can be a leader, you know that, if her husband is a leader, the woman can also come up as a leader, for example, being a leader The Dharma Wanita Group or sort of..
by playing a role as a supporter and proponent for their husband, they are giving their devotion by their own ways, simpe exampe: Conducting Blood Donation in their husband institution, Presenting Social Devotion the society. and i am really sure by diong these, they will remain realized about their obligation as a mother of their child, and a wife for their husband, so that their child will not say :"mom.. where are you?i miss you a lot.. why are you so busy all the time, when can you accompany my breakfast??"

hehehe.. far from that, i want to convey to you all that i had and will keep on honouring woman, because in their womb i was taken care of, and by all their sacrifices i was born and brougth up, mother i love you.. i know you are really in happy and sincere there..

Wassalamualaikum

Gracious Acceptance

Thank You..
Thank You, and
Thank You…
I do thank to every body for all their helps making me deserve for this award, and you know that I may never look at this without remembering the quiet patience of handful mentors who were so kind to me, who were kind enough to put up with me more than once. I trust they have forgiven me for what I did not know so that I have been privileged to be a part of Toastmasters’ most glorious era.
Round of one year and a half joining toastmasters, I was advised by my mentor, Toastmaster Mien Soenari, to compete in an International Speech Contest, and I kept questioning my own eligibility to join that. But she forced me and convinced me that every single Toastmaster, including me, has their own ability and chance to join contests held by Toastmasters International, and whenever the chance comes, that is the moment for us to learn more from a different feel.. the feel of contest.. she also helped me overcome my anxiety of a lost, she said to me not to forget this principle ‘I want to win, but I wil accept everything’. Because the most important thing in a competition is you can learn something new, and one day, you will realize that you have gained all benefits directing you to a better comprehension and you can have many things to share….
To Distinguished Toastmaster Mien Soenari.. Thank you very much :D for all the helps and advices…….
Ladies and gentleman..
Several days before the contest, I was helped by our fellow member who is excellent in English, he helped me to pronounce English words in a correct manner, so that I could perform with more confidence ,Toastmaster Muhammad Faizal Ahda, it is your action and efforts that make this happen, thank you.. thank you very much..
When the Master of Ceremony announced my name to come forward and accepted this award, my thought was really wandering somewhere, it retraced all the long way I’d passed and quickly flashbacked me to the moment when I was a newbie in The Catalyst Toastmasters Club, at that time, with a limited bravery and a great number of shyness.. public speaking was a horrible thing for me, till finally I could really feel the positive environment within this club, willingness to study and support from others..
Thanks to Toastmasters International and all members of The Catalyst Toastmasters Club, it will not be mine without all your encouragement for me… and to all members of Toastmasters Club, wherever you are, I just want to say this :
’if I can win the contest, so can you’
Back to The MC…
(The Audiences give long-standing applause)

Legendary Toastmaster

'There are strong women behind every mens' success...'
and in line with that, cordially, i would like to say... there are inspiring people behind our this toastmaster club
the people who make this club become dynamic, lively and existent ...

Dearest Toasmasters and Distinguished Guests.. welcome to our wonderful 'Legendary Toastmasters' ceremony, i for the first time, encourage myself to initiate this giving-award in order to honour those whose their contribution and dedication have helped move The Catalyst Toastmaster Club forward untill right now.

I started thinking about this, when i was awakened that this our club was firstly founded by a group of mothers ,whose husband worked for Directorate General of Taxes, then with all their enthusiasm and eagerness in spreading the benefit they got from this club, they opened this club for others, including us as the youth for sure, and invited many people from many kinds of lifes and walks.

Ladies and Gentlemen..

all of their deeds in the past was so inspiring that we, the youngsters, can come and gain the benefit of communication and leadership skill from The Catalyst Toastmaster Club, they even keep on giving us motivation and the things we should as well as
the things we should not in that field. i do appreciate that they come routinely to our club, evenmore when i considered their ages and their own bussiness nowadays, what a big sacrifices i think!!! ... and we can lost our count if we recall all their merits for the advancement of this our beloved club, in short... we owe more than thanks to them.. :D

Well, Ladies and gentlemen...

Hopefully, these awards can represent our great gratitude to them... a group of wonderful mothers..The Mothers of The Catalyst Toastmaster Club, and for us... they are the Legendary Toastmasters..

please welcome, Ibu Mien Soenari.., Ibu Rosito Taufieq,.. Ibu Ken Didik, ... Ibu Joko Slamet,.. and Ibu Rahardjo...
and please give us an acceptance speech...

Roaring 21

A record for my ascension—————————-
i had my day-off on July 29th 2008, i knew this thing in advanced so that i arranged my self to join an ascension to the one of active volcanoe, the mount located in The West Java, it is Papandayan Mount, round 2262 meters above the ocean surface. well, along with three of my friends, we left Jakarta in the night of July 28th, after work-hour, by getting in the Office’s Bus. i am so happy to attire as a boulevardier, jacket and cap, that i felt as the real hitchhiker. we were dropped by in the freeway, then we had a general-vehicle take us to the terminal, from where we would start leaving Jakarta to West Java and we prayed first before did that.
i had my own reason to do this unusual thing, i just feel in boredom to rely on someone else, meanwhile i realized that i cannot live that way. nothing to help me, but my hands and head. it is just like an indirectly evidence to myself that i can leave away behind all my dependencies and live on my own.i am just on my thought that i need to be arround to grow. and then something came up. that was my journey to Papandayan. it is not a written-detestation to those surrounding me, even i owed a threat to them a lot,it is just my decision to come as i am, as my thought and as my mindset, nothing more.
we reached Terminal of Garut at 02.00 AM and had a little stop-over about a half hour.we continued going by taking a little bus which would take us to the entrance gate to the Papandayan’s area. it took us about 120 minutes to complete then we had been already in a Masjid to have a nap while waiting for Adzan for Sholat Shubuh. it was so cold to be in the dawn there that i was jerky and shivered. i wore three layers of apparels but it didn’t work to protect me from the cold. i kept folding both of my hands before my chest. arrived there at 04.00 AM, we didn’t want to miss the sunrise moment soon we called several ojeks to take us to the valley of the mount, then i lo and behold when the sun arose from the West and it was getting higher and higher untill became invisible to see. i smiled at the world before me and said that it might be the same sun i am going to see when i study abroad someday.
that was at 07.30 AM then we decided to start climbing, i was in euforia indeed. i couldn’t wait being in the summit of the mount’s hill. i breathed tediously because it was tiresome verily. but my entushiasm defeted it, i left my group several meters behind and stepped the rock hill with bravity i had. i could see my friends in the smallest size in my sight. and i had to slant my eyes to see them. from the rock i saw a verdure inviting me to come, not too long i was already on my way to get it then within several minutes i almost got it, but i got stuck because the thing i saw as something amazing, actually it was a just the slabs of big mountain grass with all manners of died branches and twigs.another thing attracted me to see was,when i viewed from the far,white fog came up from the hill since i didn’t know what it was at first, and i looked at my friends then i witnessed that they had been there and saw what the thing coming up within the hill, i turned my direction to reach there but on the way i made, i was stumbled by debris of rocks and i was wounded, but it is ok.
afterward, i saw it, actually it was a crater of sulfure and because of its heat, it released it in from of fog. round of 3 meters next to me was a boiling mud, i could feel the heat from several meters before it. now i know the mud worried by the people in Sidoarjo. it was so terrible that it became impossible for them to live close to the mud.we continued walking and we grabbed a pleasure spot to take a rest and it was just within round 5 minutes i closed my eyes then i got sleep, may be because of the air, it was so fresh that led one to sleep, including me.
i looked forward to possessing more nap but i couldn’t. we were still at the steep that was still quite far from the summit of the mount. i awaked to go for the peak along with my friends, but one of us chose to stay at the valley, he didn’t make any effort to climb as we did. it seemed to be impossible because of his weight.well, step by step we walked while throwing our glance to the nature before us, in a spot i perfomed my bow to ALLAH.SWT for the blessing
taking me to the life i had untill now. the scenery was great, cool and dazzling especially at the ascending route to the peak, it had its edge so close with the canyon that i stood at it with great feeling, i shouted my name and i heard its echo. also there, i said to my self that insyaALLAH, i could be accepted in STAN D3 Khusus next year, study abroad someday and be a leader in my working environment in the future,amin.
my adrenaline was challenged when i was faced with a hard track to pass in order to reach the top of the mount. it was in perpendicularity and there was no ground, but the rocks. wasn’t it amazing?i kept focusing to reach the summit,it made me to regardless of the obstacles encountering me.about 3 hours later i completed the hard track and already at the peak. along i threw my glance was a deserted dessert.a natural park was laid before me indeed. a rare species of flower grew there, with gorgeous flower and impressive leaves.that was the Daisy. i picked some stems up and kept them into my bag.i took them home :), it was just like a vandalism, but i am very sorry for that.the deserted dessert was inhabited by Pig, i guessed it from the trace formed on the sand i watched, very long and long untill disappeared into the bush. i perpetuated that moment by taking some photos evolving as the model.i had no fearness when i was alone abandoned by my friends since i was very sleepy meanwhile they wondered to have a look arround that summit, i just let them go and fell asleep.
we wouldn’t be in a long time to be on the top, we need to descend soon, if we didn’t want to be darkened by the smog in the afternoon, many climbers lost because the smog covered their way.we didn’t want to be that way. well to descend was just much easier that ascend, but we must be more carefull and more patient stumbled by the stobeacuse if we are in hurry we will be nes or the sands. in the middle of the descending we stopped for a moment in a river with a little drift and waterfall.i soaked my hand into the pure-stagnant water and i was jerky, it was very cold but fresh. then i watered my face, my head to get a new freshness. so did my friends. then we left it to continue descending. but i seemed to become further left my friends behind, and my friends just were on their leisure to take some photos about sulfure lake.
round of 100 meters behind me were a young guy carrying a basket and as the time went he was getting closer to me and finally we were in the same point. i greeted him first and he replied and told me that his name was Wawan, he was 25 years old and he worked as a farmer in a farming-land. he asked where i lived, i said that i lived in Jakarta and to be here for my vacation, suddenly he asked me if i lived close to the PRJ, because he told me that once in a year he went to Jakarta, just to see PRJ at Kemayoran, The Central Jakarta. i was proud of him when he told me that everyday he worked to the farming-land, planted with potato, carrot and cabbage,and the area was far from his home, it took him about 3 hours on foot to get there, meaning that he had to get up at 5 o’clock AM every morning if he expected to be there at 8 o’clock AM. and he had to leave his farm at 3 o’clock PM if he wanted to be at home at 6 o’clock PM.one of the real hardworkers ever.
Alhamdulillah i reached the shelter, the place where we had our rest when we had just arrived,i laid my body in a long desk and i had several snacks to eat, good for healing my starvation from the peak. when i walked arround the shelter i saw a little boy playing alone with no friend, then i approached him but he was scared at me, he just ran toward to his father, we smiled at one another, the his father introduced himself then i nodded as an acknowledge sign. i asked his son, who his name was, but he was just petrified. then his father said that his name was Ro’is, he also briefed what its mean, it meant Leader, because Ro’is means Leader, well, i just prayed for him, hope someday Ro’is his son, can be a leader as he expected to.
so how about me? Erikson Wijaya, well in short it means that my parents want to say "My son, Erik, Hope one day you will be a wealth, prosperous and a leader like Raden Wijaya, a king from Majapahit Kingdom" and i amin to that indeed, because i do believe that there is a pray within our own name given by our folks.
not long after that all of us were ready to go back to Jakarta, then i got home at 01.00 AM and afterward i started writing this. and be the thing you read right now.ok then i thank you all. just keep making efforts and praying,
amin.
Erikson

We Welcome You Here At The Catalyst

Assalamualaiakum and Dear All..
have you ever been wowed by ones because of theirs eloquence?? i realy have. and at that moment, i petrified. i just could imagine if i were them. but unfortunately i couldn’t, i am on my own to be that way. and i never be able to stop thinking of being the one who is excellent in delivering ideas,as those i mentioned above.
untill recently, on June 2007, i met toastmaster at my office from the brochures attached to the announcement board, and then i said "well, it may help me!!!".
Happy Toastmasters and guests.. something happened the next were i came to the toastmaster’s meeting and i found it interesting, i still remembered how cordially i was welcomed by TM Risna, TM Nafis, TM Olin and many others behind the door, i had a seat and followed the entire of that meeting, altought i didn’t understand the order of that meeting, i paid my attention toroughly at Evaluation Session, well i just concluded that there were no seniority here but ones involved, would help each other ,so that indirectly we still can monitor our progress, the things we should and the things we shouldn’t.. Ladies and gentlements..
having felt the benefits of joining Toastmaster, i just want to make it possible for others to feel the same. especially for those coming as a guests here.. why? because toastmaster will lead us to comprehend several basic principles in communication and leadership, two of several prerequisites in working world nowadays. and we will have friends to share ideas, to ask for inputs and to learn the projects. even sometimes, we get supports and inputs without asking them to do so.
in the actual life… To speak before a group comes as a nightmare if we are not used to practicing and it is an evitable thing since we frequently encounter many moments guiding us to speak. we cannot say "mmm…aa’aa’aaa…ehh" or doing nothing then getting lost.. we need to perform well in conveying the messages and the rapport will be formed. but how can we do that??again.. you don’t need to be worried, you will come to know how to go on when you really want a time-out for your speech in your special occassion, and Toastmaster will make it be real for you because in toastmaster’s membership there is no reluctence among us to discuss many kinds of difficuties or techniques assigned to us in each project we are completing. Dear Toastmasters and guests..
in many fields of our life, we always meet everything most in english, like or dislike , we are forced to deal with this condition, this situation indicates a thing, that is we must keep our english to make ourselves well-informed one, well then..Toasmaster itself, in my opinion, is a good and nice place to apply our ability in english, because it is an english-speaking club in which enable us to improve our proficiency including, speaking, listening and writing, and we do that on way we don’t realize, so we are learning in a cozy way. in communication,i had made a real difference by being persistent in following the toastmaster’s manual book, it teaches me how to communicate effectively and make sure that our messages are accepted well by the audiences. i reinforce my understanding about gestures, vocal variety and visual aid as determinant factors which can make our speech better indeed.
Well, Happy Toastmaster and guests.. is that all?no.. there are still more.. joining this club enables us to grow up our leadership skill, in every single meeting we can have an opportunity to run a certain role, and you know what? each role provides certain training for our leadership skill. such as the timer, subconscioulsly this role practices our skill at giving instruction about timeframe and about the time management, something we do every day, right?
it is nice to say that by serving as a VPM, Vice President Membership, allow me to learn how to manage this club’s membership and encourage every member to come to the meeting, else that i grab a chance to tell others about what toastmaster is. then, by doing those things, i practice myself to manage a club, to motivate members, to persuade someone else and to share the benefit of toastmaster’s membership to others.
ok, ladies and gentlements.. now.. you be the witness my testimony about the benefit i got from this club.. i have grabbed my turn… now it is yours… and we welcome you here at the catalyst.. Happy Toastmasters….
Waalaikumussalam