On the sixth day of Ramadan last week, Mata Ilmu Private Course held a small charity event. We gave some snacks for iftar (called “takjil”) to the riders and drivers on Taman Sari-Pasteur crossroad. 200 packages were given away in less than 10 minutes! This charity was held to celebrate Ramadan and the end of the semester. About 15 teachers joined this event. We had iftar together in the evening.
Here’s to a blessed Ramadan and a new semester! 😉
What makes a good company? I think the answer is happy employees. When the employees are happy with their working environment and/or workmates, they will resonance a positive vibe and their performance will become better. Our company, Mata Ilmu, overs tutoring services, so we really need that positive vibe and good performance from our employees (aka tutors). For that reason, we held an outing yesterday morning. It was called “Teachers’ Playground”. Even though only few people showed up, the event was super fun! We had several games, like photo hunt, the Thumbs Up game, the Put Your Hands Up game, fast typing game, and quiz. 
We chose The Town Hall Park as the venue. We felt that an open public space was more suitable for an outing rather than to go to a specific outing venue. Lucky us, it was cloudy but didn’t rain during the event. The Park was not too crowded, which made it more convenient for us. 
It was so fun and full of laughters. We hadn’t had an outing since June (which was our annual gathering). Yesterday’s event made me realised how much I had missed hanging out with them. We’re trying to create more similar events like this rather than a simple monthly meeting that we usually have. We hope that there will be more tutors who come to our next event 😉 
Mata Ilmu has been operating for almost two years now. It started as a small group of friends teaching private courses to several students, and now we’ve grown to having twenty-ish teachers and fifteen-ish students. To celebrate this, we held our very first annual gathering on Sunday. Sadly, there were only several teachers who could come. We took pictures together, had a meeting talking about our progress so far and our plans for the next academic year, and then we had lunch. The gathering was actually a sort of picnic under a palm tree. There was also a stray cat joining us for the lunch! 
