關於 intellect office ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

Deeply saddened by the passing of Mr Ngiam Tong Dow, a versatile and outstanding civil servant from our founding generation.

Tong Dow stood out among his peers for his intellect and empathy, and willingness to speak his mind. He served with distinction for over 40 years across various Ministries, and was appointed Singapore’s youngest Permanent Secretary at the age of 33.

I had the privilege of working closely with him at the Ministry of Trade & Industry when I was Minister of State and he was Permanent Secretary. As a young office holder, I benefited greatly from his considerable experience and sage advice. He served on the Economic Committee that I chaired in 1985, which recommended measures to help Singapore recover from our first major economic recession since independence. His inputs made a major difference to our report.

After Tong Dow formally retired in 1999, he continued to serve as Chairman of the CPF Board and the Housing & Development Board. Many of the schemes introduced during his tenure at HDB, including the Build-To-Order system and the Lift Upgrading Programme, have stood the test of time and are still continuing today.

My deepest condolences to Mrs Ngiam and the family. Tong Dow may have left us but his legacy will live on, and his contributions will touch the lives of many generations of Singaporeans to come. – LHL

(With Mr Ngiam Tong Dow at the Economic Committee Press Conference in 1986. / Ministry of Information and the Arts Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore)

Professor Tan Sri Kamal Hasan - The Dearest Teacher and Mentor

In this early morning of Friday, I made a point of visiting the former and the most celebrated Rector of International Islamic University Malaysia at his office at ILIM in Bangi. I was on my way to deliver a motivational talk on Leadership and Innovation at Bank Islam Mega Conference at PICC, Putra Jaya. Perhaps it was a good idea to talk to a great leader before presenting my talk.

The meeting with this great man and intellectual was so inspirational and unlocking. When I was serving as the lecturer and administrator at IIUM in the vintage of 1994-2005, he was an extraordinary teacher, mentor and friend. I and many others owe him a great respect and admiration. He was not a hero. He was a legend in the intellectual space. He gave all what he has to the university and academia.

We talked on many common things and issues and we also shared our own respective vision. While he wrote down some of my insights, I did the same thing to capture his words wisdom and far-sigthed vision of 2077....the new Hijrah century. He was passionate about this and I can see how and why he got excited and motivated.

It will never be enough to describe the bandwidth of the intellect and wisdom of Prof Kamal in this post. Suffice for me to say that it was a great meeting of minds and hearts in this holy day of Friday.

I have 'intellectuallly' reminded him - after getting his brotherly permission through some of my body language in respect to his seniority and knowledge - that there is no retirement in Islam what more in the intellectual space. He got my message vividly clear.

I have presented some of my books to him and he casually commented that "it will tough for the IIUM faculty to deal with the new President of IIUM". I kept silent. That was the end of our discussion.

I will always pray for Prof Kamal (and all my other mentors who have passed away). They have made who I am today. This is the value chain of knowledge and leadership...respect it...honour it. Dont cross the line.

MDB

[Respond To Mariam Mokhtar Article In Malaysiakini]

Assalamualaikum sister Mariam,

All Praise is to Allah, Lord of the Worlds.

I write in response of the article you wrote, entitled “A symbol of liberation or subjugation?”

I believe your views on the matter are distorted and wish to correct you; and further request that the article be removed. I have no intention of insulting you as a person and this is written with all due respect.

Firstly, Nina was merely told by her employer she “Should” wear a tudung – was it a threat that she would be fired for non-compliance?
Or perhaps merely advice as a Muslim to do what is better with respect to following her religion?
Although religion is indeed, as you say, a ‘personal conviction’, we are nevertheless instructed to advise others towards betterment and goodness.

Let us say that indeed it was part of the dress code. The employer has a right to specify codes of conduct and dress codes which are deemed suitable to meet the organizational requirements, standards or reputation of a company.
Dress codes are important as they directly portray the impression of the company’s image – even before customer interaction or customer service itself. I’m sure an educated person such as yourself have no difficulty in understanding or appreciating this aspect.
Thus is the case as employers such as hotel concierge or receptionists are required to wear ties/bowties, or armed forces having to wear uniforms, or chefs having to wear their special hat and specific white dress, or generally speaking – there is no office in our country that I know of that allows men to wear short pants.

If the employee does not wish to comply, then he/she may leave. No hard feelings, no oppression, no accusations of “control”, no coercion, and no unnecessary rants on the media by other completely unrelated people. Although yes, what would have definitely been much better – was for the employer to specify the dress code well in advance, to manage expectations. But it does not change their rights to specify these requirements.

This is not an instruction that is deemed difficult or complicated – an unlettered simpleton would have no difficulties in understanding or complying to this, let alone an intelligent person such as yourself.
If the employee deems it necessary for its employees to put on more modest clothing, such as covering your head – and I can name a multitude of justifiable reasons for doing so – then it is their right.
In fact, I can put on a more factually sound article to blast at certain airlines for imposing their female employees to wear such skimpy clothing of short skirts and tight blouses, revealing them to people around the world, whilst at the same time indirectly representing our country on an international scale. But those who do want to guard their modesty, simply choose not to be employed by this company – do we hear them rebelling in the media?

Now, I can write about an article condemning why men aren’t allowed to wear slippers to the office. Is it the subject of the oppressive whims and desires of the bosses and powers that be? It’s a free country, let me wear my crocs to the office!
I can also write on media condemning why I am not allowed to wear round-neck t-shirts to the office. Is it a sign of authority and subjugation? Who do these people think they are?

It would appear here, that you deliberately selected the topic of tudung to be the topic of your rants – perhaps, out of a personal preference that, you yourself do not wear the tudung?
And thus your rantings on this page merely represent an emotional and personal displeasure at the instruction, since it challenges your beliefs and refusal to don it.

Imagine if people who refuse to wear anything other than t-shirts and slippers are as vocal as you are – Our media such as Malaysiakini will be filled with non-beneficial rants such as yours: a nationwide fiasco abusing public media about the rights to wear t-shirts and slippers to work.

The islamic obligation of women covering the head is a long established obligation from the teachings of Islaam – one that has been established firmly in our Shari’ah, and an issue that is considered ijma’ (consensus) amongst our scholars: people who are far more educated than you and I with respect to the Shari’ah.
This is not the time and place to discuss such matters of shariah in detail (though I will gladly have a conversation with you in private to clarify), but the point is, even if you do not ascribe to such beliefs, at least have the decency to respect the personal principles of those who do, and those who want others to do it.
This article shows vast disrespect to our principles and just takes a step back by way of unity and respect to religions – especially you being a Muslim yourself.

Thus I appeal to your good intellect and reason, to please remove this article from the web and refrain from writing such derogatory articles.

I will be happy to further discuss this issue with you in person, and to clarify the subject matter.

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,

MRM R&D Dept

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