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The KL HUB

Issue # 18

INTERNATIONAL COFFEE OF SSA KL

IN THIS ISSUE

Coordinator’s Message

by [Article Author]

Coordinator’s message

From The Welcome Desk& From

Communication coordinator

The Charity Hub

The Election

Events Review

Upcoming events

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FROM THE WELCOME DESK

HELP US WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!

If you hear of any new arrivals to KL, please let us know so we can start the membership process and ensure the officially welcomed and added to the email list, directory and Facebook page.

Please contact Melanie at welcomes@ssakl.com.

Thank you!!

HELP US UPDATE OUR FILES!

Are you leaving or have you left KL? Any changes to your address or contact information? Please let us know so we can update our KL chapter directory and email list!

Please contact Marie at directory@ssakl.com Thank you!

Farewells

Dana Jamous

Joanne Henson

Kanupriya Kullar

Marian McGary

Patty Duperreault

Vilaiporn Gamonsugosol

FACT SHEET

If you have any useful information

that you would like to contribute

to Kl Fact sheet for our new

arrivals, please send it to Khizra at

khizra_kbhn@yahoo.com

WELCOMES

Adriana Verdugo

Afamefuna Chukwurah

Anaam Arakzeh

Analis Asih

Audrey Bayle

Elise Zagwocky

Eloisa Peña

Fiona Harris

Hendrasti Loody Nugroho

Ina (Fadziyna) Abdullah

Jill McMillian

Karanveer Bakshi

Karen Galeos

Kate Tuckwell

May Guo

Naila Sufian

Sarah Dowdney

Susy Sukoanto

Sylvie Wette

Wajiha Rizvi

Zeva Gough

Zhao Yi

Zila Hook

FROM COMMUNICATION COORDINATOR

Dear members,

As you know this is my last newsletter, I am leaving Kuala Lumpur due our transfer. We as family have enjoyed our time in KL and I sincere appreciate having had the opportunity to be part of wonderful SSA KL team. Thank you very much for creating such a wonderful and welcome atmosphere here in KL. Thank you very much to the SSA KL chapter board for your support and encouragement you have provided me during my time here in KL as communications coordinator. I will miss you.

Goodbye and Wish you all the best

Congratulations to: Beatrice and Matteo

Fontanini Welcomed baby daughter Arianna born on 11th of

September 2013

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WAY TO GO, SSA KL!

Many thanks to our SSA members who bought a record-breaking RM 1765 in raffle tickets and RM 795 in used books at our International Coffee Morning. The monies will go towards supporting Tanma, a women’s cooperative of Burmese refugee women, and the

Sahabat Support Centre, which provides education, family health care, and support to refugee families in Ampang.

We couldn’t have our successful raffles without the support of prize donations

from our members. Thank you to these ladies who brought back some lovely prizes from their travels:

Anisa Haddad

Khizra Bilal

Melanie Thompson

Sneha Biniwale

Germaine Ferrao-Lenn

Karine Schipper

Elia Tampang

Randi Nesset

Brandie Joy

Look for the next charity raffle and SSA Book Shoppe at our Annual General Meeting on November 20th!

How Can I help?

We are collecting the following items at our coffee mornings. Just leave with a member of the Charity Team, and they will take care of the rest!

Donate a raffle prize—donated prizes ensure our entire raffle monies go to the needy. If you find an interesting gift from your country or your travels, it would make a great prize for someone while helping to raise money for an SSA supported charity.

Donate used books—the SSA Book Shoppe needs more books, for children and adults!

Collect travel-sized toiletries from hotels and airlines—these will be collected and put into gift bags for the needy.

In Memoriam

The Charity Team would like to recognize the generous donation SSA member, Abeer Beydoun, made to the Sahabat Support Centre in memory of her grandmother, Hikmat Beydoun. The charity team used her donation to purchase emergency support food kits for the refugee families registered at the center.

Seventy families are currently registered for the food aid at the refugee center. However, eighty families are still on a waiting list to receive food aid. If you would like to help, please visit www.msri.org.my for more information, or speak to Charity Team member

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The board’s election of Schlumberger Spouses Association KL

Chapter

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After a great summer holiday,

our SSA ladies met up with

enthusiasm and good cheer to

greet each other and share

holiday snippets at Magenta Restaurant on 29th of August.

With a huge spread of

scrumptious sandwiches,

mouth-watering quiche,

delicious party cakes, fresh fruit

slices, yummy cookies and a

wide choice of gourmet tea

and coffees... our ladies

enjoyed their morning

catching up with old friends

and greeting the new members warmly.

We started the morning by

introducing the new SSA

members. We had 16 new

members who were attending

their first coffee morning in the

KL Chapter. We welcomed

Analis Asih, Angela Maria

Arevelo, Anna Cristina Rausch,

Armanda Dingledy-Rodie,

Chiquitita Tamba, Frederique Idri, Gloria Uribe, Katrina Ross,

Paola Salazar, Sabrina

Boukercha, Shen Yue,

Stephanie McVie, Zhou Wang,

Adriana Verdugo, Kristin

Belcher and Camila Senel. We

wish them a fantastic tenure in Malaysia.

With the ongoing tradition of

celebrating birthdays we

wished Analis Asih, Angela

Arevelo, Ira Kurniawan,

Mahboubeh Rahimzadeh, Ping

Hu, Shilpa Verma and Shen Yue a wonderful birthday.

We had the popular and much

awaited lucky draw for the

door prizes. Here the new

comer's luck worked for

Stephanie McVie, Armanda

Rodie and Katrina Ross who

won delightful gifts. Our

charities team member, Laura

Miller also walked away with a

lucky prize.

We would like to appreciate the efforts of two special ladies

Jennifer Guthrie and Kari

Granier who stepped up to

look after the registration desk

at the coffee morning. It is

because of their commitment

that this coffee morning was a

huge success. Thank you ladies!!

While wishing you a fond

adieu.... the SSA KL Hospitality

team hope to see you at the next coffee morning!

Mita Hussain

KL Welcome and Hospitality

Team

August coffee morning

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Tour to Chinese Temple Thean Hou and Lantern Activity

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SSA – KL International

Coffee 2013

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SSA-KL Self Defense

- PROTECTION

PROGRAM CLASS

Last October 8th, Activity

team organized a Self-

Defense class to give some

safety tips and knowledge to

our members. This class did

not encourage us to fight

back but it gave us the tools

to try and defend ourselves

in a difficult situation. This

was only a foundation class,

would be needed if we wish

to master all the techniques.

Master Francis Albert taught

us and explain about: body

language, potential target

and identifying the threat.

Also we will learn how to

escape from a kidnap

situation, snatch thief

avoidance, chokehold from

front technique, and other

skills.

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OCTOBER COFFEE MORNING

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SSA-KL Bollywood Class

Date: Wednesday 30th October Time: Class will start 10:300 (sharp)to 12:00 noon

Venue: Xcellento Fitness Studio

16 – 3A/3B, Ukay Boulevards, Jalan MRR2 Hulu Klang, 6800 Ampang, Selangor. GPS Coordinates: N 03˚12̍ 20.9ˮ E101˚ 45̍ 25.9ˮ

It is our pleasure to invite you into a world that is absolutely magical – the world of Bollywood Dancing and Indian Performing Arts !!! What is Bollywood Dancing? Bollywood dancing is Modern Indian dance combining: Bhangra, Classical Indian, Arabic and Indian Folk performed in the latest Bollywood films. Recently due to the movie Slumdog Millionaire , Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Bombay Dreams' and various dance shows Bollywood has become hugely fashionable and Bollywood Dance is the latest dance craze so don't miss it out. This Bollywood class will be a tailor made dance workshop fit for everybody, doesn’t matter if you know to dance or not. The only requirement is to bring your energy and happiness.

Please Note:

As there is a space restriction for this activity, we have set a maximum of 30 attendees per class.

Please wear comfy stretchable clothes or Indi outfit.

PLEASE RSVP to Raquel Izquierdo <raquel_izquierdo@hotmail.com> or SMS 0142234403 by Monday Oct 22nd. You should receive back an email confirmation; this is the only way to be sure that your rsvp was receive by the activity team.

EVENTS CALENDAR

Halloween party temple

26th October

SSA Kl Bollywood Class

30th October

November Coffee Morning

12th November

Annual General Meeting

20th of November

Children’s Year End Party

8th December

UPCOMING EVENTS

SSA-KL Halloween party.

Date: Saturday 26th October

Time: 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Party: Pool Area at Dua Residency

Venue: Dua Residency, 209 Jalan Tum Razak, 50400 (In front of American Embassy )

Date: 12th November, 2013 (Tuesday)

Time: 9.45am – 11:45

Venue: Chinoz on the Park, Ground Floor, Suria KLCC

Please RSVP to Dina Chalik at: natasha_chalik@yahoo.com by Thursday 7th

November, 2013

A member of the Charity Team will collect your donations of used books, raffle

prizes and travel-sized toiletries.

NOVEMBER COFFEE MORNING

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UPCOMING EVENTS

SSA KL Cordially Invites You to Our

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

November 20 9.30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

At NOVOTEL

2 Jalan Kia Peng 50450 KUALA LUMPUR

MALAYSIA Tel (+60)3/21470888

Covered parking is available.

PLEASE RSVP to Dina Chalik

<raquel_izquierdo@hotmail.com> or SMS 0142234403 by Nov 10th

SSA KL

Cordially invites you to our

December 08

9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

PLANETARIUM NEGARA No. 14, Taman Burung,

Memorial Tunku ,Abdul Razak, Taman Tasik KL

PLEASE RSVP to Dina Chalik natasha_chalik@yahoo.com by

Nov 25th. Kindly send in your RSVP at the earliest as this is a limited capacity event. Please indicate the number of kids attending along with their age groups.

Note: This event is only for Schlumberger families.

The SSA Charity Team requests that every family

attending the Children’s Year End Party please

bring a new unwrapped toy worth RM 30-50 for a

needy child. We will happily accept toys for babies

through teenagers. A member of the Charity Team

will be available for the toy collection, as well as

any other donations you have for the Charity Team

(e.g. Travel-sized toiletries, used books, raffle

prize donations.)

Last year, we were able to donate 50 new toys to

refugee children who have few toys, and seldom

have anything new. Thank you SSA-KL for your

support.

The Charity Team will be active at our

Annual General Meeting. Here’s how you

can help!

•The Burmese refugee women will be selling handcrafted

woven products as well as natural bath and spa items at

the AGM. Do some early holiday shopping at our event!

The profits from sales funds and empowerment center for

35 women weekly, with skills training classes, a shelter

for 25 women and children, and financial support for

healthcare. We will have a guest speaker from Tanma

briefly explain their work in the Burmese refugee

community.

•Buy raffle tickets, and/or donate a raffle prize.

•Donate your used books or buy a used book for only RM

5. All monies collected by SSA-KL go to our charities.

•Consider volunteering for next year’s Charity Team!