160 Years De La Salle Brothers in Asia and Malaysia Gala Dinner

Totem Pole

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri - 1 Syawal 1433 / 19 Ogos 2012

Do good. Volunteer. Class of '72

Urgent Appeal

To all SAS Muar Old Boys,
I am sending out an urgent appeal to anyone who can help me.
My 91-year old mother who lives in Muar recently underwent a colon operation and I need to hire a full time maid / helper to help look after her. She’s not bedridden but due to her arthiritis she cannot walk very far, still able to move about but need some assistance. She’s having a colonstomy bag attached to her that need’s regular changing so I’m looking for someone who’s willing to provide some simple basic nursing care.
At the moment, my younger sister lives with her but she herself is suffering from depression so she’s not able to fully care for my mother. This maid / helper can be either local or foreigner, I prefer live in full time, and I’m willing to pay whatever is necessary, however, as a temporary measure I don’t mind if we can get a day time maid.
I sincerely hope anyone of our old boys either in Muar or elsewhere who happen to know somebody who’s able to provide their services as a maid. I would greatly appreciate all the help I can get to help me solve this problem.
Thank you.
Best regards
Vincent Ngc/o Kim Realty
Tel : 03-7729 9988H/p : 019 – 3360 899

MALAYSIAN FEDERATION OF LA SALLIAN ASSOCIATIONS

To All Presidents
28 February 2012

GALA DINNER GATHERING ON 8 SEPTEMBER 2012

TO CELEBRATE THE 160TH YEAR OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE LA SALLE BROTHERS TO ASIA.

CELEBRATION THEME: “A TRIBUTE TO ALL LASALLIANS”

I am sure that you are aware that your EXCO at the request of Rev Brother Anthony Rogers has been planning a Gala Dinner to commemorate the 160th Anniversary of the La Salle Brothers to Malaya/Asia, on 8 September 2012.

I would like to update you on the developments of this event. His Royal Highness, the Sultan of Selangor has been invited to be the guest of honour.

The theme of the functionwould be “A Tribute To All Lasallians”.

The venue is Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel.

The tentative programme will be as follows:
Pre-Dinner MixerExhibition of the Achievements of Lasallian InstitutionsVideoGala Dinner with Entertainment

I seek the support of your Association in the following manner:

1. The Association should take up at least 2 tables at the cost of RM1500(subsidized) per table.
2. We seek your assistance in determining some members of the Association to provide some sponsorships ranging from RM5000 to RM20000. The Reply Form shows the various categories. The donor will be invited to the dinner together with his partner.
3. We expect participation by about 40 Brothers who had made contributions to education in Malaysia and we hope that you would support both the old and new teachers of your school to participate.
4. At the suggestion of Rev Brother Anthony Rogers, we would like to recognize 160 Lasallians including Brothers, who have made contributions to various aspects of developments to Malaysia. Kindly nominate the prominent Lasallians from your Alma Mater.
5. We plan to hold the AGM of the Federation the following day at La Salle Hall,Petaling Jaya.

We look forward to your participation.
For planning purpose, we would appreciate your indication of participation before 30 April 2012. We need your full support and cooperation in order to make this commemorative dinner a big success.

Enclosed please find a Reply Form of your intention.

With best regards.

Tan Sri Dr Augustine S H Ong

President, MFOLSA
cc Rev Brother Anthony Rogers

For more information please call Mr.Goh Bong Hiang. Mobile no.019-332 0941

Founder’s Day (Baden Powell) celebration

1st Baron Baden-Powell

Let make ourselves free this coming Saturday the 25th February 2012.

You are cordially invited to participitate in this year Founders Day Gathering
Dinner & Campfire at COMMOMWEALTH FOREST PARK AND RESORTS, RAWANG.

1900 - Arrival of Guests
2000 - Dinner
2100 - Campfire and Sing-a-long

This invitation is extended to All ex-scouts, girls, old boys and family, members and boys of St.Andrew School Muar.

This function is related to Scouting/Guiding, but those who are not related or had not been related are also welcomed.
This gathering is to refresh memories of the good old days and to renew fellowship.
Family members are invited as well.

Dress code is casual and it is Free Of Charge.

This Founder’s Day (Baden Powell) celebration is organized by the BP Guild Malaysia.

Please confirm your participation before February15th to enable the organizer to plan.

Let do it


Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
22 February 1857 (1857-02-22) – 8 January 1941 (1941-01-09) (aged 83)
Founder of Scouting
Nickname B-P
Place of birth Paddington, London, England
Place of death Nyeri, Kenya
Service/branch British Army
Years of service 1876–1910
Rank Lieutenant-General
Commands held Chief of Staff, Second Matabele War (1896–1897)
5th Dragoon Guards in India (1897)
Inspector General of Cavalry, England (1903)
Battles/wars Anglo-Ashanti Wars,
Second Matabele War,
Siege of Mafeking,
Second Boer War

• Awards Ashanti Star (1895),
• Matabele Campaign, British South Africa Company Medal (1896),
• Queen’s South Africa Medal (1899),
• King’s South Africa Medal ( 1902),
• Boy Scouts Silver Wolf
• Boy Scouts Silver Buffalo Award (1926),
• World Scout Committee Bronze Wolf (1935),
• Großes Dankabzeichen des ÖPB (1927)
• Großes Ehrenzeichen der Republik am Bande (1931)
• Goldene Gemse (1931)
• Grand-Cross in the Order of Orange-Nassau (1932),
• Order of Merit (1937),
• Wateler Peace Prize (1937)
• Order of St Michael and St George,
• Royal Victorian Order,
• Order of the Bath


Other work Founder of the international Scouting Movement;
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (pronounced /beɪdən poʊ.əl/) (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941), also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement.

After having been educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking. Several of his military books, written for military reconnaissance and scout training in his African years, were also read by boys. Based on those earlier books, he wrote Scouting for Boys, published in 1908 by Pearson, for youth readership. During writing, he tested his ideas through a camping trip on Brownsea Island with the local Boys’ Brigade and sons of his friends that began on 1 August 1907, which is now seen as the beginning of Scouting.
After his marriage to Olave St Clair Soames, Baden-Powell, his sister Agnes Baden-Powell and notably his wife actively gave guidance to the Scouting Movement and the Girl Guides Movement.
Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died and was buried in 1941.

GONG XI FA CAI

SAS Old Boys KL/PJ Chapter Committee Meeting

We will be having our SAS Old Boys KL/PJ Chapter Committee Meeting on the 12th.January 2012 (Thursday) at 7.30pm at Pantai Seafood Restaurant at Kampung Kayu Ara, near Damansara Jaya (beside La La Chong Restaurant). Your attendance is very much appreciated.
Thank you.

Adrian Goh
019 667 9081
Hon.Secretary
SAS Old Boys KL/PJ Chapter

Brunei Darussalam and 11 others Urban Search and Rescue: Boosting Intra-ASEAN Self Help

Report—Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies

By Nah Liang Tuang

Synopsis

Natural disasters such as the earthquakes and tsunamis in the Indian Ocean off Sumatra in 2004 and in Japan most recently highlight the importance of qualified Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams. ASEAN's lack of such vital rescue expertise needs to be addressed.

Commentary

THE 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and the most recent Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March this year have highlighted the power of Mother Nature to wreak havoc. Thousands of people had died and many more were trapped within collapsed urban structures, straining search and rescue operations. Such rescue duties especially fall upon the shoulders of specially-trained and equipped Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams.

Unfortunately, only a few ASEAN countries have local USAR capabilities. The rest have to call upon foreign USAR assistance during a crisis. This situation should be rectified because foreign USAR teams take time to deploy; during this lag, urban disaster victims who might have been saved may die from their injuries or deprivation.

Disaster Preparedness in ASEAN

Vietnam is prone to typhoons like Typhoon Xangsane in 2006 and Ketsana in 2009; Myanmar has been battered by Cyclone Nargis in 2008 and both Indonesia and Thailand have suffered from the 2004 tsunami on Boxing Day, 26 December. In all these cases, built-up settlements ranging from villages to major cities were severely damaged or destroyed with casualties and fatalities ranging from the hundreds to many tens of thousands.

It is evident that many lives would have been saved if domestic USAR teams were activated in the immediate aftermath of these natural calamities. In ASEAN, however, only Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have established official USAR agencies. Additionally, according to the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) of the United Nations, only Malaysia and Singapore have USAR teams that are trained according to INSARAG guidelines and have operational experience.

For example, the Special Malaysian Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (SMART) has seen action in the West Sumatra Padang Earthquake of 2009 while Singapore's Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART) was deployed to Aceh, Indonesia following the 2004 tsunami.

As Southeast Asia has not seen the end of catastrophic natural calamities or man-made urban disasters such as the collapses of high-rise buildings due to shoddy construction standards, every ASEAN country should establish INSARAG-certified USAR teams in all major cities.

How the Situation Should Be Improved

As Malaysia and Singapore seem to have the best-trained and organised USAR teams in ASEAN, it would make sense for the two countries to extend their expertise to other ASEAN states without established USAR organisations like Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar and even states like Thailand and the Philippines. These other ASEAN states can seek to improve their USAR capabilities by sending delegations of civil defence/rescue personnel to either Malaysia or Singapore to learn from their more established counterparts. Alternatively, handpicked training staff from either SMART or DART could be sent on short advisory stints to the other ASEAN countries.

In Singapore, the training of nascent ASEAN USAR teams could be coordinated under the Singapore Cooperation Programme (SCP). The SCP could act as the liaison body to match the training expertise of DART under its parent organisation, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), with interested ASEAN rescue teams. To assist some of these new USAR teams with their initial equipment requirements, the SCDF could even transfer some of its older USAR hardware to the former as a token of ASEAN solidarity. This would make operational and economic sense if the equipment was about to be phased out but was still serviceable. Politically, such an offer of assistance could be made at the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting for Home and Interior Affairs Ministers.

Sustainability Of Assistance

While the human reasons associated with ASEAN brotherhood serve as an idealistic basis for offering training assistance to embryonic USAR teams, some policy-making quarters might ask for tangible geopolitical justifications to back this initiative. To these officials and especially those who are Singaporeans, two reasons may come to mind.

The first is that of soft power cultivation. Having trained USAR teams from all over ASEAN promotes respect for Singapore's civil defence capabilities, enabling it to speak with authority and influence in international for a concerning disaster-related topics. This is another way for Singapore to "punch above its weight". Secondly, the provision of such assistance helps to lubricate the wheels of ASEAN diplomacy. This will earn goodwill for Singapore and allowing it to better mediate in disputes between other ASEAN states if ever called upon to do so. Additionally, this goodwill can also ease bilateral negotiations between Singapore and other ASEAN members over other contentious issues.

The deficiencies in USAR capabilities amongst ASEAN countries who most require such specialist capabilities must be urgently addressed, especially given the growing frequency of natural disasters in the region.

Nah Liang Tuang is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, a constituent unit of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University.

NOTICE OF THE 5th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. Kuala Lumpur / Petaling Jaya Chapter

MUAR ANDREANS ASSOCIATION

OLD BOYS ASSOCIATION OF ST ANDREW’S SCHOOL, MUAR

(Registration Number 2817/93 Johor)

(Kuala Lumpur/Petaling Jaya Chapter)

c/o Lot 1565, Jalan Kusta, Perindustrian Kg Jaya

47000 SG Buloh Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia.

Tel No: 603-61572288 Fax: 603-61571259

Friday 30^th September, 2011

Y.Bhg Dato'/ Dear Sir,

NOTICE OF THE 5^th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Notice is hereby given that the 5^th Annual General Meeting of the MUAR ANDREANS ASSOCIATION

(Kuala Lumpur/Petaling Jaya Chapter) will be held as follows:

Date : Saturday, October 22,2011

Time : 3.00pm

Venue : La Salle University Hall, Lorong 5/15B, off Jalan Chantek, 46000, Petaling Jaya.

Notice is also hereby given that should after 30 minutes and there is no quorum, the 5^th AGM will be postponed to 3.30pm on the same date, at the same venue with the same agenda. As this is an election year, we appeal to all members to attend this AGM to exercise your right responsibilities to vote for the year 2011-2013

Officer – Bearers.

AGENDA

1) President's address.

2) To read and pass the minutes of the 4^th AGM

3) Matters arising.

4) To receive and adopt the report.

5) To receive and pass the Financial Account of the Association'(Kuala Lumpur/Petaling Jaya Chapter) for the year ended 31^st December 2010.

6) Dissolution of the year 2009-2011 Committee.

7) Election of Returning Officer.

8) Election of Officer-Bearers for year 2011-2013.

9)To transact any other matters of which at least seven (7) days written notice have been given to the Secretary of the Association prior to the 5^th AGM.

10)President-elect's speech.

11)Adjournment of 5^th AGM

The Association requests all the members for the fullest support and attendance.

Your presence would be highly appreciated.

Thank you.

______________________

LAU SE HIAN

Secretary

Muar Andreans Association

Kuala Lumpur/Petaling Jaya Chapter

Email add: sehian_2002@hotmail.com

Tel No. 016-6906288

Fellowship Dinner

SAS OBA KL/PJ Chapter Fellowship Dinner at Lala Chong Restaurant Sg.Ayu Damansara Petaling Jaya, 6th October 2011, Time 19.00pm. Cost RM50 each. Call Mr.Lau Se Hian for confirmation. 016-690 6288

Happy Eid Mubarak

SAS OBA Committee Dinner

SAS OBA Committee Dinner and Meeting at Restoran BIBICIK No. 17J SS2/30 Petaling Jaya on Wednesday September 7th. 2011 at 19.30pm. From Lau Se Hian (Secretary)

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Notice of SAS MUAR OBA Annual General Meeting

SAS MUAR OBA Annual General Meeting on Saturday 18th June 2011, 10.00am, Venue : Bangunan Brother Robert, SMK St. Andrew, Muar.

AGENDA

1. President's address

2. To read and pass the minutes of the 17th AGM

3. Matters arising

4. To receive and adopt the Annual Report

5. To receive and pass the Financial Account for the year ended 31st December, 2010

6. Dissolution of the year 2009-2011 Committee

7. Election of Returning Officer

8. Election of Office-Bearers for year 2011-2013

9. To transact any other matters of which at least 7 days written notice have been given to the Secretary of the Association prior to the 18th AGM

10. Elected President's speech

11. Adjournment of 18th AGM

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A few hundred degrees separates this pool of fiery orange magma in Italy’s Mount Etna from its hardened, gray crust. At nearly 11,000 feet (3,353 meters)

A NASA image released on May 22, 2011 shows smoke billowing from Grimsvoetn, Iceland's most active volcano.

A plume of smoke rises from the crater of Mount Shinmoedake in the Kirishima mountain range of Kagoshima prefecture on Japan's southern island of Kyushu on February 4, 2011

A wisp of smoke escapes from Mount St. Helens’ dramatic eggshell-shaped crater after an eruption

A woman flee as Mount Merapi releases volcanic materials into the air in Cangkringan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010.

An Indonesian man watches as Mount Merapi erupts in Hargobinangun, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010.



Cleveland Volcano releases a plume of ash that rises almost 20,000 feet (6,000 meters) above the North Pacific Ocean

In this photo taken March 6, 2011 and provided by the US Geological Survey, Lava spatters above the fissure just west of the base of Pu'u O'o crater near Volcano Hawaii.

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 8, 2011 and provided by the US Geological Survey, a view looking down onto the northeastern vent of the Kamoamoa eruption is seen in Hawaii Volcanoes

Lava flows into a valley in southern Iceland near the Eyjafjallajökull volcano.

Lava free-falls into the sea from Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii, July 26, 2002.

Mount Bromo spews volcanic materials as it erupts in this aerial shot taken from an Indonesian Air Force airplane that flies over Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010

Mount Semeru

Pahoehoe lava flows on Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Residents of Irosin township, Sorsogon province, pause to watch at Mount Bulusan volcano as it spews ash two kilometers into the sky Monday Feb. 20, 2011

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Volcanic smoke rises from the crater on Mount Shinmoedake in the Kirishimna range on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011.

White smoke rises from the crater on Mount Shinmoedake in the Kirishimna range on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011.