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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2014
W H AT ’ S O N
Australia Embassy
A
ustralian Visa Application Centre, Level 25, Al Tijaria
Building Al Soor Street, Opp. Al Shuhada Garden
Sharq, Kuwait City. Working hours and days: 09.30 17.30 Sunday - Thursday. Submissions of new applications
can be made until 16.30 each day. The last hour of opening is
for decision letter collection only.
Website Address: www.vfs-au-gcc.com. Information email
ID: [email protected] Telephone: +971 4
2055900.
Contacts page on VFS website for Kuwait: (including map)
http://vfs-au-gcc.com/contactus_KBOQ.html.
Visa options for lodgement with VFS: (to download forms,
checklists, fee list) http://vfs-au-gcc.com/allaboutvisa.html
Embassy of Slovak
Republic
Christian Nakhle
Ambassador of France
Diplomats with the ambassador of France.
Fahad Al-Rashed,
school owner
T
he Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Kuwait informs
the public that due to the Public Holiday of the
Slovak Republic - ‘The Day of Struggle for Freedom
and Democracy’. The Embassy will be closed on Sunday 16,
November 2014 and the Consular Section will be closed on
Monday 17, November 2014. The Embassy will resume the
normal duties on Tuesday, 18-11-2014.
EMBASSY OF INDIA
I
n view of high rate of heart attacks in Kuwait among the
Indian Community, the Indian Doctors Forum will hold
an interactive function on heart related problems and
issues on Thursday, 20 November 2014 at 7 pm in the
Indian Embassy Auditorium. A leading team of Indian
Cardiologists will be present on this occasion. All members
of the Indian community are cordially invited to attend.
Light refreshments, tea/coffee etc. will be served on payment basis.
Fahad Al-Rashed with diplomats
Elie, pianist
Stephanie Cheng, pianist
Teachers at school
Kuwait Times
Calendar
of Events
November
28 Friends of CRY Club (FOCC), announces plans
for 2014 Chess Tournament for children of all ages
upto high-school. “CRYchess 2014” will be held at the
Salmiya Indian Model School (SIMS), Salmiya,
Kuwait,on Friday, 28th November 2014, from 0930 1630 hrs. The players will be allocated groups by
their age, to play in the Swiss pairing format. For
more details, registration forms, Rules of CRYChess
2014, visit www.focckwt.org or contact FOCC members.
22 - Kuwait Textile Association Bazaar - Held at
Sadu House on November 22.
22 - Kuwait English School Annual Bazaar - At KES
in Salwa, block 11 on November 22. Tables are KD
20.
28 - British Ladies Society Bazaar - At BSK on
November 28.
28 - Nominations are invited for ‘Pravasi Kalashri
Award’ instituted by the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka
Akademi (KSNA) for the year 2015 from Malayalam
theatre personalities in Kuwait. Non-resident Keralites
with more than 15 years of expatriate life in Kuwait
and have contributed significantly and comprehensively to Malayalam theatre may apply. Eligible candidates shall submit their full profile detailing their contribution to theatre with photographic support to the
KSNA Kuwait Chapter Ad-Hoc committee on or before
November 22, 2014. Out of the applications, two candidates shall be nominated by the Chapter to the
Central Executive of the Akademi in Thrissur which will
announce the winner of the award at its meeting on
November 28, 2014.
French School of Kuwait organizes ‘Piano Prestige’ concert
By Faten Omar
T
he French School of Kuwait organized a “Piano
Prestige” concert on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Kuwait and
France and the 25th anniversary of the establishment of
the French School of Kuwait.
“We wanted to celebrate this occasion in a cultural way
through several events. We had a seminar at Kuwait
University and Gulf University, and music was played on
the occasion of 50 years of diplomatic relations between
Kuwait and France,” French Ambassador to Kuwait Christian
Nakhle said during his speech at the ceremony on
Thursday evening.
Nakhle said they are supporting the French School of
Kuwait, where 12 percent of students are Kuwaiti in addition to French citizens and students of other nationalities.
“In the future, if there is any project for the expansion of
the branches of this school, we will support it with the aim
of spreading the French language in Kuwait, especially
since the new minister of education called for teaching
French to elementary school students in public schools,” he
explained. The owner of French School of Kuwait Dr Fahd
Al-Rashed announced the launch of the Kuwait-French
Friendship Society. Rashed said during the ceremony that
the Assembly supports the historical relations between the
two countries on economic and social issues.
He pointed out that the school has a strong relationship
with the French Embassy in Kuwait, where the school follows the French educational system under a joint agreement to ensure the quality of education and follow-up of
any update to the curriculum, which is supervised by the
French government and administered directly through the
agency of French education.
At the end of the ceremony, Taiwanese-American
pianist Stephanie Cheng and guest Elie played different
amazing pieces of music. Cheng has performed extensively
in the US, France, Italy, Japan and Taiwan to great critical
acclaim. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from
the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She joined
the faculty of the American University of Kuwait as an
Assistant Professor of Music in the fall of 2012.
28-29 - Street Fest 2014 will be held at a parking
lot in AlShaab AlKhaled area on Friday and Saturday
from 3pm to 10pm. Instagram @streetfestkuwait
Website: http://www.streetfestkuwait.com/
29 - 10K Charity Run organized by FSRI at the
Marina Crescent. Register at www.runq8.org Email:
[email protected]
December
8 - The 2nd Japanese Speech Contest co-sponsored
by Embassy of Japan and Kuwait University has been
rescheduled from October to Monday, December 8th,
2014 at the auditorium of National Library of Kuwait
as follows:
Date and Venue
17:30, December 8th, 2014 National Library of
Kuwait
Eligibility
1) 16 years of age or above, residing in Kuwait.
2) Neither one of his/her parents is native Japanese
speakers.
3) The one who won the first place since Japanese
Speech Contest in March 2014 is not eligible.
Contest
1) Beginners-Intermediate Learners Contest 2)
Advanced Learners Contest
Application deadline November 16th, 2014
The application form needs to be submitted with a
summary of your speech.
Prize. A winner of “Advanced Learners Contest” will
be awarded the prize of one return ticket from Kuwait
to Japan by Etihad Airways.
Application / inquiry
Embassy of Japan
Mrs. Yasmin / Omaima
25309458/25309400.
[email protected]
Guiding of the Contest Application form can be
downloaded from our website. (http://www.kw.embjapan.go.jp/index_ar.htm)
ACK Engineering students participate
in the ‘PetroBowl’ competition
S
tudents from the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) School of Engineering - were awarded second place
in the annual “PetroBowl” competition organized by
the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) at Al-Habarah
Center of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).
PetroBowl is a fast-paced quiz competition whereby
students from competing schools are challenged to
answer both technical and non-technical questions associated with the oil and gas industry. The panel of judges was
comprised of distinguished industry professionals in
Kuwait. Bringing together academic institutions and businesses with a focus on the oil and gas sector, Dr Saad
Balhasan - Head of Petroleum Engineering Department at
ACK - described the event as an academic motivator for
Speed cartoonist Jitheshji ‘infotains’ Arpan audience
film has the song ‘Why this kolaveri’
but do not know the significance of 3
(the film’s title), say, there are 3 primary
colors and human color vision is
trichromatic. And he carefully avoids
the trinity in Christianity and the
trimurti in Hinduism.
By Sunil Cherian
I
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young future petroleum engineers and also as an amazing
platform to exchange knowledge.
The PetroBowl competition has grown in size and popularity internationally since its debut in 2002 and is hosted
annually in Kuwait. ACK would like to congratulate the
School of Engineering and its students, looking forward to
their participation and success in next year’s competition.
t is a potpourri of several things. You
get to see the cartoons in a blink
while the speed cartoonist fills your
ears with information with his waterflow talk. Cartoon, for the first time, is a
stage show, and mind you, not a cheap
one, in Jitheshji’s stage shows. The
speed cartoonist - he has a world
record of drawing 50 caricatures in 5
minutes - was in Kuwait this weekend
to take part in ‘Raag ‘n’ Rachna’,the stage
show and cartoon workshop organized
by Arpan, Kuwait.
Telling cartoons
In the Arpan program on Friday at
the Indian embassy auditorium,
Jitheshji captivated the audience by
drawing celebrities they called out.
After a fast sketch of PSY, the Gangnam
Style Korean singer, he called a young
boy to the dais to name the figure on
the board. When the boy said PSY, the
master cartoonist elaborated it as Park
Jae-sang before triggering the next
question, what is the national song of
India? The young student was silent
and the cartoonist half-jokingly said
people nowadays know which Tamil
GK through a few lines
This is Jithesh’s style. Entertaining
and educating. When drawing Gandhi,
he would write the year 1869, Gandhi’s
birth year, on the board. The number 1
is the trademark Gandhi stick while 8
forms his eyes, 6 his nose and 9 his
ears. As the caricature Gandhi is evolving, Jithesh would be enlightening the
audience with the other significances
of the year 1869. General knowledge
through a few lines is his technique.
“We remember anything funny.
Learning through images also stays in
our memory. Cartoons serve both
these,” he said.