KDU College students are asking everyone to walk under their umbrella – Walkabrella that is. As part as their academic project, 95 public relations students from the Diploma in Mass Communication program are organizing a fund-raiser for their CSR project. The name Walkabrella comes from the phrase Walk-for-a-Cause and the word umbrella! The umbrella actually represents us! The whole idea of this cause is to create awareness among the public about Cerebral Palsy (CP) and to highlight the plight of those living with CP. They also aim to have the largest participation in such event and make it to The Malaysian Book or Records.

Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-kanak Cacat Taman Megah (PPLLCTM) is the selected home as the beneficiary of their project. A total of 138 children from the home are orphans or from difficult family background. And most of them are diagnosed with various disorders such as Down Syndrome, Dwarfism, and intellectual disabilities. Join their cause to help spread the awareness…

Date                 :   6^th December 2009 (Sunday)

Time                :   8.00amd to 1.00pm

Venue              :   Central Park, Bandar Utama

Fee                   :   RM 10.00 / per participant

Freebies           :   Umbrellas % Goody bags!

Do you have any plans this Halloween? No? If you don’t than come celebrate this spooky day with HELP International Collage of Technology for their Trick or Treat Halloween show! There will be a food bazaar, shows by talented students of the college performing dancing and singing, and so much more!

And not only that, there will also be a food bazaar before called Autumn Fest on the same day at 1pm to 5.30pm! So the place to be is the top floor of Klang Parade Shopping Mall on the 30^th October 2009 from 6.30 to 8.30pm!!! Every entry cost just RM5 and you can have all the fun as you want!

Watsup everyone! Guess what? USM recently won 5 awards at the British Invention Show 2009. Chew Kuan Khoon, who invented a new synthetic composite for injectable bone replacement material; Steven Lim, who came up with a novel route for the conversion of waste polymers into fuels and chemical feedstock; and Seah Tiong Chai who formulated a potential novel malaria vaccine containing blood stage specific epitopes, are the students who helped bagged those awards! Congrats guys!

Let’s have a little fun and whole lots of trick! Fun-Test-Trick comes from the word “fantastic” was created by a very special gang of students from Taylor’s College with their very own event company called 360° The Event Company. The company in partnership with National Kidney Foundation of Malaysia and Subang Parade will be having an event called Fun-Test-Trick on the 31^st October 2009 from 10am to 9pm at Subang Parade. There will be a mini carnival with fun activities and games install for everyone.

It’s Cancel, not Cancer – that is the name of an event held by Taylor’s College School of Communication Petaling Jaya associate with the National Cancer Society Malaysia and MAKNA. This event is to raise awareness of cancer among the young people, specifically students from the tertiary education.

Across the sea and ocean and the entire mountains pass, there is something called University of Cambridge. INTI International College Penang (IICP) is now offering the Cambridge General Certificate of Education (Advance Level) from January 2010 onwards.

It was recently launched and students with their parents came to hear and see it for themselves. The course covers 4 semesters in 18 months and students can get RM500 course waiver if they register on the launch day. Other fee waiver and scholarships are also offered for this course.

Hello everyone! How’s Raya so far? Although it’s almost ending but it feels like the Ramadan season is still in the air with delicious aroma from the chicken rendang! Our friends at KDU celebrated Raya by visiting the Persatuan Rumah Amal Cahaya Tengku Ampuan Rahimah in conjunction with its “Bread Story” project.

The team of KDU students, staff and parents visited the Home and delivered yummy muffins. Dress in pretty pink, the older girls and the younger girls at the Home played, learned, celebrated, and also munch on delicious cookies with the KDU team.

Most of the kids are either orphans who were neglected or abused or the family are too poor to care for them. Doesn’t that make us think a little – that not everyone can have family and new clothes every year?

Are you smart enough? Because some lucky students from UCSI University were rewarded for being smart! On the 29^th September 2009, 426 lucky UCSI students were presented with certificates and scholarships worth RM 2.95 million – that’s like almost RM 3 million! One of the students was Tiew Kee Yee who received the Tan Sri Ahmad Razali scholarship. Tiew was one of the 426 students that were not only smart and have outstanding academic achievements but they are also active members in extra-curricular activities. All the scholarships fully cover the fees and etc throughout the student’s duration at the university. Wow!

Run Forest, run! Run for your life! In conjunction of PAWS Malaysia, Sky Adventure Club of Taylor’s University College will be running a charity fund raising event called the AdventuRUN 2009! The whole idea of this event is to incorporate the spirit of adventure in a run. Moreover, all profits will be donated to the animal-friendly, PAWS. It’s to help raise, not only funds but also awareness on the deteriorating welfare of domestic pets. This event also brings fun with performances and games sessions. So, let’s put our hands and legs together to help our four-legged friend at Taman Tasik Permaisuri, Cheras on the 4^th of October 2009 at 6am to 12pm. Don’t miss it!