A team of three KDU students brought home a Gold Medal from the recent FHA in Singapore (read more about KDUs involvement). The Food Hotel Asia is one of the most prominent events in the hospitality world. Ooi Shar Mayn, Amanda Yuen and Julia Ung took part in the Dream Team Challenge and tell us, how they experienced the event.

 The last SHTCA  English Week (EW, pronounced ‘evee’) 2010 was a week long activity from the 22nd to 25th February. The closing ceremony was also attended by the CEO and Vice Principal of College. The event coincided with  public speaking finals, debates and a line up of karaoke finalists too. The choir and dance presentations programmes included added to the carnival like atmosphere where everyone thought it was a great entertainment event as well.

This year's Hot Cat Tour had a new element, a video competition.
Teams could submit short videos about tourist hot spots in KL.

We have received twelve such videos and enjoyed watching them immensely. Students were surprisingly creative and apparently had fun, too.

Unfortunately, only three of the teams could win. And here are...

Practice your way to a better French accent

By Laura K. Lawless, About.com Guide

http://french.about.com/od/lessons/a/pronunciation.htm?nl=1

A total of 2 lecturers, by the name of Ms. Nazaretha and Mr. Gabriel, and 31 students of KDU College majoring in Hotel and Tourism (BA2b and BA1f), took part on a trip to Pulao Langkawi from the 7th to the 9th of April, 2010 for an assessment of tour guiding skills for the subject called Operational Travel Business.
 
 These educational trips are part of the subjects’ syllabus and usually are accounted for 30% of the whole mark for the semester.

One of the events during our recent language week was the student video competition.

Teams of four students were to come up with ideas for short film clips of three minutes, that somehow revolved around the foreign language. They were then to shoot it and edit it into a short film.
There where more than a dozend submissions altogether, and a few we would like to show you here:

Chefs of IMI and KDU joined forces to create some seriously mouthwatering pieces of culinary art.
Here is a short video clip where you can see for yourselves, what Chefs Gerhard, Kenneth Kam, Lee and Shawn did in IMI's kitchens.

Dear participants of the (German) Karaoke Battle,

here are the six five songs that we will use in the karaoke competition. For the French side, please check with Mr. Bruno and Mr. Alan.

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