With more and more vegan and vegetarian options being favoured by many people nowadays for that healthier lifestyle, some of our GIS Alumni are now revolutionising the food industry with new and innovative ventures across Malaysia. Recently we met one of these Alumni, who is emerging as a very successful businesswoman in the food industry and has recently been featured in the TATLER Magazine showcasing her passion for food and her new business ventures. The Hungry Tapir is a product of...
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We were fortunate enough recently to have been able to catch up with Alumnus Daniel Veerapen (Class of 2004). A young music producer, director and film scorer, 35-year-old Daniel Veerapen produces music for a range of people and projects. Having worked on the score and music for various, big budget films, events and celebrity artists, he has won multiple awards for his music, most recently the prestigious FFM (Film Festival Malaysia) award for best music director in 2021. Daniel was also one...
The Royal Academy of the Arts Summer Exhibition in London is the world’s oldest open submission exhibition (it began in 1769!), displaying works in a variety of mediums and genres by emerging and established artists. In recent years, the exhibition has featured new works by artists from David Hockney RA to Tracey Emin. We were thrilled to hear that GIS Alumni Sabrina Brouwers from Class of ‘16 will showcase her painting of 'Crop Marks' at this prestigious exhibition this...
In another extremely competitive year, we are delighted by the success of our aspiring medics! We are very pleased to announce that our students have received offers to study Medicine from an impressive collection of universities including Newcastle, Southampton, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leicester, St George's University of London, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, University College Cork, as well as here in Malaysia at the Royal College of Surgeons and University College Dublin,...
We are incredibly proud to announce that Alumni Kasey Leong (Class of 2007) recently won the SOBA (Star’s Outstanding Business Awards) for ‘YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR - OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT’. We spoke to Kasey to congratulate him and find out a little more. Kasey, please tell us more about your journey after GIS After my IGCSEs at GIS, I did my Year 12 in Perth; followed by a double degree in Biotechnology (BSc) and Marketing (BCom) at Murdoch University. In...
Alumni Amanda Lim (Class of 2017) completed her BSc(Hons) Occupational Therapy with First Class Honours at the University of Liverpool last summer and was chosen to be the valedictorian at her cohort’s graduation ceremony. She is now working as an Occupational Therapist in the NHS, UK. Another wonderful success story of one of the most recent Alumni that we are incredibly proud of. Amanda, how were you selected as valedictorian? In the final year of my course, I volunteered...
We recently made contact with Jann Choy (Class of 2016), who graduated with First Class Honours in BA- Graphic Communication Design (with Creative Computing) from the prestigious Central Saint Martins, University of The Arts London, as well as having been awarded the MullenLowe Nova Award for her final year project. We talked to Jann about her journey thus far. You can read more about Jann and this award via this LINK. Jann, please tell us more about your journey after GIS I...
Alumna Kat Roshan, Class of 2020 is now based in California where she is currently studying at Idyllwild Arts Academy. Although aiming to read Psychology at university next year, she continues to write music and has recently released a Disney-style song called ‘Oasis’. Click this link to watch this music video by Kat: https://youtu.be/ySJ67GVIcX4 and this link if you would like to see Kat's work: https://katroshan.com/ Kat has also recently recorded 2 new EDM tracks produced...
GIS Alumni Community Discount Garden International School was established in 1951 with a clear purpose: to provide a world-class education for its students. Since then, thousands of alumni have received an excellent education at GIS, and thousands more will continue to. As a way of celebrating our ever growing community, we are excited to share our latest offer with our registered Alumni: the GIS Alumni Community Discount. We are pleased to announce that we will be extending the new...
Nik Kalif, Class of 2020 is a 19-year-old content creator from Malaysia who is currently studying Accounting and Finance in the UK. His YouTube channel has over 360,000 followers and features many custom keyboard builds, making him well known across the region for his videos. How did this initiative start? I started YouTube way back in 2013; a classmate and I decided to try to make YouTube content for fun. We had individual channels and naturally, our first videos were...