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COMMITTEE |
Club Instructor
| Sensei:
Yakov Macak, Renshi 6th Dan |
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- Year Started Kendo: 1978
- Place of Birth: Mooroopna (Victoria) Australia
- Interests: Bonsai, Reading Sci Fi/Crime fiction, Kites.
- LOTE: No
- Quote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana
"We learn from history that we do not
learn from history." Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
"History is more or less bunk." Henry
Ford
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Executive Committee
| President: Viet Hoang |
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- Year Started Kendo: 2005
- Currently Studying: Masters of Architecture
- Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia
- Interests: Architecture, design, photography, food, languages
- LOTE: Vietnamese, learning Mandarin
- Quote: "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -Albert Einstein
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| Vice President: Andrew Lam |
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- Year Started Kendo: 2000
- Current Employment: Department of Primary Industries (Victoria)
- Place of Birth: London, UK
- Interests: Kendo, Snowboarding, travel, photography.
- LOTE: Cantonese
- Quote: "It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports.What's tough is being good every day." - Willie Mays
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| Secretary: Takeshi Hartono |
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- Year Started Kendo: 2009
- Currently Studying: Bachelor of Science
- Place of Birth: Kew, Victoria, Australia
- Interests: Kendo, Games, Music, Anime
- LOTE: Japanese
- Quote: “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” - Lance Armstrong
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| Treasurer: Kevin Chin |
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- Year Started Kendo: 2010
- Current Employment: Working as Business Development Manager at Omate Pty Ltd
- Place of Birth: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Interests: Kendo, Systems Dynamics, Pedagogy
- LOTE:English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Malay, Japanese
- Quote: "All I know is that I know nothing." - Socrates
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| Armourer: Brian Luo |
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- Year Started Kendo: 2011
- Currently Studying: Bachelor of Science
- Place of Birth:Melbourne, Australia
- Interests: Kendo, Futsal, Guitar, Gaming
- LOTE: Cantonese, Shakier Japanese than Dhanish
- Quote: "If you don't think you made a mistake you are not trying hard enough."
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General Committee
| Social Events Officer: Slavco Jovanovski |
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- Year Started Kendo: 2011
- Currently Studying: Master of Architecture
- Place of Birth: Prilep, Macedonia
- Interests: Kendo (+ other martial arts), Games, Music, Art, Anime, Hanging out with Friends, Travel, History and various Space Sciences.
- LOTE: English, Macedonian and partially fluent in other Slavic languages.
- Quote: "I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer."
— Aryeh Frimer
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
— Gandhi
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| Information Technology Officer:
Tony Shearer |
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- Year Started Kendo: 2004
- Place of Birth: Castlemaine Victoria
- Interests: Martial arts, music, golf, nana naps, photography
- LOTE: HTML
- Quote: "When you see a worthy man, endeavour to emulate him. When you see an unworthy man, examine your inner self" - Confucius
"The problem with quotations on the Internet is you can never be sure they are attributed correctly." - Benjamin Franklin
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Publications Officer: Richard T'en |
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- Year Started Kendo: 2009
- Place of Birth: Carlton, Australia
- Interests: Hitting people with sticks, internet memes, gaming, clothing, design, Australian taxation law.
- Quote: "Life is short."
A good reply: "What do you do that is longer?"
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General Representative: Yan Ling |
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- Year Started Kendo: 2010
- Currently Studying: Bachelor of Arts
- Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia
- Interests: Kendo, Soccer, Eating, Sleeping
- LOTE: Gaijin-ben Japanese, Chinese
- Quote: "When you are defeated you haven't lost the fight, you have been given a lesson in better Kendo by your opponent."
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General Representative: Dhanish Dangkomen |
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- Year Started Kendo: 2009
- Currently Studying: Bachelor of Arts (Psychology / Creative Writing) + DipLang (Japanese)
- Place of Birth: Bangkok, Thailand
- Interests: Digital Art, Narrative Fiction and Poetry, Music
- LOTE: basic Thai; very shaky Japanese
- Quote: "How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;" - Alexander Pope
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General Representative: Meera Chandrananth |
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- Year Started Kendo: 2010
- Currently Studying: 3rd year Biomed at Melb Uni
- Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia
- Interests: Tennis, Classical indian dancing, reading
- LOTE: Japanese
- Quote: "There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for" - Samwise Gamgee
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