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COMMITTEE

Club Instructor

Sensei: Yakov Macak, Renshi 6th Dan
Sensei - Club Instructor
  • 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

Executive Committee

President: Richard Zhou
UMKC - Club President
  • Year Started Kendo: 2008
  • Currently Studying: Bachelor of Commerce
  • Place of Birth: Hunan, China
  • Interests: Kendo, Music, Soccer, Socialising etc.
  • LOTE: Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Quote: "I Wanna be the very best like no one ever was."
Vice President: Viet Hoang
UMKC  - Vice President
  • Year Started Kendo: 2005
  • Currently Studying: Bachelor of Environments (Architecture)
  • Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia
  • Interests: Design, Electronic Music (making and listening), Internet
  • LOTE: Vietnamese
  • Quote: "La cocaina no es buena para su salud." - Crystal Castles
Secretary: Jennifer Kuo
UMKC Secretary
  • Year Started Kendo: 2008
  • Currently Studying: Bachelor of Commerce
  • Place of Birth: Taipei, Taiwan
  • Interests: Cooking, travel, hanging out with friends
  • LOTE: Mandarin, Japanese
  • Quote: "We cannot change the hand we are dealt, just how we play the hand" - Randy Pausch
Treasurer: Richard T'en
UMKC - Club Treasurer
  • Year Started Kendo: 2009
  • Qualifications: Bachelor of Business (Professional Accountancy)
  • Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia
  • Interests: Kendo, gaming, cooking
  • LOTE: No
  • Quote: "This deck of cards is a little frayed around the edges, but then again so am I, and I've got fewer suits"
Armourer: Vincent Laiwin
Armourer
  • Year Started Kendo: 2009
  • Qualifications: Bachelor of Commerce
  • Place of Birth: Medan, Indonesia
  • Interests: Kendo, Gaming, Variety of Sports
  • LOTE: Mandarin, Bahasa Indonesia, Hokkien
  • Quote: "I reject your reality and substitute my own." -Adam Savage

General Committee

Publications Officer: Richard Loi
Publications Officer
  • Year Started Kendo: 2007
  • Currently Studying: Bachelor of Information Systems
  • Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia
  • Interests: music, sports, outdoor actvities, hanging out with friends, languages, design, cooking
  • LOTE: Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Malay, Indonesian
  • Quote: "Good Judgment comes from Good Experience, Good Experience comes from Bad Judgement!"
Social Events Officer: Vi Dinh
Social Events Officer
  • Year Started Kendo: 2008
  • Place of Birth: Perth, Australia
  • Interests: Squash, Tennis, Reading, Traveling
  • LOTE: Vietnamese, Mandarin
  • Quote: "It's never too late to be what you might have been." - George Elliot
Information Technology Officer: Tony Shearer
UMKC - Club IT Officer
  • 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
General Representative: Ben Tran
Photo coming soon
  • Year Started Kendo: TBA
  • Currently Studying: TBA
  • Place of Birth: TBA
  • Interests: TBA
  • LOTE: TBA
  • Quote: TBA
General Representative: Jessie Wen
Photo coming soon
  • Year Started Kendo: 2009
  • Currently Studying: Bachelor of Arts
  • Place of Birth: Beijing, China
  • Interests: Sports, Art, cooking, good times with friends
  • LOTE: Mandarin
  • Quote: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
General Representative: Nor Farhana Mohd Fauzy
Photo coming soon
  • Year Started Kendo: 2009
  • Currently Studying: Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical)
  • Place of Birth: Malaysia
  • Interests: Photography, Kendo, Internet
  • LOTE: Malay
  • Quote: “Maybe I don't have talent, but I made a point to discipline” -Anonymous