ECU Class2008 Bernard

Gathering on 25 June 2010

2010-06-25T21:06:00.001-07:00

Gathering 25 June 2010

We have a gathering on 25 June 2010 at Esplanade Makan Sultra. Kim Guan and Hor Yee were the organizer. We thanked both Kim Guan and Hor Yee for taking the initiative to make this gathering a success. Junie, Hwee Tuan, Fabian and me attended. After the makan session, we went to Mandarin Marina chilled out. I believed we all enjoyed the company and conversation. It was a pity that others had not joined in. Hope the next round, more people would make an effort and join us.

Get together at Fit Singapoe

2010-04-24T20:38:00.001-07:00

It has been quite sometime the class has no time to get together due to work or other reasons. Four of us took the opportunity and met up at the Fit Singapore Graduation Party at its office premises.

Gathering on 28th Dec 2009

2009-12-29T03:22:00.001-08:00

On 28th December 2009, six of us gathered at Raffles City Shopping Centre, Sudoku Restaurant for dinner, than proceed to K box for a session of crazy singing. The function was initiated by Stefanie, at first at least ten persons promised to attend; but on that day only six turned up. The rest have their reasons for their absent. The group was small, but we generated lots of laughter and fun in these few hours.

Gathering on 1 Oct 2008

2009-10-02T04:50:00.000-07:00

Benjamin Kan came back to Singapore to celebrate his mother's birthday. Classmates of ECU knew about it, and organized a gathering for him at the Makansutra at Espanade on 1st October 2009.

The Organizer was Junie. People attended were Marcus, Bernard, Kim Guan, Junie, Cheryl, Hor Yee, Alfred and Benjamin.

We were there tasting different types of local food, enjoying the laughters and old memories, as well as the sea breeze and night scene of Singapore sky scrapper.

We also celebrated Alfred's birthday in advance. This was the second consecutive years that we celebrated his birthday.

Several of us took photos and videos of this event.

Our TMI Premises gone

2009-06-16T20:50:00.001-07:00

The Disappearing Act

One day, by near curiosity, I decided to pay our old study premises a visit. It was a sunny afternoon, with my humble feeling, I would expect to see TMI still operating at it premises. No doubt they have pulled out from education business. But to my surprise, as I reached there, everything has changed! Long gone were those sweet TMI and ECU signboards!

The front entrance of the TMI office where our Mr. Mayappan was located, changed to a beauty join!

Our classrooms' entrance was locked with 'For Rental' sign sticking on it! This is the place where we used to congregate after every test and exam to discuss the answers of the test or exam.

The tower is around with new paint

The is a new sculpture at the courtyard.

This is the distant view of the courtyard.

Joseph Matte Visit

2009-04-11T20:20:00.001-07:00

Our Tutor Joseph Matte

Joseph visit Singapore on 11 April 2009, and met up with a group of us at Grand Park Hotel on the night of his arrival. We appreciate his presence. The night was full of laughter and fun, of course, rounds of endless Sake drinks too. We even made Alfred to dance in front of the crowd. Joseph is as usual, he is a guy (a big guy) full of big smiles, and friendly. We enjoyed the night. We also took the opportunity to celebrate Kim Guan's belated birthday. Thanks to the effort of Marcus and Junie. The following photographs recorded some of the people who were present on the night. There were few more who came in quite late, hopefully someone has taken their shots and share with us here.

The photograph above was taken by Hwee Thuan, the rest were captured by Chia.

gathering

2009-04-04T06:14:00.001-07:00

End of a process

2009-02-02T02:19:00.001-08:00

A milestone in life

Finally I received the official document from Edith Cowan University (Australia), that is my certificate on Bachelor of Science. I have proven to myself, if given opportunity, I would be able to achieve the target that I had set. Once again, I reached another milestone of life that I have set for myself.

Life without a target would be meaningless. Right?

I set another target, in several months time, I should be harvesting it. I am looking for to get it done. Cheer! To myself.

Happy and Prosperous Lunar New Year to Everyone

2009-01-19T06:47:00.001-08:00

Class 2008 Gathering on 10 Jan 2009

2009-01-10T08:01:00.001-08:00

Junie took the trouble to organize the BBQ on 10 Jan 2009 at Downtown East Chalet for us. We take this opportunity to thank her for her efforts to make this event a big success. I believed everyone went for the BBQ would agree with me, that the BBQ was a successful one. We have added another page of sweet memory to our 'Mind Bank'.

We enjoyed the jokes cracked by our Great Alfred, he made us almost burst our stomach whenever he threw out his unexpected statements. There were so much of food and liquor around. The night was filled with joy and fun.

Wish we would have this sort of fun more often. This would distress us from the hectic working life.

The early birds

The Traditional 'Yu Sheng' prepared by Junie.

Locked out

2008-12-03T01:59:00.001-08:00

Dear Gang,
We are officially locked out of all ECU website and related pages. Can't stop a sense of sadness right at the bottom of my heart. Graduating is DEPARTING.

English lesson

2008-11-27T07:03:00.000-08:00

If you want to learn English, follow this guy. If you not, don't be the participants. If you do not laugh, I buy you a drink, friends.

Please enjoy, the clip has English subtitles.

Comedy in Kitchen

2008-11-26T00:12:00.000-08:00

This was the fun we had while we were in the kitchen preparing food for dinner.

My wonderful classmates

2008-11-18T09:10:00.001-08:00

These are my wonderful classmates who went with me together to Perth in September 2008. They have provided me lots of wonderful and colorful memories to chew on.

Junie, Cherly and Jenny at the dinner table.

Wonderful Wayne with flower.

Portrait of Alfred.

Junie with a big smile.

The Zulu Chief, Alfred.

Alfred and the Golden Sand.

The Thinker, Hor Yee.

Second post of the Thinker, Hor Yee.

Please note that all these posts were not deliberately posted for my shots. They were all captured when the subjects were not aware. Except for two shots where Junie look at the camera and the one at the dinner table.

Hard work has paid off

2008-11-17T07:21:00.000-08:00

Finally, the results were out without any hint. With all the hard works and struggling, sweet reward was returned.

Hope everyone from our group as well as other groups who went to Perth at the same time got the same sweet results too.

My Artistic Approach to Wild Flowers of Perth

2008-11-07T04:21:00.000-08:00

During the stay in Perth, I took quite a number of shots with some concepts in mind, as I was planning to put up an exhibition to showcase my photographic works. These are some of the photos that I have taken for this purpose.

If you are an observant person, you may notice the texture on the leaves.
Take a closer look at these blooming flowers you would see the hairy characters in their petals.

These flowers were wild, they bloomed at the dividers along the route we travel everyday.

This is the close-up of them.

A macro shot on this yellow flower at Mr. Barry's Garden.

These beauties bloomed along the fence at the house where we stayed.

Kings Park and ceremony

2008-11-03T04:59:00.000-08:00

We spent a day at Kings Park and witnessed the 21 guns salute to the heroes of Australia. We were very impressed of the Aussie Army performance. This was a very memorable visit.

Burn Beach Fun

2008-10-31T05:55:00.000-07:00

We went to Burn Beach several times. First time we were there and played beach volley ball. This clip was the record of the activities. We went back two times to take sunset shots and games. The beach was so beautiful that I do not think any beach in Singapore could compare with it. It is NATURAL!

Another clip from the Biomech Lab

2008-10-31T05:54:00.000-07:00

This was Edmund performing in the Biomech Lab during our visit to ECU, October.

Practical Work in Biomech Lab

2008-10-30T19:41:00.000-07:00

This is a clip on classmate Hor Yee performing SSC movement with force plate in the Biomechanics Lab at ECU.

Deep Blue Sky

2008-10-29T07:52:00.000-07:00

When the weather was good in Perth, in October 2008, we used to see the deep blue sky above us. Not only the deep blue sky attracted me, the beautiful shapes of the clouds too. The shapes of cloud were so amazing, none of one was the same. They were so 3D, and not as in Singapore, those stale and pale white clouds, as if they were pasted on!

Look at the above shot, agreed to what I have said?

This was taken on the day we visited Fremantle. I believed this was the Burn Beach Ave (?)

This was the view taken right in front of where we stayed, MacNaughten. The Bin on the left was our waste bin. It was left there for one week without clearing, with reason only known to the cleaning company.

2008 IGA Perth Royal Show

2008-10-25T00:50:00.001-07:00

At the train station, Perth City.

This is a clip showing one of the talented electron musician, playing his creative piece of work at the Show.

Firework is always the Grand Finale for the closing of Royal Show in Perth. That day we purposely waited until 9 pm to watch the show. The weather was very very cold then. But we all were attracted by these fantastic fireworks, and forgotten the coldness etching on our body!

The crowded scene at the last day of Royal Show.

The human chicken Little!

Artistic Graffiti.

Hohoho, if you do not get up on your feet, you are going to be left behind!

I have got you on Candid Camera!

Hello, we have no teeth. The clown said.

Drinking ice cold Coke in chilling weather is a brave move.

Are you going to bit the machine?

In the madding crowd
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Speedy drive.

Junie and the big truck.

The blacksmith at work.

The senior mechanist.

I am a descendant from Zulu Clan.

The cartoon scene

A group of mad scientists.

Illegal eye surgeon at work.

In the train.

Perth City Scenes

2008-10-18T21:34:00.001-07:00

Perth City has lots of interesting buildings to look for. Here are some of them.

Swan River trip

2008-10-17T03:20:00.001-07:00

We spent one afternoon at Swan River Area exploring the strawberry farm, vineyard and chocolate factory. Unfortunately the weather that day was very unfriendly, we never have a chance to explore the outdoor orchard!

At the tourist centre, swan river

A colourful tree opposite the road of the tourist centre.

Colourful flower at the entrance of the strawberry farm

Wayne, the flower boy generation.

Strawberry 1

Strawberry 2

The chocolate factory sales outlet

Marcus at the scene

That was how chocolate made!

The award chocolate

Vineyard sales personal, sweet as the wine!

The potential customers

Wow!

Vineyard, not grave yards

The Drinking Buddies

Caversham Wildlife Park

2008-10-15T09:40:00.000-07:00

Caversham Wildlife Park seriously is not as it is named. Most of the animals are caged. It should be named as Perth Zoo. Anyway, I took the opportunity and captured lots of animal shots and plant shots. These are only some of them. Of course, I included my photo here too.

These birds are wild birds, they do not belong to the Park.

The tree is located outside of the Park, very interested shape.

Fremantle visit

2008-10-14T05:40:00.001-07:00

The first weekend at Perth, all of us decided to visit Fremantle and enjoy some nice mouth watering 'Fish and Chips'. Fremantle is one place that have lots of heritage buildings and traditions. It is also a busy fishing port. The western architectural structures were amazing. I regretted not to bring my DSLR to capture all these beautiful buildings. The sunlight at Perth during the month of September and October was idea for photography.

Main street at Fremantle.

Young Chinese artist generously allowed me to capture her on my camera.

All sorts of magnet stickers for sales in the shop.

Inside Fremantle market, scene 1

Front view of Fremantle market

My own shot infont of Fremantle Market. Thanks to Wayne for the shot.

Another shot of Fremantle Market

An unique building at the corner of Fremantle street.

Beautiful Pines

Fremantle Port view

The lonely gull.

Restaurant next to water front of Fremantle.

The feathered Post Master!

Portrait of Seagull.

Pictorial and scenic Fremantle.

One of the famous 'Fish and Chips' restaurent.

The Hotel.

The female street performer.

The Punk piper

Burn Beach Memories

2008-10-13T05:01:00.001-07:00

Burn Beach is only 10 minutes from where we live. The beach is famous for low tide to seek for all sort of shell and stone. Unfortunately, we went there several times, but it was not at low tide. Unknown parachute flew across the sky above of us.

The two hungry men.

The Sun-Dancer, Wayne Ang.

This bird hoover in mid air, at first, some of us thought it was a kite!

Potential beach ball girl.

The tide goer.

Free bath, the victim, Kim Guan.

Kim Guan after the soak.

A piece of abstract art from Nature.

Seed weeds.

The second sun.

Distant sea

The waves at Burn Beach are beautiful and powerful.

Beach ball session in progress.

Alfred enjoyed his sand bath.

Group photo at Burn Beach, 2008.

Kim Guan with sunset behind him.

The Golden Age.

Seeker.

The beach has a thousand feet.

A piece of Dali's work by Nature.

Ben and Jian Quan.

Sunset 1

Sunset 2

Sunset 3

The Rising Moon

ECU scenery

2008-10-12T08:11:00.001-07:00

The physiology lab

Side view of it

Another view

Campus view

Linear Art form

Serious Stuff

2008-10-12T06:48:00.002-07:00

The Welcoming Speech at ECU in front of the admin block.

Briefing the students on the campus site and varies departments.

Mr. Barry greeted the student at the staff pantry room.

Introducing the staff of ECU Sports Science Dept.

Marcus in deep thoughts during the lab session.

Test subject Alfred trying his best shot.

The library scene.

Bernard at the library.

Tutor giving instruction and explanations on whiteboard.

Junie was the test subject for the VO2 max test.

Wayne taking instructions from the tutor.

Benjamin in the air!

Alfred again in another test.

One of our young and handsome tutor in exercise physiology.

Joe, our group tutor, friendly and approachable.

Tutor for Biomech. She is very thorough and knowledgeable.

Someone in the air above the force plate.

Alfred tested on his strength and power on his right leg.

Bernard on the test.

Edmund with his concentric force.

Chief technician giving house rules before the lab sessions.

Junie preparing the test.

Our group at work during the Biomech lab.

Joe, the great tutor
One big happy family
Group shot taken at Barry G. BBQ session

This is a movie clip showing Bernard as the test subject during the power test at the Biomechanics Lab

Flowers around our house

2008-10-11T23:43:00.001-07:00

To my surprise, I found as many as ten to twelve different flowers around the house compound. Each of them has its own beauty and charming appeal. With the bees buzzing around in the morning sun, we really could appreciate how nature has it own arrangement in terms of life.

September 2008 Perth Stay

2008-10-11T21:07:00.000-07:00

We are all ECU (Edith Cowan University) Students from Singapore. We went to Perth ECU Joondaloop Campus for 2 weeks programs from 24th September to 11 October 2008. The eleven of us are: Junie Chua, Jenny Tan, Cheryl Chow, Marcus Tan, Wayne Ang, Kim Guan, Jian Quan, Benjamin Kan, Alfred Sim, Hor Yee and Bernard Chia (Me). We rented 2 8 seaters, and a house at 47, Mac Naughton Cresent, Kinross.

We spent 18 days at the house with tight working schedules from the U. Eleven of us were strangers before, but after the stay, we are like a whole big family. I believe the follow photos from the house would bring back lots of sweet memories as time goes by.
This is the front view of the house.
Another view front view of the house with the rented vehicle in front of it. Benjamin and Jian Quan were our appointed drivers who fetched us to and fro from campus as well as for other function. We appreciate their sacrifice and efforts in these tasks.
Our Landlord coming for inspection, when we check out on the last day.
Hor Yee (Nick name Horny) doing the cooking. He is fantastic, he could turn simple stuff to tasty meals. Horny, you are a great cook! : )
A panorama view of the kitchen, and dinning hall when we do our 'Chatek' session every evening. Benjamin, Wayne, Jian Quan and Jenny were the 'Regular' players.
This is the room, Wayne and I occupied.
Benjamin occupied in this couch.
Jian Quan and Kim Guan stayed here.
Hor Yee with the biggest body size, took this bed for two weeks.
Three ladies stayed in this room.
The washing area.
All males share this bath room daily. But we all use it whenever it is not occupied.