Monday, November 19, 2012

Indian Student Society Deepavali Event


The ISS (Indian Student Society) team members welcomed the guests in a unique way by making them light up the candles as Deepavali is a festival of lights.
The team of ISS from ERC Institute has recently organized their way of celebrating ‘Deepavali’ also known as ‘Diwali’ (The Festival of Lights) on 17th November 2012 successfully. There was an overwhelming crowd that attended the function which was held at our Institute. Despite the heavy downpour, the function commenced on time by traditional lighting-up by our CEO and the Executive Committee.

INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE:
Bharathanatyam is the traditional dance for the Indian community. The function commenced with Indian Classical Dance by Ms. S. Subhashini, currently a psychology lecturer with her graceful dance, showing different manifestations of Lord Shiva in her expressions. Her seven-minute performance was spectacular bringing a loud of applause. She also showed up her dancing skills not only in classical dance but also in western and traditional dances too.

MIME:
The highlight of the show was this MIME. It is acting a story through body emotions without any dialogue. Our team of 12 members sent a message to the audience by reiterating using mobile phones wisely. Even though the message was paramount, our boys delivered it in a hilarious way which was enjoyed by everyone.
DRAMA:

The mythical story of Deepavali was re-enacted by our students that depicted the rise of Deepavali. The costumes and accessories of the casts were unique and some of the drama team members were able to unveil their hidden talents by their emotional outpour during the drama.
There was also unconditional support from other private education institutes (PEIs) in their outstanding performance of dance, songs and music.

INTERNATIONAL FUSION DANCE:
One of the main highlights of program was the international fusion dance. The Chinese girls danced in traditional Indian sarees while the Indian boys danced for the Chinese traditional dance. There was an overwhelming support from the audience.
As the ISS has concentrated on not only the Indian students but also opened for all other nationalities to bring out their hidden talents. They also had external participants from other PEI’s such as JCU, NUS, PSB, AEC and MDIS students as performers in our SPARK FEST. We also had special guests and school representatives from Malaysia.
The ISS committee was pleased by the number of people who attended the function which surpassed 110.
The Spark Fest of ERCI Indian Student Society(ISS) was indeed a huge success.









Sunday, November 11, 2012

Gobbler Shop in ERC Institute

(30th October 2012)
On 30th October 2012, Gobbler shop visited ERC Institute for the first time to give monster savings to all ERCI staff and students. Hugely discounted items such as toiletries, cosmetics, snacks etc were among the cheap merchandises offered. Most of the items are discounted on a range of 50% to 70% as compared to the usual retail price. Indeed, this is a huge monster savings for all!


Student Council of ERCI volunteered at this bazaar co-organized together with Moove Media. The student leaders helped in handling the goods, merchandise display as well as selling all the goodies. Helping out at such a platform enables the Student Council leaders to have a first-hand exposure in understanding retail operations which encompass logistics arrangements, merchandise display, pricing and of course the techniques of selling to different types of consumers.

All our ERCI staff and students enjoyed the Globber Shop with products at huge monster savings and the convenience that they can do their shopping within the campus. This is definitely a successful collaboration effort with Moove Media. And we are already looking forward to the next Globber Shop!






Thursday, November 8, 2012

PHF Slipper Race – Let’s Walk The Distance

(4th Nov 2012)
This is the second year that we join the Project Happy Feet Slipper Race and it’s more special than previous year. This year, we garnered more lecturers to join us and our beloved CEO as well. Walking 4 kilometers is our new challenge for this year but the enthusiasm of the ERCI team has never faltered because to be able to do our part for charity is our privilege.


With a strength of 35 staff and students, the ERCI entourage was one of the loudest group cheering away on the Sunday morning at East Coast Park. The ERCI team was in either the ERCI corporate polo tee or Student Council t-shirt. This is our way of showing the unity behind the ERCI team spirit.

By attending this event, we played our roles to bring a smile to every kid who will benefit from this event. Besides that, we hope that these underprivileged children from Cambodia and Vietnam will have a better life and a brighter future.