met up with quite a few singaporeans, zhirong, lubna and michelle on the way to school today. was a rather uneventful day today, just got some preliminary reading from the used bookstore to take home and spend some time productively. but of course jack welch from ge came down to lse, and everyone wanted to see him. and there was a good-sized queue at the old theatre

"you're gonna get a degree from lse and be ready to swing, so why be cautious!"

well i would be, mainly because of some in-built humility and that tad fear of embarassment, but all in all it was a rather ra-ra talk and i'm really surprised someone like him would sit in a small theatre seating maybe 200 at the most, and give a nice intimate public dialogue, and of course the questions keep coming, there doesn't seem to be an awe of great public figures here. and of course, the banter between the chair, mr welch and the audience did keep us all entertained, as one of the symbols of corporate america answered questions on corporate ethics and responsibility, free-market economics and the education of inner city kids. the indians seemed to enjoy themselves the most because ge is a huge thing in india, employing maybe 35,000 people in high value jobs like r&d.

had good bee hoon for dinner, and after that the lazy hours basically just floated away.