Wednesday, August 30, 2006

China, CEOs and Toilets

Well, much like the Millenium Falcon going off into hyperspace, the past few weeks have turned into a nicely smoothed blur of China, logistics, sleep deprivation and jetlag.

I've spent a few days thinking about how to approach the description of such a multitude of experiences, and to be honest, I don't think I can. And if I was to try it would be another 3 weeks before anything gets published, so you'll have to make do with some bullet points.

- China's taking over the world.
- I now have a chairman Mao watch. He ticks twice a second.
- Despite paying an astronomical amount of money for MBA, photocopying is 10c a side.
- If you have a flat tyre in France it's best to keep driving. Otherwise new tyres will set you back a small african country's GDP.
- My housemates are absolutely amazing.
- We are having a party tonight.
- I never thought I would see this, but I have finally found a urinal-less male toilet. It is in the main INSEAD building. Personally, I think denying the fact that the sexes are blessed with different plumbing accessories is a step too far for sexual equality.
- France Telecom take 8 working days to connect Internet (still trying to determine whether Monday is a working day in France). So until then this will be sparse.

Highlight so far today has been doing a CareerLeader test. This is one of these things where you click innumerable boxes to be told how best you should seek out your fortune. Apparently I have a very strong match for being a CEO. No pressure there then....

PS. Blogger seems to be smart enough to know that I am in France, however, not smart enough to now that I don't understand half the menu options when they are presented in French. So until I figure out how to convince it I need English please excuse the typos. Or tell me the french word for spell check....