11-10-2012

My luggage 

garage in the central of london

residential area for londoners

dlkwlowe company

walking around london streets

my last meal of kfc dinner in london. 3 sauces available for KFC

strawberry in london is cheap, juicy and sweet

the street to walk back russel square

It is the last full day in London where everyone is starting to miss the country, London. I believe that everyone will be having their london memories that they obtained during the past few days.
Morning is the time where we do our usual stuff like eating English breakfast or bathing or having the morning "sickness".
It is the day where we have to present our presentation slides to Richard to have a better understanding of the things that we are going to accomplish when we touched down singapore. Besides that, everyone is starting to take out their small paper notes to learn or memorize the tag line that they suppose to say during the presentation. British has its own rule of presentation. They have limits in their presentation slides which mean they only have 15 minutes in completing the slides that they suppose to present to their businessman, investor or many more. If they have exceed the limit, they will be told to stop the presentation. Thanks god that our presentation have went well as we are able to sum things up within the time limit and mr Richard seems to be interested with the prototype that we are going to implement and the security features that we are going to implement to the three e-learning platform that we are going to research on( moodle2, blackboard, integrated visual learning environment). With the things that he have comment, I should seek help from those people who are in the security course and seek assistant as to enhance the report.
After the presentation, mr Richard brought us to south keingston to visit a company. The company name is dlkwlowe. They are in charge of creating advertisement for certain company, such as stroke awareness and Morrisons. Morrisons market share decline and they help the company to grow share and transformed it into Britain's fastest growing supermarket. This shows that marketing play a part in increasing the awareness in the public and the sales growth in the future run. Marketing should be classified as
1) advertising
2) pricing
3) strategy
4) product
5) branding
6) analysis/ audit
7) research

The presenter have been emphasizing that account handlers is important because they are the one who approved the budget for certain advertisement campaign that the production team have brought up.
After the presentation that the company have given us, I decide to walk back to the hotel for a rest before heading towards another lesson in UCL. It is not a lesson that we have in UCL but it is rather an enterprise talk. Entrepreneur said that business should not start at a young age as they required to gain some industrial skills and work part time as to manage the company funding. No matter how small is your company is going to be, black and white( legal paper) is important when you are talking business deal or terms so that you will have a back up to cover yourself from being in trouble.
Overall, I have learnt that there is some different between singapore and London business mind. In singapore, entrepreneur said that business should be encourage to start at a young age which is 18 and do not required to gain some industrial skills. Based on the knowledge that I gained while working in singapore, I believe that Londoners is wiser to set up business as they want to have a foolproof business plan as to cover themselves and ensure that their business will be going smoothly. After all, we learnt that no pain no gain. Therefore, entrepreneur have to undergo a harsh path before calling them a successful entrepreneur.
After the talk, I decided to meet up my london friend and we walked around pacadilly circus. Besides that, I have my first KFC meal in London. The meal was so big which enable two of us to share.
This is how I end my last full day in London. It is time to pack our luggage.