Mr. Chan Chun Sing, in my humble opinion, may well be the best Secretary General in NTUC we would ever have. He gave a talk in NTUC while I was still an IT Assistant Director there and to get the ball rolling, I tried to corner him with a tough question on social mobility. I felt he handled the question well and from a rhetorical perspective, balanced logos with pathos. He had to bridge the elite-union gap which was not easily done. On the whole,  he was logical but also connected with the union leaders and explained assortative mating in simple terms which I felt was very impressive. It was no accident that he soon become the Sec Gen of the organisation because he, too, came from humble beginnings. I would like to welcome Mr. Chan into the blogosphere. You can find his first article here. Now, that being said, ......