Saturday, April 2, 2016
Recently, I did some search on buying baby wipes in Singapore. Here are my findings:
Two of my three friends told me to buy them in Baby Fair. Based on the most popular recommendation, I decided to make trip to Baby Fair at Expo. I found that Guardian had a big booth selling diapers, wipes etc. They had scheme on wipes which were costing $2 for pack of 3*30 i.e. 90 wipes. I found out that the big pack contains 90 sheets and comes in bundle of 3 packs, hence total 270 sheets together. I had bought few packs but they soon ran out and that was a learning. This time idea was to buy more so that stock does not run out quickly. Again the analysis happended and here are the findings. Only restriction was Johnson Baby Wipes as my wife did not want it owing to its
foul sell, rest most brands seemed good.
| Store | Pack | Price | Brand |
| Baby Fair | 3*90 | 6 | Guardian |
| Guardian Online | 3*90 | 5.1 | Guardian |
| Red Mart | 3*90 | 8.8 | Kodomo |
| Fair Price Online | 3*90 | 6.68* | Fairprice |
| Qoo10 | 3*90 | 7.35 | Lucky Baby |
This table was picked up based on availability and cheapest wipes. Clear winner is Guardian, wipes are made in Malaysia and are of very good quality.
*Fairprice had a pack of 200 sheets, price has been interpolated
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Because of decent salary quoted for freshers, for a moment I thought I will recommend it to few students. However, I decided to check the company and what I saw seems fishy, very fishy. Here are my pointers on why I thought so:
- B.tech / BBA/ B.com/ Fresher/UG
- Any Undergraduate/Graduate/Post Graduate
In fact no employee could be found on LinkedIn.
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Companies
coming to campus
Easy to crack, just be better
than competition
ü
Extra certification
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Go with live projects in same field
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Get them early via internship
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Prepare well and talk to alumni for tips
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Off
campus
Tough to crack
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Have great online presence
ü
Look out for job portals
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Make friends with students of other campuses
for info
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Build brand through conferences
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Aspiring
companies
Tougher to crack
ü
Mail your resume with difference, video resume
ü
Look for internship opportunities
ü
Reach professionals via Linkedin
ü
Go with plan : How you can be bring fresh
ideas immediately
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Dream
Companies
Toughest to crack
ü
Go with project with clear deliverables
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Community Project and contribution
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Media presence
ü
Experience of running own startup
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Experience - When you want to go for dream companies, go for the kill.
Competitions - Companies sponsor lot of inter college competitions especially big ones, make sure you participate and win. It is natural way to making a genuine candidature.
Ready Projects - Prepare a report on how your new, fresh idea can change a company's approach. Prepare well.
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Saturday, August 15, 2015
Dear Mr. Arvind Kejriwal,
1. Freebies - Right from Day 1, I have heard a lot about giving freebies. Water, internet, electricity, 50 cr amnesty scheme, more compensation etc
To me it is new age corruption and politics - in spite of promoting co sharing of services if we give everything free, it will make people lazy and demand everything free. Yes they may vote for you but shelling out dozens of money free is new age corruption, difference being rather than giving from back door you give them same public money from front.
2. Jobs, economy - I unfortunately did not hear AAP getting more corporates to setup base in Delhi, giving environment to startups, creating specific zones like GIFT, BKC (applied for) to get financial companies in Delhi. A Delhite today go to Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune or Hyderabad for jobs or I see my friends moving to Gurgaon because of corporates being there and they cant handle mess on Delhi roads for 2 hours each way from office daily. Traders are still unhappy in Delhi.
3. Real Issues -
i) Drinkable water - Issue is not that we want free water, we want drinkable water, never heard anything of this sort from AAP in recent times.
4. Corruption
i) I read news that 500 old crores INR was spent on your publicity from people fund, if you are not taking that money through back door and investing in politics. It is real example of new age corruption by diverting money for vote bank which could have been utilized for betterment of society.
5. Politics - AAP has said that they do not wish to indulge in politics. Going to ex-servicemen for OROP is politics and gain publicity only when matter is with central govt.
I saw Facebook of AAP criticizing Central Govt for non Delhi related matters, you do your work why indulge in politics?
You have done good work in raising hopes and I salute you for it. Creating more schools, hospitals is step in positive direction. However, quality of current schools is something that worry me the most. Anyways, it would be useful to have your views on above. I would be happy if I can be of help towards betterment of Delhi along with you. I know you and your team want better Delhi. I have been bit harsh in this letter but want to share my, my friends view through this mechanism.
Saumya Aggarwal
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Saturday, August 8, 2015
You use bulky washing machine for laundry which occupies big shape at one corner of your office? No, I am not talking to replace it but a handy tool which can help mop up small stains, and is small enough to carry in any bag.
Machine is just like electric shaver which is good solution to dig out stains of ketchup, food when you are out in office or shopping. It is brought by Haier and it works in less than 2 mins. It operates on batteries and use water with detergent to work the magic quickly.
How much you are willing to pay for this innovation?
It is reportedly to be available at initial offer of less than 100 SGD in the market, certainly attractive to make it household product. I believe its FBI that works well for this product.
1. Functionality - Useful functionality specially when out of home and need quick fix. Since there is need, this solution rings the right bell.
2. Buyer - Being affordable makes it very attractive buy. We do not always calculate the odds of running embarrassing situations however to have insurance in your pocket does not harm.
3. Innovation - Product is result of modern day innovative and may turn into want for large office goer population.
Saturday, August 8, 2015 1
Mr. Modi with much cheer became Prime Minister of biggest democracy in the world last year, entire world bowed and Indian economy finally looked to go on upward trajectory. One year after, the road looks bumpy. What has changed or is it nothing has changed, is the new government similar to previous scam hit rule, I have too many questions in my mind. Lot of experts have shared their views, here is what I think in what I call CAT.
CAT - Congress, Attitude, Time.
1. Congress - Main opposition party and previous ruling party in India seem to be blocking every thing and creating demonstrations which make little sense. They were hit by major scams during their rule but not playing constructive opposition does not seem to be doing Indian Economy any good. BJP, now ruling party has majority in Lok Sabha but needs good opposition for better world in Rajya Sabha.
2. Time - It takes time to change things in large economy like India. Previous ruling party Congress tried to bring changes however coalition government was not very successful. They did good work in first UPA tenure but lot of it got lost in second tenure (2009-14) and now with new vision and ease of good doing business, Tourism promotion, Infra push - I believe it will take atleast 2 yrs to run the growth engine at full speed.
3. Attitude - People attitude towards own nation need to change. Be more professional and do, mean more business. Instead of seeking freebies, lets play our role in constructing economy - make it more safe, work hard and do your bit for cleaning India (Swatchh Bharat Initiative).
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Well, life begins in Singapore for me. Internal transfer to look into different segment of clients and geography within Bloomberg. Singapore has been on a high start in 2015 and since I have moved I have found ways to work on social issues here which I intend to post subsequently.
Apart from finding houses, one of first thing I had to do was to remit money in India to take care of my last bills there. I checked with few NRIs here and did lot of research online, none could give me better answer than DBS or Indian Bank ICICI. I was about to go for obvious choice of DBS as ICICI has hidden charges in SGD for transfer. However I decided to do last round of check, SGD to INR rate given by many banks were way different, here is my summary.
Axis Bank: 44.9
DBS: 45.33
HDFC: 45.31
ICICI: 45.58
Remit2India: 45.45
SBI SP: 45.37
Yes Bank: 45.17 + 0.50
Kotak: 45.60
Honestly, when I loved above I could not find out why Axis Bank is even competing. DBS does remit the money instantly which is best among all offerings. ICICI on other side has transfer charges which makes it incompetent to other banks. SBI being government bank was out of list as I do not expect good service, then my eyes were caught by new generation Indian banks Kotak and Yes. Kotak upon further research made me feel that rates were different however due to promotion Yes Bank turned out to be best. I immediately filled the service application and understood they use Remit2India/Timesofmoney engine only but somehow give better rates than them. Relationship manager was quick to respond however filling the form was a pain as they did not take Singapore number correctly and IT usability was all of the place of the website. Finally the money got
transferred successfully and I am happy to have used Yes Bank.
Please share your insights on getting best exchange rates for remitting money to India.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 0
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