Best employers in Singapore 2011

Source: Aon Hewitt 


Here goes the list for Singapore. I think they've either excluded the MNC's or their survey methodology doesnt take 
big wigs like Google, MS or local giants SIA, ST, Singtel. 


Outstanding

1. Ritz-carlton
2. McDonalds

Best employees

1. Hilti Far East Pte Ltd
2. Singapore food industries 
3. TATA consultancy
4. American Express
5. CITI Bank
6. Federal Express
7. ITE
8. Intercontinental
9. Marriot Hotel
10. Bain & Co SEA
11. Singapore prison service

Best employers in India 2011

Source: Aon Hewitt

As per their recent survey, below is the list. Surprisingly the IT firms in the list are just three (Wipro, Mindtree & NIIT). Rest of them are manufacture segment or Telco's. Sounds strange but seems pretty good indication for the future. Management consultancies, Finance firms couldn't get their share as we normally see in developed markets. If we're to take this as a true reflection at ground, then the days of dream job in an IT firm seems to be over and hopefully we'd see more and more conglomerates will found their place in the list.

1. Hindustan Unilever Limited
2. Aditya Birla Group
3. LG Electronics Ltd
4. Godrej 
5. Bharti Airtel
6. NTPC
7. Becton Dickinson India
8. Aircel
9. Wipro
10. Marriott India
11. Kotak Mahindra
12. Scope International
13. Dr Reddy's
14. Whirlpool India
15. Maruti Suzuki
16. Canon India
17. Ford India
18. Tata Teleservices
19. MindTree
20. NIIT

PAP returns to power.. No surprises

No surprises as expected. Singaporeans in general are quite a matured lot and it proved once again yesterday.

Opposition managed to get a GRC for the first time and managed to keep Hougang. But they've lost one of their strong hold, Potong Pasir. Congratulations for Aljunied team & all the winners. For the rest, I believe they've done a very good job, especially Nicole Seah & Kenneth.

This is the best one can see in any nation. The entire elections process done in less than a month time :)

Singapore general elections 2011. Waiting for results now

Finally the elections are over and all polling stations closed.

Now waiting for the results. The results will be broadcasted Live in major channels (Channelnewsasia, vasantam, suria, Channel 8 & 5) from 09.30 PM onwards.

I think this is the most tensed & hotly debated elections in Singapore during my observation so far (from 1991 onwards) and I'll be watching CNA too.. Just hope no surprises and candidates will get what they deserve..

iPad - Missing App Store or Safari or Genius..

Ok. After one day, I've problem with the iPad. Basically the "App Store" icon on the home tab went missing. I've tried Googling but no solution. I restarted, tried uninstalled the most recent app. But ended up with No Safari icon too.

Then followed the engineering process :). The problem is the applying "Restriction".

Go to Settings > General> Restrictions. If you select any of them, this is reflected with hiding respective icons.

So I've enabled restriction for "Deleting Apps" then App Store went missing. Enabled for "Safari" then Safari icon went missing. My idea of the restriction is not to let any one change the settings without authorization. But somehow the Apple took it literally by hiding the app totally.

Finally purchased the iPad...

I am not a "i-Fan". But I realized the benefits of having a tablet, especially for my baby. Purely for educational purposes and trust me, you won't regret buying one.

I tried Motorola Xoom, Galaxy 7" as well as other less known brands. But finally I opted for iPad. This is my first purchase of "Apple" product and I hate to say that now I am purchasing the "accessories" to connect a thumb drive/SD card.

I opted for a Wi-Fi only tab because this will be mainly used at Home. So saved couple of hundred bucks there. So far the experience is wonderful and battery seems pretty solid too. I've been using it since this morning (5.30am) and after almost 4 hours still left around 60%.

Most dangerous destinations in the world

Source: Forbes

The list goes as below. While it is very unfortunate to have such situations in any place on the planet more specifically I am quite sad due to the fact that the list contains the names of Pakistan & Sri lanka in the list. These countries were part of the most beautiful, resource rich, culturally diverse & highly peaceful nation on the planet "Bharata Varsha". While the situation in India is not grave but its not that better compared to many of these nations. I just pray that we don't even have to have such list in the future..God bless all..

• Sudan
• Liberia
• Lebanon
• Chad
• Haiti
• Sri Lanka
• Burundi
• Pakistan
• Cote Divorie
• Democratic Republic Of Congo
• Afganistan
• Iraq
• Somalia

Singtel MIO did it again.

Not quite sure what is going with the system but the MIO TV went down last night. There was supposed to 'the match' in La Liga between Barcelona vs Real Madrid (0200 hrs Singapore time) and the 'popular PINK screen" started to display.

I believe the "PINK SCREEN OF DEATH" or "PSOD" will be as popular as the BSOD of Windows NT soon.. By the way did you guys realized that MIO TV using Microsoft Media room as the backend system ;)

B-RAS Market status - Market share, Competitors, Growth prospects..:)

I was trying to update myself on the B-RAS market and would you believe what Google search results showed me?

It's "Wonder BRA"

LoL. Just like the names such as "expertsexchange or MoleStationNursery" I didn't realized that I was searching for B-RAS and it became "BRAS". Bonus are the picture results :)

Coming to the 'technology' area, I remember it was Alcatel who was the market leader in 2009-2010 closely followed by Huawei. Also Redback (now acquired by Ericsson) have sizable penetration in APAC (Globe-Philippines, Bharti-India, SingTel-Singapore, Optus-Australia, etc)

However the current market share stats seems to be a bit tough to get. I've to start digging my market research folks now..

After a loooooooooooooong time login to Yahoo Mail..Reason is Disposable mail

I am quite surprised to see the new feature and to try it I login to my yahoo mail ID. Great, I remember the password still so the login is not a much problem. The interface seems pretty changed and it was the so called "new interface" & Google mail worked as Push & Pull factors for me to switchover.

The new new interface is good and the best part is the disposable email. I've tried with a local website and worked like a charm. Good job Engineers.. Though this alone doesn't make me to switchover atleast I remember that I don't have to google for anon mail offerings.