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Happy birthday! Feliz cumpleanos! Bon anniversaire! The Business celebrates its fourth birthday with an eclectic lineup of special guests, along with all your Business regulars. We blew out our candles, and wished for a dream lineup of guests - and, as Anne Hathaway would say, it came true! From the dream factory that is Hollywood, we welcome back our good friend and star of stage and screen, Baron Vaughn. From the dream worker-owned-collective that is SF literature, we welcome Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald. And from the chocolate factory Dandelion, we welcome chocolatiers Greg and Erica. After all, what would a birthday party be without dessert? April 15, 2009 was a very different time. The #1 song in the country was "Poker Face." "Hannah Montana: The Movie" was #1 at the box office. Some people actually thought President Obama's birth certificate was a fake! And four SF comics started an experiment: a two-hour show, split four ways, every week at a t...

Last December I received a weird and interesting email from one of my friends. Below is an extract from that interesting email: Hello, how are you?  I do hope that you receive this email in good health.  I am presently in England London with my family for holiday.  Unfortunately, this holiday is turning into a nightmare for us.  I was pickpocketed at Trafalgar Square yesterday.  I was carrying all the cash and travelling cheques with me at that time and this incident leave me and my family cashless in London. I had made a police report, but the hotel we are staying has detained our passports and will not release them to us unless we settle payment with the hotel first.   My family desperately need money and I am wondering if you can be of assistance to us.  I need GBP 2,500 to settle the hotel payment.  My family's flight back to Singapore is 2 days later.  Please t...

Infosys was , is , and will be a great company. Unarguably. But even great organisations suffer from malaise. Surprisingly, Infosys suffers from the malaise that you would not normally attribute to it - the Lala problem. Yes, I know, I am throwing mud at a great company, but you have to expect it if you lose 20% of your market value in one day. Wait a minute. Isn't Infosys one of the most professional of companies ? A company that sets the standard for corporate governance. The company that raised the bar on ethical business. The company with the middle class values ? All true. But Infosys suffers from the same problem that family run companies have - the company is handed down from one  "family" man to another. Only in Infosys' case, the "family" is not blood related, but the group of founders who set up Infosys. The peerless Narayana Murthy established it. The relentless Nandan Nilekani drove it to the status of a world leader. Kris Gopalakrishnan then too...

Just learnt that ICICI Bank has launched a Fixed Deposit promotion this Saturday, Apr 13.  This new FD is now slightly better than Maybank's FD.  The minimum deposit amount for ICICI Bank FD is only S$1,000, and significantly lower than Maybank's S$25,000. ICICI Bank is India's second largest bank with global presence that currently spans across 19 countries including Singapore.  There are only 2 branches in Singapore, at Raffles Quay and Little India. The opening hours for ICICI Bank are slightly different from other banks.  It is more or less normal for Raffles Quay (John Hancock Tower) branch.   It is open Monday to Friday, 0930 hrs- 1530 hrs; closed on Saturday and Sunday.   Little India (184, Serangoon Road) branch operation hours are: Monday, Wednesday to Friday : 1430 hrs - 2000 hrs;  Saturday to Sunday : 1200 hrs - 2000 hrs.  Tuesday : Closed. There are multiple fixed terms to chose from and also multiple interest payo...

In this episode of the podcast, we look at the power of asking directly for help – from your support community and from your clients and customers. Sometimes you need to seek out help, sometimes an offer of help drops in your lap. In the case of the latter, we often let the moment slip because we're not ready. That's happened to all of us. So how can you make sure that next time you're ready? We also lift the veil on where the podcast is at the moment and start to reveal where we'd like to go with it. Community is key to the future of the show and to grow it we need the help of you, our listeners. One of the things we've wanted to do for a while is start a group on LinkedIn. It's there now. We'd love it if you stopped by and joined the community: Business Jazz LinkedIn Group . You can listen to this week's podcast using the player at the top of the post or download it directly here: Business Jazz – 13th April, 2013 . We're also in iTunes . We'd l...

Murderous rage is exactly what I am feeling for all "coders" at the moment. Noticing that a good rant has been somewhat long overdue on this blog and given that I think I have solved the answer to the famous question - why this kolaveri di  , I think this post is justified ! You see, a couple of days ago, Samsung released the new Android OS (cutely named Jelly Bean) for its smartphones in India. Yes I know, Jelly Bean is ancient news, but that's how long it takes for things to come to India. Yours truly's phone duly got updated.  And promptly lost all its screens, settings, etc etc. Having been a veteran of software upgrades from MS DOS (anybody remember) and having been burned a few zillion times, "kolaveri" had long given way to stoic resignation . But this one takes the cake. Remember the prompt when you are trying to delete and move something - it asks you - are you sure and gives you the option of OK or Cancel ? Notice it next time when that comes - its...

No. STOCK NAME % PORTFOLIO AVG COST $ 1 Starhub 21.67% 3.22 2 SPH 17.86% 3.98 3 SGX 15.35% 2.68 4 CapitaLand 7.04% 3.91 5 CapitaMall Trust 6.25% 1.71 6 CDL HTrust 6.13% 1.66 7 Sing Tel 4.26% 3.21 8 Hyflux 3.64% 1.70 9 Suntec Reit 3.59% 1.34 10 Starhill Global 3.55% 0.62 11 FE Orchard 2.15% 1.18 12 CapitaMalls Asia 2.04% 2.12 13 CitySpring 1.39% 0.65 14 SingPost 1.24% 0.875 15 FE HTrust 1.17% 0.93 16 HPH Trust 1.05% 1.01 17 SP Ausnet 1.01% 0 18 Yeo Hiap Seng 0.62% 0 Movement in my portfolio in March:- Sold:- SP Austnet (partial). Bought:- Starhub. Dividends collected in Mar: $89.23 2013 avg dividends/month: $215.26 March is a bad month for divdends and very likely a big "0" for April.  Can't wait for May when the 3 "S" - Starhub, SPH and SGX pay dividends.