Ang Moh Conmen

Just because you’re talking to someone with an “ang moh” accent does not mean that you need to be cowed by him. After all, he might be nothing more than a petty thief…

Conmen seem to be taking this tact where they believe their accent is able to convince people into buying questionable investment products. I have already received 2 calls this year where they attempted to get me to invest in some “hot new thing”, but when I refused then they attempted some pressure tactic by throwing in some legalese and threatening to replay a previously recorded conversation to entrap me. Two times they tried this, two times I responded with an effective tactic: hanging up the phone.

Just remember one thing whenever you are approached by anyone to invest in something with your hard-earned money: if it is really such a hot, new thing, why do they need to hard-sell it to this extent?

Milo spoils easily

In my Uni days when I had to go to the lab to work on my Honours Year Project, I had what I thought was a great idea and decided to bring along a thermos flask of milo that I had prepared at home since the labs were always very cold and it was great to have a hot drink.

It was then that I discovered that Milo turns sour very quickly even when you keep it in a vacuum thermos flask…

Designing Experiments

In the course of improving a process or product, you may need to utilise experiments to isolate which are the factors that are most important (remember the 80/20 rule?).

While the design of experiments is usually touched on in University, the concepts may all be forgotten by the time the student is ready to apply them in the commercial world. For a quick refresher, Wikipedia has a succinct article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_experiments