by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 22, 2009
I’m surprised that the “Living Will” I signed did not offer me the option I really wanted. What I really wanted is that, in the event that I’m incapacitated, either due to disease or accident, I want my body parts replaced with bionic implants...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 19, 2009
I once read that at the height of the Japanese real estate bubble in the late 1980s, the land occupied by the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was worth more than all the land in all of California. If I were the Emperor of Japan, I would have sold the palace and bought...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 13, 2009
(My first writing in Chinese in more than 20 years, please feel free to laugh at me. 已经二十多年没有用华文书写了。写得不好，请多包涵。我的华文这么差，肯定笑掉您的大门牙，西班牙，葡萄牙) 昨天在餐馆, 订购一碗 “姜汁汤圆”. 上菜时才知道, 原来一碗只有一粒汤圆. 一碗才一粒! 真是搞笑. Waitress 小姐说, 汤圆可以附加购买, 要多少都行, “只要放得下就行”. 我就说,...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 12, 2009
I take refuge in the Buddha. I take refuge in the Dharma. I take refuge in the Sangha. And here in Singapore, I take refuge in air-conditioning.
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 6, 2009
Many years ago, when I was still a half-starving graduate student, I attended a talk at Sun Microsystems by one of the Sutherland brothers (I can’t remember which one, I think it was Ivan). Mr Sutherland started his talk by asking, with a show of hands, how many...
