by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 10, 2009
My baby brother, Roger, was quoted in a front page story of the Business Times. ====== Reality check for market rally Despite the recent powerful rally by Singapore blue chips, yesterday’s pullback is making analysts wary of calling a bottom By LYNETTE KHOO 8...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 1, 2009
Something I wrote back in 2003. (“Chen Yiming” is my name pronounced in Chinese). ===== Google Achieves Breakthrough in Numerical Genetics by Chen Yiming Staff Writer, Mengistan Times April 1, 2003. Researchers at Google announced on Tuesday, their...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 30, 2009
I met His Holiness the Dalai Lama (HHDL) for the first time in November 2005, during his visit to Stanford University. Back then, I was one of the big donors to Stanford for the creation of a Tibetan Studies program, so when the Dalai Lama visited, I was invited...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 27, 2009
A long time ago, whenever I had to greet and meet somebody “important”, I would introduce myself by saying, “I am nobody. Because nobody is perfect”. I am reminded of this joke this week when I came across one of Shunryu Suzuki’s...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 22, 2009
1. I discovered a way to measure the degree of urbanization of any community. Just measure the McDonald’s Density Index (MDI). For example, in rural areas, you need to drive for a long time before you see the next McDonald’s. In a suburb like Santa Clara,...
