August 15, 2009

A Singapore Taxi Driver's Diary

Mingjie Cai said:

Probably the only taxi driver in this world with a PhD from Stanford and a proven track record of scientific accomplishments, I have been forced out of my research job at the height of my scientific career, and unable to find another one, for reasons I can only describe as something "uniquely Singapore". As a result, I am driving taxi to make a living and writing these real life stories just to make the dull job a little more interesting. I hope that these stories are interesting to you too.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Stories and musings from an Stanford PhD and IMCB researcher turned taxi driver."

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Trackback from Tough times never last, but tough taxi drivers do!:

UK has a taxi driver who blogs in "Adventures of a Taxi Driver". And Singapore has a taxi driver who also blogs...

Re: Ganga

You can google his name or read this entry:
http://taxidiary.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

Posted by Re: Ganga* on 15 August, 2009 - 9:11pm

it's true. those of us who've worked in IMCB & know him heard that he has become a taxi driver.

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 16 August, 2009 - 12:33am

There was another entry somewhere where he mentioned he got a paper recently accepted in a pretty decent journal despite having no lab. Seems authentic, plus I know for a fact many people were asked to leave IMCB a couple yrs ago.

Posted by Sarah* on 16 August, 2009 - 12:48pm

He is a PhD holder, more than that, a Principal Investigator and a named scientist. You can go to his blog, in the 2nd or 3rd page or so, he cited his newest paper. He was a member of my supervisor committee meeting previously. It is SAD to see such a thing happen.

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 18 August, 2009 - 9:43pm

it quite interesting, K. .. In any case, who knows what state the relationship was / is ... maybe there is speculation out of place ... Maybe it's' s not \ ... but probably both are adults.