Welcome to Meng's little space

Welcome

Hi! I'm Tan Chade-Meng. Welcome to my home page! I hope you didn't lose your way coming here. All my friends call me "Meng", my enemies call me worse things. ("Meng" is the name of a famous local ape).

The picture above was taken during the days when I was better looking. Click here to see how I look like today. Here's a bonus: click here to see my body! You've guessed it right,the face is a fake, the body is real.

I'm a Software Engineer. I used to say, "Hi, I'm an engineer", then people would ask me, "So, what type of engineer are you?". My reply was, "Well, I am a.... good engineer". This reminds me of a joke:

Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None, it is a hardware problem.

As you might have guessed, I'm really a funny guy.

I work in Google, the world's best search engine.  Just before joining Google, I attended graduate school at the University of California at Santa Barbara. It's a rough place, but hey, somebody has to live there.  Prior to that, I was a Senior Engineer in Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore's top computing research institute.

I'm a practicing Buddhist. I used to volunteer as a counsellor. I also have keen interests in philosophy, psychology and history. I maintain a personal website on Buddhism, "What do you think, my friend?". May I invite you to come and visit.

Anyway, thanks for coming to visit. Perhaps we can have coffee together some day.


Cool things to do

See Meng's Gallery.

Read the very interesting story my name is based on.

Now that you've seen my face and body, peer into my mind.

Meng Locator. Highly advanced artificial intelligence program that can locate Meng at any time.

Read some of my writings.

Read my travel journal.

See some of my childish drawings.

Read my resume. (I thought I would put my resume here in case somebody wants to give me a billion bucks or invite me to be the absolute dictator of some small nation or something...)

And, oh, my brother has a cool website about finance (which engineers like myself don't know a lot about because we don't have money). See Oaktree Research.


Websites created by Meng

"What do you think, my friend?" - My website on Buddhism.

The Dhammapada - A well-loved piece of Buddhist scripture.

The KRDL Transportation Lab Website - A site on the group I used to work with.


About Meng's (previous) work

Meng was one of the senior engineers in the team that developed the patented KRDL Robust ID Recognition System. He led some of the development and deployment efforts. The technology they developed was nominated and shortlisted for the 1996 National Technology Award, Singapore. Here is some information on their really cool project.

How to contact me

You can reach me at:
Email: cmtan@serve.com
Life is too important to be taken seriously.