some negative comments from the readers.------------------------http://taxidiary.blogspot.com/2009/08/thank-you-all.html#comments
imcbsg said...
it is wierd feeling to read your blog as an ex-student of yours.
first time when I heard about you becoming a taxi driver, I flashed back the comments and hard time you gave me, sigh, and asked have you ever thinking about what you can give to others to make life easier? or at least in a more pleasant way?
I complain IMCB is far away from a good place for scientific work (research work, maybe), not for professors like you, or students like me. bosses are bosses but not mentors, the training system is like nothing at all...
after complaining, I feel confused since I just started my career here, a NUS PhD must be even much cheaper than a Stanford one, right? and scientific field here fits me or I fits here or not? with own family and a baby, I keep talking to myself that I should wake up and try to work for boss to please him for hopeless promotion or (more...)
One more
Imcbsg:
Although it is very unprofessional for me to respond in the open to what you
said, the fact that you see me simply as a taxi driver now made it easier
for me to say what I am going to say to you. Despite what you have said, I
still like you. I liked you from the first time I met you, when you and your
husband walked into my office and told me that you wanted to be my student.
I accepted you on the spot. If I didn’t like you, you wouldn’t have been
a student in any labs of IMCB, as I was the chairman of the recruitment
committee of the institute at the time. I wasn’t wrong about you. You have
been a fine student. I like your work attitude and your special ability of
conducting experiments. I trusted the results from you more than any body
else’s in the lab. If you still remember what I said during the
introduction of your dissertation, I meant every word of it.
During all the years you worked in my lab, I was upset with you only once.
And you know the reason. I didn’t know you are still bearing a grudge about
that. No matter what you think, I want you to know that you can still trust
me on your recommendation letters, if you like to develop your career
elsewhere. Even I am a taxi driver now, my letters are still indispensable
for you in many places around the world. Personally, I think you should go
back to China. Much better chance for both of you to succeed.
You know where to get my email if you need it.
Although it is very unprofessional for me to respond in the open to what you
said, the fact that you see me simply as a taxi driver now made it easier
for me to say what I am going to say to you. Despite what you have said, I
still like you. I liked you from the first time I met you, when you and your
husband walked into my office and told me that you wanted to be my student.
I accepted you on the spot. If I didn’t like you, you wouldn’t have been
a student in any labs of IMCB, as I was the chairman of the recruitment
committee of the institute at the time. I wasn’t wrong about you. You have
been a fine student. I like your work attitude and your special ability of
conducting experiments. I trusted the results from you more than any body
else’s in the lab. If you still remember what I said during the
introduction of your dissertation, I meant every word of it.
During all the years you worked in my lab, I was upset with you only once.
And you know the reason. I didn’t know you are still bearing a grudge about
that. No matter what you think, I want you to know that you can still trust
me on your recommendation letters, if you like to develop your career
elsewhere. Even I am a taxi driver now, my letters are still indispensable
for you in many places around the world. Personally, I think you should go
back to China. Much better chance for both of you to succeed.
You know where to get my email if you need it.
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