Today is probably the day where I saw a dim light at the end of the dark tunnel of my research. I sat down yesterday looking at the current software infrastructure, and I realized that the software infrastructure was far from being called robust.
 
I had a lunch meeting with my advisor. I told him about the real problems/issues in software infrastructure. Things have been moving slowly in software infrastructure. The software team is currently reduced to 2 people. He was kinda disappointed with the current performance. I was disappointed with myself too. Over the lunch, I told him all the issues that needed attention. After the lunch, I documented our conversation and I will use the document as a guideline of my work till the end of this year.
 
My advisor is thinking of assigning me to have internal collaboration with other PhD students. Sometimes, I feel overwhelmed. However, on the other hand, I feel honored to be assigned so much work...I am just weird huh? Besides all the software infrastructure stuff and internal collaboration, I still need to write a journal paper...so you can see how much work I actually have...haiz
 
On the bright side, I am going back to Singapore in 12 days time. I really hope I can meet a long lost friend in Singapore. She has started working in Singapore. She is the one who kinda encouraged me before I came to Ann Arbor. I was really going downhill with my studies and social life in early 2000. Friends are always important to me.