work reds, blues, and greens

Yesterday's a tough day for my brain cells. Well, it had been tough in the last two weeks. I was supposed to figure out and implement an algorithm in classification. I have been squeezing and wringing and beating my head for "enlightenment" while being helpless because I'm the only one in my field in this room.

But not so helpless after all. I finally got the help that I so needed through our project lead from HK who made me go through the algorithm step-by-step. And I finally understood. Now it's just a matter of making the code, which isn't that easy but at least I know where I should go.

Today I'm more relaxed with work, my head feels a lot lighter with half the pressure off. Knowing what to do is half doing it, which eased a lot of burden. Also, I emailed the author of the algorithm (an internationally published paper) yesterday and I got a reply today, which made me smile because it's the first time I ever communicated with someone I see as a "guru" from another part of the world about "scholarly" matters. Plus...I overslept, which is a perk with my work schedule (that I get to oversleep).

I'm not totally pressure-free though. I have a red light for March, my fourth month (wow, can't believe I've been here that long). I need to finish 3 technical reports and do 1 oral presentation of one of the reports yet I've only done one and it's already halfway through the month. I'm gonna need to do a lot of overtimes from now on, which is why I'll be in the office tomorrow (planning to). But I'm fine with overtimes especially if I got to be alone in the office.

I promise I'll be treating myself with pasta and frozen yogurt after this! :)