i think muz ask KK about schemers. Your uni looks very british lei instead of cheena. anyway, if that girl jumps, she'll at most fracture her legs. i really cannot understand how you can do programming when you hv nothing in mind to program! This is outrageous! Even a software engineer knows that proper design precedes implementation. BTW, is your sup very sexist or mcp? You won't be part of the 7.8% in HK cos you're a singaporean! Haha. Anyway, just wanna say that since Honours, ppl hv been laughing at me for reading so much and not doing implementation. It's common. I wonder if I'm doing it all wrong. But there's one guy who told me,"Do what you think is right! Hv faith in yourself!" So here i am, still doing what i used to do. Perhaps your sup (like all other sups) wanna see immediate results of good research. In my opinion, that can't be done unless 1. you strike jackpot AND 2. you've a lot of relevant knowledge in you to be able to reason about what's good research and what's not. To do so, you need to think about it all the time, when you eat, sleep, shit, bathe, cross the street, ...