ok so here is an update on how the last two weeks have gone.

had a midterm for digital comm class in which i came in #3 in the class. that was over all pretty satisfying. made a stupid mistake on the quiz for wireless comm. =\ was pretty mad at myself for that. but over all, i'm pretty happy with where i am in my classes.

research was actually going pretty well. i made a few breakthroughs in the over all progress. but the worst thing that could actually happen happened yesterday. during our weekly meeting, advisor raised one question about the results in the two sensor node amplify and forward case. he asked huang zheng to check why the optimal power allocation graph looks exactly like the equal power allocation case, when intuitively they should have some difference. after checking, it turned out huang zheng's original model formulation had errors. and everything we have done up to that point was wasted. =\ to be honest, i had doubts about it myself. but my job wasn't modeling and formulation. i was only to do the mathematical analysis after the formulation is completed. and what was even more emotionally damaging is that we were one small proof away from being able to maybe publish a small conference paper, in which i was going to be the second author at least. but now we have to start on a different topic from scratch.

had curry chicken from chef cao's last night. thanks to my baby. it was really good actually, but for some reason, i couldn't really eat even though i was hungry.

anyway, time to get back to work.