It seems to me that this year is a year of “Changing”, e.g. I left the US, Kayly is graduated, and Alex has switched the lab. What a big change to everyone in the lab!
For the move to Singapore, I won’t say it’s a bad decision, even I am busy all the time. To be fair, I really like the life in the US, since I meet lots of people there, like you, Charlie, Kayly, Alex, and David. However, about my career, I haven’t built up a good score there. For the mentor here, I feel like we have the same concept in science, and that’s nice to me. Thus I going to give myself two more years, if I could not get a good score here, as what you mentioned in the mail, I