I work on the gut microbiome in association with cardiometabolic diseases. There was no big ambition of discovering the next breakthrough of the century when I first started working in gut microbiome. I merely wanted to work with the indigenous communities in Malaysian rainforest because I wanted to go on fieldtrips, and there was a project on the microbiome. Fast-forward eight years later, I am still working on the microbiome because I still have new things to learn, for example how to write code in an elegant, readable and reproducible way. It is such a long way to go to become an elegant coder.