A reply from my supervisor

I read the email received from Assoc. Prof Dr. xxxxxx on my new PhD topic. He gave me encouragement to just start on with my proposal - we (committee) want the hard copy as written in the email. I gave myself until the end of this year to give one to him and hopefully I can proceed with defending the proposal. At this moment it is difficult to tell whether I am happy to have such encouragement from him. I didn't want to have 'bad' thoughts about what he wrote but to just concentrate on writing the proposal