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Toxic Shock Syndrome due to super-absorbent Tampons:

Toxic shock syndrome is a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection that has been most often associated with the use of superabsorbent tampons and occasionally with the use of contraceptive sponges.

In 1980, an outbreak of toxic shock syndrome occurred that mostly involved young women who had been using a particular brand of superabsorbent tampons. The cause of the outbreak seemed to be toxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria.
While the infection often occurs in menstruating women, it can also affect men, children and postmenopausal women. Other risk factors for toxic shock syndrome include skin wounds and surgery.

Signs and symptoms of toxic shock syndrome develop suddenly, and the disease can be fatal. You can reduce your chances of getting toxic shock syndrome by changing your tampon frequently.

Sounds scary, eh? It’s one of the weird words in “Environment and communication diseases” under the course “Sustainable Development in the 21th Century”, which they invite external speakers once a twilight with free refreshment (for the reason that I applied the course :P)

Anyway, it was more to that. Legionnaire’s disease.  Peptic ulcer is caused by bateria instead of the conventionally thought stress. Antibiotics-resistant bacteria first identified in Hong Kong. In the transportation of the first AIDs victim in HK 1985, the medics dressed up more protective that those in the movie “outbreak”. My new insight to the medical development, eh.

At the high table dinner tonight the supposedly host I was reassigned to another table. Sat down as the interrupter I introduced myself as a tutor doing research on robotics, while the other 3 guests were a) from JP Morgan b) another big4 which I don’t quite remember c) a PR staff who graduated from a Master of Political Science. One of the guest pop in after my intro, “Whom do you collaborate with?”, while guest (c) elaborated with “I also experienced with research. What kind of universities do you exchange your experimental data with?” after I somehow managed the question.

Stoned. They didn’t even ask me what kind of research I was doing, but my regional exposure. Oh ya, one asked “So you create your design and then build your design and make design and build?”. Huh.

And then guest A and B were sticking to the few BBA students talking about Big 4 news and job market. The 3 engineering students at another corner were talking to themselves, and another 2 computer science girls didn’t know what to say. Guest C could engage herself with another 2 students and it appears that my table was talking well. Unlike the usual me I didn’t utter much but to shut myself up with the on tray food. Not a good host would usually do eh.

Their conversations were intelligent, I suppose. What they asked me was intelligent too, I suppose. None of my templates for my high-table conversation came into any use, and now, I see that why can’t I find a management trainee job.

Yet another pressurized day when I only typed out the first line of code for an animation assignment which dues tmr. Half way through I’m interrupted by the joy of other internet stuffs (as usual), and got a little boost of answering what’s d(ln x)/dx from a smart (but forgetful) friend of mine.

Kids nowadays are just .. well. As talk organizing partners the 21-year-olds wanted to get a Parker for the speaker. Being asked to get the souvenir glasses one could leave an internal note to all writing "We’ll get the glasses as Judy suggested and put a thankyou card between them"..

Taking a break and walking through the newly built "Visitor Gallery" gave me life again in how proud I should be being a "researcher" at the worlds’ top 20 Univ. and admired at the beautiful campus that I am working at. Somehow this lab still sucks and is not even 1/5 of the lab I used to had in my previous college, the only difference is I can now call myself the "team manager" in such-and-such proj. Cool eh, and then we can think of way to promote the robotic soccer proj. like the one we had with Robocon last year, up on mags. and news. and whatsoever.

I just missed the days with the gangs where never would I go lunching alone. Supervisor’s advice of "You’re a postgrad now and should be spending time in your office instead of the public computer barns" leave me with only Mandarin-speaking math freaks (an I don’t talk maths) who haven’t gone downtown for the past 2 mths.

Suppose that my plan of quiting the Univ. after getting a nice job still go on. Readers, if you can find a nice good job that might suit me, please advice. Consider me avaible in Jul.

I can’t believe that I really write a blog, really. I used to (and perharps later is) believes that diary is a kind of useless things that only teenage girls would do when they have no dates. I guess I’m writing it coz it’s Good Fri and, I’m stuck at home instead of going out with him.

Yeah, he’s my soulmate and no previous ones could be compared with, and I go out with him coz he were able to enjoy what I enjoyed and we had so much fun together. But then, he’s one with ambitious and we haven’t have a whole day out for the past few week. Perharps I’m a sticky one but then that’s me.. and if no comitment can be made.. I guess that we could go back to the best-friend status that I would heck care if you’re going out with me or not.. I’m just a girl too and need someone to comfort me instead of another way. Gee. Suppose that it’s my first time that I’m throwing tentrum? -_-

Perharps, you the reader, could comfort me in this, esp. when the previous one is still presisting for more than 6 mth…

(well, I doubt if he would ever come to read this till i let him know..?)