Bacteria infection? Hopefully not...

toronto's weather's really weird. these days it has been keeping a decent 20ish but it's gonna be a sudden jump to 30ish tmr. i guess the real summer is on its way.

nowadays i'm so sick of doing extra stuff, which are things other than cooking, working and sleeping. cooking is for my self-existence and sleeping is to sustain myself from the daily weariness. i've been mild sick for the whole weekend sadly, most probably because of the past two weeks' "hard work"... despite which there's another reason which i shall come back later. susana was asking me to go for a trip on an island. it sounds really good and zhu, sherry are going for that next week. yet i can't find any motivation for that. i'm just too lazy, weak and tired for any extra activity other than the essentials. how sad it is.

i can't imagine i'll spend the rest of my life like this. think about it, what i'm doing now is just what i'll be surely doing after i enter the workforce, more or less the same. wake up earlier than 8, get a breakfast quickly and go to work, go back home after 5, sometimes even later. cooking, eating and showering will take up to 2 hours, some procrasination and then, after one day's tiredness, going to bed. how boring it is. i'm sure life is more exciting in school than in working.

so here comes another reason why i got sick. i got a paper cut on my palm last tuesday, a very small wound. i've been loose with lab regulations all the time, cos i don't really get how serious it can go with violations of the rules, like handling with bacteria strains without gloves blah. i can touch EtBr contaminated taps, equipment even i'm aware of it. now i really have to face the seriousness. i MUST be careful and alert with details from now on. i handled E. coli strains without gloves on that day, when my wound was still healing. two days later i got a sore throat. so far i still think that i'm overworried. cos the lab strains of E.coli are mutated to reduce its potency, thus they do not really pose a threat to the ppl working in labs. however we still need to be careful with them. so due to my careless nature i did the stupid stuff no one would agree on. and i've been sick for the whole weekend. i took some drugs to suppress the syndrome, assuming that it's a flu virus that's inflicting the pain on my throat. but i really hold the doubt in mind that there's a possibility of bacteria infection through the wound on my palm. moral of the story: MUST MUST MUST open your eyes wild and be alert with the surroundings when in a lab, wear necessary protections.

i managed to download "da vinci code" on DC++ which is a mass sharing software for ppl living in residence. actually it's kinda illegal to use it but who cares. so, some comments about the movie. i heard from ppl who read the book before that the movie sucks. it has reduced loads of details. and the pace's hectic. well, that can't be blamed cos the book's so thick. it's already pushing the limit to condense everything in 3 hours, just like harry potter. i'd rather the producer split the last harry potter movie into two parts, 3 hours for each one. cos the goblet of fire is the most interesting one out of the 6 books so far. many details could be included. anyway...

so i patiently sat through 3 hours this afternoon to finish the movie and sadly speaking i didn't get most of the movie. the movie's in three languages, English, French and Latin/Greek. i'm not sure about the last one, but it should be latin most probably. the movie i downloaded is without English/Chinese subtitle, but with Latin subtitle when someone speaks Latin. my French is only at the beginner's level, so i only managed to understand simple phrases like please, did you... and greetings and numbers. the most complete French sentence i happened to understand in the movie is "go to the door that's on the right". well, i'm already proud of myself... anyways, there's only a pathetic 30% English part. for the whole afternoon i managed to get myself more and more frustrated and confused. i'll read the novel from tmr onwards to make up for it.

now time for bed... have to get up early again tmr. T_T i miss my bed...