Thursday, March 28, 2013

Shaking Foundations (Literally!)

Pretty literally. We had a 6.1 earthquake not too far, making it 5 points in scale in Taichung/Changhua area. Our office started bouncing suddenly, lights were blinking, after around 10 sec, when it was not stopping we have decided to run out. And I was probably the first one on the stairs. Even when it stopped my legs were still shaking. Not fun. D.'s company evacuated for over an hour to make sure everything is safe. My old university made it to the news with the video of super shaky, books-falling library (and the made afternoon off on the campus too).

At my place... we were ok. One bathroom shelf collapsed, my eye shadows fell and broke (damn), and we have a few new wall cracks now (we had some from old earthquakes... but those are very clear, though shouldn't be a danger really).

It had shaken everyone, made us remember about our mortality and that nothing is ever sure.
Everyone remembered the 921 earthquake that had place in Taichung in 1999, killed over 2000 people.
Taichung is generally very calm city, and doesn't have much shaking... but the 921 proved even here it can happen. Well, the good thing is that usually there are long periods of calmness between such monstrous quakes. So we should have it easy for at least another 10 years. I hope.

Other than that, spring in Taichung is beautiful and comfortable.
 

As for other shaking foundations, metaphorically, my job change is confirmed with both companies now. I will stay in current work till the end of May, and start in the new one on 3rd June.
I am scared but also excited, and trying to catch up on e-commerce trends in the market and trying to learn some website coding languages (started with refreshing html :). Codeacademy.com is trully awesome place for self-learning.

Happy Easter to everyone too!

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