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Thursday, October 07, 2004

royal rumble

one of the coolest thing about living in japan is you can experience it's rumble tumble.japan has over 1500 earthquakes every year,most of them are small but someone who live in somewhere in japan will experience big and disturbing earthquakes at least 20 times a year.the magnitude of the earthquake itself varies from a normal 2 to a destructive 6++.being in a country with too many earthquakes,i'm just too used to earthquakes and sometimes i cannot recognize whether it's an earthquake or just another truck passing nearby.
i remember there was a time when a visitor from NY came to my office.physically,she not that fat but a little chubby,chubbier than everybody else,and it was quite unfortunate on her first time visit to tokyo office where there was a scale 2 earthquake had happened during office hours.
out of sudden,she shouted 'earthquake!!! take cover!!!' and then she hid under her desk while others were ignoring her and continue doing work.right after the earthquake was over,she rushed to my cubicle and said 'what in hell you guys were doing?!!!,don't you all know there was an earthquake just now?!!!'.coincidently,our MD(asia pacific managing director)passed us by and he replied 'oh really,i thought it was you.'.after that she silently went back to her cubicle and spent the rest of the day calling her all her folks back in the states and tell them about the terrifying experience she had.
speaking about earthquakes,there was a 5 pointer(kobe earthquake 1995 was 7) earthquake hit the area i live last night,my second 5 pointer in this year.to make things more interesting,the place that i'm living right now(adachi-ward) is being labelled by japanese earthquake department as one of the top 5 places in tokyo with high casualities if an earthquake with magnitude 5 and above occurs...that's one of the reasons the price of real estate here in adachi-ward is considered as one of the cheapest among other places in tokyo.so if you desires a not so costly poshy life and have that thrill on one of nature's worst phenomenons,adachi-ward welcomes you to the neighbourhood.


don't be around without em

-gazed in- 11:26 AM

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