Loopie - Joop

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us2011jwa8.php Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude 4.6 Date-Time Monday, April 18, 2011 at 15:38:03 UTC Monday, April 18, 2011 at 11:38:03 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 32.454°N, 65.707°W Depth 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program Region BERMUDA REGION Distances 88 km (54 miles) WNW of HAMILTON, Bermuda 992 km (616 miles) ESE of Nags Head, North Carolina 994 km (617 miles) ESE of Ocracoke, North Carolina 1197 km (743 miles) SSE of BOSTON, Massachusetts Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 6.3 km (3.9 miles); depth fixed by location program Parameters NST= 94, Nph= 94, Dmin=95.6 km, Rmss=1.19 sec, Gp= 79°, M-type=body wave magnitude (Mb), Version=7 Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D) Event ID us2011jwa8

Its that time again.  Every 5-6 years, we get an extra public holiday.  Most people just stay home, because there really isn't anything to do that day.  I almost had to work the day one year, but that never happened.  all the "rehearsals" for nothing.   I currently watch the show from the sidelines, knowing in full faith what the final outcome will be.  I hope we are right.  We've been right for 40+ years, let's hope we continue to be right for the next couple of decades, relatively speaking anyway.

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So now that it's official, I can finally share this piece of good news with you.  i've been promoted!  wasn't too sure it would come through, but it did! to celebrate, hao-e and i bought me a little gift with the bonus money i'd received.  =)  feels good.... will post a pic of the gift when i wear it. in the meantime, i'm hiding in my humble abode attempting to cram for the exam coming up in less than a month.  a lot of material to memorise... but with the amazing training i'd received from 12 years of sgp's education system, i hope it's all going to be alright. wish me luck.

Since my almost crippling back injury last October, i've had to throw away my gym membership, bag and shoes and even ballet...  Even after 3 months of intense physiotherapy, i was discharged with a "no high impact activities" advice from the physio.  I was mobile but my core was weak.  So to strengthen my core, i had signed up for pilates class last Winter which i'm proud to say, i've been going to quite religiously at 9:30am every Saturday.   Yep, 9:30am on Saturdays.  Regardless of the previous night's activities.  haha, i've impressed moi-self as well.  I haven't missed a class, save for the 2 weeks we spent in Singapore. The thing is, my instructor is really good, not just because of his looks, but he's really quite humorous and knowledgeable which makes the hour pass quite enjoyably, despite the times when he tortures us with 100 repetitions of something or other.  i'm still a newbie at pilates, so other than "rolling like a ball...

Hao-e a.k.a. the hubby has been very mang zang these days due to:- 1) increased workload - colleague's on vacation; 2) studying for exams; 3) me not picking up my phone. I have to admit that I often use my iphone as a camera, to get on skype, facebook or fring, play sudoku/games or as an ipod or alarm clock.   It very rarely is used as a phone phone . i can count with the fingers on one hand the people that do call me.  because i use it as an ipod, the overall volume and hence the volume of the ringer is usually set low for fear of bursting my ear drums (and that apple, is a stupid feature of the iphone 3GS btw!).  So even when i do remember to switch on the ringer/ringtones at the end of the workday, it is often too soft for me to hear it ring! So, hao-e got upset when he tried to call me last evening, 7 times.  i missed them all until he emailed me to pick up the phone. convoluted right?  email me so that i can search for the darn phone?!!  yeah. ...

What a busy week!  Actually, it's been like this for the past 3 weeks since the trip back to sgp.  Just feels like work is getting crazier and crazier, responsibilities are piling up and I can't seem to get enough time in a day to get through everything.   As it is, my work week schedule looks like this: struggle to get up at 7am everyday struggle to get to work by 8:30am everyday so that there's a parking spot for my darling Charlie struggle through work till 5:30pm look forward to nice home-cooked meal watch an hour or two of taiwanese variety e.g. kangxi laile  hit the books for 2 hours before crashing  Oh, a sewage pipe burst in the carpark on Tuesday, causing a stinkastrophe.  poor Charlie had to endure all that stench.