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Getting the routinge

Hey folks,

Where to start...

Working the same, many exchange students have been arriving. I have to admit that I generally enjoy my job, and this should make a lot happy and satisfied on a professional level. On the other hand, workload is way too much. The last week i had no time to chat on messenger and so on. Anyways, what i am grateful for is the fact that when i get up in the morning i do not think like 'omg, i have to go to work and survive for 8 hours', instead, i am quite looking forward to be arriving to the office and get updated with everything, which does not hurt, especially if you have difficulties with getting up, just like me.

It is very, very wierd to know that I won't be moving in couple of months (thing that has not happened to me in the last 3 years!) .... It makes it a lot hard actually. I forgot that the big advantage of moving is actually : all the time is that you do not have to worry about how you behave, what you do, as consequences are really limited. Now, instead, i have to think of the consequences of (especially) what i am doing at work. I have to admit, as much i was complaining about having to move all the time, i am missing it. I cannot imagine my life at the same place. or not like this. I am already planning, that for summer, i am moving back to spain. For several reasons, not only for holidays, but for learning spanish really well, as I feel pity that i did not learn it really, but really well when i was there.

In reality I feel very good. Thats how I imagined life half an a year ago and that was what i wanted for a long time.
Playing football, parties all the time, just like in Spain, but now i have the money for it (eventhough in Milan it costs soooooooo much more) and I am Milan! (which can be boring from time to time, but it is still a very vivid city, just love it).

and shit, i do like my job! I like it. And what is even better, I have amazing collegues! the best ones ever!!! the very best ones, each of them with a unique character and just so nice all of them.

and I really love my actual place at work. I have a huge table (well, I have thousand things on the table, so I do need the space) and I put the monitor in a way that the people entering cannot see it (so i can have all the messenger opened all the time :D) And i have a huge board behind me, now empty and I am planning to have some of my photos from exchange develop there! It is going to be fantastic!!!

Bottom point, I made the very right choice to take this job. I am completely happy with this and I think I am one of the very lucky ones who love their jobs (okay, lets wait some months, I might change my mind :)

You know what I would really like to have now? My own coffeshop, with lounge music! Now I am listening to Ministry of Music - 2006 and it is awesome, i just love it! Well, and i would also love to... well, let's put it this way, I miss holland for some reasons ;)

What I am really missing is the internet connection at home. I would really need, for working too. In theory, we are going to have it in couple of weeks. And we are going to have 'FastWeb', super fast and super expensive, but we will devide the costs by 3 so it should be okay.

Budapest rocks

An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale caused minor damage in areas on the edge of Budapest on New Year’s Eve. Many people living in the capital felt a disconcerting tremor lasting for a few seconds. It was a reminder that the earthquake threat in Hungary is limited, but not to be underestimated.

The tremor occurred at around 2.45 pm, causing damage to buildings immediately around the epicentre, in some towns on the eastern edge of Budapest. A sports hall in Pécel that had recently been renovated suffered cracks.

Fears renewed
The seconds of the shock elapsed without major incident, but unease remained. Hungary has low-to-average tectonic activity. The situation in Hungary will not be as severe as a Japanese newspaper predicted in 1979, envisaging a horror scenario of the Gellért hill sliding into the Danube. “The origin of the fully unjustified prediction has remained mysterious,” recalls László Tóth, director of the institute forearthquake research, Geo Risk. “But for a while this newspaper report caused unease.”
The facts, however, are the following: yearly Hungarian seismographs register around 150-200 mini earthquakes that are not perceptible to humans. The number of quakes that are actually felt by parts of the population is between 15 and 20. Ten major earthquakes occured in recent centuries. Information about their strength is given by historical notes and in some cases measurements using instruments. There have been earthquakes measuring over 5.5 in Komárom (1763, 1783, 1806, 1851), Kecskemét (1908, 1911), Érmellék (1834), Eger (1925), Dunaharaszti (1956) and Berhida (1985).

Previously fatal
The largest catastrophe was on 28 June, 1763 in the north Hungarian city of Komárom. The quake with an estimated magnitude of 6.3 caused the death of 63 people and 279 buildings, including seven churches collapsed. The quake with the most serious consequences in the capital was fifty years ago: in Dunaharaszti, a town on the southern edge ofBudapest , hundreds of buildings were damaged by a quake of magnitude 5.3. Some houses were reduced to ruins. In a study, seismologist Péter Varga comments that the consequences would probably have been five to ten times worse of the epicentre had been 10.15 kilometres north in the centre of the capital.
“The maximum strength of earthquakes in Hungary is around 6.5”, GeoRisk director Tóth said. The Institute for Earthquake Research offers a service for local risk assessment. On the www.foldrenges.hu website, the probabilities of quakes in different areas are displayed. The figures are based on data from the past 475 years and are believed to have a 90% likelihood for a time frame of 50 years.
Particular attention is given to the Paks nuclear power situation. GeoRisk’s monitoring system there detects and evaluates earthquakes from magnitude 1 rather than 1.5.

Not up to EUROCOD
Charles Richter, the creator of the first magnitude scale, stressed the importance of construction for protecting against earthquakes: “People are not killed by earthquakes, but by collapsing buildings”. An important goal for Hungary is the adoption of the European norm for the construction of building inearthquake areas, EUROCOD 8. The drafting of the relevant bill is the task of a government committee formed in December 2003. However, according to its own assessment at a forum in June 2006, the work has not yet gone beyond the preliminary stage.
Tóth points to unfavourable tendencies, for example, in older multi-storey buildings in Budapest: “Changes are often made to the structure of the building, for example by constructing shops on the ground floors. That lowers theearthquake resistance of the buildings.”
At a Council of Europe conference in 1991 a warning was given that vulnerability to earthquakes has increased due to a rise in population, the insecure ground consistency of large cities and complicated infrastructure.

(source: The Budapest Times)

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