Earthquake Knowledge

Wearing underwear in bed. 

Despite all the warnings, the seminars on Earthquake procedures and measures to help in the aftermath of a major earthquake, the horror stories of the tragic earthquake in '99, the only thing I ended up changing in my approach to Earthquake measures was to start wearing pants or shorts in bed. Just in case.

What a terrible ex-pat.

Shady showers

I joined the MAC gym in Kanyon shopping mall. Yes, the fancy gym, the one with the live DJ playing music to run to, a semi-basketball court, saunas, hamams, massages and sun-decks. It's expensive, but it's near where I work, so I splashed out.

Anyway, it's the showers have caught my attention. They are lit from below by spotlights embedded in the ground which you tread on.

It's cool; it means the ceilings are free of services so they're finished with the exposed concrete slab - which we see elsewhere in the gym - maintaining the gritty/modern/industrial style that the interior designers have specified elsewhere.

Of course, spotlights on the ground cast shadows upwards and therefore, whilst showering, you'll look up and see a wonderful silhouette of your manhood cast across the concrete ceiling, wiggling around for everyone else in the changing rooms to see like some perverse batman-signal.

God knows what kind of super hero is supposed to respond to that, though.