How I earm my living

This is how I earn my living..., let me share some of my activities this past few months tracking and  monitoring MRT tunneling and station progress and stuffs.

DSM or Deep Soil Mixing

Messy isn't it? Cranes everywhere

Kentledge Testing

23 meters below, my knees are wigging just looking at it and don't ever dare me to go down that improvise access coz definitely I WON'T!

Braces anyone?

This site stretch to about 1.3 km which I try to cover at least twice a month, but I suppose to check it every week to verify the reports.

UPDATED: After almost 2 years....

The Dungeon :D

Just need some rail tracks and the choo! choo! trains hee hee!

SMILE!

Seism

Image from www.longbeach.gov

Seism, Temblor or Earthquake define as shaking on earth surface due to underground movement along geological faults, volcanic activities, landslides or by human activities like bomb blasting. Magnitude is the measure of energy of an earthquake using seismometer and intensity is the measure of shaking in earths surface and determine using  mercalli scale.

Yesterday 25 March 2010 at around 1:29 pm Metro Manila including nearby provinces Laguna, Tagaytay, Pampanga, Bataan and Mindoro was shaken by a magnitude 7 movement that gives intensity 3-5 on said areas. It was for a fact that more than 20 quake occurs everyday but only few are reach our consciousness and its occurrence is unpredictable. It was a chest popping thing to re-experience this specially after Haiti quake having just the same magnitude  good thing our structures are designed to withstand magnitude 7.5 to 8, but DPWH warn the public on flyovers and bridges since these structures are more vulnerable to seismic movements (06-21-2009).


Earthquake is a natural thing specially in our country, having a fault line throughout the archipelago with history of sudden big shakes, it is impossible to know when will it move, all can we do is to prepare for the worst and off course nothing beat the power of prayers.

15th WORLDBEX (2010)

Photo from http://www.worldbex.com

15th WORLDBEX with this year theme is Constructing the Future Green Communities through Efficient Technologies and Materials showcase premium local and international construction products was held last March 17-21 at the World Trade Center Manila, WTCMM Air-conditioned tent and Philippine Trade Training Center. The exhibit aims to aid architects, engineers, contractors and interior designers in making better structures using eco-friendly materials.

Attending this Expo for three times now has been a yearly costume for us especially to my husband. Meeting experts in each materials gives a lot of help in upgrading once knowledge on building structures. I also bump on some students exploring and good thing they are not afraid questioning everything and anything. We missed a lot in this year's exhibit since we only manage to attend on its last day, but making the most of it in getting as much as leaflets, handbooks and samples.
The Expo manage to squeeze in a lot of products this year and four hours is not enough to rummage every booth and to be honest I only manage to bookmark few of them on my busy mind. Here are some of them.

Photo from http://www.mariwasa.com

Since Mariwasa occupies the front they are the first one I bookmarked, with their new range of elegant and refreshing design of Pinoy Revellation Tile Collection that includes wall and floor tiles in Filipino inspired designs, and good thing These tiles are locally made, with their plant in Batangas area where they ensure everything is in accordance to "green environment". All scraps are being recycled, all used water are treated and reused and they even have dust collector on their plant. I manage to know this with their an hour product presentation.

Also present on the exhibit are Boysen, Hunter Douglas, HCG, WilsonArt, Puyat Steel, Puyat Flooring, Lepanto Tiles and Canadian architectural material and lot other brands of sealants, door and cabinet hardware's, flooring finishes, window and doors and casements, solar water heater, built in kitchens even plant supplements are present to the exhibit.
That is all I can share as of today I still to need to read the pile of leaflets we collected yesterday.