We may be six months on from the earthquake and through a mercifully mild winter, but there is still the monsoon to come and the next winter is only seven months away.

Over the past six months, pandemic flu has come to the forefront.

The next six or seven months will really be an interesting time.

I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

That's what I'm out here to do. Compete and win. It makes the winter months a whole lot better.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.