Top 10 Beaches in the Philippines | nhansense

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Summertime is here, cannot imagine how hot it is now… for the past 2 days the temp was 34°C  Hi and 25°C Lo and this will tend to increase for the next weeks…  Before when i was young, i usually hear my grand parents during this time of the year, “its now summer and it will be hot” but nowadays, whenever it is summer and it is really hot… it’s now called “EL NIÑO”…

An El Niño is a temporary change in the climate of the Pacific ocean, in the region around the equator, an abnormal warming of surface ocean water, its effect, a complete reversal of trade winds bringing torrential rain, flooding and mudslides to the usually dry coastal areas and a collapse of monsoons which can bring severe drought. The phenomenon also causes severe weather disturbances around the world.

For most of us, summertime is the best time of the year, vacation, break  for students, sunny day and most of the all, the beaches! its is the time of the year when the weather is really good and can enjoy the splashing waters of the sea… I do hope i have the time to visit one this summer just to enjoy, relax and have a summer fun time!

Here are my top 10 beaches to visit in the Philippines.

10. Anawangin Beach (Zambales) - if you like  camping, boat ride, adventure, mountain climbing and a touch of  united states view, this is the place to be…   I was here last year and really enjoyed the view.  Check my post here. Spending your summertime here is cheap and you will definitely enjoy the island hoping and the mountain views.  You can either do a trail hike to the campsite and beach front or have a 45 minute boat ride.  Just setup your tent and do whatever you like.  Be sure you have a complete set of outdoor gears as there are no electricity, no hotel rooms, no convenience stores.  And lastly, never go there if the weather is bad… just a tip!

Top 5 Facebook Games

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Everyday, before the sun shines, farmers toil their lands, plant seeds and harvest crops, then sell them at the market place.
At the end of the day, the gang meet for a mob scheme… then at night a round of poker!  These run in the world on facebook social gaming…though unreal, these apps let people play with their friends, interact with them and continuously leveling up for prestige and glory… as some would say…
I used to play Mafia wars, Farm Town and Restaurant City and i find these games very amusing as well as addicting… Since my old facebook account is gone.. i stopped playing, now focusing on other ideas….
For Zynga founder Mark Pincus, the formula for gaming success on Facebook  and other sites was as simple as it might seem counter-intuitive: create simple games that people like but can easily set aside.
“We built the games so they could be played in a tab on your browser while you’re on a conference call,” said Pincus, a veteran Web entrepreneur who created Zynga in 2007.
Top 5 Facebook Games

1. Farmville – One of Zynga’s top title.  A kind of game wherein you can grow delicious fruits and vegetables and raise adorable animals on your very own farm.  My Nephew and Niece, kenneth and Kyla as well as my Bee are also addicted in this game…  I still like the looks of farmtown compared to this game…
2. Mafia Wars – One of the games that i got addicted, (its a good thing that i screwed up my old facebook account) A popular game by Zynga that allows the player do and master jobs in order to earn cash and gain experience with the goal of strengthening, establishing and advancing once status and becoming the ultimate mafia.  By sending requests to your facebook friends, one can gain control and expand your family and fight other mobsters. I miss playing the game… but its annoying that you would start all over again. I think i already leveled up to 200 when i was playing it.
3. Texas HoldEm Poker – For all poker enthusiasts and gamers, this one is for you… individuals compete for an amount of money or cloths contributed by the players themselves called pots. Because the cards are dealt randomly and outside the control of the players, each player attempts to control the amount of money in the pot based on the hand the player holds. I’m not into this game but since the popularity of poker in the world, this game got lots of attention.
4. Restaurant City – created by Playfish, one of the games i got addicted, i remember my brother-in-law warren, who usually sleeps beside his laptop and wakes up every 2 hours just to check his crew if they are still alive.  In this game you may experience working and managing a restaurant employ your friends and family to work for you either a chef, a waiter or a janitor… (If you are annoyed with someone hire him and let him work as janitor.. hehehehe).  And with lots of options and decorations you can create your restaurant unique from others.
5. Fishville – Another game released by Zynga, its like an underwater farmville wherein you will start with a few fish in a virtual aquarium, feed them, take care of them, harvest them and sell them to acquire new fish eggs. Not much interested on this game but my Nephew and Neice is also addicted to this game.
Do you play these games? or Am i missing out something…?

5 Reasons Why People Blog

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According to wikepedia, a blog or the short term for web blog is a type of website usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of comments, description of events or other materials such as photos or videos.
Many blogs provide information on a particular topic, a good subject and some mostly used as an online diary. It is usually a combination of text, videos and photos related to the said topic.
But what are the main resons why people blog?
Determining the goal why you need to blog is one of the most important thing in th field. This will determine the success of your blog and your survival.
Most of the new aspirant bloggers tend to start eagerly, writing topics as often as possible, touching different subjects without knowing and planning how their blog would succeed.
Currently, im into social networking and i have learned so much from the training.  Below are some reasons why people blog.
1. To Have Fun and Share Ideas – one of the reasons i blog, to have fun and share my thoughts and opinions.  Some people i knew does not have the access nor the resources to find something interesting, especially on the topics they are interested in, whether it is a good movie, a new music album, latest happenings, some motivational story, technical stuff, tutorials  and other information. Though i am starting in this field, that is one of my goals, so hopefully in the near future i may be able to provide information as well as knowledge to impart on every visitors.
2. To Connect with People – one way to gain friends is through blogging, i admit i gained a couple of them like zxt, chingya, marlene, amor, laura, Nick, John, Renz, Izzat Aziz, kelvin and many others.  I enjoy reading their articles, gain knowledge and have fun…
3. To Market and Promote Something – Many blog sites i visit usually promote something or advertise their business and i agree that it is one of the cheapest form of marketing reaching millions of people. Using facebook, creating fan pages, and tweet infos are some of the strategies.  Most companies in the US now gain sales coming from social networking sites and Twitter.
4. To Establish Yourself as Expert in your Industry – One way to share your knowledge to everyone is blog what you know, some individuals/industries provide information to their customers and visitors showing their say.  Intelletrace, one of the experts when it comes to providing data and internet all through out the US and internationally is an example.   Marc Alciati, the CEO of the company and Dean Zerbe, the VP usually take a time out after a stressing day in the telecom world to write about something, establishing their business as well as giving some thoughts.
5. To Earn Online – i have met several bloggers out there really earning online.  Most of their niche’s are giving some tips on “how to earn online” and what they say is indeed true. Using affiliates, banners, tweets, PPC’s and referrals are some of the strategies, Some are even hired to write something on a certain product just to promote their business.  I have done some yet my earnings are still small
There are still other reasons why people blog and it takes a lot of patience, study, determination, creativity and the will to be successful.  Let us not be discouraged of failures, we should learn from it because  that’s where we will find success!
So what are your reasons?

The Blind Side – Movie Review

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Late afternoon yesterday, after having a ride with my new toy, just laid back for a while and watched the movie “The Blind Side” starred by Sandra Bullock.

The story depicts the life of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American kid who is a product of a broken home, taken cared of and adopted by the Touhy’s, a rich white family who helped him unlock his full potential. Oher became the 2009 NFL draft playing as an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens.

For 17 years, Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) has been in foster care with different families.  Everytime he is sent to a new home, he usually runs away, feeling lonely and depressed. His fathers friend enrolled “Big Mike” in a christian school after the father convinces the coach that he is a natural athlete.

At Wingate Christian School ( a fictional representation of Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis Tenessee ), “Big Mike” met SJ, the son of Leigh Anne Touhy.  One night, the family saw “Big Mike” strolling in the park, shivering  in the cold.  Leigh Anne pities his situation and offered “Big Mike” a place to stay.  The next morning, much to Leigh Anne’s dismay, He saw the bed sheets properly folded and saw “Big Mike” walking out to the driveway.  She then offered him if he could stay for thanksgiving, which he did.  From then on, “Big Mike” slowly became part of the family and got close with SJ and Lily.

The SHOW PROCESS Command in Cisco

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Earlier today had some issue with a customer having latency on one of their MPLS circuit. MPLS or Multi-Protocol Label Switching defines a mechanism for packet forwarding in network routers. It was originally developed to provide faster packet forwarding than traditional IP routing, although improvements in router hardware have reduced the importance of speed in packet fowarding. However, the flexibility of MPLS has led to it becoming the default way for modern networks to achieve Quality of Service (QoS), next generation VPN services, and optical signaling.

Traditional IP networks are connectionless: when a packet is received, the router determines the next hop using the destination IP address on the packet alongside information from its own forwarding table. The router’s forwarding tables contain information on the network topology. They use an IP routing protocol, such as OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, RIP or static configuration, to keep their information synchronized with changes in the network.

I am not able to diagnose the issue myself so i called in one of my mentors/guru/Boss Dean Zerbe to help me isolate the problem. If you want to know more of MPLS, check out his blog.

Dean gave me some advice on how to troubleshoot things…

Customer Has 4 routers running on an MPLS circuit, First on the checklist was to verify the Layer 1 and Layer 2 connectivity by looking at the interfaces and verifying if there are any errors on the circuit.

  1. Show Interfaces – The purpose of the show interfaces command is rather self-explanatory, it displays the interfaces and their status. Just a priliminary on the troubleshooting checking for errors, current traffic and the status of the interface.
  2. Show Process commands – displays the information about the active process in a cisco router.

router#show processes

CPU utilization for five seconds: 0%/0%; one minute: 0%; five minutes: 0%
 PID Q  Ty       PC  Runtime(uS)    Invoked   uSecs    Stacks TTY Process
 1 C  sp 602F3AF0            0       1627       0 2600/3000   0 Load Meter
 2 L  we 60C5BE00            4        136      29 5572/6000   0 CEF Scanner
 3 L  st 602D90F8         1676        837    2002 5740/6000   0 Check heaps
 4 C  we 602D08F8            0          1       0 5568/6000   0 Chunk Manager
 5 C  we 602DF0E8            0          1       0 5592/6000   0 Pool Manager
 6 M  st 60251E38            0          2       0 5560/6000   0 Timers
 7 M  we 600D4940            0          2       0 5568/6000   0 Serial Backgroun
 8 M  we 6034B718            0          1       0 2584/3000   0 OIR Handler
 9 M  we 603FA3C8            0          1       0 5612/6000   0 IPC Zone Manager
 10 M  we 603FA1A0            0       8124       0 5488/6000   0 IPC Periodic Tim
 11 M  we 603FA220            0          9       0 4884/6000   0 IPC Seat Manager
 12 L  we 60406818          124       2003      61 5300/6000   0 ARP Input
 13 M  we 60581638            0          1       0 5760/6000   0 HC Counter Timer
 14 M  we 605E3D00            0          2       0 5564/6000   0 DDR Timers
 15 M  we 605FC6B8            0          2       011568/12000  0 Dialer event
  • show process cpu -displays information about the active processes in the router and their corresponding CPU utilization statistics.
router#show processes cpu
 CPU utilization for five seconds: 8%/4%; one minute: 6%; five minutes: 5%
 PID Runtime(uS)   Invoked  uSecs    5Sec   1Min   5Min TTY Process
 1         384     32789     11   0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Load Meter
 2        2752      1179   2334   0.73%  1.06%  0.29%   0 Exec
 3      318592      5273  60419   0.00%  0.15%  0.17%   0 Check heaps
 4           4         1   4000   0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Pool Manager
 5        6472      6568    985   0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 ARP Input
 6       10892      9461   1151   0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 IP Input
 7       67388     53244   1265   0.16%  0.04%  0.02%   0 CDP Protocol
 8      145520    166455    874   0.40%  0.29%  0.29%   0 IP Background
 9        3356      1568   2140   0.08%  0.00%  0.00%   0 BOOTP Server
 10          32      5469      5   0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Net Background
 11       42256    163623    258   0.16%  0.02%  0.00%   0 Per-Second Jobs
 12      189936    163623   1160   0.00%  0.04%  0.05%   0 Net Periodic
 13        3248      6351    511   0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Net Input
 14         168     32790      5   0.00%  0.00%  0.00%   0 Compute load avgs
 15      152408      2731  55806   0.98%  0.12%  0.07%   0 Per-minute Jobs

CPU utilization for five seconds – CPU utilization for the last five seconds. The first number indicates the total, the second number indicates the percent of CPU time spent at the interrupt level.

PID – The Process ID

Runtime (uS) – CPU time the process has used, expressed in microseconds.

Invoked – The number of times the process has been invoked.

uSecs – Microseconds of CPU time for each process invocation.

5Sec – CPU utilization by task in the last five seconds.

1Min – CPU utilization by task in the last minute.

5Min – CPU utilization by task in the last five minutes.

TTY – Terminal that controls the process.

Process – Name of Process.

What is important at this point is to verify the CPU utilization for five seconds, if the value has a significant amount of increase or is having a 100% utilization then something is really wrong.

  • show process cpu history – displays in ASCII graphical form the total CPU usage on the router over a period of time: one minute, one hour, and 72 hours, displayed in increments of one second, one minute, and one hour, respectively. Maximum usage is measured and recorded every second; average usage is calculated on periods over one second.

The following is a sample output of the one-hour portion of the output:

router#show processes cpu history

!--- One minute output omitted
 

     6665776865756676676666667667677676766666766767767666566667
     6378016198993513709771991443732358689932740858269643922613
100
 90
 80         *  *                     * *     *  * *  *
 70  * * ***** *  ** ***** ***  **** ******  *  *******     * *
 60  #***##*##*#***#####*#*###*****#*###*#*#*##*#*##*#*##*****#
 50  ##########################################################
 40  ##########################################################
 30  ##########################################################
 20  ##########################################################
 10  ##########################################################
    0....5....1....1....2....2....3....3....4....4....5....5....
              0    5    0    5    0    5    0    5    0    5

               CPU% per minute (last 60 minutes)
              * = maximum CPU%   # = average CPU%


!--- 72-hour output omitted
  • The Y-axis of the graph is the CPU utilization.
  • The X-axis of the graph is the increment within the period displayed in the graph; in this instance, it is the individual minutes during the previous hour. The most recent measurement is on the left end of the X-axis.
  • The top two rows, read vertically, display the highest percentage of CPU utilization recorded during the increment.

In the above example, the CPU utilization for the last minute recorded is 66 percent. The router may have reached 66 percent only once during that minute, or it may have reached 66 percent multiple times; the router records only the peak reached during the increment and the average over the course of that increment.

For the issue above, Dean checked out all four existing routers and verified all their CPU utilization, it turned out to be that one of the router is having a high utilization. The High utilization of the router is correlated to an over utilization of the T1.  He then checked of the NAT translation and found out one of the servers is sending lots of traffic to the internet causing multiple NAT translation thus causing the utilization of the router to increase and pointing the issue of the T1 being over utilized and inside network being slow. We had Isolated the said server and blocked its access on the internet, removing the one-to-one NAT translation and denying the ports 80 and 21 for the said server.

It should be noted that high CPU utilization, by itself, does not indicate a problem with your device.

As a rough guideline, only consistently high CPU utilization over an extended period of time indicates a problem. Further, these commands are more relevant in the process of figuring out what went wrong rather than being indicators that all is not fine.

Need some advice on your network? You may check out some technical stuff at Techblog, Intelletrace Site or Tweet askintelletrace.

Top 10 things you should consider when you are in a Relationship

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You’ve been in your relationship for years, but to say “things have changed” would be an understatement…Many of us believe that when you are in a relationship and both of you are deeply in love with each other, it feels like you are walking on clouds, the undeniable feeling of floating in the air or the excitement that your princess or prince charming is there beside you, walking hand in hand, under that yellow oak tree starring at the sunset by the bay…. Yes, those feelings… and I know you cant just stop imagining….. so now stop, wake up… Look at the reality!

The things you used to find cute about them are now annoying faults.  The bits of behaviour you used to be able to ignore, now drives you crazy and up the wall… And deep down you fear you’re wasting your valuable time because maybe you’re just not compatible with each other.

But would you believe that there are so much things to consider and to think about before you run to that nearest exit….

So my friend not trying to become an advisor here, Just read on…

  • Fun – How would you rate your relationship in a scale of 1-1010 being the highest when it comes to you or your partners sense of humor? Do you usually share your experiences before the sun sets down? How much do you laugh together?

CommentLuv for IntenseDebate

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Intense Debate CommentLuv is almost here! Just received a notification from the Andy Bailey, the makers of CommentLuv that the plugin for IntenseDebate is almost ready.

GingerWench already conducted tests on this plugin and it worked just fine, They have already submitted the pludin to the ID groups and as soon as they are happy with it, the plugin will be available on the dashboard.

As we know, Comments are very important in articles and blogs, adding some features like the link of love, you can give something back to your readers by including a titled link for their last blog post or tweet on every end of their comment.  It is also one way for commenters to show or promote to other readers their own website or blog.

I have been using intensedebate comment system in Joomla for quite some time now and i am very much satisfied for its versatility. And now, adding a commentluv feature and it is almost perfect!  Andy has been generous and kind to all of his supporters and replying on every post on the site. Thank you so much again.  I can’t wait to install this plugin!

2012 Predictions, Mayan Calendar and the Apocalypse

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With Humanity coming up past on 2012, many people are looking for answers regarding this catastrophic event. December 21, 2012 at 11:11pm UTC, the day of apocalypse, the date that ancient Mayan societies were anticipating thousands of years ago. Scienist, Astronomers, Archeologist are studying this event as the end of the world. Is this true? what really is 2012? Did the bible say such thing?

How is 2012 described?

Scholars are attempting and trying to link the Ancient Maya with trends in contemporary spirituality.Maya civilization, known for advanced writing, mathematics and astronomy, flourished for centuries in Meso-america, especially between A.D. 300 and 900. Its Long Count calendar, which was discontinued under Spanish colonization, tracks more than 5,000 years, then resets at year zero.Mayans have predicted that the sun will be aligned with the center of the milky way for the first time in 26,000 years, this means that whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on that date.

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