Once Upon A TYPE…

I got this from pc world dot com:

Michael Jackson’s death on Thursday caused a spike in visits to news Web sites that affected the performance and availability of some of the biggest ones, according to Web monitoring company Keynote Systems.

Between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time, the availability for the news sites from ABC, CBS, and the L.A. Times dropped to almost 10 percent, meaning that about nine out of 10 visitors couldn’t get the sites to load.

Starting at 5:30 p.m., the average download speed for news sites tracked by Keynote went from less than four seconds to almost 9 seconds, and their average availability dropped from almost 100 percent to 86 percent, the company said. News sites monitored by Keynote returned to normal performance and availability levels by 9:15 p.m.

Other news sites that experienced problems included AOL, MSNBC, NBC, the San Francisco Chronicle and Yahoo News, according to Keynote.

Meanwhile, Reuters’ home page had a period of “significant slowdown” between around 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., according to Web monitoring company Pingdom.

Another high-profile news site that malfunctioned on Thursday was Google News, which interpreted the sharp spike in Jackson-related search queries as an automated attack. “As a result, for about 25 minutes yesterday, when some people searched Google News they saw a ‘We’re sorry’ page before finding the articles they were looking for,” Google said in an official blog on Friday. In general, Google saw a “volcanic” spike in Jackson-related search queries on Thursday, when more than 50 of the top-100 searches were related to him, a Google spokeswoman said via e-mail.

Akamai’s Net Usage Index for global news sites traffic surged at around 6 p.m. and hit a peak of 4.24 million visitors per minute at 6:26 p.m.

The usage spike also put a strain on online communication tools, like AOL’s AIM instant messaging system, which went offline for about 40 minutes on Thursday.

“At AOL our AIM instant messaging service was undergoing a previously scheduled software update which should normally prove routine. It proved not to be. There was a significant increase in traffic due to [Michael Jackson's] news and AIM was down for approximately 40 minutes this afternoon,” the company said in a statement.

Microblogging site Twitter disabled for several hours a search feature in its homepage, although the company didn’t respond to a request for comment as to whether this was caused by a Jackson-related surge in usage.

At Yahoo, the article headlined “Michael Jackson rushed to hospital” got the most hits of any other story ever posted on the company’s home page with 800,000 clicks within 10 minutes. “Also, the news area on our front page experienced five times the amount of traffic it normally receives,” Yahoo said in an official blog.

Yahoo News broke its record of unique visitors with 16.4 million; the previous record was 15.1 million visitors U.S. election day last year. In Yahoo Music, 21,000 people left comments on a blog post about Jackson, while more than 4,000 images related to the music star have been posted on Flickr in the past day, the company said

Facebook, the world’s most popular social-networking site, experienced an increase across its core actions, like the posting of messages, notes and links on member profiles, a spokeswoman said via e-mail.

“Status updates in particular saw an increase of more than 3x the amount than usual within an hour of the MJ news breaking and remained well above our usual numbers for several hours,” the spokeswoman said.

Unbelievable!!!

I was sitting by the stairs this morning after I woke up when Biggie told me that ‘MJ’ is already dead, puzzled who he is I asked who’s MJ as a very close friend of mine has the same name and suddenly I thought, what the hell my friend already died?!?Then Biggie replied – Michael Jackson died already (well, thank goodness it’s not my friend as he’s too young to die!) with a heart attack in L.A at 50.

I am not a big fan but I will admit that I like his songs especially ‘You are not alone’ which became famous when I was on my 1^st year high school. Everybody’s just singing it and even when we are in karaoke, this song will never be out of our list.

Jacko’s been famous in the 70’s when he went solo and was known to be the ‘King of Pop’. Then his fame faded by many issues that involved him – molesting a cancer patient and dangling his child outside a hotel, albums that never materialized which contributed to his bankruptcy and many others. It’s said that after his molestation trial he and his children went to Bahrain and just came back to Los Angeles several months ago.

Now he’s dead and I know thousands or even millions of people will sympathize with the great loss in the music industry. I am sure he has touched and inspired many lives through his songs and with his songs Jacko will never be forgotten.

On the other hand, I realized that 50 is such a young age to die. Hey, my pap’s 53 already and he’s still young and groovy same with my grandparents who are now in their 70’s. I think with proper diet and health care we can make our lives longer. Maybe it is the right time to change some bad habits and turn it into good ones, ey. Go and see the doctor more often so you can check whether you need more health attention.

I guess the outbreak is inevitable and now Cambodia has two confirmed cases of A(H1N1) or most commonly known as ‘Swine Flu‘. The school informed the faculty and other staffs about the virus and were told not to accept students with flu like symptoms. If ever a student comes to school with fever they should be sent home immediately.

As a mom with kids, I am very much alarmed about this outbreak. They go to school and I don’t get to see what they do, this makes me worry more if they suddenly bump into a virus carrier and later get infected! They’re kids and don’t know much about these things, so I need to make extra effort on making them understand  how to be more careful when they are outside, so they won’t get sick with anything.

I don’t feel good since yesterday, my throat sores and I am coughing like a dog, luckily I am not feverish or else I will consider that maybe I have the virus in me as the above mentioned are some of the symptoms of A(H1N1) virus.

The whole family is now taking more vitamin C to boost our immune system and will not go out for a while in places where there are too many people. This will help us, to at least avoid getting infected. Plus, I am planning to have shots of flu vaccine for the rest of us, espacially that Aiken and Nestle’s going back to Philippines where they have reported many cases of swine flu victims. It’s better to have simple precautions like this than regretting later - when we are already sick.

Follow the link for the news.

Three of the bestest dads I have in my life - Happy Fathers Day! I love you all!!!

and here’s my all time favourite song for the three of you:

It’s father’s day tomorrow and since we’re going to church I decided to give Nestle a treat today - CHICKEN MAMI! I don’t have any fancy gift for him so I really hope he will like this

Before I cook, I browsed the net first for some easy to prepare chicken noodle soup so I won’t get lost when cooking. Luckily, it’s too easy to do and the next thing I did is hit the market to buy all the ingredients. And tadaaaannnn look at the finish product

the kids who enjoyed the cooking! Aaron even mentioned that I’m the best cook ever. Di ba heartwarming though I am not that good at all

If you want to cook ala Joyce’s style, you can follow the easy steps below

Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe

• 2 small chicken breasts
• 2 litres chicken and vegetable stock
• 1 small cabbage
• 3 medium carrots
• 1 large stalk celery
• 1 large onion
• 250 g Bihon noodles
  
• 3 pcs. cloves
• 2 laurel leaves (bay leaf)

• 1 tbsp. oregano
• salt to taste

Toppings and condiments:

• 3 hard-boiled eggs, sliced into 6 sections each
• 3 heads crushed fried garlic (approx)
• 2 stalks spring onion, thinly sliced or chopped
• calamansi slices
• ground black pepper
• fish sauce

Cooking will be a bit faster if you have chicken or vegetable stock but it is not necessary. Even it is available, the chicken breasts would still have to be parboiled and if it is not, then the water used to boil the chicken can be used as stock.

you read it right - I’M ON DIET!!!

i am on my 2nd day now drinking super natural 26 slimming coffee which i think is effective. i only have to drink it 1x a day, 30 mins before breakfast and wallaaah i won’t feel hungry the whole day. it suppresses the feeling of being hungry so when it’s eating time you won’t be so eager to eat. but of course, i don’t want to get sick while on diet so i still eat on time and on a regular basis but with lesser intake of food. a few spoonful’s enough for me unlike before where i love pigging out (takaw)

side effect? hmmm, i don’t really notice any side effect (yet) as i am only on my 2nd day, but what i have observed is that i need to hydrate myself more often as my throat feels dry all the time. while i was teaching earlier i couldn’t help coughing to ease the dryness, i just hope my body will be used to the coffee so i won’t feel anything nah!

taste? it’s like coffee mixed with 1 liter of water eventhough you’re just drinking half a cup. it’s so diluted but too effective for the 10g you intake.

i browsed the internet about the slimming coffee and it says that you need to drink it continuously for 26 days to see the difference. i forgot to weigh myself yesterday and i am still lazy to go upstairs to get the scale so from 53 kilos (maybe, i am not sure :P) i wanna lose some more 3-5 kilos jayson used this first for a month with broken schedule of intake and he lost 4lbs, great di ba!

i am not really fat, i just wanna lose the flabbiness of my tummy as it does not look good when you’re all dressed up and there your tummy is - saluting all your dear friends and saying ‘hi’ because it’s more prominent than your face.

i will definetely post the result after my 26th day

many thanks to jayson for sharing this wonderful coffee to me, aprub!

feeling model lang dahil wala ng makuha si pong na ibang subject para pagpraktisan, hahaha! i just realised inde pala madali tong trabaho na to at napakahirap mag emote, amp! infairness maganda din naman ang kinalabasan kahit muka na akong inaantok

thanks pong!!! galing galing mo talaga

the weather in Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam are the same - both CRAZY! mainit then maya maya uulan, di ba nakakaloko, medyo lamang lang ang HCMC kasi inde dusty yun air unlike here in the Penh. and dahil sa pabago bago na naman na panahon, ubo at sinipon ang inabot ko. ang hirap pa naman magturo pag sinisipon ka at haching ng haching, mamaya un virus magspread pa at maging cause ng pagkahawa ng mga students ko.

on the bright side, i am very much satisfied with my ‘teacher’s appraisal’ this morning. it’s confirmed that i will be teaching at CIA full time next school year, meaning better compensation is ahead, yahoo! nakalagay dun sa report ‘highly recommended to teach higher level students and never late in class’ o di ba bongga! excited na ako na magturo sa mga grade 6 students ko in september, woot woot!

I can’t believe how time flies! It seems like yesterday that I was still cradling you to sleep and keeping myself patient every time you cries.  And now, look at what I’ve got, a big pretty girl who is smart and talented!!!

Happy Birthday Ate Andrea, magpagaling ka na para makapag party tayo kasama ang mga friends mo. Kahit malaki ka na baby pa din kita, I love you anak!

with energies on the top level selected K3 & K4 students of Cambodia International Academy (CIA) performed the most awaited dance for the Children’s Day on May 23, 2009!

to the tune of New York New York the students gave all their best to dance gracefully in front of the hundreds of parents and visitors who attended the programme. the days of practice finally bear  fruit and i am proud of what we have achieved!

more pictures posted on my multiply account