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Tantra: At Last Ruins Patch had been pushed Already

2008-04-17T05:56:00.001-07:00

Heyya all tantra gamers.. at last, the long wait is over. Ruins had ablready been patched out. An exciting new look, new mob and new monsters to battle out.

Hehehehe..kinda need to level up my char again who's level stucked up for 3 months already or I may say "I'll gonna create another char again for Vedi Kruma"

Gamers, it's all time for us to rock again.. hehehehe.. need to farm from Forge Map again to gain rups to buy another set of ROs and blue orb stuffs.. Hayzzzzzzzzzz.. for those who had many taneys, you don't need to farm anyway... hehehhehe...

Anyway.. for more information regarding the new patch... GO your favorite gaming site..

WWW.TANTRA.PH/RUINS - The fate is in your taney... sorry.. the fate is in your hands..

Pros:

New Grounds
New Weapons
New Mobs
All new environment

Cons:

Several bugs is still roaming the tantra world

Attacking (DC)
Quickbar problems
DC Problems
Wrong item stats
HTwebdll
101 bugs (no skills no buffs)
amara XP Bug
amara lvls cannot use the stack Upgrades option in biryu
change password bug
dcs after purchasing dust item

Tips to all players - do not change password until the new patch will be stable.

Devil's Swimming Pool

2008-04-11T06:51:00.000-07:00

In Zimbabwe, Africa, you will find the magnificent Victoria Falls at a height of 128m. The location is known as "The Devil's Swimming Pool".

During the months of September and December, people can swim as close as possible to the edge of the fallswithout falling over!

These falls are becoming well known amongst the "radical tourist" industry as more and more people search for the ultimate experience.

Would you dare?

8 Amazing Holes!

2008-04-10T02:34:00.000-07:00

These holes are not only amazing, but some of them

Are really terrifying - especially #8! The sheer scale

Of these holes reminds you of just how tiny you are.

1. Kimberley Big Hole - South Africa

Apparently the largest ever hand-dug excavation in the world,

This 1097 meter deep mine yielded over 3 tons of diamonds

Before being closed in 1914.

The amount of earth removed by workers is estimated to

Total 22.5 million tons.

2. Glory Hole - Monticello Dam, California

A glory hole is used

when a dam is at full capacity and

Water needs to be drained from the reservoir.

This is the 'Glory Hole' at Monticello dam,

And it's the largest in the world of this type

Of spillway, its size enabling it to consume

14,400 cubic feet o

f water every second.

The hole can be seen at the top left of the photo above.

If you were to jump in for some reason, your body would

Shoot out near the bottom of the dam (below). There is

One person known to have had this experience. She did

Not live to tell of it.

3. Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah

This is supposedly the largest man-made

Excavation on earth. Extraction began in 1863

And still continues today, the pit increasing in

Size constantly. In its current state the hole

Is Â¾ miles deep and 2.5 miles wide.

4. Great Blue Hole, Belize

This incredible geographical phenomenon known as a

Blue hole is situated 60 miles off the mainland of Belize.

There are numerous blue holes around the world,

But none as stunning as this one.

At surface level the near perfectly circular hole is Â¼

Mile wide, and the depth in the middle reaches 145

Meters. Obviously the hole is a huge hit with divers.

5. Mirny Diamond Mine, Serbia

I'm pretty sure most people have seen this one.

It's an absolute beast and holds the title of largest

Open diamond mines in the world. At 525 meters

Deep, with a top diameter of 1200 meters, there's

Even a no-fly zone above the hole due to a few

Helicopters having been sucked in.

The red arrow in the photo above is pointing

To a huge truck.

6. Diavik Mine, Canada

This incredible mine can be found 300km

Northeast of Yellowknife in Canada.

The mine is so huge and the area so remote

That it has its own airport with a runway large

Enough to accommodate a Boeing 737.

It looks equally cool when the surrounding

Water is frozen.

7. Sinkhole in Guatemala

A sinkhole is caused when water,

Usually rainwater or sewage, is

Soaked up by the earth on a large

Scale, resulting in the ground

Collapsing the surface.

These photos are of a sinkhole that occurred

Early this year in Guatemala. The hole swallowed

A dozen homes and killed at least 3 people.

Officials blamed the monster of a hole on a

ruptured sewage pipe.

And the really terrifying one... # 8

This is the famous 'Rat Hole' that you have heard about.

It is capable of swallowing trillions and trillions of U.S.

dollars... Annually! Never to be heard from again.

It makes me tremble & shiver!

Family or Career

2008-04-08T04:43:00.000-07:00

Ano kayang halaga ng tagumpay sa career if it has been achieved at the expense of the family. What profit does a man have kung mawawala naman ang kanyang pamilya? OO nga, meron siyang salapi na milyon ang halaga, magandang mansyon, travels around the world, and cavorts with an array of girls, women, and ladies, pero naman ang kapalit kung ikaw naman ay being hated by your daughters and is the mortal enemy of your sons. Can success in career really make up for failure at home? Which then is more important, wealth or family. A great number of us would readily say family. Pero totoo kaya na ang ating sinasabi ay ating ginagawa. But do we walk our talk ika nga? Are we willing to translate our mindsets into concrete actions? Day by day, we are bombarded by 52 million dollar questions, Sino ba ang mahalaga ang mga anak ko o ang trabaho ko.

To my fellow employees, I don't know how you react out there or would Answer my questions. In my case, as an accountant who always spend overtime in the office to be able to submit deadline reports come month-end or cut-off period, I have made unforgivable mistakes. If I have to live my life again, I would need to overhaul my priorities, to rechannel the efforts that I Have been exerting with passions and commitment . I thought all along na ang Lahat ng ginagawa kong pagpapahirap at pagtratrabaho to the max to get a promotion, I am doing it all for the family. But I was wrong . Today I know better. When my wife or daughter is on the phone I make sure that I attend to them first, never mind if there are urgent things to attend or papers to submit to my superior, after all they can wait for 10! minutes..... but if I deny the 10 minutes that is so important to them, it would have a lasting effect than to my Boss who might be replaced in a couple of years.

My family is my top priority , period. It is not a choice between my family and my career. MY FAMILY IS THE REASON WHY I NEED A CAREER. My career will come and go, employers can come and go but one's family Will remain even beyond the grave . They even take care of our graves. Noon kahit mayroon affairs sa school ang aking mga anak, I'd tend to preponderate toward the official duty and delegate the affairs of my kids to my wife. I used to operate on the paradigm that I should focus on the duty first before pleasure . Now I know that MY first duty is toward my loved ones. I should put my time where my heart belongs.

Today if I will to do it all over again, I'd reverse my priorities . My son will only graduate once in elementary and only once in high school, I will make sure I will be there, I will file my vacation leave and if my Boss rejected it because I need to attend to a company function where I am required to attend, I would still go to my kids graduation no matter what the consequences are. This time I am willing to become an average corporate officer, a so-so business executive but a great father. I'm willing to be reprimanded by my Boss for a late report but not hated by a daughter for not remembering her birthday every year.....na ilalabas ko siya the whole day and cherish the moments every minute dahil alam ko hindi ko na maibabalik ito kapag lumaki na siya at kung gawin ko man later, baka huli na. There are more important matters compared to corporate business meetings, Family peace and love- these are the ones that matter most.

BUT I SPEAK ONLY FOR MYSELF. I DO NOT IMPOSE VALUES ON YOU GUYS OUT THERE.

If you think possessions are more important than family, go ahead. Spend 20 hours in the office, bring home your corporate work. Neglect your wife.. don't spend quality time with your kids. Don't attend important family gatherings. Find work that you are away for a week and only meet your family every week-ends, oh what a waste. Delegate raising the children to your spouse. Leave the young kids to the nanny. Let the driver brings your kids to school. Ask someone to represent in your son college graduation. If you find something wrong at home, don't mind it, anyway your concentration is in your job. You have your career remember? Don't greet your father and mother on their anniversary. Spend all your time in the company. Baka mawala ang tiwala ng Boss mo sa iyo sayang ang pinagpaguran mo ng matagal. If you have aging parents, don't visit them. enjoy your career in isolation. Drink, dance, be merry, But in the end, you lose all the love ones who love you more, after neglecting! them. No wife, no kids, no family. you are alone and pretending to be happy. don't blame your company. don't lay the Burden on your Boss. Hindi ba, You made the choice? You opted to put more value on your career. Dahil sabi mo pinaghirapan mo lahat ito and pangarap mo na ito simula pagkabata dahil mahirap ka lang ikamu...gusto mong yumaman. You gambled and you lost.

I know of an executive na masyadong depressed... every week lang siyang umuwi sa pamilya niya. Week-ends lang niya nalalaro ang mga bata kung minsan required pa mag-stay ng sabado sa office, who finds no meaning in his life, he's got the money, a beautiful wife who according to him might be hiding something from him (you know what I mean) and the kids are not genuinely closed to him, for no apparent reason he had pulled the trigger to his head. He's got everything and he lost everything. that is the tragedy of it all.

As for me, I know better. After all the pains, the burdens of mistaken priorities, I have made my choice. Anytime, anywhere, my family comes first. My career, my business, my outside clients, all my other pursuits are only means to the end of all my sacrifices, my wife, my sons, my daughters, my family. I shall thus manage my various objectives well. there shall not be conflicting objective anymore. For I now know clearly my prioroties and shall be faithful to them. I shall be willing to give them up; excess money, much comfort, travels, and girls for and in the name of the family. That is simple and straightforward.

Are you aware that if we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our own family, an unwise investment indeed, don't you think? And we often treat strangers and coworkers better than members of our family.

-JB Jimenez - Ayala Land-

Facts About my hobby "Playing MMORPG"

2008-02-28T10:10:00.000-08:00

What is a MMORPG?

MMORPG stands for massively multiplayer online role playing game, a type of MMOG (massively multiplayer online game). An MMORPG is a computer-based RPG (role playing game) which takes place in an online virtual world with hundreds or thousands of other players. In an MMORPG, a player uses a client to connect to a server, usually run by the publisher of the game, which hosts the virtual world and memorizes information about the player.

In an MMORPG, like any RPG, the user controls a character represented by an avatar, which he directs to fight monsters for experience, interact with other characters, acquire items, and so on. MMORPGs have become extremely popular since the wider debut of broadband Internet connections, now with millions of subscribers from hundreds of different countries. Some MMORPGs have as many as a million subscribers.

MMORPGs have their roots in online, text-based adventures, which existed as early as the 1970s. The first real MMORPG, Meridian 59, was released in 1996, but it wasn't until the next year that Ultima Online highly popularized the genre. Both games were played on a pay-by-month basis, as are most modern MMORPGs. The genre surged into popularity throughout the late nineties, finding especially welcoming markets in Taiwan, South Korea, and America. In 1999, Sony Online Entertainment released EverQuest, a popular game to this day. Right around the same time, Ultima Online and Asheron's Call were released, two other MMORPGs that would become extremely popular.

In 2001, the market appeared to plateau, causing the cancellation of some MMORPGs in development. But new MMORPGs continue to be released, with dozens of popular games still being sold. One popular selling point is expansion packs, either downloaded from the server as patches or sold in stores. These expansion packs ensure that the virtual worlds in MMORPGs stay fresh and interesting, constantly changing.

Around 2000, MMORPGs began to attract the attention of academia (psychology and economics) and non-gaming publications. Reactions ranging from praise to distaste are common, with some critics saying that such games turn us into lifeless zombies, and others celebrating the MMORPG as a fascinating new way for us to interact with each other.

Some MMORPGs have developed sophisticated economies with equipment, currency, and characters within the game being exchanged online for real money. This has led to the study of "synthetic economies" and how they relate to real world economies. As MMORPG worlds become increasingly more realistic and entertaining, they will continue to permeate further into the mainstream, attracting both positive and negative reactions from all sides.

About Me!!

2008-02-28T09:39:00.000-08:00

Name : Marvin
Nickname : Marvz, Kronemarvz, Krone
Status : Single
Gender :Male
Interests: : Hanging out with friends,
Hobbies : Drawing, Playing Online Games
Short Description: This is simply me, the only people who could tell me who I am are my friends. They know me more about me than I know about myself