4th Lim Family Reunion 2010

To: All the Members of the Juliano & Cecilia Lim Family
From: The Chairman: Dr. Erlinda Lim-Juan
Theme: Clean & Green

We will have our 4th Family reunion on Papa Juling’s 104th Birthday and Mama Celing’s 31st Death Aniversary on August 21, 2010 in La Libertad Negros Oriental. Our host is Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Terio and Family. Please wear something green.

Program of Activities
I. Arrival in La Libertad 8:00am – 12noon
II. Lunch at Terio’s Residence - San Jose, La Libertad, Negros Oriental
III. Celebration & Service at the Tomb 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Speaker: Mr. Roderick Lim
Program: Mrs. Ethel Rose Estrellado & Mr. Leo Art Sarmiento
IV. Dinner and Fellowship at La Limar 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Host: Terio Family
EMCEE: Giel Estrellado
Presentation by the Third Generation:
By: Jonathan Julvic Trinidad and Rickne Ian Lim
V. Family Meeting 9:00pm – 11:00pm
1st & 2nd Generation
VI. Sweet Dream (Sleeping time) 11:00pm
VII. Homeward Bound (8/22/2010)

Assignments:
1st Generation:
1. Submit 2 Stories about Papa and Mama
2nd Generation:
1. Video Presentation
2. Plans for the Future
3rd Generation:
1. Prepare for a number (base on theme)
2. Submit your auto biography and for those who cannot write yet parents will be the one to write.

5.12 and 5.13 recipe

Okies, so this will be very short and easy. For those who dont understand what Im talking about, just dont read this. You'all know why im doing this.
1. This applies to any 1phone (3g or 3gs) with either 05.13.04 / 05.12.01 Baseband modem firmware.
2. Jail break your phones.
3. Go to cydia and please update everything that needs updating. You'll know an update is needed when a number on "changes" section appears.3. In Cydia, go to manage - sources - edit. Then click add. Inside the window, enter http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com (remember the "0" in the word "ultrasn0w" is ZERO)
4. Sources will be updated so be patient. If it wont update, read back no. 3 again five times!
5. Once updating is successful, go to cydia again and go to manage - sources then click the newly entered repo666ultrasn0w.com source.
6. Finally, Install Ultrasn0w.
7. Smile at your phone and say to yourself;
buang ang maker nga "Mansanas"
Ato ni nga phone!
Ato ni gipalit!

Changing your Laptop's backlights.

I never new laptops had back lights. Not until mine got busted a few months ago. You'll never knew when this day would come cos I knew how it terribly felt.

Laptop screens are made of very thin materials which emit colors like ink that flood a thin film of glass. In order for the colors to be bright and visible to the human eyes, it needs a good source of light. This light is simply a very very tiny tube located above or below this screens. Reflected by the white background of the LCD, it would produce the basic white brilliance.
I am not sure though how latter laptops are designed with their LCD. However, I found mine to be this back lighted system.

Anyway, you will know if your back-lights are already close to getting busted when the screen gets more reddish by the day. You have a few months to prepare for the darkest day of your laptop. Sooner, that tube (CCFL) will die and your laptops LCD will finally be dark.
You'll know that it was your LCD's CCFL because your laptop will still have power and sounds but you just can't see any bright emissions from the monitor. However, if you point your LCD to a flashlight, you'll see your desktop and everything is still perfectly working. Just no light.
CCFLs are way so cheap. I got mine from Ebay at about 1200yen (600php). However, one stupid thing I did was to not check my exact screen size and the exact CCFL tube length that I'll be needing. First item I bought was 5cms longer. So, I had to buy again.

Anyways, replacement needs more skills than just turning screws and prying lids. Adhesive tapes must be carefully removed and a little bit of soldering is required. Anybody can do the job as long as he gives time and carefulness.

Finally, My good Ole NEC Versapro lives again.

Basic Jailbroken Iphone customizations

Hey there Pharaohgaijin blog. I missed you.
Things has been very busy for the past few weeks and I can hardly post anymore.


So here are a few tips after you have jailbroken your phone.

Get a good looking and complete theme. Go to Cydia, Sections and Themes (complete). Choose any of those themes there. The more icons, sounds, wallpapers, start menus, etc... the better. Installing a theme from cydia will also automatically install winterboard. Winterboard is an application for setting themes. After install, go to winterboard in your Springboard panel and choose your desired theme.

Then managed your icon rows by installing 6 x 6 icons utility which again can be found in your Cydia. Just enter "5x6" or "6x6" or even "7x7" in the search utility under cydia and install them.

You can also optionally install "infinite docks". These app comes in very handy too.


To install multiple (even hundreds) apps in your iphone, all you have to do is drag your ipa files into your itunes application section. Plug in your Iphone then push sync. Wait for an hour or two then you're good to go.

Iphone OS can be a pain when it comes to errors. It usually doesn't say anything except by just freezing on your face. So, troubleshooting can be quite a hazzle. However, things are working pretty well after you've known you're phone for quite sometime.

Happy hacking.

Taga-Golf Course

Remember High School/college days... we used to name a fighting spider by the place/tree its coming from.

"Taga-bayabas", "Taga-Manga", "Tag-Balayon"...etc...?

Introducing... "Taga-Golf Course"

Nobody (backstage rendition)

2009 Christmas was a smash!

Unfortunately, the originally 5 member backstage band had to perform their annual song cover with only two members for this year.
Yours truly, Pharaoh and of course, Winnux.
December was a busy month so we had to choose the simplest piece out there.
We decided to do the cover of the song of the Wondergirls entitled Nobody in acoustic.
Performed last December 20, 2009 at KCIC Annual Christmas Party.

So, here it is. Hope you enjoy.

Iphone 3GS jailbreaking

I promised to not jailbreak my iphone within 2 years. However, It took me just 6 months to finally get bored with it and decided to proceed.

My real objective is not the unlocking feature. I am not a person who travels a lot so unlocking the phone is not my major reason. Although, it comes with the price of jailbreaking, there are other much better reasons why your iphone should be jailbroken.

My major reason is probably Themes.
Second would probably be Ringtones.
Third would probably be Utilities

With a jailbroken phone, you can attain a wider freedom on customizations.

I have an iphone 3GS with 3.0.1 firmware:

to jailbreak this version:
(I have only successfully done jailbreaking within these versions. For the rest of other firmwares and iphone versions, please research them.)

1. Download two files:
Download Redsn0w: http://thebigboss.org/hostedfiles/red...
Download 3.0, (NOT 3.0.1) firmware file: http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/
(Note: If firmware is in .rar change .rar to .ipsw)

2. Run Redsnow:
Browse for the 3.0 firmware. Install cydia and icy. Let redsnow patch the firmware successfully. If any errors persist, do the whole process again or download the firmware again.

3. Flashing
Final instructions will appear on redsnow by turning your phone off and holding home button. This was quite tricky for me. My simplest explanation would be, just set your iphone to recovery mode. Simply, turn off your phone completely (holding power button for a few seconds then slide bar to turn phone off). Wait for 5 seconds then press and hold home button. While holding home button, plug in the usb cord and wait until the itunes logo appears. Make sure you have itunes installed in your PC.

4. Redsnow will automatically start to upload the firmware to your phone.
Your phone will start flashing and will restart several times. All you have to do is wait until all tasks has completed.

I think this is it. Enjoy

Jailbreaking has freedom but still unstable sometimes. Expect hangups from then onwards.

Zynga Poker

Socializing wasn't that much interesting before I signed up for facebook. But everything changed after I got in. There were walls that you could write or share. There were buttons you could Like or Comment. and There were Apps that you could get addicted in to.
The first app that I ever tried was Pet Society. It was good, but it only took me 1 hour to finally get bored. Next was farmville. It was also good but as I reached level 26, I got bored coz there's nothing else to do but get busy each day. Clicking your mouse was the one skills you could polish in farmville.
The craziest app I presently got really into is Poker. PuPuPuPu poker face!
Yup, Zynga's Texas poker.

You can hold it, raise it, call it, and fold it baby.

So here's how i evolved.

First week I made it to 1.5 million but i lost everything in just 3 hours the next day.
A week later, i got 1 million in a day and played it for 1 week till it reached 12 million.
The week after, I lost everything again in a day.

After seeing the pattern, I realized that losing is a much luckier thing than winning.
So, how do i easily loose everything?

Here are some of my personal observations;
1. When i suddenly get annoyed by other players, I loose.
2. When I fight with somebody through the chatbox, I loose.
3. When I have found a poker/girlfriend poker buddy, I started losing.
4. I think i have also been a victim of poker cheaters.
5. Whenever my patience is in it's lowest state, I loose.
6. When I play during work, I loose because I do nothing except press alt+tab all the time.

I have two hands

Edgar was one of our closest friends since high school. He was a neighbor and as he used to say about himself, he was an "Out of school youth". Anyway, Edgar introduced me the Banilad version of the song "I have two hands".

I know y'all know that catchy song.

I have two hands,
The left and the Right,
hold them up high,
so clean and bright.

Clap them softly,
1-2-3,
clean little hands,
are good to see.

Here's how Edgar sang it 11 years ago. I laughed the first time I heard this.
Remember, Parental Guidance is advised.
The title of the song is "I have two eggs" sung to the tune of "I have two hands".

I have two eggs,
the left and the right,
center long,
buhok pinakulong.

Atras, Abante,
1-2-3
Butod tiyan,
gawas Baby...

Kikit was here

I am one proud Pharaoh when one of the best blogger I knew came to visit Saitama. My acquaintance with her was such an honor, I felt like the "fan" asking for a photo with his idol every time we pose.

Just like her blog, Kikit is truly intelligent and humble. I know she has more awesome characteristics but our time was too short to chat and laugh.

To Dan and Kit,
All I could say is that, besides your good and loving relationship, you guys are an awesome team. I believe your combination of creativeness and art will bring good colors to the world.

Thanks to Daryl too for filling-up the missing links. The world is indeed a very small place.

And to Dan, all I could say to you is.....
"Bai, even though Kikit is petit, I can estimate that she is still taller than you are". lol Me and Cesz are hoping to see you guys again.