World's Biggest Pac-Man Game

If you're a little bored and want to play something to pass the time or if you're a big fan of Pac-Man when it was the craze in video games then you should take a look at this site that has a World's Biggest Pac-Man Game.

"Thanks to the wonders of HTML5, you are now able to play the world's biggest game of Pac-Man right from your modern browser... This monolithic Pac-Man game is the product of Soap Interactive, who developed this awesome piece of web software in conjunction with Microsoft. To make it legit and official, it even has the blessing of Namco Bandai."

Source: Tom's Hardware

If you can dream it, you can do it. Start now!

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Start now." - Cameron Johnson
Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur

Quick Facts:
• Started his first company at age 9
• At age 15, he was an advisory board member for a large Tokyo-based company
• By age 21, he had started 12 successful businesses
• Runner-up on the hit reality show, Oprah's Big Give
• Featured in more than 200 newspapers, magazines, and television stations worldwide
• Speaks to audiences around the world
• Author of the book You Call The Shots
• Now consults with Fortune 500 companies

As a kid, I was very competitive. It didn't matter whether I was playing sports, working in class, or earning money. I looked at everything as a challenge and I always wanted to be the best.

The Real Ashitaba

I am going to take down the Ashitaba page because Ms. Nory David, through a Facebook private message informed me that the images of Ashitaba on other sites are different from the one I posted. Upon further research, mostly through Google, I learned that it is indeed different and the image I posted was that of Gynura Procumbens which is also a medicinal herb. The real Ashitaba looks like this:

Image courtesy of nutrachoice.com.my

I'll post more info about Gynura Procumbens and what it is good for later. Sorry for the wrong information about Ashitaba.

Amazing Transgender Performer on Thailand's Got Talent

Above video was the performace of Bell Nuntita or Nuntrita Khampriranon in Thai during the Thailand's Got Talent Season 1 Episode 2 show that was aired Sunday 13th March 2011. I opted to post this english-subtitled version instead of the original video which is in Thai so we can understand what she was saying. It's quite amazing how people anywhere in the world could really really admire talent when they see one no matter who is performing.

Now, in order to truly appreciate how amazing her performance was, just watch the whole video and don't forget to pay attention to the part after her performance when she gave her message to her father. You can cry.

[via boingboing]

Wallpapers for Samsung Corby

I was looking for new wallpapers for my Samsung Corby Wifi the other day and I came across Withss.com's  huge collection. Thought I'd share it here. The wallpapers are great and varied enough that you'll fancy at least one from the collection. Graphics are crisp and very colorful. Celebrities, cars, landscapes, pets, abstracts and many others are all there. Try it. Click the link below.

Wallpapers for Samsung Corby and samsung corby pro

How to unlock a Samsung Corby Wifi

My loving wife gave me a Samsung Corby Wifi the other day. It was network locked to Sun Cellular but I want to use it with my Globe account. So, I googled for information on how to unlock it so that it will accept any sim card.

It was not easy finding information about unlocking the Corby. Most of the search results point to paid unlocking services and I'm not willing to shell out my hard earned cash for this simple information. So I pressed on and it took several more result pages before I finally hit the jackpot.  I found what I was looking for from this forum post in Symbianize. I tried it on my Corby and it worked.

Here are the codes for unlocking your Samsung Corby Wifi to accept any sim card:

To check the phone sim lock status 

*#7465625#

To permanently unlock (sim unlock) the phone

#7465625*638*00000000#

Just enter these codes in your phone dialer. It's so simple that I wonder why some people are asking money for this.

Updates on Ashitaba page

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone bountiful blessings this coming 2011. Anyway, I just finished updating the Ashitaba page. I added it's history, indications and methods of preparation. 

May your ailments be gone and be disease-free this coming year.

Excellent review of Windows Phone 7

I've been reading a lot of reviews of the new Windows Phone 7 and this one by Anandtech is by far the best and most excellent review I have read. It's very detailed and sprinkled with a lot of screenshots of the OS  which helped me visualize what was being discussed. I am excited about this new mobile OS and now I'm thinking of buying one when it becomes available.

The Windows Phone 7 Review

Dancing in the Rain

This one is another gem I got from my email. It's from the Chicken Soup of the Soul newsletter and I'm posting it because the message is very inspirational. Hope you'll like it too.

From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive 

Dancing in the Rain by Jeannie Lancaster

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~Author Unknown

My husband and I had just finished having dinner at a local restaurant and were enjoying strolling through the stores in an adjacent shopping center. We went into a shop that sold handcrafted items in hopes of finding a few last-minute Christmas gifts. The scent of handmade soaps and potpourri teased our noses as we walked through the door.

There was a lot to see. Every shelf and wall was loaded with different crafters' handiwork. As I walked through the store, I noticed a wooden plaque hanging unceremoniously on a wall. I turned to take a second look and remember shaking my head "yes" at the message printed on the plaque. Moving on, I enjoyed looking at other items in the store, but found myself being drawn back to the plaque.

Standing in front of the plaque, I felt a little like a child who, when digging through the sandbox, finds some unexpected treasure — a shiny quarter or a lost toy. Here among the other handmade items, I found a very simple, yet profound treasure hidden in a message. A message I needed.

The best gift of all

This is another article from the Chicken Soup for the Soul weekly bulletin that I got from my email. It talks  about the best gift that a father can give his child which, unfortunately, many parents these days could not give their children. This gift is something you cannot buy but is the most treasured of all gifts when given to children. Hope you all like this as much as I liked it. This is something we all should think about.

From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad

The Best Gift of All by Mary Jo Marcellus Wyse

Kids spell love T-I-M-E. ~John Crudele

"Look! There's Dave Righetti!" My dad pointed at the taller of the two men leaving Cleveland Municipal Stadium. It was dusk and shadows had started to creep up the pavement, leaving us in cool summer shade.

"Really?" I stared at the Yankees pitcher. We'd been waiting for a half hour for the players to shower, change and head out so that I could nab some autographs.

"Go!" my dad said, but I was already scooting towards Rags, my ball and pen in hand. When I returned to my dad, triumphantly holding the signed baseball in the air, my dad leaned down and said, "Did you know that was Steve Sax with him?"

The second baseman? I gasped, spinning around, but the Yankees had already disappeared. "Darn." My dad laughed and clapped a hand on my shoulder. Maybe next time.

The birds and the bees

The other day, my inquisitive five-year old daughter and I were walking outside our building after buying her favorite Judge and V-fresh bubble gums. We stayed outside talking while I was carrying her and she was asking me a lot of questions. I don't know what prompted her but she suddenly asked me how she came into being. How she became human and who made her. I paused for a few seconds and thought of how best to answer her so that her five-year old mind can digest and understand it.

I told her that she was in her mother's stomach when she was made and that she only came out after nine months. "Who made me?" she asked in Tagalog. I said I put her in her mother's stomach. She seemed satisfied with my answers and I was hoping she would not ask for more details. When she moved on to another topic, I was relieved.

That night, I told my wife about the incident. I told her that our daughter was asking about the birds and the bees. She laughed and asked me how I answered. And I told her.

Pac-Man vs. Mario

I chuckled a bit when I watched this short hand-drawn video where the author put together game characters Pac-Man and Mario head to head in one game scene. Guess who wins.



[via forevergeek]

Thanks Dad

Got this from the email. It's a story from the Chicken Soup for the Soul weekly bulletin. I was deeply touched after reading it and I thought I'd share it with you.

From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad

Thanks Dad by Cynthia M. Hamond

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ~Euripides

Every year of my childhood, our family of six would take a summer vacation. Over the Sacramento River and through the Idaho woods to our grandmother's house we'd go.

Trips were simpler then. No itinerary, no restaurants, no motel reservations, no travel kits or GPS units dictating the miles. Just a few old maps, historical landmarks, rest sites and Burma-Shave signs marked our route along the highway.

We were a large family on an educator's budget so we packed our own food, slept in the car while our parents drove through the night, or stayed at the welcoming homes of our relatives for reunion family fun from the West Coast to the Midwest prairies of North Dakota.

New Blogger Template Designer

For bloggers whose blogs are hosted on Blogger, they recently rolled out a new feature called the Blogger Template Designer. I was surfing the various blogger sites looking for a template for my blog and as I was about to import my new template, I discovered that Blogger made a major change in template design.

FarmVille not loading problem solved

My wife was mad early tonight. Her farm in FarmVille was not loading. The progress bar loads up to about 95% and then stops. So she then tried it in our laptop but still got the same problem.

I quickly googled her problem but came up nothing from the first page results. Hmmm. I told her jokingly that she has to make another account and start over again. She was definitely pissed off. But she was stubborn and persistent. She tried loading it over and over while at the same time searching over google for a solution until she finally hit the right one.

She found the solution at en.kioskea.net. Here are the steps for those having the same problem:

Hello, This is a fix for the loading problems from 6-10 and 6-11, 2010. 

1. Go to neighbor tab and remove a neighbor 

2. Have that neighbor send a new neighbor request 

3. Accept the request and you should be back to farming

Cute little brass canon is deadly accurate

This cute little brass canon is real and deadly accurate. It fires a tiny ball bearing and destroys it's target on impact. Excellent video and very entertaining.

[via boingboing]

Baby's arrival announced through Star Wars video

Ok. So your wife is pregnant and you are understandably very excited and of course you want to announce to the whole world or at least to all your friends and relatives that your wife is expecting a baby. How would you make the announcement? By email? Or perhaps by sending SMS messages to all your friends and relatives? How about making a video and posting it on youtube? Well, one couple did just that, and using a Star Wars theme video.

[via boingboing]