Attacked by the Dreaded Bugs

Im really pissed off this past week because of one recurring house problem: BUG INFESTATION!!!. 

I really thought we already rid of ourselves of these pest months before. Kissing Bugs or Assassin Bugs are a pain in the butt or pain in any part of the body for that matter. I don't know where they come from, they just attacked my sister's bedroom. She got an allergic reaction to its bite like swelling on the affected part to a point that she can't even move her arm. At first we thought it was just cockroach bites but we found this weird looking creature under her bed which I whacked with my slippers on instinct and then came splat!! Blood and guts of the thing spread out on the floor and I realized that it wasn't its blood but blood meal. F@#$ gross. I googled any info I could get about these critters and found out that they were the one's responsible for my sisters' agony and we immediately made sure to track and kill every last one we could find by insecticide and death by slipper whack. That was before and now they've comeback somehow and from who knows what origin and the funny thing is that my sister is long gone to some foreign land and her bedroom is empty and you know what, the f@#$ decided to infest my measly bedroom now. The moment I began to have welts and bite marks, dread finally caught up with me and only one critter responsible came up to my mind, the freaking Assassin Bugs are back with a vengeance. Paranoid that I was, I immediately checked under my bed and what do you know, the f@##s were there hiding, bloated and hiding for crying out loud! Caught and killed seven! geeez, seven of them in less than a damn week. Everytime I sleep I get paranoid that somehow I know that they are waiting patiently in cracks and crevices awaiting my deep slumber for them to attack and suck the life outta me! From what I have googled, they are a deadly pest to some parts of the Americas and carry deadly diseases. So far, nothing came up on articles about them in the Philippines though. Maybe one of you has a damn solution about this and help me get rid of them shits altogether. I periodically check under the bed now and shit.  

MySpace Music

Wow, how cool is that?! I've decided and finally accepted the potentials of MySpace for my band. Almost all of my friends who happen to have bands have a MySpace Music accounts and so I was tempted to give it a view and all I can say is that its way cooler than Friendster (I rarely visit my Friendster accounts, sometimes its just out of habit to check it once or twice in a week) and its really tailored for the bands be it international, local, indie, unreleased or bigwig metalgods. I have had a MySpace account before, way back before Friendster but got bored with it. Now I'm viewing it with renewed interest. Hope I can update it from time to time though if theres band related events and such, aside from updating this blog and my Multiply, geez, I think I've got my hands full now. A place where bands can really connect and stuff.  You can even download our song from there. RakenRol!!! I've updated this blogs sidebar so you can click and have a visit there if you'd like or just click here.

The La Parola

Hey, its been a while (yeah, what else is new!). Today we had an oppurtulity to do a little on site pre-nup photoshoot with me and my gurl here with the help of the expertise of iStudio Photo Services (all the way from Valencia, Bukidnon). Don't get me wrong here but I'm not the dramatic romantic dweeb effect kinda guy with me having a metal band and all and donning black shirts all the time and mostly favor the darker side of life (heheheh), I did this at my partners persistent request and much to my amazement, I yielded to her whims. Actually, just between you and me, its always 99% of the time, shhhhhhh. What the hey, its always a first time for anything, right?!. We did it hastily at La Parola, Liloan, Cebu based on a friends suggestion to do it there because of the unique view plus I like lighthouses. It was all in all a first hand experience doing all the drama of doing a little photoshoot. Here's a quick pick of the La Parola and by the way, it is taken from my meager point and shoot camera that I happen to have at the moment and not the expensive and elaborate ones' that the iStudio team was using during the event. Mebe I'll post the ones' they did when I get hold of the file copy. Soon enuf.

The Watchmen is Coming

I am also excited when a movie adaptation of a comicbook series or character comes along like them Batman, Xmen, Spiderman and Hulk franchises and some one shots like 300 and V for Vendeta or the Crow even. And from watching this Watchmen trailer awhile ago it gave me goosebumps all over. Wow, so true to the comic book and so cool was it even this early on I can say that it will be a winner. Im looking forward to it, although its still on 2009, good things come to those who wait, as they say. A classic just like its original comicbook version. Hope so. Watch it and tell me what you think. If anyone one wants an ebook version of the comicbook to go read and enjoy, I can gladly pinpoint you with the appropriate download links (is this legal?!!). Hehehe...

Im Hacking Again...

Thats right, Im up to no good again. I was bored, pretty bored to the extent that I wanted to buy another Motorola to hack and modify but the voice of reason, i.e. my fiance, reminded me that I have obligations of a more pressing matter to do and that buying another phone would capsized my already meager savings. As for the one's who read my previous post, the fate of my still bricked (dead)  Motorola L7i was still bleak and am still hoping to revive it someday when I have thorough knowledge on how and the financial capabilities to do so. I was guilty of hacking and modding it to death and the repercussions are still felt. But yes I was bored, and then their's my still soft modded P1i which was still under a warranty and still has 4 months to go till it expires which made me apprehensive to hack and mod its file system and which eventually, I did a hack what I have always wanted to do since I bought the phone and reading from SE-NSE and IPMart Forums (their forums for the hacking mobile community, specially to Sony Ericsson Users) and Sony Ericsson blogs here and there. So far, I have only done some soft modding to it, like changing the CDA to Generic World 1 so that I can make the SEUS Update my phone to the latest software or do some themes or changing the font of the phone or installing new applications, small stuff actually. And only recently, I had the courage to succesfully port the Walkman v3 player which is only available in Sony Ericsson Walkman Phones lineup which my P1i is not a part of. Its really a cool application to have. Makes me wanna ditch my Ipod. heheh. Ive also ported updated versions of QuickOffice and PDF+ and the Torch application which is originally from the newer Sony Ericsson G900 and did change some of the Menu Icons . All in all, my interest is reinvigorated. If someone is interested on how I did these things (thanks to supermodder SWMail and other active modders in the UIQ community for sharing the files and the know hows) just email me and I'll provide you with the links. I'm a UIQ3 and Motorola hacking fanboy, I can't help it. hmmmm.

Article: Blood Mutants

Just want to share the link to this very informative blogpost by Sunstar Columnist Insoymada, one of my favorite columnist, click here and read the article and help spread the er, uhmm, love?!.