Third

Just as I have promised three centuries ago, here is my third tattoo. :)

The design Gam zeh ya’avor

I was searching for a design and chanced upon this. It's Hebrew meaning "This too shall pass" it's from a popular Jewish folktale. 

“One day Solomon decided to humble Benaiah Ben Yehoyada, his most trusted minister. He said to him, “Benaiah, there is a certain ring that I want you to bring to me. I wish to wear it for Sukkot which gives you six months to find it.”

“If it exists anywhere on earth, your majesty,” replied Benaiah,
“I will find it and bring it to you, but what makes the ring so special?” “It has magic powers,” answered the king. “If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy.” Solomon knew that no such ring existed in the world, but he wished to give his minister a little taste of humility.
Spring passed and then summer, and still Benaiah had no idea where he could find the ring. On the night before Sukkot, he decided to take a walk in one of the poorest quarters of Jerusalem. He passed by a merchant who had begun to set out the day’s wares on a shabby carpet. “Have you by any chance heard of a magic ring that makes the happy wearer forget his joy and the broken-hearted wearer forget his sorrows?” asked Benaiah.
He watched the grandfather take a plain gold ring from his carpet and engrave something on it. When Benaiah read the words on the ring, his face broke out in a wide smile. That night the entire city welcomed in the holiday of Sukkot with great festivity.

“Well, my friend,” said Solomon, “have you found what I sent you after?” All the ministers laughed and Solomon himself smiled. To everyone’s surprise, Benaiah held up a small gold ring and declared, “Here it is, your majesty!” As soon as Solomon read the inscription, the smile vanished from his face. The jeweler had written three Hebrew letters on the gold band: gimel, zayin, yud, which began the words “Gam zeh ya’avor” — “This too shall pass.” At that moment Solomon realized that all his wisdom and fabulous wealth and tremendous power were but fleeting things, for one day he would be nothing but dust.”

http://www.theemotionmachine.com/this-too-shall-pass-a-lesson-in-impermanence

Star Ink located at 126 QUEENSLAND ST. PASIG GREENPARK VILLAGE MANGGAHAN PASIG CITY

Francis Lazaro doing Third

Done!

Me and Mr. Francis

AND I'M BACK

Three years? Seriously? 

CATCHING UP

I suck at blogging. Can't believe my last post was in October. So what the hell happened? Well, for starters I have a new job. It's actually an old job but I won't bore you with the details. I also have a new tattoo (I'll be showing it in a different post). Basically, I think I just got lazy and forgot about this blogging thing.

Whatda???

From a scale of 1 to 10, I give my writing a flat 4, it sucks. And what's worst is that I also suck at keeping my responsibilities such as maintaining this blog. Okay, pinky promise, I'll try my best to post as much as I can. So there.

Anyway, today marks the 46th month of my relationship with my partner. Yeah, we're counting the months. It's fun, counting. Hahaha! Enough of that super self-serving post.

In other news, last September 17, 2012 Air Asia launched its Zero Fare (Clark-Kalibo/Davao) and I was able to score some tickets going to Kalibo. The amazing thing was a few days after, they also had an International Zero Fare (Clark-Macau/Hong Kong). We had such a wonderful experience flying this aircraft that we had to take advantage of this seat sale (and it's really a steal).

Air Asia's Zero Fare

 

Clark to Kalibo for 2pax @1,433.60php

Clark to Hong Kong for 5pax @11,125php

'Rest' day

Monday was my rest day from work and in order for me to fully adjust to graveyard shift, I have decided not to alter my sleeping schedule. 

I have to stay awake throughout the night. And since normal people usually sleep at night, I was left all alone and don't have anything to do. So I decided to make a collage of all pictures that me and my partner have throughout the years.



First off, I merged all of our photos using the 'Page' feature of Photoscape. I used the following templates:

 

 

Which, in turn, gave me the following results:

 

 

One amazing feature of this is that you can actually edit and assign a filter on each photo by right-clicking or you could assign a filter on all of the photos.

I made 35 merged photos. It was really fun especially seeing how much we've grown through the years. :)

Then I used Photoscape's 'Combine' feature wherein you could attach multiple photos vertically and horizontally to create one final photo.

I was so proud with the end result that I made it as a cover photo on my FB page! :D

 Ah, the things that you can do when you're bored.




For more information on Photoscape:


http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php

Michael Connelly Book Review

I have been reading Michael Connelly's works for as long as I can remember. He is such an amazing author and once I start reading his books it's really hard for me to put it down. I may not have all of his books 'yet' but I plan to read and acquire each and every one of 'em. 

For this month, I plan to finish reading 'Blood Work' and I'll be posting my review as soon as possible. Who knows I might be doing this book review thing on a regular basis.

Ciao!

My small collection of M. Connelly books

Gayuma Ni Maria

I have been passing through Maginhawa st. for the longest time and I admit, I haven't been to any of the restaurants the street is famous for (Well, I have been to Grill Queen, does it count??? Hahahaha!).

Anyway, as we were driving down the road, I had this sudden urge to look for the famous Gayuma Ni Maria. At first, all I remembered was the word 'Maria' and I kept on telling my partner that we were looking for a restaurant called 'Kyeme ni Maria'. So after sometime, it turned out that the place was located at V. Luna ext.

So finally, we were there (yey!). The place is so cozy. It has a 'homey' vibe in it. 

We ordered 'I Love You Cross My Heart' (Chicken breast topped with cheese, mushrooms and asparagus) and 'Please Be Careful With My Heart' (Twice baked chicken in olive oil and garlic). The food was so tasty. I think the atmosphere and the food complimented each other that you will really take your time to indulge and savor the moment.

Unfortunately, we were so hungry we forgot to take a picture of the food and the place. Oh well, I'll just make sure that we'll be back to try the other stuff on the menu.

Gayuma Ni Maria
123 V. Luna Ext. (near Maginhawa st.) 
Sikatuna Village

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gayuma-Ni-Maria/148108488537188

SPOT.ph review:
http://www.spot.ph/eatdrink/46310/check-it-out-gayuma-in-quezon-city-/