Hamlet's Lair

Pleasures

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"The three best pleasures in life are scratching, sneezing and eating chocolate."

-Author Unknown

Swiss chocolates devoured at the speed of light :)

April 29, 2012
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What Could Be Better Than This?

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Your love is better than ice cream.

Better than anything else that I've tried...

Your love is better than chocolate,

better than anything else that I've tried.

- excerpt from the song Ice Cream by Sarah McLachlan

- Banana Split shared with friends at Fruits in Ice Cream Summer Cafe, Solenad1 Nuvali, Sta Rosa, Laguna

February 07, 2012
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2012

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Toast to 2012! Happy new year, everyone!

Thanks to God for my Redeemer,

Thanks for all Thou dost provide!

Thanks for times now but a memory,

Thanks for Jesus by my side!

Thanks for pleasant, balmy springtime,

Thanks for dark and stormy fall!

Thanks for tears by now forgotten,

Thanks for peace within my soul!

Thanks for prayers that Thou hast answered,

Thanks for what Thou dost deny!

Thanks for storms that I have weathered,

Thanks for all Thou dost supply!

Thanks for pain, and thanks for pleasure,

Thanks for comfort in despair!

Thanks for grace that none can measure,

Thanks for love beyond compare!

Thanks for roses by the wayside,

Thanks for thorns their stems contain!

Thanks for home and thanks for fireside,

Thanks for hope, that sweet refrain!

Thanks for joy and thanks for sorrow,

Thanks for heav’nly peace with Thee!

Thanks for hope in the tomorrow,

Thanks through all eternity!

January 01, 2012
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A Glass of Poetry

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Dinner at home

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:

Out of a misty dream our path emerges for a while,
then closes within a dream.

(from the poem Vitae Summa Brevis by Ernest Dowson)

June 22, 2011
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So excited when this new country-kitchen inspired pizza, pasta, and chicken restaurant opened today in Davao City. My excitement wan't because it's serving my favorite dishes, though. It's because this new dining place is a fruit of my friend's prayers and labor who deserves this great blessing. Congratulations 'te Pi!

Maria Pia's Kitchen is now open to serve Davaoenos a variety of pizzas, pastas, and rice meals including Korean beef stew, Korean barbecue, and chicken teriyaki among others. It's located along C. M. Recto Street across old Odeon cinema, just before reaching RCBC Palma Gil.