Letter to Julia 20140428

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Ugh, I got sick.  Well yeah, it's my week of isolation again if you've been counting, but I also got sick during the weekend.  It started on Wednesday night when I got swarmed by these miniature beetles, that happened to be immune to my usual defense of moth balls and mosquito incense.  So I lost a lot of sleep over that.  The next night they were back, but this time I was armed with a can of bug spray.  It took a lot of bug spray to neutralize these beetles, and I woke up with a cough.  The Flu Virus Collective took this opportunity to attack my voice.  I went and bought a big old bottle of cough syrup with my last 20 bucks, so I was able to work over the weekend, but not at 100%.  The the fever came, so by Sunday I was down to about 60%.  The Collective has been directly attacking my voice lately, and leaving my sinuses for last.  I feel OK right now, but I can smell those damn beetles again.  You definitely don't want to get one of these varmints in your dinner.  They're not poisonous, but they stink.

Again, I'm really sorry you have to lag behind.  It's not good for you, and it's not good for me.  But again, I cannot have you marry into my poverty.  What to do?  I cannot take any other position than to always consider your well-being.  The good news is that if you serve Allah, then Allah is Oft-Forgiving and most Merciful.  On the other hand, the penalty of God is the most grievous penalty.  As for me, you are my wives inshaAllah, and I want to raise a family with you.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Letter to Julia 20140424

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Hi there, my brave and beautiful wives.  Yes, I think you both are very brave: it takes much courage to walk the righteous path.  Integrity is a very expensive thing.  But courage alone is not enough: you must have the help of Allah.  So please maintain your prayers.  Erin, I'm not trying to upstage you.  I am your husband inshaAllah, and I am the one to help nurture and protect you.  I'm not doing what Nicki Minaj did to you on the Pink section of the 2011 show.  Really, you were too nice to her.  You should have petted her on the head and given her a Milk Bone.  So don't look at it as being upstaged.  Marriage is sacred.  I am here to love you, to help provide for you, and to help protect you.  Just remember that Allah is the Best to protect.

I just got done cutting grass over at Casa de Julia inshaAllah.  Grass grows fast here in Malaysia.  Clover seems to grow the fastest there.  It hasn't overrun the place yet, but I really should put a German plant there.  What plant is native to both Germany and Malaysia?  Cabbage?  Maybe I should start a cabbage patch.  That sounds like a lot of work, and I'm a lazy man.  I did however collect mangoes yesterday.  The tree at Casa de Julia inshaAllah wielded a lot of fruit this year, and the mangoes of that tree is the best.  I sewed together a net made out of my old pant leg to an old towel ring, and tied it with metal ties to a hook at the end of an extra long stick of bamboo to help me collect fruit with, but I still got hit on the head with a mango.  Right above the eye where I got eye strain from watching too much TV.  Oh don't worry about me.  InshaAllah, I'll be OK.  What I need is to make love to you.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Letter to Julia 20140421

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Did you know that when cats are about to die, they leave the house?  Humans don't know when they die.  Most of them think they'll get a timeout when the Wrath of God hits them.  Imagine my stress when Chee Cheah refused to stay inside the house anymore, and started to insist to remain outside, then I don't see her for a day.  I thought she was just blaming me for her seasonal fungal infection, but what to do?  I don't make the rain, I just medicate her and take her to the vet.  So I didn't get much sleep last night, worrying about my kitty.  I love my cats.  Besides the fungal problem, I think she's resentful to the presence of the pregnant Floofy, and the impending arrival inshaAllah of kittens in the house.  But I found her just now after voice training.  It turns out that she's been skulking out of sight around my house and Casa de Julia, and eating out of Simper's food bowl.  Of course I caught her and medicated her, then released her outside.  She immediately tried to wipe off the medicine by rubbing herself on the concrete.  If she wants to stay outside, then so be it.  I'm just going to have a harder time catching her to take her to the vet.  I'm just glad she's not dead.  Ya Allah, please give all my kitties miraculously long, happy, healthy lives like 300 years or so.  I mean 30.  Typo.

Now please excuse me, I have to go and make a batch of dough.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Letter to Julia 20140419

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Hi again, my beloved Julia and Erin!  How are you feeling today?  I pray you are both feeling fabulous.  I've been doing a lot of yard work and labor, so my body is sore as usual.

I pray your parents understand that this marriage is a Muslim marriage and situation.  Our children will be raised as Muslims.  The will learn to strictly guard their prayers, to be righteous and aware of the Hereafter, and to look after their parents when their parents become elderly, and not abandon them at a nursing home or force them to fend for themselves.  It's most important to me that they take care of their mother, because I love her, I love her.

For dinner is snapper and bamboo shoot stew.  It's the same snapper that I made sushi from, so there's not much meat left to enjoy.  But the taste is awesome.  I had to sieve the bones out in order to save the broth.  I can't understand the charm of eating fish heads, although many people and cats do.  Fish heads add powerful flavor to broth, though.  So tomorrow, I'll use this broth for my noodles.  Want some?

Letter to Julia 20140417

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Hello there, dearest Julia and Erin.  How are you feeling today?  I'm OK.  I just finished breaking down and burning that tree I chopped down at Casa de Julia inshaAllah.  Then I have a lot of grass cutting to do.  The grass grows quickly here in Malaysia, even during the dry season.  Chee Cheah isn't well, so I had to take her to the vet.  She's very sensitive to moisture, and gets fungus infections, then licks and scratches herself to pieces where the fungus grows.  I tell her to stop doing that, but she won't listen to me, so I have to take her to the vet for an antifungal shot.  Then she blames me for her sorrow, and takes a dump on my floor.  I suppose I tried to anticipate the fungus outbreak by feeding her an antifungal pill, but the naughty kitty spits the pill out silently through the side of her mouth, and I don't find the pill on the floor until the next day.  Whenever I do manage to get the pill down her throat, it has no effect.  So I must take her to the vet regularly.  I think she likes going to the vet, even though she cries all the way there.  Now she's sulking in the toilet.  Poor little Chee Cheah.

I'm doing OK, other than that I long to be happily married to you.  The both of you please take good loving care of yourselves in my absence.  Please maintain your prayers, and have faith that Allah will supply us all that we need whether we are already married or still waiting.  InshaAllah.  Because I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Qur'an 20140417

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

30.  And they set up as equal to Allah, to mislead from the Path!  Say, "Enjoy!  But verily you are making straightway for hell!"

Abraham 14:30
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Enjoy!  But verily you are making straightway for hell!

Letter to Julia 20140415

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Say Julia, have you been having trouble with pimples lately?  The reason I asked is that I had a dream that you grew a pimple.  It so happens that I also have a pimple growing on my left cheek next to my nose.  Well, everybody knows that supermodels don't get pimples.  I just happened to get a pimple because I keep massaging my sinus cavity when I lie on my right side, because it eases my breathing.  It's not as if I'm getting a teenage hormone rush.  I told you before that I'm an old man, and I've used up most of my libido.  I'm going to have to do drugs to keep up with one of you, let alone the both of you.  Well, don't go and grow any pimples.  I love you just the way you are.  You too, Erin.  Don't start growing pimples just because I dreamed that Julia grew a pimple.  Supermodels don't get pimples.

For dinner tonight at Casa de Julia is sushi again.  I love sushi.  I happen to be eating sushi all the time lately because I found seaweed sheets and a good wasabi substitute at the Chinese grocery store.  I can't eat sushi without wasabi.  I was going to buy my fish at the night market, but this morning when I went to the local grocer at the crossroads to get bean sprouts and cilantro for my Mom, I found a huge snapper for a reasonable price.  I like sushi best with snapper.  I can't afford bluefin tuna, I can't get it here even if I could, but the local fish is the best in the world anyway, as long as they care enough to keep the environment clean.  So today the fish is snapper, with egg and cilantro.  Snapper meat is so transparent in taste- you know and sense and taste that you're eating fish, but the fish is almost invisible.  And the meat around the belly tastes like garlic.  I just downed 20 golf ball-sized rolls, not those puny pinky sized insults that you pay 50 bucks a plate for at a restaurant.  Want some?  Can you fit a golf ball in your mouth?  I have 4 rolls left.  We'll be having sushi often when we're married, inshaAllah.  Now it's time for tea.

Letter to Julia 20140412

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Hi there, my dearest wives.  You are the most beautiful in the world.  You should have noticed by now that it doesn't matter if you go out all the time or just stay at home, your advertising has been done for you, mashaAllah.  So don't try too hard to be noticed.  I will marry you inshaAllah, so you already have that settled.  So work on those other skills.  Like accounting, cooking, database management, soldering, phone and Internet sales, and I also need someone to hit the "record" button when I do a take... all the stuff I can't do!  Well, I can cook a little.  I really love black sole.  It's so sweet.  After I filleted what I needed for sushi, I deep fried the rest.  It made a nice crispy fry, great with plain old salt and pepper.  Anyway, don't try too hard to be noticed.  You'll get as much PR done just staying home and watching TV, inshaAllah.  It's like Floofy, whether she stays inside or goes outside, she's still pregnant.  It's all part of the business of marriage.  Our marriage.  Don't forget to hide your beauty, you beautiful thing you.  As for me, I want your chastity and integrity.  Also please stay fit and healthy, don't get any tans, and be as blonde as humanly possible at all times.  That's what I like.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.

Remember when you were 18?  That wasn't too long ago for you, but you've traveled so far since then, so it must seem like light years away.  I was loathed in high school, but I was done with that and packed full of libido and on my way to USA.  Now I don't have as much libido left, but I am ready to settle down.  InshaAllah.

Letter to Julia 20140410

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Greetings, my beloved Julia and Erin.  How are you feeling today?  How are those precious emotions?  Please know that I love you, I love you, and I fully intend to fulfill my promise to you inshaAllah, my dearest wives.  You are the world to me, so let's work towards the Hereafter together.  I don't ever want you to feel abandoned.  I will always love you, I will always love you.

Whew.  It's been a busy week for me.  It's been raining everyday, and I'm feeling feverish.  No, it's not weather distortion: it's supposed to be the rainy season right now.  I think I'll just lie back and watch TV for the rest of the night.  It's movie night tonight on Shadowplay TV, and the movie is "Arrisalah".

Qur'an 20140410

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

40. Whether We shall show you part of what We promised them, or take to Ourself your soul, your duty is to make reach them.  It is Our part to call them to account.

41.  See they not that We gradually reduce the land from its outlying border?  Allah commands: there is none to put back God's command, and God is Swift in calling to account.

42.  Those before them did devise plots, but in all things the master-planning is Allah's.  God knows the doings of every soul, and soon will the unbelievers know who gets home in the end.

43.  The unbelievers say, "No messenger are you."  Say, "Enough for a witness between me and you is Allah, and such as have knowledge of the Book."

The Thunder 13:40-43
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Enough for a witness between me and you is Allah, and such as have knowledge of the Book.

Letter to Julia 20140409

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Hello Wednesday, my dearest, precious wives.  I love you, I love you.  And I need you, I need you.  I had my letter prepared yesterday, but I didn't come in to blog because it was too dangerous to travel.  So I had to stay close to the homestead instead.  How do I know?  Let's just say that Allah grants me some knowledge.  Let's also say that Allah gives me the responsibility of protecting the voices of some dead women, and that your husband serves Allah.  So I cut the grass around Casa de Julia inshaAllah, and I chopped down one of the trees on the west border.  You know, the one that leaned towards the inside.

I just had my first ripe mango this year.  I don't eat a lot of the local fruits because they're too damned sweet, but I love certain types of mangoes.  The big tree in my yard is a "harumanis", and that's one of types I like.  It's not officially mango season yet, and right now only the birds, the squirrels and the bugs know which fruits are ready to eat.  So they fall on the ground, usually half eaten.  I found one on the ground still firm and intact, and it smelled almost ripe, so I kept it in the house for a day before I put it in the cooler.  It turned out that the bugs took over the seed, but the flesh was unharmed.  Alhamdulillah.

Letter to Julia 20140408

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

So hang in there, my dearest wives.  I am your knight inshaAllah, your knight in armor of shadow.  Allah will bring us together, so what's most important is that you pray and have faith.  Marriage is sacred.  So this is a spiritual trip that we share.  Sure, you're getting more attention because of me.  I'm also sure that your bosses will love you more for that, so just tell all the nosy people that you are my wife inshaAllah.  You are MINE, MINE.  And I love you, I love you with all my heart.

It's been a busy day for me, so I'm rather tired.  Would you like some dinner?  It's sushi again today.  The fish is black sole, with oyster mushrooms sauteed in butter, and egg.  Sole meat is sweet, combined with the mushrooms made the sushi very sweet today.  I'm stuffed.  Alhamdulillah.

Qur'an 20140409

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

36.  Those to whom We have given the Book rejoice at what has been revealed unto you.  But there are among the sects those who reject a part thereof.  Say, "I am commanded to worship Allah, and not to join partners with God.  Unto God do I call, and unto God is my return."

37.  Thus have We revealed it to be a judgement of authority in Arabic.  Were you to follow their desires after the knowledge which has reached you, then would you find neither protector nor helper against Allah.

The Thunder 13:36-37
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I am commanded to worship Allah, and not to join partners with God.  Unto God do I call, and unto God is my return.

Qur'an 20140408

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

30.  Thus We have sent you amongst a people whom have peoples passed away, in order that you might rehearse unto them what We have sent down unto you by inspiration.  Yet they do reject the most Gracious!  Say, "God is my Lord!  There is no God but God!  On God is my trust, and to God do I turn!"

31.  If there were a Qur'an with which mountains were moved, or the earth were cloven asunder, or the dead were made to speak.... But truly, the Command is with Allah with all things!  Do not the believers know that, had Allah willed, God could have guided all humankind?  But the unbelievers, never will disaster cease to seize them for their deeds, or to settle close to their homes, until the Promise of Allah come to pass, for verily, Allah will not fail in God's promise.

32.  Mocked were messengers before you, but We granted respite to the unbelievers, and finally We punished them.  Then how was Our requital!

33.  Is then God Who stands over every soul, all that it does?  And yet they ascribe partners to Allah.  Say, "But name them!  Is it that you will inform God of something God knows not on earth, or is it a show of words?"  No!  To those who believe not, their pretense seems pleasing, but they are kept back from the Path.  And those whom Allah leaves to stray, no one can guide.

The Thunder 13:30-33
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God is my Lord!  There is no God but God!  On God is my trust, and to God do I turn!

But name them!  Is it that you will inform God of something God knows not on earth, or is it a show of words?

Letter to Julia 20140407

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Do you believe that being my wife gives you an elevated status?  If it be the Will of Allah then it is so, so never forget your Islam.  I am only what Allah gives me.  But inshaAllah, we will be stronger when we are together.  A long time ago, I wanted to do modeling.  AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!  Hey, I used to be quite thin.  But never pretty like you.  Wanting to be pretty doesn't mean that I am.  Then I started to play the drums, and that was the point of no return, when I started to bulk out like a chimpanzee.  That, plus getting older.  Thus Allah cast me out of the beautiful people like scum from the froth of the waves.  I couldn't do what you do, so you definitely earn your money.  Having to smile and be happy when you're not.  When I play drums, I want to represent the Fury of Allah.  If I did what you do, I would turn out to be a complete idiot.  Especially when I put panties on my head and floss my teeth with a bra strap.

Don't get mad at me!  You are beautiful and I'm not, and I appreciate you.  I love you, I love you.

Qur'an 20140407

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

26.  Allah does enlarge, or grant by measure, the sustenance to whom so God pleases.  Rejoice in the life of this world, but the life of this world is but little comfort in the Hereafter.

27.  The unbelievers say, "Why is not a Sign sent down to him from his Lord?"  Say, "Truly Allah leaves to stray whom God wills, but God guides to Godself those who turn to God in penitence."

The Thunder 13:26-27
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Truly Allah leaves to stray whom God wills, but God guides to Godself those who turn to God in penitence.

Letter to Julia 20140406

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Whoops!  I forgot to post the Qur'an yesterday, so I had to come back today to blog.  Which is annoying because the purpose of my journey was to blog.  None but Satan made me forget.  Ya Allah, guide me closer than this to the right path.

I acquired some chocolate mousse recipes yesterday, though.  No, I'm not going to do anything weird like stuffing squid with chocolate mousse.  I love chocolate mousse cake.  Don't you, Julia dahling?  How about you, Erin sweetie?  I love my gorgeous wives!  I prefer my chocolate mousse cake with a coating os crispy milk chocolate.  I believe the quality of chocolate confectioneries is critical upon the quality of chocolate, so generic cooking chocolate is a no-no.  Which can be expensive, but now I've got the craving.  Dang!

Qur'an 20140405

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

14.  For God is prayer in Truth.  Any others that they call upon besides God hear them no more than if they were to stretch forth their hands for water to reach their mouths, but it reaches them not, for the prayer of those without Faith is nothing but wandering.

15.  Whatever beings there are in the heavens and the earth do prostrate themselves to Allah, with goodwill, or in spite of themselves.  So do their shadows, in the mornings and evenings.

16.  Say, "Who is the Lord and Sustainer of the heavens and the earth?"  Say, "Allah."  Say, "Do you then take protectors other than God, such as have no power either for good, or for harm to themselves?"  Say, "Are the blind equal with those who see?  Or the depths of darkness equal with light?"  Or do they assign to Allah partners who have created as God has created, so that the creation seemed to them similar?  Say, "Allah is the Creator of all things.  God is the One, the Supreme and Irresistible."

The Thunder 13:14-16
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Who is the Lord and Sustainer of the heavens and the earth?

Allah.

Do you then take protectors other than God, such as have no power either for good, or for harm to themselves?

Are the blind equal with those who see?  Or the depths of darkness equal with light?

Allah is the Creator of all things.  God is the One, the Supreme and Irresistible.

Letter to Julia 20140405

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

So I suppose this means while the rainfall is unpredictable right now, I may not be able to blog on time.  Well, only Allah can bring down the rain.  But please know deep down in your heart that I love you, I love you.  I will always love you, I will always love you.

Anyway after vacuum cleaning my room, I'm back to continue writing this letter.  I hate house cleaning!  This was after dinner, where I took the last of the squid I minced with onions and mixed it with the leftover stuffing I made for the fish.  Minced squid by itself always seems to end up as squid burger.  This leads me to the conclusion that baby squid is only useful for fried calamari and stuffing wontons.  Unless I want to try a cheeseburger made of minced squid.  As you can tell, I like to experiment with food.  This mentality is a by-product of poverty, is to test the variations and limits of whatever is available, or in the cooler at the time.  But it's such a fun thing to do, I would most likely continue the habit even if Allah granted me all the money in the world.  Wanna squid shepherd's pie?  Squidwurst?  I got it!  I can use a bigger squid as casing!  I think I'll try mixing squid with potatoes next.

Letter to Julia 20140403

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

I was all prepared to go and blog yesterday after my voice training, but I had to postpone it because of the weather.  I didn't mean to delay my love letter, but I couldn't risk traveling on my motorcycle in the rain, if I were to catch a cold then I can't sing.  If I could control the weather, then I would have stopped the rain so I could go out and write to my beautiful wives.  But I'm merely a mortal, so I spent the time cooking up the stuffing for my fish that is to be grilled tomorrow for lunch inshaAllah.  It's not that I love you less.  I love you with all of my heart, and I want to marry you.  You are the most beautiful women in the world to me, and I love you so much.  Please forgive me.  I am so blessed that you exist and are in my life, and I am so grateful to Allah for my Julia and Erin.  Thank you for your love.  For what it's worth, I also posted yesterday's letter for you to read if you wish.  And it's raining right now.  I love you, I love you.  I need you, I need you.

Letter to Julia 20140402

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

So I bought some fish over at the night market Monday.  Allah granted me a little knowledge in cooking, so I don't buy food that's already prepared.  Hardly ever, rather.  I know what my stomach can handle, and I can cook what I feel like eating.  Alhamdulillah.  I have kind of a "white man's stomach".  But I LOVE sushi.  so for a bargain, I acquired some snapper, grouper, and scad.  Snapper and grouper are white meat fishes.  Grouper is kind of slimy to deal with, while snapper isn't slimy at all.  Obviously the best fish is snapper, with with shining and transparent white meat.  But scaling the fish and removing the pin bones is tedious.  The scad I plan to grill on Thursday, inshaAllah.  It's a rather big fish, so I thought maybe I'll hollow it out and save the meat.  Scad is supposed to be a red meat fish, but when I opened it up, the flesh was white.  Which scared me a little, so I'm not having scad for sushi.  It's now Tuesday night, and I've had sushi everyday.  I'm stuffed.  You must really try snapper sushi.  I'll make some for you, inshaAllah.  I love you, I love you.  Wanna come over for grilled fish lunch Thursday?