Mucho mas tortillas!

Please forgive me, my Mexican is atrocious.  I no know no Mexicana!  There must be something wrong with me, I've been craving only tortillas lately.  If you were to make a burrito with something other than the usual beans and meat, would you call that Mexican food?  I call it Global Mexican food.  For lunch today is... leftovers!
1.  Leftover chicken wings.

2.  Oooh, those bean sprouts are their last legs.

3.  The "fresh" tofu is now 5 days old.  I used half for lunch, the other half for dinner.

4.  I'm happy to report that my home made pickles are a great success!  (Not relevant to burritos) Please excuse the bite marks.

5.  Dinner was burritos with scrambled egg, fried onions, tofu, mayo, pepper and hot dogs.  I didn't photograph my lunch, but it looked the same as dinner.

Secret Separation

I told you a while ago that your career would be at its peak right before you marry, so there's really no secret about it.  So just be patient, have faith, and don't give up on us OK?

Do you understand that, Natty and Pina?   Your career would be at its peak right before you marry.  I'm not a prophet, but the music does come with some great responsibility.  My consorts are expected to have dignity, piety and chastity.  If she were to have such qualities, then she would receive double her reward.  InshaAllah.

Lunch today was rice vermicelli in Siamese hot sour soup.

Little fish

Hey Erin honey!  Are you having fun?  You got to have fun with your situation, so you won't worry so much.  There's not much going on here today for me, just the same old same old.  For brunch I had my Mom's "nasi lemak" (rice...), and for dinner I had hot dogs and fries.  Yeah it's normal food, but I had to fry up some crunchy anchovies for my snack mix.  So I thought since I would slow heat the oil and cook the hot dogs at the same time, then when the oil got hot I would cook the fries, then when the fries got done I would fry the anchovies.  Want some?

Oooh, I don't think you would like crunchy anchovies Natty.  How about you take a snapshot of your food for me, Sweetie?  I want to know what you've been eating. Croissants?  Souffle?
Escargot? Chocolate Mousse?

I know you're having fun, Pina.  I can see it in your face.  I'll bet you're hungry as usual.

Qur'an 20170129

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

106.  A Qur'an which We have divided, in order that you might recite it to humans in intervals: We have revealed it in stages.

107.  Say, "Whether you believe in it or not, it is true that those who were given knowledge beforehand, when it is recited to them, fall down on their faces in humble prostration."

108.  And they say, "Glory to our Lord!  Truly has the promise of our Lord has been fulfilled!"

109.  They fall down on their faces in tears, and it increases their humility.

110.  Say, "Call upon Allah, or call upon the Compassionate One.  By whatever name you call upon God, for to God belong the Most Beautiful Names.  Neither speak your prayer aloud, nor speak it in a low tone, but seek a middle course between."

111.  Say, "Praise be to Allah, who begets no son, and has no partner in dominion, nor any to protect God from humiliation.  Yea, magnify God, for God's Greatness and Glory!"

The Night Journey  17:106-111
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Gyrlie Roxtar

If you're wondering why there hasn't been any fashion pics of me lately, it's because I've reached my data cap and I have to stay away from the dance club and crowds of avatars period because they suck up data.  And I need the rest of my data for other important things like love letters and playing with my dolly.  I'm grateful to Allah for Mary my avatar, because she helps compensate for my real life appearance, after all I am a chick singer.  Obviously the data plan I have right now is not adequate.  I'm going to have get an additional plan for me to do my job properly.  It's not as if I have to focus on what Mary is doing at all times.  I can do other work while Mary is busy dancing.

Pina, you're so pretty!  That's such a pretty outfit you're wearing, especially that jacket.  Did you get your new leather jacket yet, by the way?  You're not just pretty, you're beautiful.

I spent the morning making hot sauce for my chicken wings.  It's a delicate balance between what my mouth wants and what my stomach can handle.  The batch I made today is OK.  I would grade it a C+.  It needs to be hotter.  For lunch, I had tortillas again.  This time my foray into global Mexican food enters India and China.  Today I made chicken curry burritos with tofu and bean sprouts.  Of course, REAL Mexicans would not approve of such a burrito, but this is Global Mexican food.  To me, the food was kind of girly. All that soy protein. Today has been very easy on my stomach.  No stomach problems whatsoever.

Qur'an 20170128

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

99.  See they not that Allah, who created the heavens and the earth, has power to create the likes of them?  Only God has decreed a term appointed, of which there is no doubt.  But the unjust refuse except with ingratitude.

100.  Say, "If you had control of the Treasures of the Mercy of my Lord, behold!  You would keep them back for fear of spending them, for humans are selfish!"

The Night Journey  99-100
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Coffee!

Erin!  How wonderful it is to see you again.  You are so beautiful, and I love you.  That photo looks like you're in a fish tank with a bunch of apples in it.  It means a lot to me that you all post often so I know for certain that you're safe, and not being held by a gang of horny men or something.  Please keep safe, and pray.

You know, I used to drink coffee everyday, but I quit drinking it.  I didn't mention it because I think it's a petty matter, not to offend any coffee barons for I'm sure they'll sell a lot of coffee whether or not I endorse it.  I quit coffee because it was making me sleepy, so I got rid of the expense.  Hey, a penny saved is a penny earned.  Plus I find that taking naps is more efficient.  Natty, those bags under your eyes tell me you had an early call time.  5 am?  That's nothing.  My wake up time yesterday was 2 am.  You're so cute, though.  I just want to reach out and grab you.  That's a sincere smile, too.  Make sure you remember that for the camera.

Pina!  Want some coffee?  How about some stuffed won tons instead?  I spent the morning stuffing won tons with fish balls, tofu, garlic, and julienned kaffir lime leaves.  Stuffing won tons is tedious work.  In the future, I'll make the stuffing, and you all can do the stuffing.

Aw Erin

My most beautiful beloved, I love you so much, and I don't want you to worry.  Have fun with your situation!  Everything will be OK inshaAllah.  I love you.

I went to the main market downtown after the dawn prayer today, I think I left the house at 6:30 am.  I put my rubber boots on, and rode my motorcycle in the dark.  The best seafood is always early.  The seafood around here used to be the best in the world, and cheap too.  Then all these people migrated here, the demand went up, and so did the prices, while the selection went down.  Quality is still the good because Perlis is so small, the seafood doesn't spend a lot of time in transit.  There's a fish farm in Langkawi now, and there were these huge snapper at the market.  I can't afford it!  It was either one fish or 10 times as much other food.  But the cockles looked good.  I had a craving for "keow teow kerang" (fried flat rice noodles with cockles) which is a local delicacy here, so I bought 2 kilos.  My goal is to make the best version, simple in ingredients but perfect in flavor.  I almost succeeded.  The flavor was perfect, but I overcooked the noodles.  I think my mistake is that I should have bought only one kilo of cockles.  Whoa, this gets deep....

Qur'an 20170126

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

90.  They say, "We shall not believe in you until you cause a spring to gush forth for us from the earth,"

91.  "Or you have a garden of date trees and vines, and cause rivers to gush forth in their midst, carrying abundant water,"

92.  "Or you cause the sky to fall in pieces, as you say, against us, or you bring Allah and the angels face to face,"

93.  "Or you have a house adorned with gold, or you mount a ladder right into the skies.  No, we shall not even believe in your mounting until you send down to us a book that we can read."  Say, "Glory to my Lord!  Am I aught but a man, a messenger?"

94.  What kept humans back from belief when Guidance came to them was nothing but this: they said, "Has Allah sent a man to be messenger?"

95.  Say, "If there were settled on earth angels walking about in peace and quiet, God would certainly sent them down from the heavens an angel for a messenger."

96.  Say, "Enough is Allah for a witness between me and you, for God is Well-acquainted with God's servants, and God Sees!"

The Night Journey  17:90-96
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Tortillas

You like your Mexican food extra hot and spicy, don't you Erin?  I love hot and spicy food, I love sweating it out over hot and spicy food.  But my stomach can't handle hot and spicy food, while my mouth craves it.  When I was younger, I used to chug down so much spicy food.  Now I have to have precisely measured amounts.  **sob**  I've been eating tortillas all day for some reason.  I had the dough, I know how to make it, and I have the craving for some reason.  Lunch was scrambled eggs and sauteed onions wrapped up in a tortilla, and dinner was 3 chicken curry with oyster mushroom burritos.  I actually made 4, but I gave one to my parents.  I guess chicken curry is more global than Mexican.  It was hot and spicy, though.

Natty, what are we going to do about your sensitive tummy?  You do know that there is a close connection between the mind and the stomach.  That's why it's called a "nervous stomach".  That's why stress can give you ulcers and diarrhea.  That's why you shouldn't drink alcohol.  I know you don't like people gossiping about you.  I know your love life is stressful, and I'm sorry.  But consider the alternative: do you think a normal life is easy?  Do you think everyday people have it easy?  Do you think your parents had it easy?  No, life isn't supposed to be easy.  So you might as well be an international supermodel, and get married to a rock star.  You have people who love you, and want to look after you.  Me.

Pina, do you want a tortilla?  Is it true that they speak Mexican in Spain?

Qur'an 20170125

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

85.  They ask you concerning the Spirit.  Say, "The Spirit by command of my Lord.  Of knowledge, it is only a little that is communicated to you."

86.  If it were Our Will, We could take away that which We have sent to you by inspiration.  Then would you find none to plead your affair in that matter as against Us.

87.  Except for Mercy from your Lord, for God's Bounty is indeed to you great.

88.  Say, "If the whole of humans and jinns were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support."

The Night Journey 17:85-88
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Hi Pina!

How's it going, beautiful girl?  Oh, suddenly you're busy and in hot demand, huh?  That's because there is balance in the world: what someone doesn't want goes to another.  The richest can't get richer and richer without causing mass destruction.  Did you get your new leather jacket yet?  What's happening right now is not magic, but the Power of God.  So please know the difference.  What are you having for dinner?  I'm having curry.  Make sure you have fun Pina, but please pray.  Protect your chastity.

Qur'an 20170124

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

80.  Say, "O my Lord!  Let my entry be by the Gate of Truth and Honor, and likewise my exit by the Gate of Truth and Honor, and grant me from Your Presence an authority to aid."

81.  And say, "Truth has arrived and falsehood perished, for falsehood is bound to perish."

82.  We send down in the Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe.  To the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss.

83.  Yet when We bestow Our favors on man, he turns away and becomes remote on his side, and when evil seizes him, he gives himself up to despair!

84.  Say, "Everyone acts according to his own disposition, but your Lord knows best who it is that is best guided on the Way."

The Night Journey  17:80-84
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Glasses

Aw Erin... you beautiful, beloved Sweetheart.  I love you so much.  Things will be OK inshaAllah, so I don't want you to worry so much OK?  We're all sensitive souls here.  We should call ourselves the "Heart of Glass" Society.

Yeah Natty, my glasses are old.  I got them in the USA in 2008, while I was homeless one of the guys at the mosque bought me a couple of glasses via the Sears "2 for 50 bucks" deal.  Sears?  What's that?  One pair was ladies glasses, and the doctor told me I would go blind if I wore them all the time.  So what's left are these big, goofy glasses which is held together with hair ties and steel wire.  My Mom offered to buy me a new pair of glasses, but I turned her down.  Because all glasses look the same nowadays, you know those small rectangles in front of the eyes.  I don't want to conform to that look, and the opticians around here won't make any other style.  I guess they've gotten lazy and unprofessional over the years, and don't care about people's appearances. Yeah, I know it's vain, but I'm supposed to be a rock star.  I have work to do.  I want to look like John Lennon or Daria Morgendorfer.

Floofy has a heart of glass, too.  She puked on my bed this morning, so I wouldn't let her into my bedroom during voice training.  So she crawled under the chair and stayed there all day sulking.  I suppose her puking on my bed is a not-so-subtle way to tell me to change my sheets, but it annoyed me.  Don't worry, I let her back into the bedroom already.

Pina, do you have a heart of glass?

 

The Fashion Connection

I wish I were as beautiful as you.  But I'm not.  Allah gave me some sort of singing voice, but I'm not pretty.  I would never survive as a music video artiste.  But Mary my avatar is beautiful.  Allah made her beautiful.  I've been dressing her up like she's my Barbie doll- I'll have to admit that is my guilty pleasure, is to play with my dolly.  If God allows me into heaven, I'm going to ask to bag this ugly body and look like her, with a big dick of course.  Anyway, she's been attracting a lot of attention with her beauty and her clothes, I've become somewhat of a model.  There are no major fashion designers in Second Life, just common folk with a love for fashion.  So I wear their designs.  Hey, anybody out there who would want me to wear their designs?  I'll wear them if I like them.  You can give me some Lindens, too!

Natty, I wish I were as beautiful as you.

Pina, I wish I were as beautiful as you.

Talk the best talk, Mrs. Global

Urgh... I ate too much spicy food yesterday.  Spicy fried noodles, hot curry... Yeah I have a sensitive stomach, but I would have been able to handle it if I hadn't eaten so much.  It's my appetite.  I have a man-sized appetite.

But don't you agree that you are on a higher level than you were during the VS days, Erin?  So please talk the best talk, that's becoming of you and the Queen you are.  You are my Queen, you're beautiful, and I love you.  You can talk for what's right and compassionate, and you shouldn't be bullied into silence.  Talk the best talk.

Natty, that Versace photo is awesome!  Great job!  Now, that's a photo.  Natty, I think you're not drinking enough water.  I want you to drink more water.  1.5 liters a day at least.  And talk the best talk.

You too, Pina.  Talk the best talk.

Qur'an 20170121

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

56.  Say, "Call on those, besides God, whom you fancy.  They have neither the power to remove your troubles from you, nor to change them."

57.  Those whom they call upon do desire means of access to their Lord, even those who are nearest.  They hope for God's Mercy, and fear God's Wrath, for the Wrath of your Lord is something to take heed of.

The Night Journey  17:56-57
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The Italian restaurant

Muslims don't (are not supposed to) eat pork, but I had to work in an Italian restaurant for many years of my life.  We wore latex gloves, which was the local heath code, but that saved me from having to touch the stuff.  Then the boss decided to put prosciutto and pancetta (salt-cured ham and bacon) on the menu, and there was a pasta dish (I forget what it's called) that's made of pasta in a pancetta, cream, garlic and salt sauce.  As you would guess, the flavor is a balance of cream and salt.  I asked the boss, "So you fry up the pig, then add the cream and salt?"  But I couldn't taste the stuff.  So I usually asked a waiter to test it for salt whenever someone ordered the stuff.

Hey Natty, let's fly!  Pina, you're in Spain huh?  You know, I love techno for some reason.  It must be from going to raves when I was young.  But to find a street drummer playing techno is just awesome.  I think this drummer is from Spain. Or Portugal  Just a guess.

Sensitive tummy

You know what it's like to engulfed in glitz and glamour, right Erin?  That lingerie fashion show they hold every year.  You had to live those years half naked, huh?  It's a good thing you got your own place, so you have somewhere to hide (somewhat).  You're so gorgeous, though.  24 hour Vegas is never far away from you.  Are you busy with football season?  I'm sorry, I'm not a big sports fan.  But you do your job well, so you don't need me at that.

You're feeling good today, aren't you Natty?  No heartache, the thoughts are calm, your tummy is behaving well.  Dr. Zam has a prescription for your sensitive stomach.  Please eat LARGE portions of the following foods:
1.  Plain steamed rice with 2 eggs
2.  Steak and mash potatoes
3.  Salmon sushi
with filtered water only.  I mean LARGE portions- eat until you're stuffed!  Just the food and water, no sauces or spices.  Soy sauce is OK.

And you're always hungry, aren't you Pina?  Good thing you're going to take cooking classes.  Your metabolism is on overdrive now honey, so you must not miss your meals.  But as you age, that metabolism will slow down.

Glitz and glamour

Natty honey, you're so cute!  I love that upscale sporty look, and it sure suits you.  I especially love those white sandals, I want a pair for me!  That combination of yellow, blue and white is something I must try for myself.  But 315 quid for a pair of boxers?  Blimey!

You and Pina are going to come face to face with a massive dose of glitz and glamour.  Natty first.  They're going to bombard you with luxury and glitter, and make you feel like this is the way you should be living.  You're going to be tempted to take a deep breath and plunge into a whirlpool of decadence, and you're going to forget about me.  You almost got swept away right before Christmas, remember?  That wasn't too long ago.  Oh don't worry about me, Allah keeps me alive for a reason.  But I will be screaming and yelling at you from the confines of these letters, trying to get you to save yourself by being moderate and keeping safe.  But oh, all that money, all those beautiful people, all those blinking lights... and you're so young and beautiful.  I understand that your love life is stressful, but I want to make you happy and give you success and wealth that is your own.  Then when you're done with that, I will take you into my embrace, give you your own home with security and family.  InshaAllah.  But to resist the temptation of excess and decadence will be the test of you as an adult.  This is a spiritual game.  Please protect your chastity.

Natty!  Pina!  Don't be intoxicated by glitz and glamour!

Qur'an 20170118

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

49.  They say, "What?  When we are reduced to bones and dust, should we really be raised up, a new creation?"

50.  Say, "Be you stones, or iron!"

51.  Or created matter which, in your minds, is hardest.  Then will they say, "Who will cause us to return?"  Say, "God who created you first!"  Then will they wag their heads towards you and say, "When will that be?"  Say, "Maybe it will be quite soon!"

The Night Journey  17:49-51
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Spies!

You have been in the spotlight since a young age, haven't you Erin?  Before you were 20 even.  So you should be used to a level of lack of privacy by now.  Oh, I'm sure you never imagined nor desired how deep it could get, but you have gone global after all.  You're not alone though: I am with you.  Like I told you before, just point towards me and tell them "I am his wife inshaAllah", and I will distract them away from you.  I didn't realize that I had no privacy until I was in my 30s (although I'm sure it began when I was in my 20s).  I don't place much value in fame because it's been mostly poverty and manual labor for me.  However, I am grateful to Allah for the spiritual awareness: Allah has kept me alive for some reason.  Alhamdulillah.  So I treat fame like it's nothing even though other people don't know how to behave.  So that's what I want you to do: ignore them, but be safe and calculated.

Natty, you are a rose.  A beautiful rose.  That's a good photo, too.   Please make sure all your photos are good.

Pina, having you model men's clothing is a brilliant idea!  You look so adorable in those clothes, too.  The Hanson video is for you.  Watch it, and perhaps you will understand why men go crazy over that kind of image.  Please stay blonde, and keep your hair long.