Letter to Julia 20140116

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

Hi there beloved Julia and Erin.  How are you feeling today?  How are those precious emotions?  It's been an awfully busy day today as I write this letter.  Lots going on everywhere, all over the world and here, that demand my attention. Trouble is fun to watch, but tedious to participate.  Right?  Humans are such small creatures within the expanse of the universe.  It takes everything we got plus the help of Allah to get ahead.  This is something that atheists cannot understand, intoxicated with their "human superiority" in spite of intelligence, their religion of no religion propounds limitless human potential, yet they die.

I love you, I love you.  I have quite a bit of TV programming to do next, so I'm going to say good night.  Before I go, Saturdays are kind of up in the air for blogging, even though I will have a letter prepared, inshaAllah.  This is because local small business merchants close whenever they feel like it, and closing Saturdays seems to be a habit for this Internet cafe that I go to, but I don't want to go to another place that rejects my USB drive.  I've got to be careful and tender with my words, you know.  So please forgive me.  I will always love you.

Qur'an 20140116

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

51.  Say, "Nothing will happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us.  God is our Protector."  And on Allah let the believers put their trust.

52.  Say, "Can you expect for us other than one of two glorious things?  But we can expect for you either that Allah will send God's punishment directly, or by our hands.  So wait: we too will wait with you."

53.  Say, "Spend willingly, or unwillingly.  Not from you will it be accepted, for you are indeed a people rebellious, and wicked."

54.  The only reasons why their contributions are not accepted are that they reject Allah and God's messenger, that they come to prayer without earnestness, and that they offer contributions unwillingly.

55.  Let not their wealth nor their sons dazzle you.  In reality, Allah's Plan is to punish them with these things in this life, and that their souls may perish in their denial of Allah.

56.  They swear by Allah that they are indeed of you, but they are not of you.  Yet they are afraid!

The Repentance 9:51-56
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Nothing will happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us.  God is our Protector.

Can you expect for us other than one of two glorious things?  But we can expect for you either that Allah will send God's punishment directly, or by our hands.  So wait: we too will wait with you.

Spend willingly, or unwillingly.  Not from you will it be accepted, for you are indeed a people rebellious, and wicked.

Letter to Julia 20140115

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

Greetings, my beloved.  I love you, I love you.  Yesterday, I was supposed to take Chee Cheah to the vet, but it was a public holiday.  So I spent the time burning the debris around Casa de Julia inshaAllah.  The wind still blows briskly from the northeast, but not as strong as before.  It's been like that everyday for the past 3 weeks at east.  So I still have a mountain of debris to burn, and I can only make small fires.

Anyway, today inshaAllah I would have taken Chee Cheah to the vet before blogging my love for you.  I also need to pick up more wontons.  I'm getting seriously hooked on those things.  This time, it's squid for stuffing.  But enough about wontons, for dinner I had chicken mole with stewed potatoes.  For me, I just eat a whole piece of chicken breast with whole potatoes, but for you I would slice the chicken breast and put dollops of sauce on top.  InshaAllah, I will feed you with the best foods in controlled portions.  My dream is to look after you so well, so that you age gracefully and happily.  InshaAllah.  For certain I do not know of all the difficulties you undergo, for certain you are not aware of all the dangers I face in my quest to marry you, and for certain being married doesn't make problems go away.  But when we are married inshaAllah, at least I will be with you to love you, help protect you, and give you a home and family that you can call your own.

Letter to Julia 20140113

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

Hey there, my most beloved Julia and Erin.  I didn't get a chance to blog my love for you on Saturday, because the Internet cafe was closed.  They usually open late on Saturdays, but after going to the market for more wontons plus other errands, I couldn't wait for them anymore, besides I had woken up late myself.  Of course I could have gone to the other at the other end of town and typed everything in, but I was running out of time until singing time, so I went straight home.  I'm sure you have observed that I don't do anything outside of my routine inshaAllah, this routine of waiting for you.  But I posted Saturday's letter today, if you wish to read it.  Please forgive me.  I love you so much.  I think of you and pray for you all the time.

Aaaaaaa.... I had to do ironing... I hate doing laundry... before that I made a batch of dough.  I seem to be making dough all the time now.  My Mom consumes a lot of it, and I eat it everyday for breakfast.  Just a tortilla, and some sauce to dip it in.  My dipping sauce is a bit strong right now, I think I'll add a can of sardines to dilute it.  Remind me to pick up some sardines on the way home from blogging this letter.  For dinner it was beef tenderloin and potatoes stewed in my shrimp combination marinade.  Thank you God, it was awesome.  When we are married inshaAllah, we'll plan all our meals OK?  Please be patient, my beloved.  Patience is the next best thing to bliss, and it's something you can control.  Please pray.

As you should already know, there is no priesthood in Islam: every person has a direct line to God, and no mediator thereof.  So there are no priests in Islam who hoard wealth taken from the people in the name of God, who for certain will receive a heavy penalty for doing so.  Sure, I have to live a spiritual life, but I'm no priest or holy man.  I am a musician.  I live day to day and dollar to dollar for the Cause of Allah, because I've realized that this is the only way for me to live.  I invest my life, as I have for decades now, for this music that Allah has given me, for the Cause of Allah, and not because no one else cares enough about this music so as to invest in it.  If I seem to have courage while everyone else is a coward, then that as well as the music is a gift from Allah.  Perhaps Allah will grant me my reward in this life as well as the Hereafter, with my Julia and Erin.

Letter to Julia 20140109

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

YOOOOOOOLIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!

Hello again!  I love you, I love you!  Right now I'm writing my love for you, while watching the Victoria's Secret fashion show 1998.  Wow, the show sure has changed since then.  I must say, if you really want to hear my male chauvinistic or spotty teenager point of view, that the show was more attention grabbing back then.  Probably because there was less haute couture, and no video of 2 men looking into each other's eyes and rapping to each other.  But hey, I'll always watch the show if my Sweetie's there.  Guaranteed.

Stuffed wontons!  You would LOVE stuffed wontons, I bet.  It's such dainty and feminine food, but oh so good.  I could eat 100 of them in one go, but today I only had 30.  It's only too easy to let gluttony go out of check when there's good food around.  Nowadays I seem to have a lot of young coconut meat available, so today's stuffing was shrimp, coconut meat, garlic, onions, and lime leaves, blended together of course.  Oh, yummy!

Qur'an 20140109

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

23.  O you who believe!  Take not for protectors your fathers and your brothers if they love infidelity above Faith.  If any of you do so, they do wrong.

24.  Say, "If it be that your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your mates, your kindred, the wealth you have gained, the commerce in which you fear a decline, or the dwellings in which you delight are dearer to you than Allah and God's messenger, or the striving in God's cause, the wait until Allah brings about God's Decision.  And Allah guides not the rebellious."

The Repentance 9:23-24
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If it be that your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your mates, your kindred, the wealth you have gained, the commerce in which you fear a decline, or the dwellings in which you delight are dearer to you than Allah and God's messenger, or the striving in God's cause, the wait until Allah brings about God's Decision.  And Allah guides not the rebellious.

Letter to Julia 20140108

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

Hello Wednesday, my dearest Julia and Erin.  My, how time flies.  It's already 2014.  I just made a commitment to call the prayer at the local mosque during the weekdays, the Dhuhur and Asr prayers, or the high noon and late afternoon prayers respectively.  Which would make it right before and after my daily voice training.  When we are married inshaAllah, I would expect you to follow me to these prayers, especially if we have plans to go out, but more because I don't ever want to leave you by yourself.  I don't even want to leave you to throw out the garbage.

I didn't make it in to blog because I went to buy some tenderloin, then I grilled a fish.  It was a fairly big scad, with a massive amount of roe, which my Mom gave me last week but I only found the time to cook today.  It was sliced up the back, which I don't particularly like.  For stuffing, I put young coconut flesh, onions, garlic, ginger, chilli paste, cilantro stems, and a peeled lime in the blender.  Chee Cheah never hangs around the house during the day, but somehow she knew I was grilling a fish, so she was present and a-meowing for her snackipoo.  Later, in the evening, someone had thrown a fish on my driveway which I found.  It looked like a tilapia.  No, I didn't grill it.  The ants had already claimed it.

So what's for dinner?  Last night I bought a kilo of fresh shrimp for real cheap: RM8 per kilo.  Not as attractive or as large as white shrimp, but fresh and clean.  Would you like to know the secret of shrimp?  Well, I'll just show you.  Hint: think "bisque".  Otherwise, fork out the bucks for jumbo shrimp.  I made a batch of shrimp injections.  I'm sorry, croquettes.  Tomorrow, it's wontons again.  Wanna join me for some munchies?  I love you.