Hello, how are you feeling?

Erin, are you able to express yourself better?  Have you been practicing writing, in a journal perhaps?  Oh, you probably are too busy, you don't have time.  This is important though, so you have to make time to express your feelings, even if it is only a few words.  You don't have to show it to anybody.  It's for your heart.  Your precious heart.  If you "don't have time" to write it down, then speak into your cell phone, talk about your feelings.  Try to use the most beautiful words you can.

Natty, did you eat a lot yesterday?  You were probably trying to be polite, and people want you to taste their cooking, and the like.  You have to learn to turn people away.  We may love them, but some people just can't cook.  If you don't feel like eating something, just say "Sorry, but I don't feel like eating."  And please remember to drink lots of water.  You need lots of water.  You have a nervous tummy, and you need to drink lots of water.

Pina, now that your Mom is in town you're finally eating well.  Go home, Pina.  Maintain your beauty and chastity.  Learn how to cook well.

The Shopping Experience

So is your schedule loosening up a little my dearest?  Or are you still busy as ever?  Well, you are beautiful to me, and I love you, so please make sure you take the time to take good care of yourself.  Make sure you get plenty of sleep and eat properly.

By now, we are all familiar with online shopping, and the pages and pages of items we peruse then decide which to add to our cart, then pay for electronically, then wait for delivery.  In the virtual world Second Life, that too can be done, especially for digital products that can be packaged as objects then downloaded and saved, like one would save a snapshot.  But it could also provide another means of browsing and shopping for real products.  For example, let's consider shopping for apparel.  Online, one would typically browse for products on pages like this:

On Second Life, one would browse for products like this:

The difference is that on Second Life, we get to shop with friends: we don't have to shop alone.  We can chat in real time with our shopping buddies, get their opinions on our purchase, preview our purchase in 3D, etc etc.  There are so many ways of presenting products in virtual reality, plus there is also the option of combining 3D and the usual page perusing method.  All within the same program.  And if your avatar is true to your real life appearance, then you get to see what you look like, front and back!  No, I don't look like this in real life.  Next life, inshaAllah.

Prince Charming and the Mob

Hey Erin, sweetheart!  Still busy, I assume?  I hope you're taking time to relax, and getting enough sleep.  What did you have for dinner?  I had hot dogs and home made sauerkraut on crispy tortillas for dinner.  The tortillas were a bit greasy, but it was good.  Who's looking after your kitty while you're busy working?  Have you ever thought of taking him along with you?  My Floofy now lives on a diet of rice, canned cat food and crunchy anchovies.  At first, she had little interest in the rice and cat food.  Then I added the anchovies, and now she finishes the whole thing.  Finicky eaters, huh?

Natty, that guy sitting on the overpass is a guy!  Where do you get these photos?  That messes with a man's head.  I haven't had any chocolate all weekend, then my Mom gave me some just now.  Chocolate covered toffees.  Natty, make sure you drink lots of water OK?  Don't slack off on that.

Pina, you look like your mother.  I can read that expression on her face, I think I know what it means.  You found a Prince Charming and he led you to a land of promises called New York.  As for me, if I am able to afford a third wife, you are welcome to the position if you are willing to do the work.  I can't afford even one wife right now, so it's a long wait.  There's no blame on you if you want to snag Prince Charming, if that's who it actually is.  I would rather you go home and live as easily as possible, and protect your beauty and chastity.

The Mob was present at NCI Kuula when I was there last.  I tried to warn them, but they weren't listening.  I guess it's hard to listen to people when you're busy flooding the chat.  I guess the Mob can smell the money.  I can smell the money too, even though Linden Labs can't.  But my priority is to please Allah, so I can't give in to greed no matter where the money comes from.  I can however, tell them what direction to steer their business where it be most profitable inshaAllah.  This is a conflict of interest to me, because they seek to please everybody while I seek to please Allah.  Will they listen to me?  I am a servant of Allah, and they should give thanks to God for my contribution.

I said, THEY SHOULD GIVE THANKS TO GOD FOR MY CONTRIBUTION.

Second Life should be made more accessible, by making the software run on Android, smart phones and tablets.  Of course they must lower the resolution of the graphics.  Plus they must make the "game" easier to play.  Options are the worst obstacles to a noob.  They must make a software version that has no options, except to communicate, travel, spend money, and pick up objects.  If they wish to work on their appearance, or build, or whatever, then they must upgrade their software AND hardware.  At a price!  There is no getting around the perspective of a noob that Second Life is a game, so let it be a game.  The purpose of the game is to find out what the game is about.

Hello Darling

How are you feeling today, my beautiful love?  I pray that you are healthy, and feeling absolutely fabulous.  It's Sunday here for me today.  Every Sunday morning, I clean my mother's bedroom.  I had an early start today, right after the dawn prayer.  I did my usual chores plus extra time waiting out the Cat Bully, then did the house cleaning.  Chee Cheah didn't eat until after I got done, so I took more extra time standing guard over her, almost falling asleep from fatigue.  I had to cook up rice for Floofy, so for lunch I had white rice in chicken soup with crunchy anchovies.  I had a ripe cashew from the tree in my yard, its second fruit, and it's only 4 years old!  That's a miracle.  So I made my usual pickle, sliced cashew and onion with salt and a hot pepper, and I added that to my chicken rice soup.  It was quite good, I should have taken a snapshot.  After voice training and the Asr prayer, I cut the grass.  So really nothing going on but the usual, and busy.  Dinner was pizza.  It wasn't the most photogenic pizza, because the dough was on the dry side and I had no mozzarella, but it was tasty and filling.  I ate that while watching "How It's Made: the US Dollar."

 

 

The Cat Bully

I had been going through a lot of cat food recently.  I bought 10 kilos late last month, now I'm down to less than 5 kilos.  I have 6 cats, and usually they consume 7 to 8 bags of cat food a month, plus I'm also feeding my parents' cat, plus Floofy has stopped eating the dry cat food pellets.  I had been feeding Chee Cheah 3 times a day recently, and she was still hungry.  It turns out that there is a cat bully hanging around my yard.  It's this orange colored cat that has been intimidating my outdoors cats into giving up their food, and he's also been getting into arguments with Bat Cat.  So I've been chasing him away every time I see him.  He's been trying to act cute with me, trying to be affectionate and stuff, but there's no way I would find an ugly male cat bully to be cute.  So I have been waiting around for my outdoors cats to finish feeding, then making sure that there isn't even a pellet of cat food left on the ground.  What a waste of time.  Even now, I can hear him and Bat Cat screaming at each other.

You're not being bothered by bullies, are you Erin?  On the contrary, I think you would be the one who intimidates others.  Just like you intimidate poor Dan Patrick.

Natty, you're so cute!  It must be fun going out dancing and stuff on Friday nights, just like a real College Queen.  You must have hordes of guys following you around.  Tip: pass them off to your friends.  If you going around clubbing Natty honey, you'd better have your bosses dress you up, then make some endorsement money.  You're not out of the spotlight yet.  You're still my girl.

Pina, go home and live an easier life.  Even if you did make a mistake by going to NYC, it's not the end of the world.  Just stay in Europe, and maintain your beauty.

Qur'an 20170415

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

67.  To every people have We appointed rites and ceremonies which they must follow: let them not then dispute with you on the matter, but invite to your Lord, for you are assuredly on the Right Way.

68.  If they do wrangle with you, say: "Allah knows best what it is you are doing."

69.  Allah will judge between you on the Day of Judgement concerning the matters in which you differ.

70.  Know you not that Allah knows what is in the heavens and on earth?  Indeed it is all in a record, and that is easy for Allah.

71.  Yet they worship, besides Allah, things for which no authority has been sent down to them, and of which they have no knowledge: for those that do wrong there is no helper.

72.  When Our Clear Signs are rehearsed to them, thou will notice a denial on the face of the unbelievers!  They nearly attack with violence those who rehearse our signs to them.  Say, "Shall I tell you of something worse than these Signs?  It is the Fire!  Allah has promised it to the unbelievers!  And evil is that destination!"

73.  O humans!  Here is a parable set forth!  Listen to it!  Those on whom, besides Allah, you call cannot create a fly, if they all met together for the purpose!  And if the fly should snatch anything away from them, they would have no power to release it from the fly.  Feeble are those who petition and those on whom they petition!

74.  No just estimate have they made of Allah: for Allah is God that is Strong and Able to carry out God's Will.

Al Hajj 22:67-74
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Late again today

Oh, it's been a busy day.  It was a busy night, so I stayed up late on the computer as usual.  Thus I woke up late after sleeping in after the dawn prayer.  I had bought mesh wire and dirt a couple of weeks ago for transplanting mango trees, so after the usual chores I finally got around to that.  I managed one tree.  Good thing it will take them another 6 years to bear fruit inshaAllah, because I'm so damned slow.  Then since it's Friday, I had to attend Friday prayer.  There were a gang of city boys, well-groomed with smug looks on their faces, slumming with the simple country folk.  It's not as if I could smell the contempt they had for having to come here and see what the hell the deal is, but they didn't see the giant monitor lizard at their feet.  There's also a cat bully who has been coming around here, who has been extorting my outdoors cats of their food, so I have to sit and watch over them as they eat now.  What a waste of time.  Chee Cheah is such a slow eater, she's an old kitty so she caresses each cat food pellet.  But I have to make sure there is absolutely no cat food available after they're done eating.  Then in the evening, I cut the grass and I didn't get a chance to prepare my dinner until right before sunset.  I didn't get a chance to eat it until after the prayer, then after the night prayer I was detained at the mosque for a small repast.  Perhaps I shouldn't have bothered with cooking my own food.  Nah.  Better not to rely on others.  So now I'm here.

I sure hope you are not overworking, my dearest Erin.  I know and many others know how intelligent and talented you are, but that's not important to the Public Eye.  The Public Eye wants to see how beautiful you are, all your other attributes are a bonus.  Hey, at least your situation is better and more dignified than your VS days.  But overwork will eat away at your beauty and your health.  Your bosses know this, and they know that all you need is to be beautiful, so make sure you eat properly and get plenty of rest.  And you are beautiful.  You are very, very beautiful.

Natty honey, how's school?  I'm sure you are doing great, but please take snapshots and show me what's going on with you OK?  I'm glad you are drinking enough water, but you have to maintain it.  Your tummy became very nervous with your sudden kick upstairs, so you need lots of water to settle it down.

Pina, I'm not altogether angry with you.  I just want you to have an easier life, so you don't lose your beauty.  Please go home.