Wow Erin

I love that dress!  You're so beautiful, and I love you.  Oh, I'm so sleepy!  I've been sleeping on a chair for the past few days because I have a cold, and I miss my floor.  I tried last night, but I couldn't do it.  Perhaps tonight, we will be reunited.  I really love how you look in that dress, though.  You're like from a dream.

Hi Natty!  How's it going, my lady?  You are a true lady, so gentle and reserved...  We are all waiting, Natty.  Allah will definitely test our faith, so please be patient and wait.

Hi Pina!

Still raining

And I would certainly enjoy the cool weather if I had not caught a cold.  I hope you are feeling healthy and confident.  I thought I had designed a powerful anti-cold defense system and routine, but the Flu Virus Collective broke through my defenses like diarrhea through.... well, you know what I mean.  I don't think the cold and flu is ever to be conquered by humans, that's why the nostrils point downwards.  I couldn't sing much, and when I did it sounded awful.  So I rested a lot, and cut back on most physical labor.  I watched "Casino".  That's supposed to be derived from a true story.  The Mob can't be a creative force, so I enjoy analyzing which parts of the movie are true and which parts are designed to throw us off.

Say Natty, your brother has to try to be more callous if he wants to be like James Bond.  If he wants to, that is.  He seems such a nice guy.  Right now there are so many unknowns out there, I don't see any new credible 007 available, but your brother would be the most marketable I think.  Or it's probably that I have no interest in other new actors.  Keep it in the family, probably.  Anyway, Bond is supposed to be a womanizing chauvinist.

Pina, did you know that "Deutschland" means Dutchland?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subject to the rain

There, I was bragging a couple of weeks ago that I haven't caught the cold in months.  Then last night it came with a fury.  It came with the rain.  It came before the rain.  No, I can't be that sensitive... only Allah knows when it's going to rain.  I was fine in the morning, then half an hour before voice training it came with a vengeance.  You know how it's like eating a dozen tacos with lots of hot sauce, then needing to go to the bathroom...  That's how this cold was, except what needed to purge was my nose.  I went into a sneezing fit, then had to dump everything in my sinus cavity.  I'm guessing that you probably wouldn't dump the sinus cavity like I do, but I need to minimize the stress on my voice as much as possible, plus I believe that infected sinus fluids are extremely dangerous.  As it was, I could only sing for less than an hour yesterday, and I don't know if I could sing at all today.  We'll see.  By the way, don't let others who criticize your choice of music bring you down.  You like what you like.  It's the same difference that I wouldn't allow you to influence my songwriting.  It's nothing personal with you, it's simply personal with me.

Hey Natty, you seem kind of meek and subdued recently.  Try to have fun, OK?

Hi Pina!

Jackfruit

Gag... it's hot today.  How's it going, Honey?  I hope you're feeling great, because I love you so much.  I'm quite used to living life on my own, but I certainly want to share my life with you.  I would share some sweet fruit with you, do you like tropical fruit?  I don't have a sweet tooth like my Mom, but sometimes I enjoy sweet fruit.  There are 2 types of jackfruit trees on the compound: "nangka" and "cempedak".  The second type is sweeter, in a sickly sweet way, and that's what we have today.  The only certain way to know a jackfruit is ready for picking is by smelling it.  I was trimming down a starfruit tree that was overwhelmed with vines, which is right next to the jackfruit tree behind my house.  There is only one fruit on that tree this year: it was hanging just above my head, and I could smell it when I was operating the chainsaw.  But when I took it down, I couldn't smell it anymore.  There were some peck marks on the shell, so I guess the birds were fooled too: they could smell it, but when they pecked at it, the fruit was bitter.  So I left the fruit on my porch, perhaps it needed more time to mature.  Yesterday evening, the smell returned, so I opened it up, removed the fleshy seeds, and put them in the cooler.  I offered some to my Mom as there was a lot of it, but she didn't want it as I had kept it in the cooler.  She's fussy.

Happy 4th of July, by the way!  That's a sexy swimsuit Natty, and you sure look good in it.  I do hope you realize that you're going to have to cut down on your showing off after we are married inshaAllah.  Kids.  Global and spiritual politics.

Hi Pina!  I'm not mad at you, Sweetie.  How can I be?

Qur'an 20170706

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

84.  If any do good, the reward to him is better than his deed, but if any do evil, the doers of evil are only punished of their deeds.

85.  Verily God Who ordained the Qur'an for you, will bring you back to the Place of Return.  Say, "My Lord knows best who it is that brings true guidance, and who is in manifest error."

86.  And you did not expect that the Book would be sent to you except as a Mercy from your Lord.  Therefore, lend not your support in any way to those who reject.

The Narrations  28:84-86
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Cat food politics

That Doutzen is one naughty kitty.  I try hard to be patient and gentle with my cats (and all of them are spoiled brat cats), but last night I had to give Doutzen a big old smack.  Let me tell you what happened...

As you know, Floofy can't eat the dried cat food pellets.  That cat food blocks her system, gives her severe constipation, and almost killed her.  So I've been cooking up food especially for her, with a high water content to combat the constipation.  Recently I made a sort of fish smoothie, made out of half a kilo of bigeye (bigeye has small guts and besides, it was cheap that day), a cup of rice and lots of water.  I removed the guts then threw everything into a pot and cooked it until everything was soft.  Then I blended the lot, bones and all, into a smoothie.  Hey, it looks like a strawberry shake!  Floofy loves the stuff and as a bonus, after being frozen and defrosted the stuff turns into a cake.  Weird.  Anyway, I was washing the tupperware in which I kept the stuff while Doutzen was at my feet, being her usual noisy self.  Then she sprayed me (she had never done that before) on my sarong, and reached up and stuck a claw in my knee.  Ow!  I didn't do anything to deserve that!  I was holding the tupperware lid at the time, so I smacked her with it.  I supposed she wanted a taste of her mother's food, but I don't let her mother eat her food!  Isn't that fair?  I guess next time I'll let her lick the container, but the rest of the stuff has turned into cake, so that would be pointless for now.

Pina, I don't have wealth enough to be married right now.  When I do get the money inshaAllah, I will marry Erin first, Natty second, and you last.  InshaAllah.  I will build a house for each of you, before I marry you.  If this is too slow for you, then I have no right to hold you back from getting something else that's faster.  All I ask is that you wait and keep your chastity.  Please know that I cannot be married to a non-Muslim, so I ask that all of you prepare yourselves emotionally and mentally for that.  If you think Pina that you are a servant, then know that I am a servant: a servant of God, so my wife is a servant of God as well.  It doesn't mean that we won't be wealthy and respected, it means that we will carry the rank of servants.

Top of the mountain

And feeling sleepy.  Oh, how nice to sleep.  Took my Dad to the hospital to have a tooth removed.  Waited for him by the old water tower.  Water, water.  Death ants in my drinking water.  How could that water be sweet?  So many people at the hospital.  Rush.  What a horrible place the hospital is...  So frightening, they won't allow photos.  Such a hot morning.  Fell asleep at the foot of the gazebo by the old water tower.