Top of the mountain, and the creature in the sewer

Hi Honey!  How are you feeling today?  I hope you are keeping safe, for as you know you not anonymous anymore.  In fact, you are renowned for your beauty.  You are beautiful, and I love you so much.

Yay!  I went back to the store and today they had seaweed sheets!  I had no idea they had stocked seaweed sheets since I was there yesterday- I came back to get whatever seaweed was available, and adapt to that.  But now I can make California rolls!  I went to the market very early this morning, right after the dawn prayer, about 6:30 am.  On the way there, I stopped by that new sushi restaurant.  This is a small town, but I could smell the city.  I know what the city smells like, because I used to live in the city- it's the smell of the sewer.  Note to the local authorities: control the sewer now before you build a city over it.  Anyway, I took a glimpse of the food they serve in a photo on the glass door.  Salmon?  Imported fish?  They are fools not to use local fish!  Yeah I guess some people like salmon, but local fish is fresher and superior.  I suppose I should give them the benefit of the doubt, so I'll just have to go in sometime and buy some food.  Not today though.  Instead I spent my money on fish: some cheap fish for Floofy's fish smoothies, and a huge Spanish mackerel.

What a beautiful fish.  Compare the size of the fish I bought to the cutting board, and the 2 sheets of newspaper it rests on.  Big, huh?  I've never had fresh Spanish mackerel before, but when I tasted it I knew I had stepped up on the fish hierarchy.  Have you ever had snapper before?  Spanish mackerel is like fatty snapper meat, with the texture of a firm ganache.  Oh, heavenly!  Fishmongers don't fillet fish around her, so I had to do it myself.  I'm not the best at filleting fish because I haven't had the practice- I usually can only afford small fish, and who wants to fillet that?  So there are 4 fillets to this fish- the left and right upper halves and stomach halves.  I was doing quite well, then I lost my patience in the the final fillet and therefore mangled it.  So that's what I had for lunch, mangled Spanish mackerel fillet sashimi.  Oh, heavenly!

For dinner I had sushi.  I don't use a bamboo roller, and I probably could have done a more creative arrangement, but I was hungry.  Looks good enough to me.  Want some sushi?  Yes Honey, you put the whole thing in your mouth, leaves and all.  Sorry folks, family only!

Natty,
           Love is a stranger
           Who beckons you on
           Don't think of the danger
           Or the stranger is gone
That being said, please wear a helmet when you ride your bicycle or scooter.  You are no longer anonymous either.  I told you that, remember?

Ya Allah, please protect my wives.

 

 

 

 

Qur'an 20171101

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

53.  Say, "O servants who have transgressed against their souls!  Despair not the mercy of Allah, for Allah forgives all sins, for God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."

The crowds 39:53
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Sushi

That was a fun post the last time, huh?  Certainly being an adult isn't very funny, so we have to get our humor whenever and wherever.  Doing endorsements is just one aspect of my business diversity, and the beauty of it is that I can endorse whatever, as long as I believe in it inshaAllah.  Of course I have been doing endorsements for a long time now along with other things, so inshaAllah everything will pile up and compound together in a payoff for me, perhaps I will attain wealth enough to marry.  At least at this point people have stopped trying to kill me so that they don't have to owe me anything, alhamdulillah.  For the most part, that is.  Not that I have ever asked them for anything.  I ask Allah.  So don't give up on us, baby.  Observe, and strengthen your heart.  Allah will bring us together inshaAllah, so have faith.

Other projects this month are pizza and sushi.  The pizza ingredients were easy enough to gather.  But there's a new sushi restaurant opening in town, and this one is straight from Japan believe it or not.  Out here in the sticks!  And suddenly, I can't find seaweed sheets anywhere.  Hm.  I guess this means I have to design boutique sushi rolls not even the Japanese have ever thought of.  InshaAllah.  That's the story of my life, doing the best I can with what Allah has given me.

Hey Natty, you beautiful girl!  What's up, Sweetie?  I'm sure you are over Halloween by now, it's just an excuse to dress up and party.  Well, try to rest while you have the chance.  Partying is work too, so please don't overwork.  Stay clean, safe and healthy.

 

 

 

Qur'an 20171031

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

46.  Say, "O Allah!  Creator of the heavens and the earth!  Knower of all that is hidden and open!  It is You that will judge between Your servants in those matters about which they have differed."

47.  Even if the wrongdoers had all that there is on earth, and as much more, would they offer it for ransom from the pain of the penalty on the Day of Judgement, but something will confront them from Allah which they could never have counted upon.

48.  For the evils of their deeds will confront them, and they will be encircled by that which they used to mock at.

The crowds 39:46-48
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Fried chicken

Hi Honey!  Are you hungry?  Today's project is fried chicken.  I do know how to fry up my own chicken, but I'm so unmotivated to do so because it generates such a mess, and you can't reuse the oil.  Besides, everybody else on the planet makes fried chicken.  I used to walk into KFC in the States and ask them, "I would like to have 2 breasts, please".  That joke is lost in translation here, and today I bought 3 breasts from the 3 separate local vendors at the night market down the street.  The last time I bought 3 breasts at KFC locally it cost me a little less than RM12, and that was a few years ago.  Today I spent RM12.20, and I think I got about the same amount of meat.

This one cost RM1.70.  I like this one the best because the flavor and crunch appeals to me the most, not to mention it's the cheapest.  They also have RM1 portions, which are smaller of course.

This one cost RM3.50.  There's more meat of course, and the batter is very well distributed throughout the chicken, making for a more absolute crunch.  Mild but good.

This RM7 portion clearly has the most amount of meat, but you get what you pay for.  In all fairness, they were about to cut it up and add more spices to it so it had more flavor coming, but I told them to pack it as it was.  It looks huge, but it's actually just a half rib that has been butterflied.

 

 

 

 

Qur'an 20171030

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

39.  Say, "O my people!  Do whatever you can: I will do.  But soon will you know."

40.  Who it is to whom comes a penalty of ignominy, and on whom descends a penalty that abides.

41.  Verily We have revealed the Book to you in Truth, for humankind.  He then that receives guidance benefits his own soul.  But he that strays injures his own soul.  Nor are you set over them to dispose of their affairs.

42.  It is Allah that takes the souls at death, and those that die not during their sleep.  Those on whom God has passed the decree of death, God keeps back.  But the rest God returns for a term appointed.  Verily in this are Signs for those who reflect.

43.  What!  Do they take for intercessors others besides Allah?  Say, "Even if they have no power whatever and no intelligence?"

44.  Say, "To Allah belongs exclusively Intercession.  To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth.  In the end, it is to God that you shall be brought back."

The crowds 39:39-44
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Coffee

Hi Honey!  How's it going today, my love?  I hope you are feeling great and having a grand old time.  I finally got a little money in so I can buy food, and I have a couple of cooking projects planned for November.  I had to quit coffee recently, not just because money was so tight but also because I was getting drowsy while drinking coffee.  So I just got rid of the expense.  But today I bought a pack of coffee sticks.  I've been getting so knocked out after an hour of singing, I've had to take a short nap in the middle of voice training.  Having those love songs bounce around in my head makes me want to faint, and there's no way I sound good when I'm passing out, and the purpose of voice training is to get a perfect set every time.  So slamming a cup of coffee after an hour into the set really did the trick for me today.  Singing well is so very difficult.  Having a perfect set means having the perfect feeling all through the set, and you know as well as I that the perfect feeling is extremely hard to come by.

Hail Queen Natty!  Hey, it looks like you're all set to party.  What are those marks around your neck, are they love bites?  By the way, isn't Halloween on Tuesday?  I guess party in on weekends, even for people who party every day.  I don't celebrate Halloween myself.  Even when I was still in the States, I didn't celebrate Halloween.  Not even for an excuse to dress up.  Besides, every day is Halloween in Second Life.