Standard recipe

When we are married and together inshaAllah, I think that would be a pretty good feeling do you agree?  I believe we really love each other.  And since I have no friends, I would be with my wives pretty much 24/7.  But right now, America loves Erin.  Check out this page I found this morning:  'The Sandlot' turns 25
Baseball is a standard formula, right?  Some tactics produce better results than others, and some athletes are better than others, but you're not going to find an island in a pond in the middle of a baseball diamond, right?  That would change what baseball is and what people want out of it.  The same goes with food.  Sometimes creativity is important, other times standard recipes are appropriate.  For lunch I made "keow teow kerang" (fried flat noodles with cockles), a local staple and one of my favorites.  It's made out of flat noodles, garlic, cockles, soy sauce, egg, bean sprouts, and chives are optional.  It has to be made the same way every time, otherwise it wouldn't be "keow teow kerang".  It can only be average, because you can't do or add anything to it, otherwise it wouldn't be "keow teow kerang".  You may add more bean sprouts or cockles, you can make it nice and tidy, but the best version is always the average version.  Because it is a local favorite, it is what people expect to eat, it is a standard recipe.  It is NEVER exceptional.

Natty, that is a smart looking coat.  But escapism is an emotion, as opposed to an intellectual pursuit right?  The desire to get away from reality.  Desire is an emotion, right?  Not to be confused with creativity, no matter how it feels, escapism eventually leads back to reality.  Because it needs reality to escape from.  I didn't feel like cutting the grass this evening.  I would rather be doing something else, or nothing at all.  If I escape doing chores, is that escapism?  I am probably the world's laziest person, but I still do my chores.  Otherwise my house would be filled with cat poo.

There is no such thing as "The Perfect Feeling"

I told you this many years ago, in fact it's the first thing I talked about when I wrote to you the first time.  That's why people drink and do drugs: they get drunk or high, and it's better than reality.  Then the buzz is gone, and so is "The Perfect Feeling".  We can get a glimpse of "The Perfect Feeling", then the glimpse is gone and that's what makes it imperfect.  The imperfections of life are certainly frustrating and irritating, but perfection is what God promises the righteous if they get to heaven.  But what if someone says, "I don't believe in God"?  Then let them find out when they find out.  In the meantime, let them stay out of my life and out of my way.  So Honey, please don't go wanting for "The Perfect Feeling".  Just settle for the next best feeling, which is patience.  So here we go on with life, dangling onto one situation to the next, completely out of control.  Has it ever occurred to you that your life doesn't belong to you?  Life, and death, belong to God.

Natty Honey, you look so cute!  Oh are you finally getting some sun?  Well, have plenty of fun Sweetheart, and enjoy your career.  The computer wants you to watch "The Gods Must Be Crazy" from 1980 again.  You don't have to focus on it: just let it play, with the volume on, while you do whatever it is you are doing.  Please watch these movies along with me as I ask you, because the world is watching us watch movies together.  Please take the movie business seriously, Movie Star.

Please don't overwork

You don't have to.  Allah has given you wealth enough, that you don't have to work so much.  Then comes the time inshaAllah when I will pay for us.  Please don't do drugs or booze, please don't harm or kill yourself.  Have faith, that we will be together.  I love you, and I want you to be safe.

If you want to be with me, then be with me.  I am always on Second Life, and if you are here with me, then I don't have to use an apprentice.

Cool Wednesday

Did you hear that Keyser Söze got a sex change, and is now known as Keyser Susie?  😛  How are you today, Honey?  I hope you are not overworking.  You don't need to, you know.  You need to enjoy your life and role as American Princess.  I liked today.  It was another nice day for me, alhamdulillah.  The morning was nice and cool, so I slept in after the dawn prayer.  And since it's been raining a lot, I don't need to water the plants.  I had some of my Mom's delicious fish curry for lunch.  Just the curry.  I've been eating smaller portions of everything lately.  Then in the evening, since I had broken my foot massage tile, I went and bought a new one.  It's just a bunch of river rocks set in concrete that you step on to massage your feet.  Works wonders for the knees.  I ate out for dinner, had fried noodles then a vanilla cone at McDonald's.  Then went to the supermarket for a few groceries.  Nice and cool and easy Wednesday.  Alhamdulillah.

Natty, I have been warned that since I intend to marry you, I must give you some sort of dowry.  But I am poor.  I'm just a musician.  My worldly possessions are my cats, some musical instruments, a couple of old computers, a motorcycle and some cash for groceries and bills.  But the music has some power mashaAllah, so I have the faith in Allah that I will be able to finance my family.  What I can give you is some original music as dowry until the time I can afford a ring inshaAllah.  A song.  Please give me some time to prepare it, and I will present this song as dowry to you on May 1, 2018 inshaAllah, so that you will marry me and be my second wife.  What I want from you is your chastity, integrity and piety.  Please forgive me for my shortcomings.

Here is a snapshot of another of my cats.  Her name is Luka Floofysdöttir.  Isn't she pretty?

BBQ beef ribs

Hi Honey!  How are you, my beloved?  I'm doing great today, alhamdulillah.  I just had BBQ beef ribs for dinner.  Oh so good!  Nothing matches the experience and the flavor of BBQ beef ribs.  Messy food, probably not the healthiest food, but oh so good!  Even the experience of having BBQ ribs in a restaurant is enjoyable- I recall many a good meal at those "All-U-Can-Eat" beef rib places.  Not all of them are the same- some of them slap some BBQ sauce on boiled ribs then microwave them.  Ugh.  Lately my butcher has been selling nothing but veal.  From his chatter, I gather that the tenderness of veal competes with imported beef, local beef is very lean as it is.  But veal, though tender, is leaner than that.  But the ribs are nice and fatty, which is the only cut of veal I probably like.  Now the locals have realized that ketchup makes a splendid BBQ sauce base, and the supermarkets have been frequently out of the big packets of ketchup.  So I bought chilli sauce instead, which is chilli flavored ketchup, and made my BBQ sauce from that.  I didn't want to travel far for the ingredients, so I improvised with local staples.  So instead of butter, I precooked the ribs in "kerisik" which is coconut shavings reduced in oil until brown, and garlic.  Add the chilli sauce, sugar and soy sauce, and we're in business.  I sat and enjoyed my BBQ beef ribs right at the grill in a cloud of smoke.  I'm a sight to see, sweaty and covered in charcoal dust and splatterings of BBQ sauce.  Messy food.  Happy food.  Then I washed it down with a freezing cold bottle of Coca Cola.  I didn't take a snapshot though- I can't handle a camera and deal with BBQ ribs at the same time.  But you know what BBQ ribs look like, right?  What we need is "Smell-a-vision".  No Honey, I don't know how to make vegetarian BBQ beef ribs.

Hi Natty Honey!  Do you want some BBQ beef ribs?  It's as good as pizza!  How's business going?  Are you having tons of fun?  Natty, people have been bitching at me that models can't act.  I want you to prove them wrong.  Take acting classes and more importantly, get in tune with your emotions like a good singer.  Express your emotions more.  Use your Instagram, and express your emotions to me.  Anyway, today the computer wants you to watch "Star Wars Episode 2: Attack Of The Clones" from 2002.  I like this movie, but I admit it's kind of cheesy.  You don't need to be a good actress for this movie.  Just be pretty and wear the right clothes.  Big name movie, though.  Some people got their "big break" from the Star Wars episodes 1 and 2.

Monday

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  How's work coming along?  Let me guess what you're up to...  Are you doing something for GQ?  Are you in Germany?  Just guessing.  I'm still kind of grumpy, and emotionally wasted from being angry.  I hate being angry.  But the weather has cooled down, because it rained just now.  So I'm pleased about that.  Alhamdulillah.  I spent the morning paying bills, bought a gallon of bleach and some gasoline, then got a haircut.  Nothing special on the menu.  I don't have much of an appetite, so I bought some pastries from the supermarket, then for dinner I had some fish sausage from the night market.  That's it.

Hey Natty Honey!  Has life gotten crazy and hectic again?  Are you having fun?  I sure hope so.  Don't forget this when you work, you are MY girl.  Do you like comedy?  The computer wants you to watch another movie.  Please do so, Movie Star.  The computer is very clever about these things.  From 1971, Monty Python's "And Now For Something Completely Different".  It's basically a collage of comedy sketches from the TV show.  Why are there mostly guys in comedies?  Hm.  You can't fake good humor, you know.

Full moon

Yeah Erin, I know who the culprit is.  We all know her, but I'm not naming any names.  I want you to know that it's you I will marry inshaAllah.  I love you, Erin.

I'm in a bad mood today.  Not it's not that, it's something else.  I woke this morning knowing it is going to be one of those days.  Maybe it's the full moon.  Dinner wasn't that great.  I'm still clearing out my fridge, and using up the food that's in there.  I had eggs on rice with spicy eggplant for dinner.  Nothing exciting.  Filling.

Hey Natty Honey, how are you?  Are you working today?  I know the past week has been very emotional for you, but everything will turn out great inshaAllah.  You will be fine Honey, I'm with you always, and I won't abandon you.  So hang in there, and have a great time OK?