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Hi there, Natty honey!  How are you feeling today, my beauty?  It's nice and cool here today.  Yes, it has been raining.  Allah is the One Who brings down the rain.  I like it nice and cool.  I'm in my best mood when it's nice and cool.  No sweat!  I feel so comfortable though.  I'm soooo sleepy.  I felt like sleeping the entire day away.  But I didn't, of course.  I always have a lot to do.  Early this morning I took my Dad to the doctor.  Yes, again.  When I got back, I just laid in bed and snoozed.  On the floor, rather.  I like to sleep on the floor.  I skipped my workout in the evening, and some house chores.  I cooked an early dinner, then went to listen to the elderly Qur'an teacher.  I guess that was productive, but otherwise it's been a very lazy day.

Oh by the way, Happy Birthday to your sister and best wishes.

Fish sausage

Hi Natty honey!  How are you today?  Oh, is that your big brother?  How's he doing?  How's his movie career coming along?  Right now he looks more like a viking than James Bond.  I think a tuxedo might help.  But I can't imagine his leading a mob of vikings in a tuxedo.  Are you hungry?  I'm afraid I didn't do much cooking today.  I had to get up early to take my Dad to the doctor, so I'm a bit drowsy right now.  I did my best to take a nap before voice training, but it's so difficult to fall asleep when it's sweltering hot.  Having my cat sleep in my lap didn't help, but I love her so much.  It's cooled down a lot now, though.  My Mom gave me some beef and potato stew for dinner.  I went to the night market just now, and picked up some raw fish sausage.  Oh, what is that heavenly smell?  The scent of raw fish sausage is sheer heaven to cats.  I had to lock them up in the kitty litter room while I portioned it out and put it away.  I would offer you some, but I haven't cooked it up yet.  This stuff is quite good when deep fried, crunchy on that outside and chewy on the inside.  You know, I think this stuff would be great on pizza too.  Too bad I'm not budgeted for pizza right now.  Maybe I'll chop some up someday and make a spicy Italian fish sausage.

Today's outfit is NYC!  Check out my shoes.  I love shoes!  I plan to have a gigantic collection of shoes.

Sunday

Hi Natty honey!  How are you today?  Still feeling a bit high?  It's a natural high, I hope.  Everyone is getting high except me.  I think it's because I'm still poor that I feel so jaded about all the madness of others.  Same old, same old.  You know.  Even if I suddenly had billions to spend, I would only trickle spend because I'm so brain damaged from same old, same old.  Natty dearest, if you feel like spending money then buy some real estate in your home town.  I told you this a long time ago.  Along with other things.  I understand if you want your own path, I just want to take care of you.  Allah mentions in the Qur'an that everyone must pass over hell without exception, but Allah will save the righteous.  God doesn't mention when this will happen, or how many times.  It could be hell on earth.  So please be patient, and pray.

But don't you worry Honey, everything will turn out just great for us inshaAllah.  I love you and I will marry you and take care of you inshaAllah.


Sunday is BLACK!

Dreams

Hi there, Natty honey!  How are you feeling, you wonderful girl?  Oooh, dirty laundry.  Oh well, we all have to do it.  That's a beautiful vanity you have there though, and nice boots too.  That vanity could use some lights, don't you think?  But that would involve some drilling... would you want to do that?  I know you don't like people gossiping about you, but I'm sure you are handling it quite well, with experience.  You are resilient.  Don't forget this is the Rock and Roll business, so the right attitude will make you feel great.  Of course I'm always with you.  You're my girl!

I had a dream about you last night.  I don't normally talk about my dreams in this public place, but you might like this one.  I had a dream that you were living among cannibals, and they all wanted to eat you.  Then you decided to eat yourself.  Say, that sounds quite yummy!  I want to eat you too.  With vanilla ice cream and strawberries.

Oh, your sister was in my dream last night too.  This was a separate event.  You know how dreams go from one situation to another.  I was just walking on the road, minding my own business.  Your sister was in a singer-songwriter duo, performing at the side of the street.  Then I came across this other band, who was sitting at a table at a busy restaurant.  One of the guys told me, with a very serious tone, about an open mike event in NYC which cost 7 dollars to enter, and his band was going there to participate.  So was your sister.  I told him that I had not heard of such an event, and I had no real interest in it, but if I happened to be in NYC at the time I might just check it out.

Well, I'm not in NYC.  I'm out in the sticks somewhere in Asia.  I already have a gig, anyway.

Independence Day

Hi Natty honey!  How are you feeling today, my precious princess?  I hope everything is going easy for you, and that you are having a grand old time.  Don't forget to pray!  Today is Malaysia's independence day.  August 31, 1957 to be sure.  No, I didn't go see the parade.  One would have to wake up and be out of the house very early for that, and I'm not a big fan of parades.  I would never be one to have a parade in my honor, or whatever.  Today is Friday, so I went for the Friday prayer.  That's about it.  I cut the grass in the evening.  Lunch was pretty good, I had some chicken liver to use up, so I fried up some eggplant and onions in "sambal tumis" (blended onions, chillies, and "belacan" (fermented shrimp) fried in oil until saturated), then added the chicken liver which I had marinated in turmeric and salt.  I can't stomach overcooked liver- it has to be done perfectly.  Since liver is strong tasting, one chicken liver is the perfect blend for the eggplant mix to be eaten with a couple of tortillas.  By the way, I'm not budgeted for pizza right now to coincide with your trip to Milan.  So you're going to have to fly the pizza flag for both of us.  Please make sure you go to a restaurant in Milan and eat pizza, OK?

For those of you who are Janis Joplin aficionados, note that Janis never sang a song the same way every time.  Maybe she didn't want to bore herself, or maybe she was too messed up.

My look for today is Latina.  I didn't plan it that way, that's just how it happened.  Kind of like my lunch.