Qur'an 20181112

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

84.  Say, "We believe in Allah, and in what has been revealed to us, and what was revealed to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, and that given to Moses, Jesus, and the Prophets from their Lord.  We make no distinction between one and another among them, and to Allah do we bow our will."

(The Family of Imran 3:84)
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Brazilian models

Hi Honey!  What's going on?  I often wonder what you are up to.  Are you planning to be in the director's chair?  You can borrow my chair if you like, as long as I'm not sitting on it.  Otherwise you can sit on my lap, and then well...  I'm a go-with-the-flow type of person, Honey.  You should know that by now.  I was browsing YouTube last night, when I came across the original version of "The Girl From Ipanema".  I thought that this would be a perfect song for me to sing, it's totally my style and in my range.  The girlie part of the song of course, I am a chick singer after all.  So I spent all last night looping the song, playing it while I slept, plus this morning before voice training so I could sing it today.  I sang it as the first song which turned out OK, then the computer made me sing it again an hour later, and I had totally forgotten the words.  Argh!  My brain is full!  It takes me a long time of singing it over and over to remember the words for a new song, because I am an emotional singer and I need to make the emotional connection.  This is also true of stuff that I write.  I didn't think I would be able to use any of the songs in "Woo Hoo" for my set, because the album is too dark.  Then I decided that "Gyrlie Roxtar" would be appropriate, but I'm still having trouble nailing the emotional connection when singing it live, even though I wrote the damned thing.  I hate singers!  What a bunch of fussy bitches.

Anyway, "The Girl From Ipanema" absolutely reminds me of Brazilian models.  There used to be a heyday when Brazilian models were the only models out there.  Like in 2004 for instance, the Victoria's Secret front line was all Brazilian plus Heidi Klum.  I think the prettiest Brazilian model back then was Ana Beatriz.  Adriana and Alessandra were way up there too.  Those were the days.  Truly the end of an era.

The location of my photo session was at KOMA by JadeYu Fhang

Qur'an 20181111

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

72.  A section of the people of the Book say, "Believe in the morning what is revealed to the believers but reject it at the end of the day, perchance they may turn back."

73.  "And believe no one unless he follows your religion."  Say, "True guidance is the guidance of Allah, lest a revelation be sent to someone like that which was sent unto you.  Or that those should engage you in argument before your Lord."  Say, "All bounties are in the hand of Allah: God grants them to whom God pleases, and Allah is the All-Caring and All-Knowing."

(The Family of Imran 3:72-73)
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Too much dough for my hands?

Hi Honey!  How are you today?  How are you feeling?  Now don't be a stranger.  I hope you are feeling great and having a marvelous time.  I pulled a muscle in my side when pulling out tapioca yesterday.  That bothered me all night, I couldn't even toss and turn!  But I was OK in the morning, alhamdulillah.  I wanted to sleep more, but I had errands to run.  In the evening I had some yard work to do, then I had to make a batch of dough.  I usually use one kilo of flour at a time, and that's 5 times the size of my hand.  Today my Mom wanted me to make dough for her, so I used 2 kilos of flour, which made the dough ball 10 times the size of my hand.  The title is misleading, I was able to handle it just fine, albeit a little tiring.  I don't like to handle other people's dough along with mine though.  I guess I will never become a civil servant, or accountant, or be responsible for other people's money in any way.  I DON'T want to handle other people's money.  And I WON'T.  I refuse.  Whatever money I get must be all mine.  I'm a responsible citizen, inshaAllah.  I give zakat, inshaAllah.  I report regularly to the taxman.

"Rusty" by Cica Ghost

Qur'an 20181110

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

64.  Say, "O people of the Book!  Come to common terms as between us and you, that we worship none but Allah, that we associate no partners with God, that we erect not from among ourselves lords and patrons other than Allah."  If then they turn back say you, "Bear witness that we are Muslims."

(The Family of Imran 3:64)
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It's raining

Hi Honey!  What's up?  Are you having tons of fun being beautiful and popular?  You're my girl, and I love you.  Take heed, and try to dress well as often as possible.  Life is a stage!  It's raining over here right now.  It had been hot and dry for the past few days after a long spell of cool weather.  I was enjoying that comfortable weather, and getting used to it when it had to get hot again.  Today was especially muggy, but the rain came down at sunset.  I did have time to do a little bit of yard work.  I pulled up some tapioca that was in the way of my weed whacker.  My Mom loves tapioca.  Again, I'm not partial to the stuff.  I don't eat most of what grows around here, even though the locals thrive on them.  It's almost ironic.  Do you like tapioca?  My Mom makes a cake out of tapioca, it's quite good.  Sweet.  But I don't cook with the stuff.  I need to save money, so food is going to be cheap and simple for a while.  Lunch was rice and eggs, dinner was bread and chili.

My photo shoot was at La Frontera.  Beautiful place, very well made.  Shorter hair kind of suits me.  More feminine even.

Hollyweird

Hi Honey!  Do you want to be a movie star?  Might as well, what else is there to do.  Hollywood isn't as powerful as it used to be, because every country has its own movie industry nowadays.  Channel that into the Internet, and you get saturation.  Too much information.  We can't even decide what movie to watch anymore, there's too many of them.  But hey, would you like to be a movie star?  Allah is always watching us, life is a stage.  So you already are an actress, just doing what you do.  Plus, you're beautiful and you're MY girl.  There's nothing much going on here today.  I vacuumed cleaned my Mother's house, I made "sambal tumis", I had lunch and dinner, I burned some trash, I watered the plants, etc etc.  But what about the Butterfly Effect?  MashaAllah.  I have no privacy.  I guess Hollywood is where the heart is.  I prefer English speaking movies anyway.

I didn't get a chance to watch "Black Mass" yesterday.  I picked up my guitar and started playing.  Oh well.