Drums!

Hi Honey!  How are you feeling, my beautiful Natty?  Aw don't you go counting your fingers again, you have nothing to worry about!  You are a gorgeous high-class model, and I love you.  You are my girl!  Everything is going to be just great inshaAllah.

I finally got around to playing drums again, after such a long long time!  I mean REALLY play the drums, play as if I mean it.  Because DRUMS DON'T LIE: a drummer has to be sincere in order to sound good.  Oh my God, I'm out of practice.  And I'm not as angry as I used to be.  What happened to all my anger?  Where did it go?  I'm playing the drums like a wimp!  😭  Well, I was able to put some emotion into it, but my left wrist got tired.  Lack of practice.  I had some recording to do, and I always record drums first.  But this drummer is a tyrant: it's his way or no way.  So all the other instruments have to adapt to the drummer.  I wish I had a full kit, though.  Ya Allah, please grant me a full kit.  A nice one.  One that I want.  But I love my home made drum, that I made out of an old water reservoir.  It sounds like thunder.  Alhamdulillah.

Is this outfit grey or pink?  I filed it under grey.  The dress is kind of foofoo, and I love wearing a boy's haircut with a foofoo dress.  The contrast generates nice tension.  Don't you agree?

I didn't do any cooking today!

Hi Honey!  How is your day today?  How's work coming along?  I hope you are having a marvelous time.  Please take good care of your health.  I always wonder what you eat when you're out there being a glamorous model.  We would love to see snapshots of your food, but if you don't want to that's fine.  I didn't do any cooking today!  Yeah, I even ate breakfast today which I usually skip.  2 meals a day usually.  But today, I had glutenous rice with salted fish and tomatoes from Pak Sudin's restaurant at the corner.  Then I went downtown to run some errands, and had lunch at Omar's.  And I just finished dinner, I had rice at Ina's.  I'm blogging a little earlier today, it's Tuesday and I want to be at the mosque by sunset.  There were some glitches during voice training today, so sorry about that folks.  Internet problems.  It happens, after all it's a global brand.  Thank God though that today I was spared any emotional or physical problems that would affect my performance.  Alhamdulillah!  Maybe I should eat out more often...

Hi Natalie

Hi Honey!  How are you feeling, beautiful girl?  Oh I'm sure it's all so much fun and exciting for you, I hope you are having a grand old time!  Now don't you worry whatsoever my dearest, everything is going to turn out just great inshaAllah.  I love you, and I will marry you.  InshaAllah.

I didn't sleep much last night for some reason.  When I wake up early like that, I do some extra worship.  I always wake up early anyway, so I get my daily Qur'an reading.  Then I go back to sleep after the dawn prayer, but today the sleep wasn't quality.  But today is BBQ day, and the chicken is fat!  I swear, just the legs and wings is almost a kilo.  My Mom gave me some mushrooms, so I put that on the grill as well, with some salt.  I had to use the fine mesh for the mushrooms, but I forgot to take the mesh off and put my chicken on that.  Bad move.  The skin got stuck to the mesh, and everybody knows that the skin is the best part.  No matter, I still scraped off the skin and ate it but it made my chicken legs unsightly and almost ruined my BBQ experience.  I was full though.  Alhamdulillah.  The weather was nice and mild today, so I got duped into thinking that I could take my nap on the floor (I like to sleep on the floor), but then it suddenly got muggy and I couldn't sleep.  So I had to face voice training with little sleep.  Such a stupid factor to affect my performance... I hate singers!  What a bunch of whining bitches.

Sunday

Hi Honey!  What's going on with you today?  I'm sure you are super duper busy, so please make sure you take some time to slow down that heart of yours.  Make sure you get your tryptophan fix!  Yeah I have a couple of big fat chickens right now, and tomorrow is BBQ day!  InshaAllah.  I love eating BBQ right at the grill, one of life's simple pleasures.  Today is Sunday, and every Sunday morning I clean my mother's bedroom.  It's a good thing I have leftovers from yesterday's fried noodles, I didn't have to take a lot of time to cook, so I had plenty of time to pass out before voice training.  Lately it's been blatantly a global stage, and I have to belt it out without losing power for 2 hours straight each day, and that's not easy and not easier still if I had an active morning.  I wish I could get all my labor and chores done after I sing everyday, but that's impossible.  Being perfect is so impossible.  Ugh.  I spent all evening in the kitchen, so technically I didn't leave the house today (my Mom is next door, so that doesn't count).  Cooking is very time consuming, and I didn't even prepare a fresh dinner.  But I have my BBQ all set for tomorrow!  Yay!  Dinner was tortillas and leftover chili.  Good though, alhamdulillah.  Want some?

Shopping

Natty, you're excited!  Isn't it exciting to be excited?  Come here Sweetheart, let me kiss that beautiful face of yours, and make love to you... oh wait, we have to get married first.  Please pray that Allah grants me wealth enough to finance our marriage, and soon.  Have you been doing a lot of shopping?  I went grocery shopping today.  Yeah I wish I could buy tools and toys, but right now I need groceries.  Let me show you today's shopping list:

1.  Chicken stock- I prefer anchovy bouillon, but I have a lot of chicken right now.
2.  Curry powder
3.  "Belacan" (fermented shrimp block)- for sauces and curries
4.  Scallions- it's fried noodles for dinner!
5.  Mosquito incense- mosquitoes are very dangerous.  Do what you must to destroy them, especially in the house.  Incense is the cheapest way to go.
6.  Noodles- it's fried noodles for dinner!
7.  Bath soap
8.  Cooking oil- recycled palm oil.  The common means around here.
9.  Eggs- 5 small eggs.  I have a lot of chicken, so I cut down on eggs.  But I need some for my fried noodles today.
10.  Tomato ketchup- it's almost BBQ time!  The chicken is fat right now!
11.  Flour- Thank God I know how to make dough.
12.  Dried chillies- for making sauce
13.  Sunflower seeds- medicinal value: great for heartburn and virility, not great for high blood pressure.

Liver and onions

Hi Honey!  How's it going today?  Are you super busy, and having tons of fun?  I sure hope you are.  Don't forget to pray!  I just finished my dinner.  The other day, I bought 2 fat chickens from the butcher at the supermarket.  Chicken is cheaper there, and they pre-package the liver in a small bag then put it back in the chicken.  Sometimes people don't want the liver, so the butcher puts them aside and I managed to keep all the little bags of liver that he had kept aside that day.  I don't think you would like liver which is a shame, because liver is good for you.  Lots of iron for your blood.  I like liver, so I had liver and onions with tortillas for dinner.  Liver is strong in flavor, so there's no need for anything else but I did put a little too much salt in it.  Live and learn.  Lunch was a success though, alhamdulillah.  I always get the butcher to split the chicken in half, then I go home and separate the legs, wings, and white meat so what's left is a half carcass, and I use that for broth.  I've learned not to chop up the chicken anymore, so there are no bone splinters.  When I remove the chicken from the soup, I pick off all the meat and skin for other dishes like noodles.  My Mom gave me a head of broccoli and some carrots, so I put that in the soup.  The chicken gave its flavor to the vegetables!  And the cats got a snack later when I was done.  😸