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Hi Natty!  How's your glamorous life in the tropical paradise?  I hope you are having a great time.  Don't be so worried about the antics of others, it's because you are Mrs. Rock Star inshaAllah.  You are MY girl, you are beautiful and I love you.  Are you hungry?  Do you want some fried rice?  I'll bet you have been eating a lot of fried rice.  There are a lot of bad versions of fried rice.  I like to look at fried rice as being the mastery of cooking leftovers.  The rice used for making fried rice should have been left in the fridge overnight for it to cook up perfectly.  I believe that fried rice should be light and refreshing, so it can't be bogged down with grease and sauces.  For today's fried rice, I used young kaffir lime leaves, chives, mint, garlic, onion, fish cake, and an egg.  First I sliced up the onion then fried it in oil until almost black, then I took it out.  Reducing the heat, I fried the chopped garlic and the kaffir lime leaves.  What a fragrance!  Once the garlic is brown and the leaves wilt, I put in the rice and cook it until fully separated, seasoning it with soy sauce and chicken bouillon.  Not too much seasoning!  Light and refreshing!  Then I add the egg to a hole I make in the rice, and let that cook.  Add the onions and sliced fish cake, then mix it all up.  Shut off the heat, and finally mix in the chopped chives and whole mint leaves.  Are you excited?  Are you?  Are you?  Oh sorry I didn't take a snapshot.  I was more interested in eating.  Here's a photo of Julie Andrews instead.

The Diet

Hi Erin!  How are you doing, my Darling?  Are you busy being the American Princess?  Yes my love, America needs you, so do your work with pride.  It's nice to be on that virtual pedestal, and it's entertaining to laugh to yourself about all the silliness going on around you.  That's because most people have no grasp of Allah, so they become silly.  You just give thanks to Allah, OK?  I love you.

Hi Natty!  How is your awareness program coming along?  Ah, it's part of the job.  I guess that means it's part of being Mrs. Rock Star, and being so pretty.  Are the natives in awe of you?  Don't show off!  Yes my dearest Natty, you are such a beautiful sweetheart, and you want to be nice to the world even though they get jealous of you.  What a good heart you have.  I love you.

So I'm still on a diet.  I've learned that you don't have to be wealthy to get bloated.  Poor people can get bloated as well.  It's either that or I'm wealthy and I don't know it.  No, that's not it- I would be married already...  Anyway, I've been eating half portions.  Instead of eating the whole cup of rice, I put away half a cup.  Instead of 2 cheeseburgers, I only have one.  Sundays I always but my lunch, and I always get 3 portions of "nasi lemak" (rice).  But the woman who makes them overstuffed them for me, so I guess I overate for lunch.  Then dinner I had a cheeseburger and a half portion of fries.  I don't know.  I don't have a scale.  I think I'm losing weight.  My clothes feel looser.  I just don't know...

Do I look thinner to you?

Fish

Hello there, my beautiful Ladies!  How are you feeling today?  Well yeah, the world is watching but that's because you are so pretty!  I love you so much.  What's for dinner?  I'm still on a budget and a diet, but I had such a craving for raw fish this morning.  That's because I've been marathon watching the Japanese masters gut and fillet all sorts of different fish.  They use up so much clean linen!  What made me hungrier is that they only use a measly portion of the fish to serve as sushi/sashimi.  I thought to myself, "Well, I can afford to get a reasonably sized fish to eat raw, provided it is meaty."  But the local grocer didn't have much for selection, so no sashimi today.  I guess I should have gone to the market downtown, after all I did go downtown for gasoline, but I suppose I got lazy.  This time, my laziness helped me stick to my budget and diet so instead of a fish, I bought some fish cake.  I made myself a bowl of ramen for lunch, with fish cake, okra, mint, and an egg.

Ah... sleep

Hi there, my lovely and precious Ladies!  How are things?  I hope things are going perfectly for you.  I'm so happy, I got lots of sleep last night.  I had to run a couple of early morning errands this week, and it's too hot for quality sleep during the day.  However, it was a cool night last night, so I knew it was going to be comfortable, just like heaven!  So I turned in one hour earlier than usual, and prepared to sleep in the next morning.  I had to get up for the dawn prayer of course, but after that it's no holds barred!  I think I got almost 9 hours of sleep... what a miracle.  Alhamdulillah.  Voice training went so smoothly today.  This chick singer is really a princess diva, she absolutely has to have her beauty sleep.  I think I found a new hobby: sleep.  Erin, I think you would like to share my hobby with me, right?

Sigh!  But I have to work.  So it's back to the slutty dresses.  It's a good thing Second Life isn't real life, so I get to wear slutty dresses.  This one is see-thru, so I had to wear underwear.  A lot of the apparel available in Second Life is just plain skanky.  Underwear makes a big difference.