Snacks

Hi Natty!  How's it going?  Are you taking it easy?  Or are you like my cat, meowing at my bedroom door for me to open it, then walking in, meow a couple of times, then walk back out?  I hope you are feeling good and having a marvelous time, my dearest.  I do love you so.  I had a resolution earlier this month to keep my cooler as empty as possible, which I kept to the most part.  Then things got out of hand when I made that mango dip.  It needed crushed peanuts, so I went downtown to get a bag of peanuts.  Then I started to snack on the peanuts, which I bought for my mango dip snack.  I also have an unopened pack of clearance chocolate chip cookies which I bought the last time I was at the supermarket.  This morning I took my Mom to the supermarket, and saw that potato crisps and my favorite chocolate was on sale so I bought that.  My mother bought me lunch, which was curry pups and a box of chrysanthemum tea from the supermarket, and now that unfinished box of tea is in the cooler sitting next to the 2 jugs of tea I brewed today.  So I didn't save money this month after all.  Now the cooler is full again.  No, the food neither healthy nor efficient.  It's mostly junk food.

For your flower today my love, I found this photo of a pizza with edible flowers!  No, it's not pizza month again.  Pizza month is July.

Tuesday

Hi Natty!  How are you, my love?  I hope everything is super peachy for you.  It is Tuesday, and I'm blogging early.  I am heading to the mosque by sunset inshaAllah.  The cute Jap kids haven't posted their video yet, I'm going to have to repost this blog later perhaps.  I already had my dinner.  Just plain takeout rice.  I went downtown for some peanuts just now, and bought my dinner then.  Yeah, I'm kind of fussy about my peanuts.  So I had to go downtown.  Do you like chocolate?  Just candy?  I love chocolate if it's high quality.  Yeah, I'm fussy about my chocolate too.  Check out these chocolate roses.  I wonder if they taste good.

This guy made a knife out of chocolate.  A real, functioning knife.  But why?  To cut cucumbers?  He seems to have all the tools and a beautiful kitchen.  I guess once you have money, you can waste it on making videos of ridiculous experiments.  This one seems a bit psycho, I think.  Just like the people online that I've been meeting lately.  A job is a job, I guess.

Mango dip

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope everything is going well for you, and that you are feeling happy and healthy.  I feel a bit silly: after preaching all that love philosophy, I forgot to post a photo of a flower yesterday.  Of course you would notice something like that.  Going back and reposting doesn't change the fact that I forgot, so please forgive me.  I have one for you today, though: a sesame flower.

It is mango season today.  There are no Harumanis mangoes in the yard this year.  The old tree is being fussy, and the young trees don't want to give me any fruit yet.  But the huge hybrid is full of fruit and flowers.  Green mangoes are great for dipping, one particular local recipe is called "garam belacan".  Literally translated means "salt and belacan (fermented shrimp paste)", but the stuff I made today is thick soy sauce, sugar, belacan (fermented shrimp paste), and chillies.  Something's missing though: it's too runny.  I've decided it needs crushed peanuts.  So I guess I have to go buy some before I enjoy my mango dip.

OH NO!!!!  I'M SO EMBARRASSED!!!! 😠
Malaysia is top plastic polluter in Asia says WWF

Sunday

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  Oh it's been so busy, and you're finally getting some time to relax?  Well, I hope so.  It's Sunday here for me, and every Sunday morning I clean my mother's bedroom.  It's just a typical Sunday, with nothing special going on.  The food is boring, which means that my tummy is happy.  It's been very hot and muggy lately, the rain is teasing but won't come down.  My room is stuffy and I don't have air conditioning.  At least I have 3 fans blasting in the room.  To have them all pointing at me is not working.  I had to point one fan towards the window to move air out of the room, so it's bearable in here right now.  Last night I couldn't work much at all, it was so stifling in here.  I didn't want to drink more Coca-Cola even though freezing cold Coke is pure bliss in this weather.  Iced tea is just as blissful plus I drink it without sugar, so I have a large jug of iced tea chilling in my freezer.  I want some!  Take care Natty, get lots of rest.  I love you.

Qur'an 20200216

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

92.  And to rehearse the Qur'an.  And if any accept guidance, they do it for the good of their own souls, and if any stray say, "I am only a warner."

93.  And say, "Praise be to Allah, Who will soon show you God's signs so that you shall know them."  And your Lord is not unmindful of all that you do.

The Ants 27:92-93

I love you everyday, not just one day a year

Hi Natty!  What's going on?  How are you spending your weekend?  Oh, that's such a cute photo of you and Elmo!  It's February 15, so I can get back to saying sweet loving things and posting snapshots of pretty flowers and such.  Natty, I love you and I will marry you inshaAllah.  I did something for myself even!  I switched my cooking oil jug from the "Buruh" (labor) brand to the "Murni" (pure) brand.

Natty, you are my honey now.  The old master told me last Tuesday to go buy some honey, so I went and bought a bottle of honey collected from jungle bees in the local jungles here in Perlis.  If you were to wander around in the jungle, you wouldn't see that many flowers.  That's because the flowers are small, or high up in the trees.  You know how honey tastes like the flower it's collected from?  Like apple blossom honey tastes like apples, orange blossom honey tastes like oranges etc.  Well, this honey tastes like pomegranates.  Pomegranates don't grow here, especially out in the jungle.  This stuff that I bought is expensive, because it's pure honey not colored sugar water.  It is medicinal honey, so you don't use it to sweeten your tea, or consume it in heavy gobs.  It's very potent.  I just dip the tip of a bamboo skewer in the bottle, and that's the dose I take once a day on an empty stomach with no water.

I want you kids to know that I love you all, and you are beautiful.

Location, location, location

Where are you right now, Natty?  I thought you were in France, but it looks like you're in Canada.  It's not raining here right now.  It rained a tiny bit just now, a drizzle, which means that it's hot and humid right now.  Gag!  Yeah, home is where the heart is.  I pray someday you will call you and me home.  I've always been alone and God has been my only friend for the most part, so my heart is in the hereafter but I'm working to find some happiness in this world, in marriage.  I hate tropical weather, hot weather, I've fantasized many times about living in Canada, where it never gets hot.

But you will have to admit that Asia is where it's happening right now.  Asia has the people, the bugs, and the drama.  Allah chose this location for me, put me here, and ordered me to stay here and do rock and roll business.  It may be seem an odd place for my business, but with the Internet it makes perfect sense.  It may seem that other places have less drama, but one can die anywhere.  Thus I have to stand my ground here and work, and I pray that you will give your heart to us together, in this place.  And it does rain a lot here.  Right now is the dry season.