The stream is working properly now

Hi Natty!  How are you today, my darling?  I hope everything is going smoothly for you, and you are healthy and happy.  The good news is that the stream is working properly now.  I guess it didn't take that long for them to solve the problem, so kudos on their professionalism.  Now you folks can hear Mary Unknown7 sing again.  Glory be to Allah that Mary's voice helps people to fall asleep.  Please give thanks to Allah for God's kindness and generosity in these times of stress.

The singer at the 8:30 mark of today's Jap kids video is soooo sweet.

Update

Hi Natty!  How are you, my darling?  You are my girl, you are so beautiful, and I love you with all of my heart.  I hope you are having a splendid time and feeling well.  I'm afraid that Internet problems persist here with me.  My brother told me that the transmitter is damaged, and they will take until Sunday to repair it.  I was able to maintain Mary Unknown7's singing session on Second Life today.  The voice feed seemed to be stable, but the stream was clearly damaged.  Right now, it has become worse.  We may not be able to make any online presence at all tomorrow if the current situation continued.  It took me over 2 hours to post this little bit of news.  Please accept my apologies in advance for our not being there for you.  I know some of you folks need to sleep.  InshaAllah this interruption will not be long.  Please keep checking back, perhaps there will not be any interruption at all.

Qur'an 20200721

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

44.  Had We sent this as a Qur'an other than Arabic, they would have said, "Why are not its verses explained in detail?  What!  Not in Arabic, and an Arab?"  Say, "It is a guide and a healing to those who believe, and for those who believe not, there is deafness in their ears, and also blindness.  They are being called from a place far distant!"

Expounded 41:44

Internet problems

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope all is well with you.  It's another in the office for me.  Today I had Internet problems folks, and I was not able to stream Mary Unknown7's session smoothly.  I can download adequately (I can watch YouTube OK), but my upload speed is at a crawl.  Second Life was laggy, but the voice feed seemed uninterrupted, so I guess anybody tuning into the voice feed inworld on Second Life would have enjoyed the show without any issue.  I can see other local streams working fine, so I suspect I'm the only one having this problem.  No, it's not my modem.  My service was just fine this morning.  InshaAllah, I will solve this problem before tomorrow's session.  Hopefully, I won't have to scream at anyone.

The graveyard

Hi Natty!  How's it going?  I pray that all is well with you, and life is easy-going.  It's Sunday here today for me, and Sundays are always busy.  I clean my mother's bedroom every Sunday morning, so the first thing I do when I wake up is go buy my lunch so I don't have to cook it.  After Mary Unknown7's voice session, I had to get back to doing yard work.  This time I had to cut the grass over at my grandparents' grave.  The graveyard is close to my house, a short drive on the motorcycle with the weed whacker on my back.  It's an unkempt place, with long grass, thorns, a few coconut trees, and many other trees with low-hanging branches.  I'm the only one who visits my grandparents, and it's interesting to see which graves are taken care of.  That's because local politics are very family driven, but few seem to care about their dead relatives.  The grass wasn't long today over by my grandparents' grave, but the tree over them had branches that almost touched the ground.  I had to stoop under the branches with the weed whacker running, and it rained ants on me.  Army ants.  That was unpleasant, but I got the task done.  After that I went home and cut the grass outside my mother's bedroom window, and my own back yard.  I had to cook my own dinner.  It was a good thing I had some curry pup fixings left, so I fried those up and while they were cooling on the rack, I took a shower.  I ate my dinner while watching the Jap kids' video, and finished the last curry pup right as they called the sunset prayer.  I had 4 of those huge curry pups the last time, this time I ate 6 so I'm pretty stuffed.  Alhamdulillah.

Curry pups

Hi Natty!  How are you?  I hope you are healthy and happy.  It's just another average day here for me.  I spent most of it in the kitchen.  I made some curry pups (also known as curry puffs) stuffing yesterday, so that's what I had for lunch: curry pups.  They're basically dough stuffed with curry flavored meat and potatoes, you can buy them from many stalls by the side of the road nowadays for 3 for RM1.  They're not very big, about the size of a small computer mouse at the most.  I can't make them that small because my hands are too big, so each one I make is at least 3 times the normal size.  It's a nice filling meal when they're that big.  I ate 4.

Sambal tumis ikan bilis scrambled eggs on pita bread

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are healthy and happy, and enjoying yourself.  I can see that you are way more social than me, especially on your birthday, so please be cautious.  Please make sure you neutralize even the slightest sensation of a cold or flu symptom immediately.  I've been so lazy lately because of pizza.  Well I am lazy, just lazier than usual.  Yeah pizza is important, but today I had to get back to doing yard work now that I've run out of cheese.  So I cut the grass in the evening.  Whenever I have to do labor, sometimes I can sound like Scarface.  Labor brings out the Scarface in me.  Maybe it's because I watched "Scarface" the other night.

Some people like to experiment with food by eating centipedes and bats, I like to experiment with simple ingredients.  Maybe it's because I'm poor.  Maybe if I had lots of money, I would start eating centipedes and bats.  Anyway, I recently made a successful batch of "sambal tumis" (chillies, onions, and "belacan" (fermented shrimp paste) blended then fried in oil until saturated) and I had some dough left over from making pizza.  So I made some pita bread.  Then I had some crunchy anchovies which were so hard because they were cheap, so I ground those up into a powder.  I refried that, added the "sambal tumis", then scrambled a couple of eggs over that.  It turned out quite well.  I also had half a chub of ground beef left over from making sausage, so I mixed that with chopped onions, cooked potatoes, salt and pepper.  I took out half of that mix then added curry powder and spices to make a mix for stuffing curry pups.  From the mix that didn't have curry, I made a couple of burger patties.  I fried those up and it turned out quite well as well, so for dinner I had a couple of beef and potato burgers.