Hi Natty! How are you feeling today? I hope you are healthy and safe, I keep seeing news that the pandemic is intensifying in California. So please try keep your distance away from people. They've implemented another lockdown in this country. Apparently another wave of the disease hit the highly populated areas, something about a mutant strain of the virus. Yeah, I knew it. Allah gave my state a break, so we're still pretty much a green zone here so alhamdulillah. The lockdown only partially applies to us.
I love noodles in soup! It must be the Asian in me, but I can eat the stuff everyday especially for lunch: it's the perfect portion. Since I discovered home made miso, my options for broth have multiplied. The Chinese and Japanese like to put pig in their broth, but I don't need that. I use chicken or beef, or sometimes no meat at all. Everyday is different with my noodle soup.
I have a lot of of yuba bean curd, known here as "pucuk" (pronounced "puchok"), right now which is basically dried up tofu skin. I break the stuff up and add it in my soup for something extra to chew on. I had some beef knuckle left over, so I used that up for my soup today. I boiled it 3 times already, but today is its last hurrah. It still made good soup! I put the yuba in too early so it fragmented (kind of like alphabet soup) but no problem, I put some more yuba in later to make up for it. I used my hot chilli miso plus seaweed today. Unfortunately, I always need to use MSG to complete the flavor, I can't seem to get away from that stuff. The anchovy bouillon I have has MSG in it, and I use as little as possible. I have one pack of ramen left and lots of rice vermicelli, so I used the vermicelli as noodles. Sometimes I crack a soft boiled egg in there, but not today. Pour the lot into my pink bowl, and top it of with dried onions, salted radish, and my home made hot sauce. I love noodles in soup!
Isn't she adorable? Such a pretty girl, and a pretty dress. I love the cape! The best part is how excited she is, it's infectious! You must be quite excited too, Natty. Please do try to keep safe, and not be tempted to socialize right now, things are exciting yeah but there's nothing to celebrate about. With all this excitement, I need to reaffirm my agenda. My orders are to stand my ground here, right here where I am now. I need to be married, so I will build a house here for my wife inshaAllah. I choose you to be my wife, Natty. I have a feeling that your bosses are influencing or are going to influence you to influence me to abandon my agenda and relocate. That is something I will not do, inshaAllah.
Hi Natty! How are you today? Aw, don't you worry about a thing my precious love, everything is going to work out just great for us inshaAllah. Everybody is busy being excited right now, so please try to stay out of sight and away from people. So from what recently happened, it goes to prove that people believe in what they want to believe. So if one told them what they want to hear, then it becomes the truth for them. And if one continued to tell them what they desire, then one would become the object of their desire. They would follow him, believe in him and become his followers. They would follow him and go to the extreme for him because they believe he is the truth. Unless the real truth becomes a problem, then he instead becomes the object of their blame.
I have no followers, because I am not a leader nor a prophet. Rather, this morning I had to go to the government pharmacy and wait along with the rest of the rabble for my mother's drugs. After that, I went to the market and saw that fish prices were too much for me to afford. In the evening I cut the grass by the side of the road, and for dinner I had a cheeseburger.
In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.
20. Say, "I do no more than invoke my Lord, and I join not with God anything."
21. Say, "It is not in my power to cause you harm, or to bring you to right conduct."
22. Say, "No one can deliver me from Allah, nor should I find refuge except in God."
23. Mine is only to convey what I receive from Allah and God's messages. For any that disobey Allah and God's messenger, for them is hell: they shall dwell therein forever.
24. At length, when they see that which they are promised, then will they know who it is that is weakest in helper, and least important in numbers.
25. Say, "I know not whether that which you are promised is near, or whether my Lord will appoint for it a distant term."
Hi Natty! How are you, my love? My, these are exciting times right? I hope you are coping well and keeping yourself safe. Just hang on to me, I'm not going to abandon you inshaAllah. I love you! It's just another average day over here, so when each day is crazy, it's really just the same old day. I try to make like a tree and stay put, and work towards building a house and life with my wife inshaAllah. Somewhere over the rainbow.
Hi Natty! How are you? I hope you are healthy and keeping safe. How's life in lovely Venice Beach? I saw a recent video of the place when it was cold and foggy out, and it looked like they really cleaned up the area. I wonder what they did with all the homeless. Anyway the New Year brings summertime to this place, and the wind becomes violent plus it gets ridiculously hot. Sure enough, the wind is powerful right now. It hasn't gotten ridiculously hot, though. Rather it's very cool, and last night it was cold. Well, I can't complain. I loathe hot weather, so alhamdulillah.
I made fried rice again today. Yesterday I forgot to put my steamed rice in the cooler, but today I didn't forget. Fried rice is best made with rice that has been sitting in the fridge overnight. Yesterday I used chicken and broccoli, but today I used crispy anchovies and cauliflower. I had plenty of anchovy bouillon, but I had no soy sauce. Even though I put fresh basil, anchovies and green hot chilli peppers in there, this turned out to be the whitest fried rice I ever made in my life. It was successful in flavor though, better than yesterday. So alhamdulillah.
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