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Hi Natty!  How are you today?  Trying to regain sanity?  We're all crazy here.  Well, I hope you get a grip enough to keep social distancing amidst this pandemic.  I do that naturally of course, but tomorrow is Friday prayer and I have to be there.  Otherwise, today seemed pretty normal.  Nothing new on the menu.  In the evening, I did some burning.  There were a lot of coconut husks on the ground.  The air is still to day for some reason, but that made it a perfect day for burning.

Oh, meow?  Yeah, cats.  Cats have been with me for most of my life.  I can't seem to live without them.  They offer companionship, and they keep my house free from vermin.  And they rule the Internet.

Smoothies, huh?

Let's see what YouTube has to offer on the subject:

This one was on the top of the search results.  I don't think my stomach can handle smoothies, Natty.  I can only swallow so much fruit.  I guess I'm not as fruity as people think I am.  That's because they get me confused with Mary Unknown7.  Sure, why not?  All the easier for me to protect her.  I'll masquerade as Mary if I have to, I've done so many times already, especially to get rid of the jerks.  She's just a voice on the radio, folks.  Anyway, strawberries are expensive and sour around here.  I would have to add sugar to them, but they are available.  Watermelon is common here, and can be really sweet and juicy, but I don't know until I open them up.  Plus it would seem to me that I would have to blot out the excess water.  I guess I can try making smoothies, but I wouldn't be able to consume too much of them.  It will be mango season in 3 months time, just in time for Ramadan.  Bananas are in season all year round, and I have tons of them growing in the yard.  When I get around to making them, I'll take a photo and post it here inshaAllah.  I guess I need the practice, huh?  I don't think I can eat them, though.

For those of you who are experts at Second Life, I took these snapshots without ALM.  That's because the skirt panel changed color, and didn't match.  Some of those older clothes are really gorgeous, but you need to tweak them sometimes to get the best look and fit.

 

Ratholes

 Hi Natty!  How are you doing over there?  Are you keeping your social distancing amidst the pandemic?  Hm... the local Covid cases has increased sharply since they implemented the latest lockdown.  This tells me that people saw Perlis as a green zone and fled here, bringing the disease along with them.  But I thought that they closed the state borders!  Oh well, corruption is a workaholic.  Corruption knows no pandemic, and they don't appear to have the means to plug all the ratholes from the south.  I wonder if they're going to cancel this week's Friday prayer...

I believe the primary super spreader is large amounts of people crammed together in poorly ventilated spaces like offices, prisons, labor hostels etc.  This includes large families living together in stuffy houses.  What's the solution for that?  It can't be possible to have everyone work and live in open fields with giant fans pumping?  And just because you ventilate your space doesn't mean you're not going to get an overwhelming dose of the virus?  The most practical solution seems to be social distancing, even in personal spaces.  The offices, prisons, labor hostels may have to operate in open fields...  Oh no, it might rain again!

The McDonald's stomach

 Hi Natty!  How are you feeling today?  I hope that all is well with you, and you are healthy and safe.  How's your tummy today?  I have what I call a "McDonald's stomach", and I think you have it too.  It's basically a sensitive stomach that prefers bland foods, regardless of what your palate may want.  Namely, anything on a McDonald's menu.  I like McDonald's food, though.  There is a McDonald's here and a KFC, but if you want Subway then we would have to drive a little further.  Not bad for the Malaysian sticks.  I like to adventure and experiment with food, though.  I've always been that way, now that I have experience I can experiment and my stomach would approve too.  Not today, however.  I had steamed white rice and poached eggs with soy sauce.  Did you ever notice that whenever you go to a restaurant, you never get a choice of what condiments are available?  But you put them on your food anyway and it doesn't affect your judgment of the restaurant?  I used the cheapest soy sauce I could buy.  Oh, I also had my home made hot sauce with my dinner.  I guess I'm a rebel.  My stomach will be the judge of that.

Does your brother want me to watch "Vikings"?  Lately YouTube has been planting "Vikings" clips in my recommended videos list.  If he wanted me to watch that show then he should ask, not hint.  Hinting is for women.  Nor should he get Google to do his dirty work for him, it's the same as hinting.  I would watch that show for you Natty, but it's not on YouTube.  Oh, the series is ending?  Then I think your brother should become the next James Bond.  Which would make him the youngest James Bond ever, but that would give him plenty of time to make seven movies.  Let's pray the writers and directors are good.

Seek to please God

 Hi Natty!  How are you feeling?  Could it be that you feel that you just had your stomach cleansed, and you are tasting food again little by little, and very slowly?  That your once routine environment is washed away for you to see the hidden layers of your routine and environment?  Feeling exposed and sheltered at the same time?  It's a new same old world, a prize of wisdom.  At the end of the day, none of us really has any patience at all.  Patience is from Allah, with patience there is no panic.  If you loved me, your husband inshaAllah, it's because God made you love me.  I love you and I will marry you inshaAllah, but I marry because of Allah.  If you followed my instructions, then you followed the bidding of a man who does his best to please Allah, given the circumstance and the task he is given to do.  Please seek to please God, please yearn for heaven, and ask God to grant you patience.

Relax

 Hi Natty.  How are you feeling today?  I hope you are learning to relax.  How's your tummy?  I think pills would work better for your tummy than syrups.  Anyway, please try to stay calm.  Don't you worry about a thing, my beautiful love.  Everything is going to work out fine for us inshaAllah.  I love you with all of my heart.

My way

 Hi Natty!  How are you feeling?  Please try to stay calm.  Relax and enjoy being you!  You're beautiful, and I love you.  What's on the menu today?  Cooking isn't a competition to me, Natty Honey.  I have a little bit of knowledge, and I like to cook what I like to eat.  That's all.  I can't afford the best ingredients, but I make do with what I have and I enjoy it, so for that I am grateful.  Lunch was noodles in soup of course.  I had a chicken leg, so I fried that up first in honey, salt, and pepper before turning it into broth.  I made poached eggs for dinner again, gotta practice you know.  I got sick of following the instructions from videos from YouTube, and decided to go with my own common sense.  I used a circle mold with handle, and a small shallow pan of hot water.  I got the best results this time, and the least mess.  The temperature of the water is critical, though.  I don't use a thermometer, so I waited until small bubbles formed rapidly at the bottom of the saucepan.  I kept the mold in the water then cracked the egg into it, watched it as it cooked, separated the edge from the mold with a small knife, which was then the egg floated on its own.  As soon as it turned white all over, I immediately fished it out for a soft boiled egg.

Here are some more nice snapshots from the How does your avatar look today ? thread.