Just another average day

 

Hi Natty!  How are you, my precious love?  Say, that pink suit looks fabulous on you!  I hope you are keeping safe and healthy over there.  It's just another average day here for me.  I spent most of it in the kitchen.  The other day I was at the grocer, and eggplant was on sale.  It was a bit shriveled, but I could still use it.  I managed to score almost 2 kilos for RM2 which is great, because usually a kilo costs RM8.  But I had to cook it up and freeze quickly, which I fried in some oil until soft but still kept its shape.  I didn't need to spice it up but I did, which was a mistake but not an extreme one.  Spicing it up put a limit on what I could do with it later.  I put a small portion in the cooler which I used over the past couple of days with grilled chicken and burger.  Today I made "sambal tumis" (blended chillies, onions and "belacan" (fermented shrimp paste) fried in oil until saturated) but with added eggplant in there.

The eggplant made the stuff closer to green than red.  It didn't help that I use green hot chilli peppers instead of red hot chilli peppers, but the green stuff is cheaper.  The eggplant made the sauce creamier, which went well with crunchy anchovies and sunny side up eggs on steamed rice.  I think it was a success, alhamdulillah.  Want some?

Vancouver

 

How are you, Natty?  Of course I worry and think of you, because I love you and I will marry you inshaAllah.  Are you still in Venice Beach?  I know you love that place, and it sure has cleaned up over there the past few days, and it looks like the movies again.  Those unwanted people have to go somewhere, though.  Check out the video above.  Isn't it so convenient that those fights took place in front of cameras?  Plus you don't have to pawn video clips like that to the major networks anymore.  Social media has a wider range and a more immediate response.  What matters to me Honey, is that you keep yourself safe and healthy until the time comes when I can fetch you inshaAllah.  Staying put at a safe and familiar place may be boring to you.  Then again, it may not be.

Qur'an 20210526

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

189.  They ask you concerning the new moons.  Say, "They are but signs to mark fixed periods of time in men and for the Hajj."  It is no virtue if you enter your houses from the back: it is virtue if you fear God.  Enter houses through the proper doors, and fear Allah, that you may prosper.

(The Heifer 1:189)

Blueberry

 

Bah, I knew it was a setup!  But there was nothing I could do about it but play along.  Hey Natty, check out the above video.  If you didn't already notice, the moment you got your Masters is when they got rid of all the homeless on the Boardwalk.  Oh, it might be a coincidence.  But this is the entertainment business.  It's not your fault Honey, it's me they're after, if that were the case.  So if anyone questioned you or gave you grief about the matter, just point to me and say, "Go ask him about it.  He is my husband inshaAllah."

Precision

 

Hi Natty!  Wassap Honey?  I hope all is well for you over there, wherever that is right now.  I just got done with dinner.  My Mom bought me some takeout rice, which is great because I didn't have to cook.  Thanks Mom!  I love you!  Yeah it's great I didn't have to cook, because I had to cut the grass.  Tomorrow is laundry day, and I want to chuck my grass cutting outfit in the wash.  There's a type of mango in the garden called a "kuinin".  I don't eat the thing, I'm turned off by the scent it's very strong.  I'm sure it doesn't lack for sweetness because my mother loves the fruit, and she is a notorious sweet tooth.  But she is sworn off mangoes this season, because they make her cough.  So the fruit fell to the ground, and there's a lot of them.  That's where I had to cut the grass.  One would think the weed whacker would spray its debris in a random fashion, but no.  All the rotten fruit went straight towards my mouth.  Now THAT is precision.

Amy Winehouse?  Only by accident.

Beauty and the Beast

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope everything is going well for you post grad, and you are having a great time.  Please keep safe and healthy for us!  I'm just kicking back here after a busy Sunday.  I just finished dinner.  Fries of course!  With a burger.  It's the simple stuff that my tummy loves.  Don't get me wrong, I love to experiment.  But lately the music has been overwhelming, and I like to have a healthy tummy to help me weather it all.

People may wonder which of the current chick singers that I like best.  First off is Aubrey Logan.  Mostly because of that trombone.  That trombone elevates her from great to greater.

Another is Angelina Jordan.  Like wow, that's a little girl!  But I said this before, child singers have a terrible time maintaining their sanity.  I don't know of any child singer who stayed active until they got old, do you?  Maybe Stevie Wonder.  I think the Got Talent circuit really messed with Angelina's heart.  Which is ironic, because Norway's Got Talent was her debut.  Angelina, this is the Internet Age!  You don't need people like Simon Cowell!  Just be yourself!

Meatballs

 

Hi Natty!  How are you , Honey?  Keeping busy?  Please keep yourself safe and healthy.  I love you!  It would be another average day here for me, but I've been short on sleep because I'm suddenly into doing some programming.  Just out of the blue, I guess.  So I'm tired and slightly cranky, but I can't fall asleep because my mind is active.  I planned to make curry pups for dinner but when the time came to cook, I just couldn't be bothered.  I bought takeout lunch today for the same reason.  So I had ground beef and potatoes ready, instead of curry pups I made beef and potato meatballs.  I hardly ever make meatballs.  The only times I made meatballs was when I had some of my home made halal beef sausage ready (from making pizza) to roll into meatballs to plop into simmering hot marinara sauce and use as spaghetti sauce.  My beef and potato meatballs were OK.  Needs some fine tuning, but acceptable as they are.  Do you eat meatballs?

Oh!  I need a nap!  Gotta go!

There were some collisions at the wrists with Mary's outfit today, but these snapshots were so good I had to keep them, imperfections and all.