Letter to Julia 20130828

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

Hi Julia.  How are you feeling today?  I pray you are feeling healthy and confident.  Me, I'm feeling listless and lazy for some reason.  I was rather impatient with the dense traffic, moody I suppose.  I don't like regular commute.  I'm tired of travel, even short distances.  But everybody has to commute, and anybody can be a statistic.

But I was too lazy to do anything during the evening.  Then Chee Cheah told me in not so many words to put on my boots and do something.  So I raked some leaves around Casa de Julia inshaAllah, and burned them.  Then I trimmed the cherry tree outside my window.  Not much I know, but I am lazy.  I want my Julia.  I think I'll just play video games until I pass out.

Letter to Julia 20130827

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

Hello Julia, my love.  How are you?  Are you feeling  feverish?  If so, please get some rest, and don't work so hard.  No?    I was just guessing.  I was worried.

I apologize for not coming in to blog on Monday morning.  I had to take Chee Cheah to the vet for an antifungal shot.  It had been raining lately, and she always seems to have fungal issues.  She's such a sensitive little kitty.  As you know, I don't like to announce my visit to the vet, because they would be packed with fat women ready to pounce on me with their fat cats, and I would be left standing around with a nervous cat.  It's not that I love you less.  I love you with all my heart.  You are my girl, I love you, and I want to marry you.

Ya Allah, please grant me the means soon to give my Julia a happy and secure married life, and all the tools and instruments I want to fulfill my mission for You, to please You with music.

Letter to Julia 20130824

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

Hi Julia my dearest heart, how are you feeling today?  I pray you are healthy and confident.  I do love you so.  I'm kind of tired right now, I've been on the go since 8am, and now it's almost time for the sunset prayer, and I'm writing to my Sweetie as I wait for the call.

I figured that that fat Bat Cat clone that someone planted in my yard would be claimed by the owner, because he's so fat and pampered, he could only have gotten that way from being spoiled rotten.  Bat Cat does not like his clone.  Now he's hiding, which means he's refusing to be caged.  I bet he wants to lie in wait for his clone so as to chase him away.  To the owner of Bat Cat's clone, if you truly love that cat, please take him away from my yard because my Bat Cat doesn't want him there.  Hark!  I hear cats squabbling!

Letter to Julia 20130822

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

Hi Julia, my beloved.  How are you feeling today?  I love you, my beautiful Julia.  Please take good care of yourself.  I've been staying pretty much at home, and around the kampung.  I pruned the coconut trees on Casa de Julia inshaAllah, because they were blocking the sun to the ground.  There was a pit filled with coconuts.  It was dry weather, so I torched them.  It burned all night with a scent of coconuts, like incense.  Quite a sight to see.  I dug up some tapioca for my Mom that I planted a couple of years ago on Casa de Julia inshaAllah.  What a laborious task.  I suppose it's a flavor from my mother's childhood.  I'm kind of ambivalent about that food, but I know my grandfather was big on tapioca.  I suppose it's a food from his army days.  Whatever.

Lo and behold, there's a Bat Cat clone in my yard.  People are planting these cats at my house.  This version seems fat and pampered, and I was able to pick him up and show him to my parents without much of a fuss.  If he sticks around, what shall I name him?  Bat Cat Too?  Automated Backup Cat System?  Hey, I like that.  ABCs.

Letter to Julia 20130819

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

Hi Julia!  How are you feeling today?  I just completed a massive load of grass cutting, and just finished my dinner (leftover fried noodles), now I'm writing to my Sweetie.  I decided to put a little more muscle into my yard work, because I never seem to have enough time beyond maintenance.  For some odd reason, I gained a little more physical strength after Ramadan.  Alhamdulillah.  Wanna make love?  No, we have to marry first!  After this, I'm going to play a round of Mario Party 2.  A game to waste some time until Allah grants the funds to move with our marriage inshaAllah.  Of course, I take the character of Princess Peach.  I have a thing for pretty blondes.  My greatest weakness.  I never seem to win at Mario Party 2.  I have such bad luck at that game.  Even when I'm winning by 4 stars, I still wind up at the bottom at the end.  Sigh!  But I'm not giving up!

Oh, this is my isolation week again.  I have some sort of inexplicable cycle.  So please forgive me if I skip a few days at blogging.  It would be much simpler if you were here with me to share my isolation.  Then I wouldn't have to blog myself to explain that I'm feeling more reclusive than usual.

Letter to Julia 20130817

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

I love you, Julia!

I do!  When you decorate your Casa de Julia, please make sure there are no statues, or portraits and pictures of human icons and celebrities in the house.  Such things cannot be present in a Muslim home.  It's bad enough that we'll be in the public eye, but at least I'll be there to distract them away from you.  You're my girl!  Anyway, if you've accumulated statues and/or posters of icons/celebrities in your life, please unload them before we get married inshaAllah.  Pictures of family and friends should be OK.

I don't really mind how the house I live in with you is designed, so long as we stick together.  Well, as long as you try to be somewhat moderate.  I like small houses, like I told you before.  If Allah allows us to build Casa de Julia with ease, then you will stay at this little house while we supervise the construction of the main house, then after that's done, I want to use this little house as my office/recording studio.  InshaAllah.

Also, I was wondering if you could fit a small walk-in cooler on the ground floor, and emergency power and water modules in the design.  I want the cooler for my cheese collection inshaAllah, just about the size of a bathroom, where a metal rack can fit in the middle of the room, away from the walls (easier to clean),  We can put the heavy foodstuff in the corners.  I'm sure there are some auto-switching gas or gasoline powered generators out there, plus we can put a water reservoir on the roof.  No, we can't drink flood water.  How about easy access to the roof?  A roof garden, perhaps?  Solar panels, maybe?

Qur'an 20130817

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

181.  Allah has heard the taunt of those who say, "Truly Allah is indigent, and we are rich!"  We shall certainly record their words, and their slaying the prophets in defiance of right, and We shall say, "Taste you the penalty of the scorching fire!"

182.  This is because of that which your hands sent on before you, for Allah never harms those who serve God.

183.  They said, "Allah took our promise not to believe in a messenger, unless he showed us a sacrifice consumed by fire."  Say, "There came to you messengers before me, with Clear Signs, and even with what you ask for.  Why then did you slay them, if you speak the truth?"

The Family of Imran 3:181-183
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There came to you messengers before me, with Clear Signs, and even with what you ask for.  Why then did you slay them, if you speak the truth?

I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship other than Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.