The Akeruka [AK Advanced] Bento Head V2.7 #Limited Edition

Hi Natty!  How are you?  What's going on?  Are you still keeping busy?  It must be warming up there in the mountains, it must be beautiful up there.  I really envy you that.  But the weather here has been mild lately, and I had fun things to do so alhamdulillah.  I hope you are keeping healthy, and that your life is filled with beauty and happiness.

I finally saved up enough Linden dollars to buy Mary Unknown7 the Akeruka [AK Advanced] - Bento Head V2.7 #Limited Edition.  It's actually a giveaway for one Linden but only for group members, and the membership fee was 150 Lindens, so it cost me 151 Lindens, which was all I had.  Yeah pathetic, I know.  But it's a pretty mesh head and much suited for Mary.  Check it out, this is the Catwa Freya head that she's been using lately:

And this is the Akeruka mesh head:

Big difference, huh?  It's the nose that makes most of the difference, I think.  Mary likes it so much more than the Freya head, and wants to use the Akeruka head from now on.  So I guess this will probably be the last photo session using the Freya head.  Also the white rosebud in my yard will bloom tomorrow inshaAllah, so that means the Mary's black outfit marathon is over and she will get back to wearing other colors.  Sundays are still black, of course.

Qur'an 20200618

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

11.  Say, "Verily I am commanded to serve Allah with sincere devotion."

12.  And I am commanded to be the first of those who bow to God in Islam.

13.  Say, "I would, if I disobeyed my Lord, indeed have fear of the penalty of a Mighty Day."

14.  Say, "It is Allah I serve, with my sincere devotion."

15.  Serve you what you will besides God.  Say, "Truly those in loss are those who lose their own souls and their people on the Day of Judgement."  Ah, that is indeed the evident loss!

16.  They shall have layers of fire above them, and layers below them.  With this does Allah warn God's servants: "O My servants!  Then fear you Me!"

17.  Those who eschew evil and fall not into its worship, and turn to Allah: for them is good news.  So announce the good news to My servants.

18.  Those who listen to the Word, and follow the best in it.  Those are the ones whom Allah has guided, and those are the ones endued with understanding.

The crowds 39:11-18

Happy Birthday, Mom!

I love you, Mom!

Qur'an 20200617

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

7.  If you reject, truly Allah has no need of you, but God dislikes ingratitude from God's servants.  If you are grateful, God is pleased with you.  No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another.  In the end to your Lord is your return, when God will tell you the truth of all that you did, for God Knows Well all that is in hearts.

8.  When some trouble touches man, he cries unto his Lord, turning to God in repentance.  But when God bestows a favor upon him as from Godself, he forgets what he cried and prayed for before, and he sets up rivals unto Allah, thus misleading others from Allah's Path.  Say, "Enjoy your blasphemy for a little while, verily you are of the companions of the fire!"

9.  Is one who worships devoutly during the hours of the night, prostrating or standing, who takes heed of the hereafter, and who places his hope in the mercy of his Lord...?  Say, "Are those equal, those who know and those who do not know?  It is those who are endued with understanding that receive admonition."

10.  Say, "O you servants who believe!  Fear your Lord.  Good is for those who do good in this world.  Spacious is Allah's earth.  Those who patiently persevere will truly receive a reward without measure!"

The Crowds 39:7-10

Fungus

Hi Natty!  How are you today, my beautiful Princess?  I hope you are feeling healthy and happy, and having a fabulous time.  Are you hungry?  I've been eating the same thing all day.  I went to the market early this morning.  I'm making stuffed won tons for my mother's birthday tomorrow, so I had to go early before the good stuff sold out.  So I got some fresh fish balls, and fresh tofu.  A LOT of them.  So I've been gorging on fish balls and tofu all day.  So simple!  So pure!  So good!  It has to be fresh, though...

I had to head back to town in the evening to get cable for the weed whacker, a bottle of hot sauce, and some stuff from the pharmacy.  I noticed that people were buying antifungal cream for their hands.  Yeah, people have been washing their hands more often than they ever have before.  The trouble is, there's fungus in the tap water.  If your skin keeps dry most of the time then it's not a problem, but if it's always wet...  Then it starts to itch and crack and peel, and moisturizer makes it worse...  You put antifungal cream on the itchy part, and then you go wash your hands again...  You wind up washing the medicine off your hands.  Oh, I'm not saying don't wash your hands.  I'm saying, don't wash the medicine off your hands!  And try to keep your hands dry!

Haircut

Hi Natty!  How are you, my darling?  I hope you are having a fabulous time being you.  Oh, what a time!  I finally got a haircut today!  Yeah after 3 months of lockdown, I finally got to get rid of some of this hair.  I have my mother's hair: it's thick and grows fast, so after 3 months I looked a real mess.  Well, more than a mess than usual.  I had to escort my mother to the hospital this morning.  I dropped her off at the entrance, and before I found a parking spot I went to see the barber.  My regular barber wasn't in business today for whatever reason.  So it was go-with-the-flow as usual with my life, so I set out to find a barber within my line of drive at that particular time, which was 9 am.  I ended up at a ladies' hair salon, and got my hair cut by an "auntie".  "Auntie" is local slang for adult Chinese woman.  I wasn't into any fancy hairdo or anything like that.  Ugly old man, you know what I mean?  No haircut can hide the ugly old man.  I just wanted my hair cut short to help cope with the stifling hot humid tropical climate which I so profoundly loathe.  With my regular barber, I just sat in the chair and he was done in a few minutes.  But the auntie gave me a nice looking haircut, comfortable too, and I'm quite pleased with it.

Qur'an 20200615

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

86.  Say, "No reward do I ask of you for this, nor am I a pretender."

Sad 38:86