The Great Malaysian Burger Patty War

 Hi Natty!  How are you today, my love?  I hope all is well with you, and you are enjoying yourself.  Have you been dabbling in the kitchen?  You should invite friends over, cook together, and make a party out of the occasion!  Just make sure everyone is virus free.  I had to learn how to cook by myself or rather, Allah taught me.  I made mushburgers for dinner today.  Yeah, I found some nice oyster mushrooms while buying fish this morning.  So I fried some of those up with some diced red hot chilli peppers, and put it on my cheeseburger.  I used a couple of those burger patties I bought the other day.  It tastes different from the popular brand I usually buy (which I won't name here), but it isn't bad.  It's a bit lean.  I need to add grease in the pan when cooking it.  That popular brand is obviously sold out at a higher price all over this country.  If any of you folks want to get in on the burger patty market here, then heed my advice: don't use just lean meat.  The meat blend of that popular brand has fat and gristle in it, plus I found some bone fragments as well.  You can't eat bone, but it sure tastes good.  If any of you guys want me to come up with a minced beef blend for you, just make me an offer.  And be sure you have a powerful meat grinder.

Paperless

 Hi Natty!  How are you?  I hope you are in beautiful, clean surroundings, and your health is excellent.  I just spent the evening driving around and running errands.  Oh my God, there's a lot of traffic out there.  I had to go make a bank deposit to pay my Internet bill, because my ISP is going with paperless receipts.  They had been bugging me to pay the bill online for a while already, so I have to concede because there's no point of paying cash if I don't get a receipt.  Sure the world is going paperless (except the government and legal systems, of course) but I like those paper receipts so I can keep track of my tax files.  I recently took a liking to local coffee, and I had to drive far to find my favorite brand.  Then my usual brand of burgers has gone missing: actually I saw a whole freezer full of the stuff at the big supermarket, with the price jacked up by over 50%.  But in response, a couple of new brands have popped up so I bought a couple of packs of that.  Anyway. I'm going to finish my dinner now.  Curry pups.  Yeah I know, the same old stuff.  I like my routine because it's convenient, and my stomach likes it too.  I love you!

A pile of skulls

 Hi Natty!  How's it going?  Are you staying busy?  Just because you're in Vancouver, doesn't mean that you can't do world class business.  This is the Internet Age!  I'm certain that the environment there is much better than Los Angeles.  The air is nice and clean here too, and the local government puts in much effort to keep the environment clean.  It's one of the few selling points of this poor and small state.  Lord knows how much I despise the city.  Thus God placed me here to do music business.  Even though I don't make any money nor am I allowed to ask for money, other people get to make a living out of the effort I put in everyday with all due faith.  It's both a crying shame and a pile of skulls.  Anyway I'm short on time and I can't bring fatigue into my work, so I have to cut down on labor.  Instead of making my own curry, I bought some curry from the corner restaurant.  Just the gravy.  I had a lot of boiled potatoes from yesterday, so I reheated the gravy and dumped some potatoes in there.  I cooked it until the potatoes soaked up the curry, and I ate that with home made fry bread for lunch.  I had a lot of potato curry left, so I had that for dinner too.  This time I strained all the potatoes out and put them back in the cooler for making curry pup stuffing, then added diced chicken and tofu into the gravy and poured it onto steamed rice.  Saved money, too.  The sad part is if I did have money, I would still go this route in order to save on labor.

Cold, green and clean

 Hmmm... looks cold, green and clean.  It must be Vancouver.  That's what I think, at least.  That road sign looks American.  Canada uses metric, right?  Drivers can't be crawling around at 25 kmh.  I don't know.  If you're back in Vancouver, then I'm happy.  I'm glad you're away from California and the US.  It looks like you're relaxed and enjoying yourself, and with fun friends.  Alhamdulillah.

It's cold and wet here, and I'm happy about that.  No sweltering, and no yard work!  The rain hasn't stopped since this morning, and I can't even take the trash to the dumpster.  Instead, I cooked my dinner slowly.  I made curry pups because I had planned to cut the grass, but that didn't happen.  It's meatier than your lovely salad, but I like it.  Anyway, please take care and have fun!  I love you!

The new Boss Cat

 Yes Honey, that was an awesome PSA that you made, and I wholeheartedly support your cause!  You are beautiful and you did a great job, Natty.  Congratulations.  In order to pressure big business, you have to own the consumer.  So use and endorse...

I don't go much of anywhere and if I did, I usually use the motorcycle.  My cats are the ones that get to stay at home 24/7, I have to go out and buy food.  Floofy used to be the boss cat in the house but since she died, her daughter Lookie now holds that position.  Lily and Bro spend most of their time on top of the closet, so the rest of the house belongs to Lookie.  Her mother was a bully, so Lookie is a bit of a nervous cat.  I hope she learns how to relax, now that there's no one opposing her.

Saturday

 Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope all is well with you, and you are healthy.  It's Saturday here today, and I had an active morning so I'm tired.  I just want to relax.  Today's menu is unremarkable.  I actually ate breakfast this morning.  Just some takeout rice which no local would ever get excited about.  Lunch was ramen, and dinner was more of the morning's takeout rice which I refried as fried rice to go along with some chicken cooked in soy sauce that my mother gave me.  Well, I think I'll take a nap before the sunset prayer.  Take care, my precious!  I love you!

I love Mary Unknown7's princess Leia hairdo!  It's a bit primitive (and purple) but I really like it.  I've had her wear on many occasions, I think it suits her.

The feelings of death and homelessness

 Something is happening.  Floofy's death brought that feeling to me, of death and having to deal with it, and it hasn't gone away.  Some other incident brought about that feeling of homelessness, and of how unstable reality is.  People are generally afraid of such matters but I have experienced those before, and I am not really afraid of it per se.  It's more like that I don't want to have to deal with it.  But we all have to deal with it, and that makes the feelings of death and homelessness to be spiritual awareness.  Isn't spiritual awareness supposed to be some sort of peaceful feeling?  There is no peace in this life.  The peace is in making peace with what you fear, and confronting it with as little emotion as possible.  Some might say that we cling to the earth over the hereafter.  It's not that for me: I want the hereafter so much more than this world.  But I have so much more work to do to earn my place in heaven.  And you Natty, you are a reason to live.

Let's talk about dinner.  I made chicken tenders for dinner.  Just a simple recipe: slice the chicken into thin strips, coat in flour then egg then breadcrumbs, then fry it up.  Ah, you like chicken tenders!  You can find them at most restaurants in the West.  My difference is that I don't overcook them.  You know what I mean: right when pink turns to white.  Plus, eat them while they're hot!  They're so good!

Here's a really nice snapshot from the last page of the How does your avatar look today ? thread.  It's taken by a newbie, but that only means she's a newbie to the forums.  Second Life noobs seem to be more prepared nowadays.  Check out that hair!  Isn't that nice detail?