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Oh.. Well

I have not even opened this page for many months. I want to start writing here again, more regularly. I miss here, and sometimes, I really need to explain some of my feeling in English, and by the way I need to find more friends in English world. I thought about uploading my school projects or paper here or at least an abstract of them, as some of them are really long, but I am not sure yet.
About a month ago, I decided to change The Acorn to my photoblog page, but it never happened, as I want to add a new page for my photos, and by the way, do my photos really need a page?
I have never been an artist in any direction; not in music, drawing, painting or capturing the moments.

It is Thursday, December 13, 2007 and nobody is in the office. Holiday is right in the corner and nobody wants to be here. My coworkers found their excuses to leave the office, but I have to wait till 4:30 to go directly to the school. I have to turn to final projects today and the big final for this stupid class is coming next Tuesday, then I will have eleven days off at work and January will be a whole new chapter in my life. I can not wait to tell you.

Be Back! Soon.

Ghor Ghor

My schools schedule is sucks! Like last two years. I am taking a Circuit Weights class at 6 am. It means I have to wake up 5 am two days a week.
What in the Earth you think I am taking dance class? I practice three hours last night. Salsa! And I miss my last Saturday class as I thought the class will start this week.

I cam to work today and wish I could quit my job; I do like my job, but sometime is getting very frustrating. I know it is just the first week of new schedule and it is my normal nags!

I have a lot to write about. I just don’t know where to start! Have you ever design a booth for a fair? That’s what I m searching for now as my cousin, who is a professional photographer will present his work on a local fair and I m in charge of design! I took the task voluntarily, but it is not that much fun as I thought!

I may decorate the booth with white and yellow satin and flower. My sister is an interior designer, but she is so expensive! If I finish the project, I will post some picture of it here.

My beloved dad will come back tonight. I am going to pick him up from airport after my stupid biology class tonight; can’t wait to see what will he bring!

Sunday is For Relaxing

1. Shower
2. Breakfast in Mom’s house
3. Grocery Shopping
4. Cleaning the house
5. Working on my conference project
6. Buying school’s book online
7. Making lunch for tomorrow
8. Costco ( before 5 pm)
9. Call some friends
10. Email vacation pictures to some friends
11. and…

Sweet Home!

I know I have to be more active, actually much more active, in my English blog. I can not even remember the last time I post something here. However I started bloging as a way to communicate with new generation of Iranians, but since I got the English version of my acorn, I promise to update both together; A premise which I could not keep.
Sometimes I have strange feelings about English in speaking and writing. It may sound odd to express my feeling with my second language only after being here, in the US, for three years, but I feel much more comfortable to come here and write in English in some situation especially when it comes to my personal life.
Anyway. I just came back from my vacation to my sweet and lovely home here in Sacramento, California. After staying a week in Deauvile, our hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, it is very relaxing to lying on my old coach and type while Vahid is snoring from bedroom. Life is so sweet these days and I am happy.
I know I have to come back work and school Monday again, but it was a short freshment that I really needed.
We had had plan for Miami since last year, but Vahid used all his vacation time last year in his knee surgery and we only took a three day short rout trip to Mendocino, which was good by the way.
Miami was hot and wild. There was something on the air! I was in Hawaii two years ago. In Hawaii everything is peaceful and nice, blue and calm, but Miami is completely in the other side. Hot and wild young boys and girls, who walk, laugh, eat and drink and enjoy their life. I tried to act young too! It was great to walk with bikini on the street and look over sunglass to those hot and handsome Cuban young men However South Beach is famous for its gay’s community and most of those handsome boys looked at Vahid instead of me!
We had chance to visit Florida’s Key too. They are awesome. Those entire small island which connected by bridge and Key West is their masterpiece.
Orlando was too girlish for me. I am not Disney kind of person. I don’t know most of their character and I just found it very blue and pink, boys speared. Girls speared. I don’t know what is wrong with white?

Shirin Ebadi

It was a cold day in Turkey; autumn had started weeks ago. My dad turned the radio on. I was eating my breakfast, Ekmek, a famous Turkish bread, and butter, praying he would turned the radio off. It was a talk show and I did not want to start my day with endless political arguments. The speaker was excited, happy, and congratulated others. For a second I couldn’t believe what I heard. I didn’t even know her nominee. The speaker repeated over again the quote from Norway’s governor speaker that Norway's Nobel Committee handed a platform to a courageous Iranian voice; Shirin Ebadi.
I wanted to be back in Tehran among my friends, the women who put all their passions for other women, and happy cry with them. In that moment, I hated myself because escape and didn’t continue fighting. I hated myself. She did it. Why couldn’t I be strong and stay?
I could not stop my tears. Mom and Dad stared at me quizzically. I got one of my beloved poet’s, Forough Farokhzad, book, put on my jacket and left the house. I had two opposite feeling in me. On the one side, I was so happy, not just because of the Nobel Prize, but because finally somebody was paying attentions to other problems not only political issues in Iran. I was happy for Ms. Ebadi and this respectful recognition. I was happy as a woman, as an Iranian Woman. On the other hand, I felt guilty, so guilty as I left the country and did not keep on fights there. I was sad, as I had preferred my family and education more than being in the scene.
Years after that cold morning in October 2003 in Turkey and my hours of walking and crying, I still remember my thoughts. I remember how I solaced myself; “she did it, you can do it. Not for the Nobel Prize, but you can make your country a better place to live for your women.” Still after all these years I daily remind my self of those thoughts.

Bad Bad Bad News

Iran-Emrooz,Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 04, 2007
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news1/12208/

50 of the women's rights movement activists were arrested in front of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran.

The security police forces attacked a peaceful gathering of women's rights activists that had taken place at 8:30 am in front of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran in objection to the recent governmental oppressions and the summoning of some of these activists. The police forces who used violence to scatter the crowd, arrested at least 21 of the protesters.

According to the report published by Advar News, the list of the arrested is as follows:

Asieh Amini, Jila Bani Yaghoub, Mahboubeb Abbasgholizadeh, Mahboubeh Hosseinzadeh, Sara Loghmani, Zara Amjadian, Mariam Hossein Khah, Jelveh Javaheri, Niloofar Golkar, Parastoo Dokoohaki, Zeinab Peyghambarzadeh, Maryam Mirza, Saghar Laghayee, Khadijeh Moghaddam, Saghie Laghayee, Nahid Keshavarz, Mahnaz Mohammadi, Nasrin Afzali, Tal'at Taghinia, Fakhri Shadfar, Maryam Shadfar, Elnaz Ansari, Fatemeh Govarayee, Azadeh Forghani, Sommayeh Farid, Minoo Mortezayee, Sara Imanian.

Nooshin Amhadi Khorasani, Parvin Ardalan, Shahla Entesari and Susan Tahmasebi—five prominent members of the women's rights movement—who had to attend their court hearing left the court session in support of their fellow activists. They, too, got arrested upon their departure from the court.

The police officers hit Nahid Jafari's head to the police van and as a result of such violent actions, her teeth broke and the officers are currently refusing to take her to the emergency room.

Source: Azadeh Poorzand

Monday January 8, 2007

Dear James,

The cycle of my disappointment is getting smaller and smaller. These days, more than before, I am thinking about future, my school, job, and money.
When kids graduate form high schools and are fresh in colleges, they think about changing the world and some of them really do, but when I have to start all over again in my 25th it is getting harder to think like that. I live in real world more than my drams. I went to three majors till now, civil engineering, low, and sociology. I love the major I study now. It is the best fit for my interest. But the question is what can I do with for example BA in sociology? I do want to continue to get my PHD in it, but life is not as easy as typing. I wish getting to that is as much as easy as talking about that. Vahid is still not sure too. I feel responsible for thinking about that too.
We are 25. I know we are young, healthy and having long journey ahead, but…

These days, more than any other days, I wanna do something with my hand. I am tired of these damn computers. I wanna do something in real world. Auto mechanic, plumbing, carpeting, nursing, walk dogs, or just do something outdoors.

It is my dream to have a small café, but I want to keep this dream for my retirement. I use to have a friend who told me in my cycles that I am not in race with my self nor anybody else.
It is stupid to think being a milliner in one night. I know that, but also I want to know my path is going to a safe and secure financial place.

Lets make some coffee….

Thursday January 04, 2007

Dear James,

Saddam Hussein was executed in last days of 2006 in Iraqi’s custody. One of the audiences shot the scene by his cellur phone and now that video is the second most visited video by google in its history. Such a violence lovers! (even I put the video in my Farsi blog).
I am against execution for anyone. It doesn’t matter if he was a dictator. I think nobody in the world has the power to get others lives. No matter what he did to humanity, death was not a good punishment. Lots of people say that death was an easy punishment to him and he should suffer more. I do not agree with this. I believe his alive could be more beneficiary for the world and for Iraqi’s people.
He was judged and condemned in an Iraqi’s court and he was found guilty for some of his crimes, including killing his people with chemical bombardment in Halabja and for his crimes against Kurds. Have you ever notice that nobody mentions his crimes against Iran during eight years war? (1980-1988).
He attacked Iran and in eight years millions of troops were killed in both sides. On that time UK and US were his big partners. He got his bombs and chemical weapons from Europe and the US. We still have kids born with cancer in those areas. Who is respond for that?
I cannot blame only him. It was Iranian government too who didn’t stop the war in the time they could, but why there is no picture of Saddam and Rumsfeld anywhere in TVs or news? Even I can remember US was his big partner before his 1990’s attack to Qatar.
I think the court went so fast. For me it seems some powers want to shut him as soon as possible. Some powers did want him to be silence.
Saddam was executed, but are the memories of people executable?

James Correction:

Dear James,

Saddam Hussein was executed in last days of 2006 in Iraq’s custody. One of the audiences shot the scene by his cellular phone and now that video is the second most visited video by google in its history. People are such lovers of violence. I am against execution for anyone. It doesn’t matter if he was a dictator. I think nobody in the world has the power to get this should be to take other’s lives. No matter what he did to humanity, death was not a good punishment. Lots of people say that death was an easy punishment to him and he should suffer more. I do not agree with this. I believe his being alive could be more beneficial Iraq’s people.
He was judged and condemned in an Iraq court and he was found guilty for some of his crimes, including killing his people with chemical bombardment in Halabja and for his crimes against Kurds. Have you ever notice that nobody mentions his crimes against Iran during eight years war? (1980-1988).
He attacked Iran and in eight years millions of troops were killed in both sides. In that time UK and US were his big partners. He got his bombs and chemical weapons from Europe and the US. We still have kids born with cancer in those areas. Who is responsible?
I cannot blame only him. It was the Iranian government, too, who didn’t stop the war in the time they could, but why there is no picture of Saddam and Rumsfeld anywhere on TV or in the news? Even I can remember the US was his big partner before his 1990’s attack on Qatar.
I think the court went too fast. For me it seems some powers want to shoot him as soon as possible. Some powers did want him to be silenced.
Saddam was executed, but can the memories of the people be erased??

January 2nd, 2007

Dear James,
Happy 2007. I wish peace and love not only for you, but also for our old, tired world.
We went to the City for New Year Eve and it was a great experience. I enjoy being among people, lots of people, and it was one of the best nights I spend in the City. You know how much I love SF, so no wonder it is always fun for me to be there.
mmm…what else? I came to work today after ten days and it is not easy. However I wish I writer more for you and you have more time for me.
Have you and Megan seen Match Point by Woody Allen yet? It is in my “ have to see” list. How about sitting together and watch that probably this week?

Wednesday December 27, 2006

Dear James,

Good Evening. We love to accept you invitation for watching a movie. I remember last time, we enjoyed Big Hug Day. Our classes will start January 16, so we can make it at least twice before that. Let me know any free time may be for next week.
Oh, remember I told you about Judy Abbott and Daddy- Long- Leg? Here
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy-Long-Legs_%28novel%29) you can read more about her character. Daddy- long- Leg was my favorite cartoon when I was a teenager. You know teenager girls. They all are waiting for their handsome and wealthy prince.
I also ordered Funny in Farsi, the book I told you about Iranian family in the US, through Amazon today. It will ship between 4 to 14 business days. Please let me know whenever you receive it. You can take that as my New Year’s gift. I am sure you will enjoy the book.
Let me know your free time for our movie night.

Regards,

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