PersEternity

Cyprus

2007-10-12T14:53:00.001+03:30

Oh! I'm gonna visit Cyprus, the four season country soon... stay tuned!!!!

The Alley

2007-09-18T23:25:00.001+03:30

On a moonlit night, once again
Through the alley, I wandered, without you.
My body, an eye gazing in search of you.
My soul, a cup teeming with anticipation
Of seeing you,Now, I became the mad lover, anew!

Deep in my soul’s treasure-chest,
A flower, your memory, gleaming.
The garden of a thousand memories, smiling.
The scent of a thousand memories, beaming.

That night, I recalled,
Through the alley, we wandered, side by side.
Wings wide-open, in cherished solitude, soaring.
For a time, by the brook, resting.
You, all the world’s secrets in your black eyes,
I, by your glances, mesmerized.
Clear skies, quiet night,
Faith smiling, time tame.

Moonlight, grapes pouring down into the water.
Tree branches, fingers reaching up to the moon.
The night, the meadow, flowers and rocks,
Silently charmed by the nightingale’s song.

Your words of warning, I recalled,
Avoid this love!
Behold this brook for a while!
Water mirrors timid love.
Today, you care for a glance of your lover,
But, tomorrow, your heart will belong to another.
Leave this town,
Forget this love.

How would I avoid this love,
I do not know how, I said.
How would I leave your side,
I can not now, nor ever, I said.
That first day, my heart became a bird of desire.
Like a dove, I perched on your roof,
Rocks, you cast at me,
I did not fly away.
I did not fall apart.

A prairie deer am I, you the hunter.
Round your traps I wander and wander,
For to be captured by you, to surrender.

How would I avoid this love,
I do not know how, I said.
How would I leave your side,
I can not now, nor ever, I said.

From a branch, a teardrop, falling.
A bitter moan, an owl, flying.
Tears in your eyes, gleaming.
Moon, at your love, beaming.

You fell silent, I recall.
Covered by a blanket of gloom,
I did not fly away. I did not fall apart.

Many a night have passed in melancholy darkness.
You have abandoned your tormented lover.
You would not set foot in that alley again.
Oh, but how, but how,
Through the alley, I wandered, without you.
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Poem by Fereydoon Moshiri
Translated from Persian to English by Faranak Moshiri, Fall 1997

Arabia...Jeddah, Medinah 'n Mecca

2007-09-04T00:33:00.000+03:30

I'm a Hajji...

2007-09-04T00:21:00.000+03:30

Still cannot believe that I am back... It was just like a dream... A very pleasant trip to Arabia... I stayed there for almost two weeks a week in Medinah and another six days in Mecca and spent a day in Jeddah. I am a Hajji now... Sooooooooooooooo Happy!! Yesterday, it was my B-Day... Yay!! Happy Birthday Hajji Soheil ;)

"...."

2007-08-13T22:43:00.000+03:30

I don't know what to say for now!!! Leave me alone my moon... show me your real side... show me...

Truth

2007-08-08T12:28:00.001+03:30

I am worried, I am in love, I am afraid, I am in love, I am anxious, I am in love, I am ambitious, I am in love, I am striving for good, I am in love, I love being in love, I love being great, I am in love, I love looking at your eyes, I love kissing your scarlet lips, I am in love, I love to hold you in my arms, I am in love, I love making my future with you, I am in love, I love being in love, I love to cry with you, I love to laugh with you, I love YOU no matter what else I love...

F**K+ing

2007-08-07T09:03:00.000+03:30

If you ever wanted to f**k someone please let him know before you screw his ass!

Friends never f**k with each other's business!

so why is she f**king me so bad???????????????

yet, I LOVE YOU

Mecca

2007-07-19T14:03:00.000+03:30

Mecca and Hajj!!! I'm getting ready in order to go to Hajj in early August... Time to pray :) I'm really excited and can't wait to see Mecca. I've never been to Saudi Arabia so I hope it goes well and full of joy and prayers. I'll be a Hajji after coming back home. Wow, it is going to be a fabulous experience... God bless you all people and I... I will pray for your prosperity, health, love, joy, success and whatever good is in this world of matter!!!!!! I'll be in Arabia for two weeks; spending a week in Mecca and another week in Medina. I'd be glad to hear from those who have been to Mecca and Hajj before. GIVE ME HINTS

Campain to defend women's rights defenders

2007-06-20T08:46:00.000+03:30

Take action by signing the petition HERE

Goodbye Tony...

2007-06-14T09:23:00.000+03:30

It was really sad watching Sopranos ending!! It was a great drama series by David Chase. But did you know that its singer is a woman with an Iranian descent? Surprised? I found a couple of links about Darya Dadvar, The Sopranos singer :)

1- http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=darya+dadvar

2- http://dadvardarya.free.fr/

What does it mean to die?

2007-06-12T16:36:00.000+03:30

Hm! I am concluding that I have been doing vigorous blogging in last several months!!! Well, that apparently doesn't tell that I'm dead! I'm alive, yet; breathing!!! But what does it really mean to die? Have you ever thought of such topic?

God, give us each our own death,
The dying that proceeds
From each of our lives:
The way we loved,
The meanings we made,
Our need.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Gosh, don't think that I wanna die, but I'd rather to think about dying before it happens :)

aha, um, I really don't know what the hell is going wrong with me!!!! Yet, there's a whole lot of happiness left around us. . . But, let me tell you my opinion about death: As long as I am breathing, I have an eternity and as soon as I die, I won't know what will happen next! :D

LIVING LIFE IS GREAT

Chabahar

2007-02-11T22:56:00.000+03:30

Last week I went to Chabahar free trade zone for the first time in my life. You may wonder how fabulous was this free port. Its name in Farsi means four springs! The weather was great, not as humid as Dubai or Doha and not as dry as Las Vegas . . . The sea food was wonderful and people were very kind... Frankly, I highly recommend Chabahar, if you are living in Iran and you are seeking for a unique place to spend your vacations. . .

Bon ...?

2007-02-03T23:46:00.000+03:30

Today, I spent a day out with a couple of my friends. We had a great time together!!! Sorry! The picture is some how weird . . .

Beep . . .

2007-01-24T10:19:00.000+03:30

Did you know that I'm still waiting to see your smile? I'm not a rubberneck, but tell me what's wrong with you ... PLEASE ... It is really horrible the way that your dearest friend sometimes don't have time for you ... Gosh, this pain is just too real ... I wish, I could tell you how much I love and care about you ...

Minutes ago ....

2007-01-15T01:32:00.000+03:30

Some minutes ago I sent a sentence via my cell phone to one of buddies. After just a few seconds; I realized it was a terrific sentence! Here it is: I'm fine now and having a tangible breath because I have realized that I have such a great friend (?)(!) Well, I suppose that you don't think I ridicule at everything lol ... (The sentence is ridiculous not my buddy)

<== :D

2007-01-10T16:04:00.000+03:30

I AM BACK

Shhh ...

2006-07-24T13:49:00.000+03:30

I am a bit bored with my weblog, because it seems that it is becoming a photo blog! Recently I feel that I have lost my impetus or in other words my motivation to write! Maybe it is some sort of the process of becoming a "young adult" ... So, is it really tough to take over these situations? Some times I feel being embarrassed about myself just because "others" didn't like it! Another possibility is that my interpretations are some how different from the ones who ordinary people (from my perspective) may have and a whole bunch of other possibilities!!! Aw, possible is ... I really have no clue about its meaning; what I can say is that "possible is possible" .

Save the Lebanese Civilians

2006-07-22T22:23:00.000+03:30

People vs People

2006-07-14T22:11:00.000+03:30

For the time being I am so confused! Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iran; Who's responsible for those being killed in Palestine and Israel? Those are all innocent people regardless of being Jewish, Muslim, or Christian. Why this innocence is unable to make a stable friendship between the Muslim and Jewish states?

Soccer 'n Hot

2006-07-13T15:10:00.000+03:30

Oh my goodness, how's soccer in a hot weather with hot fellows?

Folks

2006-07-09T13:34:00.000+03:30

My Iranian Friends! No Comment!

A Night Out

2006-07-04T16:23:00.000+03:30

Ho LaLa!!!! This week I spent a whole night out of my place with a group of friends. It was great!! The interesting feature was that we had a car accident! Where? In streets of Iran! Practically there were no police at the time of our accident to take care of the scene. So we had to move our car to a side and disturb the scene since the street was blocked! We wait almost 2 hours for a police to come. He (The Police) came out of his "Mercedes-Benz" (Police cars in Iran are mostly the German made C class Mercedes-Benz), so relax just like nothing has happened! Although it really seemed that nothing had happened because we moved our car and what he was seeing was just a "piece of crap"!!! Almost an hour later (7:30 AM) the insurance company representative came and started to make some analysis about what had happened... Let's wrap it up we took our car to an auto sometime around 1 PM ...!!

Heritage!

2006-06-30T14:56:00.000+03:30

What is going in this ... World?? Selling out world heritages to people????!!!!!!!!! I always knew that's something is wrong with Midwest but not to this extent!!!! I cannot understand why!! What's the problem? Click here for full details. Source: Baztab News

Iranians' World Cup

2006-06-13T13:32:00.000+03:30

Iranian way in soccer! Aw, it was horrible the way Iranians played against Mexico. I cannot believe the last two goals by Mexicans yet. Ivankovic's players were doing perfectly good in the first half but they did very bad in the second half as they become satisfied with 1-1 result. Is it going to be the same in Iranian foreign policy and other important issues related to Iranians? I mean do the Iranians want to give up on everything in 2 minutes, just linke sunday and lose 3-1 to Mexico? Yeah?! I like soccer because there's no determination in it and no one is winner or loser up until the end of the match; and you've the opportunity to win over any opponent if you want to! I wish my ancestors' country wins in its next matches against Portugal and Angola... Viva Iran... I want to draw your attention to the following which is MEXICO-IRAN Coaches' Quotes:

Ricardo LA VOLPE (MEX)Despite the goal, we were tense and nervous in the first half. The opening game in the World Cup is never easy and the players know that. We started to play a bit after the break. We had to reorganise ourselves at half-time and make some necessary changes, and that helped us clinch the win. If we can play like we did in the second half, with a solid back-line and a balanced formation, we can go far in this tournament. Oswaldo Sanchez showed us that you have to take important decisions in life sometimes. He went to Mexico to his father's funeral, and spoke to his family in Guadalajara because he wanted to be with us, and there he was. I'm sure his father, wherever his is, gave him plenty of backing and support for this game and the others that are coming up.

I had no doubts about the team's ability to play with the same rhythm for 90 minutes and to keep going right to the end. I'd like to thank the presidents of the clubs in Mexico and their directors for releasing all the players and giving us plenty of time to prepare them for the tournament.

Branko IVANKOVIC (IRN)I'd like to congratulate Mexico for their win, for the way they played and because they capitalised on the opportunities we gave them.

Some of our players need a little more international experience, and that was evident today with the defensive errors that we made. When you make individual errors you pay dearly for them, but thatÂs something that can happen to any team. It's just part of the game. In the second half we went on the attack more. We controlled possession for long periods and stopped Mexico from creating chances.

Now we've got another hard task in front of us. We're not out of this, but we have to pick the players up mentally and get them ready for Portugal. They're a very experienced side, and experience is invariably what you need to win the World Cup.

**Picture: At their newspaper's office, two Iranian female journalists watch Iran's national soccer team match against Mexico during World Cup, in Tehran, Iran. Iran on Sunday lost 3-1 to Mexico in their soccer World Cup match, held in Nuremberg, Germany. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) Copyright: AP

STD and Life

2006-06-07T09:27:00.000+03:30

I want to quote the following and hear your opinion, Yeah!! This can become a rumor amongst naturalist/materialist! "Life is a sexually transmitted disease". The sexually transmitted diseases are so called as "STD"s; and "Life" might be/is listed as one of the STDs ...

Let's be serious, these diseases are spreading in Asia and basically all over the globe so fast. We've got to rule ABC (Abstinece, Be careful and use of Condoms) in our day-to-day life. For some stats and information you may go through the links below:

http://www.ashastd.org/learn/learn_statistics.cfm

http://www.stdjournal.com/

http://www.womenshealth.gov/faq/stdsgen.htm

Heights of Revenge

2006-06-01T00:05:00.000+03:30

I have received these funny pictures through an e-mail with a subject as "Heights of Revenge" ... Yeah, time consumption and the twenty first century has yielded me to have such a post?! Well, I try to be frank and say: I really love these pics and honestly don't know why!!!! Is there any possibility that it is because of globalization?! Seriously, why we like some features of life, nature, ... without knowing "why" we like them???!!! I don't like complexity under any circumstances. But, when something seems to be simple it is practically hard and as things get simpler, they dramatically become hard! May be it is just hard for us to "change" ... Why is that so??

Story

2006-05-24T11:10:00.000+03:30

One of my friends (Hazhir Rahmandad) back to Cambridge, Massachusetts; has written an article about his adventures of getting re-entry visa in order to come back to America and ..., I strongly suggest you to read his article as he has mentioned some strong aspects of the difficulties Iranian nationals face in the north american continent just because they are "Iranian".

To read the complete story you may Click Here

Yahoo! 360°

2006-05-23T11:43:00.000+03:30

It is some time that people are blogging on Yahoo! 360 !!! It is quiet strange for me, because the link that you have to know to reach people's blogs on Yahoo! 360 is almost a meter long!!! The other point which worths to mention is that it is getting so popular amongst Yahoo! users; despite the fact that it has limited tools. One obvious problem with this kind of blogging (my own opinion) is that you cannot live comments unless you are a Yahoo! member... and this way, probabely you cannot have your desired impact over your blog viewers ...

Hell ...

2006-05-16T14:03:00.000+03:30

Aw!!! It is some time that I am stocked in the middle of a friend storm!! I have done everything in order to be nice, caring, trustable, ... basically being a good friend!!!! But my "friend" doesn't understand! What I am supposed to do?! That she becomes happy??????????????????

Letter

2006-05-13T23:45:00.000+03:30

You have definitely heard about the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter which he sent to US President, George W Bush!!! ... And he has given some advises from a religious perspective ... He has asked President Bush to be the good guy! I agree; and I say : Mr President; please be the good guy for the people of the world and stick into diplomacy ever since there is a chance for it. Many critics say that it is a signal for a more active diplomacy.

Paint Ball

2006-05-11T23:52:00.000+03:30

Tonight we went to play "Paint Ball", it was the best game I have ever played!!!

Btw, could you also take a look at Parinaz's page and leave her a comment or give her a feedback on her questions about what is life, etc !!!

Beer

2006-05-11T09:36:00.000+03:30

Have you ever tried a non-alcoholic beer? It tastes good and I liked it a lot. If you can get any kind of non-alcoholic beverages, I strongly suggest you to try it; it is better!!! Although, I know that there are some people who cannot have a drink without the taste of alcohol !! And about the picture; it is a an Iranian non-alcoholic drink named Behnoush, it was extremely good and had all the properties of an alcoholic drink except it was non-alcoholic!!!!! Have fun over the weekend ...

Las Vegas

2006-05-10T12:01:00.000+03:30

Ooooh!! Vegas! I love being in Las Vegas for its neon lights shining during the dark! What I really feel strange about Vegas are its gambling machines ... When you get out of the plane and you are just on your way to enter the terminal, they show up!! It is wonderful ...

Oasis

2006-05-05T23:58:00.001+03:30

You may wonder that I experienced being in an oasis! Oh! Please neglect my presence at the picture just pay your attention to the scenery, it is was wonderful ... I appreciate if you live me your comments about what you see. Thus, I'll be able to take better pictures in future.

Don't Attack Iran

2006-05-03T13:55:00.000+03:30

If you want to sign the petition against the military intervention in Iran Click Here

DHL

2006-05-03T11:09:00.000+03:30

What's going on?! I have just become aware that DHL-USA (Click Here) has suspended all its activities in Iran. This means that we cannot use DHL to send/receive packages from Iran. Do you think it is a part of pressure which US imposes over the regime in Iran to stop nuclear enrichment or simply wants to disconnect Iranians with the rest of the world?!!!

Argument

2006-05-02T13:52:00.000+03:30

I want to start an argument! Is the mathematics itself some thing other than scientific notation? I like to proceed this way that mathematics is like a mirror and has reflective properties. It is like a machine where its input is the physical universe and the output is a logical translation that is free of Change! I can only plead the argument of Lord Kelvin:

I often say that you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of Science, whatever the matter may be.

Cancer

2006-05-01T00:06:00.000+03:30

Do you know what is cancer? Yeah! A silly question, huh?! If you are interested to help the Iranian Cancer Society Click Here

How Hateful ...

2006-04-30T13:00:00.000+03:30

I am very surprised about these product's which are being advertised on "Café press" (Click Here) web site. Here is a letter to condemn the idea behind these products where I strongly call it as an act against human rights ... If you also condemn these sort of unfaithful messages and advertisements; you may spread the word.

Café press: I am writing to demand that you discontinue the production of your
“Nuke Iran” line. As an Iranian (As a human), I am appalled by the hateful and
unethical message that your company propagates. How hateful can one be to take
pleasure in the death of millions of people? Are 200,000 civilian casualties in
the bombing of Hiroshima not good enough reasons to oppose nuclear bombing? How
far would one go to make profits out of innocent people’s suffering?I request
that you practice the minimal ethics required in any kind of business and remove
the products that encourage the atomic bombing of Iran. Just out of curiosity,
what kind of a parent would choose a “Nuke Iran” bib for her or his baby? I
wonder.

pr@cafepress.com

info@cafepress.com

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PS: Special thanks to سیما and SoloGen

:-(

2006-04-29T13:54:00.000+03:30

Unfortunately something wrong went with my template and I lost everything! Including my comments and some of my banners! I appreciate all who left me comments -which are so valuable to me- and helped me to think better. Thank you all; I will be using Blogger's comment service instead of the HaloScan to prevent such maladjustments in future.

Crazy

2006-04-27T20:27:00.000+03:30

Tomorrow is the United Nation's Security Council deadline for Iranian government to halt all its nuclear activities including research. What will the G5 countries decide to do? No one knows! it can be a moderate resolution, sanctions against Iran including air traffic or even it can be a military action against the Iranian nuclear facilities! What ever it is going to happen, I merely want it to be a peaceful action. America and Iran are both nations where their people are always trying and have strived to become better! They are both great civilizations; one is old and the other is new.

Iranian ex-president Mohammed Khatami said Inter Civilization Dialogue, what I would say is a Peaceful Iran and America. Peace between these two countries is now the world's most important issue not a war!

PEACE

French Kiss in Tehran

2006-04-26T20:16:00.000+03:30

Oh my goodness! Can you believe that such things can happen in streets of Iranian capital, Tehran? Thanks for SoloGen's reference to this picture. Here is a quote from Reuters, "An Iranian policewoman (back to camera) watches a couple kiss before restraining them on a street in Tehran."

*Photo: REUTERS/Stringer

Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

2006-04-25T11:55:00.000+03:30

Nuclear Bunker Busters

2006-04-25T11:10:00.000+03:30

Hello my friend! (:

Having a missile that can penetrate the Earth is important for armies as it enables them to destroy their enemy's deeply-buried strategic targets. A sample of those strategic targets is our country's nucliear facilities that many people are talking about these days.

Fortunately (or might be unfortunately as you willsee), it is not easy to penetrate the Earth much as it absorbs most of the energy of any rocket quickly. Practically, it is not possible to go more than a few meters underground even with the fastest missiles with very hard casing. One possible solution is using a nuclear warhead to compensate this problem by producing much more energy than conventional warheads.However, as it is shown in [Nelson03], even if you use a nuclear warhad, you need a very powerful one to destroy things deeply buried. For instance, if you use nuclear weapon with the power of Hiroshima's bomb, you can just destroy stuff buried 30-40m deep. If you increase that power ten times, you cannot still destroy any thing more than a hundred meters below the Earth's surface (well! rougly speaking!). The important issue is that you cannot increase the yield of your nuclear warhead that much because if you do,you would ruin the whole area and hence kill thousands of people (I assume that you just want to destroy some special target and not the whole country).

If Bush wants to destroy nuclear facilities of Iran using his Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrating weapons, he would kill many people alongside.

There is no safe way for destroying those with a missile (or you may propose a one and get DARPA's fundings! (; ). And I think you, like me, do not want people get killed.

I want you to talk about this whole problems with your friends, write about it in your weblogs, write in yourjournals, and any other possible way. I know that no single one can do any thing special about it, but I believe that if we talk about it much for a long time, and persuade others to talk about it too, we can spread the word to the world (remember the small-world network). If the world becomes concerned about the consequences of this possible act, those silly politicians may not think more about this hazardous option anymore.

Anyway, if you are not concerned about it at all, or you think that there is no use in talking/thinking about that possible nuclear disaster, you may still want to read [Nelson03] paper. It is fun specially forthose who is/was interested in weapons, destruction, bombs, explosions, and etc.

-Robert Nelson, "Nuclear Bunker Busters, Mini-Nukes, and the US Nuclear Stockpile," Physics Today, November 2003.

http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-56/iss-11/p32.html

http://www.princeton.edu/~rnelson/papers/physicstoday.pdf

Kalam and Philosophy; A Perspective from One Problem

2006-04-23T12:03:00.000+03:30

Philosophy like science is

an activity of mind,
a state of mind for framing questions
the right question for
the right answer

But the framing

of questions
requires itself a framework
so that the round can be
round and
found so and
the square square and
believe so
ma'a sukuni n-nafs

Some Philosophers consider

theologians
square within
their round-framed
eternal universes

But philosophers too are

conceived as they conceive
within their frames
discourse within framed universes
they cannot reasonably escape
taghlidan

Some like Ash'arites

find speculation obligatory
since cannonized tradition

Some like Mullahs

beginning in unquestioned questioning
find it only way and path
to know what is
al-haqq

____________________________________________

Richard M. Frank, The Catholic University of America

*The following was originally presented as the opening paper in the Conference on Early Islamic Thoughts in Honor of Harry A. Wolfson 20-22 April 1971 at Harvard University

. . .

2006-04-18T23:55:00.000+03:30

War? NO

2006-04-18T14:06:00.000+03:30

Hey you think tanks at the White House and you stupid neo-conservatives STOP!! No more war in the middle east region. How much blood needs to be shed for you to be satisfied? Don't forget every Iranian -as much as I know- is prepared to protect his 2500 years of proud civilization, they are not like gulf settled Arabs who sell crude oil to get mineral water and Toyota!

BE GREEN

Freaks ...

2006-04-13T22:57:00.000+03:30

Hey! This picture was taken some 6 months ago at a party with my Iranian friends. Can you just recognize me ?? Oh gosh, we were so ... This pic is a talking one ...

Hot ...

2006-04-06T23:43:00.000+03:30

This is the Iranian dessert, it is all sand and the road is alone!! It is just Hot!! We did not see any car during our trip. It is a great place to think about what we have got and ... I just leave it for you.

Team Work

2006-03-31T16:30:00.000+03:30

There are four people named, EVERYBODY, SOMEBODY, ANYBODY and NOBODY. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it, Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done!

Here for You

2006-03-24T15:45:00.000+03:30

Recently, I have been having a series of discussions with one of my friends (Parinaz Salari) about the philosophy of life. Those discussions made me to find these great words. This one is just great. I hope you enjoy it:

I don't know where the time has gone,
Suddenly here we are alone,Only a word before you go,everyone's waiting;
So many friends to say goodbye, so many tears they'll have to cry,
So many wings to help you fly where you are going;

And now a plane must take away my child that life has found,
And you will be up in the sky, and I'll be on the ground,
Sending my love with you tonight;

I will be waiting, I will be waiting, here for you, here for you;

I don't know where the years have gone,
Suddenly here, and you have grown,
It was like only yesterday when you were so young;
But here is the day we had to see, always the same eternally,
This is the way that it must be, now it is your world;

And so a plane must take away my child that time has found,
And you will be up in the sky, and I'll be on the ground,
Sending my dreams with you tonight

I will be waiting.....I'm trying not to show,
But seeing you go, is the hardest thing that I have known;

I will be waiting, don't worry 'bout me, I'll be alright,
I will be waiting, don't worry 'bout me, I'll be alright,
Here for you, here for you

I don't know where the years have gone.....

New Persian Year

2006-03-20T12:45:00.000+03:30

Tonight will be the start point of the new Persian year and its festival called "Nowrooz". If you have no idea about what I am saying here; you may click here for a comprehensive definition about Nowrooz and its history.

Campaign Against Censorship

2006-03-20T12:30:00.000+03:30

Traditions for Spring

2006-03-19T10:30:00.000+03:30

Again it is spring and I just became familiar with another tradition of Persians. I think the photo is adequate to convey my words. It is some thing that you are not able to find in the western cultures. They refresh the memories of their loved sons even if those sons have no names. The nameless men and women who lost their lives in an eight year Iraqi imposed war. Thanks a lot to Iranian Students News Agency photographer by taking such picture.

Dr Mostafa Chamran

2006-03-12T17:25:00.000+03:30

As long as I remember, I have been having Dr Mostafa Chamran as one of my role models. He has taught me how I can follow my own path regardless of my social, cultural and educational situation. He is a man that left behind all what he had for what he loved. God bless him and all Chamrans. In the rest is a brief biography of Dr Chamran from IRIB :

Chamran was born in 1932 in Tehran. At 15, he began his activities with Islamic associations, participating in classes of commentary on the Quran by Late Ayatollah Taleghani and those of logic and philosophy by Martyr Professor Motahhari.

Enjoying a government scholarship for talented students, he went to the United States for a period of 14 years and earned his master's degree from the University of Texas. He then went on to get his PhD in electronics and plasma physics with excellent grades from the University of California at Berkeley. He entered research on satellites and powerful radars with Bell Laboratories.

He had complete mastery over English and Arabic and also knew French and German. His most important political activities abroad were organizing and training guerrilla and revolutionary forces in Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.

Chamran participated in guerrilla activities in liberation wars against Israel and the Phalanges. For eight years he assumed responsibility for managing the Technical School of Jabal-Amel in southern Lebanon.

At the time of the victory of the Islamic Revolution under the leadership of Imam Khomeini, Chamran returned to Iran. Initially, he became commander of the government division of the Revolutionary Guards. He was deputy prime minister for revolutionary affairs and was later appointed minister of defense.

Dr. Chamran participated actively in the Kurdistan wars and commanded the rescue forces of Paveh, Nosood, Marivan, Baneh, and Sardasht. In March, 1980, the people of Tehran elected him representative to the Islamic Consultative Assembly ( Majlis). Late Imam Khomeini selected Chamran as his military adviser and his representative to the Supreme Council of Defense.

At the time of the Iraqi invasion he went to Ahvaz, bravely fighting and never left the front. Chamran wrote many articles on political, tactical and ideological topics. Most of them were published without any author listed. In his own opinion, his ideological and intellectual activities were more important than his scientific, political or guerrilla activities.

Dr. Mostafa Chamran, the researcher, scientist, crusader and challenging guerrilla achieved martyrdom during the Iraqi-imposed war on Sunday, June 21, 1981 by a bomb splinter in the village of Dehlaviyeh.

Bam ...

2006-03-11T13:03:00.000+03:30

More than two years ago the historical city of Bam which is located in Kerman Province was collapsed by a devastating earthquake. Although the reconstruction and settlement process has started but there is still .... Yes, we can not replace the lost fathers and mothers of these orphans. It is merely sad and .... But there is still laughter and hope for the coming future.

Iranian Disputed Nuclear Program

2006-03-09T12:04:00.000+03:30

Currently I am so anxious about my own life as I see it tied to the policies of the Iranian government at the current stage of my life and ambitions. Now, the Iranian disputed nuclear program is going to be further discussed at the UN Security Council in New York along with the IAEA. What is going to happen? Here is what I quote from some news and analysis:

Formal Security Council involvement opens a new dimension because the U.N. body could impose economic and political sanctions against Iran. Such action is unlikely because of opposition from Russia and China, which have strategic and commercial ties with Tehran.

In comments to the IAEA board meeting, Gregory Schulte, the U.S. delegate to the agency, said the 85 tons of feedstock uranium gas already produced by Iran "if enriched, could produce enough material for about 10 nuclear weapons."

If Iran does not respond to words and resolutions, "then we believe that the world community should entertain the possibility of sanctions against Iran," Nicholas Burns said.

Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" Wednesday if the U.S. tries to use the U.N. Security Council Â which has the power to impose sanctions Â as a lever to punish Tehran for its suspect nuclear program.

Sergei Lavrov - Russian Foreign Minister - said on Wednesday that imposing U.N. Security Council sanctions on Iran would be ineffective in convincing Tehran to curb its nuclear ambitions. REUTERS/Keith Bedford

Most diplomats agree the 15-nation council would issue a statement urging Iran to comply with resolutions taken by the 35-member board of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Evelyn Leopold/ABC News

China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing called for more negotiations, saying, "There is still room for cooperation" and "we support the European Union and Russian engagement with Iran." China is known to oppose sanctions. Evelyn Leopold/ABC News

Germany, Britain and France, the Europeanegotiatorrs with Iran, agree that diplomacy is not yet finished. But in a statement in Vienna they made clear that Iran's lack of cooperation with the IAEA "has made Security Council action inevitable." Evelyn Leopold/ABC News

Iran has proposed suspending industrial-scale enrichment but doing research work, but the West says even small-scale enrichment is too dangerous. Iranian security official Javad Vaidi, who led the Iranian delegation here, threatened reprisals against the United States. Daily Times

Sleeeep

2006-03-03T12:17:00.000+03:30

Oooooh!! Hey this is my dog, Mr Sleeeep!! He's always sleeping at the door. Do you like it? Isn't he cute? Dogs seem to be better friends in compare with some sort of people. What do you think about it?

Bird Flu

2006-02-22T12:15:00.000+03:30

Aww! I was thinking about, what I will do if I become infected by H5N1 virus. It is obvious that on every day life there are a whole bunch of things which they can take your life! But this is going to be so bad. When I listen to the news and hear that if turns out to cantaglous in the world; the virus will kill millions. That is pretty unexpected to me even if I know the reasons. Why? We, the peole of our blue planet are still weak, to the extent that the nature is still going to be our biggest enemy or I may say it is the most applied law, the "Law of Nature".

Cartoons of Iranian soccer team ...

2006-02-16T22:58:00.000+03:30

Oh my! Today has been a adventurous day because I heard that a German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel has published a cartoon of the Iranian national soccer team as suicide bombers.

"With tensions still simmering over the Danish cartoon scandal, a German newspaper provokes Tehran with caricatures of the Iranian national soccer team adorned in suicide-bomber belts. It was a joke, the paper says, but the Iranians aren't laughing. Plus, Tehran postpones negotiations with Russia over its nuclear program." Spiegel Online

What is it for to publish these cartoons? I personally condemn such actions because it is not only an insult to the Iranian soccer team; it is also an insult to what I call "Iranian Nationals".

A dangerous trick !?

2006-02-16T22:34:00.000+03:30

After those controversial cartoons of prophet Muhammad. If the following is true that is really a dangerous trick for Muslims faith and believes. Recently I have been receiving some e-mails about a fake Quran; here is the statement:

"A new Quran is being distributed in Kuwait, titled "The True Furqan" It is being described as the ayats of the Shaytan and Al-Furqan weekly magazine has found out that the two American printing companies;'Omega 2001' and 'Wine Press' are involved in the publishing of 'The True Furqan', a book which has also been titled 'The 21st Century Quran'! It is over 366 pages and is in both the Arabic and English languages... The book contains 77 Surats, which include Al-Fatiha, Al-Jana and Al-Injil. Instead of Bismillah, each Surat begins with a longer version of this incorporating the Christian belief of the three spirits. And this so called Quran opposes many Islamic beliefs. in one of its Yeats it describes having more than one wife as fornification, divorce being non-permissible and it uses a new system for the sharing out of the will, opposing the current one. It states that Jihad is HARAAM. This book even goes as far as attacking Allah, Subhanahu wa Tahala! All this is poisoning our children at approximately $3. Brothers and Sisters please make sure you forward this email to as many people as possible so that we can stop this dangerous trick. Please tell everyone you know and may Allah reward you."

Please leave your comments on this matter!

**The above statement is not belonged to the author. It has just been reflect here to be discussed.

New Year!

2005-03-19T22:59:00.000+03:30

Ooops!!! Tomorrow is the beginning of the new Persian year and also our robot Phoenix will arrive at Boston. You may want to check the Sampad Robotic Group of Kerman

Tsunami ...

2005-01-01T11:38:00.000+03:30

With the number of those killed in the devastating Asian earthquake and tsunamis rising to over 120,000, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies has put in place what looks set to be its largest emergency relief operation ever.

Source: International Federation od Red Cross and red Crescent Societies

A Hug Certificate ...!

2004-12-15T21:45:00.000+03:30

A Hug Certificate for You!

If I could catch a rainbow
I would do it just for you
and share with you its beauty
On the days you're feeling blue.

If I could build a mountain
You could call your very own;
A place to find serenity,
A place to be alone.

If I could take your troubles
I would toss them in the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
are impossible for me.

I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend who's always there.

This is a Hug Certificate!!

Bored of ...

2004-11-13T22:44:00.000+03:30

It is quite a long time that I am not in mood to have some daily updates on this web log because I am now in Iran and having fun(?) anyways I am going to be one of your active buddies on your links. Stay tuned and ....

When you tell me that you love me

2004-11-02T20:01:00.000+03:30

I want to call the stars, down from the sky
I want to live a day, that never dies
I want to change the world, only for you
All impossible, I want to do

I want to hold you close, under the rain
I want to kiss your smile, and feel the pain
I know what’s beautiful, looking at you
In a world of lies, you are the truth

And baby every time you touch me, I become a hero
I’ll make you safe no matter where you are, and bring you
Everything you ask for, nothing is above me
I’m shining like a candle in the dark
When you tell me that you love me

I want to make you see, just what I was
Show you the loneliness and what it does
You walked into my life, to stop my tears
I have you here

You love, tell me that you love me
In a world without you, I would always hunger

All I need is your love to make me stronger ...

Rhetoric

2004-10-25T22:27:00.000+03:30

Rhetoric is a counterpart of Dialectic. It is a subject that can be treated systematically. The argumentative modes of persuasion are the essence of the art of rhetoric: appeals to the emotions warp the judgment. Argumentative persuasion is a sort of demonstration; and the rhetorical form of demonstration is enthymeme. Four uses of rhetoric. Its possible abuse is no argument against its proper use on the side of truth and justice. The honest rhetorician has no separate name to distinguish him from the dishonest.

There are three kinds of rhetoric: A. political (deliberative), B. forensic (legal), and C. epideictic (the emotional oratory of display). Their (a) division, (b) times, and (c) ends are follows: A. Political (a) exhortation and dehortation, (b) future, (c) expediency and inexpediency; B. Forensic (a) accusation and defense, (b) past, (c) justice and injustice; C. Epideictic (a) praise and censure, (b) present, (c) honor and dishonor.

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The Basic Works of Aristotle; Richard McKeon

pp. 1318-1319

Stupid ...!!

2004-10-18T22:07:00.000+03:30

Why me?????? Hell no!!!!!!!

Fun ...!

2004-10-08T11:43:00.000+03:30

It is always fun to be with cool folks!! It is now a couple of days that people are coming to visit us!! It is so much fun.

Iran ...

2004-10-03T05:55:00.000+03:30

Gosh!! I am sick of this stupid drivers in Teheran, there is no speed limit and the pedestrian has no right!!!! Yesterday I had a pretty fun time with some cool friends. The positive impact of Iran for me was that how friendly people are; it was so exciting for me!! I didn't pay anything while I was with them, it just shows how unique people are!!! I appreciate to be an Iranian!!!!!!

America ...

2004-09-28T01:55:00.000+03:30

Soon or late I'll be back!!?

Challenge?!

2004-09-26T22:51:00.000+03:30

Finally the days which are going to be a challenge for me are coming. I am leaving the States and heading towards Iran for at least a semester and it may get longer depends on how my life is going to be; but, the good feature is that I am two years ahead of my peers so even if I come back some time in 2006, it still won't be that bad!!! Fortunately as I was talking to the University's admission officers they can extend my admission up to age 18 (which is 2 years from now) upon my parents request. Thus, I don't need to be worried about anything till that time. Hopefully I will gain a lot of experience and knowledge in the coming years. I am leaving Boston on Tuesday for Zurich and after a day in Zurich we will go to Teheran via Dubai.

Discussion ...

2004-09-23T08:59:00.000+03:30

One of my friends have left me an interesting comment for my post about 9/11; I would be glad to hear your ideas about my statement and Farhad's comment; are you agreed or disagreed; and if so, why?

Post: September 11

Three years ago at 8:45 a.m. EDT on the morning of September 11, 2001, the first of four hijacked planes, American Airlines Flight 11, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center; It is now three years past, thousands of Americans have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in a war against terrorism, to protect the world not just America; but it still exists and it is a long way to go in order to make the world free of terrorists. We; people of the Islamic world, let's put our hands together to bring faith to our hearts and do not let anyone to use our religion, belief and heritage to hurt innocent people. Come to defend our beliefs and prove it that Islam is a religion of peace and faith, and those who does such a barbaric attack do not practice Islam and are not Muslim.

Farhad Taghibakhsh's comment

Dear Seyed, I read your nice words. I'm sure most of the people of the world wish a peaceful world, without terrorism, war, and ... Hope we try to have such a world and see it in our lives, as you are a man of science, thought and value, let me ask you a question: Have you ever read Quran (completely)?It says: "Kill 'kuffar' where ever you find them!No matter who 'kuffar' are, do you think this is a "right" statement? Is that a decent statement to be found in a holy book?There are lots of strange statements like this or even worse. If you like we can start a discussion.

Busy!

2004-09-22T01:21:00.000+03:30

Awww!! these last couple of days I was quiet busy with my university but I will take over them!!!

Illinois

2004-09-19T12:16:00.000+04:30

I am now at Illinois, and we have just arrived at the campus, I will be here for about a week before I fly to Iran. Currently, I am exhausted!! We drove about six hours down the state to the Urbana so we are just about to collapse now. So, ...

Campaign ...!

2004-09-17T04:26:00.000+04:30

As we get closer to the November presidential elections; campaigns are getting hot!! I personally recommend you to vote for democrats if : you don't make a lot of money, you're not politician, you are not governor, ...! I believe that the democrats make better decisions when it comes to ordinary people jut like us! If you want to be a part of their campaign click on the logo.

John Kerry for President

Windows ...

2004-09-15T10:49:00.000+04:30

Microsoft ® Windows ®, I believe is the best and the most convenient operating system for your computer; but something that I am really sick of; is, that when there is a problem, it is really tough to fix it. I am now dealing with a toolbar that has been downloaded on my computer by mistake and I can't get rid of it. It has made my laptop really slow. Does anyone have any clue?

A different post ...

2004-09-14T11:10:00.000+04:30

به تركه ميگن با بالش جمله بساز ميگه رفتم شكارتفنگم دستم بود يه پرنده ديدم خواستم بزنم به اون بالش
ميگن نه اون بالش
ميگه رفتم شكار تفنگم دستم بود خواستم بزنم به اين بالش
ميگن آقا نميخواد با تشك جمله بساز
ميگه رفتم شكار تفنگم دستم بود يه پرنده ديدم تو شك بودم كه بزنم به اون بالش يا اين بالش

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A big change

2004-09-14T09:58:00.000+04:30

Life is getting more even and constant, and there's not much to say. Hopefully, the good aspect of life is that it will change if I want to change it!! Which means, for the couple of last days I am struggling, in order to get into conclusion that I have to change it myself; or I need other's contribution for my change. I guess, I will have a revolution in a couple of hours and trying to forget about everything and making the best decision. Unfortunately life is tough and unfair!

Weekend ...

2004-09-13T21:45:00.000+04:30

mm!! The last couple of days I was out of town. Frankly, it was a great trip that I could see a lot of different fellows.

Saturday, I went to Cheshire, a quite small city in the Connecticut. We went up there to visit a couple of friends that we have made recently. They are really nice people. In the category of Iranians who are stacked in here; but anyways Iranian, is always Iranian even if you can not speak farsi that good. Although the family's father is psychologist from Bangladesh who has married an Iranian woman; but, I believe he was really proficient in speaking Farsi as he was talking to my parents.

Yeterday, which was Sunday we went to New Hampshire to visit my dad's cousin!! Over there the story was quiet different. The family's wife is an American who has married an Iranian guy. Over there she couldn't speak Farsi but she had the spirit of an Iranian; friendly and warm; I have known them for such a long time, whenever we stop by at their house my parents talk in English to each other and her family; but it just seemed to me that they are all Iranian.

September 11

2004-09-11T09:51:00.000+04:30

Three years ago at 8:45 a.m. EDT on the morning of September 11, 2001, the first of four hijacked planes, American Airlines Flight 11, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center; It is now three years past, thousands of Americans have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in a war against terrorism, to protect the world not just America; but it still exists and it is a long way to go in order to make the world free of terrorists. We; people of the Islamic world, let's put our hands together to bring faith to our hearts and do not let anyone to use our religion, belief and heritage to hurt innocent people. Come to defend our beliefs and prove it that Islam is a religion of peace and faith, and those who does such a barbaric attack do not practice Islam and are not Muslim.

Small is beautiful

2004-09-10T08:02:00.000+04:30

mm!! Today I saw a Harvard Gazette in campus which had an interesting story about an Islamic collection. Thus, tonight I went over its web page and found the article online; I think you'll enjoy it.

A well-designed museum exhibition can open windows on unfamiliar worlds. At a new exhibition at the Sackler Museum, viewers can glimpse a large, complex, and fascinating world through some rather small windows.

The exhibition is called "Closely Focused, Intensely Felt: Selections from the Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art." Calderwood, a scholar and collector of Islamic art, assembled her collection of ceramics, works on paper, lacquer ware, and other objects from 1968 to 1998 during numerous visits to the Middle East. Her husband, Stanford Calderwood, a former executive at Polaroid and a generous patron of the arts, gave the collection of 173 objects to Harvard in 2002.

Mary McWilliams, the Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, arranged the exhibition, which features about a quarter of the collection. McWilliams is working on a catalog of the entire collection, which she hopes to finish in 2005.

Calderwood, who conducted graduate work in art history and Persian language at Harvard and taught Islamic and Asian art at Boston College, concentrated her collecting efforts on Persian or "Persianate" art, a designation that includes not only modern Iran but parts of Iraq, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan. The objects in the collection span 1,000 years, from ninth century ceramics to 19th century lacquer ware. In their changing styles one can see the impact of successive dynasties, foreign invasions, and religious and cultural borrowings. A comparable span of European art might begin with the Irish Book of Kells and end with the French Impressionists.

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Downtown LA

2004-09-09T08:28:00.000+04:30

This is downtown Los Angeles!! It wasn't "huge" in terms of high rises unlike Chicago, New York or even Boston. The reason is obvious; it is earthquake!! Therefore LA is not a concentrated metropolitan and doesn't have an efficient public transportation system. I believe Chicago has the best public transportation of the nation. I like Boston the best!!!!

End of journey ...

2004-09-08T17:14:00.000+04:30

I have just got back from California this morning. It was a really great trip; I really enjoyed the time while I was there. The return flight was almost empty. We bought an economy class ticket but it was just like business class. We were settled at Torrance, one of the Los Angeles counties. I am really tired now and probably will collapse in a few minutes but I'll write some more later though !!!

International Fair ...

2004-09-02T09:02:00.000+04:30

This one is during the International Fair in Cambridge!! This is a street R&D band who are performing on Massachusetts Avenue in the middle of crowd and behind them, there is the Unites States Post Office. It was really fun to being there. I went with my mom and dad and we really enjoyed our time there. There were a lot of food; from every corner of the globe. We didn't see any Persian food there! but we ate a lot!!!!!!

Politicians

2004-09-01T08:30:00.000+04:30

mm!! Sometimes I start to ask myself that why the American politicians have to talk the way just like they are Jesus?!! It was just ridiculous the way the Laura Bush was talking today at the convention. She regrets the death of her poppy not the lives of thousands of people including Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan or any other place on the globe who are fighting for freedom. Obviously Mrs. Bush is not a politician but she could give a better speech as the first lady of the United States and I just ....

As I have said before I am going to have a short trip to Los Angeles over the weekend and Labor day; and it's less than a month left for me to come to Iran and face a new challenge in my mysterious life. I don't know what is going to happen there but I just want God to bless both the great nations of America and Iran.

G O P !

2004-08-31T09:25:00.000+04:30

Today was the beginning of GOP (Republican National Convention) in NYC for nomination of president Bush for 2004 election. I do not know much about politics! But a lot of friends want my opinion that in case Bush or Kerry being elected which one is better for the US-Iran relations!!! Maybe it's because of my philosophological ideas that people think I am an expert in politics! Anyways I don't think it doesn't make much difference for Iran's mullahs that who become the next president of the United States as John McCain said both Republicans and democrat's have shown their sincere to "Land of the free and home of the brave"! Thus the conclusion is it makes difference on domestic issues but not on foreign policy of the united states. I merely would say that God bless both Iran and America!

Republic of Cambridge!!

2004-08-30T09:00:00.000+04:30

Today there was a fair in Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge; in all of my life I have never seen this much black folks in Cambrdige as I could see today. It was just amazing as I entered to the crowd until I got to the Central Sq. I was the only white person!!! Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures!!

And the bad news is I can't post this much anymore, it is true that I took this semester off to go to Iran but I have to do plenty of studying for spring semester so I will lessen my posts probably to one or two for every week or so.

As you folks may know today was the closing ceremony of the XXXVIII Olympiad. In this olympics I was a fan of Micheal Phelps, he won eight medals in swimming in just one games. He was an amazing swimmer.

Something to regret about?!

2004-08-29T09:25:00.000+04:30

Unfortunately I didn't go to the museum of Fine Arts today because of that unexpected promise that I made! Here I have put the picture of an object from Iran (My sister took this picture when she was here during Christmas and she went to visit the museum with her Korean friend but I didn't go with them at that time!!!) and it just look extremely beautiful. Why this is not in a museum in Persia where it actually belongs to?!!! I'll be glad to hear your opinions about the statement which I made.

Los Angeles ...

2004-08-29T09:17:00.000+04:30

I am going to leave Boston for Los Angeles on Friday morning!! I am so excited. We are going to Torrance county near Los Angeles metropolitan. It is about twenty minutes walk to the beach and it has a fabulous sight. I am so, so excited and ...! And it is also the first time that I am going to fly America West Airlines and I am going to ride on an Air Bus Industry A-319 plane!! I will leave Boston Lawrence Logan Int' Airport (BOS) at 9:00 AM and will arrive at Los Angeles Int' Airport (LAX) on 12:15 PM local time (It is a 6:15 flight quite identical with a flight from Boston to Zurich! and because California has the Pacific time so there's -3:00 difference). I want to have a lot of fun there.

Old ...

2004-08-28T09:25:00.000+04:30

This one goes back to the Christmas break (Old huh?!!). This is one of the old, old, old, ... Buildings of Harvard; probably goes back to the time of John Harvard! We just took the picture I am not at Harvard anymore but this building in Harvard campus is one of my favorites. Can you see me?!!

Blogger!

2004-08-27T09:57:00.000+04:30

I did everything to put this "Post" feature of Blogger on my web log but it seems that Blogger has some problems! One of the best features which Blogger has recently added to the web logs is replacing the advertisement logo with Blogger toolbar, I really like it.

Again life ...

2004-08-26T10:34:00.000+04:30

Once you have been born and God, the alimighty has given you the gift of life. God is the most merciful then why there is such a thing called death?!! I would say" The life which God has given to the mankind is a gift that he never wants it back; we are looking to hunt the death". I'd be glad if you leave me your comments about it.

Unexpected promise!!

2004-08-25T09:59:00.000+04:30

Isn't it terrible that sometimes you've got to make some unexpected promises to your friends?!! It did happened to me today. I was doing my own job and taking care of what I had to do but my friend Matt called me and asked me to help him out with some Calculus problems. So, what I said was that, ok! I'll help you out when? He said over the weekend and I had a lot of plans for the weekend. I planned to go Boston Museum of Fine Arts on Saturday and I bought tickets and paid almost 15 bucks each. Now I have to cancel all the plan because I made promise before I take a look at my schedule. Fortunately I can have the tickets. They are valid for about two months.

One cool valedictorian!

2004-08-24T09:56:00.000+04:30

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, currently University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. is one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious and Comparative Studies in the world today. Below you can find a brief biography about Dr. Nasr and his academic achievements.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born on April 7, 1933 (19 Farvadin 1312 A.H. solar) in Tehran into a family of distinguished scholars and physicians. His father, Seyyed Valiallah, a man of great learning and piety, was a physician to the Iranian royal family, as was his father before him. The name "Nasr" which means "victory" was conferred on Professor Nasr's grandfather by the King of Persia. Nasr also comes from a family of Sufis. One of his ancestors was Mulla Seyyed Muhammad Taqi Poshtmashhad, who was a famous saint of Kashan, and his mausoleum which is located next to the tomb of the Safavid king Shah Abbas, is still visited by pilgrims to this day.
As a young boy, Nasr attended one of the schools near his home. His early formal education included the usual Persian curriculum at school with an extra concentration in Islamic and Persian subjects at home, as well as tutorial in French. However for Nasr, it was the long hours of discussion with his father, mostly on philosophical and theological issues, complemented by both reading and reaction to the discourses carried on by those who came to his father's house, that constituted an essential aspect of his early education and which in many ways set the pattern and tone of his intellectual development. This was the situation for the first twelve years of Nasr's life.
Nasr's arrival in America at the young age of twelve marked the beginning of a new period in his life which was totally different and therefore, discontinuous from his early life in Iran. He attended The Peddie School in Highstown, New Jersey and in 1950 graduated as the valedictorian of his class and also winner of the Wyclifte Award which was the school's highest honor given to the most outstanding all-round student. It was during the four years at Peddie that Nasr acquired his knowledge of the English language, as well as studying the sciences, American history, Western culture and Christianity.
Nasr chose to go to M.I.T. for college. He was offered a scholarship and was the first Iranian student to be admitted as an undergraduate at M.I.T. He began his studies at M.I.T in the Physics Department with some of the most gifted students in the country and outstanding professors of physics. His decision to study physics was motivated by the desire to gain knowledge of the nature of things, at least at the level of physical reality. However, at the end of his freshman year, although he was the top student in his class, he began to feel oppressed by the overbearingly scientific atmosphere with its implicit positivism. Furthermore, he discovered that many of the metaphysical questions which he had been concerned with were not being asked, much less answered. Thus, he began to have serious doubts as to whether physics would lead him to an understanding of the nature of physical reality. His doubt was confirmed when the leading British philosopher, Bertrand Russell, in a small group discussion with the students following a lecture he had given at M.I.T, stated that physics does not concern itself with the nature of physical reality per se but with mathematical structures related to pointer readings.

At sixty-six, Seyyed Hossein Nasr leads an extremely active intellectual life with a very busy schedule of teaching at the university and lecturing at many institutions in America and around the world, writing scholarly works, being involved in several intellectual projects simultaneously and meeting individuals who are interested in traditional thought. At the same time, he leads a very intense spiritual life spent in prayer, meditation and contemplation and also providing spiritual counsel for those who seek his advice and guidance. Exiled from his homeland, Seyyed Hossein Nasr has found his home in the inviolable and sacred Center which is neither in the East nor the West.

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* To Read the complete biography of Prof. Nasr Click Here

Cool memories

2004-08-23T08:50:00.000+04:30

mm!! Can you figure out the presence of one special individual in this picture! Well, obviously that fellow would be me. My sister left her tag at the bottom of the picture. Those little guys (on the stand!) are a couple of friends on the way to my high school. I don't go to high school anymore but this picture reminds me all the good and bad which I had in my short high school period (I did my high school in less than 2 years). Fortunately! I don't live my memories I live my dreams and will do everything necessary to reach them.

Elegy for the Saint of Letting Small Fish Go

2004-08-22T09:35:00.000+04:30

I. You too might step into a puddle of fire,or splash through a stream of glowing lava where only moments before you were barefoot in your kitchen after a late night of too much wine and, nearly naked, frying bacon at the stove.

A burn like this is a different thing the doctor said and I can believe it. I was a different thing.

I was a man with an unquenchable oil well fire on his feet that would blaze up as the medicine ebbed. And the skin curled over, brown-red,too much like the meat I was cooking in the pan that I dropped—an irony not lost on even the youngest of nurses drinking and bacon don't mixshe kidded as I healed.

Yet had my wounds burned like Vulcan's forge they'd be a distant fire in light of the child behind the glass in the opposite bed.

II. Where were you saints when the fire first licked his hands? Hadn't he in living prayed to you?
I want the saint of ice cream trucksto turn off the carnival, climb down, and explain it all— account for all the betrayers—The saints of reachable branches and bank envelope lollipops,the saints of his mother's cool arms, of new basketball shoes, and professional wrestling.The saints of tree forts, pocket knives, and stadium food.The saints of waffles and eyebrows and box turtles.The saint of jam.The saint of his own bed.Where were you saints of wheelies and rodeo clowns and rockets?

III. I was at home when the sepsis took himand they wheeled him to that all-light roomand when they covered his face.

Yet I had seen his grafts and debridements,the twice daily baths and dressings,and the shock at that last turn of gauze—how the fire bit at his summer legs and arms—black skin, blacker still, and red.

I was there to see the lost motherwho would live in fire for the child she had known.There to see all who entered shake their headsas if wondering as I wonderedhow so small a thing can carry such pain—pain that pushed through the morphine push——pain that conquered even those numbing Nordic gods—Vicodin, Ativan, and Tylox.

It is not my place.He was not my child,and I could never speak to him,but hold him out of the fire.I would not have him burned again.

Give him back to rocking water,to pendulum down through the fingers of the sun.Let the ocean run his veins and heart— full, then empty, then full again.

Or return him to the folding ground,face up to the sky.A boon for dreamlessness,this petty thief of time.

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Elegy for the Saint of Letting Small Fish Go by Eliot Khalil Wilson, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA

Listen to Eliot Khalil Wilson reading this poem.

Life ...

2004-08-22T09:14:00.000+04:30

Why does the whole freaken' world suck? I can't live it any more, no one cares, all the people are drawn in their stupid lives, I don't want to lose; I am determined to win.

Storm!

2004-08-21T09:39:00.000+04:30

Today there were a breath taking storm all around the east coast and specially New England. It was horrible, the result was no power for a couple of neighborhoods. It was like a small flood just in the middle of town. Wow! It was also beautiful it reminded me how great is the nature and still wild for human beings. One of my favorite books is "Problems of Philosophy" by Bertron Russel. It is a tough book. It's been taught in England for more than seventy years which shows its importance; but anyways that was the most important thing that I taught it does worth to mention here.

Cool structures!

2004-08-20T08:39:00.000+04:30

These are Bill Gates famous buildings at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This side is just on the other side of Main St., on the cross of Main St and Vassar St. These structures are really fabulous. Can you see me anywhere?