دختر آفتاب

moved on

2006-11-14T22:36:00.000-08:00

Since my beloved Dokhtare Aftab stopped working for a while I started writing che kasi ...

captive

2006-04-26T21:17:00.000-07:00

People! What is this!? Now I don't even get to choose the template! Just bare with me, I might be able to figure something.

no falling leaves

2006-04-26T00:49:00.000-07:00

I just called to say I Love You and I mean it from the bottom of my heart ... I couldn't turn the key and get out of the car. It was 16 years ago, I can't believe it, 16! A new country, a new land and a new language. I don't know what made my dad record the songs we were hearing as he drove me to school for the first time in this new territory of ours, but it sure helped keep those memories alive. I never forget ... and when the radio plays those old songs tears circle my eyes. Daddy's girl is all grown up now and no one knows that it's the child in her that walks her through the days of her life ...

connected

2006-04-26T00:48:00.000-07:00

Give people the space and you'd be surprised the means they find to communicate with ...

شامه

2006-04-25T22:27:00.000-07:00

... بوی دریا می آد

sunshine

2006-04-24T11:49:00.000-07:00

I want to go out in the sun and dance. I can feel how happy my skin is with all this sun, I can't ask for anything more ...

memories

2006-04-23T23:49:00.000-07:00

They found 7 min of motion picture from downtown Vancouver from 100 years ago. They went through the same route with the same camera settings today and made the One Century Later movie of it, how cute is that!

Not that this would shadow the biggest Sun Run to date, and it was awesome weather today ...

shores

2006-04-23T23:05:00.000-07:00

Is it happening? Am I getting what I asked for? Finally! I guess I'll know in a while, but for the first time in my life I am calm, patient and understanding. Believe me, I have grown up so much that I can barely believe it myself!

overheard

2006-04-23T18:25:00.000-07:00

As I drove into the gas station I read the price 116.5, as I lifted the nozzle I looked up again 110.5, did Harper hear that I am so upset with the gas prices?

politics

2006-04-23T12:53:00.000-07:00

Harper promised tax cuts on fuel before he became prime minister, now he is just saying we should get used to the prices! And what's with getting so lovy dovy with Mulroney, everyone knows you are not environmental friendly!

reincarnation

2006-04-23T00:46:00.000-07:00

Thank God I can always dance everything out of my system!

ad in the Peak

2006-04-21T19:02:00.000-07:00

recursion

2006-04-21T16:45:00.000-07:00

What did I just do? How come I am making so many decisions these days so easily? or maybe it's the right thing to do, it does feel ok ... maybe I have thought about it over and over before and it just happens that I'm taking action these days ... you never know ...

this one?

2006-04-20T22:53:00.000-07:00

I am going to be playing around a little with the template until I get what I had back, forgive me for any inconvenience ...

change?

2006-04-20T22:40:00.000-07:00

No people, I haven't decided to change my template to this dotty thing. Truth be told I couldn't publish for a few days and finally Mehdi proposed that the problem may be coming from my template, so I tried altering it to a default and here you are ... I'm working on it though, be back soon!

trouble

2006-04-19T18:16:00.000-07:00

You know, some days no matter what you do everything turns out wrong! Yeah, I kind of had one of those today ...

out

2006-04-19T13:11:00.000-07:00

I don't know why, but right now it feels like I am not living this life. Not in a bad way, it just feels that I am watching everything happen while I have no access, no ability and no desire to change anything. You wouldn't be able to tell from the outside, I look pretty much the way I usually do, but it feels like my mind is somewhere else, occupied with something else ... it's weird and calm where I am right now ... maybe these are the first signs of going crazy ...

destiny

2006-04-17T17:29:00.000-07:00

I don't know how much I believe in destiny, in the fact that some things are just meant to be ... what I do know though is that everything lately has been happening so as to make me believe in it ... yet it's like I can't trust it. I keep telling myself that it's just a coincidence, it doesn't really mean anything ... on the other hand I can't fool myself, there is a tie between what goes on and what is distant, isn't there?

paradise

2006-04-17T01:58:00.000-07:00

I can't believe how powerful some emotions can be, I still cry every time I think about it, after so many years ... what an ocean, what strength, ... no wonder I have always felt the sky is my limit ... nothing has tied me down ...

wrapped

2006-04-17T00:40:00.000-07:00

I just might have become involved in something good ... I'll tell you if it goes through ...

a family

2006-04-16T22:51:00.000-07:00

I went to a friends house, forget the reason ... there were two of us there who were not married. The average age of people there was about 5 years older than me and many of them had kids. My friend freaked out a little about the babies ... after a while I found myself in a conversation saying I am sure I'm ready for the baby, not that sure about the babies daddy ... I guess I am just used to saying that, the case has usually been that the daddy is not ready to be a dad ... we went to a coffee shop ... the label on my tea said a day full of promise ... I wonder what that was?! is?!

bliss

2006-04-15T15:09:00.000-07:00

Who said happiness comes in forms you expect? I think if you have a specific shape and size in mind you'll never find it, just keep your heart open and see how it embraces joy ... even if it rains all day long day after day ...

timelines

2006-04-14T22:58:00.000-07:00

I just went through a couple of days with no voice; I knew I was good at enjoying whatever hits me, but I would never have guessed I could have so much fun being sick. Not that I liked having a cold, that was miserable, but we laughed so much about the voice part. Maybe some of it was because I'd been away for a while and missed home ... anyway, that's behind me, oh and even the final exam I had is over. Now I have the final project and my desertion ... it's gonna be a long time till July ...

عادت

2006-04-12T00:52:00.000-07:00

گهگاهی اتفاق می افته که به دلیلی از دلایل من صدام رو از دست می دم. اولین بار وقتی اتفاق افتاد که قرار بود یه شعر از بنده ناقابل رو توی شب شعری که برگزار می کردیم بخونم، بگذریم ... اینبار جالبتر از همه چیز واکنش بقیه است. هرکی باهام حرف می زنه رفته رقته آرومتر و آرومتر حرف می زنه تا مثل من آخرش داره زمزمه می کنه! چقدر عادتهامون به زندگیمون احاطه دارن و ما اصلا بهشون فکر نمی کنیم

miss you

2006-04-09T15:59:00.000-07:00

I step off the train
I'm walking down your street again and past your door
But you don't live there any more
It's years since you've been there
But now you've disappeared somewhere like outer space
You've found some better place
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain ....

- Missing, Todd Terry

Las Vegas

2006-04-08T16:13:00.000-07:00

It was so different from what I had expected. Yes, there were neon lights and nightclubs, but there was so much more to see. Exhibitions, shows and spectacular music ... the dinner in Paris and the walk through Venice ... so romantic! I spent the nights walking on the strip and the days attending the conference ... it was fun and it was an awesome break. I tossed so many pennies into the water and made wishes over and over again ...
You know, I thought I'd be alone and I'd have to go around by myself. Good guessing from a friend, he said: "You, alone?! You'll find someone there." He was right, I did and what a great time we had ... what an awesome group of people ...
Now I'm sitting here in my friend's place updating my blog after a couple of days ... I guess I'll be glad to get back home, it's about time, although, I do have an exam when I get back ...

once upon a time

2006-04-04T18:39:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 5, 2006, at two minutes and three seconds past 1:00am, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06, you won't see a day like that in a long time!

بدرود

2006-04-02T15:31:00.000-07:00

رفتم سبزه رو انداختم توی آب، چه هوایی! حالا می رم دوردورا سبزه گره بزنم، حافظ گفته خوب نمی شه که گوش ندم. نمی دونم اونجا چقدر به اینترنت بازی برسم، اگه همدیگه رو ندیدیم تا هفته دیگه فعلا خداحافظ

خاک را بدرودی کردم و شهر را
چرا که او، نه در زمین و شهر و نه در دیاران بود.

آسمان را بدرود کردم و مهتاب را
چرا که او، نه عطرِ ستاره نه آوازِ آسمان بود.

نه از جمعِ آدمیان نه از خیلِ فرشتگان بود،
که اینان هیمه‌ دوزخند
و آن یکان
در کاری بی‌اراده
به زمزمه‌ئی خواب‌آلوده
خدای را
تسبیح‌می‌گویند.

سرخوش و شادمانه فریادبرداشتم:

ای شعرهایِ من، سروده و ناسروده!
سلطنتِ شما را تردیدی نیست
اگر او به تنهایی
خواننده‌ شما باد!

شاملو -

خویش

2006-04-02T04:09:00.000-07:00

امشب دور هم رسیدیم به اونجا که شروع کردیم به فال گرفتن:

ما آزموده ایم درین شهر بخت خویش ............ بیرون کشید باید از این ورطه رخت خویش

از بس که دست می گزم و آه میکشم ............. آتش زدم چو گل به دل لخت لخت خویش

دوشم ز بلبلی چه خوش آمد که می سرود ....... گل گوش پهن کرده ز شاخ درخت خویش

کای دل تو شاد باش که آن یار تند خوی ........ بسیار تند روی نشیند ز بخت خویش

خواهی که سخت و سست جهان بر تو بگذرد .. بگذر ز عهد سست و سخنهای سخت خویش

ای حافظ ار مراد میسر شدی مدام ................ جمشید نیز دور نماندی ز تخت خویش

بنظر می رسد که حافظ اولا کاملا به وضعیت موجود احاطه دارد و ثانیا موافق است که من سیزده رو خارج از ونکور بدر کنم، تا چه قبول افتد و چه در نظر آید

shattered

2006-04-01T14:17:00.000-08:00

I'm just too honest, too pure, for the world I live in. Each time that someone betrays my trust I tell myself that it won't happen again, I tell myself that I will learn from them and act like they do ... but it's no use, when the time comes I am just a child with a heart of gold ... and they break my heart every time ... I spend time and delicacy piecing it together just to hand it to someone else who will do the same ... I wonder if a day will come that I just can't find all the pieces to put together ... will I have become one of them?

ویرانه

2006-04-01T12:24:00.000-08:00

به من گفته بودند به آدمها اعتمادی نیست،
گفته بودند دلهاشان تنگ است
گمان کرده بودم چاره اش محبت است،
نمی دانستم سنگینیش را تاب نخواهند آورد

confession

2006-04-01T01:45:00.000-08:00

To tell you the truth it came as a shock, I still don't know what I am going to do about it, I don't even know how I feel about it ... whatever, I'm leaving on Sunday and I am going to take a break from everything ...

time

2006-03-31T19:26:00.000-08:00

Finally I think I have learnt, I think I have got the hang of it now. It sure seems as if trying and trying and getting it wrong paid off ... wish me luck ...

ecstasy

2006-03-29T17:56:00.000-08:00

As they say ignorance is bliss ...

charity

2006-03-29T17:08:00.000-08:00

I have said no to many things in my life, but when it comes to sick or needy children I just CAN'T. I have told myself over and over that I can't care for all the kids in the world no matter how hard I try so I shouldn't feel responsible, but the thought that I might even help one keeps me from saying no ... and every time I think to myself, next time I'll say no ... I kind of know that it won't happen. I guess a part of me is satisfied ...

flash

2006-03-29T15:08:00.000-08:00

Wow I can't believe how much my life changes day by day. Each day there is something new and everyday I know I have learnt so much from yesterday. It seems everything is on fast forward ...

courage

2006-03-28T23:02:00.000-08:00

I think some people like me just because I do the things they feel they can't do. I know it's just an illusion, I mean, there is nothing special about me that would let me to do something someone else can't. It's just that I allow myself to do it ....

chores

2006-03-28T17:23:00.000-08:00

I heard the young light green leaves whispering spring is here in their soft voice and then I saw the trees holding out their arms to the cool breeze, mother nature is sure spreading love these days ... and for a moment it made me forget the hundred and one things that I have to do before I leave ...

!اینهم فال امسال

2006-03-27T12:09:00.000-08:00

ای از فروغ رویت روشن چراغ دیده

خوشتر ز چشم مستت چشم جهان ندیده

همچون تو نازنینی سر تا قدم لطافت

... گیتی نشان نداده ایزد نیافریده

شاهد فال:

مزرع سبز فلک دیدم و داس مه نو

یادم از کشته خویش آمد و هنگام درو

گفتم ای بخت بخفتیدی و خورشید دمید

گفت با اینهمه از سابقه نومید مشو

سرود پنجم

2006-03-27T01:16:00.000-08:00

اکنون رخت به سراچه آسمانی ديگر خواهم کشيد
آسمان آخرين
که ستاره تنهای آن
توئی.

آسمان روشن
سرپوش بلورين باغی
که تو تنها گل آن، تنها زنبور آنی.
باغی که تو
تنها درخت آنی
و بر آن درخت
گلی است يگانه
که توئی.

ای آسمان و درخت و باغ من، گل و زنبور و کندوی من!
با زمزمه‌ تو
اکنون رخت به گستره‌ خوابی خواهم کشيد
که تنها رويای آن
توئی.

احمد شاملو -

oxygen

2006-03-25T22:53:00.000-08:00

As I was driving my car today the check engine sign came on and yes, I panicked. After checking with my mechanic to make sure it was ok to drive, and finishing all my shopping, I came home and surfed the web for answers. It seems that most likely the oxygen sensor has failed, although now that I think of it I will probably need to have the fuel filter replaced too. My poor little car can't breath properly, it needs oxygen!

Searching webpages for answers I came to this: "... the check engine light came on, so I checked the engine and it was still there! ... "

خرسند

2006-03-25T21:27:00.000-08:00

تو دلم الان ضیافته. به اندازه همه دنیا کار دارم و می دونم احتمالا خیلیهاش انجام نمی شه ولی باز هم ته دلم شادترین جای دنیاست. می دونم این شروع یه چیز خوبه، می دونم جراتی که به خرج دادم و خیلی جاها زمینم زد اینبار دستم رو گرفت. اگه آخر راه هم همینجا باشه، شادم که یاد گرفتم خوشحال بودن یعنی چی

divorce

2006-03-25T12:27:00.000-08:00

You can still see the bitterness between them, but you feel they long for one another at the same time, or at least that's what they feel right now ... like any relationship that comes to an end ... I know the feeling, you wish you could hate the person, you want to be away, but then something inside you says no.
Sitting and thinking and thinking doesn't help. Neither does trying to be logical. You're so at odds with yourself that every time you come to a different conclusion. I don't know what it is, but at a certain point you know that it's time to let go. You know the right thing is to let it pass. Truth is, time heals all those mixed feelings, and when it's all over, you can take all the time you need to make sure you have moved on ...

childish

2006-03-24T23:33:00.000-08:00

For crying out loud, what a baby!!!

شبانه روز

2006-03-24T10:24:00.000-08:00

خدا یه پولی به من یه عقلی به اینا بده. حالا پول من رو بی خیال عقل عجله است

!روزگار

2006-03-24T01:09:00.000-08:00

باید بگم که یا من مستجاب الدعوه شدم یا یه معجزه رخ داده. ولی هر کدوم که باشه قبوله، آرزو کردم و برآورده شد. به این سرعت! چیزی که اصلا فکرش رو هم نمی کردم. یه کم وجدان درد دارم، اما به خدا اصلا درستش همینه ... حالا می بینیم

greetings

2006-03-22T17:41:00.000-08:00

One of the great things about days we celebrate is that it gives you an excuse to check on your friends, some of whom you may not be in touch with a lot through the year. After the phone calls I received and the ones I made, the stack of emails I yet have to answer reminds me that there are people around the world who care enough to think of me at such times ... it fills me with joy ... I just finished answering the ones I had received before the New Year, the others I will eventually get to ... what a wonderful chore to have on your to-do list!

transition

2006-03-21T14:47:00.000-08:00

I have changed so many times so many ways that I have lost track of it myself. And yet, the music, the music still brings back so many memories from the archives of my mind, sweet and gentle, pure beauty ... I have lived, no, I am living a miracle ...

!مبارکه مبارک

2006-03-20T17:17:00.000-08:00

strength

2006-03-18T12:11:00.000-08:00

There's a power in knowing what you want ...

home

2006-03-18T11:55:00.000-08:00

Another summer day
Has come and gone away
In Paris and Rome
But I wanna go home

Maybe surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh I miss you, you know
....
Another aeroplane
Another sunny place
I’m lucky I know
But I wanna go home
I’ve got to go home

- Michael Buble

ramble

2006-03-18T00:31:00.000-08:00

Just on the weekend that I need a little me time to get things done I have so much else to do!

call

2006-03-16T13:21:00.000-08:00

He called me and left a message not to call him back and that he will call me ... honestly, I just saw his number and dialed ... I even left a message!

یادبود

2006-03-16T12:30:00.000-08:00

دیدی که رسوا شد دلم، غرق تمنا شد دلم

دیدی که من با این دل بی آرزو عاشق شدم
با آنهمه آزادگی بر زلف او عاشق شدم

ای وای اگر صیاد من، غافل شود از یاد من، قدرم نداند
فریاد اگر از کوی خود، وز رشته گیسوی خود، بازم رهاند

این آهنگی است که در مجموعه گلها با صدای مرضیه و آهنگسازی علی تجویدی اجرا شد. علی تجویدی دیروز درگذشت، روانش شاد

سیب

2006-03-15T18:01:00.000-08:00

تو به من خنديدي
و نمي دانستي
من به چه دلهره از باغچه همسايه
سيب را دزديم
باغبان از پي من تند دويد
سيب را دست تو ديد
غضب آلوده به من كرد نگاه
سيب دندان زده از دست تو افتاد به خاك
و تو رفتي و هنوز
سالهاست كه در گوش من آرام آرام
خش خش گام تو تكرار كنان
مي دهد آزارم
و من انديشه كنان غرق اين پندارم
كه چرا
خانه كوچك ما سيب نداشت

حمید مصدق -

shimmer

2006-03-14T20:31:00.000-08:00

Thinking about time, remember the first day? Remember how you finally made up your mind? How you finally decided that it was time?
It's just over a year that I decided to start writing a blog. Thanks to Ali who gave me the final push and thanks to all of my beautiful wonderful friends, those whom I know in person and those whom I have not met, all of the great people who gave me support, left comments or emailed me to make sure I am ok or expressed joy in my happiness ... it has been an exceptional experience ...
As for now, I plan to continue writing. But if there should come a day that I should let it go, I will know that it helped me pull through hard times, enjoy happy times and celebrate life ... introduced me to new friends, made me think deeper, try to understand others better and get to know myself more ... it has been a thrill ...

so hard to love

2006-03-14T19:09:00.000-08:00

Was it some man that didn't treat you right,
left you reaching out for him in the middle of the night
Is there some heartache that you can't out run,
that makes you so afraid to get close to anyone

You're so - easy to look at
You're so easy to hold
It's so easy to touch you,
but so hard to let go
It's so easy to want you,
that I can't get enough

Tell me why do ya have to be
why do ya have to be so hard to love

Is it some hurt from long ago,
that makes it so hard to let your feelings show
Is it the ghost of who you used to be,
that makes you so afraid to bear your soul to me

- Bryan Adams

blessings

2006-03-14T18:17:00.000-08:00

I received the first New Year congratulations today, wow, it keeps going by faster and faster ... I am not scared of the end, it's just that I love the current state so much ...

باباطاهر

2006-03-13T16:06:00.000-08:00

ز دست دیده و دل هر دو فریاد
که هر چه دیده ویند دل کند یاد
بسازم خنجری نیشش ز فولاد
زنم بر دیده تا دل گردد آزاد

سه درد آمو بجانم هر سه يكبار
غريبي و اسيري و غم يار
غريبي و اسيري چاره ديره
غم يار و غم يار و غم يار

دلم ميل گل و باغ ته ديره
درون سينه ام داغ ته ديره
بشم آلاله زاران لاله چينم
وينم آلاله هم داغ ته ديره

hate

2006-03-12T23:22:00.000-08:00

Hate is not the opposite of love, indifference is.

- Bree Van De Camp (Desperate Housewives)

officially

2006-03-11T12:34:00.000-08:00

I have been named the social person at school. My friends knew, but I never thought the other students at school would know ... interesting ...

اتمی

2006-03-11T00:25:00.000-08:00

یه نفر پیشنهاد کرد سیاست ایران مثل شطرنجه که هر مهره اش جداگانه بازی می کنه! حرف حساب، یا به اصطلاح، یک کلمه هم از مادر عروس

tolerance

2006-03-09T22:57:00.000-08:00

It seems to me that I shouldn't have made a big deal about it - of course compared to the usual me it wasn't that bad! No, nothing changed. I am just starting to feel more comfortable with the idea, I guess I can say I am being more understanding ... I am so glad, I want this to work ... oh, so maybe it's because I have decided to make it work this time around ... I mean talking about it, I felt it was ok ...

oddly enough!

2006-03-08T18:24:00.000-08:00

I sure did get off the wrong side of the bed this morning. I was so grumpy I kept thinking what I should do to cheer myself up. I couldn't skip school, I had to deliver a letter to someone at school, so I decided that instead I would go to school and get some good reading done which would make me feel pleased with myself. RIGHT!
It was snowing up on the mountain which made me not want to go to our lab in the middle of the forest, so I checked on a friend to see if I could stay in their lab. The sweet girl she is ... honestly I didn't get much reading done. You know, a long lunch break and then a coffee break and a tea break and the group accumulates ... I guess it wasn't my fault, they closed the school due to bad weather conditions and although I am a graduate student I still didn't feel I should be working ... long story short, we're going over to a friends place to celebrate International Woman's Day and watch Walk the Line ... not to mention the nice phone call I got the minute I arrived home ... I am as jolly as can be!

دفاع

2006-03-08T09:41:00.000-08:00

منظورشون چیه من واقعا نمی فهمم!!!؟

rumor

2006-03-07T18:22:00.000-08:00

Over the past month 4 of my friends deleted their Orkut accounts, I think gossip was a major factor in their decision. So let me add to that: someone told their boyfriend that someone else had hated their date with him. Although he has a girlfriend now, that Mr Boyfriend is mad. The only unknown here is who he is mad at! His girlfriend or the person who never became his girlfriend?!

... من و تو، بارون و درخت

2006-03-06T19:42:00.000-08:00

من باهارم تو زمين
من زمینم تو درخت
من درختم تو باهار ــ
ناز انگشتای بارون تو باغم مي‌کنه
ميون جنگلا تاقم مي‌کنه.

تو بزرگی مثِ شب.
اگه مهتاب باشه يا نه
تو بزرگی مثِ شب.

خودِ مهتابی تو اصلاً، خودِ مهتابی تو.
تازه، وقتي بره مهتاب و
هنوز
شبِ تنها
بايد
راه دوری ‌رو بره تا دَم دروازه روز ــ
مثِ شب گود و بزرگی
مثِ شب.

تازه، روزم که بياد
تو تميزی
مثِ شبنم
مثِ صبح.

تو مثِ مخملِ ابری
مثِ بوی علفي
مثِ اون ململِ مه نازکي:
اون ململِ مه
که رو عطرِ علفا، مثل بلاتکليفی
هاج و واج مونده مردد
ميون موندن و رفتن
ميون مرگ و حيات.

مثِ برفايی تو.
تازه آبم که بشن برفا و عُريون بشه کوه
مثِ اون قله‌ مغرور بلندی
که به ابرایِ سياهی و به بادای بدی می‌خندی ...

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من باهارم تو زمين
من زمينم تو درخت
من درختم تو باهار،
ناز انگشتای بارون تو باغم می‌کنه
ميون جنگلا تاقم می‌کنه

احمد شاملو -

آرزو

2006-03-05T11:53:00.000-08:00

یه آرزو کردم، از اون طرف بوم افتاد - مثل خیلی چیزای دیگه! کسی می دونه میشه به آرزو تبصره ای چیزی اضافه کرد؟

today

2006-03-05T04:33:00.000-08:00

اشک

2006-03-03T18:38:00.000-08:00

یاد اون آهنگ گوگوش افتادم:

اگر در چشم هم اشکی ببینیم توان رفتن از ما می گریزد

برو بگذار این دیوار کهنه به نام عشق ما در هم بریزد

regression

2006-03-03T18:22:00.000-08:00

He fell for her too deep, too fast. He is so blindsided by his feelings that he can't even think clearly. She told him from the start that it wouldn't work out between them, but he didn't want to believe so. Not that I am saying he shouldn't have hoped for the situation to work itself out, but it didn't take long for her not to want to talk to him ... and not that she didn't try, it was just complicated ...

monetary

2006-03-03T16:14:00.000-08:00

The Canadian dollar raised to its highest in 14 years. In hope to stabilize that, the target for the overnight rate was kept at 3.5% despite all the rumors about it going up on March 1st. With the prediction that the dollar is to rise in the next couple of months we might see a constant target for overnight rate for a while. Although it's good news for mortgages payers with the inflation rate prediction around 2.8% for the next while I am not quite sure how that is going to play out ... and what will that mean for people traveling back and forth between the US and Canada?

www

2006-03-03T01:14:00.000-08:00

The coolest car ad ever and something on quite a different page! Warning: some viewers may find the contents of this page disturbing, viewer discretion is advised.

repeat

2006-03-02T08:00:00.000-08:00

I won't do this again, I don't want to and nothing can force me to ...

transition

2006-03-01T17:25:00.000-08:00

Take the last look, it's about to change ...

droplets

2006-03-01T10:39:00.000-08:00

Spider web - no, not my photography!

evaluation

2006-03-01T10:20:00.000-08:00

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

perfect time

2006-02-27T15:52:00.000-08:00

Imagine sitting in the car in pouring rain, the music turned up high and you're chewing on mocha chocolate ... I could sit there for ever ...

alert!

2006-02-26T00:10:00.001-08:00

Is it true? Do I run in the opposite direction when things are going just right? Does it suffocate me or am I scared? This is bad! I mean if it's true then I need to do something about it ... but how do I really know?

کاریکاتور

2006-02-25T23:46:00.000-08:00

genographic

2006-02-24T17:30:00.000-08:00

This is so cool, I think every once in a while you need a cue like this so you remember how far we have come and how we have evolved into the civilization we are now ...

push!

2006-02-24T15:18:00.000-08:00

I love it! I never seize to surprise myself ... I just get up one morning and decide to do something I had been thinking over and over about ... and by afternoon it's done, something I had thought about for so long ... what if I could do this everyday?! What would become of my life ...

celebrity

2006-02-23T23:54:00.000-08:00

I jumped out of my chair with his scream, it was unusual even for my brother. He rushed into my room yelling I'm in the video! I'm in the clip! ... a while ago he went for an audition and was told that he might be in the video clip for Nickleback's new single Savin' me ... seems like he made it, and now he's our celebrity! I got a signature from him last night, you never know, a lot of people started off as extras!

forever and for always

2006-02-23T23:48:00.000-08:00

In your heart, I can still hear
a beat for every time you kiss me
And when we're apart,
I know how much you miss me
I can feel your love for me in your heart

In your eyes, I can still see
the look of the one who really loves me
The one who wouldn't put anything
else in the world above me
(I can still see love for me) I can
still see love for me in your eyes

- Shania Twain

strings

2006-02-22T22:36:00.000-08:00

You just have to be inside me to know how I feel about the guitar ...

هنوز

2006-02-22T19:13:00.000-08:00

نه اینکه داشته باشم خیلی کار کنم یا یه همچین چیزی، نه. فقط نمی دونم چرا این قایق سواری پا نمی ده. خیلی هوس کرده بودم، نمی دونم چرا و حالا بدجوری رو دلم مونده

grace

2006-02-22T18:05:00.000-08:00

Thank you, thank you, thank you for all I have ... I am happy and healthy and I live in a beautiful city with wonderful people ...

And if you're wondering, no, nothing new has happened and there is no news of any kind, it's just that ... looking at the life I have, I feel so blessed ...

nearly there

2006-02-21T22:55:00.000-08:00

I am almost convinced that I should do this. The point being, I can't find a reason I should refrain. Well, supposing it might not go as planned is not a valid reason. And as long as I don't try I'll never know ... besides, I'm feeling a little less resistance in me, I'll take it as a good sign, maybe it is time ...

Tyra

2006-02-21T19:33:00.000-08:00

As you may know the previous actress/model now has a TV talk show of her own, The Tyra Banks Show. It just happens that CTV puts the show on around the time that I feel like sitting in front of the TV and resting a little bit ...
I used to think of her as a typical model who got caught in the excitement of doing TV business like many others in her profession. I didn't even credit her enough to agree that she is the teenagers' Oprah. But that changed over time. Although I still wouldn't say I eagerly follow her shows or that I would take advice from her, it now seems to me that she understands people, or at least Americans, better than the average person ... she has insight into the problems and can find, well, at least short time solutions ...
One reason I started writing this post was that I am impressed by what she said on her show today. She was interviewing a group of prostitutes and the manager of the ranch as they called it - in Nevada prostitution is legal, and these people were trying to convince everyone to look at it as any other business! Ugh!!! She made it clear that she didn't agree it was so and said something along the lines of: I can understand why guys would go to a prostitute, although I don't agree with the reason and I don't like it, but what I don't understand is how you girls actually do this!
I really liked how she brought up this subject, introduced the business and although they were feeling good about themselves, made them look the idiots they were!

bold

2006-02-20T20:15:00.000-08:00

We had a guest speaker today, a very busy meeting, a very interesting one ... but I help couldn't noticing that except for the 2 ladies and the 2 young men, all the professors were bald, that even includes the speaker who wasn't that old! Does this have to do with the school or the university? I'll have to check computing science to see if it has to do with the school and then I can look into the ECE department at UBC ...

P.S. thanks to Roozbeh for the correction!

smart!

2006-02-20T11:31:00.000-08:00

So me and my brother were playing around with our cell phones. I was showing him how smart my phone is and I was saying that I keep all my contacts on the phone memory not on the SIM card. We decided to switch our SIM cards to check something and guess what I did?! Without coping the contacts to the SIM card I took out the battery! And now smart me is left with a cell phone and no contact information on it!! Oh dear, I am sure there are some phone numbers I don't have anywhere else ... I might have to send out an email and ask everyone for their number, not such a smart idea though is it?!

P.S. the above was a rather immature post, especially considering that I claim to know something about these devices - again emphasizing the not so smart decisions I make! Having decided the worst thing taking out the battery would do was to lock the memory, not delete it, I was left to figure what had happened. After fiddling with the phone for a while I realized I needed a security code which I later discovered I could look up on the web ... aside for being an unhappy me for a few hours, everything is fine now! Hurray!

unraveled

2006-02-19T18:56:00.000-08:00

It's a classic, I know. Am I too unwilling to try or should I really trust my gut feeling? Or maybe there is nothing to think about so much!

farewell

2006-02-19T18:51:00.000-08:00

He was in the military and it was illegal for him to leave the country. His parents didn't know he was leaving, they found out when he and his family were safely in Canada. After years his mother was going to visit him, she died on that day ... they never had a chance to say goodbye, neither when he left nor when she did ...

Oscar Wilde

2006-02-18T22:31:00.000-08:00

"Ambition is the last refuge of failure"

دلدار

2006-02-17T18:49:00.000-08:00

گر گناهست به دلدار سپردن دل

شاد از آنیم که فرخنده گناهی کردیم

-نیما جهان بین

long time due

2006-02-17T16:32:00.000-08:00

Since I came to SFU I had always wanted to go into the cleanroom. All the other labs and equipments you can just walk in and examine yourself, but with the cleanroom, at least I preferred to go in with someone else.
Finally today I spent about 2 hours in there with a friend. I was shown all the equipment and we actually sat there as they deposited material onto her wafer ... it was fun ... and now I have seen everything in all the engineering labs at school ... it has to count for something, right?!

emerging technologies

2006-02-17T10:57:00.000-08:00

Is this cool or what!

shuffle

2006-02-16T23:37:00.000-08:00

What if I am uncomfortable doing something? What if I feel scared? Is it that hard to understand?

royal

2006-02-16T12:37:00.000-08:00

I had never seen a sky so blue in my life until I saw the sky here, I wish you could all see this beauty ...

2006-02-16T10:04:00.000-08:00

You make your way through life, deciding who you are, how you feel, and what you believe in. Sure, it's hard, but you do what you think is right ... and then it goes on: if you are facing the pressure of an unwanted pregnancy ... it's a crisis line ad.

The other one I like is for a brand of energy bars, I like the part where it says ... because when you make healthy choices, others follow ... it's true, others do follow ...