Persian Movies

To the point, simple, down to earth, well presented, real life, great acting. There are many ways to describe Persian movies. Amazingly they are one of the most beautiful piece of cinema you can ever witness.

Take Children of Heaven, Colors of Paradise, Baran, Two Women, Firework Wednesday for that matter. Simply the best money can buy. Presented without any vulgarity, yet inspirational stories. you would for sure enjoy them.

smoking

Those of you who never saw me smoking, I do smoke, but the thing I never understand is "why do I smoke", is it the lonliness I am trying to kill? or is it the way I am meeting my self? is it for style? or mental relaxation? I really don't understand it to the day.

I think I shall give it up, and then see the changes it bring. right now I am killing my self. in every technical way possible.

I know its not good for my future children/my lungs/my throat. but still why do I do it?

Depression!!

I am depress, If I rank it, this would be the second highest depression I have ever faced.
This depression came to me, because I was too generous in giving away money to people who at first place never deserved it, secondly I never knew them properly.

To give you a hint, I lend a friend some money, who used to live with me at that time, mean while my father got sick, and then he died. This friend of mine never even said a word of condolence to me. Then my grandfather also died, same again, then even when he got married, he never invited me. Even I beg him for money when I was getting married, and now when I want to bring my wife here, same is the case. Tell me what do you call a friend like that? Its sheer frustration, today on record I am bankrupt, but for what? The second person, who fudged me harder than the first one, also came through a friend.

For helping other. Lesson learnt, Never lend anyone any money!!

I am glad that my wife understands it all, feel lucky to have her in my life.......

The Typical Cycle

Around the time we turn, say, 11 to 15, we begin to experience a rush of strange and powerful interest in certain other members of the human race. This rush, to one degree or another, typically continues throughout the rest of our lives.
To our surprise, we suddenly find our hearts pounding, our voices quivering, our breath short, we think of "him" or "her" aaaall the time . . . they transform into the doorway to happiness, holding our trembling heart in their hands, ripe with the promise of ever-lasting bliss . . .
- or maybe . . .this just launches us on a predictable chain of events. . .
The Typical Cycle
Step One: "The Catch"
Going through life. Someone catches your eye. Thought: "They can make me happy!" "This is what I've been waiting for all of my life." Promise of fulfillment. The future is bright, and bursting with potential.

"Love is what happens to a man and a woman
who don't know each other."
- W. Somerset Maugham
Step Two: "Courtship"
You display your best features, hide the bad ones. At this point, either get painfully rejected several times and return to Step One, or if the courtship is successful, fall in "love."

"When two people are under the influence of the most violent,
most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions,
they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited,
abnormal and exhausting condition until death do them part."
- George Bernard Shaw
Step Three: "Romance"
Time moves on. Swell of passion begins to fade. He/she is still perfect . . . mostly, well except maybe for this one little thing . . .

"The duration of passion is proportionate
with the original resistance of the woman."
- Honore de Balzac

Step Four: "The Honeymoon Has Ended."
A wide assortment of minor problems emerge, usually each party blaming the other, either loudly or secretly.

"Men are April when they woo,
December when they wed;
maids are May when they are maids,
but the sky changes when they are wives."
- William Shakespeare (As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 1)
Step Five: "Rude Awakening"
Problems, issues, and troubles.Infatuation fully fades away. You realize that this other person is just another normal, flawed, breathing, scratching, coughing, fearful, complicated human being, just like yourself, more or less. They find out the same about you. Guys begin to think "Why is she like that?" Girls begin to think, "He'll never change." Often this is accompanied by feelings of betrayal, of having been wronged, let down, disappointed, or hurt.

"Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door
and smells of Lysol."
- Ernest Hemingway
Step Six: "This isn't what I expected."
"I realize that what I thought was the real solution, IT, the Answer, the end of loneliness, boredom, unhappiness . . . wasn't. Now I'm right back where I started, lonely and in pain. You go to bed soulmates, wake up cellmates."

"Marriage is like paying an endless visit
in your worst clothes."
- J. B. Priestley
Step Seven: "Crossroads"
This step consists of how one copes with the previous step. Here, one is at the following crossroads: Either
1. Break up or divorce;
2. Separate, or take a breather, and resume problems at a later time;
3. Both partners find a way for the relationship to evolve to a deeper level of understanding and maturity;
4. Have an affair (return to Step One); or
5. Resign yourself to a dull, colorless life full of crushing disappointment, barren drudgery, and hopeless resignation.

"Typical love is like two poor people
where each believe that the other is rich.
Sooner or later, each finds out that that is other person is just as poor as they are."
- Roy Masters
Step Eight: "Rest a bit."
Ponder on what went wrong, and try to come up with theories and/or explanations of what happened. The quality and accuracy of answers vary, depending on how in touch with reality one is, one's honesty, and often the quality of relationship books one is reading. Typically, the solution is to conclude that it was the other person's fault, and the way to not make the same mistake again is to find a "better" person. (Note: this step can, and often is, skipped by those who move immediately to a new partner, thus returning again to the cycle at Step One.)
"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love
when they no longer love each other."
- Duc de la Rochefoucauld


Step Nine: "Start looking for a new catch."
Return to Step 1.
"Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve the continuation of the species."
- W. Somerset Maugham

From http://www.livereal.com/relationship_arena/typical_cycle.htm

Silence

I can't mostly keep quite in daily life, I have to speak and give comments on each and everything. Now sometimes people do piss me off too, and do you know my way of taking revenge? "Don't Speak". True, thats my way of taking revenge. Now people around me are so much used to listen to me, that when I am quite they feel irritated. Mostly they think, that they have made me silent, but you have no idea how much I enjoy it inside mwhahahahahaha

Mirrors

It happens to be that there is still some construction work going on in our office building, for which contractors have acquired a elevator, which they have covered with paper, protecting it from damages while carrying goods. Now sometimes, as others elevators are not available people have to travel in the elevators covered with papers. As being a observer I can't resist observing peoples while they travel on different elevators.

People like more to travel in elevators with mirrors in it. Why? because we want to see ourselves everywhere around, in the elevators, in the papers, in the eyes, we just want to leave our marks wherever we go. Thats why I guess to us our best friends are not the ones who helped us in need, but are the ones who flatter us, or best employee in the [non procedural] company, who always keeps his boss in front.

Email

Its not that I am wise, you know the things I have told you better than I do, we all strive for continuous and genuine happiness in life, you don't need to learn from books or words of a wise men, you need to look into yourself to find your soul, which shall grow with time. Don't consider yourself a looser or defeated, you have just begin your journey, life is a process and so are we and everything which surrounds us. everything takes time settle down, relax and enjoy what have you have in your hands, rather then crying over what you haven't got your fingers across.

To be honest with you, don't regret for what you have chosen, stick with your job for a while, look for a better opportunity and move along.

I know my words can be hurting, I am sorry for that. I feel you to be more wiser than me.

(Email I sent to a very young friend.)

The sound of silence

Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said i,you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whispered in the sounds of silence.

The Sound of Silence
by Simon And Garfunkel

Oscars : my winners

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Angelina Jolie for Changeling
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Achievement in Directing
Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008): Mike Leigh
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Eric Roth, Robin Swicord
Best Achievement in Cinematography
The Dark Knight (2008): Wally Pfister
Best Achievement in Editing
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Chris Dickens
Best Achievement in Art Direction
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
Best Achievement in Costume Design
The Duchess (2008): Michael O'Connor
Best Achievement in Makeup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Greg Cannom
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman, Sampooran Singh Gulzar("Jai Ho")
Best Achievement in Sound
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
The Dark Knight (2008): Richard King
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
The Dark Knight (2008): Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, Paul J. Franklin
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
WALL•E (2008): Andrew Stanton
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Vals Im Bashir (2008)(Israel)
Best Documentary, Features
Man on Wire (2008): James Marsh, Simon Chinn
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
The Final Inch (2009): Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant
Best Short Film, Animated
This Way Up (2008): Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes
Best Short Film, Live Action
Grisen (2008): Tivi Magnusson, Dorthe Warnø Høgh

Plants

Have you ever wonder what plants sing? or how do they communicate, how thank God for what he have given to them, for all the beauty and food....it just happened that when I came back from a short vacations, finding my plants dead, I won't blame anyone for the purpose, the first thing I did was to water them all, while watering a thought came to my mind about plants remembering God, and me never connecting to the all mighty, why should I not help the plants, why should I not water them to live a little more to remember God and serve the humanity...

I love my plants now, more like my children :)

Anger Management (Humor)

Anger Management (Humor)
7/31/2005 | Unknown

Posted on Sunday, July 31, 2005 6:00:29 AM by Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Anger Management

When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone, don't take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you don't know.

I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I'd forgotten to make. I found the number and dialed it. A man answered, saying "Hello." I politely said, "This is Chris. Could I please speak with Robin Carter?" Suddenly the phone was slammed down on me. I couldn't believe that anyone could be so rude.

I tracked down Robin's correct number and called her. I had transposed the last two digits of her phone number. After hanging up with her, I decided to call the 'wrong' number again. When the same guy answered the phone, I yelled "You're an asshole!" and hung up.

I wrote his number down with the word! '! asshole' next to it, and put it in my desk drawer. Every couple of weeks, when I was paying bills or had a reall y bad day, I'd call him up and yell, "You're an asshole!" It always cheered me up.

When Caller ID came to our area, I thought my therapeutic 'asshole' calling would have to stop. So, I called his number and said, "Hi, this is John Smith from the telephone company. I'm calling to see if you're familiar with our Caller ID Program?" He yelled "NO!" and slammed down the phone.

I quickly called him back and said, "That's because you're an asshole!"

One day I was at the store, getting ready to pull into a parking spot. Some guy in a black BMW cut me off and pulled into the spot I had patiently waited for. I hit the horn and yelled that I'd been waiting for that spot. The idiot ignored me. I noticed a "For Sale" sign in his car window, so I wrote down his number.

A couple of days later, right after calling the first asshole ( I had his number on speed dial,) I thought that I'd better call the BMW asshole, too.

I said, "Is this the man with the black BMW for sale?"

"Yes, it is."

"Can you tell me where I can see it?"

"Yes, I live at 1802 West 34th Street. It's a yellow house, and the car's parked right out in front."

"What's your name?" I asked.

"My name is Don Hansen," he said.

"When's a good time to catch you, Don?"

"I'm home every evening after five."

"Listen,Don, can I tell you something?"

"Yes?"

"Don, you're an asshole." Then I hung up, and added his number to my speed dial, too. Now, when I had a problem, I had two assholes to call.

But after several months of calling them, it wasn't as enjoyable as it used to be. So, I came up with an idea. I called Asshole #1.

"Hello."

"You're an asshole!" (But I didn't hang up.)

"Are you still there?" he asked.

"Yeah," I said.

"Stop calling me," he screamed.

"Make me," I said.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"My name is Don Hansen."

"Yeah? Where do you live?"

"Asshole, I live at 1802 West 34th Street, a yellow house, with my black Beamer parked in front."

He said, "I'm coming over right now, Don. And you had better start saying your prayers."

I said, "Yeah, like I'm really scared, asshole."

Then I called Asshole #2. "Hello?" he said.

"Hello, asshole," I said.

He yelled, "If I ever find out who you are..."

"You'll what?" I said.

"I'll kick your ass," he exclaimed.

I answered, "Well, asshole, here's your chance. I'm coming over right now."

Then I hung up and immediately called the police, saying that I lived at1802 West 34th Street, and that I was on my way over there to kill my gay lover.

Then I called Channel 13 News about the gang war going down on West 34th Street.

I quickly got into my car and headed over to 34th Street. There I saw two assholes beating the crap out of each other in front of six squad cars, a police helicopter and a news crew.

NOW I feel much better. Anger management. It really works!!!

Religion

When I was young and I used to read about the people (like I am now) I used to think how can a guy be so worst, how is it possible that someone becomes so ignorant to God, or shall I say never thank God for what the all mighty have given them. And when I look at myself, when I have also become one of the guys well worthy of facing the hell, I just can't figure out how it all happened.

How true it is all that I have read earlier, how can I deny anything. I have walked the dirty path which God forebid. Adam was sent out of heaven, just because he didn't listen to God and as he was in love with eve he ate the fruit, one mistake just one mistake. I make a millions of those mistakes each and everyday............

Hurt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

Fitter Happier

Fitter, happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week),
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries ,
at ease,
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats),
a patient better driver,
a safer car
(baby smiling in back seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams),
no paranoia,
careful to all animals
(never washing spiders down the plughole),
keep in contact with old friends
(enjoy a drink now and then),
will frequently check credit at
(moral) bank (hole in the wall),
favors for favors,
fond but not in love,
charity standing orders,
on Sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants),
car wash
(also on Sundays),
no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate,
nothing so childish - at a better pace,
slower and more calculated,
no chance of escape,
now self-employed,
concerned (but powerless),
an empowered and informed member of society
(pragmatism not idealism),
will not cry in public,
less chance of illness,
tires that grip in the wet
(shot of baby strapped in back seat),
a good memory,
still cries at a good film,
still kisses with saliva,
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat
tied to a stick,
that's driven into
frozen winter shit
(the ability to laugh at weakness),
calm,
fitter,
healthier and more productive
a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics.
Sample looping in background:
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FITTER HAPPIER Lyrics
Artist(Band):Radiohead

(Listning to this song is more fun than reading)

Tibet

Protests, killings and disagreements over a piece of land? People support Tibet’s freedom but let’s say China do free Tibet or let’s say India do free Kashmir. Do you think countries with over 1 billion of population can do that? There are lots and lots of separatist movements going on inside, Secondly we all know it’s a political/economical pressure, why don’t USA gets out of Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s not even their own country, China have raised the standard of living in Tibet, what have USA done to the people in those countries, created more suicide bombers and fundamentalists? Till March the death toll for only American Soldiers was 3000, you can multiply this with 100, if you want to know the death toll of civilians, but still the world is quite about this, why?

Hypocrisy !!!!!

Impatience!!

I feel irritated, agitated, frustrated, resentful, anxious, tense, over stressed, dissatisfied, upset, angry or ill tempered. By being impatient, we can: run the risk of being dissatisfied and upset; easily lose our control and fire off outbursts of anger; discard relationships, people, jobs, and school whenever things are not working out as quickly as we want them to; waste energy worrying about how slow things are changing instead of directing that energy towards the changes we desire; and withdraw prematurely from a good work because we are not seeing an immediate pay off for our efforts.

انالله مع صابرىن

I feel irritated, agitated, frustrated, resentful, anxious, tense, over stressed, dissatisfied, upset, angry, ill tempered, dissatisfied and upset; easily losing control over my self and fire off outbursts of anger; wasting my energy worrying about how slow things are changing instead of directing that energy towards the changes I desire and withdraw prematurely from a good work because I am not seeing an immediate pay off for my efforts. 

Impatience!! 

"The patience of man, which is right and laudable and worthy of the name of virtue, is understood to be that by which we tolerate evil things with an even mind, that we may not with a mind uneven desert good things, through which we may arrive at better"

God is with those who are patient. (انالله مع صابرىن )

Amazing

Amazing !! one word for our lives I guess, we are born where we can't even take care of our selves, than the eco-social-political-economical system we survive, than we lay down again in the chest of earth again or burnt, and fly with the air again, raise from the earth and go back there again.....isn't amazing, doesn't this tells you, there is something behind this all, which don't lets you die or sometimes live :))

Late Morning Lullaby

As soon as my eyes shut the slide show begins
Yesterday is gone now and panic sets in
With a weight upon my chest
and a ghost upon my back
And the numbing sensation of everything
I lack that leaves me
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming,
Your real world away

Only beautiful, beautiful bright eyes, lie
Only beautiful, beautiful bright eyes cry
Late morning lullaby

The first sign of morning is gray and alarming
It's so disappointing the day has come so soon
While the rest of the world greets the day and feels new
I will push it away just like I always do, I will be
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming,
Your real world away

Only beautiful, beautiful bright eyes, lie
Only beautiful, beautiful bright eyes cry
Late morning lullaby
Late morning lullaby

I would darken my window so I can fall asleep
While the critics frown down on the hours
I keep that leave me
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming,
Your real world away

Brandi Carlile's Late Morning Lullaby

Bees!!

'And thy Lord taught the bee to build its cells in hills, on trees and in (men's) habitations..... there issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, wherein is healing for mankind. Verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought'.(Translation of Quran 16:68-69)

'Honey is a remedy for every illness and the Qur'an is a remedy for all illness of the mind, therefore I recommend to you both remedies, the Qur'an and honey.'(Bukhari)

Einstein and God

Einstine Speech in Berlin

Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated. The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavours in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that is there.

Worst Years!!

Well, True this year is the worst year of my life (like 12 years back the same happened), today I am so sad guys and trust me I have got no one to even share this sorrow of mine, my father was just talking to me, as he was dignosed with stomach and liver cancer, I was not able to talk to him and he was still in a good mood, I should have asked him not to worry, but instead he was asking me not to worry......

sometimes in life, we leave everything for something, and when that leaves us you have nothing in our hand..........

Recession

The Question raised in the book called The Three Trillion Dollor War, regarding America's war in Iraq having effects on American Recession where USA is loosing 10 billion dollars a week our dear president said

BUSH: I don’t think so. I think actually the spending in the war might help with jobs…because we’re buying equipment, and people are working. I think this economy is down because we built too many houses and the economy’s adjusting.

Well I agree with the president on this point, people who desire for things that they don't deserve shall not be given loans, well for me America should be spending more on the war to create more jobs or hey attack Iran ;).

Courtesy

What will you do when you see someone in trouble? For sure being a human you will try to help them, but I learn in last few days that sometimes helping other human (Being a human) can cost you more than you can ever imagine. It might cost you your life, your carrier, not to say disrespect and humiliation also :).

I might be going back to my country soon, who knows what God’s plan is for me. Anyways Dubai is a nice place to live, a bit expensive, but if you really want to come and have a visit I would assure you, you will enjoy your stay here.

Take care hope I would get time to write my blogs when I go back to my country.

How much?

Few days back I moved to a new place, which is very well known place in Dubai, as its the main market, and major hotels are present in this part of the city. I took a walk today, as I go past few of the streets I thought as if I am in Thailand or I am in China, as there are so many prostitutes here!! no no, please don't think I was tempted...but trust me, I wanted to cry, as I was so sad to see all those women on the street, as they are reached by all kind of men, they sell them selves to feed their families and them selves....

Hunger makes us do all sorts of things...........

I shall do something solid, instead of just writing these fu****g words.