Come Back

Hi. I'm back again and to describe the trip I should only say "Jatun Khali." ,it's a Persian proverb which means " I hope you were with me there, because I had wonderful times." Anyway, I have lots of pictures from there which gradually I present them to you and of course wish you again a Happy New Year.

For now, I want to show you a picture of a roof of an ordinary house in Shiraz. It was made in Zandieh generation and shows the beauty of Iranian art techniques at that time. This roof is made of mirror and sand and the paintings are imaginable. Take a look.

Good bye 1384

Better to have the last post of the old year in a humor sense.
One of the traditions of the last days of a year is that you should pay Eidi (gift but in money shape) to those workers you deal with like barber, butchery, house worker ,etc.
Two nights ago the man who collects garbage's from the houses doors rang all the belts and asked for his Eidi and of course most of the neighbors give him some money. But surprisingly last night again our doors rang and garbage collector asked for Eidi!!!!!!!!!!!
We found that the night before someone else had collected the money, and now it was very hard to give that poor, old man again the money :D

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Happy New Year. Today is the last day of the year and tonight at 21:55 New Year takes the place of the old one. According to the solar calendar it's very exact and real; based on the period earth needs to have a complete turn around the sun; a symbol of unity and management.
Actually last year was a good one for me, I still was allowed to continue my life and improve it the way I wish.
I hope everyone to enjoy the moments of changing year as much as possible and have a year full of prosperity and success in front.
Happy New Year.

p.s. I'm going to Shiraz for the holidays, I try to update my blog if possible but just want to say maybe no update for 10 days.
Wish see you all kind readers after the time.

Haft-seen

I've promised you to write more about haft-seen. But I found a better website describing it completely, advicing it to you. Here you are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouruz

Only 2 days are left

You can smell spring from now. Everybody is moving to do his remained works at the last moments of the year. All the houses are cleaned and most of the children have bought their new cloths.
Tehran is going to be empty, I can feel it from today, not any more traffic in the morning and seeing lots of people saying Happy New Year and then run away.
Now in most of the houses you can find special sweets and nuts served during Nouruz and also new notes which are going to be paid as Eidi (something like a gift) on first days.
What more can I say describing theses days? It's not limited to the words. You should do it to feel its joys and hopes, and thank God that we Iranian have this nice costume for our New Year.
…yes, Nouruz is coming…

Last Tuesday Night

Norouz is coming…
Last night was Charshanbe suri in Iran. If you are not Persian you will never understand what I mean. Actually it was an old tradition, maybe started by Zoroastrians, done at the last Tuesday night of the year. At this night ancient Iranians fire some woods and by jumping over it purities their souls from dirtiness; because they think fire is the symbol of cleanness.
But unfortunately this nice costume is distorted during last 20 years. Maybe the reason was forbidding it by Islamic powers. People never stop their hobbies, even by force. So these hidden actions convert that nice fire to very dangerous bombs which make a big noise and most of the times cause bad injuries.
I don't know when this wave is stopped. But we can very easily manage it by turning back to those nice days.
Last night was Charshanbe suri in Iran… Norouz is coming…

The Last Supper

You all know Leonardo Da Vinci. He is some how the most famous painter of the world. I read a nice story about him, want to share it with you:
The church asked Leonardo to paint his best known paint, The Last Supper; they ordered him the size and content of the picture. In the picture he should paint Messiah and Judas as his enemy. First one was the symbol of goodness and the other one as the opposite. Leonardo thought a lot and went in public, he looked carefully at the faces and at last found a good-looking young man who was very clear and polite and educated …. He asked him to become his model and this phase was done. But he was still looking for the face of Judas. This search took 3 years. The church was in hurry and keep on asking.
One day Leonardo decided to choose the bad face that day. He went to Bazaar and found a dirty man, drunk and asleep beside the street. He asked his men to wake him up and hold him as a model of the bad face. When his work was done, the man became conscious and looked at Leonardo's picture. He said he had seen this picture 3 years ago and at that time he was the model of Messiah!!!!
At that time Leonardo found that goodness and badness are inside everybody and just depends on your paying attention to each side.

Thank you all

Isn't it interesting that it's your birthday and everybody remembers it?
I think it's better to know that you still have your good friends.
… and something else, people always celebrate birthdays; not only because they want to have a reason of being happy; but also because they feel continuing life with all it's problems is a big job ,so they show their praise of it. (at the moment it's my idea about everybody who I celebrate his birthday.)
Happy birthday Fattaneh!!! Happy birthday Somi!!! And thank you all good friends.

Help everyone?

It's very bad to have a feeling that someone just is around you because he needs your help; after you do your best for him ,he will totally forget you and then again ,maybe after 1~2 years he calls you and ask about your family and at the end says his request.
I'm sure for everyone it has happened, but the reactions in front of these people are different. Some people say maybe one day we need them so it's better to not say anything and just give the help. But there are some other people who say we never can count on such a personality, so it's better to cut the relationship. Which category do you fall in?

Norouz trips

For Norouz holidays, we have about 15 days off. It's a good opportunity to have a trip and enjoy the time with family. Those who are wealthy enough go abroad.
In the countries with most Iraninan visitors, some concerts are held. The singers of these concerts are Iraninan too, but they are not allowed to have their programs in the country so they wait for such holidays and come to those countries. They should pay a lot of money to those cities they have program and ofcourse they earn much more than it from the visitors. So it's realy an industry but with no benefit for those who put money on it. I mean, we have Iranian visitor and Iraninan singer but in a foreign country .
Each time a lot of local money is changed to foreign rates and no body take the responsibility. Maybe if those singers were allowed to sing in Iran( with regards to the Islamic situation even.) instead of improving Dubai or Antalya ,we were looking at a modern Kish Island or Isfahan or Shiraz…

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In tehran we can't see this gigantic,lovely sky :(

8th March

Tomorrow is March the 8th; maybe you know that it's the international day of women. Every year at this day women organizations hold some parties to make everyone remember the day. I've seen lots of men who laugh at their efforts and whisper look at them, again they are screaming to get their named-rights. But none of these actions make them stop. At least at March the 8th for some minutes we can think about those women in the world who were killed or committing suicide out of the cruelty of the men near them.

Spring is coming

In Iran costume, start of the New Year is on the 1st of spring. In Esfand; the last month of solar calendar; we see lots of movements in the entire city. Everybody are preparing for the New Year. Parents are buying new cloths for the children, grandparents are making their home ready for their visitors, flower shops are selling the especial flowers for springs, groceries are selling Haft-Seen tools (I'll talk about this nice costume later), tourist agencies are managing their Norouz tours and house work women are cleaning all their homes.
The last part is the hardest part for me and I never like to do it, although always some worker comes to help me but the feeling of cleaning the home from toe to head is frightening.
But I like these days from another side too. I have the hope of enjoying the holidays now, but after passing the New Year holidays there isn't any near enjoyful future.
I'll write much more about spring coming ;)

Angerness

The ability of controlling the anger is a feeling that is not built in human beings. You should exercise to reach that point and of course before reaching to it you should pay the cost. When you are angry you decide not wisely and after a while you see its effects. Maybe you have said or done something, but out of your anger you hadn't thought about it, so the future is the time for your regrets.
I know it's very ideal to first think and then talk or to just wait for calmness and then act; but it's not far to reach, it needs some concentration on the rules of your anger time's action. Just have a try, it will work!!!

These men ....

Imagine you are eating dinner in front of the TV and it's showing a horror movie. You are deeply inside the story and are just drinking a glass of water, but it never ends. You drink and drink but it doesn't end. Your stomach is full and you feel you can't even breathe but it doesn't end again. Guess what could be the reason?
In my case it was Mehrdad who was sitting beside me and just was pouring water into my glass to see when I understand his naughtiness!!!

Driving license

In every country it's hard to get your driving license. Most of youth are waiting to reach 18 to get their license, having it is a sign of growing to an adult, so they put a lot of efforts on it.
When I was taking my license, I was failed 3 times. But I'd told all my friends about it, so I didn't have any other way. I went and went till the moment that police feel sorry for me and passed me. Now when I look back, I see I wasn't qualified at all. Driving isn't a matter of having the license but it's a matter of having the experience.
Tomorrow someone is going to pass his test, If he promise give us sweet after getting his license we will pray for his passing, otherwise he will fail more than 10 times :D

100

This is my 100th post. Some numbers have different values than their names. This one hundred is the same for me. When I started blogging for the first time about 2 years ago, it was very hard for me to write in English which is not my vernacular. At first I was writing my texts on a piece of paper and then typing it and then correcting the mistake and … so it takes a lot of time to find the subject and then finding the words used in it and then typing and correcting the texts. This hard procedure encouraged me to stop English writing or even writing, but there were some permanent readers who were persuading me for writing more texts and their courage's made me to this point.
Now I see if I don't look at my page I feel kind of homesick and even if nobody read it , I feel comfortable of writing my ideas somewhere and I owe it to all those good readers.