Boutique

BoutiqueBoutique is a good movie in its genre. It tries to depict a situation in which no one can be held responsible for the misery of the other. A situation not caused by people themselves but predestined for them before their birth. The daughter of a cemetery worker (Etti) in the southern part of Tenran, with a happy, fun loving spirit has fled home. She could not bear the daily cries she hears at the cemetery anymore. She hated the poverty and misery she has been going through. She comes across Jahan. Jahan(Golzar) does not seem a person from our planet :earth. He helps the girl however he can financially, mentally ,.. for sake of no actual compensation. Just to help her as a helpless girl. But there is an end to this help. When he finds our that she is lying and she has no place to sleep at night, then he decides may be it is time for her to go back to the her home, to the place she hates. What else can he do? How can u find a shelter for a lonely 17 years old, drop-out-school girl in a metropolitan like Tehran? A city where a single girl, alone has the obvious meaning of "availability" for...! That is when the story picks up to its dramatic turn. A turn that drowns Etti, Jahan and ... and finishes with the elevator taking Jahan to the end, to the worst of the worst.

Festival in Cannes (2001)

Festival in Cannes (2001) I saw this movie last night .. And it took me to the trip I took back in 1991.. When I was 18 and when I struggled 2 get my driver license b4 I left .. When it was my first trip .. alone .. and to the fabulous Cote d'azure .. When I sopke no Fernch and was in love with German ...

The movie took place in Cannes .. at the time of Festival .. and had a look at some of the events that can take palce at such a time and such a place .. a schuffer who loves cinema and wants 2 be involved .. a so badly wanted actress.. an actress who wants to direct now and has had written her own script ... The actress has a good point: The female are domianted by the male .. They praise the ladies when they are young and beuatiful .. they build a magic castle for them and the girl enters this castle .. but no beauty is eternal .. one day this only skin deep beauty fades,dies and the remains of it are left in the wrinkles around the eyes .. the wrinkles that each has a story of its own .. story of a long lost friend, a hidden lover, a beloved child and so on .. but the male hate 2 see all these stories .. they do not want see/feel anything sophisticated .. they want the simplicity of beauty .. so the female starts to find any way .. any way that gets away the wrinkles and the gray hair .. but when the wrinkles are gone from the face .. is there any way/medication/surgery that might erase the same lines from her mind?

The story has intersting twists .. Old loves who can survive 2gether .. The man whose advice is based on his own desire .. (no surprise though! I am not a feminist or such but reality is reality !) .. and the famous actress who goes with what she pleases 2 play .. the role of a woman her age who has been trapped all her life by the children , huaband , daily existansialism and has lost her own self .. the actress wants 2 go with this role .. may be she sees part of her life in it .. may be she sees her mother's life .. may be almost any woman's life .. and she says No to the small role in the big hit hollywood movie, to the glamour and fame that drowns one in Hollywood,LA!:)

Delam tang shode ...

Emrooz sar e nahar ba Diana harf resid be khahar va baradar va eina ... Man ham yad e keyvan oftadam .. yad e oon doran ke man navaresh ro kesh miraftam va ba nakhonam panjool mikeshidamesh .. Yad e oon mogh ke tasadof karde bood .. mamanam eina safar boodan va cheghad ba ham saii kardim ke hame chi ro ghabl az oomadaneshoon dorost konim .. Yad e hame chi .. yohoo Diana porsid: Quantos anos tiene tu hermano? Goftam 28 va ye dafe ashkam rah oftad va goftam vaghti man oomadam 23 salesh bood .. Yani alan 5 sale ..ke .. digeh ashk mohlatam nadad .. tamoon goneh ham garm shod va man ham aab shodam .. aaab shodam va foroo raftam .. nemidoonam koja too zamin ya too sanadlim?!

Mozoo e kohneii be esm e Pool!

Dirooz raftam DDS ke belakhre bebinam mishe dastan e ein dandoon e bei zaboon e man ro payan dad ya na! Ba khodam ahd kardam ke digeh na dandoonpezeshk beram va na be harf e hich kodoomeshoon goosh konam albateh age joon e salam be dar bebaram ..!

Anyway, vaghti vared shodam didam neveshte : Disc Imaging System .. Yade tooti oftadam va ba khodam goftam kash mitoonestam tooti ro beiaram einja va shayad ye kam dardesh ro kahesh bedam .. einja bood ke yad e pool oftadam .. Hich vaght dar zendegi delam nakhaste ke pooldar basham va ein chiza .. Vali ye lhze oomad jelooye chesham ke na tu ham mesle baghie hamoongha mohtaj hasti .. faght fargh e oona eine ke be zaboon meiaran va tu faghat hamishe nafiesh mikoni .. Kholase ye kam be fekr foroo raftam .. Cheghad man roo rastam?!

Be Salamati!

mikhorim be salamati gav chon ke nagoft man goft ma,be salamati kerme khaki na be khatere kermesh be khatere khaki bodanesh,be salamati divar ke har mardo namardi behesh tekye mikone,be salamati morche ke ta hala hich kas ashkesho nadide,be salamati khiyar na be khatere khish balke be khatere yaresh,be salamati shalgham na be khatere shalesh be khatere ghamesh.be salamnatiye har chi naa marde ke agar namard nabashe mardaa shenakhte nemishan.be salamatiye kalagh na be khatere siyahish be khatere ye rangish. be salamtiye sag na be khatere parsesh be khatere vafash. be salamatie tokhme chon ba inke roosh siast delesh

Az dast e ein nonor!

Ta hala shode az daste kesi divooneh beshin va baadesh ham majboor bashin ke tahamolesh konin .. hala be har dalili? Khob age shode mitoonin befahmin man che hesi daram vaghti ba ein mojood e az khod razi e nonor e por modaa taraf misham! Ein hamkar e bande ast ke khoda ro shokr hich vaght nemitoone ein khozaabalat e man ro bekhoone chon american e ! Thanks God! :) Divooneh shodam az dast e ein nonor e gheir e ghabel tahamol! :((((

Keep playing!

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the
rules....! Then you must forget the rules and play from your heart, so keep playing!

Arian Jaan News!:)

Ein ham album e jadid e doostan e aziza: Arian Band .. Well, honsetly I
like the former album much better but this one the Afsoongar song is
really good! Enjoy the music for free:)
http://www.iranian.com/Music/Arian/index.html

Jokei az diar!

Ye baar ye torke mikhaste too behesht aroosi kone vali har chi migarde
akhond peida nemikone khotbeye aghdo bekhoone!!!

5 days gone!

بششششششش This is the number of days that Mooshak has gone 2 IndianaPolis.. Things have been real fast at work ,, at personal life I have had a lot of fun with friends and my lovely cell phone but it has been slow,v. slow.. seems like ages that mooshak is gone .. esp. on the 7th day .. he has not left me any cards or anything .. I misss u .. I miss my card I guess 2!:)))

Dar rah e hagh'am

Ta kei bayad baray e hagh e khodam sabr konam?

Ta vaghti nafas daram
Ta zamani ke haghhi baraye khodam ghaelam

Vali mitrasam
MItarasam ke fara resad roozi
Ke dahand hagham ra va man negaheshan konam ba dahani baz:
" Ein az an e man nist ,...
digar ma'ra haghi nist
zan ke hagh joz baraye zendegan nist!"

Asiri

Bezar nafas bekesham hamin ye emrooz ro migam .. hamin va hamin …
Meidooonam ke farad meid .. vali na shayad baray e man va shaydam digeh ein nafasam e ke nakhad biroobn beiad ..
Pas bezar bezar nafas bekesham .. oonghad ke nafasam booye faryad bede…
Faryadi ke kar kone goosh delamo ..
Deli ke dige nadare kari joz beshine va arezoo kone har chi ke ye adam meitoone bahash beshe … har chi ke adam va adam mikone va man nadaram.. deli ke divoone asire faraishe .. asir e azadi e pay dar band!

Your Name :((

I was in Iran at the time of the Iran Iraq war. To this date the fear that I experienced of dying at the speed of an eye blink for no apparent reason, the fear of losing all my hopes and dreams is with me , inside me and stabs me at heart when I see any other human being getting entangled in the same vicious circle for reasons beyond their will power.


Your Name




Your visage
So ugly, so scary
Frightens me to the bone:
Red, swollen with disorderly teeth.

Red as the red siren at the time of bombardment
I still hear in my ears
After all these years gone by
When I hear them talk
Of none but YOUR NAME.

Swollen as all the fear swollen in the depth of my eyes
In every single beat of my heart
When hiding under wooden tables
When escaping to the street shelters
To protect my open eyes, my beating heart
At those times where there was no word
Spoken among us but YOUR NAME.

Disorderly as your teeth
At those time of paralyzing fear of falling bombs and missiles
We did all we could to keep our eyes live
We did all we could to avoid closing of their dying eyes
At the era of regiment of none but YOUR NAME.

Oh, I am so sick of you
So tired, so fearful
Of having you again
Anywhere on this planet
That I cry loud:
Go away, Go awaaay ..
Leave us alone, you, damned WAR.


Katayoon Hadizadeh
Los Angeles, 14th March 2003

Ein ham az Esfooniay e aziz

Esfahania ro az 4 ta chiz mishe shenakht :1 .hamashoon zirshalvarie abie rah rah daran 2 .har gholop nooshabe ke mikhoran be shishe niga mikonan bebinan ta kojash rafte 3. jelo dar vaimisan be ja inke began befarmayin too migan hala chera nimiain too ? 4.bastani livani ke mikhoran hatman daresho milisan

On Real Stories from Overseas!

Real Stories from Real Americans: A Plea for Help
By Spiros D - Baghdad
Straight Talk

Tuesday 31 August 2004

I am a soldier stationed in Iraq concerned about the role of private contractors in this war, and would like to ask for your help. How can you who are way over there help me way over here? Well, let me tell you how.

For those of you not aware, the US military is not the only US organization that is functioning over here in Iraq. A large US contractor called KBR (Kellog, Brown, and Root), a daughter company of Halliburton (once run by VP Dick Cheney), is operating on every US base in Iraq.

KBR manages many of the solider services that we have here on the base; things like running the food service, waste disposal, pumping the latrines, laundry services, movement and control, and the central distribution center. KBR is also scheduled to take over all fuel hauling and freight hauling in general. When things started to heat up earlier this year KBR put a hold on taking over hauling operations. Now that things are seeming to come back under some control KBR is looking at taking over again.

Now I know you are asking yourself what in the world this has to do with you.

Let me explain... KBR is now requesting, and the army is allowing, US soldiers to ride "shot gun" in KBR convoys hauling KBR goods all over Iraq. KBR is afraid to be out on the roads alone and want our US soldiers to risk their lives riding shot gun for their missions.

KBR is currently staffed by mainly non US international personnel along with a growing number of Iraqis. Most do not speak English, none have had military training on defensive driving, proper convoy operations, avoiding ambushes, navigating around IED's [hidden roadside bombs], proper procedure for calling in support or medivac or fire support, procedures to follow after taking enemy fire, the list goes on. These drivers are simply paid drivers that are making roughly 5 -8 times our wages and get paid whether the freight arrives or not.

KBR is requesting that US soldiers risk their lives at the hands of inexperienced and improperly trained individuals to provide them with security. Now there is no doubt that we need to protect KBR's missions but we have suggested and to date have been denied the opportunity to run the convoys with properly modified and equipped military vehicles.

We have suggested that we run in the convoys with every third vehicle being a US Army gun truck with proper drivers and fire support. With this arrangement KBR can still haul the freight in their vehicles but we would run the mission and deal with any situations as they develop the way we have been trained to. This is the only way that most of us want the missions to be run, the others are just afraid to be opposed to the decisions our leadership is making.

Here is where you come in. Out of a desire to honor the oath we took upon entering the army we do not want to disobey a direct order if and when the order comes for us to ride with KBR. We do however want to make all the lawmakers and politicians aware of the danger we are being unnecessarily exposed to on these missions.

Our hope is that each of our friends and loved ones back home will take a few minutes and send out emails to any local, state, and US congressman and senators and demand that they require the US military to stop this practice of allowing US troops in KBR vehicles.

The only ones who have the power to force the military to honor the wishes of the people are the lawmakers and politicians. So please take a moment and send a letter or email to one of your senators or congressman and ask or demand that they inquire into this matter and demand that it cease.

As of this writing, 3rd Platoon of the 283rd TC (my unit) is currently running these missions. We have been warned that it is only a matter of time and my whole unit will be running these missions. If nothing is done back home then more soldiers and myself in particular will be placed in unnecessary danger.

Please help.

Thank you for your time and help. I miss you all and look forward to seeing you all again upon my return.





well after watching Farenheit 9/11 it is not a surprise any more. But still it feels bad. Feels like why war? Why does anybody have 2 go to war and lose his life? If it was for defending one's land , that could make some sense but for defending such materialistic goals , it really makes you feel bad. That is one of those things that makes Khepeleh real sad in this journey:

We are born with smiles
To live a life of happiness and love

The smile fades on the way some where
Yet, are we detined to die with such miserable face?

Forget about the smile
Was nothing but a mirage
On a very hot day
Away from the oasis of unreal life.

Nowadays Friends!

Ok.. This is gonna be bitter .. Why? Simply because I feel like betrayed .. Well may be I should not make it that complicated but imagine u have had a friend for some years and that all has been in good terms well, at least as far as I am aware of and u have invited her 2 several parties that u have thrown .. and now all of a sudden she is getting married and has invited a lot of ur common friends .. u call her 2 times and leave her messages .. nada .. u send e-mail and nada again! So, how do u feel?! It is depressing as I was thinking that she is a reliable friend and I feel I was soooooo wrong .. wow .. c'est la vie .. qu'est-ce qu'on peut faire?! I am just pissed off I guess that's all ..

Before I forget such things happen only with girls .. honestly guy friends are much more reliable creatures ... once u have established a simple, reliable friendship with a good guy, sit there and lay back rest assured that this is a guy u can trust for a life time and surely will keep u posted on his wedding plans ! U will not be surpried 2 hear it from the rest of the world .. afterall you will be simply buddy buddys and he will keep u posted 2 make sure u will have the right dress for the occasion and even more fill him with alot of good reasons when he asks suspiciously:" Do you think it is a good idea if I go for it , I mean if I get married, I mean to this girlie thing?" type of question!

But apart from that .. it made me think. Think about the fact: How many of my friends are real friends an not faux ones like this? Is this a measuring system for evaluating friends? With this daily time limitations, can there be a well established technological way to see how real a friend is? If the answer is negative why don't we , humans think about making one? After all during the years and centuries there has been all these poems,stories and even legends about the value and beauty of friendship. Now in this era seems we need a more reliable way of choosing who to call friend and who not. You see there has been all these efforts on making a device that can tell us if the person is a liar or not. Can't we measure simple friendship degree by heartbeats or so,,?

Well, it's just an idea .. may be some scientist or sociologist with a great unused research budget reads my scribbles par hazard and starts working on it!

Hey if u are that GREAT scientist , let me know! I am willing 2 be the guinea pig of ur experiments!:)

I hate TV news!

I hate the "news" . I guess I really do. I wonder when this feeling started in me. My closet guess would be after seeing US TV news a couple of nights in a row. Most of it was burglary, murder, attacks and the like. The first nights I sat there and watched with mouse agape and eyes wide open. Then I started getting upset. Is this the world I am living in? Every 20 seconds somebody is robbed or killed or some other mishap. It was there and then that I made up my mind. No news for me! Whatever of the world misery news I need 2 know, tnx 2 God I get from Google! :)

A few months and years passed by and there came the village . It was my story and the story of all those people out there who hate to hear the daily miseries of the world around us.I like schyamalan, his works and ideas. But this one was the best of all. The refuge they had taken from the advance of the miserable news. The news that can upset you, that can change your decisions and at times even the direction of your life. The critics do not agree with me much. They do not give him good rating. No wonder for me! I guess may be they are jealous of him and his bright idea at such an early age! After all he is only 2 years older than I am!;)

Goodbye the world of TV news! Surement j'ai un meilleur temps sans toi!