Baghdad Cafe'

Baghdad Cafe' How many times have you wondered about lonliness? About the need to get across. about being understood .. about just making a human touch thing and failed or succeeded .. I do not know about u but I have cn it many times that u try 2 click and the click does not come or gets lost in the air or may be it comes and goes but when the click comes .. ooof .. heavens .. lord .. love .. u are there 2 sigh of releief and enjoy !

So, back 2 Baghdad ... a cult movie trying 2 depict this .. Here is what I read on it :
Shakespeare, who knew everything, would begin his comedies by removing the main characters to a remote and unfamiliar site. The break in the patterns would allow for everything to get fucked up so it could come back together again in a new improved way. That is why they are comedies and not tragedies. Imagine getting stuck in that remote location and calling it your home instead of reassimilating back into the social structure you came from.
Bagdad Cafe is that place. Everyone is from someplace else. Some have been there long than others. They all have a story but for some reason, this time around, the characters engage each other and the chaotic systems of life repattern themselves into their collective story.

The movie is a beautiful portrait in the middle of a desert where flowers bloom. Flowers blooming in the desert is the overall theme of this film, literally and metaphorically. The particular alchemy of coincidence causes a chemical reaction that forges something new out of the seperate elements that maintained their inertia. Everyone gets what's missing in their life and their affect on each other challenges each other and makes them grow into more well-rounded people. The Motel where this all takes place is like a hospital where nobody knew they were sick until wellness begins to spread.

You'll see some familar faces in this film in some unfamiliar roles. But a regular gig on ER certainly pays more than an obscure independant film produced in another country, yet filmed in English.

A wonderful film about making friends, crossing boundaries and discovering how much of our life is other people.

I like the African woman being angry with all and herself but I love above all the German woman doing what she thinks is right 2 do despite all that goes .. And what struck me most do not laugh ! is that in 1990 ... some 14 years ago before all these sep. 11 stuff the schriff knew the law that she has to leave the country when her visa terminates and wanted 2 enforce it ... v. interesting in that remote , faraway corner .. but the schriff did not care that she was practically working and making money on a tourist visa ,,, But as viewer . do they even care?! No ! of course not ... who knows all this crap about the work stuff and the viewer they will enjoy the concept .. sometimes a lack of knowledge thing or not revealing it is sure a good thingggggggg!

Highly recommanded .. watch this .. u will not regret!!!

Peter's Friends

Peter's Friends (1992)Good movie ...kind of showing the entangled life of each of us not knowing how badly we are stuck insideeeeee

Seven friends in an acting troupe graduate from Cambridge University in 1982 and go their separate ways. Ten years later, Peter inherits a large estate from his father, and invites the rest of the gang to spend New Year's holiday with him. Many changes have taken place in the lives of all the friends assembled, but Peter has a secret that will shock them all.

I liked Peter .. kind of cute .. sorry 2 see that he was HIV+ ...Vaghti aval e film sahnahi e donya ro neshoon meidad az 82 ta 92(BTW , great idea 2 show the pass time!) vaghti Iran ro neshoon midad .. jebehe raftan va khomeini eina , anchenan zogh kardam ke 3 bar jeloo aghab zadim .. Ein vatan ajab dastanie!

Baz ham sabr

.. Man bayad baz ham sabr konam .. baz ham .. Man chera ayoob nashodam? Shayad ham ye ayoob e modern hastam va khodam nemidoonam makhsoosan az jense moanas .. bayad chiz e jalebi bashem .. 90 rooz gozasht .. ye 7 rooz e digeh ham roosh va az sanad e azadi khabari nashod .. bayad dobare rooz ha ro beshomram .. oomadan va raftan aftab ro nezare konam va ba maghzam kalanjar beram ke delam meikhad tondatar bere ya kondtar .. va baz ham kheire bemoonam be rah .. Ta Nov. 8th ... Delem roshane khodaya va roshani e delam ro tarik nakon ... Raftam kenar e darya hafte pish va vaghti ke khoon omidam ro magir az man khodaya .. zadam zie geryeh .. dashtamm midooiidam .. vaisdam ke ye dele seir dar khalvat e khodam va Pacific Ocean zar bezanam .. Bayad ein kar ro mikardam .. fekr konam be ye joor enfejar reside boodam hata bedoon e ein ke khodam bedoonam .. ya khodam ejaze bedam ke bedoonam .. ein mask e khande ro mizanam sooratam sobh ke az khaab pa misham va frkr mikonam khoob mikonam .. be baghie donya che marboote ke man asir shodam .. ke man dar sarzamin e azadishoon .. sarzaminin ke baghie donya ro mikhad azad kone .. asirtarin e asiram .. han kei mikhad bedoone? Chera bayad bedoone?
Neshastam too machine ye joori behtar boodam engar oon bar e har roozi choon khataii ke mikasham ro hata shode baray e chand lahze az rooy e oon ghalba khasteh vali hamchenan omidvaram bardashte boodan
Khodaya man baz ham noomida misham?! Na .. mage na?!

The Magnificant Lady behind X-Prize

Anousheh Ansari
Founder and CEO
telecom technologies, inc. (tti)

Anousheh Ansari is president, founder, and CEO of telecom technologies, inc. (tti), a supplier of softswitch based solutions for network and service providers offering end-to-end solutions for next generation, carrier-grade multi-service networks. Prior to founding tti, Ansari provided consulting services to the major telecommunications service providers and vendors in the areas of Frame Relay and ATM switch testing and evaluation.

Early in her career, Ansari held positions with MCI Telecommunications Corporation and Communication Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) in various engineering capacities. She worked on architectural design for SS7 and ISDN networks.

Ansari was recognized by Working Woman magazine as the winner of the 2000 National Entrepreneurial Excellence award, and was chosen as the winner of the 1999 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Southwest Region, for the Technology and Communications category. She has authored numerous technical papers and has two patents for her work on Automated Operator Services and Wireless Service Node. She was a U.S. delegate at ITU SG VII, SG XI and SG XVII, and a representative at American National Standard Institute T1S1 and T1X1 Technical Subcommittees.

Ansari holds a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from George Mason University. She is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu, IEEE and NSPE.

Success
2000 National Entrepreneurial Excellence Award winner: Anousheh Ansari, CEO and chair of Telecom Technologies on the cover of Working Magazine (May 2000). "Anousheh Ansari once dreamed of being an astronaut while growing up in her native Tehran, Iran. Today the 33-year-old Ansari is turning upstart Telecom Technologies Inc into a force in the telecommunications industry."  

 

NIPOC,Network of Iranian American Professionals of Orange County, California, Iranian events

NIPOC,Network of Iranian American Professionals of Orange County, California, Iranian events I found this v. interesting person in Orkut through my v. old school classmate .. actually the oldest scghool mate I am in touch with .. we went 2 primary school together and her father and my dad were classmates at one point in time as well!!! It is such a small world ha!:)

Faghat 14 rooz e digeh...

Today is Oct. 5th and there is exactly 14 days left to the end of the 90 days promised by INS 2 f8inish the I-485 .. After the marvulous improvements at the begining , it is 2 months that there is no news from them as if all has come to a halt .. total halt with no movement .. like a deep , green lagoon .. with the crocodiles swimming in them .. I can not see the crocodiles for sure .. but I know that they are there with those trecherous eyes ,, deciding on my I-485 .. their eyes sees me and feels my heart beat for the freedom after 5 years and it makes them happy 2 keep me that way .. v. tense .. v. tight and v. much disappointed by all that happens in the small world of mine in frront of my eyes ,,,

 

Last night Farbod told me about a great , superb fal by Hafez .. May be there was some truth in it .. May be there will be the good news pretty soon and will make us so happy .. nemidoonam .. faghat 2 hafteh digeh moonde va fekr konam ke ein hafte bayad ye e-mail be vakil jan beferestam .. khodaya komak kon ... Man montazeram ... montazer ..va man montzer boode am .. hame ein sal ha 5 sal e azegar .. 5*365 days .. will this finish khodaya ...?