Hot, Humaid and hot!

Finally, summer is in Zurich! average temperature about 28! Relative humidity of 80%,
so, I sweet like there is not tomorrow!
my office right now is about 27-we have temperature scale in our office- will get to 32 by 2:00 pm!
So, no air condition or cooler in the office!:) was someone complaining?!
and some ....:)

Iranian media= a tabloid of foreign news!

For the past almost 5 months I am living in a shared accommodation. Two of these guys are from old eastern block countries, now turned to EU. One is from old Eastern Germany and one from a country is called Estonia. If you wonder where is Estonia, Read it in Wiki.
What is striking is not the fact that they are from those countries and so they are cheap or anything else. It is the matter of what I hear and what they do sometimes, tells me the influence of Russian mentality on them!

For the example, one day the guy from former Eastern Germany came and said, these Banana are getting bad, and I want to throw them out! I looked at the them and said, they are not so bad and you still can make banana-milk shake with them. Then, I explained when I was child I liked milk and banana shake. Then he replied, “when I was child, we didn’t have any banana at all!!” Sometimes, things he says sounds like the war time we had during Iran-Iraq war!

The Estonian guy has somehow problem in washing his cloths and keep himself smelling proper!! The guy takes shower, however still goes and wears the same smelly T-Shirt he was wearing before. If he goes to the washroom, you can’t go there at least for next ten minutes because of his body smell!!! His girlfriend, came to visit him for a week, I have no idea how she cope with that smelling dude. But I think she kept telling him, to wash and take shower, during those days, he slightly got better! But he is now back to normal!
His diet at evening is, bread, butter and slice of onion and lots of milk!! And he keeps the rest of onions in the frig for the next day!!! I think you could imagine how bad the frig will smell!
Having said that he is post doctorial in our institute and therefore he probably gets highest salary between all of us. Something, like 2 times of not more than any of us! Still believe it or not, he doesn’t have soap and he uses our soap! I would assume these are mentality issues, remaining from eastern block!!


2. read this link from fars news agency!
The headline reads: US inflation rate is increased drasticly!!
When you read closely then it says that inflation is increased to more than 2.4 and food and grocieries inflation top 0.3!!!
Someone should tell these guys, can’t you read your own news! Inflation of more than 30%. Food is as expensive as houses!
How much longer they can play with people’s brain!!
Time will answer that!...

strange but the truth!! would you get married to me!!

I was send the above statment by a firend of mine!!
I was reading BBC Persian service news. I encountered a kinda bizzare discussion which is apparently, true!! what is the discussion there has been a threatening of some south Pars oil development refinery in South of Iran about the marital status. The head of moral police (Herassat) of the South pars has written to all employees that within next few (I think it is 3 months) months they either should get married or they will be fired from work. Read in Persian.

So, I figured since this is short period and apparently, the communication include men and women of the same.

There are couple of possibilities:
1. either all men and women in that department get married to one another, either as short marriages or long one! for men to have 4 wifes, that is all right, other way around can be also worked out!! as long as both sides are happy!:)

2. Those who want to get some one from outside of company will do as follow:(write an ad)

I am a young man, with muscles at good and proper places, with head to be where it belongs and the special tool to be on the place where it belongs!.
With deep hope and sorrow to make some money for my ends meat and hoping to finally get out of Iran to live in one of the lands of free and prosperity in west or east!!

Due to reality of Iranian government and their nose are in private matters of any Iranians's life, I have to get married!!

So, looking for a fit, beautiful bride, who can live without me for 9 months out of 12 months! I promise to be back for holiday season!
The candidate should not complain, just live and have fun:)

interested candidates write me back:))

A speech Worth of thausands words!!!

This speech is apparently being done when Dr. Moeen was minster of higher education and Mr. Khatami was president. Interesting enough Mr. Khameni says, what is the meaning of sending our students to foreign country (there are reports telling me that!), what does it mean to promote music in university!!!(again people have reported that to me!), promoting music is not Islam! why sending them to as mix groups of boys and girls to the orientation field trips or short trip!!?
listen the rest for yourself! Interesting!

Once upon a time in canada

I read that Molla Hassani has gone to the court for his fine received in Canada. I recalled when I was back in Canada, I got similar but slightly more intresting story of my own.

My story starts like that, one evening I parked my car in front of a fire pipe, however, not exactely in front of it, enough far where the pipe was accessable.
I was technically about a few cm outside of correct parking place in downtown of Toronto. So, when I get back I saw nice fine was on my car's windshield.
So, right from beginning I always liked to work as a lawyer, so I decided to send it for court.
The day of court came in. I knew if the police officer who has issued the fine does not show up in the court, I am lucky enough to have my fine waived. So, I was hoping that at bottom of my heart.:-)

(So, after I went into the court, I said, ah this is how court look alike! (later I realized this is just for traffic related court!!).
The judge came in and the lady judge assisstant read about the process.
I was asked to stand in introducing myself for the records, I realized, damn the officer is there!! I got little lost but I said I stick to my defence!!
So, the judge asked me, would you consider yourself guilty or not guilty!
I pronounce myself not guilty.

So, then The judge asked if officer can step up in the witness stand and explain what has happened.

Making long story short after that I was asked if I can defend myself. I said. But I wish to have the officer as a witness.

Me: Do you know what color is my car!
He replied: like dark gray, however, the car was gray light one.
Me: Do you know what my car license number is?
He simply read from the remaining of the fine.

Then, I was waiting for that to be happening, I asked the judge to give a motion to dismiss the case granting (I had just learned that from law and order series!!) for the fact that the color of my car and one of the numbers of my car's license number is different from the one written on the fine receipt, as a result there is reasoble doubt that the fine was written for another car and it was mistakenly palced on my car or perhaps it was a late evening, and the honorable officer could not exatly pin point which car was closer to the fire pipe!

I think the judge was quite amazed with the way I approached this case, because she smiled and said, the case is dismissed and I was waived of any payment!

Iranian hip-hop/Rap

It has been a few years that Iranian rappers are becoming some kind of phenomenon in underground music society! There is this artist called Hichkas who is known one of the pioneer of Persian hip/hop. I like his work and his work reflects Iranian society at current stands, but I am a bigger fan of this guy whose name is Yas.
You can listen to him on MySpace, link above. One of his work I like is Be Omid Iran:

Without further ado...this is you, CdeB and Arian

and finally it came out!




p.s. My 2-cents: The start is strong, specially the Irish type of fiddler, but then the theme becomes very rhythmic and CdeB(isch) if I can say that. Not bad for start, but I would supposed they could have made it more high pitch and low pitch, perhaps trying to experiment with Persian tones and so on. of course, this is my opinion.

Some Arabs..., Freeing Khoramshahr

1. I try to be fair [not always, of course] and not being against Arabs. but sometimes I see something strange about them, makes me wonder about that thoughts!! ok, this could also happens to any nationality!

So, what is the story you may ask!? or what am I talking about?

The Story is about an Arab-Canadian whose name is Waddah Mustapha and according to him, he used to buy bottle water of Culligan
company. Once, however, he and his wife found the remains of two dead flies floating near the top of one of the company's water bottles. So, according to Waddah the "sight" [please pay attention to the word, Sight] of those flies made him "physically ill", and in time, brought on a major depressive disorder associated with anxiety and phobia. So he sued Culligan. And in 2005 the Ontario Superior Court awarded him more than three hundred thousand dollars. Last year, that ruling was overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal. Today, however, after a long due the supreme court of Canada, issued his final verdict and such a psychological is such a remote that the plaintiff [Mr. Mustapha] does not awarded anything more than 300 thousands that was originally, entitled!
For those interested like me on class actions details of such a cases: Read the detailed of the case here.
Interesting is that According to Mustapha: "Mustapha said the discovery in 2001 triggered a phobia of flies that changed his personality and even killed his SEX life."
I think I leave that to readers to be the judge!:-)

2. Today, is the day that Khoramshahr was freed from Iraqi's forces after almost a year being occupied. Let me be clear, I am against any war. According to UN resolution this war was started on Iran by Sadam.

I was little boy those day who could not understand so much of the things going on around me. But one is is for sure that this is one of the recent war that Iran for past 200 years has not given up his territory.

Those who give their life, so people like me can live around the county in almost peace, has done a lot for Iran and Iranians. Those without any greed did those braveries and freed Khoramshahr. I would like to praise them and hoping those who are still alive and around may live in peace and prosperity.

Not sure, if Mohammad Ali Jahan Ara was a good guy or a hardliner [don't care about that], but he is referred to one of those Generals who freed Khoramshahr. In his memory [RIP] I dedicate this clip to all those fighters.

Shave or not to shave, that is the question!!

1. I just discovered something extraordinary!:-) not that much abnormal, but under notes of wow, why I didn't do that so often before!
I recall many years ago when my parents hated me (ok, this is joke!) so they put me in the boarding school, we had to be prepared a night before going to the high school! That preparation was taking shower, make the clothing for the next day ready and of course those who could shave their facial hair or so called want to be beard!
So, coming back to my discovery, that was many years ago! last night, I decided once again start shaving my facial hair at night before I go to sleep. Volia, great results!
longer sleep, smoother face and better feeling.
conclusion, if you want to shave any hair!, do it before you sleep!(of course, this is a new discovery!!!):)

2. I have made everyone in our house to fall in love with Gourmet-sabzi, an Iranian dish! This Tuesday, I prepared some and we still have some left over. last night, according to my housemate, David, despite he had already eaten his dinner, he asked if he could eat Ghormet-sabzi!! So, now you are liking it, more than BratWurst or German food, I asked David. He replied, it is quite delicious and definitely I like it more than German food, now!!! (Part of promoting, Iranian food and culture!)

3. I have heard prices of groceries in Iran has tripled since Iranian new year!
oh, honestly, this guy Ahmadi-nejad is a joke. He has recently said, the messiah is managing the country! So, I draw this conclusion, baba leave that, let us just live for the hell, it seems in west, who are connected to devil they do better management. So, devil by far is a better management! I would vote for him!!:-)

Iranians are either smarter or more hard working than average other middle eastern people!!

I just recently (in March) attended a biomechanical engineering conference in Portugal.

One of the interesting aspect of this conference was the number of of Iranian delegates who were originally Iranians and were now representing other universities. (There were a few Iranians who were also from Iran, I will get to that later!)

on average there were 40 oral presentations per 3.5 days. So, that makes about 140 presentation! (This is quite rough estimation, though)

Out of these 140, there were 7 oral presenters who were from Europe or US and the presenter was Iranian in origin. Add to this three more presenters who didn't show up, according to head of the conference because of sanctions towards Iranians, they didn't get visa to attend the conference!

On the other hand, I looked at the presenters with Arab origin. To my knowledge, there was only one I saw who was from a University from Finland! I attend his presentation, he got quite disappointing respond from experts!

I also saw one seeming Arab name who didn't attend. so, in total there were 2.

Having said that about 7 to 8 percent of the conference can be said were Iranians.
This percentage may be extended and extrapolated to other conferences. Just ask a few non-Iranians in your university!

I wonder with all these sanctions and lack of support in science and technology Iranians participate in such a great number at science stages, what would have happened if Iran was part of greater world community!

Why Do I think Iranian society is no longer religious!

I hear from many non-Iranian people around me that Iran is quite religious country and they are something perhaps like Saudi Arabia!

This is my 2-cent about this fact.

I have been thinking for past few years, why I think that Iran is no longer is a religious country!
My argument is not the fact, Iranian stills feel that Iran has been invaded by Arabs and Iranians were forcefully accepted Islam. No, though it can be one but not this one!

Another argument many reference to is, that Iranian had deep no Islamic culture before Islam is accepted by Iranians. I think this argument is not a bad one, since many cultural occasions and traditions are usually defined with respect to religious references. The examples are many in Western and eastern culture! But in Iran we had pretty well developed culture before Islam are taken by Iranians.

But my argument is none of the above.

My argument and reasoning is this one:

The corruption! What you may ask!
Wait a second I shall explain in a second:
Iranian society for many reasons has come to this point that people do anything to obtain money, position, etc. Technically talking as a religious society Iranians should refrain from doing such a actions that are considered unreligious and most of all corrupted. Iranian society should be free of corruption. Though, Iranian perhaps is one of most corrupted society in the world.

So, I am concluding Iranians have realized that god is an absence, so the current corrupted society is simply looks for a different rule of games. For now, it is shariat law. This law is putting the legal hat of any illegitimacy that is not accepted in secular society!
I believe simply there will be a day that people in Iran shall realize that the close circuit camera of god who would make note of their “right and wrong doing” is long gone. This would be the time that people will realize that a secular law system over seeing all those prejudices is necessity to overcome all the current problems.
Coming back to my first statement, a society which does anything and does not care for right and wrong doing technically under enforced Islamic government, is no longer the holy community that is looking forward to messiah!

p.s. if many misspelling/ grammar mistake exist in this writing! it is written in less than 10min with everything included and uploading, so, this is not a Journal paper:-)

Iranian Jazz music

For those who know me I am a big fan of mellow jazz music. During some of my searches on internet, I found the work Kamram Jahanbani who uses jazz music base with Persian lyrics. Some of his work worth listening to.

you can download his free mp3 Here.
The work I like the most is Nago eshgh namoredeh!

Enjoy,

For those who missed Iranian tone like this...

enjoy,
Performed: Payman H.
Title: Golden Autumn (In cold days of Switzerland it is really warming!)

Gole E Goldone man:

HAPPY Iranian New year

One of the things I like about Iranian new year, it has nothing to do with religion!
neither a prophet has resurrected or ascended! It is about the myth as in Shahnameh e Ferdowsi written "when after 7 years of winter, spring blossom; Jamshid shad orders people to celebrate...Noorooz...".
So, having said that all the best for all people especially those who celebrate Iranian new year.
This new video of googoosh dedicate to all:

Iran Parliamentary Election! A misleading process!

I was by surfing Iranian news site and saw so many new advertisements for Iran Parliamentry Election (IPE).
I accidentally click on one of them whose name is Hadi Maazidini. This gentleman is a public notary, who apparently has a degree from one of the universities of US in business administration. So far, nothing seems strange, the same old the same old!
but then, I browsed his website further and clicked to read others opinion on Mr. Maazidini!
when you open up that webpage, you see a text written that opinion of Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hassan Ganjii on Mr. Maazidini! The text says that Prof. Dr. Ganjii thinks Mr. Maazidini is eligable person to become Member of Parliament! So far so good!
but then, you see a photo of aparently Prof. Dr. Ganjii on the top left corner of the webpage. Have a look at it!

The photo (Shown above) is no one than Prof. Dr. Mahmood Hessabi the father of Iranian physics and the only Iranian student of Albert Einstein!

Then when you even read description of Prof. Dr. Ganjii as is described by Mr. Maazidini in his webpage, it partly remind you of Prof. Hessabi.

I searched the net to see if Prof. Dr. Ganjii does exist! As it is described by webpage of Mr. Maazidini? nope, I couldn't find anything!!

Conclusion: misleading is a great technique to become a MP!

I think until Iranian people understand their rights and don't get deceived by non-senses these so called educated people feed them! We shall have such a liar in Iranian parliament

I beg people who vote, vote with open eyes and avoid such suckers!


NOTE: As My friends and readers of this weblog mentioned in the comment, I made a mistake to say that Prof. Dr. Ganjii does not exist. though, the photo belongs to late Prof. Dr. Hessabi.