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-I like lots of Iranians all around the world watched Oscar with more excitement this year. Lots of people had predicted that "A separation" would win Oscar for foreign language film but you never know until the end. Any way it was nice and pleasant to see that director Farhadi won and mostly because as he said it himself in these days bazaar news about Iran and shadow of war with Iran, Iran's name was announced for a good thing and for wining an award in art not for making nuclear bomb, human rights violations, extreme inflations, etc. I saw this movie couple months ago and for the first time after watching an Iranian movie the first thought in my mind was, how real was the movie and how real all actors and actresses had played their role! Anyway, many congratulation to Mr. Farhadi and all his crew.

- My aunt left in 2nd week of February. It was a nice visit. It is amazing that when you spend time with your relatives after you have been far from them for a while and now you have your own life and are a grown up, you see and feel different characteristics that you never paid attention to it. It seems that you know that person a lot better. For people like me that have immigrated and have not been with relatives long enough and visits have been short and sweet, spending more time with them for a while is like knowing that person all over again. The interesting thing at least for me and may be some other people is that when you grow up, mature and become independent in life you see more differences between yourself and other people even if they are your relatives. When you are young you do not pay attention to lots of details but later on in life you feel and sense differences a lot more which is not necessarily bad, you just learn to cope and tolerate everyone and try to look in positive sides more than negatives sides. That is why it is easier to find friends when we are younger!!


-Persian New year is close, about three weeks from now. I hope Iranian people get free of devilish regime in this coming New year.

Iran's bad situation...

I just read on Google news that Iran has cut off internet and has left millions of people without accessing to emails and social networks. These days I am sad and worried about Iran's situation. What will happen to Iran and Iranian people? I heard from my brother that everything is so expensive and prices go up day to day. People are so scared by government and nobody says anything. They are just stealing from people and put everything (Oil, Gas, etc) on sale to China and Russia and other allies that they have.



I truly hope that there won't be any war. U.S is seriously avoiding it but how far this can continue? I think the only solution is people start demonstrations in huge groups like millions of people come to street and make government off guard. If they do that U.S. and other Western countries will support them and may be can over throw theses vampires!!



May god help these people. Amen.

New Post in New Year

-This is my first blog post since New Year has started. As usual I am very busy. When I come home from work, I have to check my son's homework and give him some extra tests and work with him. Their school is the best in the County of San Diego and teachers make it hard for kids to keep the schools good rating up!! We have lots of Asians in our neighborhood and they work hard with their kids so our kids (all non-Asian ones) have to compete with them. Sometime I wish I could come home, lie down on the couch and do nothing. My real work starts when I get home! Parenting is exhausting sometimes!!



-As I said before my aunt has come from Norway to visit us, I took some time off around Christmas and New Year to show her San Diego and we also took her for a short trip to Las Vegas. My mom took care of kids. This was the first time that we were not with kids overnight! It was fun trip and my aunt liked Vegas very much. She took more than 300 pictures!! I think whoever visits Las Vegas for the first time gets so impressed with all those extra ordinary and fascinating hotels and Casinos. I told my aunt "You can do whatever you want tonight because whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas;)".



-I have to keep reminding myself every day to be more relaxed and take it easy but sometimes I get lost in my busy schedule and too many responsibilities… I keep meditating although sometimes I am too tired but I try to keep it in my schedule even for few minutes…



-I got myself iPhone 4s for New Year and I love it. It is so cool. God bless Steve Jobs' soul. I am wondering what he has come up with in heaven;)



-Last week Iranian movie "Separation" got Golden Globe award. I got so happy for the Director and whoever was involved in that movie. Now it is nominated for Oscar. I hope it wins. When Iranian people get their freedom trophy? When they can send the evils out and make the best movie out of that? I truly pray for my people's freedom…

Happy New Year

I can't believe 2011 is ending. It was just a blinkof eye for me. It was a good year for me and my family but there was not a very special high light in it for me. Thank god we are all healthy and we are together. It was hard year for lots of people all around the world.
I hope that 2012 be a more peacful year. I truly hope that Iranian regime changes but not with war and changes for better not worse, although I cannot imagine a worse regime than the one that Iranian people are dealing with right now.
I hope President Obama gets re-elected and I hope global economy grows and unemployment sinks as low as possible.

May god keeps My family, me and every human being safe and happy in this new year. Amen.

Happy 2012, I wish you all a very healthy and joyful year.

End of the year

-The year of 2011 is ending soon. Time flies so fast! They say life is like a toilet paper roll, when it is close to end it moves faster!!

We have already set up our Christmas tree but my husband is lazy to set up lights outside of the house this year. I have to ask him again this weekend. I love Christmas decoration as much as my kids do. They are so much in to Cars2 (the movie is very good) toys these days and I have bought some of cars2 toys for Christmas for them.

My aunt is coming from Norway to visit us for Christmas and I am so excited to have her here. She is one of the nicest people that I know in life. I will be off for about 10 days including Christmas and New Year's holidays to spend time with her. This is her first time in States.



-We went to Movie Theater last weekend to watch the Descendent. It was a very good movie. It was very real. Not Hollywoody type! Another good movie that I saw was conviction in DVD, a very touching movie based on true story.



-I read a good book recently from Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes". The story is about a Brazilian prostitute and is a sexual book but it is very deep. It is amazing how this writer can touch every subject that he writes about so deeply. He says things and describes human feelings in a way that lots of us never mention it or discuss it in real life but when we read it in his book, make us think back about our own experiences, thoughts and hidden feelings. I really like his books. I think he is such a great author. He can write about different subjects and write them very well.



-I was so bothered with what bunch of idiot so-called students that we all know that they are not students, did to Britain embassy. It is a big shame, but what you can expect from one of the worst regimes ever. Whole bunch of idiots running a big country with more than 70 million population. They do whatever they feel like and have no decency or diplomacy at all. I don't know why now that different countries in Middle East have risen up for their freedom people are so passive in Iran. Are there all the brave ones in prison? I know that it is easy for me that am not living there to say why people do not demonstrate. But how much people can really bear with these idiots? I know that they have scared everyone to death but it is so sad to see that people are living under so much pressure and still silent. I hope something good happens for people in Iran in this New year!

Thanksgiving

It is another Thanksgiving again tomorrow. This is my 13th Thanksgiving in this country. I moved to US right after Thanksgiving in 1998. Time flies. I think moving to U.S. was one of the best decisions that I have ever made in my life. At least I think it was a great decision at this moment. I am thankful for so many things in my life but most of all for my two beautiful children. The love I get from them is not comparable to anything in this world. Parenting is hard and challenging but it is worth it for sure.

We are invited to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow at my husband's cousin's house. She always throws thanksgiving party and hopefully I can go to shopping on black Friday with my mom. I know this Thanksgiving is not easy for some families, the ones in need and out of work. I hope that next year to be a better year and economy gets better.

I am worried about Iran too. I think the time of this regime is up but I hope there won't be another war. If President Obama gets re-elected, he will do something about Iran but not by war, at least that's what I think but if Republicans get the White house, most probably there will be another war. They love war.

I truly hope that god helps Iranian people and people all around the world.
Happy Thanksgiving to whoever that celebrates it. Even if you do not celebrate Thanksgiving, think about things that you are thankful for and let go of the things that makes you upset or worried. Remember that God is greater than what we think and he is in charge

Life and death

I don't know why I am thinking about life and death a lot these days. May be I am dealing with mid life crisis. I am trying to understand the meaning of life, what is really life? why we are here? I feel like every day of life is like you are taken to a party that you did not want to go but your friends took you, now you can either sit in a corner and wait for time to pass by so you go home or you can mingle with people, drink, eat and have fun. How many of days of our lives we act like first scenario just are passive and wait for time to pass by and how many days we act like second scenario, we have fun and enjoy it. I think our daily life can be good, bad or just regular without any high lights. How many happy days of your life do you remember? Are there most of the days just OK without any highlight?
I read somewhere once that happiness is wanting what you have not what you do not have. May be that is true!
I become sad when I remember the dreams that I could not follow, things that I were capable of doing but did not try them. May be my life would be worse if I had followed some of those dreams may be not. You never know what is really best for you.
I at least know something, I have a good life with two beautiful kids that I adore and love to death!
I have to thank god for all he gave me and all he did not give me, because may they were not good for me any way!