Religion

I was listening to the news today and I heard about the Afghan man who converted his religion to Christianity in Germany, he was arrested when he was back to Afghanistan.
By Shariat law that Islamic Mullahs dictate in Afghanistan and some Islamic countries he deserves death penalty! Since US and Europe pressured the Afghanistan’s government to free the man they finally freed him, and they came up with the story that he has mental problem so he cannot be punished. I hope he is safe now but this is absolutely ridiculous why all these fundamentalists make that big of a deal of people’s religion. Why that should be so important. To me religion is a very personal choice and it is not any body’s business what is your religion or even if you have one.
I myself believe in all religions and respect them all but I practice what makes more sense to me. I believe in god and being a good person, if a person is a decent person I don’t care what his religion is.
We all know that there are good and bad people in followers of every religion, most of people have a certain religion because they have inherited that from their family. There are very few people who go and research and pick a religion, so judging people based on their religion is absolutely ridiculous. Some times I really wonder how come these things that are so obvious and simple to understand is so difficult to understand by at lease half of the population on earth. What really make them so closed minded!
I am sure god never wanted that religions become a tool for human beings to fight each other and kill each other over it.

I don’t tell you what is my actual religion or the religion that I am born with, but it is easy to guess though. I myself had a little prejudice over my religion, but just a little not much, before I
Moved to us but living here and being in contact with different nationalities, cultures and beliefs made me realize that the most important thing is how people live and how hard they try to be a good person not what religion they are born with or they have picked. Now I respect all religions ( I used to respect them before too but I am more sensitive towards them now) it does not matter that it has come before my religion or after mine ( some people just respect the religions before theirs!). I try to practice being a good person, I have my own faults and mistakes but I am at least trying. I can say that my religion today is humanity ant it’s rules is based on honesty, integrity, loyalty, care for other human beings and kindness and I know that all the religions already have these rules as their prime rules.
I really wish that one day we all human beings become united and forget about the small differences and practice humanity. I hope that day is not that far!

New year post

New year's day was fun. I gave my son money as Eidi ( new year's present in Iranian custom),
and tried to make him learn more about Nowruz this year, He loved having the fish bowl in Haftseen set up!
The new year's party that my husband’s cousin had thrown was very a nice party. we danced a lot! but we needed to go back to work the next day which was tough!!
that's the bad thing here, we try to make the ambiance of new year but when you should get up early and go back to work, that ambiance is ruined!
I could not take off more than one day, since I am going to a three weeks vacation in May!
We have planned to go to Europe for three weeks, we will visit France, Italy, Spain, Norway and Denmark. We will see relatives and cousins in different cities, which I think would be lots of fun. My husband is going to have reunion with his cousins in France. He is very excited!!

I will write more details later! Bye

Happy new year!

I have not written a post for about 10 days! Usually the only good time to write for me is at night and by the time I can write I am too tired.

-Any way we went to a short vaction this weekend. I had not seen snow for more than seven years and my husband wanted to join some friends in big bear. That is a little city by mountain about 3 hours a way feom San Diego. Usually people rent cabins there and go for skinig ( some thing like Dizin). I never was a ski person, in Iran most of my friends would go for skining almost every week in winter but I was lazy to get up early in the morning over the weekend and go with them. Any way I was not very excited about going to ski especially now, just before the new year but my husband was insiting alot and I gave in. The snow view was beautiful but it was too cold for me. My son enjoyed it a lot and my husband tried to teach him skinig. He looked so cute with ski outfit!
we just came back this afternoon and I am happy that I am back home. Thank god that I live in a city that is never too cold or too hot! The coldest days in winter is about 10 C and the hottest days in summer are not warmer than 30 C or at most 35 C!! Some thing like paradise!!

-Tomorrow is Persian new year, although I was tired I set up my Haftseen and am ready for the new year. Me and my husband both took off from work.
We are invited to big new year's party tomorrow night!
I really hope that this year to be a great year for Iran, I ranians and the whole world!

By the way I miss "Shomal"(north of Iran by Caspian sea). I loved going to shomal in Eid. It was so happening. We would alway got a room in Hyett, my brother's in-lwas has a villa in Amir dasht we would spend days with them and night in the hotel it was so much fun. I usually took my friends with me. I have lots of good memories of those Eids in shomal!
I like to go for visiting in Eid again , may be next year or the year after!

Eide hameh mobarak! ( Happy new year)

Daily News

-Last Night was Shajarian’s concert ( He is the most famouse traditional singer of Iran, he is a legend). Me and my brother invited our mom to the concert to celebrate her birthday as well.
She loves Shajarian. She just turned to 60. I cannot believe it that my Mom is 60 years old now. She still looks very good for her age. Any way the concert was fantastic.
He was singing with his son, if you closed your eyes you could not recognize which one is singing. Every one enjoyed it a lot. Every body was standing and clapping for them several times.
The whole group which were just four people were performing amazingly. I was stoned! There was lots of American in concert as well.
My Mom said this was the best birthday gift ever! (we gave her other gifts too!!)

-The other high light of the week for me is the mother-in-law story again. Today is exactly 2 months that she has been staying with us, I tried to be very nice and patient to her.
All this time I tried my best to make her feel at home. I thought to myself that she is older and I will get old too so I should just put up and be nice. Our deal with my husband
Was just two months, now that is my brother-in-laws turn, they are bringing all sort of excuses for not having her in Nowruz time, they just want to postpone it as long as they can.
Actually one of them does not even want to have her at his place because the wife does not like her and their excuse is that their house is small.
I lived in small house when I first got married and since my brother-in-law had remodeling at his place I had him and his mom in my home for 3 months!!
Every day when I would come home from work I had a group to feed and she would not even help. Now that is their turn, they have a small place!! Too bad!!
This Morning my husband was asking me if his mom can stay longer and I said “no, not this time. I don’t let your family manipulate me any more.
They are just taking advantage of us”. I said “if it was just you in this town, I would understand that, and there would not be any other choice,
but you have two other brothers and now is their turn to take over”. Oh god, I was so mad, she always know how to make my husband feel sorry
for her and then push me to have her longer or doing favors for her. I am not going to continue like this and I cleared that for my husband!

-I met my friends from my pervious job for lunch today. It was fun to see them and cheat chat.
I enjoyed it and that made me feel better!

Persian New year!

-These days are passing so fast for me. I have a lot to do at work and learn lots of new things. Some time I don't know how time passes by and I look at the clock and it's time to go home. I like it a lot. I really don't like to sit and do nothing! I am getting more and more used to the new environment.

-Persian New Year is just around the corner, in almost two weeks we will have our new year again. I am really happy that people in California celebrate Persian New Year as big and elegant as Iran.
Every one is cleaning the houses and getting ready for the New Year. I should start shopping for Haft Seen (that is our special set up for new year). We are already invited to two New Year's party. The very fun day for me is Chaharshnbeh Soori (that is the last Tuesday night of the year) I always loved the Chaharshnbeh Soori celebration, I remember that me and my friends were counting days for this day to go out, jump on the fire, have fun and meet new guys!!
Here they celebrate Charshnbeh Soori very big, most of Iranians get to gether in a big park on the beach and set up fire to jump over. There is DJ to play music and all sorts of food stamps.
The City of San Diego knows about the celebration and they always coordinate with Iranian organization for the celebrations and send security and stuff for help. It is a pity that our culture and customs is respected and accepted by local government here but in our own land there is no respect for people's celebrations and customs, the custom that we inherited from long time a go (3000 years) and these Mullahs want to just destroy our customs, dignity and culture. I am sure, as they have not been successful so far they will never be in their dirty mission to destroy great Iranian culture and just make people to mourn for the dead ones all the time!! Ok it's New Year again and my nationalist feelings have boiled up again!! It's amazing that I miss Iran more when it is close to New Year time. Although I love being were I am and I am so grateful to be accepted and respected in this land but homeland is not something that you ever forget or care less about. I truly hope that we get back our country and our dignity from enemy some time soon!