Election

for iran's future, next iranian preseidential election, i blieve, is more important and decisive than the one back in 1995, when khatami got elected for the first time. maybe the most decisive ever. i truely believe those who run for presidency now are selfless and very very dedicated. socially, the situation is much worse than it was before; economy is down and investors are not even near to keen on investing in iran.
i believe khatami is the best choice and i don't agree with most of people around me that it's a choice between the bad and the worse, it's the choice between a reasonableness and lunacy.
i do hope that khatami and the rest of reformists come to an agreement and run united. they need to play everyone and need to attract the unions, especially teachers and labour unions and use them to attract votes. external affairs in this capaign, is decisive.

10 years after

10 years after is probably one of the most underrated bands in rock history. they never get the commercial recognition, i personally belive, they deserved but definitely had a good part in forming the rockmusic of 70's during 60's. the name is claimed (by others and not themselves) to be a milestone of their existance which was 1965, 10 years after elvis. other says it was taken from a radio station in UK with the same name. the riffs, effects on guitar and progressive nature of their work was well ahead of their times. they were had performed in newport jazz festival & wood stock. their first comemrically successful solo is i'd like to change the world. a conscience decision to move towards more commercial music. it's still is a great song for me. being commercially successful doesn't necessarily mean it is a bad piece
here's the lyrics:

everywhere is freaks and hairies
dykes and fairies,
tell me where is sanity
tax the rich, feed the poor
till there are no rich no more

i’d love to change the world
but i dont know what to do
so i'll leave it up to you

population keeps on breeding
nation bleeding, still more feeding economy
life is funny, skies are sunny
bees make honey, who needs money, monopoly

i’d love to change the world
but i dont know what to do
so i'll leave it up to you

world pollution, there's no solution
institution, electrocution
just black and white, rich or poor
them and us, stop the war

i’d love to change the world
but i dont know what to do
so i'll leave it up to you

(source: wiki)

what's your name
what's your numba
i would like to get to know you
can we have a conversation
the night is young, girl give me a chance

no matter howmany times one listens to a song, there could always be new discoveries in that. new tunes, beats, rythm & rhym in different ways. it's amazing.

there has been a trend being followed in media recently. there has been a religious remark included in most of the characters in the news especially the bad ones. for instance, a "muslim" man had beheaded his wife; a wealthy "muslim woman" from qatar had swapped a stolen jewel with another woman. such instances are not rare. it left me with the question "what's the point?"
why do we need to include a religious subtext in all that? does it really matter? unless there is a scehem being followed by the media. i don't believe in theory of conspiracy in the sense that i don't deny it, but i accept it as something that might exist but i just can't my get my head around such attitude. makes me wonder if it is a conspiracy!

a hazy morning
like any other day
a walk by the mountain
a look at the sun rise
carrying the burden of thousand years

no wings to fly
no sword to draw
to kill the demon
to ride away the evil

a misty day
comes the time to travel to the distant far
ride through the wild
to search for the light
to bring back the life
once taken and never to be returned

no wings to fly
but a sword to draw
away is the evil
dead is the demon

now mountains behind and seas sailedconquered is the castle of demon
light unleashed
life once again

eddie vedder - no ceiling

comes the morning
when i can feel
that there's nothing left to be concealed
moving on a scene surreal
no, my heart will never be far from here

sure as i am breathing
sure as i'm sad
i'll keep this wisdom in my flesh
i leave here believing more than i had
and there's a reason i'll be back

as i walk
the hemisphere
got my wish to up and disappear
i've been wounded
i've been healed
now for landing i've been cleared

sure as i'm breathing
sure as i'm sad
i'll keep this wisdom
in my flesh
i leave here believing
more than i had
this love has got
no ceiling

darfur conviction

an inetersting event http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7922705.stm and a shocking story on darfur http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7921311.stm . it's quite depressing if what in the second article had been said is true. it's dangerous how can people with such mentalities gain power, rule over people and then decide that some of them (a large sum) are no good, so kill them and rape them. i guess the role of education and democracy becomes highly significant in avoiding such occurence and resurrection of human rights, which is nothing fancy but the right to live!
also, if any of the prophets were to see these days, how would have they felt, react? is this really their legacy? i wonder.

what a day, if you could look it in the face and hold your vomit!

victory brings a sensational feeling of satisfaction. that's how i feel these days. it feels twice as better when i remember that this was an unwanted and un-intended war.
something that i have been dragged into because my supervisor for some reason thought he could win or he had not any intentions of such but for bad managing the situation, it turns out to be a war, through which i should have survived or else i should have kissed my career goodbye! but my paitience and hard work paid at the end. there has been some serious ass kicking and questions had been asked.
it feels good. it surely boosted my confidence and made me aware of the qualities i had!
life's good

another gunmen attack, this time in pakistan and in a cricket match! few dead and few players injured! i wonder why? how the can finance these attacks?
i was watching a programme on NAT GEO Adventure yesterday. it was about the ordeal a woman had in philipines. the islamic militants of Abu-Sayyaf abducted them and held her and a group of others for a year long period. she was a meissionaire with her husband, also a missionaire. the attitude of militants was not strange at all. i have personnally seen and expereinced such attitude from up close in iran. the following questions had came to my mind:
1- is islam really that harsh a religion that it's followers can easily kill people, kidnap them and ask for ransome! then they use the ransome to finance their shit!
2- in case there would be any change, would that happen in iran as well? such attitudes are not rare in iran and while it is very selfish yet in the mean time so selfless it is that becomes very scary.
she finally lost her husband at the end when philipino army attempted to rescue them!

there's nothing that a focused mind and determined attitude cannot do.

eddie vedder - hard sun

when i walk beside her
i am the better man
when i look to leave her
i always stagger back again

once i built an ivory tower
so i could worship from above
when i climb down to be set free
she took me in again

there's a biga big hard sun
beating on the big people
in the big hard world

when she comes to greet me
she is mercy at my feet
i see her inner charm
she just throws it back at me

once i dug an early grave
to find a better land
she just smiled and laughed at me
and took her rules back again

when i go to cross that rivers
she is comfort by my side
when i try to understand
she just opens up her hands

once i stood to lose her
and i saw what i had done
bowed down and threw away the hours
of her garden and her sun

so i tried to want her
i turned to see her weep
40 days and 40 nights
and it's still coming down on me

it's strange how the libyans have the tendency to bullshit people. especially commit themsleves to something that they don't have to in the first place but then they vanish and that part of their memory comes as if nothing had been said on that specific subject! incred-a-bull!

when i was younger and a university student, i have often been reminded of how i am wasting my time playing basket, work as basketball coach and playing baseball. it was by no means fitting in my parents and the surroundings of their small world. i am definitely not the only one who's facing that. i guess i sometime join their league of "lacking dimensions to life" type of persons. i thought a lot about what they said and i still argue with them and with teh perspective they have on life. in fact, what i am made of today, is the result of those days i spent living basketball. we were breathing basketball, being fed by basketball. everything was basketball, MJ, magic, penny hardaway, grant hill and for me above all were scottie pippen and ron harper. strange choices but i learnt a lot from them. to be MJ has never been as excting as being Scottie pippen or ron harper. the fact that they were quite acpable player and material contributors to MJ's success, the way they played in a team and the way they stepped up in teh time they had to, is just inspiring to me. there's hardly anything being mentioned about ron harper, but i never forget his defence on teh last ball of chicagos last championship. he out-defended john stockton on his last position and deflected his 3-pointer.
the point of all these is that no matter where you spend you time, what matters at the end of the day is that you make it worth a while, as ron harper did, as pippen did and as MJ did. i guess we (the ones that breath basketball) also did the same. it made us to be hard workers, focused and i claim professional.

it's amusing how tide turns during time. no matter how hard life is at times, howmany challenges one might face at times, the only thing that it takes is to believe at own's qualities, hard work, patience and to stay focus. while realising one cannot have it all and to be real is essetial, especially for a mentally healthy life style. one thing for sure, is that whingeing the present and lamenting the past, doesn't resolve a thing. it's only hope for now and furture that counts.
and if one is focused enough, then she/he can definitely turn the tides before even the time for tides to turn has arrived.

one of the attributes that i commonly see through people, including myself, from time to time is the need for drama. the level of drama differs of course. in some i say is close to none. i personally try to keep it to the minimum, up to my capabilities. in some is like air.
it only takes "roof" for them to say "no, don't kill yourself!"
well relax dude, chill out. i just wanted to have a moment on the roof and look at the sun set and then come back down or have the roof of my car off; no suicidal intension!
but why? can't take things simpler and easier? i mean we don't have to be fortune tellers and guess what others wanna say? it only takes two good ears to hear what the others say and then respond accordingly if necessary!

i have been quite sick in past few days. i had such a head ache that i could hardly lift my head from the pillow! so i had to stay in the wednesday. i never found out why? it was like a food poisoning and extreme dehydration as a result. it hasn't been that bad though. i experienced a new format of movements in objects and events. i could clearly see a distorted image of the sky and the clouds! the people moving! however, the waves through their natural distortion, they became unified and became fluent and smooths although very harsh and heavy they were pounding the shore! i wonder, have i been drugged?

political Alzheimer!

Pakistan Government had agreed to a deal with Taliban militants to lay down Sharia law in Swat area of Pakistan, in exchange for Taliban to lay down their arms and weapons. who's Sharia law? Taliban's of course. it has been regarded as a very positive. yesterdays murderers who banned women from education, girls & boys from playing, largest producer of opium in the world whom i held responsible for growing addiction in Iran, etc. are now officially controlling an area in middle east! i can't see any reason other than the politician in pakistan are suffering from Alzheimer and had forgotten what these bloody Taliban had done in the past.
it has been said it is a requirement of people of that region! i wonder if this requirement had been discussed with the girls, and children who have to hide in their houses, or abandon their education. Or maybe, Pakistani Government are short of cash and with this deal, they can use some opium funds from Taliban!
then why are we after drug dealers and human traffickers and child pornographers? what is the difference between Taliban and them? let them live freely as well! why not? Taliban have the right to control a part of this planet, why shouldn't they?shame on pioneers of democracy and human rights. welcome back murder! i guess these days are as black as medieval times!

forced to be a good man

in the another capter of "celebrities apology" sitcom comedies, prince harry. he had called one of his troopers who happens to eb pakistani a "paki". apparently a racist word. well the lad had wore a "swastika" the Nazi arm band in one the parties he was in adntehn apologised to jewish community, he called his troopers a paki, another one a raghead. maybe he is a racist. what's wrong with that? we could denounce it (i would), but why should we (as mob and media) expect him to change into something else?
well i guess media has large part to do with it (check this). senseless content and mass brain wash. funny thing is that, it has become so serious an affair for the public that you get the feeling as if they own the guy and funny is that all of them apologise. no one comes out and say, hey i said that, i did that! all say i'm sorry.
isn't it pathetic?