Me And Photography

Here are some Photos I've taken.hope you enjoy.

say hello to my dearest cloud.i love it because at the bottom it's night and on the top it's day.

this is a concrete block with a square hole on top which is filled with bricks,and pieces of bread people left between them.

yesterday i was at our neighborhood's mosque and felt kinda bored.so i started some abstract art on the carpet.
that's it for today.

Back again after an awesome year

it's been a long time since i my last post)roughly a year).
this year was a year of change and triumph both in personal and social aspect.
let's start from from the most important part,my biggest decision yet(if choosing birth was no option.)
by standards of my society i should have sat for university entrance exam to probably enroll for medicine.but as I'd written in one of my earlier post,I'd been flirting with the idea of studying in hawzah (schools in which Muslim scholars study). I did it,decide to swim up the river,against the current. i received a good big support from my family especially my grandfather,who by reputation wants all his grand children to become medics.
hawzah,for sure,lived up to it's promises,flourishing atmosphere,like minded people.......
for the first six month i immersed myself into my studies(mostly Arabic literature of first sadr of Islam).I'll write about hawzah further.
beside changing my study field i've also changed my way of dressing.you will see in next posts.
moreover i had the chance to meet wonderful people:classmates,teachers office workers...
and i had definitely enjoyed arguments people start as soon as they find out you're a to be sheikh (which is usually as soon as they see you), ina cab or bus or anywhere.
above arguments is the fact that you become a subject of interest,people whisper about you,allude to you in their conversatoins.
on the other hand is the heavy responsibility you must shoulder.because you are no longer a mere individual,you,willy nilly,are a representative of a social class that society pay a lot of attention to its members and many frown upon.due to the effect of your actions(enhancing or damaging your social class's picture among others)very action you take must be accompanied by great care and thoughtfulness.
let's finish this post with a beautiful poem from Robert Lee Foster.I deeply believe I'm one embodiment of this poem.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;         5   Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,         10   And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.         15   I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. source

The Day Of The Dead: a good start a dull ending

two days ago i watched the day of the dead. that zombie movie.
it started well(he who had watched knows why) but proceeded so unexpectedly.there was no real suspension and the horror tended to be more Sci-fi.
by tradition zombies are slow stupid creatures (if you can call them creatures). but here zombies were so fast and furious.
the idea of how people are zombified is kind of thread bear now. the virus story is pretty old, yet interesting (not here).
we watched the day of the dead with a couple of guys and after a while horror was changed into comedy. but I'm still happy we didn't watch that teenage one.
there are some other considerable problem such as one of the final scenes in which they ignite the propulsion tanks and only zombies burn and the walls and other things around are just as they were.
or the explosion of head when the set fire on zombies by cocktail Molotov. that was THE joke. if you keep and empty spray on fire at that distance it wouldn't even get hot let alone explosion but the zombie tissue seems to be more temperature sensitive.
all in all it was a run of the mill entertaining movie but if you want to buy it think of something better instead.

M.A.N.

now a bit of my life:
i was born 23rd of December 1992 so now I'm nearly 17.
in Iran we start going to school from 7.and so did i.i was a pretty good student so i was accepted in one of the best junior high schools in Mashad and I've finished three out of four grades of senior high school in the same school's senior high school branch.
in Iran there is not mixed school by means of gender but the universities are.it's like freedom after 12 years of imprisonment for many.
for my future I've decided to become a clergy man and I'm planning to study psychology or sociology at university.don't panic, I'm not a redneck. I'm seeking new ways and new things. for example the majority of Muslims think Christians worship three gods and Christians know they don't.
or some Sunnis think Shias worship the dead while they don't. I'm quite satisfied with my decision but i must counsel a couple of more experienced guys.I'm like a babe in the woods.
if you've got any idea I'm yearning to know it.

Best Wishes

M.A.N.

Ten Little Niggers

Image via Wikipedia

Today i finished reading "ten little niggers" by Agatha Christie(the translation). it was amazing. the uncertainty you can feel in the story was wonderful. murders so precisely choreographed and up to the end of the story you can't even the identity if the murderer. Agatha Christie must have had a super creative mind to write such a dynamic story. the fear it
induces is out standing. you are not in that stifling atmosphere but you can easily feel it.
i strongly recommend everyone to to read it.

M.A.N.

my broadband Internet

Finally I got my broadband Internet.
Truth be told, the term broadband in Iran is a 128kps connection for home users and we paid 29000 Iranian rials for it. something around 25$. I don't want to be unappreciative but compared to many other countries it's funny, isn't it?
But that's better than the previous dial up connection anyway.
I wanted to watch Hillary Clinton's concession speech but it was filtered. They can come up with the excuse of being political for it. But a world of warcraft video is nothing dangerous for any regime and it's filtered as well. in fact sites like youtube are filtered.
At the moment I'm enjoying my ADSL connection. It's like riding a Ferrari after riding a bicycle for many years.
And the last thing: as a student am eager to learn about other countries system of education. If you know any personal source please inform me.

Best Wishes

M.A.N.

BBC Documentary

The image you have from Iran is probably distorted.
A fact file with no judgment is the best way to discover the truth, in my viewpoint.
Of course if you showcase an American daily life for me and a Japanese guy our judgments will definitely be different, but at least it's personal, not affected by external factors and is not exaggerated.
Talking about the BBC's documentary about Iran, it does not provide a complete image of Iran but it can kick start process of getting to know Iran, the way it really is.


Regah Omar, a BBC reporter returned to Iran, this time not to interview politicians but to interview Tehran. The capital city of Iran.
Maybe it is time to bury the hatchet and watch the documentary as a neutral spectator.
Regah Omar starts with less privileged areas. He describes the people in those areas of Tehran unshakable in their faith in spite of their economic condition.
He often refers to politics, such as talking about justice, the idea about it among Iranians and the movements seeking it, like the Islamic revolution and election of president Ahmadinejad.
Perhaps the purpose of the effort to talk to different Iranians from different classes, sometimes different like day from night, is to embody the Iranian society as a whole. I haven't watched the whole documentary so my judgments are still incomplete.
The other good point is that the documentary provides additional facts in some cases such as the scene of tapping in gravestone in order to communicate with the dead. I don't know whether it is right or not(according to Islam), but it sounds like a superstition as it was mentioned by Regah Omar.
All in all, up to here Omar's attempt to picture the Iranian society, in particular Tehran, hasn't failed.it has been just, precise and to the point, to some extend.

M.A.N.

Now I Am On Net !

WOW
exhilarating.finally I uploaded my first image in web.
this is me (but not exactly).

today(or better to say yesterday cuz now it's 2:30 here) we watched the BB C's documentary about Iran.we did not have enough time but up to where we managed to watch it surpassed my expectation about BBC.The image i had from BBC in my mind was a liar now this image has started to disappear.
i recommend you to watch it.although the image it provides from Iran is not the whole fact,it may reform what you thought about my country.It's obvious that you can not form a real idea about a country unless you live there for a good while.
one thing thing to mention is that not all Iranians speak English so badly.in comparison with the guys Regah talked to i speak a far better English.
best wishes

M.A.N.

appetizer

Hi there!

I am a 16 years old boy who is living somewhere in east.a guy who can't travel much because firstly he doesn't have much money & secondly the rules of his country restrict him.
I'm like a penguin who can't fly but enjoys hearing the birds telling their stories from distant lands.
in fact my main aim is to keep my English in use and also get to know a few people and somehow expressing my self.
I think it's enough for a new comer in the world of bloggers.
Your comments will surely bring happiness to my heart.
And finally, sorry for the mistakes I've made and will make. I'll be grateful if you point them out.
Best Wishes

M.A.N.