...!

Quebec City, Old Port

2008-08-24T18:51:00.000-07:00

Mon Amie La Rose

2008-04-21T21:22:00.000-07:00

On est bien peu de chose
Et mon amie la rose
Me l'a dit ce matin
A l'aurore je suis née
Baptisée de rosée
Je me suis épanouie
Heureuse et amoureuse
Aux rayons du soleil
Me suis fermée la nuit
Me suis réveillée vieille
...

Mon amie la rose, Francoise Hardy

Happy Persian New Year

2008-03-23T13:54:00.000-07:00

2008-01-20T17:56:00.000-08:00

When a cold sunday forces you to stay home...!

Shadows...

2008-01-13T14:34:00.000-08:00

like in a movie!

2008-01-13T14:31:00.000-08:00

2007-09-07T01:57:00.000-07:00

Too much feelings
Too little meaning
When your words touch, my mind stop working

هجرت

2007-07-22T17:37:00.000-07:00

22 July 2005, Evening flight to Doha ...

Two years age, when I left home, I didn't know how deep loneliness could hurt! Now that I'm missing that endless happiness, is it gonna heal if I commemorate the depth of my sorrows here in this dark room with its small window to the green rainy world I was looking for?!

... وامروز تنهایی هایم دو ساله شد

2007-07-19T08:22:00.000-07:00

Golden Dream (Piano: J. Maroofi)

Close your eyes,..
...come with me ...

*Bamboo Island, Thailand

2007-07-15T11:02:00.000-07:00

WeT DreAM,
Phi Phi Island,
Krabi,
Thailand

2007-06-22T22:08:00.000-07:00

It was ME, but she is gone

I am still here,
Standing alone,
Shouting loud,
Can you hear me?

Bangkok

2007-05-26T08:18:00.000-07:00

Taking a direct flight from Singapore (Tiger airways), we arrived in Bangkok at 7:50 local time. Since BKK airport is located 30 kilometers (19 miles) to the east of Bangkok, we took an ordinary metered taxi from outside the exit on the 1st floor (you should take the escalator downstairs) to our hotel, located at old Bangkok, which cost 400 baht and took around 45 minutes.
Hotel was quite nice located at the heart of old Bangkok too close to the main road of Bangkok, khaosan road, and main monuments of “The Grand palace”, “Wat Pho”, and ….
Resting at hotel till 11:30, we started our journey by walking toward “Democracy Monument”, and then we took a cab to “The grand Palace”. A stranger was standing out side the palace told us "Saturday is praying day for Buddhism and tourists are not allowed to go inside"! Even though I told him "it is written in tourist guide that palace is open daily from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm", he insisted on his words and advised us to take tuk-tuk to go somewhere else. The main problem of Bangkok is that you should be really smart to survive. There are so many strangers over there try to craft tourists to send them to some other places to get commissions. So, if you are going there by yourself, I strongly advise you to plan your trip in advance and not to trust anyone there at all. If someone offers you a great one-day-only sale on gems, smile faintly and keep on walking. Anyway, asking around, we found a back door for tourists to go in and the palace was open! Grand Palace is a huge beautiful palace which cost you 250 baht per person as entrance fee. However, it is really worth to visit for one time. It is the temple of Emerald Buddha, Thailand’s most revered Buddha image. You can also find the Royal Thai Decorations over there. We were lucky to see halo just above the image of Buddha as well!

After that we went to “Wat Pho” by walking. It is located just behind “the Grand Palace” and it is around 15 min walking. Wat in Thai means temple and “What Pho” is the temple of reclining Buddha. This 46-metre long and 15-metre high gold-plated reclining Buddha, the eyes and the feet inlaid with mother-of-pearl brings to mind the Lord Buddha’s entry into Nirvana. Just behind the “wat pho”, you can find Tha Tian pier to get boat along the Chao Phraya River, for 3 baht and it takes just 5 minutes to go to “wat Arun” which says to be the temple of down. It has a nice view from riverside but to be honest there is not that much to see inside. We prefered to have western lunch at the restaurant of our hotel, and after that we booked the River King cruise as a one day trip to Ayuthaya for the day ater. It cost 1600 bhat per person but we paid 1350 instead. Taking a cab to downtown, after passing a boring heavy traffic jam, we reached Siam Center Sky Train station which is the center of shopping centers over there. You can go to MBK as a cheap center where you can find fake products with a cheap price. If you are not interested in shopping, it would be quite boring and time wasting. Pizza hut at Siam station is a great gift to spoil urself. In menu, I found a buffet salad including tropical fruits, vegetables, Thai spices and mouth watering Thai sauces. You should try it! The interesting point about Thailand is that one SGD is around 22 Baht which means we were considered as rich girls over there. This point had strongly changed the way we ordered, acted with waiters and so on. A quite nice taste of money with dish! Thai people are quite friendly, when I asked the waiter to come and clean my table, he just did it and thanked me for asking that!!! You can ever never expect something similar from a Singaporean!

Anyway, we also found American Donut over there. After dinner, we went back to hotel. The whole stories we had during the day, made us to decide not to experience Bangkok nightlife and go back hotel too early.

The day after, a tour guide picked up us at 6:30 am. to go to Ayuthaya. We were back at around 4:00 pm. After taking a short nap at hotel, we went to Khaosan Road, just hanging out and looking around. The atmosphere was truly friendly with nice shops and so many European backpackers. It was quite refreshing but we had to stay smart all the time since it wasn’t really safe especially at night. We took a cab to Chinatown, but unfortunately because of some matters we had to change our cab. It is too sad to say that you shouldn’t even trust taxi drivers in Bangkok. Anyway, there weren't that much in Chinatown at evening. Most of the shops were closed except dining booths serving local Chinese dishes along the road. After that we went back to khaosan road by taxi and had our dinner at hotel as usual.
I did love Bangkok. It is a nice place with friendly smiley people and full of tourists. Bangkok looks quite like Tehran. I was feeling like I am back home and it was a nice calm taste of Bangkok for the first visit!Tomorrow morning we have a flight to Krabi :)

20 May 2007, Bangkok

2007-04-24T22:21:00.000-07:00

Steering a ship coming from horizon
“There is no distance” is all I know.
Never knowing where to go
Shine on me, my little pole star

10 April 07

2007-04-18T02:47:00.000-07:00

2007-03-19T03:45:00.000-07:00

2007-03-02T00:42:00.000-08:00

All I feel ...

2007-02-26T11:11:00.000-08:00

Hindu believes life consists of 5 basic elements which are water, earth, sky, fire, and wind. So, in the Hindu wedding, there are 5 ceremonies worshiping these elements.
At the end, when groom is supposed to give sacred neclace to bride both of them walk around this fire for 7 times('cause in earlier days only 7 planets in solar system were considered) and Fire represents Sun source of energy. It's like keeping all of them as wintnesses and then they promise to support each other forever and ask for their blessings in the journey thereafter.

2007-02-17T10:09:00.000-08:00

2007-02-02T00:33:00.000-08:00

At 1:00 pm we reached Bangalore after more than 3 hrs delay. We were planning to catch the direct train at 11 am to Mysore ,but this new conditions forced us to cancel our booking and look for another possible solution. However, finding a solution was just a beautiful dream! Bangalore was unexpectedly different from what we expected from Silicon valley of India. In comparison with Singapore Airport, Bangalore Airport was a very old and dirty place like a common building in the poor parts of the city. I wish the story was just that but it became worse in the entrance of arrival hall where the police was trying to control the crowd not to rush in.
The first impression was awful. Cows and bulls roaming the roads and sick skinny dogs lying down the street, a very dirty area full of homeless people... For the first 10 minutes, I was sticking my backpack and doing nothing except shaking! After complaining the Indian airline duty manager for such this trouble and long delay, they offered a taxi to take us to Majestic Railway station to check the availability of train tickets for Mysore . After a long journey to railway station, standing in a very long queue, we found two tickets for 4:30 pm which was planned to reach Mysore at 10:00 pm! 139km in 5:30 hrs! It was awful and obviously out of our patience. So, we canceled our plan to Mysore .
Since we had booked a hotel in Mysore for that night, we didn't have any idea about accommodation in Bangalore . So, I called my friend and asked about a good hotel to stay for night. Getting an ambassador (Indian old Benz) for 200 Rps, We asked the driver to take us to BRAS PRASHANTHA Hotel. Atoosa got down checking the hotel first but it was really under our imagination. Terribly dark for us! So, there was no way except trusting the driver and asking him to take us to a reasonable good hotel. On the way while we were really frightened and we didn't have any other way except trusting, we called our friend in Singapore by our Singapore mobile, gave him the car number, the story and funnily mentioned "if we wouldn't call you back again in 15 minutes, consider us dead!"
Finally, we were lucky to find a not too bad hotel, GOLDEN RESIDENCY HOTEL. After putting down our luggage, we went for walking around and seeing the night life of Bangalore . Besides, eagerly we were looking for mineral water and at least some biscuits to survive!
Hearding about McDonald in Bangalore , we first asked for it from a restaurant. But his reaction was funny. He showed us his menu and replied " we are not serving McDonald. Here is our menu, which of them do you mean!!!!" Funnier was the reaction of people for asking for supermarket. It was a totally strange concept to the people of that area. Finally, after around 1 hour browsing we just found mineral water and some bananas and oranges for dinner. After coming back to the hotel, we called the same driver to hire him for one day sightseeing in Bangalore. It was the first day in India . For the whole day I was totally shocked and so scared for this unbelievable first impression and I hope later days would not be as heavy as today :)

Bangalore, 25th January, 2006

2007-01-19T20:40:00.000-08:00

... سیاه و سفید دلتنگی های من

2007-01-16T03:07:00.000-08:00

“Be the change you wish to see in the world”
-Gandhi

2007-01-15T10:11:00.000-08:00

دوستی دارم که از ارکیده های شهر هم مهربان تر است

2006-12-28T19:22:00.000-08:00

...قصه های کودکی یادش بخیر

2006-12-06T02:52:00.000-08:00

The show must go on ...

2006-11-22T11:03:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Maryam!

2006-10-09T05:30:00.000-07:00

"The subject tonight is Love"
Let's start a Spiritual journey :)
...
Walk the way of love
Be the GOD to know the GOD
Beautify the World We Live In
...

I'm feeling great tonight,
The subject tonight is love!

2006-09-30T11:14:00.000-07:00

The Brightest moments...

This is the END
A Bright Gifted Death!

2006-09-11T21:50:00.000-07:00

Falling deeply asleep to dream
No matter how hard it is going on outside

Stranger, Have a Nice Dream!

2006-09-04T02:26:00.000-07:00

There is no pain, you are receding!

2006-08-28T20:54:00.000-07:00

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
Echoes-Pink Floyd

2006-08-20T20:22:00.000-07:00

Love or Loss?

2006-07-08T08:30:00.000-07:00

Eruption Of Happiness ...

2006-07-05T08:45:00.000-07:00

This is the end, Beautiful friend
This is the end, My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
The End - Doors

2006-07-01T20:42:00.000-07:00

"... Listen

As I weave my tale
My Mind's eye transfixed on the joys and sorrows

Listen
My song is painted on the wind

Listen..."
Down of Desire-Susanne lee

2006-06-30T22:01:00.000-07:00

"I've always thought
that I would love to live by the sea
To travel the world alone
and live my life more simply
I have no idea what's happened to that dream
Cos there's really nothing left here to stop me

It's just a thought, only a thought"
Life For Rent-Dido