۱۳۸۷ اردیبهشت ۲, دوشنبه

Earth day




Tomorrow is Earth day and I believe each of us had an obligation to protect our environment and beloved Earth planet. Each of us individually can have a huge impact to keep our planet better place to live for now and for our children and our grandchildren.

Here are some small little things I do to keep planet better:

• try to use reusable containers as much as possible
• try to recycle as much as it holds
• try re-use the water bottle for drinking water. Avoiding to buy water bottle every time I need
• use least paper towel and use the regular towel for cleaning the kitchen(still sometimes I use paper towel but should minimum to the least)
• minimized the shower time(not very successful yet)
• I don’t print unless really necessary
• I asked my bank to send me online monthly statement instead of paper statement
• I was very good lat year in turning my computer off when I leave office especially during weekend) I only turn off the monitor Monday to Friday
• Turn off the light whenever I can


I am working on these to get better:
• When I brush my teeth I working to close the water
• I was using the plastic glass in the office I am changing this habit and using regular glass that I can wash it.
• I was bad using my shopping bag instead I was using the plastic bag offered by grocery stores. I am working on this too.
• TV is on when I am at home even when I am not watching it. This is really a bad habit I should work on this too.


These are really small little things that everybody can do in their daily life. After all we are here in planet for only couple of years; we should try to keep it clean and healthy for the next generation. Please at least give it a try …………………..

۱۳۸۷ فروردین ۳۰, جمعه

How can I write in Farsi in my blog? Anybody????

I really like to write in Farsi in my blog or at least give it try but I don’t know how???? Anybody can help? Sometimes I blog from my Mac laptop and sometimes from Windows based computer. So what is the catch to write in Farsi? Do I need to create a new blog in different server to be able to write in Farsi??????????????

۱۳۸۷ فروردین ۲۳, جمعه

On The Road by Jack Kerouac



Couple of friends and I started a book club reading in New York City. We decided to read a book each month and talk about the book when we gather next time. The rule is whomever is hosting the book reading night next time can recommend books and we vote and decide which one to read. I was the first host so I recommended couple of books and eventually we picked “Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wild. This Monday we will be talking about “on the Road”.

“on the road” a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1957. Mostly it is autobiography of his trips cross United State with his friends from Columbia University., experiencing life, drug, sex, poetry, etc…For me not familiar with American history especially during depression, after depression, and hippies this is a great book to start learning about all these. The book considered as postwar beat generation who inspired by poetry, jazz, drug and sex.

Jack and his friends are studied in Columbia University in New York; he is creator of the beat generation who they want to live. The philosophy behind it was I am poor so everything belongs to me. They belong to post war period (Second World War) which Jack and his friends mostly came back from. This is the period people started migrate to the suburb of the cities and owning affordable house, having wife and kids considered as an ideal life. Jack Kerouac and his friends on the other hand didn’t considered it as an ideal life(American Dream in 1960) and decided to live and experienced all they could in life and started with visiting different cities in America. Cars and using the car was a luxury and most people couldn’t afford buying tickets for train or bus so they ended up hitchhiking or using car services(which you drove the car or pooling car with other people to share the gas) and living on the road.

Sal Paradise represents Jack Kerouac an innocent writer who wants to experience the life. The fear of the death and not having much time to live he decides to live by experiencing as much as could. Seems the beat generation has only one ideology and that is life and the holly and precious life and maybe that’s explains the madness of Dean who wanted to leave and do everything he could in a short period of time. Fear of death and loosing all and being buried in a cemetery in gloomy suburb.

۱۳۸۷ فروردین ۱۹, دوشنبه

"I want to believe" Guggenheim Museum

Guggenheim Museum in New York is only 10 minutes walk from where I live, so it is no surprise that Pete ad I visit this museum very often. Guggenheim Museum is very famous for its unique architecture and I always find myself enjoying walking around the spiral floors. Of course there are always ongoing constructions inside or outside the building. But yesterday we decided to see what is new in museum and checked out the exhibition since I saw a strange picture from new exhibition in the paper and was very curious.And we both were very impressed by the “I want to believe” by Cai Guo – Qiang exhibition. Cia is born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. He is gone to Shanghai Drama Institute from 1981 to 1985, and his work has, since the outset, been scholarly and often politically charged. Cai is one of the most well-known and influential Chinese contemporary artists, having represented his country at the Venice Biennale in 1999 with his project Venice's Rent Collection Courtyard, a performance during which he had artisans recreate a famous work of Socialist Realist propaganda sculpture. For his complete bio and work please check here: Cia Guo-Qiang

Cia works inspired by many Chinese myths. He also experiences how energy can affect his artistic work. He also created many work using gun powder.





You can see better pics in Pete's blog