Thursday, July 15, 2010

Many things done in less than a day

Hi again:

Recent days were too rapid and busy for me. I had two meetings so I was busy with their preparations. Also, I'll go to take the written test of driving license in Hawaii tomorrow to be able to take the road test in a month. Also, I'll make Iranian yogurt by boiling high-fat milk and using current yogurt which I bought from India Market. This will be absolutely super delicious as I have missed its taste after about 7 month being away from family and country.
I also went to shopping for dress, home appliances and some groceries. I'll start athletic activities since tomorrow after I bought appropriate clothing for that. Additionally, I am moving to a new place which requires me to do many preparations.
Best of all, a friend of mine is coming from Netherlands to here for a short vacation and we are going to go skydiving in Honolulu. Then, we will go to Kaui island to explore its unique nature and landscapes.
The most important thing which has happened in recent 24 hours is an article which is published in UH newspaper based on the interview which I wanted somebody from KALEO to do with me about single-entry constraint of Iranian students F1 student visa in US. We are going to do the same in other universities as a part of our action which is currently conducted at http://mevisa.org . I am really happy that I am the first person who did this and I am responsible for providing others the required material for doing such interviews again with their universities newspapers. We need these articles for our further purposes.

Finally, please wish me luck because I'll have a very busy week ahead and I'll have to make much progress in my research too.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Iranian cookery in Hawaii


Hi everybody:

Fore me, tonight was very different from all days and nights which I have had in States yet. For the first time in my life, I spent about 5 hours for cookery and could cook six different Iranian dishes for more than 12 meals of mine. Regarding that I don't din a lot, this means I have cooked for about two weeks of mine which is one of the coolest and most exciting achievements which I have had yet!! :D
FYI, the dishes are as following:
1 - Khoresht Bamieh
2 - Khoresht Ghorme-sabzi
3 - Khoresht Gheymeh
4 - Spaghetti with cheese and tomato "tah-dig"
5 - Chicken breast and macaroni salad
6 - Kookoo Sibzamini

I'd like to cook "kookoo-morgh" and "kookoo-sabzi" in next days. This means I won't need university meal plans anymore and I don't have to eat there either. Thus, call me chef since now! :D
It's a very important moment of my life here because this event will considerably enhance my life satisfaction and working efficiency which will push me for further happy moments and greater successes in life! :)

P.S:
This post photo is my tonight dinner which I had cooked about 20 minutes before I took its photo! :)

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Two weird things in less than an hour


Hi again:

Two weird things happened tonight which made me to write a post about them. First, I locked myself for about 4 hours. I mean, I had left my keys in my room and left the door open. Then, it was winding and ... :D
Anyway, I had to wait for my landlord to get her additional key to open the door but who stays in home in a weekend that she does so?? :D
Thus, I had to find a way not to sleep on our couch in lobby until the next day when she would come and open the door. Therefore, I went ahead and untied the window frame of my room from outside and opened its glassy window manually. I had to do it carefully because if I broke any part of that old frame, I would have to pay more than 140$ for its replacement according to my room contract!! Worse of all, I had to do it in silence because if somebody saw me in that situation when I entered to my room from its window, I might be in jail now! :D
Anyway, after about 30 minutes hardworking, I could enter to my room through its window. Something had never happened before in my life!! :P
Another weird matter, is the "meat grinder" which I was supposed to buy online from Amazon and I was waiting to receive tonight. I had thought what I had purchased online, was a meat-grinder at an excellent price of 37$ and I was so proud of myself for such a purchase! :))
When I opened its pack and found out what a funny product I had purchased online instead of buying it in-store, like what our fathers and mothers did in their times, I became sad because I have to return it by my own cost. It means, I will be charged about 7$ for shipping it back to seller. It also made me so angry because I waited about 10 days to get that thing to start cooking Iranian foods with cut meat.
Anyway, thanks God I am still alive!

P.S:
1. There are many other weird stuff which have happened in recent 24 hours but I don't have enough time to explain them now. I have to go and take a shower to get ready for watching final match of world cup between Spain and Netherlands, in our area night-club place. This means, I have missed another night and I have not to sleep for another day! :(
2. I'm not a burglar!!! This post photo is "tazeeini"!! :D

Saturday, July 10, 2010

World cup 2010: Germany!

Yes! That's it. They finally got a result for their great performance in this world cup. Congrats to them and all Germans around the world! :)
World cup 2010 will be finished tomorrow by the final match among Netherlands and Spain. I don't personally support any of these teams so it doesn't matter for me which of them will win the cup. I was supporting Germany (Deutschland) in this cup and I believe they deserved to become champion for 4th time if they could manage the game in their recent match with Spain. But what happened, happened! So, let's see what will happen tomorrow in final! :)

P.S:
1 - My favorite national team has been France since 10 years ago. They couldn't do anything in this world cup but I still hope they may do better in next tournaments! :)
2 - My favorite club is Bayern Munchen. They may not be as popular as Manchester United, Real Madrid, Barcelona, AC Milan, etc. but they play football (American soccer) much better in other ways which you cannot enjoy it unless they have a good coach like "Otmar Hitzfeld".
3 - For copy-right purposes, I have used this post photo from http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/photo/127/205/9/picture.html#1272059
4 - Maybe I use here as a diary for my daily writings. It means, maybe I don't have any rules for writing but I'll try to post mostly in English to improve at least my writing skills! :)

First and introductory post of mine


Hi everybody!

Here is my first post in my new weblog. I started blogging since early 2005 but I had to finish it in mid-2007. I even had to delete my weblog content and domain as a result of some personal affairs!
Now, after about three years, I highly feel that I need to write and be heard. I need to express myself in words otherwise something bad may happen and makes some problems for me. I don't mean that kind of very bad problems, but it will be harmful anyway!
Thus, I have started blogging again since today. As far as I know, wordpress.com/wordpress.org and all its features has been filtered by my government so I am trying blogger services to share my moments with other people in this world.
Up to now, I haven't decided in what language I will continue blogging so I start with English as a more known language but I may change to Persian (Farsi) in my next posts. So, please use translate.google.com for those Persian posts if you want to understand them in your language.
I have chosen "nagoriz" the name of my blog to state my current situation in this stage of my life. I have made a decision and I am currently in somewhere which I didn't think even in my dreams to be or live. I don't like to discuss it now so let's move to next posts later to find out what happens in my mind and what I am showing to others in outside world.
OK! I think it's enough for the first post. As you see, I have many things to say which may take much time to be written here but I will honestly try to express them as much as possible, regardless that it has any readers or not!

Have fun!

P.S:
1. "nagoriz" means "somebody who doesn't have any way back or forward in his/her life and has to continue his current way otherwise unwanted things may happen and make the situation worse" in Persian (Farsi).
2. I am a Muslim Iranian who is proud of his nationality, history, civilization and culture. Somebody who believes in peaceful and happy living of several nations and religions-followers together.
3. English is my third language. To be honest, after Persian as my mother language, I was fluent in Arabic as my religion language more than English as my primary academic language before coming to States. Fortunately, since that time, my English has been improved a lot. It has almost become second language of mine and it's currently much better than 6 months ago. So, please consider that if I have any mistakes in my English posts or I cannot write in English as well as you do, it's the result of not being a native speaker. In this point of view, I see myself even more able than those native speakers who can just speak in their mother language, English. :)
4. I don't have any specific schedule for updating here. I may update it several times in a day or once a week or twice in a year! I haven't thought much about it but I may use it as a public diary of mine.
5. Currently, I am very similar to this guy whom you see in this post. Dizzy and unconscious!