Canada day

From the very beginning you could tell that Steven Harper is a politician, and I don't mean that in a good way. A more recent example of it is the Government Sales Tax reduction effective tomorrow. Just think of it this way, 1% tax reduction is a couple of hundred dollars per year for the average income, $60,000. How much difference does that make in the life of the average person? But it's a big score for corporations and companies ... Conservatives!

egg

I can't touch an egg, it came out of a chicken butt!

- Jackie, that 70's show

change

What is this? Do we live to get to love someone or something and then spend a period pulling away from it? Is there no stability? I know he is not moving away, but we won't see each other every day and I am so used to cheering up myself by talking to him ... it'll be rather dull around here without him, I'll miss him a lot ... and soon after someone else from our lab is graduating, then it'll be really lonely and unfamiliar ...

good and bad

Good is good and bad is bad
You don't know which one you had

- Sheryl Crow

tomorrow

... he said: "I do this so the beautiful baby that you bear comes into a wonderful world." It struck me, I had always said that I want children but I had never heard it from someone else ...

consent

I think it's a good idea I especially like the near age exemption clause: The legislation includes a so-called near-age exception of five years. That exclusion would permit 14- and 15-year-olds to engage in sexual activity with a partner who is less than five years older.

have a nice day

Why you wanna tell me how to live my life?
Who are you to tell me if it's black or white?
Momma, can you help me try to understand
Is innocence the difference 'tween a boy and a man?
My daddy lived to die, that's just the price that he paid
Sacrificed his life just slaving away

Oh, if there's one thing I hang onto that gets me thru the nite
I ain't gonna do what I don't want to; I'm gonna live my life
Shining like a diamond, rolling with the dice
Standing on the ledge, I show the wind how to fly
When the world gets in my face, I say…
Have a nice day
Have a nice day

Take a look around you; nothing's what it seems
We're living in the broken home of hopes and dreams
Let me be the first to shake a helping hand
Anybody brave enough to take a stand
I've knocked on every door on every dead-end street
Looking for forgiveness and what's left to believe

- Jon Bon Jovi

celebrity

Once upon a time there was Oprah who set up an organization to help the needy. Then it started to grow. There was more and more draw from the celebrities to make the world a better place. Some like Angelina Jolie take interest in other nations, some like Bon Jovi stay home, others like Brigitte Bardot give animals a voice ... no matter how and where they put their efforts, the involvement of celebrities has become an inadmissible part of issues around the world ... at least this is one good thing out of celebrity media ...

movie

I hate that our tuitions keep going up ... they are always making a movie on campus and I am sure they pay loads and loads of money for that. It's usually an action movie and those sell for good money; since it causes students a lot of inconvenience it would only be fair to give them a tuition break because of it ...

angle

My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I'm sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,
'Cause I've got a plan.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true,
I saw your face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
Cause I'll never be with you.

Yeah, she caught my eye,
As I walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was, flying high,
And I don't think that I'll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last till the end.

- James Blunt

stander by

He wants to fall in love, there is nothing you need to do, just watch ... if people could learn just to be ...

fit?

Just because I don't wear my head light reddish, I don't put on the ugly make up that she does, and I don't have the slutty clothes she has, she thinks she should talk to me in English. Actually, she's pretty nasty every time I go into the store. Or it might just be that I went into the shop with someone she hates or likes, but she's older than my mum ... or maybe she's jealous of something, or hates something or ... honestly, there is no reason to be such a ... excuse the language ... such a bitch! But then, why should I care? The last time she was the cashier for me was our New Year, so whatever ...

smoking?

There are so many addictions out there, of all of them I picked up narcotics ...

human

... each child that dies on the street, each one of us become a little less human ...

- a child activist

thesis

It happened to my Masters thesis and I think it's happening to my PhD too. Basically, in my Masters I ended up working on what I had initially thought was the most difficult part. Now for my PhD I am reading Information Theory! For God's sake, Shannon wrote that stuff and he was the last to understand it. I have done some reading in this field before and I had found it DIFFICULT and now the course of life has lead me to it again ... what am I to do? You would think that when you are free to pick your topic you'd choose to work on something that's easy and understandable to you, not something you have to work your brain to pieces on!

nightmare

I had a really bad dream last night. My maid (!!) was telling some other people how I was murdered. Then I dreamt I was telling one of my friends about the dream and he frightened me by pretending to want to kill me ... I woke up shaken, looked at myself in the mirror, pale! I could be scared of my own image!
I had never had a dream where I was so rich before, and yet, I didn't even get to live in it. I don't think that was fair. Definitely not worth the scare of going back though ...

pc

There's something wrong with my computer. When it downloads something it asks me what to open it with. How am I to know? I mean that's a real bummer, your computer starts asking you computer questions!

- Last comic standing

to do list

• I finished my jigsaw puzzle today, so much for being patient! I guess that's crossed off the to do list.
  


• I still haven't figured out if I like living alone or if I'd rather have a roommate. The thing is, I feel this place is too big for me. Not that I mind. I usually have company. But somehow it feels like a waste of resource. Maybe I should be concerned about myself a little more and enjoy the time and space I have. You never know what life will put in your way ...


• I have to go and buy myself a better TV antenna, this one only picks up a few channels and none of the ones I am used to. Of course, I don't know if an expensive antenna will do the trick ... and I am supposed to know antennas! Good thing my supervisors don't read weblogs!


• I never get tired of looking out the windows, the city lights are just amazing. The only thing I have come to know is that I should pull the curtains later at night. I need the calm before I go to bed. And that reminds me that the idea of living downtown might not be the best for me, I'd want to stay up all night!
  

abrupt

I don't understand why it always has to be so complicated. Or again, is it us who make it difficult for ourselves and others. Some times I wonder what life would be like if we would all wait and think before doing something. It's not human nature I guess; we are programmed to act in an instant without acknowledging sudden decisions are most commonly wrong ...

jagged

I thought I'd lost a confidential paper and the last time I could remember seeing it was 2 weeks ago! I found it after all, but just think of the anticipation I went through ...

خواب

امروز ظهر که خوابیدم وبیدار شدم حس روزای جمعه رو داشتم. اون وقتی که اینقدر خوابیدی که دیگه از خواب سیر ِ سیر شدی

gratitude

There's a satisfaction in knowing you've made a difference that you can't find anywhere else ...

illumine

If I were the Sun I'd come out too on such a gorgeous day ...

شیشه

می گویند شیشه احساس ندارد
اما امروز که روی شیشه بخار گرفته نوشتم دوستت دارم
آرام آرام گریه کرد
ناشناس -

injustice

He didn't want me to lie for him, he just wanted me to be fair when reciting the incident.

failure

Success, it turns out, is a lousy teacher compared with failure.

IEEE Spectrum June 2006, Books
Success through Failure: the paradox of design
by Henry Petroski

time slot

I just noticed that it had been a week since I last posted something here, I have been very busy!

vocabulary

It astonishes me each and every time how amazingly different people express themselves. You just need to be patient to understand ...

you

I never felt alone, I was happy on my own.
And who would ever know there was something missing?
I guess I didn't see the possibility, it was waiting all the time,
but it never crossed my mind, till you opened up my eyes.

Now all I think about is you, in my life, in my dreams,
in my heart I know it's true, that I belong with you.
Because of you, in my world, in my arms, I have everything
and now I can't imagine what I'd do, without you.

I never thought love could be such a curiosity.
What attracted you to me was so unexpected,
but it was waiting all of the time,
and it never crossed my mind, till you opened up my eyes.

- Tara MacLean

فردا

راستش رو بگم دلم نمی خواد بخوابم. شاید چون دلم نمی خواد فردا بشه، شاید هم ... نمی دونم چیه، ولی انگار همین امروز باشه بهتره

moved

I am sitting here in my room looking out the window to a picture perfect scene. I can see all the city lights and its just amazing ... There are so many things on my mind and yet I am calm. I feel I have stepped out of my body and I am watching everything from above. It doesn't feel as if I am the one living these days, I wonder why ...
My home is about half way done, i.e., I have almost unpacked everything. Next step is to start shopping and sewing and decorating the house. I have promised everyone that it will be done by July. No, I am not building a house, it's just that I have to go to school on weekdays and it's a busy period so ...

altered

Such a complicated day. I don't know if I am happy or sad. I can't tell if I have chosen any of it or it just came to me in life's path. Again and again I have to thank the Lord for the wonderful people around me and the gift he offered to me time and time again. Even when there is no clear picture in my mind, there are people to talk to and others to comfort me ...

دوست

سعی کن بخاطر کسی که دوستش داری غرورت رو از دست بدی
نه بخاطر غرورت کسی رو که دوست داری از دست بدی

font

I need to write a single letter in Euclid in LaTeX and I have been searching for a way to do it for hours! Anyone?

talent

I never knew there was so much talent among the people I see everyday. They have set up a display of art work by the applied science people and what a show! There's painting, sculpture, photography and ...