my mistake

Remember I said I might go to Suspension bridge, well, a tree fell on the bridge and now its closed! Where should I plan to go next?

coated

I woke up to see this looking at me through my window. I know, I'll buy a new camera soon, but I guess it does give you an idea ... I thought Summer was the most wonderful time to watch the city. I have to find time to go to Stanley park and Suspension bridge, I'll post more white photos if I get to take any ...

again, Bill

Read this and make sure you get to the ending ...

flakes

It's snowing and I can't pull the curtains because I feel I'm going to miss something. The trees in front of my apartment look like it's Christmas and I can already smell the candles. These pictures are from this afternoon looking out my balcony. I am bringing out the Christmas tree this weekend and I am probably going to have an ornament party again after everything is set!

first snow

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

It doesn't show signs of stopping
And I've bought some corn for popping
The lights are turned way down low
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

When we finally kiss goodnight
How I'll hate going out in the storm!
But if you'll really hold me tight
All the way home I'll be warm

The fire is slowly dying
And, my dear, we're still goodbying
But as long as you love me so
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

indecision

I did it as a challenge to myself, just to prove to myself that I can. But now there is something inside me walking around banging its head against the wall wondering if this was a good idea to begin with. I know that you can never know if you made the best decision unless you are lucky enough to try all the alternates, and that life doesn't usually hand you that.

The past is gone and at this time I really don't care if what I did was the best, I want to know what to do now. Do I go on? I am not one of those people to carry on with something just because I started it. If I continue I want to know that its because I wanted to go on. I have no problem stopping where I am, I just don't want to regret it later ...

pace

Is it me or everything just moving too fast? I can't even keep track of the days!

football

Is there anywhere that we haven't been kicked out of yet?

You needed me

I cried a tear,
You wiped it dry.
I was confused,
You cleared my mind.
I sold my soul,
You bought it back for me.
And held me up,
And gave me dignity.

Somehow you needed me.

You gave me strength,
To stand alone again.
To face the world,
Out on my own again.
You put me high,
Upon a pedestal.
So high that I
Could almost see eternity.

You needed me.
You needed me.

You held my hand,
When it was cold.
When I was lost,
You took me home.

- Boyzone

my arc

How many days did it rain before Noah built the arc? Or did he start before all the rain? We've had endless rain, so last night I proposed we start building an arc and gathering a pair of any animal we want to keep from extinction (don't tell the animal activists but some I just can't take!).
I know, I too thought the Lord had sent the dove and promised Noah this would never again happen and that the rainbow was supposed to remind us of the promise. I hope lightening doesn't strike me, but Noah's long dead and I have a feeling that the deal is off! So come with me my followers, we shall build a boat that will rise above any wave ...

milk shake

It has been about a week now that we have had to boil drinking water. Although the water from the taps in my house doesn't look muddy, it's rather unclear in most parts of the city, and no amount of boiling can fix that. I have three proposals for this situation:

1. The storms are caused by warm wet tropical fronts from Hawaii (pineapple express) hitting the cold mountains in Canada. Since they are sending us the rain, how about they send us some Hawaii tickets to get away from it for a tad? Or at least some of the sunshine they get?
   
2. If the GVRD is not going to improve the drinking water filtration they should at least buy some new machinery that can measure the current turbidity - apparently on Thursday the turbidity was more than 100 times the usual amount and the devices couldn't measure it! I guess because the people who designed it never thought anyone would think of drinking such muddy water, well, another design defect!
3. If the GVRD has monetary problems, how about asking the charities who collect money for wells in Africa so that people can have drinking water to donate some?
   

big black horse and a cherry tree

I was listening to this on the way back home tonight. I think Katherine McPhee had a big role in making this song famous but I may be wrong, anyhow, enjoy!

Well my heart knows me better than I know myself
So I'm gonna let it do all the talking.
I came across a place in the middle of nowhere
With a big black horse and a cherry tree.

I fell in fear, upon my back
He said "Don't look back, just keep on walking."
When the big black horse said, "Hey lady!"
Said, "Look this way, will you marry me?"

But I said no, no, no, no-no-no
I said no, no, you're not the one for me
No, no, no, no-no-no
I said no, no, you're not the one for me

And my heart had a problem, in the early hours,
So I stopped it dead for a beat or two.
But I cut some cord, and I shouldn't have done that,
And it won't forgive me after all these years

So I sent it to a place in the middle of nowhere
With a big black horse and a cherry tree.
Now it won't come back, 'cause it's oh so happy
And now I've got a hole for the world to see

But I said no, no, no, no-no-no
I said no, no, you're not the one for me
No, no, no, no-no-no
Said no, no, you're not the one for me

defeated

I just realized I forgot to write about her. She fell in love head over heels and she was so excited from the start. So excited that it scared me, from the start. I wondered and I held my tongue not to say anything, not to ruin the joy for her, but could see this day. He was cold and I believe he never deserved her. Now she is broken and pale and there is nothing I can do for her ... only that I know she believes she can love again, I'll hold her hand until she needs me to.

georgeous George

Girls, have you heard that George Clooney is thinking of settling down and having a family! Well as far as I know it's not with me so it's bad news! Ah, gorgeous George ...

نقل از نقل

ازوالدو گولیف آهنگساز مشهور آرژانتینی از نوازندگی کیهان کلهر در موسیقی فیلم "جوانی بدون جوانی" اثر فرانسیس فورد کاپولا استفاده می کند

professional help

We met at a friend's party and talked for quite some time. It never occurred to me to ask him if he too was a student or not, since it was my understanding that we were all students and that was how we all knew each other. Conversation somehow got to talking about thesis and I, for some reason, said that I needed help on a subject. He jumped in and started explaining when I insisted that it was neither the right time or place for such talk, so the conversation was delayed until the next working day.

After we had wandered around school talking about everything ranging from concrete to maps, after getting coffee and after meeting and chatting with a mutual friend, we arrived at my office. He sat and patiently helped me out.

I walked with him to the door, shook his hand and thanked him for his help. As he walked away another friend approached. He asked me where I knew the other guy from and what he was doing in our lab. My answer was simple, I needed help on something which he apparently is an expert at, so he dropped by to give me a hand. I saw the grin, my friend calmly said, So now you're past the students and you can only consult the professors? I just realized ... oh well, what better than to talk with the true expert!

when did you fall

When did you fall in love with me?
Was it out of the blue
‘Cause I swear I never knew it
When did you let your heart run free?
Have you been waiting long?
When did you fall in love with me?
When did you fall in love?

Make your way over here, sit down by this fool, and let’s rewind
C’mon, let’s go back and replay all our scenes
You can point out the hints, the clues, the twists and the smiles this time
All the ones that slipped by me
I bet my face is red, and you can hear my heart poundin’
Well I guess it don’t matter now that I realize
‘Cause baby I missed it then, but I can surely see you now
Right there before my eyes
You’re my beautiful surprise

Have you been waiting long?
When did you fall in love?
I kept you waiting so long, when did you fall?
Have you been waiting long?
When did you fall in love with me?
When did you fall in love?

- Chris Rice

drift

I was flipping through the Christmas shopping brochures when I felt a smile crawl on my face. It felt like when I was a kid. We would sit and flip through magazines for hours and we'd pick the jewelry, make up and clothes we wanted. Of course we'd pick all the beautiful models, not even paying much attention to their clothes.

I remember my sister deeply wishing she had long blond hair. She pretended that her hair was "cream" as she called it. After a while she gave up and just started hating her black hair and asking mum and dad why everyone else had "cream" hair. Little did she know that all the teachers at school loved our hair because it was so different. I guess back then people didn't change the color of their hair so easily. My little sister, she's still so fascinated with looks ...

prognostic

Remember the first time you realized there is a future beyond you in which you don't know what will happen? It seemed that until then you always knew what was going on, what would happen next and what you would do. And then the predictable world ended. You had to take a chance and do something and see what the outcome would be.

I thought of that moment today. May be it had happened in small steps, but the realization came to me when I started writing my Master's thesis. Everything felt unsure, and so much was changing. Guess what, it doesn't scare me now. The stress and the indecisiveness are just emotions that I know will pass. And I know that there will come a day when it's all over, when the decision doesn't seem that stressful anymore.

upgrade

They introduced a new beta Blogger version and now Dokhtare Aftab is working again!

rebelion

We stayed up the past two nights until 5am and then slept until noon or even later. I think we all needed to break the daily routine ...

rebelion

We stayed up the past two nights until 5am and then sleep until noon or even later. I think we all needed to break the daily routine ...

Salsa

We were at a party trying to teach a friend Salsa but it just wasn't working. She would resist the guy leading the dance. As I was explaining to the person dancing with her that he should have given her a short lecture on the dance before starting, someone jumped in and said,

It's not like that, the rules change when you start dancing, the guy is always right!

We had a great laugh and believe me, the idea helped a lot ...

sleep methods

My colleague finds it extremely amusing that I have a folder of papers marked as Sleep Methods. Every once in a while he will come up to me and ask what new methods have been added to them or if I could advise him on a better sleep method. True, it's not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about wireless communications ... I have explained to him what it refers to, and yet he finds it continuously entertaining.

celebrate

It's really cool to live in a community which has totally different traditions than you do. Look at it this way, we celebrate in Fall and some months of Winter with people here and we celebrate coming into Spring and Spring itself with our own customs ...

self-conscious

I know this about myself, I take calculated risks, I don't gamble. And when I am getting myself into something I try to have the best understanding of what could happen, so I at least know what to expect if everything goes wrong. I could see myself lingering on the decision and calculating the outcome in all ways, I think it's time to act.

period .

As much as all girls would love to not go through periods, I still don't believe we would be open to the idea of jumping over a couple. Basically, the idea is, women didn't use to have as many periods in their lifetime, both because they had sooner pregnancies and because of their different lifestyle, so the body isn't even designed for this. And, since people more or less plan their pregnancies, they know when they want to be able to bare a child. Therefore, we can medicate the period, i.e. you can have Pill Periods and you can have them less often and to some extent chose when to have them. You can find more information on the topic here.

The answer is simple for me. I won't alter anything in my body unless it's some kind of treatment needed due to a malfunction! Maybe it's just because I don't trust doctors that much or maybe it's because they just don't have the best history of being right about interfering with the normal functions of the body ...

hatred

I was browsing the Telus site for movie information when I bumped into this poll:

Which of the following films with a political theme are you most interested in seeing?
7% Catch a Fire
16% Death of a President
43% Dixie Chicks: Shut up and Sing
28% The Queen
3% The War Within

The Dixie Chicks movie is related to the Bush statement the lead singer meant and from the trailer anyone can tell that it's an anti - Bush film. The Queen is the story of what happened inside Buckingham Palace  after Diana's death. I think this represents the political interests of Canadians rather well.

entitled

We all have to work for what we want. Some of us work harder, some work less. Sometimes we get breaks and sometimes it just seems that no matter how hard you try you get nowhere. That, is the time when you need someone to whisper to you that you are beautiful and that you can do anything. That tomorrow is another day and that you will get another chance at whatever it is you failed at. Maybe you need to take it at a slower pace or maybe you should push harder ...

When you're a kid the person that whispers to you is your mum or your dad. But as you grow up you have others in your life to fulfill that role. So to make sure you always move forward in life all you really need to do is have a good friend to tell you what you need to hear when you need to hear it. And all you need to do to have such a friend is to do the same for others ...

on TV

I saw All Around The Town on the weekend, despite its bad rating I think it was good ...

threats

Researchers have found that both men and women find men more of a threat to their intimate relationships. The reason for women being threatened by other men becoming close to their significant other is that they instinctively feel they have no means of competing with such a rival. Interesting research I should say!