In the End

These days some are starting to invest in senior living centers. Simply because people live longer, kids become less loyal!

In one of the meetings of a senior housing project, one of the managers of these centers who has been hired as a consultant for this project looks at me and says, "Try to come up with as much as entertainment spaces as possible, such as bars, bowling, movie theaters, coffee shops" and continues, "If you don't, their kids and family won't come and visit them."
I look down to hide my wondering eyes and scribble something on my notepad.
He emphasizes, "No, I mean it! They won't!".

I tell myself, in my culture you don't put your parents in a warehouse just because they are old!

Strength

Sometimes you feel weak, not because you are weak, but just because the routes that you pick are not the easy ones.

Rules

They say belly dancing has one thousand rules. But they also say a professional belly dancer is the one who breaks all the rules and just goes by the moment.

Anniversary

January 10th, it became the total of six years I'm staying here in America. I tell my Amercian friends that I need to celebrate. They say, oh, you should!!!! They think I celebrate becasue I think I am privileged to live here for six years, I think I celebrate because I survived!!!!!!!!!!!! .....

O'ma

Last night, as I was putting some eye shadow on to go to a birthday party, I get this call, O'ma is sick, she is in I.C.U., she might not survive the night! ...
I go and see her, she smiles, the first thing she asks, how is your mom? I say she is good, we talked this morning. I look at her. There are all kinds of needles poked into her skin.
The first grand kid was born in Vienna. He called her O'ma, which means grandmother in German and following him all the rest of the grandchildren, but now he does not speak a word of German. He has forgotten.
She says please put my plants on auto sprinkler. I'm afraid they die. Some need more, water them more frequently by hand. She is worried about that orange tree along with her favorite pomegranate. Everyone knows how she loves her plants. She has a green thumb too. She can make almost anything grow green.
She says you loved pepsi when you were a baby, you would follow me everywhere saying O'ma, biz biz! Her house is a photo gallery of my mom's childhood, my parents wedding, my photo with funky permed hair when I was thirteen and my aunt when she looked like a model, Ali when he was in diapers, my grandfather when he was young .... Her dining table is where my democrat aunt argues with my republican uncle over many colorful and authentic Persian dishes.
She makes the most beautiful 7seens full of Sombols and I always rush to her house to get my last minute red fish and sabzeh one hour before new year's...I'm thinking I want my mother to see her one more time, one more Eid.


The doctor steps in, he says she is more stable now, and the only thing that can help her right now is that her family gets some sleep, assign one person to stay with her and go home and take some rest.

نماینده مردم

بسیار با این گفته ابراهیم نبوی موافقم که: اینکه رییس جمهور کشوری -احمدی نژاد- نماینده واقعی ملتی باشد فضیلتی محسوب نمیشود. چرا که جرج بوش هم بسیار به مردم آمریکا شبیه تر است تا کلینتون
یادمه کانال فاکس نیوز بلافاصله بعد از اعلام نتایج آخرین دوره ریاست جمهوری با فرماندار نبراسکا مصاحبه کرد و از او پرسید فکر می کنید چرا جرج بوش برنده شد؟ او هم جواب داد
چون جرج بوش آدمیه که مردم فکر می کنند می توانند بشینند با او آبجو بخورند و فوتبال تماشا کنند
احساس کردم تا آن زمان مردم آمریکا را نمی شناخته ام

god bless america!

You wanna break up with your girl friend do it on the radio, dial 1-800-good bye! jack fm radio, do it now!

What da hell! This is a radio ad. They want more listeners, regardless! Oh, you haven't heard from him, Just listen to your local radio! or watch tv, bcb will reveal it all! after news 11. :), crazy world! This is human feelings we are talking about. And I tell you there is enough people to do that, because they think it's cool! and they give the audience some U.S. instant gratification! while driving their mega size chevy which is almost as big as a bedroom thinking they own the road! Spreading public/personal insensitivity or what!...
And why not boyfriend, because girls know better?

Now it's, Stop by at your local Raley’s and Belair, blah blah....... Just like that! They can even merge these two, and say "Break up and stop by at Raley's, get some fresh discounted orange juice 2 for $3.99!" Make it a whole festive evening! -Who cares if we are killing people in eyeran/eyeraq, whatever!

In America ads speak a thousand words! "Great cheese comes from happy cow, happy cow comes from California" got into a lawsuit by these animal advocate organizations saying, How do you know if the cow is happy! You can not speak for a cow! In a country who is getting ready to attack the third country in four years! ...why doesn't that bring about much sensitivity?

PS._ I made up the 1-800-good-bye because I could not remember the exact number!