a book of ordinary people

1. Having roommate is so much fun, we both do the NOT studying together.. last night we even decided if we were dudes, we would've been big time perverts...

2. Deep down I am jealous of girls who are addicted to Shoe shopping... Being a size 10 I never had much luck with shoes, and not a shot at such an addiction.. In fact I am shoe shop-o-phobic

3. The more I study Substance Abuse ,the more respect i have for Junkies.. let me tell you something those people are smart, they figure out things on their own that giant Pharmaceuticals take like 20 years and millions of dollars to figure out

4. i have joined the basketball team... our team was pathetic.. even the girls in the opponent team were taller than our BOYS!!!

5. I am pushing 30, have great career prospect, come from a very well established Iranian Family in Bay area ( translate every male member of my family is a programmer ).. and yet single.. and I am not even that ugly, or fat or anything...
Somehow this situation reminds me of my acnes...
it has gotten everybody worried but me.. i mean they see it everyday, and it bothers them.. they all want to help.. even my hairdresser is finding me "Khastegar.."

6. Who knew that there are more than 5 synonyms for the word "PIMP," in Farsi!!! That should've been some JOB back in the days in the motherland..

7. Pretty much all the male members of my family ( father side) are programmers who graduated with a degree in E.E... one of my uncles once even justified his son getting his Master's in E.E and yet continuing with the programming with something like " payash ghavi mishe!!"
when one of my cousins was brave enough to actually study C.S , the whole family went into a state of emergency and decided to intervene...
My brother fooled the family by double majoring in E.E and C.S, he later confessed that he always skipped the E.E classes.. and i am not even making this UP!!!

7. The license Plate is real, i go to school with this guy... " This is what my brothers and mom called me since childhood," he claims!!!!

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One day you will wake up and realize that the inevitable has happened...
You are officially a grown up....
you have to get up early , and make your own breakfast...
You have to go out there and make something out of yourself...
You have to get a job, for a whole lotta reasons.. even if you decided to retire yourself at the age of 25
You will even drive by a house and think of owning it one day
You know that you dont want to repeat your mistakes...
You even learn to say " No.." to the others..
You put on make up, wear skimpy dresses, have shots of vodka and flirt with strangers
You realize that life isnt as dramatic as you thought it was four years ago...
that happiness isnt some weird, huge, out of reach thing....
you even start petting puppies,,
You wear the turquoise ring that your grandma gave you long ago and you never wore it because it was "Ugly," and it will actually look good on your fingers..
You will call your cousins out of the blue and invite them over, regardless of the family drama and politics and knowing that for the time being for whatever reasons, you guys shouldnt be talking...
One day you will stop wandering around, and realize that you always had a home...
Parents to rely on, a brother to help you move around, sisters with shoulders to cry on.. Uncle and aunts who will take you in when no one is around...
One day you realize that you have developed a very thick skin, and things don't bother you much anymore..
You will stop being the moral compass of the world and let others make whatever mistakes they want to make...
Then you will have lunch with your friends and after the silly talks and gossip you realize not much have changed over the years..

That growing up was nothing but a marketing trick...
that time is just an arbitrary thing... a man made concept...
You know things will change in a day or so, they will get harder and then they will get easier.. things will change and then will become the same...
One day you will wake up to the sound of alarm....
Make yourself an oatmeal...
Drive to somewhere..
Make something out of yourself...

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" Vay az daste in dokhtareh
bad joori dareh dele man ro mibareh
vay az jadooye khandehash
in ke man ro kosht ba cheshash

mikham negahat nakon
ghalbam taghat nemiareh

kar az kar gozashte
ghalbam digeh dochare

digeh direh
barya az to gozashtan

digeh direh
baraye az to nagoftan

Vay az daste in dokhtare
badjoori dareh dele man ro mibareh!!!"

" Dooorghgo , Doorooghgoo Pinocio ro bordi az roo!!!"
Sandy!!!

We have a basketball game tomorrow..
everybody in the team is Asian..
well we have this Mexican dude too..
we already offered our boys and girls to buy them drinks when they lose..
one of the 5 3" Asian guys was rehearsing fake faints and injuries today..
he was studying about it in the library, and researching online..
i suppose thats how Asians play Basketball!!!!

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I made couple of life altering decisions yesterday...
then I watched American idol..
then i went to bed..
then i woke up and went to the school..
then i listened to the lecture..
i learned about Cox 1 & 2
and HLA-B27...

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There is something fundamentally wrong with people with BOBs and Bangs..
especially if they are real estate agents..

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People are too fucking soft in San Francisco? Why???

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Ignore me for the time being..

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Conjunctivitis, otitis media, and sinusitis
Husky voice, aching tooth..
Anybody wanna come over ???

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According to Google Analytics I live in Birds Landing!!!
And btw who is the Cadence Dude?? not a ghost from the past is it??

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.. She was the type who was never into eating, sometime a whole day would go by and she would forget to eat...
but when she moved away, she started cooking...
Sometimes she would close her eyes and smell her mother...

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.. One day she woke up, packed and left.. she had to pick her fights, she wasnt a fighter for hire.. she wasnt there to fight anybody's fights...
She never looked back

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Some people, she would do anything to bring back their smiles...
She couldnt live without the sound of their laughter...

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... She woke up today thinking, that these days there is not enough poetry in her life

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Letting go is hard yeah i know..
but holding on to something that is not there????

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We are here one way or the other...
Does it matter how we got here?

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" It is not the people who leave my life that I miss
It is the little peices of me that they take away with themseleves...
I long for that..."

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I lied to South Bay People, I told them I am staying in East bay for the holidays to catch up with things!!!
I lied to East bay people, I told them I am staying at home going nowhere to catch up with Things...
I drove to south Bay called this gal who doesnt know any of my friends and family and we went out had Sushi, drank , had cigaret; despite coughing like crazy...
The next day I went shopping all by myself...
The South Bay people called, I told them I am in East bay
The East Bay people called I told them I had to go to South Bay for a family matter...
I spend the whole day by myself...
I had dinner with my brother
He told me he is tired of his life
I offered him to go to Thailand..
he said " A smart man runs away from Cheshm Tang girls, he doesn't pay to have more of them.. "He said : " I want to do something that I am passionate about ..." He said he always wanted to be like Marlon Brando in God Father...
He said he wanted to put his skills into some good use, he feels like he is being wasted as a programmer..
We decided to go to blockbuster and rent Godfather and watch it all over again, maybe he finds some inspiration... I told him i dont want to go back to east bay, that I am done with school... i simply dont want to go back,.. he persuaded me to go back using logic and stuff..
I drove back to East Bay.... called my friends in south bay and apologized for not being able to make it to the dinner party once again, calling my family and apologizing for not being able to meet up with them because i was sick in the east bay..
I called my friends in the East bay , and apologized for not being able to go clubbing in the city with them because of the family engagements...
I lie to people, a lot... the ones who love me forgive me , the ones who dont get hurt..
None of them understands that I just want to be in my own No-man's land..
that most of the times i spend time with THEM, because i know how much they hate to be alone... because i feel bad for them..
other than that.. i dont mind being alone at all...

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ته باغ ما ، يك سر طويله بود . روي سر طويله يك اطاق بود ، آبي بود

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1. I have bought a pricy hair straightening Iron from a professional salon ; but I still like my curls better

2. My biggest virtue in life is my laziness, unless with my temper god should have had mercy on a whole lotta people

3. One of the biggest problems of my life is that people take me way too seriously, i mean half the time even i donno what I am talking about or What I want to do... who do they think I am?

4. My friends believe that I am such a practical person, that despite being very emotional I have the ability to hide my emotions even from myself.. and that makes me a very conflicted person

5.In three years I went from "Freak," to " ordinary." What will happen to me in 30 years?

6. I usually make my new years resolution on my Birthdays... and to be perfectly honest I dont even remember what was the resoultion that I made this year?

7. Last year I was offered Jobs in both Santa Rose and Napa, and they didnt have anything to do with wine !!!

8. I am a very judgmental person, in fact I am so judgmental most of the times I judge myself..

9. I like to hang out with people who talk too much, because I dont like to talk that much and well somebody needs to do the dirty work in friendship I suppose..

10. We watched an Indian Movie last night, and I missed almost half an hour of it because i was in the bathroom,.. and i was still able to acurately guess the plot line

11. Some people remind me of the viruses, they are only alive when they are attached to another person... They just cant live by themselves.. Viruses have no choice though they are created this way..

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They were all watching the movie, but all she could see on the screen was those hands..
White, old, wrinkled, with visible blue veins...
Somethings in the world age gracefully, no matter what they go through.Those hands were one of them...
She thought of the hugs that those hands had given...
the hairs that they have stroked..
the food that they have made...
The babies that they have held
She missed holding those hands terribly
They left her life a while back...
Those small, white, wrinkled hands with visible blue veins... The ones who aged so gracefully. The hands of a lady, a real one , maybe one of the last ones....
She wanted to hold them one more time, even if in her dreams...

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در باغي رها شده بودم.
نوري بيرنگ و سبك بر من مي وزيد.
آيا من خود بدين باغ آمده بودم
و يا باغ اطراف مرا پر كرده بود؟

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I know, I know Yalda is long gone...
but then i wasnt really around or something...
anyways, Shady has tagged me and Negar wants me to follow the TAG!!!!

I had to think hard and long to come up with 5 things that Negar does not know about me, because SHE KNOWS A LOT ABOUT ME!!! anyways here is yet another list of mine, and Since i am the original list maker I will LIST as many items as I want to!!!

1. I never drink milk, since I was a kid I couldnt stand the taste of it.. and that's the secret to me being a relativley tall person!!!

2. My parents have the same height and the same shoe size

3. I got my drivers license when I was 21 and that was after a huge family intervetion compromised of my parents ,my uncles, my aunt, tons of my cousins.. I simply dont like to drive

4. Whenever I travel I take 2 toothbrushes with me, in case I loose one of them

5. I always surround myself with the people who are smarter than me, so they can make my decisions for me!!!! it has done wonders for me..

6. I didnt like watching TV ever ever since I was a kid.. I dont have any favoriate TV series, I only watch them when they are on DVD and I can watch them in one seating or two.. well I lie I like Sienfeld, but it is in reruns!!!

7. I am taller than my father

8. My favoriate part of the trip is returning home!!! I just love home way too much...

9. Pretty much all of the real people that I know in my real life dont know about my blog, well most of them dont know what a blog is anyways, and one of them once asked me why anybody is stupid enough to write about his/her life and read about others life instead of living the life? I told you I have really smart friends

10. And the last thing Negar does not know for sure, is that I wrote and published this list while in class, and in between I had to present a case to the whole class!!!

Happy New Year

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