Irony

Three threads of silence knit only one concept in my mind. Two steps under the shadows of sun take me up to the underground of the horizon. You can tell I like ironies. I like to say the silence screamed. I like to say memory forgot. Sohrab is the master of amazingly brilliant ironies. Ironies that I just read over and over again in admiration:

Wow. Isn’t it amazing? Read the last one again:
پشت سر، خاطره ی موج، به ساحل صدف سرد سکون می ریزد
How can that possibly be realized? How can the memory of the wave carry an action? And how that action be nothing but anti-action? How can the action be stillness? And how can the wave with its dynamic nature bring stillness? Wave and stillness. Memory and action. Isn’t the irony just amazingly beautiful? Now try to let go of the core and interpret some of the crust:
پشت سر خستگی تاریخ است، پشت سر خاطره ی موج به ساحل صدف سرد سکون می ریزد
History is still. The hands of the past are tied up. The wave is frozen in the snapshot of memory. Nothing behind us can escape stillness. The ironies are at the heart of the crust. The ironies take you to another world. Symbolism is the key. Imagine.

September 1, 2000 - April 19, 2006

Under 6 years ago on or about September 1, 2000 I entered university. American University in Dubai, became the second home of me and many other students who were mostly Arabs, Indians and Iranians. We spent many hours on campus both enjoying and sweating in Dubai’s hot, sunny days; the days which passed by without much pressure from studies and with an abundant amount of time for fun. My 2 years at AUD were 2 of the greatest years of my life.

On August 28, 2002 I set foot on the land of the cold. Navid and I arrived at the Student Life Center of the University of Waterloo on that night without a home. Rather than spending the night on the couches of SLC, Navid managed to find us a place at a friend’s house. That friend was Saeed, the first person that I met in Canada.

Today is Wednesday, April 20, 2006. Last night at 10:00 P.M. my undergraduate life ended as I wrote my very last final exam. Looking back to review these years of student life behind me is inevitable. The faces of people whom I met during these years, many of which I am no longer in touch with, keep flashing in mind. This morning I called Nima, a friend who has been with me consistently through the past 6 years, and the forces of distance have been unable to break our bonds of friendship. Nima was one of the first people that I met at AUD. A guy with a thick unibrow who quickly came to be known as Nima Abroo. The memories we share together are endless.

Waterloo was also the source of strong friendships for me. Navid and Hamed are both among the people with whom I share great memories. But perhaps, my greatest attachment was formed when I met Sanam. A beautiful girl who came to be one of the closest people to me ever and with whom I started to find great peace.

Obviously, many many more people deserve to be mentioned here. People whom I share with some of the greatest memories of my life and also owe a great deal of my social experience and knowledge to. During the past 6 years, many events took place, many of which brought tears and many of which brought laughs. During the past 6 years we formed bonds and broke others. These youthful years of undergraduate life will without a doubt sit at the tops of the best periods of our entire lives. A period that we will look back to sometimes with a brief smile and other times with a drop of tear. Memory, this virtual gift of God, tends to be both a precious and a painful possession.

Brush Your Teeth For God's Sake

Blogging is like brushing your teeth. Really. Once you get used to brushing your teeth twice a day it becomes a habit and not only you do it naturally, but you enjoy the whiter teeth too. BUT, if you put it aside for a night or two, then you’re in a trap. It becomes so hard to do it and you start making promises to yourself: “I’ll skip it tonight, but I’ll definitely do it tomorrow morning”, only to find out that it’s not so natural anymore and you forget doing it in the morning. Then your teeth starts turning yellow and your mouth starts to stink and you start losing your friends and even strangers start complaining: “Hey! Why don’t you brush your teeth” i.e. Why don’t you update your site. Adding pictures is even a step further, it’s like brushing your teeth AND flossing it. Imagine you don’t floss for weeks, then you never feel like flossing again.

I tell myself: “I’m in the middle of exams, I have no time to update my site.” But that’s an excuse, like the one you’d give your friend, the one that never buzzes off: “You know, I’ve been so busy lately, I had no time to call anybody.” Bullshit! As if calling someone to say hi takes 4 hours. You spend at least 3 and a half minutes in your room staring at the garbage can, picking your nose, but you have no time to call up a friend. And they know you’re lying, they just don’t realize when is the time to buzz off.

So now, my dear friends, rather than saying I have no time, I’ll say: “Sorry. I suck! I’m lazy. Really.”

Summer Sublet in Toronto

One of the Barobax wants to sublet a two bedroom apartment in Toronto for the summer. The apartment is located at the intersection of Yonge and Steeles behind the Centrepoint mall. If you're interested please email me: pooya AT barobax . net or let me know in person or something.

This is a great sublet for those of you who'll be in Toronto for your work term.