Cat pics 2nd series...

hey what are you doing up there!

I'm gonna get you!

hmm... how do I go there...

climbing up!

I'm almost there!

Cat pics 1st series...

oh hello...

ready to go!

I can stay for a while...

someone calling me?

ah, forget it...

don't want me to go?

meow... what do you want?

I give up...

hey...

you...

meow... where are you?

gotcha!

phew... time to relax...

Serious headache...

I had a headache and though I'm sure it wasn't because I had contracted swine flu, I really didn't like how it was seriously aching. I tried to finish my work as quickly as possible, and fortunately(?) there wasn't anything I had to write today. I finished work and returned to my home to take it easy and relax. It was getting better at night and I really hope it won't return tomorrow!

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Happy Birthday to my MOM!
I hope she'll stay healthy!
And I hope I can return to Japan to see her and Dad!

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Hey...

oh you found the best place to take a nap!

and the garden's all yours!

Sympathy?

Today, I spontaneously proposed that I would write a story and things were looking good until I found out at nighttime that there were more information coming in after 7PM. It was too ridiculous to write the story over so I decided not to think about it. But I was worried so much that I decided to be on the alert till midnight. Fortunately, I had no calls from Tokyo and though I never feel relieved, it's much better than hearing sarcastic comments via phone calls.
Working under an "absolute" authority, I even feel some sympathy to this person who seems to be defiant to such unconditional entities. I seems like suicide, but maybe like the supporters, you see a hero in adversity which could very well be just a Don Quixote. For me, it would be unimaginable to make such a challenge, but I feel some sympathy in the fact that I would have done the same if I had the guts to fight back the adversities.
Several years back, I think I was accumulating enough expertise to be a bit defiant to my "absolute" organization, but I was thrown out to somewhere completely different twice... and whatever happens twice happens thrice as we say in our country, and here I am. They have ripped off my expertise and even my confidence that all I could do is obey.
Of course if I look at everything positively, I should say these are great opportunities for me to build up more capacity and further develop as a stronger professional.
But was this what I wanted? At least everybody is trying to hypnotize me to believe that this was what I had wanted. But hey, I'm not going to fall into that kind of trap... maybe like... him!

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Another one I always feel sympathetic...

he or she always cries for food...


meow, meow
I'm sorry... I don't have anything for you...

Perfect timing?

As the second year starts for me, the permits for the press were ready and it seems like they're going to let me do my work... Perfect timing... But what can I cover!?
There were many reports about domestic politics today and still words of protest out in the streets and roofs of buildings in the nighttime... Do you think these issues would be so exciting to cover!?
Well, however things develop in the short term, the target for the moment would be either this Thursday or Wednesday next week!

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In the backyard...

family or friend or rival??


hello there!!

One day to go till another holiday!

In Japan they're having a three day weekend. For us it's only a one day weekend and another holiday after three days. I took my first day off in months on Friday and I want to take another day off tomorrow! From Tuesday, another wave of work days... perhaps with no assurance about our future and limited security is coming. Will I be able to find stories that will once again stir up my enthusiasm!? I hope so... or again I have to go on disheartened...

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It's starting to hit the over 40 degree mark... It's too hot to go without air conditioning!

hello there! having a nice meal!?
the shadow of the visitor is so clear you can imagine how hot it is out there!

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In the morning, the installment of satellite receivers were done...
I was lucky I had it done before the plane accident!

K... Konishiki!

setting it up!

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I was looking enviously at the visitor in our backyard...

meow...

Unsatisfactory

My life has also hit the downturn like the reformists... I can foresee nothing that could make me feel excited and it's quite depressing... One thing can change that drastically and that's if I would be able to take some time off and go visit my family which is the only wish I have at the moment. Will it be very risky to leave this country now while there's no way that the authorities would issue a visa for anyone? I don't think my wish is too ambitious after all the crazy work I've gone through! Anyways, no one would care and all that would be left is an unsatisfactory sentiment that would ultimately lead to depression. Please help me out of this mess... please!

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Oh please help me!

take me out of here! meow!

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1USD was exactly...

1 Khomeini (10,000 Rials) today!

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Two of a kind in our garden... meow...



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A nice dinner!

futomaki my wife made!

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at least it's very peaceful in our yard!

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I had to buy something that would cheer up my staff... and of course, me!

a nice fruit cake!

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Hey!

how are you out there!

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Recently, with the protests taking place in the evening, the food delivery services are not available, so my wife is making dinner for all of the staff working at night...

she made us some yakiudon and onigiri tonight!

A mistake on strategy?

I concentrated on covering events and had been doing research to be ready for a program that will be broadcasted right after the election day and many of the information and pictures would be used in the program. For myself, I had to find a story that I could report on myself, but the research is not going well! I'm really scared that I won't be able to nail a story myself and would finish as a coordinator... that's not permissible for a correspondent stationed here so I better start thinking more about myself!

Last night I had to work until 4AM, and tonight I had to watch the first ever TV debate between candidates broadcasted on state television from 10:30PM to midnight... oh this is driving me nuts...

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I'm saved by...

my wife's food! at least I feel I'm alive when I'm eating!

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Hello...

how are you!?

Three jobs...

Of course the election coverage is important. There's only 20 days till the election day and I have no time to spare... But tomorrow's broadcast about the aftermath of the earthquake in Bam is a very important theme for me to cover. I did use most of my time covering the election these days and I was really sorry that I had to ask Tokyo to take the burden of making my story into a package. Today, I also had to film some parts of a different story due next week. I'm doing three jobs at once, but the most important is the story that will be broadcasted tomorrow... The election coverage and next week's story, I'm doing my best just because I have to... It's an obligation and I have to overcome the hardships so in the future I would be to do what I want!


sleeping in the shades... envious...

Agape...

I only could freeze with my mouth open wide... agape with surprise and after shutting my mouth I returned to reality and only could decide the inevitable.
I was planning to go on a vacation with my wife using the three days off from April 1st, but the almighty secretary of a great nation just announced that they will be having a conference about supporting a war-stricken nation inviting their archrival which happens to be the proud country where I reside in...

ON MARCH 31ST!

Why on that day? Why? By this time, it was frustration that took control over my mind, but there's no one to blame... always there's no one...
It's too late to know my job is full of these incidents where I have to give up my pleasure for things happening haphazardly and unexpectedly. That's my job, I know.

So am I too sinful to blame God is the one controlling how these events are compiled as a part of a long story? I'd like to believe in agape from the Almighty, but how can I when I can't feel it?
In the evening, I told my plans that we had to cancel our trip to my wife through chatting, but it's a relief she understands the situation... perhaps more than me... Is the real agape that I'm feeling in the real world?

Me too...


I wanna sit in the garden and rest... sulkily!

No troubles...

Since I had hired two helping hands today, I should have prayed for something to happen to make good use of them, but I really didn't want any trouble... Fortunately, there wasn't anything developing today and we called it a day at 4PM, an hour and a half later than usual.

Before saying good-bye, I had my regular staff get a nice cake to enjoy together!


a nice one with strawberries and mango!

I hope they enjoyed their temporary stay here, because I'd need their help from now on too!


oh you too! well, next time you can help too!

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In the nighttime, I tried to find a satellite channel that broadcasted the race in Dubai where my favorite horse was competing...
Sadly I couldn't find any and I had to give up watching the race simultaneously, but could manage to enjoy it after about 30 minutes of its real race time.


at the site of the Dubai Racing Club...


sadly my favorite did not win...


Vodka finished fifth... but she still has a chance to win the real take!

Hopelessly tired...

It was just after 3AM I went to bed in a hotel room in Bushehr. It took us hours to finish the feeding and I also had to send some voices for the report I had proposed to Tokyo.
Waking up after three short hours of sleep, I was very drowsy but the morning chai gave me just enough strength to get to the airport again meeting many of my colleagues that spent the night. (They looked more fresh! I'm sure they had a nice dinner!)


time I went to bed...


teatime! at 6AM!


and breakfast!


last look of the streets of Bushehr...


the nearby square...


and the airport!

In the plane I was so groggy that I felt the flight was just a ten minute ride!


fly away!


back to Tehran...

In the afternoon, I attended a funeral service of a relative of my staff and worked a bit in my office as the drowsiness got worse and worse...

It was around six o'clock in the evening that I couldn't resist going to bed... never to wake up again this day... (obviously I'm writing this later on... well I think my memory is correct about this day!)

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In the garden...

it was now a battle of three cats to get the food!