Eclipse...

While many were enjoying the astronomical miracle in the east, it was a day of worries... it was the end of the fourth month of the Iranian calendar today and our press permits were to be terminated... we had no news of its renewal and all we could do is wait...
I'm sure when you experience a solar eclipse, you would feel how stupid it is to be worried about everyday troubles and ups and downs of life is just an assurance of being alive... Seeing no miracles, I can't view the world so philosophically like great achiever. So I'm going to live everyday being sad, angry, and hopefully... happy!


we had a brief power cut at night... boo...

PS
We had power cuts in the daytime...

completely dead...

PPS
Watching closely how the change of power in Japan is taking place...

democratically!

Running!

The incumbent has finally announced his bid for his second term! It was a Friday and I really didn't want to work, or make my staff work either... but it took us all day to cover the story and we completely lost our private time... if ever I am to receive such time!
Anyways, now it's official that the executive chief will be aiming to go for another four years! I'm not going to state my private expectations for the results, but I know what many of my colleagues want... I hope it turns out that way too!

PS

power failure in the morning!
will the government fix this problem!?

Judgment day...

I thought the day of judgment was tomorrow, but surprisingly I had a call from Tokyo today. The go ahead signal was announced and I have no choice but to now run at full speed to complete our mission which February would be the ultimate goal.
I still have so many things to do to reach that goal but there's no way turning back and the pressure will mount each day...

At night, there was another power cut. Frustrated, I went to bed before 11PM... there's nothing I can do so who cares!

lighting the candle again!

A common day...

It was just a regular week day. Nothing new and interesting. Everyday, I'm losing time without a result that would make my heart beat and want to dance.

A brief 30 minutes blackout was now not frustrating but even romantic making me sure I'm not living in a sophisticated nation, but a developing one.

I'm not pessimistic about my position, but it's surely not exciting to make me brag about my life.

Someone would understand someday... someday... that's the only hope I have!

lighting candles in my office...

all around it was dark...

Can't work!

Today the misery of losing light continued... Today for a record long, more than 4 hours and a half, the electricity was out in our building. I connected the UPS to my computer and ADSL modem, but without the desktops that my staff had to use to gather information, it was just a waste of time!
I was very angry this time, but sadly there was nothing I can do... just to ask my staff to complain to the power company... which probably has no meaning at all!
Oh I'm really frustrated!!


candles...


and notebook computers...

Gloomy...

It's not about my mental state that is gloomy, but my office! today the electricity was out from 1:30PM to 2:30PM, 3PM to 6PM, and finally from 11PM to around 11:30PM! I tried to do my best working without electricity, but it was quite irritating!

In the first electrcity cut, a resident was trapped inside the elevator and fire fighters cam to the rescue! How crazy could this get!!


fire fighters arriving!

are you okay in there!?
(I'm sure that's what they're saying in Farsi...)


candles in the room...