Game or Reality?

Remember putting on your mother's sandals, when you were a little child? I was no exception. When I was six years old, I put on my mother's sandals and started running down the stairs. In a bleak of an eye, I slipped and fell down. In addition, our apartment was new-built and the stairs had no case! Moreover, I was at the third floor!
Slipping down the stairs, I fell into the space between the stairs and I just had time to grab the edge of a stair. Hanging off only one hand, I could even see the stairs of the ground flat! Although I was screaming continuously, I was not able to recognize that I was so near to death. In fact, I perceived that situation rather funny or something like any game which ends in happiness. I was sunk into these thoughts until my mother and my aunt arrived screamingly and survived me!

An Overal View on My Norooz

Norooz meaning new day, is the name of the first 13 days of Persian year. It is almost between March 20th and April 3th. In Norooz, most of Iranians spend their time meeting each other. Some people go to traveling and some only enjoy their time by watching TV's films, reading books or magazines and so on. I spent my Norooz by doing a mixture of above.
Since we live in the same apartment with my grand mother, her guests become kind of our own guests so that for the very first days of Norooz, we were busy treating them. After living in such a condition for 19 years, now I can easily guess that which relatives and on what time will knock on the door!!! Although sometimes it became really boring to treat different guests from sunrise to sunset, the pleasure of meeting some relatives and chatting with them remains in me and fills me with a lot of energy. Specially after loosing the chance of meeting close friends in my relatives during the year, Norooz is an occasion to present me an opportunity to be with them again.
As I mentioned above, I did a mixture of things in Norooz. I watched some films on TV and read a few book. We also had a two day trip to Qazvin with our relatives (later I will give more details about this trip). In spite of having nice time in Norooz, the regret of not reading a lot of unread books stays with me!

Do More!

The Oscar-winning actor, Marlon Brando who brought the techniques of method acting to prominence, was nominated for the significant role in The Godfather, Vito Corleone. At the same time he was refused to get the role by the president of Paramount Picture (Brando was not interested in Hollywood's principles). Being begged by Coppola, the president let him get a chance but only on difficult conditions. One of condition was that "he does the movie for nothing if he does the screen test"!!! Coppola agreed with him and made contacts with Brando. Brando himself suggested to do some make up tests. At the middle of screen test, he saw the Italian cheese which was bought by Coppola. All of a sudden, he started stuffing them in his mouth, taking his hair, and putting shoe polish on it. Finally, he put Kleenex in his mouth! Becoming similar to a bull dog, he astonished everyone at the scene. After winning the best actor Academy Award for Vito Corleone, who cares that he was neglected by Paramount Pictures?

My Home Town, Tehran

Tehran has been the capital of Iran for 220 years. Originally, it was a little village of Raay city (the city in which Zakarya Razi lived) but after its selection as the capital, it developed and evolved to the city in which we live today! It has a land of 658 square kilometers and a population of 7, 314, 000. Most of industries and major organizations are based in Tehran. These factors are enough to attract a lot of people out of the capital to migrate to it.
On one side, my home town is surrounded by Alborz mounts, on the other side it is surrounded by desert. Having this condition, it causes the weather to remain settled. Additionally, Tehran is a four season city which rarely its weather changes without warning.

Since Tehran is a big city, transportation plays a very important role in the life of its habitants. Nowadays there are three types of transportation; buses, taxies and metro. Metro has been run since 2001, however, it was settled down in I968. It should be considered the construction of tramway was proposed 110 years ago! Tehran has also two international airports; Mehrabad and Imam Khomeyni airports. Mehrabad is located at the west part of Tehran and Imam Khomeyni airport is located at the distance of 30 kilometers of Tehran on the road to Qom.
My home town has various entertainment centers like ski centers (Tochal, Darband, Dizin, and etc), museums (Ancient Iran, Islamic Iran, Contemporary Art, Handcrafts, Carpets and so on) and historical buildings like Shamsolemare, Toqrol Tower, Golestan Palace, Saheb Qaranieh, Great Bazaar, and a lot more!

Tehran has also 739 parks and 70 cinemas. These facilities tempt any Iranian with less facilities to choose Tehran as the home town but while the traffic and air pollution problems are not solved, living in this city makes people sick.
Although, sometimes living in Tehran disappoints me, seeing these pictures of Tehran in winter and summer encourages me to change my mind.