Friday, March 12, 2010

I cannot believe academy gives 6 Oscars to this disassociated movie!


The first thing I did after watching the Oscar 2010 live, was to check if "The Hurt Locker" is available around. Unfortunately it was! I've got the movie from the RedBox. It is one of the most disassociated movies ever made about Iraq war (Oil War II). Comparing with "Battle for Haditha (2007)" and "In the Valley of Elah (2007)", "The Hurt Locker (2009)" has nothing to show you. You can hardly believe the war scenes and you can more hardly find logic relationship between them. In other word, the film makes no sense! I suggest you to watch the other two movies (mentioned above) plus "Body of Lies (2008)" and "Syriana (2005)" if you have not seen them yet. I just want to know why they waist lots of Oscars on this movie?

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

From Boston to Vavcouver


Rambod and me, cycling around park



Ship surfing under the Lion Gates bridge




Downtown view from the UBC road


UBC front yard

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Molana Persian Restaurant

I heard about Molana Persian Restaurant from the first day I'd entered Boston, but I was never there till last night. Thanks to Tony, my roommate at Somerville, last night we attended to Molana Restaurant.
At first, every thing was a bit disquieting to me, because The miniature painting on the wall and me myself, were the only Persian things there! Most of decorations, live music (with guitar), all the people (except me), and drinks was non-Persian, however, after they serve the food, I found out how much I missed taste of Persian (Iranian) food.

Molana Persian Restaurant, upstair

Yes, the dinner was good. At first the waiter told me that they do not serve any Halal meat. So I ordered "Mirsa-qasemi" without any meat. But then he came back to me with good news: they had some kind of Kabab with Halal lamb meat. And, honestly, it was good. I suggested Tony to order "Chelow kabab Soltani" and he did (I wish he liked it).


Tony and me in Molana Restaurant
As much as the food was delicious, the decoration was distracting. As a Persian restaurant, I expected some comfortable sitting benches (beds) with Persian (or at least cheap Pakistanian) carpets on them. And also the worst thing you can imagine in a Persian restaurant is a bar!

5-6 friends of Tony were there, they were really nice and funny. Tony, can you please help me put their name here?

In conclusion, if you are at Boston area and want to eat good Persian food, go directly to Molana [5 Spring St, Watertown, MA 02141, (617) 923-2554] but do not expect a Persian traditional restaurant environment.



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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Framingham community rail

Wellesley, snow, and gas station

One of the coldest think you can do in the snow, is going to gas station. Furthermore, you should pay about $2.66 per gallon (normal gas).


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Porter Station, Somerville- Gloves!



Boston, The city of beautiful churches

Thursday, January 14, 2010

The worst haircutting I ever had

First time haircutting in USA, MA, Boston was not a good experience. I went to one of these Supercuts [www.supercuts.com] Beauty Salon at 829 Boylston Street, Boston, MA [Map | Street view]. The barber cut my hair in less than 10 Minutes, the result was (is) awful! There is no symmetry in two side of my head!
My hair used to be cut in about 20-25minutes when I was in Tehran, Iran. And the price was one forth to one fifth of the price of haircutting in US.



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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Short-term rent

It's hard to find a short-term vacancy in Boston for less than $250 / week. Most of the real estates offer apartments for rent for at least 6 months. Finally, one of the real estate's guy of Brookline told me yesterday that I should search CraigsList [http://boston.craigslist.org/sub/]. I do not know what "Craigs" exactly means, but the website was really helpful, however, most of the offers are apartment sharing that I actually do not tolerate!
In other hands, renting an apartment for 6 months or 1 year is a good deal in Boston. You can get a 1 bedroom apartment in Newbury St [Google Map] for less than 550$/month.

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Still looking for a separated apartment for short-term for less than 1000$/month in Boston. What a hard mission!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Most desirable thing

It said that most desirable thing of each humankind will be presented in his dream. It's true, because I see you, every night, in my dreams.
می‌گویند انسان مهمترین خواسته اش را در رؤیا می بیند. درست گفته اند، چون من هر شب تو را در خوابهایم می بینم.