Friday, May 21, 2004
Long Sleep and thought of the Mediterranean Sea
Well, I am done with my exams after all. Just have to finish the paper I am writing by tomorrow. I slept 9 hours last night and had breakfast at noon: bagel with cream cheese and freshly squeezed orange juice, quite luxurious!
I got the Bridget Jonse's diary from Best Buy and watched it last night. The DVD player could not read the last track though! How annoying! I have to go and exchange it. When you buy a DVD, a new one, you would expect it to be of good quality. The computer DVD player wouldn't even open it. I am very curious now to see what will happen.
I saw minority report too, for the second time. I really like the movie. The idea is very unique I think.
For some reason I remembered my 24th birthday today. I went to Cyprus to apply for the American student visa (we don't have US embassy in Iran and have to go out of Iran to apply for Visa)
So I arrived in Cyprus a few days before my birthday. I got the visa and I had to stay for a few days before I could leave for Tehran again. That was my saddest birthday ever. That night, I was so upset that the hotel manager took me to some patissier and I bought myself a piece of cake and a musical candle.
I took them to the coast (Mediterranean) and sat there for a while. The moon and the stars were out. Listening to music, Sarah Brightman, I thought of everything. Of my life till then, of my parents, of my friends, of what was going to happen to me, that I didn't know anyone in the US and that I was leaving everything I had behind me, leaving for an unknown future. I cried for a long time. Not because I was upset that I was leaving, but because of the surge of emotions. Then I lit up the candle and it started playing the "happy birthday to you" song. The wind was blowing, so it was hard for me to protect the flame.
I know that I made a wish, sadly though I cannot remember what it was.
I blew off the candle and gave half of my cake to the couple sitting on the sand few yards away. I didn't know them, but it was beyond my tolerance to have a birthday all by myself. I had to share it with someone...
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I got the Bridget Jonse's diary from Best Buy and watched it last night. The DVD player could not read the last track though! How annoying! I have to go and exchange it. When you buy a DVD, a new one, you would expect it to be of good quality. The computer DVD player wouldn't even open it. I am very curious now to see what will happen.
I saw minority report too, for the second time. I really like the movie. The idea is very unique I think.
For some reason I remembered my 24th birthday today. I went to Cyprus to apply for the American student visa (we don't have US embassy in Iran and have to go out of Iran to apply for Visa)
So I arrived in Cyprus a few days before my birthday. I got the visa and I had to stay for a few days before I could leave for Tehran again. That was my saddest birthday ever. That night, I was so upset that the hotel manager took me to some patissier and I bought myself a piece of cake and a musical candle.
I took them to the coast (Mediterranean) and sat there for a while. The moon and the stars were out. Listening to music, Sarah Brightman, I thought of everything. Of my life till then, of my parents, of my friends, of what was going to happen to me, that I didn't know anyone in the US and that I was leaving everything I had behind me, leaving for an unknown future. I cried for a long time. Not because I was upset that I was leaving, but because of the surge of emotions. Then I lit up the candle and it started playing the "happy birthday to you" song. The wind was blowing, so it was hard for me to protect the flame.
I know that I made a wish, sadly though I cannot remember what it was.
I blew off the candle and gave half of my cake to the couple sitting on the sand few yards away. I didn't know them, but it was beyond my tolerance to have a birthday all by myself. I had to share it with someone...
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