birthday

Heyyyyyyyyyyy

it's my birthday today

one year older, I HATE THAT! The more you have, the older you get

but what I like most about this year's birthday is friends who remembered the day and since yesterday I've been receiving some really nice messages of birthday

thank you guys for all the nice messages

shutter island

hey guys

another marvelous Wednesday passed :)

I just finished watching the movie "shutter island" another great movie by Martin Scorsese starring, one of my favorite actors, Leonardo DiCaprio.

What a great movie!

I strongly recommend this mystery movie to anyone. it's just a great storyline and another fascinating performance by DiCaprio.

so, put this movie on the top of your must watch movies...

Cancelling classes

Hey guys

this is Saturday and I'm already bored, I hate off days!

few days back, I was forced to cancel two of my classes I like very much which was the part I hate

students in both classes were highly motivated and that made it even more difficult, you know, changes are always hard to accept and it was also so hard for me...

We took pictures in both classes at the end of class (I thank you guys for allowing me to be in the picture with you guys and keep all those good memories we had together)

I hope somebody with greater knowledge takes over the class for I believe students of that class all surely Deserve More

journey of life

"go down the road you're going, you might not have chosen to be there, but sure as hell you can determine where to go and where to end your journey."

Ataei

back

Hey everyone

after almost 2 weeks that my Internet was cut off, I'm back

Lots happened in the last few weeks :)

Lots of good stuff and some not very good

I hope everything goes perfectly for yall

I don't have a title :)

hey everyone
what's up?

oh, I can't wait till tomorrow, another Wednesday

and I guess before sb else wished that my wish doesn't get granted, it got granted
very soon, I'm going to have 2 Wednesdays

and Barcelona won the game but couldn't make it to the final match, that was a dirty game by Internationale Milan... I hate that Morinho guy, he makes me sick to my stomach

except for Wednesdays, other things are going so bad

I hope everything will look up soon

Wednesday

Wow!!

what a day, today!

full of stress at the beginning of this morning and then later on, it's going to be full of stress again in the football match between Barcelona & Internationale Milan...

but yet, I LOVE Wednesdayssssssssssss

Wednesdays, for me, is a blessing from God

full of rest and joy and everything

I wish there were more Wednesdays during the week...

and it's gonna finish a great day if Barcelona wins, it's a pity if Barcelona doesn't win

gotta go
got lots to do

take care everyone

ambiguity

Hey guys

listen, there are many ways to get on people's nerves and one way I've recently found in me is this:

Language is so sophisticated and a sentence is not only conveying a few words with some meaning but beyond those words, there are interpretations which form the whole thing called a language.

take this sentence for instance:

"you got a pen?"

the words convey whether the addressee possesses a pen, but in a context it can mean, "may I use it for a sec?" which obviously doesn't need to be mentioned coz one would understand without that having to be said.

knowing that as a fact, nobody would bother clearing the message and this is where I take advantage.

as a teacher, I've been trying to figure out ways to facilitate learning and paying extra attention to sentence structure and how words and sentences communicate

knowing about this fact and this tiny sense of humor I've inherited are mixed at times and produce great situations that I thought can be good to be shared...

just an hour ago, I was hanging out with a friend at home when he asked me to google an Iranian song and after teasing him for a min, I agreed to download it

he left home and texted me to let me know that I hadn't copied the song on his cell

so I was like 'dude, you never asked me to copy it, all you asked was "download it" and I did so'.

I really love to see the expression in people's face when you say so (try it for yourself)

here is another situation

I got this class a while back with these two students of mine and I kept forgetting to estimate their tuition

"did you calculate how much we're supposed to pay before Norooz?" A.D asked me.

I went "yes" and we all left class and left the inst. we were in his cousin's car and he asked me again "Mr. Ataei, you didn't tell me how much we're supposed to pay"

here I went "you didn't ask me that, you just asked me if I'd calculated and I said YES"

I liked the expression on his face as well as the others laughter

there are several more, I just can't recall all at this time...

let me give you a piece of advice, just don't overdo it, some can't take it and go mad fast and occasionally they'll call you ******, or ****** or maybe ******.

two weird questions

Hey

We just had one of the weirdest topics ever in my class tonight!

Can the blind dream?

that's what I'd never thought of before and was sort of shocking and I started wondering whether or not they have a perception of dream, so when I got home and of course greeting my fish! I googled it and apparently only few people before me had ever thought about it or talked about it

you can google it for yourself and see what it's like, but there was no scientific article, whatsoever to talk about it.

I got another question as well

how much does the earth weigh?

well, it's easy

the mass of the Earth is 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms (6 x 10²⁴ kilograms / 1.3 x 10²⁵ pounds).

but my main question is, "is the earth getting heavier or lighter?!"

please somebody answer this question or I myself would have to make a scientist and figure it for myself!

OK, enough of nonsense

BTW, don't you miss the football match, tonight

BARCELONA ROCKSSSSS

busy

Hey
what's up everyone?

having a good time?
I'm good too, busy as hell...

I might go through some changes in a few days
but you know what the funny part is, though?

I was surprised last night for the fact that I couldn't fall asleep in spite of all the lack, I was just tossing and turning...

gotta get going, take care you guys