Harry Potter and more
I was browsing tonight and came across this page by link from a persian blog and I cannot believe my eyes, is this for real?! It seems to be in a far east country, I know they eat all sorts of stuff that are weird to us but only because it's a different diet which you can get used after a while but this?! please somebody tell me it's just a gross joke!
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One of the first Iranian bloggers, Hossein Derakhshan spoke in a conference in Tunis, I thought it might be interesting for English readers.
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I went to see Harry Potter's latest movie as soon as it was out on Friday and well I have to say after my first experience of reading the book before watching the movie, it was so inconsistent and weirdly edited! Maybe this is all because I've read the book which is so cohesive and comprehensive! I felt like the scenes were all sewn together in a bit of a hurry and so it made no sense sometimes. I had to actually fill in the blanks at times for my husband who was bewildered by some events that suddenly occured with no plausible explanation whatsoever.
I believe these scripts are written and filmed under supervision of the author and cannot believe how Ms Rowling could let this happen to her precious book! I know the book is long and we shan't expect all the details to be included in the movie but still it's just important for the plot to make sense to a person who has not read the book, right?
Well maybe I'm just too meticulous and it's not as bad as it seemed to me but I was certaily hoping for a more coherent movie since I had enjoyed the book immensely.
Work and life in USA
It’s been so long since this weblog’s been updated that I don’t even know how to start. Whenever I write something here I promise to write regularly and now even my Persian weblog is so rarely updated! Leaving in the USA for a year and few months has been an interesting experience. I worked as a designer/salesperson for a company that organizes people’s closets, offices, garages, sitting rooms and well wherever needs to be organized! I graduated masters in pedagogy and linguistics and have never ever done any kind of designing in my life let alone drawing on grid sheets and telling people where to put their stuff!!
All this and being new in a country with people of a different culture is bound to overwhelm you, right?! Well hopefully it didn’t! We had an intensive training and after a while designing became the easiest part of it! The most difficult part was behaving so persuasive all through the designing so that the client would buy the design. Since I’m not a pushy person this always proved to be tough to do. People mostly need to be pushed! The products and installations are of the upper end and cost more than what a regular lad would want to pay to be organized! Normally they would think to themselves why I would want to pay $3000 to have a young girl tell me where I should put my undergarments!!! And so they would come to the conclusion that going to the Home Depot and getting the lower end stuff and doing it for half the price is more logical.
Who am I to argue?!!
Anyways it is a commission-based job with no security at all! Sometimes I would be so successful and sometimes left without a dime! So now a full-time job is making me feel more at home! Working 8 to 5 and running around in the office and warehouse keeps me on my toes and pays consistently and more!
Well anyways it’s all good now, having full coverage insurance, a salary that can be more but not less! All in all the first job was “a first job” and I was lucky I didn’t have to wash dishes or work in retail stores at first (not that there’s anything wrong in doing so if you have to). It was prestigious work and now I’m so familiar with American culture and have been to at least 200 houses and dealt with a diversity that would not have been possible in any other job. I’m hoping to grow in this new job of customer service and order processing and now we just have to wait and see what happens.