Absolute Random Nonsense

There was this guy in Iran named Haji Chic. I wonder what happened to his bird that he used to bring with him on bus rides. It was so adorable.

Some days in high school I would run from school to my dad's office faster than the speed of love.

A Toronto restaurant owner is speaking out after her downtown business was vandalized hours after the anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, and police say their hate crime unit is aware. Banu, an Iranian restaurant on Queen Street W. near Bathurst Street, had its front window smashed and its interior damaged on Tuesday. The restaurant, which has been in the area for more than 19 years, is co-owned by Samira Mohyeddin, a former CBC Radio journalist. On its website, the restaurant says it serves the "very best of Iranian culture, cocktails, and cuisine." Toronto police say they are investigating, but have not deemed the incident a hate crime. Asked why, police spokesperson Stephanie Sayer told CBC News "there would need to be evidence that the crime was motivated in whole or in part by the offender's (real or perceived) bias, prejudice or hate against an identifiable group. At this time, there is no evidence of that." Security footage f

I just jumped almost 3 feet horizontally.   

I applied for my Iranian visa when I first arrived in Delhi, on November 21. The embassy in Delhi told me to get an authorization code from iranianvisa.com, which would be sent to the embassy, and then I'd just need to bring my passport in for the stamp. A very frustrating and drawn-out experience with iranianvisa.com left me $300 poorer, and visa-less on the 11th of December, when my flight left for Iran. This was not good. New Zealand citizens are granted Visa-On-Arrival privileges, but I'd read some horror stories of tourists in my situation being deported. I have no idea how deportation works, but I didn't have the money to pay for that. The main thing that I needed at the border was proof of an ongoing ticket. I didn't have the money for that either. I was hoping to catch the train into Turkey after my month in Iran. My sister came up with the brilliant idea of buying a 100% refundable ticket, getting into the country with that ticket as proof of

Well this must have been awkward. Or maybe not.

A 38-year-old man from Texas broke into a Redmond home early Friday morning and killed the husband and wife living inside . The man, identified as Ramin Khodakaramrezaei by Redmond police, was found dead inside the home with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound when officers arrived at the scene around 1:45 a.m. Friday. According to the Redmond Police Department (RPD), officers responded to the 16700 block of Northeast 89th Street for a report of shots fired inside a home. Police said the woman’s mom was staying at the home with the couple and was able to escape and call 911 after Khodakaramrezaei broke into the home through a window. Officers found the 35-year-old husband lying on the floor when they arrived. The 33-year-old wife and Khodakaramrezaei were both found dead inside the home . Redmond police later confirmed the husband was identified as Mohammad Milad Naseri and his wife as Zohreh Sadeghi. Scott Hale, who lives behind the couple's home, said it was "bl

One thing we liked to do in Iran was either call people using 2 phones or just drive around and pretend we are Arabs. We would speak in broken Arabic based on what we knew from high school and the rest we would use regular Persian words and just add "al" to the beginning of them. If we did the phone thing we would pretend that it was a crossed line and that they were listening in on our private conversation. Once the guy said something to us, one of would yell "قف قف الخط روی خط". Then we would start babbling to the guy who I'm sure would realize it was all fake but would stay on the line as he found it amusing. With the car thing we would find a kid by himself and as we approached him yell out the window "قف قف" Then we would go up to him and ask for directions like "الخیابان الولنجک الکجاست؟" Some kids would get really nervous and try to give us directions, others would see through it and mess with us. One time after we ha

My first Messi sighting was on August 12, 2006 at Giants Stadium. Barcelona defeated the New York Red Bulls 4-1 with Messi coming on as a sub and scoring the third goal.