Hello...quite some times I didn't visit this blog. Past few weeks my life was really hectic. My mom fell sick for 2 weeks. Plus at the same time I've to go to university everyday. This week start of new semester. Demm I couldnt register online as I have 2 summons to settle. My faculty had moved to new building that is far from my office. But the new building is quite good as there is only 1 block for the whole faculty not like the previous one. They also provide large postgraduates workspace. I just hope that they will provide wifi soon.
Watch my keeks on the way going to uni today. Singing Doroghe by Mazyar Fallahi
It's the 56th year of Malaysia's independence day. Me and some of my khanavadeh (family) went out for countdown at our beloved city, Pontian Johor. We arrived around 10.30p.m. The whether was so lovely tonight as the rain has stopped pouring. There was a big crowd of people at the mini stadium which is facing the Malacca Straits, hence the nice sea breeze. There were performance from some artists, traditional zapin dance and patriotic songs. As the normal ritual, we countdown for 12 a.m., sang national anthem, Negaraku, sang few patriotic songs and the star of the night fireworks. This year, they showed about 10 minutes real fireworks. When I said real it does mean the big one not the one we usually played for Hari Raya.
All in all, I felt happy tonight to see that Malaysians really appreciate Merdeka Day even I don't know they understand the meaning of independence or not. The only things I don't really like is to see many children or I can say teenagers around age 13-15 with their bicycles going nowhere in the middle of night on the roads. I wonder where were their parents, don't they worrying their children?hmm..
Ok lah. I managed to record videos even the quality is not good as I used iphone. Enjoy...
Taa daafe baad..be omide 1000000 sal esteghlal va azadi (eh,shabihe sooroode melli iran) dar Malezi...khodanegahdar
went to health center utm, as usual the doc gave me panadol..pfft..she said the fever just started no need antibiotic. but demmit, after 1 day i still have light fever. sore throat, dizzy.
maybe its the side effect of haze. maybe also of the extraordinary heat lately. aaron also now has fever..bff too!! see we have similarities :P
shiaaann ayen maksu..rindu sangat..:(
Even marizam today i woke up at 7 and do all house chores. I think laying on bed make my fever worst. But I really have no energy to cook. I'm feeling to eat something soupy. Now I'm craving for Persian Soup.
Oh, I need to keep standing coz tonigh is Final FA Football match between Johor and Kelantan (tradition enemy). It is really exciting!! After decades Johor finally going to final. And the phenomenon is just fantastic. JOHOR LUASKAN KUASAMU!!
Talking about football, I found this new song created for Jame Jahani (World Cup) by Iranian singer. Enjoy and keep healthy everyone!
After some quiet time, again I opened this blog. My mood in writing has been swing for some times due to some circumstances. It might come to the ups and down from life. My study is the biggest factor. I am so tired already, waiting to finish my proposal write up because I am lazy..too lazy. I can say the worries of life lies behind it. there's too much to think, about everything. internet could be the second factor. Everytime i turned on the computer, 80% of my time spent for un-academic sites. it's all my bad i know and i should blame myself for that. Lets move to more interesting topic rather than study.
Ask any Iranian, if any of them does not know who Googoosh is? Googoosh is one big name in Iran's music industry. Me too love her music but not as a person. Sorry for her hard core fans but I just dont really like her appearance particularly in her video clip. But I admit her voice is marvellous! After she went out from Iran, her career boom! I'm not sure where she is now (maybe in America), but now she owns television channel, Manoto. I did follow some of the Tv programmes, for instance Befarmaeed Sham. Recently Googoosh created a phenomenon among Iranian around the globe by introducing so called American Idol, Persian version.I did not follow much but I watched several Delsa (one of the contestant)'s clips from Youtube, until I found out the competition has finished and Ermia win the title. Just last night I watched one of her clips as below:
My comment is: no way, how come she win it? Her voice is good..but in this song, oh! she ruined it. She couldn't sing high pitch song. Then, I just did not continue to watch her other clips. But..maybe fortune on her side that she got the title of The First Winner of Academy Googoosh. Also maybe the hejab has brought miracle to her. She is the only woman that wears hejab in a circle of non-hejabis. So it gives her the point of attention there. Just like when Shila Amzah won the 2012 Asian Wave Singing Competition in China. Apart from their good voice of course, who knows?!
Whatever it is, whenever a competition reached the conclusion, there must be criticisms. Normally it is about the quality of the winner sort of..but this time, I found it a bit different in one of the people's criticisms. They are questioning about the appropriateness of a girl with hejab to join in singing competition? I was like wt%&?...What's wrong with that? Hello..this is 2013 and our world has became more civilized. Just because a woman is a Muslim, and she wears hejab, doesn't mean she has impossibility to do things she is allowed to. I am against of so called rule by radical Muslim saying that woman's voice is aurah that she cannot sing. For me, there's no different between man and woman. What is more important, whatever we are doing, we just need to know the limits. As long as you are inside the control area, we are OK.
Back to the story of Ermia, I think she did not do any wrong in joining the competition. Plus, through the above video, she behaved well in delivering the song, not over dancing or wearing sexy outfits, just nice with her hejabi appearance. So why need to critic her just because she win the competition and she wears hejab? Or maybe this is a new phenomenon in Iranian outside Iran music industry because there was none of the female singer wears hejab?? Maybe...
If I look in Malaysia's music industry, previously we have very limited number of hejab-wearing female singer. Just after the emergence of Yuna Zarai, the fashion of female musician has changed. Of course there were lots of criticism during that time, but then our society has started to accept that there's no problem with hejab and music. Hejab is not a barrier indeed. Some other female singers came into the industry after that. For example Najwa Latiff, Ana Tasneem. In fact some of them who previously without hejab has changed their appearance by wearing hejab. For example Shila Amzah and recently Siti Nurhaliza! And their career did not end after the changed! What a shock when now Yuna Azrai is spreading her fame in America and the industry accepted her the way she is. Refer to this link:
Oh yeah, if I want to compare our local artist that has made name in "outside" with Iranian artist, of course Iranian has achieved way bigger fames. In this writing I just want to highlight that hejab is not a barrier for Muslim woman in any fields, name it and we can prove it..coz I am a hejabi :)
Happy Persian New Year to my Persian family and friends. May this year brings all the joys and happiness to us. This is my 6th Nowruz. and I am very grateful to be given this chance to explore and love another culture. There was a special statement given by bff that I will remember forever and this was happened yesterday just right after the countdown. Thanks love.
Sofreh 7 Seen
This is my latest video talking about Nowruz. Enjoy..
I am a busy bee lately..coz my bee is here thus, a packed timetable plus the unfinishable research.
Tomorrow i'll be in Uitm Shah Alam for interview not for job, but research related thingy..Wish me luck.
And this is what I've been watching everyday before sleep. Khane Be Doosh which literally means a person who doesnt have permanent place to stay, just like parandeh (bird). Apart from its great story line, the serial is attractive for me because it tells about a man who is about to go to Malezi (Malaysia) but being cheated by somebody that left him with another man (Reza Attaran) homeless to hinder shame of coming back home.
Being the last child is nice. Apart from getting lots of intentions from older brothers and sisters and parents, I am so happy to be growing up with my nieces and nephews. They are my friends, they give me happiness and never hurt me. I tried to treat them as they are my children. As long as I can, I will try to provide the best for them. Every time when sorrow hit me, they always cheered me up. They are always there for me.
When they asked me
"When Maksu (the title of youngest aunty) want to marry?",
I always replied "If I married, who wana take you out? Who wana buy you this and that? If my husband take me far from here, you won't miss me?"
Then they said "Oh please maksu, don't marry". Hehe.
Today we went to eat outside, in car I teased Putri (17 years old) "Come I wana kiss you"
She said "Ewwwwww"
I replied "Why cant I? Since small I kiss you." But seriously I dont wana kiss her. hehe
Remember my last post about Izzati? She is really into everything that I am doing. She learns Farsi too. So, this time I recorded Farsi practice video with her. Enjoy..
I dont care with all the craps saying valentines is haram..is it bad to have a special day to commemorate the love we are having? It is not that I am going to worship Christianity or Valentine or whatever ritual related to valentines day, it is just for fun, to add spiciness to relationship.
For us 14 February every year is special not just because it is a valentines day but also our sort of anniversary. So this year is out 5th. Pray the best for us.
I made this video. It is a lovely song from Siavash Shams - Nafas which I put Malay language translation on it.
Previously I always update my cooking but lately I've lost my passion. Its not that I didnt cook but I cook normal foods just to fill my stomach not to enjoy. All because of the distance, the separation. Before this I thought I am strong that I can live just like before when he is here, but slowly I am losing it. His absence has diverted my passion to things that related to him like persian songs and movies but not foods coz I think I dont enjoy any type of foods anymore. Not like before where everyday I browsed on Persian foods recipe :(
I just hope I can keep strong a little bit as the numbers decreasing coz soon he will be here and the pain will gone.
Today exactly 3 months he's away. I made a video, just for him coz delam kheili barash tang shodeh
Haha. Funny thumbnail. Ayo, Youtube could you give a more appropriate thumbnail? This is is the best among 3. Pity me.
So, this is my 3rd video uploaded. I talked about my experience with Iranian foods. Also, there is a post at Malezitarin about this. Enjoy and have a great Monday!
Today's entry might be dragged out from my normal topics. This week, a video from a forum held at UUM became a hit and created a phenomenon "listen..listen..listen". I dont want to describe more what the video is all about. What I want to say is that the election war in Malaysia has started and I see lots of ways the parties done to attract votes.
I am proudly say that I am a pro government based on my personal observation of the positive things they have done to my country. I admit that before this I never have sceptical thinking to the government as I did not feel something wrong with them.
But, as time passed especially after Tun Mahathir handed the post, my view started to changed. I am still a government supporter but I think at some parts the government should be criticised. After the issue of learning science and maths in english, I think that government did not do the right thing. When they introduced the system, I supported it 100% but why should change back? As Tun Mahathir said, the cancellation of the learning language has made Malaysia move backward not forward. I did not understand well of the problem but for me, good things why should be terminated? Is this one of the way to gain votes? By jeopardise the children's future?
Another thing that I realize is the news in Malaysia that has been handle by government. Lately I have switched from watching TV3 as sometimes I feel the news are funny by means over controlled by pro-gov.
Back to the title, the listen listen phenomenon get lots of feedback from Malaysia especially us, the university students. I tried to find back the full video but couldnt find. Maybe they have removed it. But one video related to the issue I found tonight is very hilarious. Oh man, I love the way you created the video. Selambeee jee :) Keep it up boy!!
Hello peeps..hello blog..hello donya..How was your day today? Mine started with a bad headache. Dont know why. Maybe because I sleep late as I watched an Iranian film title "Shame Irani". It was a hilarious film. The concept is like Befarmaeed Sham (Manoto). Maybe I will review it in another post. Back to the story, I felt better after taking panadols. Just hope that it wont come again as I have mountains of works.
Switch channel..
I am going to write about my niece or in farsi dokhtar khahar (sister's daughter) or khahar zadeh (a new friend taught me this). I have 7 nieces all. I have a very close relationship with them especially the ones living nearby my mom's house. Izzati is one of them. She grew up with me. Anything I do, she will always be by my side. And not surprising that she also learn farsi with me but not as extreme as I :). She has one small note book to write farsi words, the simple one like numbers, greetings and animal names. She brought it to school and showed to her friends. Recently I found her secret diary and she wrote "Azizam" to her friends (because she left primary school and started secondary schooling, that diary is like to record her memories with friends) which I taught it was her feeling to express "I love you my friends". Oh, I hope she wouldnt notice that I read her diary. :))
Every time we are in car, she will be the one to turn on the radio for Iranian songs. Normally, she will fight with Putri (another niece) for radio. But always Izzati won because I said stay with the USB, dont change. haha. The same thing goes with my phone, she will always steal my phone silently and play Iranian songs. Sometime I got angry because when the phone is in her hand, dont dream to get it back before I scold her.
Previously when she was 10 years old, I recorded her singing Mano Bebakhsh by KamranHooman. I uploaded it on Youtube as a memory. Even there are another videos of her singing that I've put on youtube. My reason is just I dont want the memory to gone. By the way, the malezitarin team has found that video after 3 years and it has been viewed more than 1000 times in one night. For me, when I watch back the video it was funny to see how a 10 years old Malay kid can fall in love with a song by Iranian singer, at the same time I feel proud because she become part of my journey in learning farsi and Iranian culture. For those who also laughed and smiled to the video, if you noticed she wore an adult shoes, and yes it is mine. :) Thats what one of every girls' childhood memories,wearing her aunts or sister or mom's things. By now, she is a grown up 13 years old teenager who achieved great results upon her UPSR examination and placed in a first class in her new school. But her interest in Iranian music has never stopped. Last month she asked me to put all of Iranian songs that I have to her PC, and now her favourite song is Ye Harfaee by Googoosh, just like Makusu (nickname for youngest aunt).
My pray is that she will always be my entertainer forever.
Monday blues in the air..Is there really a monday blues for me or naturally monday blues is inside me??Haha.
Tomorrow I have meeting with sv, hopefully everything will be fine and i can speed up my writings. Ok leave study aside or my wrinkles getting worst :p, now I am going to tell what happened today that has killed my monday blues.
Yesterday I uploaded second video on youtube about my journey in learning farsi. Somebody has found it and spread the news at malezitarin.com. Afterwards, my video rating increased. I received some responses about the way I speak farsi which is good for me to improve my farsi. Most of them are positive thoughts and also negative comments as such they thought I wanna show off. Well, I am not that kind of person who will go here and there to show what I have. I am sharing the video at first place is for my reference in the future because for me the experience of learning farsi, persian culture and anything related to iran will not come to everyone. I categorised myself as being lucky because I am not forced to learn but it came from my heart coincidently after I met bff. That is why I want to documented it so in the future I can flashback and see this beautiful journey.
What happened today has motivated me to learn more and I hope this is my stepping stone to impress myself of my capabilities. Till then, keep moving peeps and you'll learn something!
Bff corrected me; singer mishe khanande na khanandaye :)
Hello again..life has been so tired for me nowadays. It's not that I did lots of thing, but because there are lots of thing to be done, especially in research. The 3rd semester has finished but I havent defense my proposal. Blame on my laziness. Last 3 days bff told me about a research done to discover the most lazy nation in world and Malaysia is on 10th place over 100++. Haha. Yes I admit that :) Every end of day, I will put aim that tomorrow I'll work more, but in the end of the day, nothing! I just wish that miracle will happen to my life. Yeah, I know theres no such miracle without efforts. Let see what tomorrow will happen ok.
I dont want to talk about study. That will make my wrinkles worst. haha. I wanna share about my passion in learning Persian language aka farsi. I've started last 4++ years since I met bff. And until now, I am still learning. But what Ive been learned up to now are all informal. I prefer to go class so that I can speak better farsi. Also I am still very weak in reading and writing farsi. I really hope to enrol in farsi class but there is no class available in JB, and not sure in KL. Learning from internet is not as good as 2 ways learning in class. I think my progress until now is not good. I can understand when people talking maybe around 70% but there are lots of vocabulary that I dont know yet.
I've came out of an idea to record my journey in learning farsi. It is for my reference later to see how my farsi progress over time. Thus, I recorded my first video in farsi and uploaded it on youtube.
I know my farsi is not good. It was not easy to record video of myself speaking farsi. I think my farsi is better when I do conversation with someone. I have to edit and cut some parts. However, I still think I am good (who will praise if not myself right :)..
Maybe I will continue to record video in farsi. At least I can see how myself look like when speaking farsi.
OK thats all for now. Be omide didar..khodahafez
I am drooling over Persian foods. Looking back at my photo folder which I titled "Ghazaha" makes me salivating. I can't wait for bff to come so that I can cook Persian meals. The reason I did not cook Persian foods when he's faraway is who's gonna eat? My family do not like it much. If I want to cook Persian foods for my family, the best choice is kebabs. Going to restaurant is not my choice because I feel awkward to walk into Iranian restaurant without bff as always. Plus everybody that knows bff will ask me questions about bff; when he will come back etc etc.
Above is tahchin which I really love and you can only find it in home as until now I never seen any in restaurants' menu. The crust (tahdig) drive me crazy!! The recipe can be found here Tahchin.
Before I end, here is my niece video mimicking mano bebaksh song from Kamran Hooman. Enjoyyy..
Me and my life..This is my story, my reference of my experience in learning Farsi and cooking Persian foods. For me Farsi is a very beautiful language. Persian Cuisine is not only foods to stuff hungry stomach, but it is an art that need to learn and practice to master. I have learned little and have lots ahead. This is my passion, my love.
