Adventures of Mr.Behi

If you want sanctions, I am not with you

The recent decision by the IAEA (UN nuclear watch dog) has unleashed a clear fear and also another set of empty statements inside and from the Iranian diplomacy. Iran has opened it's economy to Europe, India and China with the illusion that they may go against any rough decision in IAEA or UN and that failed in a very ridiculous way. I do not know much about politics but even to me it is not clear what the Iranian policy is up to:

• If they wanted nuclear technology and wanted to enrich, what did they accept something more than NPT in the first place?

• If they want a peaceful technology really, why they are now warning the world that they will get out of the NPT?

I grew up under war and sanctions, I do not want to see Iran under sanction again. This government cares about it's ideology first and then the people. That is insane. Who said that we should cut relations with US and pay this huge price. This is enough.

I am back

I miss Mr. Behi! It is a while since last post and each day I had an unusual feeling of loosing my memories for that day. I could not write mainly because I was attending a very concise training session that lasted one month. My life has many things to blog about in fact but sometimes this limitation of keeping my identity secrete makes it challenging to write.

Anyway, I work for a multinational company that has a nice culture of diversity. It operated in almost everywhere in the world (This is not an ad, keep reading). In this past month, I had trainers from Canada, Nigeria, Venezuela, Labia and France and had classmates from Egypt, Thailand, Pakistan and Indonesia. One more thing that I love about this corporation is that it is very systematic. Well, sometimes you feel there is a local chaos but all in all, you learn to be organised and learn to think within a system, something that in university they do not teach you. One other excellent thing here is that most of the communications go on-line and I can enjoy one of the best connections in the country.
Apart from the very technical side of the training, we had a session from a Scottish guy on project management and boy it was very interesting. I guess I will read more about it and maybe even put a blog for that. I am not sure how many people do that but a blog can be a kind of scratch pad for technical topics you read everyday and suppose people can comment on that or even learn from it. Nice!

I am back and will hopefully write regularly. I miss my podcast and should blow it soon (it is in progress). Have so much to tell you. Thanks to all of you who dropped by in the period.

How to recognize an Emirati guy?

It is not difficult to do that if you are in a Dubai or Abu-Dhabi shopping mall, if you see a man with a sleeper and a white/cream neck to anckle covering especially if he is carrying a Mobile of course with a handsfree cable rounded over neck and shoulders two times. Seems that playing with Mobile phones is one of the greatest hobbies in U.A.E apart from sitting in Cofee shops for hours and driving fancy cars. I saw a school kid with a cell phone two times as big as his hand!

Pray of the day

Dear GOD if you exist (do not mind if you don't),

Please do me a favour and send a group of your angels downstairs when President Ahmadinejad talks at the UN to prevent him from doing anything very stupid. Please also note that in his idea, he is responsible to help you with what you are supposed to do and as a result maybe it is a better idea if you, yourself can act upon.

Yours faithfully,

Mr.Behi

The Everlasting Persian Pride

An exhibition is now open in the British Museum that I wished I could watch named The Forgotten Empire, The World and Ancient Persia. I am not sure why this name is selected for the show but it is not really out of concept considering the amount of attention is given to this part of our history by Iranian authorities.
One thing that I truly recommend everyone to go and see is the clay cylinder of Cyrus the Great that is believed to be the first declaration of human rights in history in which the king endorsed the rights of the nations under his authority.

Before 1979 revolution, the former government had an exaggerated emphasis on the glories of the old kings. I am too young to know what was the reaction of people towards Shahs actions but today, people love to hear about the pre-Islamic part of Persia especially because the current political system is exaggerating the Islamic spirit of the society.

We, Iranians have a very common habit that we can not help not to expose, and that is a pride we have to our history especially to the ancient glorious era of the Persian empire. When chatting with non-Iranians, we can not help it not to lecture  them about the great history we had in our land and this happens as soon as they ask a question from us about Iran whatever it is. It happened to me many times and I found myself explaining the fact that we had this and that in our history, Insisting to correct the wrong impression of many of the Europeans that our language is not Arabic but Persian and smile from ear to ear when their eyebrows were rising in surprise. I can not help it as an Iranian but all the time, I feel it is silly to divide history by the present borders as it is to divide Earth as such.

Land of Constructions and Consumers!

I am in United Arab Emirates again and happily, Mrs.Behi is now with me so it is very different from my previous assignments that I used to become tired and lonely most of the times! As you might have notices, I am blogging much less because of the work but there is something easy to notice around and especially in Dubai these days and it is the huge amount of new constructions going on. It is not a new thing in Dubai by the way but it is amazing how much money they are spending on buildings.

When I first visited this place two years ago, I was excited by the luxury but more you come here, more you like to get back home. To be honest I feel like I am in a desert full of shiny buildings that are not really connected to a real life. Malaysia for instance was very alive and it was easy to believe that people are belonging there. I am not undermining the efforts the Emiraties do for making their land a better place and the management of the system is amazingly good if I want to be fair but It is just no longer that sensible for me that I am in a different society that I can explore new things about. well, sure, I will enjoy the old stuff, Thanks.

My Friend in Louisiana, Where are you?

I have been e-mailing my best friends who lives in Louisiana for a while and still no reply. I am a bit worried about him  hope to hear some news from him soon. His weblog is not updated since Aug 27th and (Update: He is ok and posted in his photoblog describing the situation). Hope all the people who are there survive soon.