XIII

mah e tarik rang dar hal e roshan shodaneh

inja tarikeh baramoon

ma bayad berim beh mah beresim

dast pokhteh dokhtar ameh Mahnaz jan

April 3rd 2010

torshi e ameh Tayebeh

April 3rd 2010

13 ta slice e tah e dig

dast pokhteh yeki az famil ha

Farvardin 1389

highlands e california

7sin of dad's middle sis 2010 norooz

aid didani by yours truly

dedicated to beloved dad Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

2010 NOROOZ

drive slow

SJSUSan José State University

San José State University go Spartans

bo2bo2

SPRING FEVER SWEEPS THE BAY AREA

and takes us by storm

mah e sabz rang

spring

=

renewal

NOROOZ 2010

at the home of dokhtar ameh Mahnaz jan & her husband Javad jan

after elaborate sabzi polo va mahi dinner

she also sang a Delkash song for everyone

cousin Shoaleh brought a cake big enough to feed an army

as the hands of destiny would have it, I brought the remainder home

if you're using the IE browser I'm running a norooz oldie in the background

SHORTFORM.TV

laugh and laugh some more via the comedy channel

LOL CENTRAL

SLOW FOR THE CONE ZONE

more wine

JUST PUBLISHED & AVAILABLE

 haiku MORE WINE by dad's friend Dr. William Ramsey UNC '77 has been published via Red Moon Press

Author of book has dedicated more wine to beloved dad Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari UNC '75

harvest moon
my ashes
still wrapped in flesh

Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari reciting Persian poetry written by his youngest sister ameh Taleh joon

San Francisco, California

late 2003 - a couple of months before dad's diagnosis of primary brain cancer stage III

shab shabeh sher o shooreh
shab shabeh noor o sharabeh

haiku keh migan hamineh
cheghadr beh del mishineh

ba mehrbaba gharar gozashtam
dir kardeh rahesh dooreh

05.05.05

LAYOFFS & HOPE

info videos on youtube

Meher Baba Irani

London

in memory of the late beloved Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

dad always said that a leaf on a tree does not dare move without the permission of God so why should we worry about other matters

La Dolce Vita

reshteh polo

San Carlos, California

paternal family doreh

01 31 10

the older son of the late Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari on this January 31st 2010

image captured by Dr. Ali Kakavand

the younger son of the late Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari on this January 31st 2010

image captured by yours truly

amartithi

Baba Ki Jai

O Parvardigar! The Preserver and Protector of All,

You are without beginning and without end.

Non-dual, beyond comparison,

and none can measure You.

You are without color, without expression,

without form and without attributes.

You are unlimited and unfathomable;

beyond imagination and conception;

eternal and imperishable.

You are indivisible;

and none can see you but with eyes divine.

You always were, You always are,

and You always will be.

You are everywhere, You are in everything, and

You are also beyond everywhere and beyond everything.

You are in the firmament and in the depths,

You are manifest and unmanifest;

on all planes and beyond all planes.

You are in the three worlds,

and also beyond the three worlds.

You are imperceptible and independent.

You are the Creator, the Lord of Lords,

the Knower of all minds and hearts.

You are Omnipotent and Omnipresent.

You are Knowledge Infinite, Power Infinite and Bliss Infinite.

You are the Ocean of Knowledge,

All-knowing, Infinitely-knowing;

the Knower of the past, the present and the future;

and You are Knowledge itself.

You are all-merciful and eternally benevolent.

You are the Soul of souls, the One with infinite attributes.

You are the Trinity of Truth, Knowledge and Bliss;

You are the Source of Truth, the Ocean of Love.

You are the Ancient One, the Highest of the High.

You are Prabhu and Parameshwar;

You are the Beyond God and the Beyond-Beyond God also;

You are Parabrahma; Paramatma; Allah; Elahi; Yezdan;

Ahuramazda, God Almighty, and God the Beloved.

You are named Ezad, the Only One Worthy of Worship.

MEHRBABA

toh ba asbeh sefideh mehrabooni oomadi

above DOA dedicated to the late Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari seen here dancing with my sister at the home of our maternal grandparents

casual shutterbug shahmahi shoots scenery

dam o dam o dam ghanimat

zendegi yani mohabat

four year old Mattin Sarhaddi shot this casual portrait of his dayi Mehrdad

nephew said I should act crazy and I have those pics saved for a later blog update

late January 2010 in the midst of a very severe rain storm that pounded the area

Los Altos, California

OSKI

stoked about

IEOR

January 20th 1990

January 20th 2010

20 year anniversary of golbanoo Hayedeh's untimely departure from the Bay Area

forever the daughter of Iran

plz use the IE browser

SHORTFORM.TV

Sand Hill Road

Menlo Park, California

Marunouchi Chiyoda-Ku

Tokyo, Japan

CEO Nader Ghaffari

MBA HAAS '07

BS UC Berkeley IEOR '97

LAHS gold seal graduate '93

Egan '89

Almond '87

beebeejoon mashhadikhanoom gets smooched by dad's older bros

2010

San Francisco, California

early afternoon 12.31.2009

the #s on the elevators point to 2010

casually visiting Nader and Farshad

yours truly in the mirror

nephew, sis, and mom also pictured

our double cousin Farshad had a cold

we took Mattin ice skating

then bro treated us to family-style Italian dinner

....the rest as they say is history

mah e por rang dar hal e run shodaneh

PUMP

IT

UP

Morgan Hill, California

December 19th 2008

birthday boy with his younger dayi

Marjan joon in search of Mattin joon

bro and i with our double cousin Farshad jan

dedicated to our late dads Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari & Dr. Firooz Ghaffari

looks like bro lost to pesar amoo

bah bah bah Mattin joon khasteh nabashi

dokhtar khaleh and dear Dr. Vossough of Los Altos Dermatology

dear Dr. Sarhaddi crowns his son

may we see your 103rd birthday nephew joon

always with you,

dayi Mehrdad

shortform.tv

image shot by my bro via his iPhone

bro went jogging in the vicinity and shot this pic for the fam

November 2009

Farrah Assadi next to the legendary Vida Ghaffari

viva tehrangeles

giving thanks

on this thanksgiving weekend

from Chapel Hill to Los Altos Hills

bakh bakh aknoon dar hal e run shodaneh albateh ba browser e IE

dad and amoo with khanjoon

tehran

k through twelve teacher talat yeganeh ghaffari

chemistry professor firooz ghaffari

physics professor mehdi ghaffari

shortform.tv

official tv site launching soon

in the interim you may visit the facebook link contained inside above dot tv link

bro looks up

dot tv

casual sepia-tone cell phone pic of carrot cake central

Los Gatos, California

Blacy's

Mountain View, California

1.3 MP casual cell phone pics

shutter speed slow on artsy last shot

my paternal grandparents

khanjoon & aghajoon

Talat Yeganeh & Jafar Ghaffari

with their first five children

five more would follow

dad seen above holding a book

amoo Siroos with five buttons

amoo Firooz with four buttons

ameh Taliyeh (oldest sister)

& ameh Tayebeh (middle sister)

circa 1950 tehran

casual photoshop touch ups by Pedram Moallemian

countless relatives have confirmed that dad always had a book in his hands

looking at this pic I can see why amoo Siroos was so emotional at his younger brothers' memorial services

pesar ameh Reza has informed us that during this era aghajoon and his bros spent some time in Brooklyn

in memory of

dad

Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari - Professor of Physics

4/19/05

amoo

Dr. Firooz Ghaffari - Professor of Chemistry

4/29/06

anar anar

dar haleh run shodaneh

albateh remix e hesabi va asasi

barayeh arjmandan e gerami

tavasoteh browser e IE va na FF

keh een hast tasmim e Bill Gates

Foster City, California

November 1st 2009 @ ameh Tayebeh's

yours truly

amoo jan Mohsen

my bro Nader jan

amoo jan Mozafar

pesar amoo Farshad jan

cousin-in-law Javad jan

amoo jan Mahmoud

image captured by dokhtar amoo Shoaleh jan

thanks cuz

dedicated to the late Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari of Los Altos

dad

dedicated to the late Dr. Firooz Ghaffari of Los Altos Hills

amoo

.......and the Ghaffari legacy continues

under the shadow of Oski

Los Altos, California

early November 2009

Nob Hill carrot cake $6.99

no particular reason or occasion

nephew insisted on "footing" some candles

" dayi Mekh-dud I want to foot some candles "

1.3 MP casual cell phone pics

La Dolce Vita

Yes We Can

we'll turn 21 % into .21 %

YES WE CAN

21  %

oursourhour.us

site coming soon

to aid the unemployed

and the discouraged jobless

the American dream has been

shattered

and millions of us are out on the streets

but there is bright light

at the end of this

dark tunnel

remain positive

be proactive

find your passion

from Chapel Hill to Morgan Hill

GOD BLESS AMERICA FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA

and God BLESS each and every one of you

hamvatan hayeh arjmand va gerami va mohtaram lotfan tavajoh konid keh aknoon taraneyeh vaghean besiar ghamgin dar background dar hal e run shodaneh alabateh ba browser e IE va na FF keh een gham va omid ra taghdim e homeless ha va bikar ha va bankrupt ha mikonam keh bezoodi vaz avaz misheh va uplift mishavid

Woodland Hills, California

ultra casual dinner

October 2009

pics provided by shutterbug pesar amoo Siavash jan

bro and I spent our summers here in the mid eighties

dokhtar ameh Mitra jan next to BOOMgen.TV founder Pedram jan

pesar amoo Armand jan

pesar amoo Siavash jan aka cousin Siv

amoo Mahmoud and his lovely wife Dokhi joon

amoo Mansour in glasses with his pesar dayi

yours truly with mom

San Francisco, California

08.29.09 @ 4seasons

pic dedicated to the late Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

The gold watch with diamonds partially seen here was given by our late dad to mom and has great sentimental value.  A few minutes after the above picture was taken the watch was stolen in broad daylight.  We kindly ask the person who did it to anonymously mail the watch to the Los Altos address in the WHO IS database for this site and we will completely forgive you for this selfish act.  Mom awaits the return of the watch ... mom awaits the return of the trail of her tears.

5:55

Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

05.05.05

5tan.info

coming soon

HAAS

norcalsocal.us

socalnorcal.us

launching soon

yours truly with bro, sis, and mom

San Francisco, California

05.20.07 after bro's HAAS MBA graduation @ UCB's Greek Theatre

three siblings three Berkeley grads

bro a double grad

bah bah

Marjan, Nader, and Mehrdad

dedicated to Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

( our double cousin Farshad UCB EECS appears behind me )

( mom between her two sons )

Shahyar Ghanbari >>>> Raha Etemadi

Shahram Shabpareh > Mehrdad Asemani

Leila Forouhar >>> Faegheh Atashin

Shohreh Solati >> Faegheh Atashin

Zia's sakineh dayghezi >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Googoosh's sakineh dayghezi

laws of mathematics

شاد ماهى

 شاد و شاد و شاد

bah bah beats via IE browser

up your volume to max and grab a handkerchief

08.20

happy 34th bro

above pic LAHS class of '93 senior portrait

my 34th from bro

a couple of years after dad's untimely departure

برادر خاطرت هست؟

side of cake says BABA

04.17.83

darroos

برادر خاطرت هست؟

circa early nineties

bro and bro

Los Altos

Los Altos, California

94024

IEOR

HAAS

  شاه ‌ماهی  را از آب گرفته، روی سن کاباره انداخته‌اند

  شاه‌ ماهی  پرپر می ‌زند

 شاه‌ ماهی  پریده ‌رنگ است

 می‌لرزد و تن‌اش رو به سردی‌ست

 سرنوشت شاه ‌ماهی که این باشد، حال و روز ماهی‌ها معلوم است

shahmahi.com

site once priceless

now practically worthless

banoo is partly indebted to Raha Etemadi for aforementioned downfall

rooyeh kooh derakhti nist

91364

thanks to Obama for lifting America to a higher level

NEDA

شکسپیر وصیت‌نامه‌ی عجیبی از خود برجا گذاشت که باعث حیرت همه‌گان شده است. در این وصیت‌نامه که چند ماهی پیش از مرگ او نوشته شده، شکسپیر برای همه‌ی افراد خانواده‌اش، سهمی از ارث منظور کرده بود، اما برای همسرش به‌طوری که در وصیت‌نامه نوشته شده، فقط  دومین تخت‌خواب ممتاز  خود را به ارث گذاشت. شاید آن تخت‌خواب، همین تخت‌خوابی باشد که امروزه در خانه‌ی یادبود شکسپیر در شهر استرتفرد نگه‌داری می‌شود  

اکنون نزدیک به چهارصد سال از مرگ شکسپیر می‌گذرد، اما آثار او هم‌چنان الهام‌بخش جهانیان است. آثار پُرارزش این نابغه‌ی بزرگ در طول قرن‌ها، به همه جای دنیا سفر کرده و به هر کجا که رفته‌اند، عاشقانه از آن‌ها استقبال شده است. محبوبیت عالمگیر شکسپیر از این حقیقت حکایت می‌کند که او تنها نویسنده‌ی انگلیسی نبوده و به همه‌ی جهان تعلق دارد  

آنسه امیری - مجله اپیزود

cheshmeh man beh OONJA bood

poshteh OON kooheh boland

AMMA dasteh sarnevesht...

Palo Alto, California

Cafe 220

Los Altos, California

circa 2002 colleague party

Dr. Kiumars Parvin

Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

esteemed Professors of Physics at San Jose State University

Doctor of Philosophy

University of California at Riverside

1978

Doctor of Philosophy

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1975

LosAltosSunshine.com

COMING SOON

SOHEYLA > the rest

BEGOO

BEBAREH

yours truly with brother-in-law Dr. Kourosh Sarhaddi

image captured by my bro aka Sandhill Blogger

celebrating July 9th 2009 @ a deserted beach sis recommended

image dedicated to beloved Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

this pic goes out to agha Mattin who is #1

Mattin joon drove in dayi Mehrdad's car in his safety seat

bahbah.us

aksaks.us

bo2bo2.us

coming soon worry not

GOD BLESS BILL CLINTON

shab shabeh shoor o haaaaleh

naraghsidan mahaaaaleh

plz use IE browser and

Up Up Up Up

VOLUME

forsat hamin WEEKENDEH barayeh HYPER boodan

August 2nd 2009

congrats to dokhtar khaleh Shahla jan on this BIG birthday

( lets just say it's a round number )

( can't disclose any more info )

cousin Shahla Yazdy is an honors Civil Engineering graduate from the University of California at Berkeley and gold seal graduate from Los Altos High School -- she is also the daughter of Bay Area's top Cardiologist

cousin seen below in black & clapping

CONGRATS to my maternal cousins on this milestone

lets get down

early December 2005

Los Altos, California

image from family archives

if my site becomes hijacked you may go to dot us instead of dot com until rescue and recovery

God bless all my 1000s of daily visitors and may God bless the United States of America

ONE nation under GOD

bebin shokoofeh delbastegi cheghadr asoon mimireh

shortform TV

yours truly celebrating July 9th 2009

image artistically captured by my bro

BEGOO abr BEBAREH

SHORTFORM.TV launching soon

in interim TV hyperlink above birds takes you to facebook shortform TV

above beach pic dedicated to Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

TEHRANGELES or TEHRANJEALOUS

STAY TUNED FOR SITE

CALIZPERZIANZ.COM

NEDA

NEDA

NEDA

one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind

1969

Dr. Abolghasem Ghaffari

world-renowned physicist and mathematician

got man on the moon and got man back on earth

Etemadi haya kon

lyrics neveshtan o Raha kon

aforementioned via arjmand Amiri

va AMMA Raha jan doost e aziz va gerami , hamvatanha az banoo keh digeh tavaghoyi nadaran AMMA toyi keh roozi dar level e arjmandtarin va mohtaramtarin boodi chi shod keh ba har khat lyrics hezar tohin beh hamvatanha mifresti.......banoo beh behtarin fanhayeh khod bozorgtarin bi ehterami ra kard digeh cheh bereseh beh hamvatanha......pas ma az banoo digeh tavagho nadarim va gozashtimesh kenar AMMA toh keh roozi dar Woodland Hills esm o maghami dashti toh chera mesleh banoo shodi ??? 

montazereh mazerat az toh hastim beh elat e lyrics e lackluster va shadidan insulting dar level e degrading

(ageh farsim behtar bood harfayeh hesabi va asasi behet mizadam pas khoda ra shokr kon)

bo2bo2.com

plz stay tuned for launch

early bird gets the worm

Shaheen Jafargholi

Vida Ghaffari next to dear Hoori khanoom

La Dolce Vida

Viva Dr. Abolghasem Ghaffari

Dr. Ghaffari is a brilliant Mathematician and was the senior Mathematician for NASA's Mercury/Gemini/Apollo projects, responsible for trajectory calculations that got man to the moon and back.  He was a visiting professor at Harvard and in 1950, by an invitation from Harvard University and as a “Fulbright Scholar” lectured on Differential Equations and continued his research on Gas Dynamics.  In September 1952 the Professor returned to Tehran University and lectured particularly on Ordinary Differential Equations and on the Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics.  Dr. Ghaffari has worked extensively with Albert Einstein and J. Robert Openheimer.

4th of July 2009

San Carlos, California

bah bah mister IraniAm arrives from Tehrangeles

dokhtar ameh joon celebrates our glorious America

my youngest cousins

pesar amoo joon Parsa joon

dokhtar amoo joon Parmis joon

zan amoo joon Farahnaz joon

Etemadi haya kon

hameh migim haya kon

music scene o Raha kon

the nation's foremost lyrics scholar speaks

va AMMA link 1 of 2

va AMMA link 2 of 2

va AMMA shoma banoo Atashin kami ensaniat beh kharj bedahid va hamdardi konid

va chetor shoma mesleh golbanoo Solati har rooz jeloyeh Federal Building nistid

begholeh golbanoo shoma mitoonid ba yek jomleh enghelab konid pas chera na

Fathers Day blog update was delayed one week due to the turmoil in the motherland.  This site condemns Iran's torture against its very own people.

April 19th 2009

San Francisco, California

image captured by my bro via his iPhone

April 19th 2009

San Francisco, California

58

my nephew holding the hands of my bro and my sis

mom and nicole at intersection

dad was 58 when he passed away four years ago on this very day

his cremated ashes are/were in this vicinity in the waters of SF Bay

bah bah doc safa avordi

Mattin joon with dayi Nader or as he says dayi iPhone

nephew with his parents

bro carries basketball and water for our nephew in the triple digit temps

April 19th 2008

Los Altos, California

all we are is dust in the wind

bro - dokhtar khaleh - dokhtar ameh

personalized TEXAS license plate says IRAN

dad sporting shades with some Persian bad boys

circa late sixties during dad's undergrad years

on the chilly eve of Fathers Day 2009

Los Altos, California

in memory of Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

anaplastic astrocytoma glioblastoma multiforme

departed Los Altos 04.19.05

age 58

scattered on San Francisco sea

05.05.05

Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai

♫

06.17

06.17.76

cousin joon Mitra joon

youngest of five

UC Berkeley Architecture graduate with Civil Engineering minor

Los Altos High School gold seal graduate

can u spot dokhtar ameh joon

can u spot dokhtar ameh joon

bro & i spent countless hours on that swing on many Friday afternoons @ ameh's house

can u spot two dokhtar amehs and the pesar amoo

saltanat abad

yours truly decked in brown with my siblings & my parents

06.17.82

pasdaran

WHERE

IS

MY

VOTE

facebook.com/shutterbugMG

PACI

Persian American Cancer Institute

in memory of dad Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

in memory of amoo Dr. Firooz Ghaffari

GOD

IS THE

GREATEST

a few hours before dad's birthday 06.06.09

ran into this angel @ MCD

her photogenic granddaughters gave me some good literature about Christ

God bless all of them

Mountain View, California

a couple of hours before 06.06.09

Los Altos, California

pic dedicated to the newlywed mahsa of dc and her bro mehran

( after this shot I headed to the airport to pick up the vacationing mom who had flown to Hawaii with a couple of dokhtar amehs )

06.06.09

San Mateo, California

@ home of dad's middle sis ~ 6 pm

she did a fateheh for dad and had me repeat after her

she said pasho cake o vardar berim pisheh sima joon

06.06.09

Foster City, California

@ home of dad's niece ~ 7 pm

from what I can decipher this says:  don't worry be happy on the freeway of life

Nader Jahanfard's mother with the ex-daughter of Iran, banoo Atashin

sports symbolism writer Nader Jahanfard and I with the owner of uPhotography.biz Majeed Iravani

Sunnyvale, California

06.03.09    ( wednesday )  @ halal Pakistani place

went to Santana Row afterwards in Majeed's SUV with golbanoo Forouhar CD by Majeed jan

06.06.09

dad's 63rd birthday

an especially interesting birthday as dad's age in reverse is my age

and of course six plus three equals the year nine

Woodland Hills, California

dad and all his bros

mid eighties

91364

clockwise starting @ 12 o'clock we have

amoo Mohsen, amoo Mansour, amoo Sirous, amoo Firooz, dad, amoo Mahmood, and amoo Mozafar

( uncle Manny wears his sunglasses @ night )

( i really dig uncle Mozi's tan here )

( uncle Moody hosts this gathering )

my fellow Americans won't you plz join me in commemorating Memorial Day

plz use the IE browser and majorly UP your volume

from sea to shining sea we will celebrate America

Memorial Weekend 2008

Stockton, California

the extended Ghaffari family

the extended Yeganeh family

and affiliated arjmand families

shutterbug cousin Siv is looking directly @ me

members of extended family can go to the direct link of this pic for high res version (right click & properties)

♫

La Dolce Vita

Wine Lounge

SPARKLING WINES

Segura Viudas Brut Reserva Cava - Spain
Adriano Adami Prosecco - Veneto, Italy
Graham Beck Brut - South Africa
Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Champagne 375ml - Reims, France
J Vineyards Cuvee 20 - Russian River, CA
J Vineyards Brut Rose - Russian River, CA
Laurent Perrier Brut Champagne - France
Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Champagne 750ml - Reims, France
 

SAUVIGNON BLANC

Stephen Vincent - Lake County 2006
Amphora Winery TimberCrest Farms - Dry Creek Valley 2006
Brander - Santa Ynez Valley, CA 2006
Ceago Kathleen's Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc - Lake County 2006
Elizabeth Spencer - Mendocino 2006
Seresin Sauvignon Blanc - Marlborough, New Zealand 2006
Cakebread Cellars - Napa Valley, CA 2006
Cloudy Bay - Marlborough New Zealand 2007
 

CHARDONNAY

Roshambo, Sonoma County 2004
Marie Johnston, Central Coast California 2005
Lincourt, Santa Barbara County 2005
Sonoma-Cutrer, Russian River Ranches 2005
Domaine Seguinot-Bordet Chablis - Burgundy, France 2005
38 La Tour Vineyards, Napa Valley 2004
Ferrari Carano "Tre Terre", Russian River Valley 2005
Lynmar, Russian River Valley 2005
Frank Family Vineyards, Napa Valley 2005
Patz & Hall, Dutton Ranch, Russian River Valley 2005
Cakebread Cellars, Napa Valley 2005
Flowers, Sonoma Coast 2005
 

INTERNATIONAL/EXOTIC WHITES

Pebejae Viognier - Languedoc, France 2005
Domaine Skouras White Wine - Pelopenneses, Greece 2006
Anselmi Soave San Vincenzo - Veneto, Italy 2006
Banyan Gewurtztraminer - Monterey County 2007
A Mano Greco-Fiano - Puglia, Italy 2006
Banyan Viognier - Madeira, CA 2006
Feudi di San Gregorio Falanghina - Campania, Italy 2005
Hope Vineyards Verdelho - Hunter Valley, Australia 2006
Banyan Dry Riesling - Santa Lucia Highlands 2006
Familie Bauer Gruner Veltliner - Donouland, Austria, 2006
Rudolf Müller Riesling Spatlese - Germany 2006
Chappellet Dry Chenin Blanc - Napa Valley 2004
Basa Blanco - Rueda, Spain 2006
Pierpaolo Pecorari Pinot Grigio - Venezia Giulia, Italy 2006
Seghesio Arneis - Russian River Valley 2006
Pieropan Soave Classico - Veneto, Italy 2005
J Pinot Gris - Russian River Valley 2006
Seghesio Fiano - Russian Rier Valley 2006
Domaine Bott-Geyl Gewurtztraminer - Alsace, France 2004
Hawley Viognier - Placer County, 2006
Isidoro Polencic Ribolla Gialla - Collio, Italy 2006
Feudi di San Gregorio Fiano di Avellino - Campania, Italy 2005
Knebel Riesling Spatlese - Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Germany 2004
Toni Jost Bachracher Hahn Riesling Kabinett - Rheingau, Germany 2006
Keller Riesling Trocken QBA - Mittlerhein, Germany 2006
 

ROSE

Chateau Saint-Florin - Bordeaux, France 2005
Château La Boutignane - Corbieres, France 2005
Alois Lageder Lagrein Rose - Alto Adige, Italy 2006
Zepaltas Pinot Noir Rose - California, 2007
Lucia Winery Lucy Pinot Noir Rose - Santa Lucia Highlands, 2007
Radio-Coteau County Line Pinot Noir Rose - Anderson Valley 2007
 

PINOT NOIR

Cono Sur - Chile 2007
Copain Cellars L'Automne Pinot Noir - Anderson Valley, CA 2006
Stephen Vincent Four Sisters Vineyard - Sonoma Coast, CA 2006
Maysara "Jamsheed" - Mcminnville, OR 2004
Siduri Willamette Valley - Willamette Valley, OR 2006
Hirsch Vineyards "Bohan Dillon" Hirsch Vineyards Pinot Noir - Sonoma Coast, 2006
Ridgeway Two Pisces Vineyards - Sonoma Coast, CA 2005
Adobe Road Herrerias Vineyard - Sonoma Coast, CA 2006
Malm Cellars Reserve - Anderson Valley, CA 2006
Siduri - Santa Lucia Highlands, CA 2005
La Czar - Russian River Valley, CA 2006
Zepaltas Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir - Sonoma Coast, CA 2006
Siduri Shaw Mountain Vineyards - Willamette Valley, OR 2005
Siduri Van Der Kamp Vineyard - Sonoma Mountain, CA 2005
John Tyler Bacigalupi Vineyards - Russian River Valley, CA 2003
Siduri Terra de Promissio Vineyards - Sonoma Coast, CA 2006
Siduri Hirsch Vineyards - Sonoma Coast, CA 2006
Radio-Coteau La Neblina Pinot Noir - Sonoma Coast, CA 2006
Pisoni Estate - Santa Lucia Highlands,CA 2005
 

SYRAH/SHIRAZ

CL Wines Syrah Sonoma Coast 2005
Innocent Bystander Shiraz/Viognier - Australia 2005
Roshambo "Justice" Syrah - Sonoma County 2004
Culler Casaeda Syrah - Sonoma Coast 2005
d'Arenberg Footbolt Shiraz - McLaren Vale, Australia 2004
Novy Sonoma County Syrah - Sonoma County, Ca 2005
Vin Nostro Obsidian Ridge Syrah - Red Hills, Lake County 2005
Armagh Syrah - Sonoma Coast 2003
Fetish "The Watcher" Shiraz - Barossa Valley, Australia 2004
Malm Cellars Dunnsden Vineyard Syrah - Russian River Valley 2005
Sky Saddle Syrah - Sonoma County 2005
Trecini Ladi Vineyard Syrah - Sonoma County 2005
Darioush Caravan Shiraz - Napa Valley 2005
Holus-Bolus Syrah - Santa Ynez Valley 2006
Calix Cellars Masked Man Vineyard Syrah - Napa Valley 2004
Clary Ranch "Shazzam!" Syrah - Sonoma Coast 2004
Graham Beck "The Joshua" Shiraz - South Africa 2003
Montemaggiore Paolo's Vineyard Syrah - Dry Creek Valley 2003
Roshambo Frank Johnson Vineyard Syrah - Dry Creek Valley 2005
Lost Canyon Stage Gulch Vineyards Syrah - Sonoma Coast 2005
Lucia Gary's Vineyards Syrah - Santa Lucia Highlands 2005
 

MERLOT

Stephen Vincent Merlot - California, 2005
Paul Hobbs Vina Cobos La Garto Merlot - Mendoza, Argentina 2006
Mann Cellars Merlot - Santa Clara Valley, CA 2003
Trecini Vicini Vineyard Merlot - Russian River Valley 2005
Mojon's Bench Merlot - Alexanfer Valley, 2004
Van Der Heyden Vineyards Merlot - Napa Valley, CA 2002
 

CABERNET SAUVIGNON/BORDEAUX BLENDS

Stephen Vincent Cabernet Sauvignon - California 2005
Vinum Africa Cabernet Sauvignon - South Africa 2005
Graham Beck "Gamekeeper's Reserve" Cabernet Sauvignon - South Africa 2005
Hobo Cabernet Sauvignon - Alexander Valley 2006
Courtney Benham Cabernet Sauvignon - Napa Valley 2005
Mantra Cabernet Sauvignon - Sonoma County 2005
Elizabeth Spencer Cabernet Sauvignon - Napa Valley 2004
Hess Collection Mountain Cuvee - Mt. Veeder, Napa Valley 2004
Terra Valentine Cabernet Sauvignon - Napa Valley 2004
Mi Sueno "El Llano" Cabernet/Syrah Blend - Napa Valley 2004
Holloway Beckstoffer Amber Knolls Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon - Lake County 2004
Frazier Cabernet Sauvignon - Napa Valley 2003
Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon - Alexander Valley 2003
Cakebread Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon - Napa Valley 2005
 

ZINFANDEL

Bacchanalia Zinfandel Blend - Paso Robles 2004
Hobo Zinfandel - Dry Creek Valley 2006
Amphora Zinfandel - Dry Creek Valley 2005
Rosenblum Cellars Paso Robles Zinfandel - Paso Robles 2005
Titus Zinfandel - Napa Valley 2005
Elyse "Couzins" Zinfandel - Napa Valley 2005
Hobo Rockpile Zinfandel - Dry Creek Valley 2005
Starry Night Old Vine Zinfandel Tom Feeney Ranch - Russian River Vally 2005
Adobe Road Sorpresa Vineyard Zinfandel - Dry Creek Valley 2003
Vin Nostro Zinfandel - Dry Creek Valley 2005
Crauford Family "Kilt Lifter" Brown Estate Zinfandel - Napa Valley 2005
John Tyler Bacigalupi Vineyard Zinfandel - Russan River Valley 2003
Carol Shelton "Rocky Reserve" Rockpile Zinfandel - Dry Creek Valley 2005
Seghesio Rockpile Zinfandel - Dry Creek Valley 2005
Starlite Vineyards Zinfandel - Alexander Valley 2005
 

CALIFORNIA BLENDS/ UNIQUE VARIETALS

Stephen Vincent Crimson Syrah/Cab Sauv Blend - California 2006
Starry Night Adara Rhone Blend - California 2004
Fife "Redhead Red" Blend - Mendocino 2004
Kylix Petite Sirah - Sonoma County 2005
Malm Cellars Crossblend Syrah/Cab Sauv Blend - 2005
Sonoma County Pellegrini Family Carignan - Redwood Valley 2005
Starry Night Petite Sirah - Lodi 2006
Lapis Luna Olagary Vineyards Petite Sirah - Lodi 2005
Kunin Wines "Pape*Star" Rhone Blend - Central Coast 2006
Long Meadow Ranch Winery "Ranch House Red" Sangiovese/Cab Sauv - Napa Valley 2005
Rosenblum Cellars Petite Sirah - San Francisco Bay 2006
Unti Winery Segromino - Dry Creek Valley 2005
Lapis Luna Petit Verdot - San Luis Obispo, CA 2004
Seghesio Sangiovese - Alexander Valley 2005
Hobo Wines Rockpile Petite Sirah - Dry Creek Valley 2005
Cline Small Berry Mouvedre - Contra Costa County 2005
Adobe Road Petite Sirah - Knights Valley 2004
Monticello Vineyards Cabernet Franc - Oak Knoll District, Napa Valley 2005
Adobe Road Cabernet Franc - Russian River Valley 2003
Viader DARE Cabernet Franc - Napa Valley 2005
 

ITALIAN RED WINES

Drepanum Nero d'Avola - Sicily, Italy 2005
Michele Chiarlo "Le Orme" Barbera d'Asti - Piedmont, Italy 2005
Filippo Gallino Barbera d'Alba - Piedmont, Italy 2005
Zenato Valpolicella - Veneto, Italy 2004
Donna Fugata "Sedara" Nero d'Avola - Sicily, Italy 2005
Feudi di San Gregorio Rubrato Aglianico - Campania, Italy 2004
Poggio Argentiera Morellino di Scansano - Tuscany, Italy 2006
Casa Emma Chianti Classico - Tuscany, Italy 2004
Damilano Barbera d'Alba - Piedmont, Italy 2005
Arnaldo-Caprai Montefalco Rosso - Umbria, Italy 2003
Crociani Rosso di Montelpuciano - Tuscany, Italy 2003
Le Fonti Chianti Classico - Tuscany, Italy 2004
Tasca d'Almerita "Lamuri" Nero d'Avola - Sicily, Italy 2004
Fattoria Del Cerro Vino Nobile di Montepulciano - Tuscany, Italy 2004
Capanna Rosso di Montalcino - Tuscany, Italy 2004
La Spinetta "Ca' di Pian" Barbera d'Asti - Piedmont, Italy 2005
Damilano Barolo - Piedmont, Italy 2002
Cascina Bruciata Barberesco "Rio Sordo" - Piedmont, Italy 2003
Fattoria Le Terrazze "Chaos" Montepulciano Blend - Marche, Italy 2004
San Felice "Campogiovanni" Brunello di Montalcino - Tuscany, Italy 2001
 

INTERNATIONAL RED WINES

Domaine Grand Nicolet Cote du Rhone - France 2004
Gascón Malbec - Mendoza, Argentia 2006
Coto de Hayas Crianza Campo de Borja - Spain 2003
Celler de Capcanes Mas Donis Barrica Old Vine Garnacha/Syrah - Montsant, Spain 2005
Domaine de la Damase Chote du Rhone - France 2006
Domaine Lignères La Baronne Rouge - Corbieres, France 2003
Telmo Rodríguez Al Muvedre - Alicante, Spain 2006
Alamos Malbec - Mendoza, Argentina 2006
Atteca Old Vine Garnacha - Calatayud, Spain 2006
Pago De Los Capellanes Joven - Ribera del Duero, Spain 2005
Graham Beck, "The William" Cabernet Sauvignon Blend - South Africa 2003
Juan Rojo Tempranillo - Toro, Spain 2003
Torbreck Cuvee Juveniles - Barossa Valley, Australia 2006
Chateau Paveil de Luze Bordeaux - Margaux, France 2004
Domaine de la Charbonniere - Vacqueyras, France 2004
Domaine de Cassan - Gigondas, France 2003

wine list © Sahar Gharai

with bro @ amoo's pow wow

i'm sporting dad's silk shirt

image © javad jan

05.16.09

our thoughts with mister eyeranian @ this family gathering

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fotomoto

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LosAltosSUNSHINE.com

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LA

sarkar jenabeh aghayeh Raha Etemadi modir e mohtaram e site e bi sar o pa shoma ziad khodetoono tou zahmat nandazid keh site o dobareh uppesh konid chon man digeh beh oon site e shoma nemiam......shoma barha va barha payghamhayi keh midoonid az man nist o ba esmeh man bar rooyeh site chap kardid va een kar e besiar badi bood keh herfeyi nist va nist dar level e kasi keh mikhad poet o lyricist o songwriter besheh.......shoma vaghean zendegi e khoobi dashteh bashid va hamoonja dar Soed tashif dashteh bashid.......agar ham khaili desperate shodid mikhahid hanooz lyricist beshid shoma akhlaghetoon ba banoo Atashin khaili joor hast mitoonid az baam ta sham barayeh ishoon sher benevisid.......have a nice life

PLEASE

SLOW

FOR

THE

CONE

ZONE

ßßßßßßß

SLOW

DOWN

apm

Alpha Pi Mu

boycott googoosh

she is NOT arjmand

she is NOT mohtaram

she is NOT gerami

she is NOT asil

she is NOT genuine

my paternal grandparents in the middle

surrounded by their ten children

clockwise we have

amoo jan Siroos

dad jan Mehdi

amoo jan Mozafar

ameh jan Talieh

ameh jan Taleh

ameh jan Tayebeh

amoo jan Mansour

amoo jan Mahmood

amoo jan Firooz

amoo jan Mohsen

meticulously made by dad's youngest sis talehjoon

artwork hand crafted by my paternal grandmother khanjoon

khanjoon had a duck named sona khanoom which had many ducklings in 1983

Mothers Day 2009

with my bro Nader

Los Altos, California

image captured by mom on this sunny Sunday

@ 3:00 pm we visited our maternal grandparents then

@ 4:45 pm bro got pizza from downtown Los Altos

we had to empty sis's place & doc's place & nephew's place

and of course dad's place

(bro left me a voice message to not wear my usual black)

(but it was too late)

♫

remix bee gees beats via IE browser

early May 2009

with chef

sneha

RUG CENTER

پس از مرگ بلبل، که از بهرت ای‌گل کند نغمه خوانی

 دریغا ندانی دریغا ندانی

پس از مرگ بلبل، گلستان زشادی ندارد نشانی

  دریغا ندانی دریغا ندانی

beloved Bijan Taraghi

استاد بیژن ترقی

world-renowned Persian poet / lyricist

the pulse of millions of poetry-savvy hamvatans

بیژن ترقی : دلم می‌خواهد کاری را که ما کرده‌ایم جوان‌ها ادامه بدهند و از یاد نبرند. کار ما را پخش کنید که جوان‌ها ببینند چه بوده و بدانند چرا به این وضعیت ‌افتاده است

grandfather of Mattin Sarhaddi's paternal cousins

father-in-law of Mattin Sarhaddi's paternal aunt

COE

CAL

image captured on April 19th 2009 @ SF penthouse

left:  the younger son of the late beloved Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari   (4/19/05)

right:  the younger son of the late beloved Dr. Firooz Ghaffari   (4/29/06)

image shot while pesar amoo Farshad was out jogging along the bay

pesar amoo sent a text message to the 3 of us re: dad's 4th death anniversary

dad was 58 when he departed

stay tuned for a symbolic analysis of the number 58

IEOR

HAAS

EECS

yours truly

1999

Los Altos

0417

April

17th

04.17

mom & dad

the makers of April 17th

the bakers of April 17th

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

circa early seventies @ UNC

early hours of 04.12.09

San Francisco, Cali

you

can

have

your

misspelled

cake

and eat it too

☻

photogenic birthday girl Sarvenaz aka Sarvy with our pesar amoo & pesar khaleh

my bro & sis and of course in the middle dearest of all dears nicole joon

dedicate this pic to dad

bah bah brother-in-law jigool kardeh aghayeh doctor

dedicate this pic to my nephew

don't worry be happy

bro deep in thought AMMA chera

dedicate this pic to Meher Baba Irani

booming billion dollar industry

FREE cup of coffee & doughnuts for the UNEMPLOYED

FREE SOUP for supper

a chance to network with others in the same boat

shutterbug cousin Siv with his D80

TURKEY vacation from UTAH

@ onset of Spring 2009

pesar amoo Siavash jan

@ the home of his dayi's dayi my nephew isolated himself in another wing worrying about his "ouchy"

" dayi ouchymo bebin "

after telling him it's no big deal he was back to his happy hyper self and joined his cousins to play all night long

March 21st 2009

Los Altos Hills

norooz

amoo jan Siroos jan

current patriarch of the Ghaffari clan

@ the onset of Spring 2009

may panj tan grant amoo jan a very long life

dad's amoo jan Ismail agha jan & zan amoo joon Hoori khanoom joon

Dr. Ali Kakavand with his parents

gorgeous Ghazvin

God Bless America

one nation under God

no matter how bad the economy gets

we will always have our freedom

from sea to shining sea

dear Amer jan & dear Maya jan

☻

Don't Worry Be Happy

-Meher Baba Irani

♫

norooz 1980 gholhak

yours truly sitting with my aidies on the chair next to me

bro Nader smack dab in the middle with his aidies in his hands

sis Marjan in the arms of amoo Mansour aka uncle Manny

mom in the middle looking straight @ dad

paternal grandparents khanjoon & aghajoon

last but not least on the wall is Khomeini in case the komiteh dropped by

grandma really digged the gnarly rad color of green even for the roomizi

here uncle Manny recently graduated from UC Berkeley and came back home

then aghajoon bought amoo a brand new Toyota Corona

if memory serves me correct it was green

hundreds of people would drop by for aid didani @ grandparents' estate

those were the days

a bygone era indeed

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dad @ far left next to Solmaz's dad & Shadi's dad

Vasona Park

Los Gatos, California

13bedar 1994

norooz background beats via internet explorer

13bedar @ Vasona Park this weekend

SPF 45 is a must as is wearing a wide hat or roosari to protect ears

the two IEOR sons of the late Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

Los Altos, California

right after this photo shoot we headed over to dayi Mehdi's for a pow-wow with our maternal fam

maternal grandparents babajoon & mamanjoon graced us with aidies

may their shadows never be lowered from atop the family

wooden bookcase that houses dad's books via the scholarly son of renowned Persian lyricist Ostad Bijan Taraghi

color of wall is SHIRAZ by Kelly Moore Paints which everyone praises

the Iranian first family @ their east coast estate

Norooz 2009

viva Pahlavi dynasty

we long for the good old days

03.21.09

San Mateo, California

@ dokhtar ameh's

amoo Mahmood & Dokhi joon visit the fam from Woodland Hills

amoo Mozafar visits us from New Jersey

khanoom Forooghi visits the clan from Woodland Hills

image shot by pesar amoo Farshad jan who is also pesar khaleh

dast pokhteh mom

image captured by shoharcousin Dr. Ali Kakavand

here we have our most casual kick back laid back east coast amoo

yours truly with two out-of-town amoos

uncle Mozi looks just like dad here

uncle Moody looks ultra young because he never worries

the late Dr. Firooz Ghaffari celebrated his birthday

khanjoon named amoo based on the happy happy haji Firooz

☻

سر تا سر كاليفرنيا

كامينگ سامتايم سون بيگتايم سر تا سر كاليفرنيا

يو آر آل لاولى تو مى آل آف يو ايچ آف يو

☼

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MEHRBABA

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با تشكر فراوان از نادر عزيز و مرجان گل , ما ٢ تا برادر همراه ١ خواهر

in memory of Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

Negeen Restaurant

Campbell, Cali

03.16.09

thanks to my bro who mehmooned us @ one of Bay Area's finest Persian restaurants

don't quite know why but i don't really jive with the above 7sin

bro and mom

we're waiting for sis and the doc

we empty dad's place

here here we have some noon o panir o sabzi as we wait for Marji

nephew joon really digs saffron

nephew's older dokhtar ameh has the same name as this restaurant

cool nephew with dayi Mehrdad

image shot by dayi Nader via my digi cam

nephew looks timid here but he was running all over & climbing up the walls the entire night

Soheyla Asadi

YOU need to grab your D70 and UP your site again

sabram ziadeh AMMA omri namoondeh BAGHI

you'll be happy to know that I can't stand googoosh

you were right

she sucks

big time

dedicated to the late Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

dedicated to the late Dr. Firooz Ghaffari

dedicated to dad & amoo's amoo the late haj amoo jan haj Yousef agha jan who passed away in the same time frame

NOROOZ 2008

dad & amoo's middle sister aka ameh joon Tayebeh

San Mateo, California

above 7sin © eldest dokhtar ameh

JAI BUDDHA

03.15.09

taghdim beh mom keh farda tavalodesh hast

BABA GHANOUJ

Cafe 220

Palo Alto, Cali

taghdim beh dad keh farda jashn e tavalodo miss mikoneh

oursourhour.us

COMING SOON ENOUGH

homelessness dar amrica

poolha raft beh jang

mardom homeless o badbakht shodan

rahi e joobhayeh shahr shodan

03.13.09

Cafe 220

Palo Alto, Cali

with the nephew of the owner

03.13.09

with the nephew of the owner

03.13.09

Los Altos, California

Norooz 2004

♫

♫

Los Altos Hills, California

Norooz 2008 @ dayi Mehdi's

03.11.09

bah bah halal

Palo Alto

Cafe 220

dokhtar ameh jan

PASHO

PASHO

vaghtesheh

sonbol

bekarim

Los Altos, California

Norooz 1999

with my siblings & my parents

Sunday March 8th 2009

healthy halal lunch

Palo Alto

Cafe 220

Tuesday March 10th 2009

Palo Alto

" beyti "

eat halal & go to heaven

Cafe 220

thank you Hamid Shabkhiz

thank you Mandana Shabkhiz

dedicate the Rezayeh red wine & white wine to my bro

1975

La Dolce Vita

Wine Lounge

Petaluma, California

Sahar Gharai

hich koja ghadimitar az Petaluma nabood

jai baba

dad's amoo jan Ismail agha jan

dedicated to dad's zan amoo joon Hoori khanoom joon

Vancouver, British Columbia

03.06.09

Cafe 220

Palo Alto, California

brown bowl = Turkish version of shir berenj

03.06.09

yours truly

cheshmeh man beh OONJA bood

poshteh OON kooheh boland

AMMA ...

viva panj tan

up your volume

use internet explorer browser

♫

lets hear it for dokhtar ameh joon

dedicated to the late Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

esteemed Professor of Physics @ San Jose State University for 20+ years

dad was a top physicist and indeed a pioneer in his field

03.03.09

yours truly

downtown Palo Alto

03.03.09

healthy halal

220

03.03.09

evening meditation

Palo Alto, California

Memorial Weekend 2008

Stockton, California

dedicated to the late Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

dedicated to the late Dr. Firooz Ghaffari

clockwise we have:

amoo jan Mozafar

amoo jan Mohsen

ameh jan Tayebeh

amoo jan Siroos

amoo jan Mahmood

amoo jan Mansour

ameh Taleh & ameh Talieh were in Tehran

2 + 6 + 2 = 10

Jai Baba

halal Cafe 220

downtown Palo Alto

next to Wolf Camera

pics via my 1.3 MP cell cam

February 25th 1894

Meher Baba Irani

مهربابا

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Dad & Baba

circa early seventies

LISTEN

HUMANITY

eyeranian

accept no substitute

there will never be a substitute

the very tan eyeranian with his mom, dad, and sis

Santa Monica, Cali

dokhtar ameh joon UC Berkeley grad Mitra joon

shoharcousin jan eyeranian Pedram jan

Haleh's concert @ BUDDHA lounge

♫

BEBIN dot TV

aslan worrysho nakonid bezoodi up misheh

hich koja sardtar az Woodland Hills nabood

kafshayeh khasteh dameh dar

Ladan o Mel o Tiam o Raha o Mani o Masoud hard @ workan 4 satellite

there is no rhyme or reason to what dayi jan Farhang allegedly said

you can't have your cake and eat it too

downtown Palo Alto

hamisheh hundred % halal

#30   $11.85 includes tax

TURKISH halal NAHAR & SHAM

until 12 midnight

viva 5 tan

1.3 MP pix via my cell

Cafe 220

 O Parvardigar! The Preserver and Protector of All,

You are without beginning and without end.

Non-dual, beyond comparison,

and none can measure You.

You are without color, without expression,

without form and without attributes.

You are unlimited and unfathomable;

beyond imagination and conception;
eternal and imperishable.

You are indivisible;

and none can see you but with eyes divine.

You always were, You always are,

and You always will be.

You are everywhere, You are in everything, and

You are also beyond everywhere and beyond everything.

You are in the firmament and in the depths,

You are manifest and unmanifest;
on all planes and beyond all planes.

You are in the three worlds,

and also beyond the three worlds.

You are imperceptible and independent.
You are the Creator, the Lord of Lords,

the Knower of all minds and hearts.

You are Omnipotent and Omnipresent.
You are Knowledge Infinite, Power Infinite and Bliss Infinite.
You are the Ocean of Knowledge,

All-knowing, Infinitely-knowing;
the Knower of the past, the present and the future;
and You are Knowledge itself.

You are all-merciful and eternally benevolent.
You are the Soul of souls, the One with infinite attributes.
You are the Trinity of Truth, Knowledge and Bliss;
You are the Source of Truth, the Ocean of Love.
You are the Ancient One, the Highest of the High.
You are Prabhu and Parameshwar;
You are the Beyond God and the Beyond-Beyond God also;
You are Parabrahma; Paramatma; Allah; Elahi; Yezdan;

Ahuramazda, God Almighty, and God the Beloved.

You are named Ezad, the Only One Worthy of Worship.

GG

♫

BANOO HUMAN BEING

dorooghato ba khodet bebar dubai dubai

♫

Woodland Hills, California

hich koja garmtar az Woodland Hills nabood

dad & Javad jan

circa mid nineties

feelin the muggy valley heat

manzeleh dokhtar ameh

this is Javad jan's handwriting

America's caring Kennedy must beat brain cancer

America's caring Kennedy must beat brain cancer

America's caring Kennedy must beat brain cancer

cousin jan pesar ameh Erfan Iranpour

(with jeans)

امروز اولین روز بقیه عمر توست

miyooneh yeh dashteh lokht

miyooneh yeh dashteh lokht

miyooneh yeh dashteh lokht

I think the trend on the internet has moved from collectivism to individualism. Thus, from discussion boards to weblogs (and social networking with you as the middle point). So now you tend to be more connected with people who agree with you or resemble you, instead of being engaged with all sorts of people with different backgrounds and views who are members of your online community. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but I really do miss the old days, when people took the time to share their thoughts with each other here. Sometimes the confrontations were a bit rough, but it was an enrichment nevertheless.

© arjmand and asil Asadi

banoo human being

with the help of her dayi Farhang we have confirmation that she was indeed born in the spring

banoo human being

banoo human being

banoo human being

Although Baba's body never showed any sign of deterioration, the mandali decided that on the seventh day the crypt should be closed. The atmosphere of grief had become so suffocating that we could no longer postpone the inevitable moment of Baba's interment. It was 7th February, the date of Baba's birthday that year according to the Zoroastrian calendar.

As His precious body was covered, it seemed as if the very essence which had sustained our lives was being ripped away from us. We cried silently, knowing Baba wanted us to accept what had happened. Beloved Baba was our heart and soul, our only light, and we all felt lost but, like machines, we continued with whatever tasks needed to be done. Even though He had dropped His physical body, Baba was still asking for our complete resignation, expecting us to surrender to His wish, even at this time of helplessness and hopelessness. We were orphans now, yet in all our anguish Baba's gentle, loving hands were ever on us.

Later we heard stories from Baba lovers around the world of unusual events occurring at the time Baba dropped His body, but the most amazing was the account we read in the papers of the heavy rainfall in Mecca, ordinarily a desert. Muslims on pilgrimage were unable to approach the flooded Kaaba for seven days, 1st February until 7th February, the exact time that Beloved Baba's body was lying in state.

In His compassion Baba arranged everything in a way that helped us to carry on, however slowly. After He dropped His body, telegrammes and phone calls kept coming in from the groups that Baba had contacted, everyone wanting to know whether the plans that He had made for the darshan in Poona would be carried out. We began to remember and discuss the various comments Baba had made prior to 31st January.

When, because of His health, the mandali had wanted Baba to cancel the darshan, He had said, "The darshan programme must take place. It should not be cancelled." He then asked, "Is it all right if I give darshan lying down?" He had also said, "In March we will march to Poona." Putting all these statements together was like doing a puzzle, all of us having different parts which fit together to make a whole picture. By the end of February it was clear to us that the darshan Baba had scheduled for April to June, 1969, should be held despite His physical absence.

During this time I had a dream from which I awoke overcome with emotion. In the dream I was standing in a doorway watching Baba and Mehera. She was coming down a staircase, walking toward Baba, who entered through another door. He extended His hands, saying, "Come, Mehera, and we will do the prayers."

Because Baba was no longer in the body, Mehera hesitated, as if wondering how she could touch Him. Baba extended His hands toward hers until their fingertips were touching, and her whole countenance suddenly changed. I could see Baba pouring a transparent liquid from His hands into Mehera's. From the expression on her face it was clear that her whole being was undergoing a transformation, that something mystical was taking place.

GIFT OF GOD, pp. 195-196

1996 © Meherazad Trust for Avatar Meher Baba

یه روزی منزل داییم مهمان بودیم ، داشت داستان به دنیا اومدن منو تعریف میکرد
می‌ گفت: یادمه بعد از ظهر گرمی‌ بود داشتیم تو کوچه فوتبال بازی میکردیم صدام کردن و گفتن : فرهنگ بدو برو قابله رو خبر کن! نسرین داره بچه اش به دنیا می‌‌یاد بدو

گفتم: دایی فرهنگ یادتون هست چه تاریخی بود؟

گفت: آره دایی! نیمه ی اردیبهشت بود یادمه من که خیلی خوشحال بودم یادم نمیره اون روز رو

 از همون روز شدی چشم و چراغ همه ما

anything-but-gol banoo Atashin has fallen head over heels for powerless-pullniro and his lame love-lacking group

مهر بابا

downtown

Palo Alto

02.02.2009

sofreyeh NAHAR por az NAN e halal

Cafe 220

02.02.2009

images captured via my cell phone 1.3 megapixel digi cam

dedicated to my nephew Mattin who often calls my bro dayi iPhone

art work by Mattin Sarhaddi on Friday January 30th 2009

nephew did over ten art works and handed them out to family members

I dedicate the above to Mattin's late grandpa beloved Dr. Mehdi Ghaffari

departed @ age 58 due to malignant brain tumor

never got to see Mattin joon

Nikon D90

kick off 2009 with a D90

Ritz Camera

Wolf Camera

18 free photo classes

sel.fish

shah.mahi

Dr. Elham Elahi please come to the rescue before she gets demoted to a

mer.maid

yes we can

baleh ma miconim

oo ba ma

he with us

Tue Jan 27th 09

exactly one week into the new administration and i'm lovin it

if this is just a dream then let me sleep forever

up your volume & join me in the grand celebration with a gnarly yes we can remix mp3 running in the background so long as you open the site with the IE browser

downtown

Palo Alto

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healthy halal Turkish meal

viva panj tan

bring it on

downtown Palo Alto

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your digital headquarters

pic via my cell phone digi cam

God Bless Barack Obama's optimal America

God Bless Barack Obama's optimal America

God Bless Barack Obama's optimal America

God Bless mainstream America

one nation under God

use IE browser and up your volume

Barack Obama raised his hand (twice!!)

America lifted up

wayyyy wayyyyyyyyyyyy UP

and the sky is the limit

CHANGE

yes we can

yes we can

yes we can

GOD BLESS

AMERICA

plz use IE browser & up Volume

♫ yes we can ♫

☻☻☻

OBAMA is #1

OBAMA MANIA

obama = optimality

obama = opportunity

obama = ocean of love

GOD BLESS OBAMA

GOD BLESS AMERICA

GOD BLESS DC

YES

WE

CAN

GOD BLESS OBAMA

GOD BLESS OBAMA

GOD BLESS OBAMA

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one nation under God

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IN GOD WE TRUST

IN GOD WE TRUST

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change.gov

written by my bro Nader Ghaffari

Last night I listened in on a panel and was reminded again of the super use of Internet and social network technologies by the Obama team.

The New York Times reported that Obama met with Marc Andreesen at the San Francisco airport in February of 2007 to discuss how the Internet and social networks can be leveraged to communicate his message. It was the beginning of a well orchestrated campaign that leveraged these tools to not only communicate a message, but to build a brand, and to empower people to be part of the change they wanted to see. There was not a day that I did not refresh my Facebook feeds without seeing friends joining Obama groups or attending Obama events or communicating Obama messages in their status updates. It allowed us all to be part of the experience versus just voters. We felt a connection with the brand and we took a sense of ownership during the campaign. We adopted the message and not only became supporters but became evangelists by enlisting our friends to join in on Obama groups or to distribute/attend events or to communicate messages to their friends via their status updates. The result is now obvious and nearly two years after Obama's meeting with Andreesen, we are set to swear in a movement that we hope will indeed finally demonstrate a government of the people and for the people.

If the trends of the campaign continue, there is no doubt that the Obama administration will continue to leverage the power of the Internet to allow all residents to be a part of government on a daily basis. The launch of Change.gov, in addition to the current presence across social networks gives the administration a two-way communication with the American people (make that the world). If you visit Change.gov, you will notice something called the Citizen's Briefing Book. This is where people can stop in and share ideas with the Obama team and then it is opened up to the masses to vote the idea up or down (+1 or -1), very much like Digg. The ideas receiving the most votes will bubble up to the top and come to the attention of the administration. Interestingly, I just visited Change.gov and noticed that the idea with the most votes is Ending the Marijuana Prohibition with 72,310 votes. Hem, I wonder how the administration will respond to that one. While the discussion of ending marijuana prohibition might be political suicide in most cases, if truly over time the wisdom of the crowds points towards this as an issue that is important to a majority of Americans, the administration will have to have an answer in some capacity.

We are moving into an era where all our voices can be heard in government, and on January 20th when Obama is sworn into office, it is all of us who joined in on Obama groups, advertised Obama events, or wrote about Obama on our status updates that are also getting sworn in. For it is us through the power of the Internet that made this happen, and it will be us through the power of the Internet that will continue to participate in the administration. I Hope.

More on Change.gov - Startup America

written by Nader Ghaffari

Over the weekend, my good friend Marc and I brainstormed an idea for the Obama team, and Marc submitted it to the Citizen's Briefing Book. Perhaps it will get some attention, and Marc will be called into action to lead it :)

Details:
Startup America: Bringing Innovation Back to America (A Government VC Fund)

I have been watching the government bailout with intrigue for several months, wondering why America is investing billions in industries mired in uncertainty, merely prolonging the inevitable. Therefore, I propose Startup America, an initiative for the government to invest $1B in venture capital financing to startup companies in a variety of different industries, with up to $1M per company. The fund would work in much the same way a typical seed stage investment company works, whereby there would be a board to review each idea on a variety of metrics, and upon submitting a term sheet, the government would receive equity for their investment. This would allow the government to recoup their investment and potentially more while providing a great financial resource for our citizens.

Startup America would ensure that innovatiion remains America's strongest asset. It would create jobs and industries for thousands, if not millions of people. It would certainly jumpstart the economy. It would create tremendous value for depressed areas all across the nation, providing people with resources to turn their dreams into reality. It could be the first step in solving our energy crisis, curing cancer, improving education, eradicating homelessness and malnutrition, improving foreign policy, increasing security, and vastly improving current technologies . The possibilities are endless. Our minds are our only limitation.

Letter to The Honorable Barack Obama

Reza Pahlavi (site here)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Letter to The Honorable Barack Obama
President-Elect of the United States of America
Washington, DC

November 5th, 2008
Dear Mr. President-elect,

It is with a great pleasure that I offer you my heartfelt congratulations on your historic election victory.

This is indeed a proud moment not just for America, but for millions of others around the globe who have come to believe in and aspire for the kind of values that have become universally acknowledged as the hallmarks of American society. Your success is a remarkable reminder of the potential for promoting major change through the ballot box in a free and fair electoral process.

Mr. President-Elect,

The prospect for change as promised by you has already aroused a great deal of expectation from people everywhere who are hopeful of emulating your example by constructing societies based on peace, freedom, justice and opportunity.

No where is the desire for such change greater than in my homeland, Iran.

The people of Iran are perhaps amongst the most eager aspirants for the kind of values that have become synonymous with your success in the recent months. Iranians believe ‘that if allowed the opportunity, yes they will’.

It is their hope that with your moral and vocal support, they too can pursue their struggle for the realization of their individual liberties and fundamental freedoms along with the restoration of their pride and dignity as human beings.

Wishing you ever increasing success in all your future endeavors,

Yours sincerely,

Reza Pahlavi

OBAMA

TORO chi SEDA konim

TOH

behtari

OBAMA

Obama jan sayeh e shoma hich vaght az sar e Amrica kam nasheh

shoma lotfan Reza Pahlavi ra befrest beh Tehran

thirty

friggin

years

of

unrest

chaos

and

corruption

01.16.1979

01.16.2009

January 16, 1979

Islamic Revolution of Iran

 
Introduction; Rule of the Shah and Rise of Khomeini; The Revolution; Institutionalizing the Revolution

I
Introduction
 
Islamic Revolution of Iran, widespread uprising in 1978 and 1979 in which Islamic fundamentalists and their supporters overthrew Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran. The revolutionaries, led by an exiled religious leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, dismantled the shah’s secular (nonreligious) monarchy and established the Islamic Republic of Iran. The new republic rejected Western influences and was guided by Shia Islamic teachings (see Shia Islam).

II
Rule of the Shah and Rise of Khomeini

 
In 1963 the shah began a series of social, economic, and political reforms known as the White Revolution. The revolution gave more freedom to women and increased secular education at the expense of religious education. These and other changes questioned the dominant role of Iran’s religious leaders, most of whom feared losing power and moral authority under the White Revolution. Throughout the 1970s the shah continued to anger traditional Shia Muslims, who formed a large proportion of the population. For example, the shah held festivals in 1971 to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of the pre-Islamic Persian Empire; this was perceived as a direct rebuke to the millions of Iranians who viewed the coming of Islam in the 7th century as the founding date of modern Iran.
Other sectors of the population were also becoming disenchanted with the shah. Students and intellectuals were frustrated by his autocratic rule and by the corruption of the royal family, who had become wealthy from their five decades in power. Many of these dissidents favored some form of democracy as well as a more equitable distribution of the country’s income. Members of the traditional middle class, or bazaaris, were angry as well, because they had received little benefit from either the White Revolution’s development schemes or from the country’s rapid, oil-fed growth in the 1970s. Most of the earnings had instead gone to larger companies, especially to ones with international ties or connections to the shah’s family. Both bazaaris and fundamentalist Muslims disapproved of Iran’s growing ties with the West.
All of these factors contributed to the rise of Ruhollah Khomeini, who in the early 1960s was a relatively unknown Islamic ayatollah, or holy man. Khomeini had several assets that other leaders lacked. First, he was seemingly fearless: In 1963 he was the only cleric to openly attack the shah’s White Revolution. Second, he spoke the language of the people, condemning the shah’s “injustices” in the name of the “downtrodden” masses. Third, and most importantly, Khomeini was able to transform Shia Islam into a mass ideology that appealed to many groups. In the past, Shia leaders had argued that although Shia Muslims were a righteous minority who suffered under cruel leaders, it was not their role to overthrow the ruling regime and create an Islamic state. Instead, Shia clerics should defend the religion and await the return of the 12th imam, the messianic figure of Shiism whose presence was needed for the establishment of an Islamic state. Khomeini, however, rejected this passive approach. He argued that by overthrowing the shah, Iranians would hasten the return of the 12th imam. Indeed, Khomeini did not discourage Iranians from thinking of him as the messianic imam. Khomeini spread his alluring mixture of revolutionary ideology and messianic revivalism by mobilizing a vast network of loyal disciples. He was also able to galvanize the support of the bazaari middle class, which had close links to the ulema, Iran’s religious leaders.
 
 
In 1964 the shah exiled Khomeini from Iran. Khomeini eventually settled in the Iraqi holy city of An Najaf, from which he broadcast his messages to his Iranian followers. In 1978 the Iraqi government, fearful that the ayatollah’s powerful message would create similar disturbances in Iraq, expelled Khomeini. He then went to France, from which he sent audio tapes of his revolutionary message to Iran.
 

III
The Revolution

 
In 1978 opponents of the shah had several bloody encounters with his security troops. The most notorious of these clashes was on September 8, when soldiers fired on 20,000 demonstrators in Tehrān. Several hundred people were killed and thousands more were wounded in what became known as Black Friday. Two months later, young people took to the streets of Tehrān, burning shops, banks, liquor stores, and other symbols of Western “corruption.” Tensions escalated in December with the coming of Muharram, the sacred month marking the martyrdom of Husayn, an early Shia leader. Emboldened by the strength of the opposition, Khomeini called on Iranians to “begin the month of epic heroism ... the month in which the leader of the Muslims taught us to struggle against all tyrants.” On December 10 and 11, the two holiest days of the Shia calendar, a group of soldiers rebelled and attacked the officer’s mess of the shah’s Imperial Guard. With that, his regime collapsed, and the shah fled Iran in January 1979. He died two years later in Cairo, Egypt.
Khomeini returned to Iran on February 1, 1979, and began to establish control over the government. He forced the shah’s prime minister out of office and appointed a new prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan. Bazargan was known as a liberal who favored democracy, so many observers believed the new government would represent a wide range of opinion. In a late March referendum Iranians voted on a new form of government, and in April, with overwhelming public approval, Khomeini declared the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In November 1979, after the shah had been allowed entry to the United States for medical care, hundreds of Iranians overran the U.S. embassy in Tehrān and took the staff hostage. Khomeini refused to release them until the United States apologized for its support of the shah and met other demands. (The hostages were eventually released in January 1981 after Ronald Reagan replaced Jimmy Carter as president). Khomeini used the fervor of the hostage taking to mobilize radical Islamic students against Bazargan. After Bazargan resigned, Khomeini held a December referendum in which more than 99 percent of voters supported a new constitution. Khomeini became faqih, or ultimate leader, and used his unlimited powers to eliminate opponents. First he attacked liberals and leftists, including President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who fled Iran in February 1981; later, he repressed his clerical opponents. By 1981 some 1600 people had been executed under Khomeini.
Khomeini filled key positions in the government with his closest clerical allies. He also conducted a purge of all “un-Islamic” elements from universities, newspapers, and other cultural institutions. In time, many Iranians—particularly less religious Iranians—found themselves living under a politically and culturally repressive regime. However, the creation of a clerical regime also led to vexing problems and ideological conflicts that embarrassed Khomeini and his allies. Conservative clerics in the Council of Guardians—the group created to ensure adherence to Islamic code and the constitution—vetoed reform legislation proposed by the less conservative Majlis (parliament). The reformers wanted to nationalize some industries and to change the way land was distributed; the conservative clerics, who controlled much of the land, were opposed to such reforms. The clerics also wanted to pursue a stricter religious policy than did their opponents. The result of this stalemate was that domestic policy was largely paralyzed.
In September 1980, Iraq invaded Iran. The ensuing conflict temporarily distracted attention from Iran’s internal strife. The invasion, caused in part by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s desire to end the propaganda directed at his secular regime, touched off a vicious eight-year border war (see Iran-Iraq War). Using waves of child “martyrs” who crossed the battle line, Iran turned the tide of the war against Iraq in the spring of 1982. Emboldened, Khomeini proclaimed his determination to spread his revolution throughout the region. But Arab governments were equally resolved to contain Iran, and with the support of the United States they backed Iraq’s efforts to stop Iran.

IV
Institutionalizing the Revolution
 
As the human and financial costs of the war mounted, pressure grew in Iran to break the enduring and paralyzing standoff between conservatives and reformers over domestic policy. Initially Khomeini tried to avoid intervening in the conflict—even when it prevented the passage of vital social legislation—but he eventually intervened on behalf of the reformers in the Majlis. He did so in part because he wanted to give the Majlis and other institutions more authority. He was also encouraged to intervene by the speaker of the Majlis, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who wanted to end the war with Iraq and begin economic reconstruction. Pressed by Rafsanjani and his allies, Khomeini created an extra-constitutional body called the Expediency Council, which was given the power to override vetoes by the Council of Guardians. Khomeini then supported the drafting of a new constitution, which was passed after his death in June 1989.
Many Iranians hoped the new constitution would give them greater social freedoms. Rafsanjani, who was elected president in 1989, encouraged these hopes. But while the constitution partly diminished the religious authority of the wali faqih and placed clerics on an equal footing with politicians, it reinforced the government’s powers to impose its decisions on society. Thus the revolution had become institutionalized, but at the cost of much of its popular support.

(above credit:  encarta dot msn dot com)
 

On January 16, 1979, the Shah and the Empress left Iran for an exile which was thought to be only temporary. At a strike-ridden and empty airport, in presence of only a restricted group of loyalists and Prime Minister Bakhtiar, the sovereigns left by plane for Assouan in Egypt. The Shah could hardly keep his tears. The Queen had taken tranquilizers to hide her deep sadness. President Sadat and his family welcomed them with profound friendship. It was the beginning a painful and long wandering which would take them in succession to Morocco, the Bahamas, Mexico, the United States, then Panama and finally Cairo.

On February 11, 1979, Khomeyni took power and a death warrant against the Shah and his entourage was iussued. It was a condemnation which extended to all those who would give them hospitality or help them. The Shah and the Shahbanou were obliged to leave the country without a definite destination for no land of haven had been suggested. Upon the intervention of the United States, the Bahamas Islands accepted to grant them asylum for only three months, on the condition that the Shah would refrain from taking any action or make any declaration. They went later on to Mexico, where the health of the Shah who had cancer, rapidly deteriorated. An operation becoming necessary, the United States, for humanitarian reasons accepted under the condition that the surgical intervention would take place in New York. This action provoked the wrath of the Iranian authorities. They requested the prompt extradition of the sovereign and enforced they demand by taking hostage the personnel of the American embassy in Tehran. Despite urgent medical needs, the Shah and the Shahbanou were forced to leave New York for Texas, until a new country of asylum could be found.

That country was Panama, where again the Iranian government exerted considerable pressure to obtain an extradition. The Shah was in dire need of a new surgical operation, but after having accepted American surgeons to operate the Shah on its territory, Panama recanted. The United States administration dispatched two envoys to let the Shah know that should he wanted to be operated in the United States, he would have to abdicate. At that time, President Sadat asked the Shah to hurry and come to Egypt. The sovereigns departed for Cairo on March 23rd 1980. At an Azores Islands stopover, some U.S. officials held the plane under the pretext of refueling. All the while, they were negotiating with the Islamic government procedures to return the aircraft to Panama. At long last, the Shah and the Shahbanou landed on Egyptian soil where President Sadat greeted them with utmost warmth, friendship and fraternity. In Cairo, they were able to see their children who had been studying in the United States and from whom they had been separated.

The Shah passed away in Cairo's Maadi hospital on July 27, 1980. President Sadat organized official if not national funerals. The Shah's coffin, covered with the Iranian flag, was transported on a canon barrel with full military honors. In conformity to the Constitution, the Empress assumed the charge of the regency until the majority of her elder son. On October 31, 1980, the Crown Prince reaching legal majority, (20 years) swore under the holy Quran, to assume the responsibilities that the Iranian Constitution demanded from him, and thus by right became, Reza Shah II of Iran.

shah mahi please simmer down and take a chill pill

GOD BLESS OBAMA

GOD BLESS OBAMA

GOD BLESS OBAMA

GOD BLESS TAJIKESTAN

GOD BLESS ISRAEL

GOD BLESS PALESTINE

حالم به هم می خوره از فرشته های الکی

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episode mag inja

NAHAR

&

SHAM

downtown Palo Alto

halal

cafe220

SHAHMAHY

above a Karaj and Shiraz partnership

Y vs I

Marjan vs Mehrdad

Marjan has Y

Mehrdad has I

googoosh YOU asked for it

are you happy now?

your recent behavior is appalling

 you seriously need to grow up

u r 60 not 6 so plz act your age

stop your immature games for crying out loud

SHAHMAHI.com

up for grabs or headed in garbage bin

just wanna get rid of it once and for all

send me your offer ... no offer is too low

not really sure if it's worth anything anymore

i'll be choosy as to who i sell it to

we're done with shahmahi and her childish shenanigans

Dr. Elham Elahi PLEASE diagnose and treat SHAHMAHI

(this'll be the toughest case you've ever had)

in my mindset shahmahi is gone

goodbye to everything implicitly or explicitly related to shahmahi

use IE browser and plz join me in partying

♫

YASHASIN

azarbaijan

♫ up your vol ♫

REZAYEH

Dabirestaneh Nezam

can you spot dad's amoo jan Ismail agha!!!

make that beautiful British Columbia

wma e yashasin azarbaijan az tarigheh Marjan joon

baram havaleh shod

ishoon hast membereh googooshart

hundred % halal

hich koja halaltar az Palo Alto nabood

cafe220

downtown Palo Alto

SLOW

ZONE

NEW YEAR EVE 2009

arrive alive

don't drink and drive

drink water and thrive

MADD

Mehrdad Against Drunk Driving

BUCKLE

UP

AMERICA

safety

first

GOLBANOO

Benazir Bhutto

December 27th 2007

ß

December 27th 2008

1

year

anniversary

condolences from Shahbanoo Farah Pahlavi

from the east coast Pahlavi presidential office

Los Altos, California

dear Bhutto with my paternal uncle & maternal aunt

khabar oomad khabareh man o toh oomad

khabareh khodam o khodet oomad

the news of us has @ last arrived

ezdevajehminimizedmozahem

dot us

stay tuned barayeh uppesh enshalah beh hagh e panj tan bezoodi

hich koja mozahemat kamtar az Los Altos nabood

hich koja mohtaramtar az Los Altos nabood

een rooz e besiar mohem 19th e December ra beh nephewm khaili khaili tabrik migam

lotfan joinam konid barayeh raghs o paykoobi e hesabi va asasi

tarof ra bezarid kenar az een harfa nadarim

tavalod e nephewm hast o hameh bayad dast bezanid o pa bekoobid o sholooghesh konid

ba browser e IE shadtarin ahangeh irani ba sedayeh shahmahi dar hal e run shodaneh

speakerharo maxesh konid va beparid vasateh dance floor

Mattin joon tavalodet mobarak

az tarafeh dayi Mehrdad dar een sevomin tavalodet

19th December 2008 = 3 yrs

hich rooz mohemtar az 19th nabood

nephew's happy maternal grandmother (center) early December 2005

Los Altos, California @ home of pesar amoo

@ this family function cousins were guessing on when Mattin would arrive

a bunch of us thought that Mattin would arrive that very night

he was late though...very late!!!

in fact, nephew had to be enduced!!!

December 19th 2005

December 19th 2005

April 19th 2005 + 8 months = December 19th 2005

sadness Þ happiness

God Bless Woodland Hills

God Bless Los Altos Hills

God Bless Beverly Hills

God Bless Morgan Hill

God Bless Chapel Hill

GOD BLESS FAEGHEH ATASHIN

hich koja aziztar az tehran nabood

hich koja aziztar az tehran nabood

hich koja aziztar az tehran nabood

another blast from the past

Tehran @ airport

one of dad's dokhtar amoos is off to London

fourth from left is dad's amoo jan Ismail agha

others include some of dad's cousins

side note: the tall dude looks like an FBI agent!!!

could that be amoo Siroos?   (will a relative plz fill me in)

image courtesy of dad's Seattle pesar amoo

Los Altos, California

Mattin Sarhaddi during his younger days!!!

calizperzianz

LAUNCHING SOON ENOUGH

Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai

05.05.05

San Francisco, California

bro @ his penthouse condo with dokhtar khaleh Shahla jan

image courtesy of shutterbug dokhtar khaleh Sheila jan

reliving revive the vibe with brunch

why should hamvatans be scared of the shadows at night

obama has put the sun directly into the palm of our hands

world PEACE begins when the hungry are fed

boro halesho bebar

yes YOU

areh toro migam

GOD BLESS SOED

there was no place more positive than sweden

+

just say NO to negativity

-

Sat Dec 6th 2008

San Carlos, California

yours truly with dokhtar ameh joon Shiva joon

pics © Marjan joon

GOD BLESS GOOGLE

GOD BLESS GOOGLERS

GOD BLESS AD$EN$E

Pagosha Party for pesar amoo

Bay Area, California

upper peninsula

11.29.08

sofreh is dast pokht of ameh Tayebeh (dad's middle sister)

sofreyeh SHAM por az NAN e ghazal

yours truly with amoo joon, ameh joon, zan amoo joon, and dokhtar amoo joon

uncle Manny and his lovely wife Mahyar joon insisted that I add this photo to my website!!!

gotta listen to Manny!!!

uncle Manny also gave me a stern lecture that I have a couple of years to get hitched or he's sending me to Iran where his matchmaker sister will set me up with a girl I don't even know!!!  he said you better choose one of these girls you already know or you're getting shipped to Iran for a set up!!!

gotta listen to Manny!!!