Comment on Horn blower movies:
Recently me and Wijbren are pretty busy, literally watching Horn blower mini T.V series which is eye –catching and mind boggling.
In fact I should correct myself I would prefer to call it ,individual 8 movies which are made for T.V cause the stories are totally different and not following each other ,in matter of sections ,but the same characters are playing on those each single movies.
Can classified and categorized the genre of these movies as adventure, drama war .
We have seen four out of eight so far and I am so much impressed with cast and music.
The actors are great and sceneries are so mind boggling and moreover the main actors play so realistic ,confident and really canny.
He (Loan Gruffud) the protagonist turn from a sick Midshipman to a high rank of ship officer and in less than 2 movies which shows how he become totally independent from his father’s background and grow up fast , shows his nobility and loyalty to his country and does great contribution . How shrew he is when trouble and hassle appears and use the rational tactics with I must say in better world good enough diplomacy to sort out problems according to the priorities.
A lot of people comment about the second part of Horn blower movies as it is a flat story. I must say I agree with that maybe compare to first one t seems a bit boring in matter of very classic war ship sorties and kind of fat at the end and strongly clever audiences can presume the end who wins of course Horn blower ,but in this movie becomes very soon to a prefect man., looming the war and fight on the ship and he is dealing with his examination for lieutenant cover the whole story ,but it still kind of drag me to continue the next story.
The third part out come was such a great effect In fact I was so dump into the movie and so eager to continue the story. The “Duchess” was great in matter of showing how much he does his job gratefully and make any effort to save his dispatches and even in the time of imprisonment how positively and constructively inspire his friend in prison for a bright out coming.
He and fake Duchess both play gratefully in totally different role but fighting for their country and show their integrity and loyalty in high manner with different way and they disguise themselves when the time comes to do so.
In fact the their part I really admire his guts till he fucked up with his frank speaking and I was wondering about his diplomacy and more over I was kind of pissed off how possibly a perfect senior shipment officer ,brainy ,shrewd, clever enough must start a wobbly relation with a French chick meanwhile they are in a such a harsh battle. as England and France were in neutral political and they landed in one of the lands to show their affiliation to royalist French general. In fact their action according what was given to them was great though and his integrity and well performed job was fascinating.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
what Haute Couture means?
What Haute couture means?
Haute culture club might be restricted and as many of fashion followers already know that Paris is the center of Fashion in the world, or more precise to say the capital of fashion world.
The world Haute couture it means be fashionable and modern and sophisticated. Since 1950’s which comes ,after second war for fashion industry was a great chance to boost up, and now it is booming.
But we see just 10 big branches can be called as Haute Culture in France. Recently despite the nationality 17 new designer joined the fashion couture in Paris to challenge their ability and creativity in fashion industry.
Haute couture give thriving life to a lot of artist and support not clothing but also other accessories in fashion industry as perfumes, shoes, bags, and catwalks show, which helps the talented artists to be seen by big fashion companies.
They organize 2 annual fashion show and t is just for women.
Haute culture club might be restricted and as many of fashion followers already know that Paris is the center of Fashion in the world, or more precise to say the capital of fashion world.
The world Haute couture it means be fashionable and modern and sophisticated. Since 1950’s which comes ,after second war for fashion industry was a great chance to boost up, and now it is booming.
But we see just 10 big branches can be called as Haute Culture in France. Recently despite the nationality 17 new designer joined the fashion couture in Paris to challenge their ability and creativity in fashion industry.
Haute couture give thriving life to a lot of artist and support not clothing but also other accessories in fashion industry as perfumes, shoes, bags, and catwalks show, which helps the talented artists to be seen by big fashion companies.
They organize 2 annual fashion show and t is just for women.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Hua Qing hot spring 2009 early summer time
Hua qing hot spring:
Today me and Wijbren made decision to go to Hua qing Hot spring. In fact this place is on the bottom of Mount Lin which is 30 Km far from Xian city. There are plenty buses on the Main Bus station behind the train station which every ten minutes go to Hua qing district.
This place was a resort area for emperor around 2500 years ago and kingdom and royal family used to go there especially in summer time for bathing. In fact nowadays is not a great deal to be there ,but it has its won beauty and color and the history behind this is so vivid and spectacular.
The Huaqing Hot Springs is located about 35 kilometers east of Xi'an. Historically , during the Western Zhou Dynasty the construction of the Li Palace was undertaken on this spot. In the Qin Dynasty, a stone pool was built and was given the name Lishan Hot Springs. The site was enlarged during the Han Dynasty, and was renamed the Li Palace. During the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong ordered the construction of the Hotspring.
This place has a romantic story as in legend stories mentioned the emperor Xuan was madly in love with a poor girl and honored here with the name of Lady and had affair with her. He was too much in love and it says her beauty distracted him from his responsibilities and in the end he hang himself to keep her name and his country safe. This place called after her “Hua qing” which means “THE FAIR”.
This place is include the Imperial palace , Museum ,Louts area and a big garden which leads the visitors to the bottom of Mount Lin and there is a station for Cable car for whom have desire to have a bird’s view eyes of the city and surroundings.
This place has a pavilion which was a place for Fung Lady after bathing airing her and her and rest there. In This area there four baths and hot spring which are good and heal muscles pain , arthritis and rheumatism
Anyhow we spent couple of hours hanging around there and pass the Museum and got the bus and back to Xian which was nice day trip in fact..
Today me and Wijbren made decision to go to Hua qing Hot spring. In fact this place is on the bottom of Mount Lin which is 30 Km far from Xian city. There are plenty buses on the Main Bus station behind the train station which every ten minutes go to Hua qing district.
This place was a resort area for emperor around 2500 years ago and kingdom and royal family used to go there especially in summer time for bathing. In fact nowadays is not a great deal to be there ,but it has its won beauty and color and the history behind this is so vivid and spectacular.
The Huaqing Hot Springs is located about 35 kilometers east of Xi'an. Historically , during the Western Zhou Dynasty the construction of the Li Palace was undertaken on this spot. In the Qin Dynasty, a stone pool was built and was given the name Lishan Hot Springs. The site was enlarged during the Han Dynasty, and was renamed the Li Palace. During the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong ordered the construction of the Hotspring.
This place has a romantic story as in legend stories mentioned the emperor Xuan was madly in love with a poor girl and honored here with the name of Lady and had affair with her. He was too much in love and it says her beauty distracted him from his responsibilities and in the end he hang himself to keep her name and his country safe. This place called after her “Hua qing” which means “THE FAIR”.
This place is include the Imperial palace , Museum ,Louts area and a big garden which leads the visitors to the bottom of Mount Lin and there is a station for Cable car for whom have desire to have a bird’s view eyes of the city and surroundings.
This place has a pavilion which was a place for Fung Lady after bathing airing her and her and rest there. In This area there four baths and hot spring which are good and heal muscles pain , arthritis and rheumatism
Anyhow we spent couple of hours hanging around there and pass the Museum and got the bus and back to Xian which was nice day trip in fact..
Friday, June 19, 2009
Persian language's history
The history of Iran language( Farsi),
The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 BC) was the largest empire of the ancient world and it reached its greatest extent under Darius the Great and Xerxes the Great — famous in antiquity as the foe of the classical Greek states (See Greco-Persian Wars). It was a united Persian kingdom that originated in the region now known as Pars province (Fars province) of Iran.
It was formed under Cyrus the Great, who took over the empire of the Medes, and conquered much of the Middle East, including the territories of the Babylonians, Assyrians, the Phoenicians, and the Lydians
Iran Has a great Empire for over 2500 years and control basically not only the middle East ,but also to Far East borders including some part of India and North border went far to most South Ex-soviet union and West boarder to Turkey.
Iranian language has 3 dialect which one calls Dari which speaks in Afghanistan and One speaks in center of Asia in Ex-Soviet Unions and another one speaks in ran( Persia).
Iran is a multilingual country inside of Iran there are some minorities ,ethnic groups who speaks Turkish, Kurdish and even Arabic even.
Persian appeared fairly standardized by the tenth century with a bit dialect on it and mostly appeared in Poems and should say thanks to our great poet Firdausi who made it this language alive for second time after Barber and Arab attack in order expanding Islam’s religion in neighboring countries, mainly in Persian empire which the result was not what was expected and as a result destroyed a lot of libraries and basically culture of Iran ,unfortunately.
Persian was cultivated at the courts of the Ottoman rulers, several of whom are known for composing Farsi poetry. Urdu also developed under heavy Persian influence. Persian first entered India with the conquest of North West India by Ghaznavid armies in the eleventh century. Four centuries later, Persian was chosen as the court language by the Mogul rulers, who were major patrons of Persian literature, unlike the contemporary Safavids in Iran.
The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 BC) was the largest empire of the ancient world and it reached its greatest extent under Darius the Great and Xerxes the Great — famous in antiquity as the foe of the classical Greek states (See Greco-Persian Wars). It was a united Persian kingdom that originated in the region now known as Pars province (Fars province) of Iran.
It was formed under Cyrus the Great, who took over the empire of the Medes, and conquered much of the Middle East, including the territories of the Babylonians, Assyrians, the Phoenicians, and the Lydians
Iran Has a great Empire for over 2500 years and control basically not only the middle East ,but also to Far East borders including some part of India and North border went far to most South Ex-soviet union and West boarder to Turkey.
Iranian language has 3 dialect which one calls Dari which speaks in Afghanistan and One speaks in center of Asia in Ex-Soviet Unions and another one speaks in ran( Persia).
Iran is a multilingual country inside of Iran there are some minorities ,ethnic groups who speaks Turkish, Kurdish and even Arabic even.
Persian appeared fairly standardized by the tenth century with a bit dialect on it and mostly appeared in Poems and should say thanks to our great poet Firdausi who made it this language alive for second time after Barber and Arab attack in order expanding Islam’s religion in neighboring countries, mainly in Persian empire which the result was not what was expected and as a result destroyed a lot of libraries and basically culture of Iran ,unfortunately.
Persian was cultivated at the courts of the Ottoman rulers, several of whom are known for composing Farsi poetry. Urdu also developed under heavy Persian influence. Persian first entered India with the conquest of North West India by Ghaznavid armies in the eleventh century. Four centuries later, Persian was chosen as the court language by the Mogul rulers, who were major patrons of Persian literature, unlike the contemporary Safavids in Iran.
The history of Persian Gulf
The history of Persian Gulf,
Persian gulf named after Daruse one of the pragmatic ,strong-minded, peacemaker and fully diplomatic manner kings in the history of our 2500 years kingdom in Persia(old name for Iran).
Iran nation has a great old history of culture and tradition with a deep old language which is comes from Hindu-European language Sanskrit.
Iran race calls Aryan, as so many nations and countries have doubt and make accidentally mistake and call us a Arab nation.
The Greek term "Sinus Persicus" is equivalent to "Persicher golf" in German, "Golfo Persico" in Italian, "Persidskizalir" in Russian and "Perusha Wan" that all mean "Persia".
Today most common Arabic works and include the Wiki -pedia and Arabic encyclopedia call it Persian Gulf.
The story of call this gold as Arab Golf started from :
Since the beginning of 20 century it started to call as Fars Sea and there was an agreement which was signed between Iran, England, Dutch, Germany, USA and independent Kuwait which is supporting the British interest in Gulf area call this sea as a heritage of Persia .
But it was quite few times that British missionaries tried hard and British diplomats wanted to separate small Island in South part of Iran and even Dubai which is now an independent country in Persian Gulf.
The beginning of 1930s was a turning point in the history of efforts for changing the name of Persian Gulf when Sir Charles Bellgrave, (?) the British diplomatic envoy in Bahrain opened a file for the change in the name of the Persian Gulf and proposed the issue to the British Foreign Office.
Even before the response of the British Foreign Office he used the fake name (in an attempt to retake Bahrain, the Tonbs, Abu Mosa, Sirri, Qeshm, Hengam and other islands belonging to Iran and to disclose and thwart the plot of disintegration of Khozestan).
Beside the disputed that has been made over the name of Persian Gulf the United nationwith include 22 Arab members are declared the unalterable name of Persian gulf and between Iran and Arab neighboring countries.
Persian gulf named after Daruse one of the pragmatic ,strong-minded, peacemaker and fully diplomatic manner kings in the history of our 2500 years kingdom in Persia(old name for Iran).
Iran nation has a great old history of culture and tradition with a deep old language which is comes from Hindu-European language Sanskrit.
Iran race calls Aryan, as so many nations and countries have doubt and make accidentally mistake and call us a Arab nation.
The Greek term "Sinus Persicus" is equivalent to "Persicher golf" in German, "Golfo Persico" in Italian, "Persidskizalir" in Russian and "Perusha Wan" that all mean "Persia".
Today most common Arabic works and include the Wiki -pedia and Arabic encyclopedia call it Persian Gulf.
The story of call this gold as Arab Golf started from :
Since the beginning of 20 century it started to call as Fars Sea and there was an agreement which was signed between Iran, England, Dutch, Germany, USA and independent Kuwait which is supporting the British interest in Gulf area call this sea as a heritage of Persia .
But it was quite few times that British missionaries tried hard and British diplomats wanted to separate small Island in South part of Iran and even Dubai which is now an independent country in Persian Gulf.
The beginning of 1930s was a turning point in the history of efforts for changing the name of Persian Gulf when Sir Charles Bellgrave, (?) the British diplomatic envoy in Bahrain opened a file for the change in the name of the Persian Gulf and proposed the issue to the British Foreign Office.
Even before the response of the British Foreign Office he used the fake name (in an attempt to retake Bahrain, the Tonbs, Abu Mosa, Sirri, Qeshm, Hengam and other islands belonging to Iran and to disclose and thwart the plot of disintegration of Khozestan).
Beside the disputed that has been made over the name of Persian Gulf the United nationwith include 22 Arab members are declared the unalterable name of Persian gulf and between Iran and Arab neighboring countries.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
My trip to Bijing ,second part
My trip to Beijing second part,
I had been pretty amazing question been asked during interview which I think all Iranian if they keep their national face with it .They asked me If I have a full time job in China or part time, next asked me what exactly I teach and when I explained about my art qualification and English qualification they were impressed ,somehow.
Moreover they asked about my relation ship with my boy friend and wanted to know how long and how strong this relationship is!.
the next touching question was about the article in one of Dutch news was talking about us and our life in China.
After that I accepted to respect the whole duration of visa process calmly and peacefully.
Anyway the rest of the day I tried to enjoy a bit and went to Beihai park in Beijing which I have attached some photos on Face book on fact. I had been there in my last trip and had good memories and this time as it is end of spring and summer starting in Bejing ,you could see a lot of lotuses there and was so tranquil and lovely to be there out of all hustle and bustle in city center.
This park was built in 10th century and has divided to 3 part. It has a great ,magnificent garden in the east part and the white pagoda and corridors after that take you to the West part.
In fact the International Youth Hostel is a great place to stay in .I have had great experience of Beijing in Youth Hostel n China and I recommend IT.
Tuesday was the day I was supposed to go back to Xian the city we live in. But in the morning surprisingly I discovered it is so dark what is going on then in less than an hour such terrible down pour. It was raining like a hell. the street got soak in less than 10 minutes and water running everywhere. I could assume today is so flight girl. you stuck here…
Well I reached to airport with hassle and all the flight to Xian and so many to her cities were delayed or canceled and I waited couple of hours and then contact Wijbren through net find another hostel and then changed my ticket and all the way back to the city .Can you imagine when I found that hostel was 8 at night 12 hours at airport or on the way coming and going ,swinging around. well .Such a day.
But hopefully on Wednesday I could get my flight back to Xian .in total I spent 48 ours at the airport..
I had been pretty amazing question been asked during interview which I think all Iranian if they keep their national face with it .They asked me If I have a full time job in China or part time, next asked me what exactly I teach and when I explained about my art qualification and English qualification they were impressed ,somehow.
Moreover they asked about my relation ship with my boy friend and wanted to know how long and how strong this relationship is!.
the next touching question was about the article in one of Dutch news was talking about us and our life in China.
After that I accepted to respect the whole duration of visa process calmly and peacefully.
Anyway the rest of the day I tried to enjoy a bit and went to Beihai park in Beijing which I have attached some photos on Face book on fact. I had been there in my last trip and had good memories and this time as it is end of spring and summer starting in Bejing ,you could see a lot of lotuses there and was so tranquil and lovely to be there out of all hustle and bustle in city center.
This park was built in 10th century and has divided to 3 part. It has a great ,magnificent garden in the east part and the white pagoda and corridors after that take you to the West part.
In fact the International Youth Hostel is a great place to stay in .I have had great experience of Beijing in Youth Hostel n China and I recommend IT.
Tuesday was the day I was supposed to go back to Xian the city we live in. But in the morning surprisingly I discovered it is so dark what is going on then in less than an hour such terrible down pour. It was raining like a hell. the street got soak in less than 10 minutes and water running everywhere. I could assume today is so flight girl. you stuck here…
Well I reached to airport with hassle and all the flight to Xian and so many to her cities were delayed or canceled and I waited couple of hours and then contact Wijbren through net find another hostel and then changed my ticket and all the way back to the city .Can you imagine when I found that hostel was 8 at night 12 hours at airport or on the way coming and going ,swinging around. well .Such a day.
But hopefully on Wednesday I could get my flight back to Xian .in total I spent 48 ours at the airport..
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
My Third trip to Beijing,first part
My trip to Beijing., first part
Sunday I had a flight to Beijing because I had to go to the Dutch embassy to deliver the documents for tourist visa in person. They don’t accept it online.
Anyway the last time I visited Beijing was four years ago. In fact I don’t like big cities and capitals sue to traffic and pollution and price of everything is at least double or even more. But I should confess Beijing has changed so much during these few years ,especially because of Olympic 2008 They have made a lot of effort for the environment there.
They have opened the third terminal in Beijing which from the last Underground station you can reach to the airport by shuttle bus in 40 minutes and takes you to international and domestic airport station.
I was so impressed by fast underground the speed was over 100 km per hours in fact and so clean ,organized and punctual. All the way to the airport was green .
I had heard before ,since 2007 they were working to plant more flowers and trees there ,but surprisingly there were a frost park which was old enough.
.
Even in down town there was a line which took you directly to the Olympics stadium and different playground and courts there.
My trip started really great and in 1.30 minute I was there and precisely I could get the shuttle bus to the down town and luckily my Chinese good enough to communicate especially with Beijing people. I realized how different they speak there compare to other cities which I am living and used to live.
Four years ago I could speak mandarin or even could catch any words, hardly ever could understood them, but now was kind of pride for me. Any how I really loved the hostel and I have attached the picture on Face book as I can’t upload them here anymore, sadly.
I had a couple of bad accident which made my trip from a lovely one to a night mare ,somehow. First of all I received a spam on my mobile the way to airport that they claimed I used my credit card and owe bank12800 RMB which is a big amount. that freak me out .I had to ask Wijbren follow the case and found out it was spam and no need to show any reaction.
The second bad News was on Monday in Embassy. In fact it took me 2 hours my metro to reach to embassy and then I had an appointment but it took another hour to get in for interview .I delivered the documents and they told me due to my nationality they can’t give me any answer or any promise and I have to wait at least for another 2 weeks, which is sucks. But the problem was I couldn’t give my passport to them. I was thinking and tempting leave my pass there and then change my flight to train and back home, but was risky and wasted of money. So I have to wait 2 weeks and even if they call me I must have second trip to go there and stuck there for at least 5 days ,because officially visa process takes 3 days in fact.
I love to be there with Wijbren ,because he hasn’t seen Beijing at all and we want to take tour around and go to Great Wall ,but not alone. I am hoping he can manage his last week classes somehow and come with me in case of having phone call.
Sunday I had a flight to Beijing because I had to go to the Dutch embassy to deliver the documents for tourist visa in person. They don’t accept it online.
Anyway the last time I visited Beijing was four years ago. In fact I don’t like big cities and capitals sue to traffic and pollution and price of everything is at least double or even more. But I should confess Beijing has changed so much during these few years ,especially because of Olympic 2008 They have made a lot of effort for the environment there.
They have opened the third terminal in Beijing which from the last Underground station you can reach to the airport by shuttle bus in 40 minutes and takes you to international and domestic airport station.
I was so impressed by fast underground the speed was over 100 km per hours in fact and so clean ,organized and punctual. All the way to the airport was green .
I had heard before ,since 2007 they were working to plant more flowers and trees there ,but surprisingly there were a frost park which was old enough.
.
Even in down town there was a line which took you directly to the Olympics stadium and different playground and courts there.
My trip started really great and in 1.30 minute I was there and precisely I could get the shuttle bus to the down town and luckily my Chinese good enough to communicate especially with Beijing people. I realized how different they speak there compare to other cities which I am living and used to live.
Four years ago I could speak mandarin or even could catch any words, hardly ever could understood them, but now was kind of pride for me. Any how I really loved the hostel and I have attached the picture on Face book as I can’t upload them here anymore, sadly.
I had a couple of bad accident which made my trip from a lovely one to a night mare ,somehow. First of all I received a spam on my mobile the way to airport that they claimed I used my credit card and owe bank12800 RMB which is a big amount. that freak me out .I had to ask Wijbren follow the case and found out it was spam and no need to show any reaction.
The second bad News was on Monday in Embassy. In fact it took me 2 hours my metro to reach to embassy and then I had an appointment but it took another hour to get in for interview .I delivered the documents and they told me due to my nationality they can’t give me any answer or any promise and I have to wait at least for another 2 weeks, which is sucks. But the problem was I couldn’t give my passport to them. I was thinking and tempting leave my pass there and then change my flight to train and back home, but was risky and wasted of money. So I have to wait 2 weeks and even if they call me I must have second trip to go there and stuck there for at least 5 days ,because officially visa process takes 3 days in fact.
I love to be there with Wijbren ,because he hasn’t seen Beijing at all and we want to take tour around and go to Great Wall ,but not alone. I am hoping he can manage his last week classes somehow and come with me in case of having phone call.
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