O' weekends....

after going through a really tough weekend (with my noisy students at school) finally i get some rest at my mom's home. she is a great cook and i really got a kick out of her delicious lasagna ;p i lounged around the whole weekend and  ate lots of goodies!
i really feel much happier after my graduation. also i got my dream job in an IB school which really makes me be on top of the world. sooooo every thing is going great for now.

yummmmmm

mind some tea and figs;p

fall and pomegranates..

my most used accessories

i love wearing accessories; however the simplest and lightest the pieces are, the more i prefer to wear them.

here are some of favorite pieces i wear almost everyday. 

what kind of accessory do you wear most?

i'm in a quandary!

i've been offered a good position in a well-known international school.i am supposed to work 10 hours a day  and i may have to allocate the time i'm at home to this job. so i've been vacillated back and forth between accepting or refusing this tempting offer. the problem is that i haven't had a full time job before and i'm not used to working hard. i don't know what to do. if i accept this job, i have to stick to it for an entire year according to the contract. soooooooooooooo, that's one of the hardest decision i have to make by my own.

via

God please help me to do the right thing. help me to make up my mind. plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

euphoria

you'll never know how sweet victory is...

how sweet it is when everybody is proud of you

and above all when you take pride in yourself!

i'm so grateful to my dear God for helping me be the person that I AM right now.

i still can't believe i defended my M.A. thesis and got the whole mark.

i'm thrilled, i am:)

how do you define love?

to me love is nothing but to sacrifice everything to see someone's smile and happiness.
this is what N is doing for me everyday!

i'm sooooooooooo blessed to have him by my side.
Happy Six Year Anniversary My Love.
 thank you for the new iphone dude :D

moving house

despite the fact that i'm thrilled to live in a new neighborhood and house, i'll definitely miss this house:(

i feel like a million today!

i went to my college this morning and talked to my adviser. he approved of my whole thesis and said that i had done a unique job so far. so my defense session is gonna be in a month or sooner right after my article get published. so i ca now now see the fruit of all these 3 years of hardworking soon.

love this life

just because you are my company in this journey..
and because of our mother earth God has created for us...

another colorless day:/

• woke up at 7 a.m. while i still wanted to keep sleeping!
• did some sit-ups. and had a diet meal for breakfast. 
• cancelled my class today because i was supposed to meet a professor of mine. though, he preferred to talk to me on the phone rather than seeing me face to face!  
• am going to my mom's house. she wants to cook Fesenjan for lunch so she wanted me to buy her some walnuts.
• not in the mood for doing anything special.

NEW YEAR NEW PERSON:)

new food

my love's bd cake

new year's food

looking forward to the best events in the year year.

i'm scared

a 7 sin table in Tehran

it'll be Norooz (Persian new year) in less than a week and i haven't done anything yet :( i mean i haven't bought ANY clothing, haven't set 7sin (Persian traditional table setting includes seven specific items startting with the letter "s" ), done deep cleaning up,... i donno whats gotten into me but maybe its because i had my ovarian cyst removed last week and i'm still not in a good mood! i also haven't finished my thesis yet. i think i literally haven't done anything this year. i'm a lil bit freaked out. i know i've wasted a whole year this time, haven't finished even a single task. maybe i've tried to handle many things at a time, maybe i haven''t worked and tried hard as i should have, maybe it's because of this cursed feeling that is always with me, the feeling that i may fail in the end!  it can have lots of reasons. now what really bothers me is that i dont want to  repeat all these failures again and again. i want to be a new person. i want to show my self the new version of myself who is a go-getter , who achieves whatever she wants, and ends whatever she starts. i wanna be that person. i'm determined this time. i can do it. i mean i really want to do it from the bottom of my heart, i just need to ask for God's help. with his being by me i'm sure i can do anything...    

what a trip!

i'm back from my trip. it was one of the best trips that i've ever had and i had the time of my life.

on our way to Shiraz, we stopped in Isfehan and ate ambrosial sea food to our heart's content. in shiraz, we went see sighting and visited several historical places.

Tomb of Cyrus The Great

one of the many beautiful penthouses in the town

i took about 300 photos but i have to resize them to load them in my blog so for now i only put of them. hope i can go to more cities in the up coming year (Persians' new year) ;)

pensive words

Shiraz

we are heading to Shiraz tomorrow. it's one the most beautiful cities of Iran.  Shiraz is known as the poetic capital of Persia, because two of the greatest poets of the world, Hafez (1324-1391) and Sa'di (1209-1291), come from this city. there are lots of beautiful and amazing places and magnificent gardens in there, lots of good restaurant serving special ethnic food.I'm soooooooo excited ;) can't wait to get there!   

morning ritual

I'm trying to be an early bird. it's really hard for me to get out of my bed in the morning. that's why i'm practicing some morning ritual  activities so that i can overcome my being so sleepy! So today i went for a walk at 8 a.m. after having my special ambrosial breakfast ( i think i need to do a post on Persian breakfast)! the weather was awesome...i could feel the smell of Norooz (Persians' new year). as a matter of fact, it'll be Norooz in two months and i'm really excited about it. the city is crowded these days. people are getting ready for the new year. what i really love about Norooz is the shopping. i mean buying lots of new clothes and yummy goodies... i'm gonna post more about Norooz and our traditions when its time arrives.
have you ever heard about Norooz before and all its wonderful traditions?
xoxo
shamim

weekend shopping

Happy Sunday :)

There is a crystal vase on my coffee table and I always put fresh flowers in it. but  because i'm a little bit busy these days, I have decided to buy some artificial flowers so that i don't need to change them from time to time. so i bought these flowers, however when i brought them home, i found out that they do not fit in the vase. actually these flowers don't need a vase at all! they can be fixed on their bamboo stems! awesome.. i like the bamboo stems and the pink gorgeous color of the flowers.  and i should say that these flowers are not that artificial since their petals are real( they are dried and colored).
how do you like my new flowers?
xoxo
shamim

golden globe

I'm proud of you. I'm proud of Persia:)