All that matters is power!

“[Our revolution] has been based on speech and logic, and hence, it is to promote, instead of the clash of civilizations, dialogues between civilizations and cultures,” said former Iranian President, Sayed Mohammad Khatami, addressing the United Nations General Assembly on September 21, 1998. As a high school student, regardless of my nationality, I was feeling proud and extremely cheerful when I was watching the live broadcast of President Khatami’s statement on TV. I was unfamiliar yet with the Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations”, however the thing that mattered for me, and perhaps many other students in Iran, was the difference we felt in the words of the new president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, the incident of 9/11, the U.S.-led coalition forces’ wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Iranian nuclear program, and the stories of collapse of such dictatorships as Saddam Hussain and Moammar Qaddafi, had little logic to me based on the “dialogue” President Khatami spoke of, fourteen years thereafter.


Again, as a frustrated student, from a third-world, war-torn country, I was watching Professor Noam Chomsky’s lecture at Harvard University. The words had the same rhythm and intonation, as President Khatami’s, in pleasing such a heart as mine. He was talking about “insincerity” of former U.S. President, George W. Bush, and his “war on terror”. He provided examples of similar “terrorist acts” of U.S. and Israeli governments against other nations. However, it is so inevitable for a person like me not to get excited. I have well come to the belief that the world has never been a sincere place, and is just a one-sided road coming from the sunset, where technologies, ideas, cultures, civilizations, and “International Human Rights Declaration” could come from. I now know there could be little possibility for dialogue between civilizations because there may be no trust and no equal position between them; because all that matters in the international scene is power.

Selecting budgetary system

Here is my paper on budgeting I talked about it a while ago.

Another hell week?

We're in the final week of the fall semester. Should I call it a "hell" week?! No, believe it or not, I have incredibly been organized this semester. Now, five days till the first final exam, Managerial Accounting, nothing pending I have in my school to-do list. This is not typical I guess for a student. But I could do it! YES!

Paper on budgeting

These days, I'm working on a research paper for Managerial Accounting class. Based on the guideline, we're required to compare and contrast various techniques of budgeting, as well as suggesting a suitable budgeting system for given conditions of organizational structure. I was told by some that these kinds of papers are typically given in graduate level. I'm happy though for I would have a chance to do some critical thinking, something that subjects like accounting apparently tend not to follow; at least as an important disciplinal element.

It's hard

It's hard but it will pass; and I will get over it.

Laugh

More than anytime else, I feel I need to put more time on laughing.

Just like when I was seven

I have taken five courses this semester. Economics, Managerial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Commercial Law, and Organizational Behavior. After having a relatively good result last semester with four courses, now I want to challenge myself a bit more with taking more courses. I will probably have a hard time also with a full time job.

Next Sunday is the first day of the fall semester, and I am nervous just like when I wanted to go to school when I was seven!

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Difficult days!

Back to work

I am back, ready to work.

Time out

The Spring semester 2011 is over. And, I'm sitting in a cafe in Kart-e-Seh, relaxing my mind. I am going to take no more courses this summer. Instead, I will be traveling a bit, letting me see the other opportunities in life I have been depriving myself from, for some time. I'll see then what I will really want in my life...