there was an old persian king who asked his cook, a seasoned chef, to make him the best meal possible. the chef thought for a while and spent the afternoon preparing a simple dish: tongue.
when the king sat down to dinner, he smiled at the sight of an old favorite. upon tasting it, he looked to this great chef and replied: "yes, this is absolutely the best meal. afarin. for tomorrows dinner, however, id like you to make me the worst possible meal."
the next evening, the king sat down to this worst of meals: tongue.
perplexed, the king looked to the chef for an answer. " when i asked you to prepare the best meal possible, you made tongue; now, for the worst meal you bring me tongue again? what is the meaning of this?"
the chef looked at the king and said: "the tongue is both the best and the worst thing, sir. with it one can accomplish the utmost feats, or commit the foulest abuses."
Dec 22, 2007
once upon a time
Dec 17, 2007
welcome
look who finally jumped on the bloggerwagon.
welcome! this blog is entirely dedicated to my travels. i will use it as a way to let everyone know where im at, what im up to and, probably most amusingly, what im getting in to.
at the moment im visiting paris, a pit stop on my way to iran. i leave here on january 15, 2008, and most likely will not come back to los angeles before the iranian new year at the end of march, and even that is a maybe. while im gone, you can check up on me on this blog, and i will try my darnedest to update a few times a week. i figure this way you can drop by when youre bored, procrastinating, trying to live vicariously through me, trying to look busy or just simply missing me, without my having to flood your email.
its taken all day to master this whole blogger business, so ill be back with details tomorrow, but in the meantime ill leave you all with one "what im getting into":
so i mostly stay at my aunts house when i visit paris, and about 2 weeks into my trip i decided to do a load of laundry while she was at work. i figured out the machine and i found the laundry detergent easily enough, but i couldnt for the life of me find any fabric softener. i couldnt even figure out how id go about adding the fabric softener after the wash started as its a front load machine. well, i was very determined to do my laundry at that exact moment, so i decided to just do without. i started the machine. it did its job. an hour and a half later: voila! clean clothes! but wait- whats this? theyre so soft! it mustve been the kind of detergent with the softener mixed in. genius!
thats not the end of the story. if that was the end of the story, it wouldnt be a story.
flash forward a few days: the topic of laundry comes up with my aunt. "by the way, does your detergent have fabric softener in it, cuz i just used detergent and my clothes came out really soft." my aunt looks at me confused and asks what exactly i used to wash my clothes.
i go in and grab the bottle and come back. she takes one look, laughs. i take a second look and: its tile cleaner for the floors. it even has a picture of sparkling clean tiles on it. i mean it even has the sparkle star on the corners of the tiles!
needless to say, now i walk around smelling like clean floors.
ps: yes, that is a leopard print umbrella. jealous?
