Wednesday, October 06, 2004

random thoughts

  • technological media is the best way for civil soceity groups to interve in political process and bring peace to war torn countries where former enemies must live together in close proximity.
  • Norwegians breath deeper when they are agreeing with you.

"Cultural sensetivity to certain things changes over time and that creates a new perception; names for sensitive things should change. e.g. Condomes" Lyndal Barry, what do you think a new good name could be lyndal?

Saturday, September 25, 2004

"Mahee ra Ahr Waqt az Abb Bigeri Taza Ast" Afghan Proverb

"Mahee ra Ahr Waqt az Abb Bigeri Taza Ast"
everyday is good to start fresh, everyday is the first day of the rest of your life.

whoeversay their is not a such a thing as second chance is a studip mother fucker.

Saturday, September 04, 2004

Namat, a wonderful guy

After jamshid was sacked yesterday, Namat was interduced as the intrem administrator, the only qualification he has to be appointed in this position is people can trust him, he doesn't have proper education, he doesn't speack english, he doesn't have the classic qualifictions tobe employed.

He was too nervous when John asked me to explain to him what is going on and if he want to be intrem admin. He said whatever you think is right I'll do it, which basicly means yes, John offered him a raise to $500 basic, but he was saying $300 is fine 5 is too much. Would be interested to see how he is gonna develop in the next few months I would love to see: 1. how he handle crisis? Someone fights like Dawod and Mustafa. Some police busts in. etc 2. how he manage conflicts? And takes decisions? 3. how judges people?

Sunday, August 22, 2004

importance and caring

It is interesting how people remember horrible things for a long time, inspite their knowledge of negative effect of the memory on their life and day to day activities.
The more important something is for you the more difficult for you to get over it.
From my expereince of mingling into different cultures, it's very interesting how people decide something is important for them .

Westeners could get over certain things very fast, but will not forget about other things which are important for them,
I think in the list of westners forgetable things there are some very important emotional things.
Sometime when they forget about those too much , it makes them soulless*.
Afghans could much more easier get over certain things, but can't forget about others. The prolongation of war and conflict is perhaps because they can't forget about certain things, like a friend of them died in war and he roughly knows who killed him. He want to retaliate because he can't forget about it.

The more less things you have to care about, the more simple and painless* your life would be; also the more unimportant things you care about the more painless and simple life you would have.

Westeners have a relatively short list of things they care about.
INTERESTINGLY some important things for some people could mean nothing for others.
It's not wise to freak out when you think some one is not doing something important right. Because importance and righthood could vary.

Two friends were talking to each other the first said "wise people are not certain about things while idiots insist they know how things work."
Second friend " are you sure about this theory"
First friend " hundred percent"

*pain is not necessarily something bad, some people enjoy certain kinds of pain, at least a lot of Afghan do.
*defination of soulless.
*what are things Afghans Care about, what are things westerns care about, what are some interesting things other cultures care about?