Who says the world has changed?
May 02 2011, 1AM
So, it's been a while. I missed these notes, but I could get by without them!
I play squash now, last two weekends I've gone climbing and mostly bouldering (I'm so weaker though), I talked to Barzin about buying a bass guitar, though it's pretty lame for a 23 years old to start playing an instrument :D (don't mind using emoticons, I'm getting used to them thanks to Facebook). And sure Facebook is taking over suburbs!!! Last month two of my female cousins found me on fb and sent friendship requests! Before that some guy I new from school had done that.
About calling my hometown a suburb:
Tehran, this 12M mess has dominated itself so much as a capital city that every other town and city in Iran is considered a suburb compared to it, so when I say Facebook is taking over suburbs I don't mean exactly American type of suburbs. American suburbs are about family life and houses and desperate kids dreaming of big cities, while in Iran life in small towns doesn't differ that much in those respects from Tehran. Sure there is less apartments in small towns and more independent bachelors in Tehran, but save for better weather (and even that only in parts) town life has no advantage, it's screwed in every aspect.
In fact Tehran isn't that much of a big city as New York is. For one all parts of Tehran isn't expensive, so making it possible to working class mass to live there. The same goes for economical activities: only some parts of Tehran is economically productive, well there is some action going on in those godforsaken districts, but only enough to supply their own consumption and maybe only a little bit more to make climbing up the social ladder possible for the deserving ones. They tell it's a 12M city, but you can cut down the living population to 3M.
Valiasr is the biggest street in the city, connecting railway station to Tajrish square, a total of 17km long, well that might be true, but this line connecting Azadi squre to Tehranpars, stupidly divided to three separate streets called Azadi, Enghelab and Damavand, chops the city into two! North city and South city.
Gotta sleep, maybe to be continued
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