Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Daily e-mails!

Hi everyone,

I just heard that mice from England will arrive today but the EDC does not know what mice these are and what the health status is. If we don't find out in time they will be put in the dirty facility, so please contact me or ... ASAP if you think that these mice are yours!!!
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Hello,

Did anyone by any chance collect my 2 fCNB1 mice from downstairs this morning??????? If you did, could you please inform me about it
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And that's how my day starts every now and then!

Friday, 24 April 2009

Tuesday, 21 April 2009

Free will (?)

Free will... Is it just an illusion or something that we really have?
This is the subject of my upcoming presentation, I'm wondering if Neuroscience and free will can coexist. Most of the discussions have been based on Psychological outlook so far, I have to find a reliable article to support and take the side of any of these views.

Will write about it later but till then tell me what do you think? ;)

Sunday, 19 April 2009

Nature

There is this huge jungle like area so close to our place that we discovered not so long ago, in fact as the weather started to show its soft side this heaven like area got revealed, it's a perfect place for jugging in mornings and wandering at weekends. Today when me and Mr.Behi were walking in there through the constant taking off and landing of singing birds and swimming ducks and swans I was thinking how much I need to walk along this green beautiful colorful nature.
It gives me this incredible feeling of peace and I can think and breath like a kid, like a very happy free child getting extremely happy and excited with very little things happening around her.
When I was a kid in summers we used to go to my father's garden and walk up not very high hills as we got close to the sunset, we would sit there looking down at farms and gardens and every time I would scream out with a joyful excited voice: "This view is just like a beautiful painting" and nights were the times I would notice several scratches on my feet from a day running and playing in the middle of bushes and climbing up the trees. This need of being where you hear nothing more than the sound of nature has stayed with me since then, I shall never forget this.

PS: This last Friday night we went to Shajarian the son's concert in Amsterdam. It was his first independent performance from his father. I'm not really a fan of traditional Iranian music as I said before but I must say that I enjoyed many of the live performances and the songs themselves. I found his music more lively than his father. The place was also nice. I felt home, it was great.

Saturday, 18 April 2009

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I'm mad, I'm literally and specifically mad. I'm mad when I still don't know when I should NOT compromise and yet I do because I think it's better to be good than to be right and the result ironically is not feeling good but only being stupid! I hate it when I see unfairness and I don't say anything because I don't want to be one of those seeking aggressively for their rights because then I would feel I'm a pushy unkind person and not descent, nice and collaborative but I feel nothing then but stupid.
I cannot learn my lesson, seems it's mentally impossible for me.

Sorry for this post, I have something nice to write, will do it next time.

Wednesday, 8 April 2009

Big Picture!

Not being able to see the whole of something ordinary or not ordinary, is what leads me to small and not small difficulties sometimes. This has been happening unconsciously mostly-I guess- because I felt that uneasiness but I could not figure out what was the root and why. I'm amazed how simple it is to get trapped into seeing only pieces when its picture matters the most and it's more unfortunate when the picture is much more beautiful than those individual pieces.

Saturday, 4 April 2009

I like her approach!