Wednesday, March 11, 2020

تقدیم به بهار

سخت و غریبه ... اینکه هنوز بعد از سه ماه و ده روز ، هنوز باور نمیکنم رفتی.. صبح علی الطلوعی که مونیکا با صدای آروم ازم پرسید میخوام بخوابم یا بیدارم چون میخواست این خبر نحس رو بهم بده. توی اون لحظه خبر ساده بود. اینکه یه هواپیمای ایرانی به مقصد تورنتو سقوط کرده و تا موبایل رو چک کردم خبر اینکه تو توی هواپیما بودی رو کیوان بهم داد. چند روز فقط اشک میریختم. پیغامهات رو دونه دونه گوش میدادم و درد میکشیدم. شاید خودمو مقصر میدونستم که تو توی اون هواپیمایی. شاید سرنوشت بعد از اون نامه ای که بهم دادی جور دیگه رقم میخورد. نامه ای که بعد خوندنش با خودم فکر کردم چرا ما از اولش اینجوری نبودیم. اون نامه هیچوقت جوابی نداشت چون من بهت احتیاج داشتم. به پناه اوردن از تنهاییم بهت ، به بیخیالی طی کردنها باهات ، و نمیخواستم عوض بشه. کلمات نامه از جلوی چشمام رد میشه و روی یه قسمت گیر میکنه ... مگه چقدر قراره زندگی کنیم...
به خودم تصلی میدم که شاید اگه سرنوشت جور دیگه ای رقم میخورد منم با تو توی هواپیما بودم. ولی کیو گول میزنم؟ توی  مراسمت همه اومده بودن. دوستای قدیمی ولی دوست داشتم تنها باشم. دوست داشتم یه گوشه بشینم و گریه کنم

دیروز مثل دیوونه ها وسایلم رو میگشتم که اون سی دی ای که توی ایران بهم دادیو پیدا کنم. نبود که نبود. انگار داشتم چنگ میزدم به ابر.... 

خوب بخوابی

Sunday, April 22, 2018

شقایق

این بلاگ ما هم بدجوری شبیه قسمت آگهی های تسلیت روزنامه ها شده ...
شاید چون یه خلوتیه که چون خیلی کسی ازش رد نمیشه ، دلم که میگیره میام یه دو خط سیاه میکنم. الانم اومدم راجع به شقایق بنویسم که پریروز پر کشید. میدونستم چند وقتی که حالش خوب نیست. دوست داشتم روزهای آخر یه کاری میکردم خوشحال بشه. بدونه با اینکه مدتهاس نمیبینشون ، همیشه به یادشونم. ولی دلم نمیومد ببینمش. برای کامی پیغام کوتاهی گذاشتم که شاید کل حسم رو توی دو سه تا جمله ای خلاصه کنم. دایره ی دوستی خیلی نزدیکی داشتن که توی یه لحظه دلم برای تک تکشون سوخت. کاش یادش هیچوقت کمرنگ نشه.
خدا به همشون صبر بده.  

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Babak Zanjani, Business man or a clown in suit?

 

It's funny to check out Facebook Trends to come across Babak Zanjani's execution order and how people across the world have heated up the trend. Among the mixed opinions, some felt sorry for a country where successful businessmen get executed and some backed the idea and rubbed Iran's justice system on dealing mercilessly with corrupt businessmen to US's face ! I guess this is what people refer to as Freedom of Speech! FML!

No one really knows how he showed up in Iran's political hall of fame. Well, or at least except those who inflated his image. So this dude was probably a low-key businessman/puppet who was supposed to sell Iran's oil through his diverse channels to bi-pass the sanctions that were imposed to Iran back in time. So with the cash flow that he generated by transferring money from one account to another (In the supply chain of the oil market he is basically an entity with two hands! Takes oil from one hand, sells it to designated costumers with another, receives money from one hand and returns it back to Iran with another which makes it 4 hands?) So anyhow, he built reputation based on this cash flow and of course by using the money that was allegedly stuck in the accounts from time to time due to money laundry investigations. 

And the reason he was sent to prison was because the money that was supposed to be deposited to Ministry of Energy, that happened to be of the scale of 2 Billion Dollars, was somehow vanished.  

So does this make him a good businessman? No! 
Does this make Iran an example of firm and mercilessly rule of justice? Hell no! I think at best, all it shows is that the judiciary has either found a way to get the money without the need of Mr.Zanjani, or they juts want to get over this mess in silence and avoid raising any attention about the origin of this mm... phenomenon!

To me, Babak Zanjani, at his best, was an opportunist like so many more of his kind in Iran who took advantage of the sanctions, and of course the lack of supervision and knowledge in foreign trades in Iran,

PS> Disclaimer: The above is only my thought on the matter based on what I have concluded from local and international media for the past couple of years. Once again, no one really knows who he showed up in Iran's political hall of fame. Well or at least except those who inflated his image. 

Signing out,

Peace!

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Bouncin back


Wow! And then I bounced back to Blogger after mm.. 3 years? 4 years? I have to admit after all this time, I find the name rather cheesy. Or perhaps a desperate effort to sound sophisticated!
I guess I've passed that now.

So what's changed since then? I've grown up. Things don't excite me as much anymore. I look at people through the glass of experience. I don't despise, I don't avoid. I welcome.

While writing this, I remember a summer, on a ride to Kingston when I said, "I think life is more like surfing and I like to improvise".

I think that's what I'm doing now and although it gets hectic from time to time, I feel peaceful.

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Logging out

Sina K. Maram