How to save money on gas?

To my sheer confusion, I found Del.icio.us blocked, exactly this morning. Do you happen to see Del.icio.us? It’s simply a page for sharing links, no kind of photos, videos or political view… or such filterable stuff are included. It gave me quite a big shock. It has become a somehow popular site for sharing links through web, especially by webmasters.

You can see my Del.icio.us on the left column of my page.

Anyway, today I came across a helpful link, the one I was to share through my Del.icio.us) named “how to save money on gas”. Due to recent fuel rationing in Iran, I found it extremely beneficial, it requires some minor attentiveness, but the result would be so economical.

Ps: technorati also blocked.

updated: damn! I myself cannot see my Del.iciou.is column here, it's totally swept away. Does anybody from out of Iran see my Del.icio.us?

Without you

At last!

Well, after a series of futile efforts in the past two weeks, now it’s done. Congratulation! You can’t imagine how happy I was when I could listen to my beloved Mariah Carey’s song on my blogger page.

You must be an Iranian to know how resolute I was to upload a 3.2Mb file via a dial up network and using an anti filter. God knows how hard I tried!

You see, Mariah’s voice is inspiringly high, high on Emotion indeed! Just close your eyes and within the reach of your dreams, there's no end to the lengths you'll go to by it.

And now it’s only fair, that I should let you know, what you should know: I can’t live, if living is without you.

see the lyric

ps: the song may need a minute or so to be uploaded in Iran. please don't give up hope, I spend a whole day long on it!

Too real when I feel what my soul can’t conceal. Seems to be too deeper to be concealed, but surprisingly enough I did.

You see, I’m a great liar, pretending what I’m not. Seems to be awe-inspiring by the greatness of the whole world, but heh!….I reached the end, let me get a thing off my chest, it’s really not as big as it seems, indeed just let you know I’ve just touched the end, some tough kind of shit it is, full of misery and poverty, amalgamated under the potency of your majesty: the grand destiny.

Yeah I’m a good liar, pretending what I’m not, standing on the edge of time, I sense the pounding of my fading heartbeat…pretending that you’re still there. Alas!

You know, I'm quite tired of leading such a dog's life on virtual web. Sometime comes when I say how ill-omened I was to be born here. I don’t know how I can express my feeling on a polished considerate manner; accept my apology for being foulmouthed but believe me it’s really a pain in the ass.

I don’t know where else to turn, it’s gonna wear me out; my downloading speed is 4kb, let alone uploading. Every single news agency is blocked, I must use an anti filter, and now this would slow down my downloading more. I’m totally worn out by these bullshits.

You know handling a blog through a dial up modem is an absolutely crazy affair in Iran; you’re self-consuming yourself on behalf of the others. In the first place when I established my blog, I had some great thoughts for it, I look at it in a Utopian way, but now in the middle, I found it compulsorily unattainable.

You know I ain’t gonna be such kind of a puny enfeebled man who would surrender under any kind of, umm you say it, anything anywhere anyhow. But you see, when it comes to internet, here in Iran, I confess that there is not much left I didn’t try, not much I can do. Yeah ,my hands up, I gave up. Umm I don’t know, but every now and then I think of how inciting I would be or it would be… let it alone.

It does gonna be my unreachable dream of life time to surf the web through an unblocked free high speed internet, It’s a pity how infantile my life dream became. Never do I imagine it, some day, not long ago, my dreamy wish was to be a space traveler. Ridiculous but I think I’m gonna look forward to seeing it throughout the whole life time and then kiss it goodbye in my funeral ceremony. F...

Khatami shaking hands with women!

Yeah, that’s right! The video is here on youtube, it’s six minutes long and the shaking moment is on the 4^th and 5th minutes.

The link was released some 20 hours ago on balatarin, the Iranian digg. And by now some hundred guys have left noteworthy comments on it, they keep cursing, applauding and disputing Khatami’s right to shake hands with women, it’s really hot here.

You know I’m happy. Whenever a taboo is broken, no matter whatsoever it is, I am sure something good will happen, taboos are the outcome of deceased minds, the morbid or chicken-hearted thoughts who do not dare to live by themselves, who have not the courage to take off the guise of tradition, religion, morality, philosophy or whatever the damned thing is called. And I’m happy. I’m happy to see my truly president is breaking a 30year long taboo. Halleluiah.

p.s1: Picture’s source

P.s2: I posted my writing on digg, it would be my pleasure if you go there and vote for it.

Petrol

After the lengthy debate between the Government and parliament’s administrators, petrol is rationed. Some 100 litters per month for each car. I’ve heard of not disposing extra more petrol in its real cost in case of anybody wants to pay.
So, are you run out of fuel? Do you need to put some gas?
Yeah, you’d better take some spare gas for a rainy day, these days gas stations are extraordinary hot!
Yesterday I saw a line of automobile, I think one kilometer long, the folks keep waiting or counting the stars, I don't know. I was so lucky to have some gas on my car yesterday.

By the way, I’ve found an illustrative picture showing the cost of petrol all around the world, London is the most expensive, Norway, Germany and Hong Kong got the next, some six and half bucks per litter. Iran and Venezuela rank the cheapest, 0.33 per litter. States are somehow in the middle. Some 2 or 3 dollars.

So see where to gas up around the world? Wired suggest this summer’s bargain road trip.
Guess what? … Tehran to Abadan!!
But surely enough they miss to include accidental loss of life in our country’s roads! So take good care. Easy come, easy go.

I'm back, see the pics: