Diary

My grand mom

Posted by Ehsan on 16 Nov 2011 at 16:20 in Diary | 0 comments

SobhanAllah what a grand mother I have. Since I’m the only child in my family and have no immediate relatives in Sweden I’m rather lonely when it comes to blood ties. Once in my childhood my parents paid a ticket from Iran to Sweden for my grand mom to come and visit us, especially me since they knew I was a bit sad that all children usually visited their grand parents and uncles and aunts while I never did that. I barely knew their names. But when I met my grand mom I became her best friend. We played soccer (she was the goalie), I even put roller blades on her! So she is like...

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Siri is naughty

Posted by Ehsan on 9 Nov 2011 at 16:53 in Diary | 3 comments

Siri is naughty

So Dhuljanah, my latest digital Apple horse, the iPhone 4S, arrived yesterday. While I was driving on the highway I thought I’d try out the new built in amazing intelligent voice assistant called Siri. I thought I’d text a religious Muslim friend who formerly had been an enlightened iPhone user but who recently turned to the dark side and got himself a Samsung. So to impress him with what Siri can do I told Siri: Text X and tell him I’m messaging you from Siri The text message that was sent was the following: Fuck him and tell him I’m messaging you from Siri The lesson...

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Musk perfume at work

Posted by Ehsan on 28 Oct 2011 at 9:14 in Diary | 0 comments

Musk perfume at work

It’s 36 min left to breakfast at work and I’m pondering if I should make a run to the toilet and wash my musk perfume off. The first time I used the musk perfume by Tea Rose at work my colleagues commented in the car on the way to a meeting, “It smells rose water”. I had to comment, “Well yes, It’s Friday and on Fridays I like to use musk” while I innerly repented that I’d never use Islamic perfume at work again. Today, three months later, I woke up, performed the Fajr prayer, made a Ghusl (Friday bath) and told myself: “Screw them....

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