2008/ / LAST

Hi, it s 31st of December 2008. it s couldy in Tehran and i m sitting in my room, having coffee. i have to finish my project as soon as posible but i dont like to do that now. it s one of those days that i remember that famous poem
گاهی دلم برای خودم تنگ می شود
... forget about it.
it s the last day of December. the last day of the year 2008. i received a very nice SMS today, it says:
2009 is at the door!

Remember;

life is short

break the rules

forgive quickly

kiss slowly

love truly

laugh uncontrolablly

and never regret anything that made you smile :)

so let's forget everything- HAPPY NEW YEAR :D

Now after Travel

well i m working on my dissertation now, it s defined in 4 chapters;
1- the difinition of poster
and the difiniation of carafts
2-Iranian Handicrafts status
The Iranian Handicraft posters during last decade
3-The symbols and graphical signs
Minimalism and post modernism
4-The visual elements of:
Iranian Pottery
and Iranian Qlims

i ve almost finished the first two chapters and i m supposed to finish the rest of it in 2 months :)
I m hardly working ... ;)

The 5th Day

Thursday morning was free for us to go shopping. we all went to the "mall of Emirates" abig shopping mall near the hotel. ofcourse much better than Burjuman, so that students like us could find things there for buying. i bought a "1-million" perfume from "Paco- Rabanne" for myself!!! since i love the men perfumes :D Later on when i returned iran i found that this pefume is very famous but when i was there i bought it bcz i just loved the smell! and could never imagine that it s this much famous!!! u dont belive but when i saw it i didnt like its package design but now when i pay more attention i see well it s not that much bad! ;)
in the evening the most important part of the Ibdaa award was about to happen; the Gala Dinner. It was a very formal dinner party in which one of the Emirates prince came with his governers. and the sponsers of Ibdaa awards all gathered in DMC to give the finla finalists their prizes and ofcourse a small statue of Ibdaa butterfly. The Gala Dinner was originally held by Galadari (which i ve heard that are originally iranian)the most powerful sponser of Ibdaa.
There were supposed to be just 1 person selected among others in any category. the selected person would receive 1 month internship with one of the sponsers and 4000$ award from Nikon for the digital photography part. A friend of mine called "Ganesh" from India won the graphic design award and from Iran another friend "Roqieh Tavakoli" won the prize for her film about iranian carpet in the Tv/Film feature category. :)
the day after that we were free again for shopping and on Friday night at 10:10 p.m we flyed to Doha again in order to return home. :) The journey was finished but lots of new friends came into my life. we are in contact via facebook now and i learned so many things and first of them was that "i need to learn more".

The 4th day

on Wednesday 26th of November they took us for a tour of Dubai. First we went to the persian gulf beach where "Burj Al Arab" is build exactly in front of a very nice hotel called "Atlantis" and the yare both located on "palm Jumeirah" (one of the most famous palms of Dubai- the center one ). since Burj Al Arab's enterance was rather expensive we just took a look from far! and took pictures by the seashore.then we went to Dubai Museum. They really had nothing compare to iranian museums!!! i just took a look & came out! then we had launch in DMC in the open area. it was really nice. and they gave us our certificates after launch. WEll i think i liked to receive my certificate in a more formal ceremony. May be it was better that gave it to us in the Gala dinner before thir highness came. (:?)
in the evening we went to AL Qoze Bowling center and played for 3 hours! very fantastic.we all enjoyed it :D

The 3rd Day

It was another nice day. we went to CNBC building & visited different parts of it. There were a lot of equipments and everything was really professional. when i asked the Graphic Design part that what kind of software they work with they answered "All Adobe products! & even Maya" wow!!!
so i needed to learn more & more, there r still more Adobe products that i dont know. That day i decided to improve my skills and learn new graphical softwares.
we went to MBC channel too but very short bcz of the lack of time, then we returned to DMC (Duabi Media City) and went to a nice, expensive shopping center called Burjuman center.
well nice shopping center with different traditional & modern decorations and nice coffee shops and restaurants.Famous brands & ofcourse very expensive,so not a suitable place for students!
After shopping center they took us to a cruise for dinner. It was another dreamy night. floating on the "Persian Gulf" waters listening to music and letting the wind coddling ur hair :) i loved it. and a real delicious dinner on tables lighted with small blue candles in a romantic atmosphere was something i ll never forget.

The 2nd Day

We went to Duabi Media City (DMC) in the morning. It is a real nice place. A complex of different bulidings and a wide area with flowers and central pool. You can find CNN,mbc,CNBC and many other channels there. They all own huge buildings in the Media City.And Our Exhibition was held on the pool !!!!
yea there were a wooden bridge over the pool which was covered by a white cloth temporary.All the posters, photos and journalistic reports were hanged on that temp wall and my poster was among them!!!
The film & TV feature showhall was in the other part of the bridge were some televisions were installed to show the students's films.
We had a graet! launch in DMC and went back to hotel to go to Desert Safari.
"Desert Safari" was a very nice part of our travel. they took us to desert, we took photos, rided Camels, had dinner & watched Arabic Dance all in a dreamy evening in Desert! i can never forget that night. In Desert Safari there were a young lady who drawn on the peoples's hands by Henna !!! and look it s me with an eastern ornamental on my hand! :D

Flying to Dubai

The 1st day
The flight was at 4:40 a.m Sunday morning 23rd of November from Tehran to Doha by Qatar Airways. The Iranian group was consist of 8 Students from different universitys. 2 of my friends were selected for digital photography, 2 for TV-Film feature/2 for TV Docuemtray/1 for analoge Photography and i was the only student who was selected for Graphic design category among other iranians.
After arrivning in Dubai Airport a driver were waiting there to take us to StarMetro Hotel. It was a nice hotel-apartment.
our chaperones "Imran Cheema" & "Sally Yassine" invited us to the main room for more information about the plan of the festival. Then we had launch and stayed in hotel till the end of the night bcz they asked us not to go out so that we could be lost!!! ;)

Ibdaa awards

:D in iranian calender it was 87/8/7! i received a phone call from Dubai and found out my poster has been accepted in the "Ibdaa awards" student competition!
well it was not my 1st exhibition but the nice part was that those whose works were accepted in exhibition were all invited to Dubai for a week by Dubai Media City host!
yooooooohoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
;)