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I have observed the people who I meet and have no idea about Iranians, judge us very fast based on their understanding from Medias. Fortunately none of the Muslim terrorists has been Iranian from the beginning of this new paranoia but the name of our country is accompanied with this matter.
Last night I was in a birthday party and you could find people from around the globe. Three of the guests got very happy when they heard I am Iranian. They mentioned they already have very great originally Iranian friends. It has happened to me for many times.

People are the same. Those who already got personal experiences, refer to that. The rest are inevitably dependent to Medias.

Racial discrimination

Before travelling to Australia, I was told about a kind of racial discrimination. It’s more than half a year that I am living in here and just once I faced that. An uneducated guy, who wanted to rent one of his rooms but anyhow, doesn’t matter.

I have worked in many different places in the city or out of the city and with different types of the people. I’ve never felt a kind of discrimination in workplace. Four months ago I was working in a kitchen for a couple of weeks. We, staff, had any kind of conversations over there but nobody asked me from where I am! Neither did I. after a while I came to know that it really doesn’t matter. Last day of my job in that spot, the manager asked me:” by the way, where are you from?”

PPP in Sydney and Tehran

There is a concept in economics which is called purchasing power parity. In the website of World Bank we can find the definition of this concept as follows:

“A method of measuring the relative purchasing power of different countries' currencies over the same types of goods and services. Because goods and services may cost more in one country than in another, PPP allows us to make more accurate comparisons of standards of living across countries. PPP estimates use price comparisons of comparable items but since not all items can be matched exactly across countries and time, the estimates are not always robust.”


I would like to implement this concept, not with currencies but regarding purchasing power. Very interesting issue.

Let’s consider this example.

In Australia, an unskilled Australian can earn $15 per hour. Australian means anybody who can legally work inside the country. In Iran the salary of an unskilled worker is max 5000 tooman per day. If the work includes just 8 hours, it means max 700 tooman per hour. To make it easy let’s say 1000 tooman per hour is the salary of an unskilled worker.

Now, we can compare what each of these two workers can buy from their one hour salary. In Sydney which is an expensive city in the world, you can find a $5 steak in a restaurant. So you can buy three steaks or you can buy kg3 minced meat or you can buy kg15 orange in Chinese market. In Iran, with 1000 tooman you can buy a ham sandwich from haida or one kilogram orange or maybe gr200 meat.

I think it doesn’t need more analysis. It’s clear.



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Tehran Prosecutor General Saeed Mortazavi (2nd L) attends the execution by hanging of Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar in Tehran August 2, 2007. Iran hanged Majid and Hossein, the killers of a judge, Hassan Moghaddas, who had jailed several reformist dissidents, before a crowd of hundreds of people on Thursday. The banner reads: "We give our condolences to all our judiciary colleagues and the deceased family on the anniversary of the martyrdom of Hassan Moghaddas". REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN)

change

Now I have many issues in my mind that I forgot what I intended to write. I have learnt a lot from the time I am in Sydney. I tried to be willing to change. Some sort of changes are easy and some others more difficault.

I would be happy if you tell me what your beggist changes have been during recent years. Doesnt matter if you are in the country or out of. We can share them with each other.

I was having lunch in a Japanese resturant in Oxford Street with my friend that I found gays and lesbians demonstration.
I couldnt find the pictures of that demonstration but I will write about their current demands from the government.
There are some areas in Sydney that are famous for their residents, homosexuals. They have their own community, bars and funs and now demand for more rights.

Long way to go! some of those guys who recently were hanged in Iran, were homosexuals!

image

A friend was talking about how people are aggressive while asking about an address or something like that in streets. Of course it’s absolutely different in some other countries. I can remember the first week that I arrived in Sydney and was lost! (Mentally and physically), I was looking for an address to visit a flat. I asked a guy about that. He didn’t know the address but told me: “hang on a sec! I will ask from a friend.”
He called his friend but unfortunately he didn’t know it either. He suggested his friend to check the address through internet. They found the address and I was impressed as I was in rush to get there as soon as possible.

I believe there are some sort of social issues which are interrelated. I found this picture in a blog.

What’s your idea? How can this girl be smiling while walking in the street 20 years from now? Can she one day forget the image what she saw that day? I hope so.

Still many people have general ideas about Iran because of a movie which is called: “Not Without My Daughter”. I guess you know the story of the movie. Shit! But how come just this single movie can play a key role in the understanding of the foreigners about our country?
Uneducated people judge Iran and Iranians by what they have seen in TV and not deep and sophisticated Medias. Recently an Australian channel (SBS) broadcasted many movies about Iran, especially desperate Iranians who wanted to escape from the borders to Turkey or Iraq.
Few nights ago I watched the last part of this movie in the title of "unveiled" which I found it well produced and reasonable.

Telstra stadium in Olympic park is the biggest stadium in Australia. Usually football (football is different from soccer in here) matches are held there.
I have worked there for few times on Saturdays. A company is responsible for selling food and drink in different level outlets. Like the outlets of Mc Donald’s and similar food outlets, the management structure and related work are exactly the same. The companies which out sources man power, send their staff to different outlets to work in a short shift.
So, employees (most of them students) from another companies, handle the business in the event. There is just one supervisor in each outlet that manages the process.

Supervisors play a key role in this business. They have to allocate their resources in a way that can increase outlet productivity. The demand is so high in the events and outlets just have to supply as much as they can. Everything is nearly 50% more expensive than in the market but nobody cares about that as it’s the time to enjoy the life.

Last time, my outlet supervisor offered me to work as cashier. Usually people are scared of that because of the high responsibility of dealing with cash. I accepted as I was really interested to evaluate the sell of one outlet in an event as a rule of thumb. In our outlet there were six cashiers and I received nearly AUS$2500 in three hours. It means nearly AUS$15000 our outlet received in that night. There are six outlets in each level which means AUS$90,000 per level. There are six levels in the stadium. Yap! Nearly AUS$500,000 just in food outlets in an event was exchanged between individuals and a company. I didn’t consider the sell of bars which usually have better business than food ones.

Good economic situation of individuals can guarantee the business success of companies and corporations. It means if individuals get paid well, indirectly companies and business owners would have more income and revenue. This fact can easily be observed in Australia.

Yesterday and today I had a strange and shitty job. I was supposed to shower an 86 years old lady. I don’t like to write more about that but I have a lot of things to say.

Last night I had a short shift in Olympic park (Telstra stadium). I was working as a kitchen hand with a lot of people from around the globe. Actually it was not my first time working there. Last time I worked there as cashier. So, once I will write about this sort of business (food and sport) in Australia.

My today’s job

Today again I had a three hour job as a carer. I had to take care of a 60 years old man which leaves in a nursing home. The company already had provided some sort of information about him.

I was there in time. Nurses were helping Tony to get dressed. He was on the wheelchair. After introducing us, he very soon demanded for cigarette. His cigarettes and lighter were on me and I knew that he was allowed to smoke maximum 4 cigarettes in a three hours shift. He smoked two of them in spot.

I was supposed to take him to a pub in nearby the nursing home and again I was supposed to confine him of drinking more than 2 pints of beer. After spending time in a pub he asked me to buy him more cigarettes from a shop.
_Well! I can just buy food and drinks for you.
_yes! But they won’t know that, and you have enough money for that.
_yes I have but it’s just for food and drink.
_ok! Smoke is my food then.

I just laughed and showed him that I liked what he said. I think it was the best approach as he could get dangerous. We walked down the road and got to the nursing home. I had still one hour to spend with him and as he was quiet, I was getting bored.

_do you like to tell me about your life Tony?
He looked at me and started talking about his life. He has got married for three times and was regretted of divorcing his first wife.
_then, why did you divorce?
_ I wanted to live in countryside but she didn’t.
_ was it the only reason? Did you love her?
_it was the only reason and I loved her far more than the next ones. I should have stayed with her.
In that time he met a landlady from countryside who owned 157 horses and land as well. He got crazy of her (or maybe the number of the horses) and married her.


He lives there now in nursing home or cursing home, in his view.

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A joke regarding the latest confessions that Iranian government broadcasted.

Kashi’s last post about shajarian’s last concert.