I had no lectures to follow today, so I'm sitting home, studying and wondering why the Macro-Economics’ book is covering much more than what Dr. H.J.F.M. Gremmen [1] covers in class?

Still, I think he is one of the best professor’s we have had till now. Thanks to him, every time I drink a cup of Douwe Egberts’ coffee at the university, I know how my 35cents are helping the economy of three continents.

I am taking a break right now. In which I want to write about life goes on in Tehran [2], written by a friend of a friend of a friend on the net:

"To show that regardless of what any president would have you imagine, despite what any media outlet would have you believe, life goes on in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran"

Still I have to do one more chapter for Macro, a whole chapter for Accounting and many assignments for mathematics. And this second block has just started. There I go again… I am worrying too much. This is A BREAK, which means “leave the thinking for after the break”.

But we all know I can’t shut my mind off. I was just wondering around the net, reading the blogs I adore.

One of them reminded me of the movie Syriana [3], which I saw with my movie-buddy last year. Which reminds me that I’m going to stay at my movie-buddy this weekend, and am so excited about the new movie’s he is going to introduce me…

Feeling lost at my column already?

That's exactly how life goes on in Tehran. You can't follow it, but get parts of it little by little, and at the end, just when you think you got the whole point, you get lost again.

Ok let's finish-up with this next phrase from Syriana then:

"When a country has five percent of the world’s population but spends fifty percent of the world’s military spending, that country’s persuasive power is in decline"