Chit–Chat
March 16 2008
A few days ago, I looked at the statistics of my web site. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the pages of
this site have been visited more than ten thousand times every week and from many countries. After being
on the net for only two months, this trend is astonishing.
First of all, I like to officially thank God almighty for sending us the Internet. So we the people on earth can
connect without supervision.
I also like to thank the appropriate departments in the divine counsel responsible for providing the high-
speed connection in some countries and urge them to continue the good work and expand the service
everywhere.
Thousands of images of my artworks and pages of my writings have been downloaded.
The most fascinating statistics I noticed was the number of times my own picture on first page was
downloaded. Almost more than any other item on the site, hundreds of times a week! If I knew this would
happen, swear to god I would use the Paint Brush software to make myself a little more beautiful or at least
post Tom Cruise’s photo instead. But it’s too late now!
Thank you so much for visiting my site. Please keep reading and referring my site to your loved ones (and to
ones you don’t care for as much.)
I will continue writing my Life Story and gradually upload pieces of the novel I am in the process of writing.
My poetry, satire and paintings we will also be posted in the future.
Chit–Chat
May 5 2008
My dear web site visitors,
During the last two weeks, I tried to write a Chit-Chat and every time I sat down to do it I was inspired to
do a creative work. I had an itch to paint or to write so I immediately took a few anti-Histamines to relieve
the itching symptoms and they didn’t work. It must be spring, the allergy season! Believe it or not, I sneezed
2-3 times in every paragraph of this text you’re reading now. So I recommend you to wash your eyes after
reading these words with soap and hot water, my thoughts might be contagious!
A few points I wanted to mention.
1. I’ve noticed many of the viewers had tried to use the contact form and were not able to reach me.
Please use my email address stavakkol@aol.com to contact me directly. I always value your comments,
suggestions, critiques and happy to respond to your questions one on one.
2. I will finish my life soon. No. No, It didn’t come out right. I meant to say that I’m going to finish
“MY Life Story” soon. The truth is that writing non-fiction is not my forte. There are so many issues I must
consider in writing a memoir. And I don’t like to fictionalize people and events in my autobiography. I
cannot write about everything and everyone as freely as I wish, what at a quandary that is lack of total
freedom. But I’ll do my best.
3. As much as I like to write in Farsi, it’s very difficult to do so. Microsoft Word does not properly
recognize complex characters especially ours because we write from right to left and that confuses the hell
out of Microsoft. Sometimes I have to retype the same sentence over and over again to get it correctly. And
then when I upload the text on the site, it gets corrupted because the site manager software doesn’t
recognize the characters either. Corruption has penetrated everywhere. This is so sad and frustrating.
Thanks again for visiting my site and recommending it to your friends and don’t even bother denying your
involvement. The number of viewers has grown and I know you are the culprit. Please keep reading and
referring my site to your friends, family and total strangers especially the last group that has so many
members.