The things that happened to me today and what I am/have been thinking (recently)...
*My dearest English teacher from Ireland at my high school days seems to have finally gained her happiness! (Or be getting?) Anyway, I really hope all of those who I know live their lives as they want to. In these days, I have been thinking like this, seriously.
*Looking back on those days in Syria and Kuwait, I recently have realised again that the Arabs are strongly based on their mercantile mind-set. Although I am not going to generalize them all at all, I do not want to stick with my certain experiences and I am always talking in general, (1) they think things in a quite positive way (thus sometimes they do not tend to pay an attension for self-examination), (2) they also tend to count on and seek a favor in return in an obvious way (meanly, they do not care others' current positions, conditions and feelings if they want to ask a favor of others, especially when they strongly believe that they have already done enough for those people and they have rights to be given a help, which is mostly and generally considered in the West or at least in Japan to be completed by themselves, (3) they do not tend to hesitate to say to others whatever they want, compared to the other cultures that I know.
Even from only these 3 points, you can arrive at some results. I have stayed in Iran just 8 days, I do not have any knowledge of Persian and I have never compared which language is used on the Internet or books more, Persian or Arabic, but
I really love how the Arab think and their culture of course (indeed I felt falling in love with them), but the Persian culture or their way of thinking excite my sympathy more than the Arab do.
*I would like to welcome or at least accept any criticism and survive any kind of it. I hate those who pretend to be tragic heroines. When I see those persons who have the opposite tendencies and characters from what I prefer, I try to be back to the basics and I reassure that I am not that bad.