Recent Happenings

haven't been feeling like blogging lately, but here's an attempt.
Went to the all-day concert at the Olympic Island on Sunday with Hoder and Marjan.

If you're a Vancouverite, think about a HUGE arts county fair. Or a tiny Woodstock, and you'll get the picture.

It was a showcase of the up and coming Canadian rock bands. The line-up included Sloan, Sam Roberts, The Stills, Pilate, Constantines, Broken Social Scene, Buck 65, The Arcade Fire, and Death From Above. If you're not in Canada, I don't think you'd know any of these bands.

To be honest, I only knew a few of them as well. The music itself wasn't bad, but still when you think about it, a similar event in England would probably feature incomparably better music. Nothing really stood out, except Sam Robert, who'se a solid performer, but even his music isn't highly innovative or ground-breaking or brilliant. It's categorically good, but that's about all you can say about it. His performance was really lively though.

Overall, a very nice day. My mom also left for Vancouver on the following day, so it's quiet now and I gotta start preparing to move to my new place in September. Although my mom has already boxed a lot of the stuff.

What else? I'm really busy with work these days, and I've reached an apparent deadlock in my simulations and I'm not getting the result I want to, which is frustrating, but hopefully I'll find out what the problem is.

Finally, Ehsan's blogging again, and checkout his photoblog for pictures from his trip to Iran. I've also added Marjan's blog (Persian) and A Box of Chocolate to my blogroll, both good blogs, too bad Marjan doesn't update more frequently.