The Book of Life

Past

Bahram was born in a very small metropolitan city called Tehran (facts|photos). Tehran is the capital of Iran, one of the biggest tiny countries in the world (facts|photos).

History

There are many rumors about his ancestors. Over sixty years ago, in 1941 when World War II was hot, a British soldier killed an old man in a remote village of Southern Iran (Persia). That old man was actually General Ali Akbaroddoleh-ye Deilamee, one of the founders of the Notorious Persia Resistance (NPR) that after some years Americans found out about this acronym and used it for National Public Radio.

Anyways, one of his colleagues, Colonel Younes Longusian, could survive the battle in that remote area and made it to the big city of Shiraz. He married one of the nieces of Shah (the King) and started a small company in the vicinity of Shiraz. It didn't take long for him to build two new factories and some other stuff to become the second most famous man in that region.

One of colonel's second cousins, Esmaeel Shooskari, made it to Harvard business school in 1967 and got A's in all of his courses and graduated as a PhD and found a job at the University of Tehran in 1975. He got three patents and several publications before he left the country because of the revolution in 1979. His niece, Fariba Shamghali-gholi, who got her PhD in university of Brown the previous year, came back to Iran to replace him as the professor and soon she became the professor of the year for three consecutive years. She died in an accident while she was in her black Mercedes Benz chased by a stranger in downtown London. The stranger was her lawyer who just wanted to tell her that her mom just died and she left her $1.7 billion in one of the Swiss Banks branches in Kish Island. Her son, Ostoghoddous "Osi" Hooshanparvar, got all the money and built a very huge house in Tehran's Karegar Avenue...

So what is the relationship between Bahram and Osi? Bahram used to live in the same street!

School

He was the top student in his class when he was going to the elementary and middle school. It didn't take that long for him to understand that there are some people who are doing better that he does at school when he made it to one of the best public schools in Tehran, Alborz high school. Although he could never be one of the top 10 students in the whole school, he could manage it to get into the high-ranked Sharif University of Technology as a civil engineering student.

Question: Is the best school everything?

After three years of being in the program, he realized that he had studied more computer science related books than civil engineering! So he started to think about changing his major to Computer Science but he had to start almost all over again. So he decided to take a chance and apply to American schools to see if he can get admission in any Computer Science related subject.

When the second derivative becomes zero: In March 2001 he received a mail that changed his life forever. Voilà! He got accepted in the IT PhD program at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (site)

 

Present

Bahram is currently studying Biomedical Engineering/BioImaging at the University of Tennesse at Memphis. He finished his Master's in the field of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Question: A civil engineer? or a computer dude? or a biomedical engineer?

Good question but there is no correct answer to that. Of the above three, he prefers to consider himself a confused computer dude! It's fun for him to learn everything he really likes to learn and he seems to be more enthusiastic about learning computer and information technology stuff. Although he doesn't consider himself a well-trained civil engineer, he believes that he has a good engineering understanding that makes him want to solve everybody's problems ... so he talks alot!

Question: A computer geek?

His favorite quote is "Life would be much easier if we had the source code"! He spends several hours per day at his computers at home and school coding and coding. He has high-speed internet connection at home although he doesn't have money to payback his credit card debts. He loves to listen to internet radios and mp3's. 90 percent of his friends are all computer geeks. Is he a computer geek?

No for three reasons:

First: He knows how to spell G-I-R-L

Second: He actually proposed to his girlfrined on a pacific beach, where there were no computers

Third: He was drinking with frineds when the clock showed 12:00 midnight on Jan 01, 2000, instead of worrying about Y2K bug that was going to destroy the world

Other Activities

Because his life has always been multi-dimensional, he is always looking for something new in his life. He loves learning about new technologies as much as he loves to go around and find out more about the place he is living in. He has already been to many States of the US in an effort to know the American culture better. He plays ping pong, soccer, volleyball pool, and piano every now and then. He can't wait to go skiing with his cousin in California. He also likes to hang out with friends some times and drink some beer. His cat keeps his feminie side active while playing poker with his poker buddies makes sure the masculine side doesn't get overlooked! More activities? He used to update a Farsi weblog on the web that he had to close because of the thesis pressure. He also spends time with his closest friends Shervin and Farhad. He has recently started another weblog and a podcast with Farhad. Take a look: www.didigoftam.com

 

Future

If you know what happens in the future, good for you! I don't, so I believe in the following phrase:

Carpe Diem! (translation)

Do I want to get rich? Yes. Do I want to be happy? Do I want to become a CEO? Yes and no. Do I want to stay in the US? Yes. Do I want to buy a house? Yes. Do I want to buy a BMW? Yes although Lexus is a close second. Do I want to add positive energy to this world? Yes. Do I want to go to Heaven? Absolutely not if certain people I know are supposed to go to the same heaven.

I try to stay here as much as possible and enjoy my limited time on the earth. I am enjoying present for the time being. In the future, I still enjoy the present at that time. I will think about heaven and hell when I die!

 

Last Update: September 2007