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About Me

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Hi! My name is Noah. Noah Kasra. I was born the day baby Jesus was born! Yeah, Christmas is my birthday too. That makes me a CAPRICON!.

Traditional Capricon Traits:

Generous and Warmhearted
High-Achiever and Hard-worker
Humorous and Funny
Faithful and Loving Well, that's me folks!

(what flattering! kaff kardam!)

I was born here in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, USA:

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But I am originally from a country with deep blue skies and towering mountains, Iran:

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University of MemphisAlthough I have spent many years going back and forth between the US and Iran (hence adopting both cultures simultaneously), but I was lucky enough to spend some of my high school years in Iran. The days I spent in Iran has a different story. I had a zillion friends there. And memories I can never forget. Time passes and robs us like a vicious thief of all the good memories we have. When I was a kid, I read a lot of scifi stuff. And so eventually I ended up studying science, computer science at University of Arkansas. But later on I found out computer programming is not what I would like to do for the rest of my life, so I decided to get a second degree in Management Information Systems from University of Memphis. At this moment, I am working on my MBA (Master's in Business Administration) in Memphis. I joined FedEx -- the largest transportation and package delivery company in the world -- three years ago and currently I am working there as a Project Manager in the field of IT, e-commerce and ebusiness solutions.

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Lets now turn to music! My VERY favorite rock band is DREAM THEATER!! Though I do admire some others like Pink Floyd and U2.

My favorite kind of music is definately Tekno and Trans! Just put a cool Tekno cd in your cd player in the car, roll down the window, turn on the volume va eshgh o safa!! I hate dombuli Iranian music, but I do listen to some nice Persian pop or hard music... like works from Assar, O-Hum, Esfahani, Aryan, and the late Farhad. I love Iranian traditional music! Its almost majestic! Click here to listen to a traditional Persian folk song.

If I were to become a musician myself, the music that I would be making would sound similar to the works of people like Michael Stearns, Steve Roach, Dan Gibson, and Hennie Bekker, all great musicians.

I believe that I would have been highly successful if I had taken an art career earlier in my life. My artistical talents are pretty good. Unfortunately, we only live a short 60 years dominated by constraints. And as far as I know, we only live once! Then its fading away into oblivion for eternity. (sad music in background).

And here is some recent artwork:
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I am a member of GREENPEACE. It makes me sad to see how some people irreversibly and carelessly destroy what took nature to create thru eons of evolution. Help save our planet! Get involved!



Even though I'm an outdoors freak and I defy couch potatoism But I do like to watch some movies. Specially movies that have more food for the mind than for the eye. Some good movies I remember are:

The Never Ending Story

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  • Favorite TV channels: THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL and THE TRAVEL CHANNEL.
  • Favorite cartoons: Catdog, Tom & Jerry, and Pink Panther. And of course Japanese Anime
  • Favorite States: Alaska, California.
  • Favorite trees: Almost all giant conifers (e.g. Redwoods, Cypress, Pines)
  • Favorite climate: Mediterranean (northern California for example)
  • Favorite cars: European SUVs (example), as well as Swedish and German cars.
  • Favorite remote culture: Japanese
  • Favorite things I like to draw: Japanese Anime
  • Favorite animals:
    • Land: The large cats (e.g. Tigers, Mountain Lions)
    • Air: The cool birds of prey (Eagles, Hawks, Owls)
    • Sea: Dolphins and Whales
  • Favorite Soccer Team: Juvesntus
  • Favorite Actors: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stalone, Antonio Banderas, and Abol-fazl Poorarab!!
  • Favorite Actresses: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Meg Ryan, and Katayoon Riahi!
  • Favorite physicist: Richard Feynman
  • Favorite mathematician: Gauss
  • Favorite function: The Gamma function
  • Favorite graduate school: UCSD (UC schools rule), University of Washington. Sometimes it greatly saddens me to see that I did not get the chance to study at schools like WU, and that I will probably not have the opportunity later on in life.
  • Favorite library: The UCSD Geisel Library
  • Best computer game I ever enjoyed: Quake III
  • Favorite foods: Fesenjoon and Chelo Kabab!
  • Favorite airline: British Airways
  • Favorite persian restaurant: "Tiare" or "Namakdoon" at Hotel Laleh.
  • Favorite city: Sanfrancisco!

    Favorite Sports: Soccer and Karate.

  • Things I currently like to spend money on: Books, music, and fragrances!
  • Things I really hate: people whose cell phones start ringing in the middle of a lecture.
  • Things I really love: giving and getting gifts.

  • Some opinions:
    • Biomedical science/technology is currently where physics was in the early 20th century.
    • We will never be able to leave Earth and inhabit other planets like in the movies.
    • Most girls look much prettier without make-up.
    • Hollywood sucks.
    • Humans are boastful arrogant creatures exploding with pride.
    • Mean people suck.
    • Greatest gift of all: health (salaamati)
    • Greatest enemy of all: time
    • Greatest treasure of all: love (even though it really doesnt exist)
    • Women are often kind, emotional, and highly social beings. (more than men). But they can also be frighteningly vicious and cold hearted (more than men again).
    • Women say that men view them as sexual objects, but women are in denial that they view men as success objects.
    • What people send me in the mail:

Good friends are one of life's most valuable things.

And here is a scanned picture of my very own post card from The White House given to me by Penny Wolf signed by President Clinton:


Also, heres a photo I've scanned of President Clinton back home in Arkansas.

I love this guy! :)

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