About
Identity
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity” -Charles Dickens
As Dickens would have it, I was born in Tehran, Iran the day before Christmas. I spent several years of my childhood in Poland. Over my life I had the fortune of living in Northern and Southern Iran. I came to Canada in fifth grade and lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia until I began my studies in Montréal.
I am an Asimovite and a Trekkie, and not a scary one, I promise. I live on books, movies, and science journals… specially if they pertain to public health… or the brain. That’s right, I am half vampire/half zombie and I have an insatiable thirst for knowledge, no matter how obscure or (what some may call) useless. The previous statement is half true.
Some believe that we are all part of a magnificently choreographed dance, others believe that we are stardust floating aimlessly in a chaotic universe. Me? I am just trying to find where I stand, my karass, and how this wheel must roll.
At the Montréal World Health Organization Simulation (MonWHO), a festival of minds I’ve participated in since the inaugural 2007 edition. I believe here (08), representing Norway, I am pondering the possibilities of an international system that allows for free migration of health-care worker without draining health-care resources from developing and least developed nations.
Or, maybe… what’ll be for lunch. Read more »
Raison d’être
The phrase ‘Sea Change’, as with many other wonderful idioms of the English language, comes from Shakespeare (The Tempest) and refers to a great transformation, for better or worse.
“Nothing of him that doth fade.
But that doth suffer a sea-change.
Into something rich and strange”
The design of this site features, on a seasonal basis, the various paintings of ukiyo-e master Hiroshige.
