gaijin.outta.nihon

I just left Nihon.

I don't feel anything yet...

Must be the jet lag

:)

We'll see.

Anyways, it was a nice experience with its joy and bitterness. I'm glad I was a gaijin in nihon for half a dozen years ... Today, as I reach home, I might be a gaijin.at.home for a while before I fly to a new gaijin land.

Mmm, may be I am simply a gaijin.on.earth, tout court!

Aren't we all....after all...

No one truly belongs here. It is a stand-by state before one lands either right or left...The middle isn't!

I'll take the rain, R.E.M

Mission Accomplished

Few months a go I set a challenge to accomplish and wrote about it under this thread: Two months to die

I am proud today to say : " STOP CHRONO ". Mission Accomplished!

Will write more about it when time allows. gotta go to sleep now, am racing the minutes...
am glad that everything in life has an end...!

Hamdullah!

motto du moment

- You don't find Time for important things, you make it! - Prof. Randy Pausch

- Si on veut, on peut!

- Do it while you can!

- If you really want something, you get it!

with a little help from good friends

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
with a little help from my friends...

Honesty, communication and friendship

(...)I guess, in the end, it is all, a matter of maturity and a willing to trust!!!. I came to realize that none comes with time. Maturity is a byproduct of experience and perhaps that could be related to time... Willing to trust however, comes from within, regardless of time, though it is built and maintained over time...

Thesis Acknowledgments

The work in this thesis is dedicated to the memory of my loving father H.A (1944-2003)

Acknowledgment

Foremost, I would like to thank my supervisor, Professor Y.O who has been of a great intellectual support. He shared with me a lot of his expertise and research insight. He gave me of his time and helped me go through the hard way with constant encouragement and influential discussions. I am deeply grateful to his valuable guidance and directives. Simply, I am ever indebted to his believing in me and constantly pushing me to give the best of me.

Also, I cannot but express my sincere gratitude to Professor Y.K who has been my first significant figure in Japan. His thoughtful advice often served to give me a sense of direction during my PhD studies. I admire his bright wisdom and his distinguished character. My solemn high esteem to the eminent scholar he is.

I would also like to show my genuine appreciation to the other members of my PhD committee who monitored my work and took effort in reading and providing me with valuable comments on earlier versions of this thesis: Professor H.Y, Professor S.Y and Professor U.Y. I thank you all.

I am very thankful as well, to the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Government of Japan (Monbukagakusho) for granting me a scholarship to pursue my studies in their good country, allowing me thus, to live one of the most prominent experiences of my life.

I also would like to thank my colleagues and lab mates for their support and positive input, in particular Mr. M.I whose cheerful attitude gave me lots of encouragement; Mr. S.I, Mr. M.Y, Mr. N.U, Mr. K.T and Mr. Y.M for their tremendous contribution with the simulations; and Jean Marc for his valuable comments and insightful discussions during our seminars and presentations. I expand my thanks to all the staff in our university for their assistance and kindness.

I am tempted to individually thank all of my friends but as the list might be long and for fear I might omit someone, I will simply and genuinely say: Thank you to you all for your love, care and trust. In particular I would like to cite: Souhir.H, Inga.M, Mattias.W for their constant presence and care and instant moral support.

I owe much to my dearest neighbors Hagane-san, Sakai-san and Virginia C. Their love and bighearted manners provided me with a home like home in the last two years.

Eventually, I deeply thank my Family: uncles, aunts and cousins for believing in me and for being proud of me. Words cannot express the love and gratitude I have for my sisters, Manel and Imen. Most importantly, I would like to thank and dedicate this work to my loving mother who is the angel that constantly watches over my head and whose simple voice gives me the necessary strength to hold on and persevere. Last but not least, I also wish to dedicate this to my late host parents Mr. and Ms. Yamada.

I cannot finish without acknowledging how eternally grateful and thankful I am to The One, The Everlasting, The All Determiner , The Trustee, The Dependable and The Protecting Friend that guides me, teaches me to be patient and to never give up. Thank you Dear Lord!

when a frog meets a cat

what do you think is gonna happen?
We'll see...

The cat is highly motivated and a schemer..the frog just likes to jump. jump around, over, on ..whatever...and make noise when it rains.
so the cat is trying to catch the frog who is trying to jump the cat.

A mouse's passing by...it is attracting the cat but still the cat is turning around the frog...May be the cat wants a rat.

As of the frog...he needs a princess to turn him into the Prince, he is supposed to be..or at least, could be..if he stops trying to mess around with cats or alike frogs.

The princess, however is watching the cat-frog games and wonders whether she should whisper her magic words to undo the spell or walk away to meet a prince who isn't in disguise.

Something is holding her back...Her faith in Good.

a Tunisian Tale for Children ...

Once a quick-witted man lived in Tunisia. His name was Juha.
Juha was a merchant and sold traditional men's caps made from red felt and wool and decorated with a tassel. They are also called _Shashiya_. He bought them up on the market and sold them in villages.
Once he dropped with fatigue near a hill and fell asleep. And the hill was inhabited by monkeys. The monkeys saw the baskets and carried away all the shashiyas.
When Juha woke up, an amazing view saluted him. There were monkeys with shashiyas on their heads everywhere - on the ground, on the trees, around him. He begged them to give him his goods back, cried at them, tried to take the shashiyas from them, but everything was in vain. The monkeys would run away, make a mouth at him and mimic his gestures.
Hot with rage,Juha threw his shashiya on the ground and the monkeys did the same. Now all the shashiyas were lying on the ground and he only had to pick them up.

Juha remembered very well how he managed to make fool of the cunning monkeys. Very soon he used this method again, in a different situation.
Juha had a donkey. Once somebody stole the donkey just from the pasture. He immediately set out in search of it, crying loudly,
"Oh, people! Give me my donkey back or I will do as my father did!!! I don't want to do this, but I don't want to stay without a donkey!"
The thieves were frightened, gave him his donkey back and asked him, "
"What did your father do?"
"He bought another donkey," said Juha.

:)

exchanging glances

The expression of his eyes has changed.
where she used to see arrogance, she now sees intimidation.
When their eyes share a connection, some light bursts from his pupil and he can't stare for a long while.
She, however, is blinded by the lightening.
She smiles away as she hears his heart beat.
His soft blue-sky-in-a-sunny-day eyes are a safe cloud she likes to land on when it winds or rains.
His intimidation humbles her and warms her being.
She dares to see through his blue sky while he gets rooted in her grounded earthy eyes.

Now here she tells about her grounds.
they have a special green grass that reflects the light straight into her pupil and she can't stare.
She is intimidated.
When the other smiles, his eyes are reduced to their best: a ray of shining light that enlightens every corner in her heart and she feels her inside uncovered. she barely swallows cause she feels he can see her oesophagus...and either closes her eyes or turns away. Sometimes she dares to look into the shining sun, while she gets blinded, he gets a connection to his soul that scares him away and he stops smiling cutting his ray of light away. oof, peace now. and they replay the same eye game each time their souls feel the need to communicate.