April 19, 2017

It has been a while since I visited this space.
I am so glad I managed to access it again.
Many things happened since 2012...
5 years I stopped blogging. In between Blogging has become a new different thing....
I don't know where to start... I broke a bone...My mom got cancer...My neck has CDD...
Seems like am falling apart...
and like an old lady I now feel thankful that I have offsprings thru whom I can live...
Does my life come that to this.


After reviewing my posts of nine years ago...I came to realize that losing and finding one's self is cyclic..
There will always be something to knock you down. And our job is to stand up and keep whatever it is we want to do...

Quote of the Day:

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Michel de Montaigne

To the only man who believed me: dad. Today is your day and I made this flower for you...

Flower

Updates: Conversing with Myself

So, I see that I didn't blog for more than a year now!
Many Things happened.
I am a mom now and my baby will turn one in two weeks :D
That for sure, keeps me BUSY ;)

So, I am trying to embellish my post with a nice pic and I discover that the upload function has been remodeled. Basically, I am limited to google apps or links to pics, or mobile uploads. Can't access my HD?? Why do you complicate our lives?!

So, no pic for today. and yes, this is the last SO.

Almost lost it

Ooof, today, donno why, I was checking my blog that I've deserted since I moved to .... Desertland -___- And to my surprise, I've been told, it was "deleted". O_O

Naturally, I freaked out and started looking for an answer to its disappearance. ?_?

(...) Bottom line, I learnt that it was about to get extinct if I don't update it!!!!
So here I am saving the life of my beloved friend, My Blog; doing some mouth-to-mouth resuscitation !
I hope it works and this gets me back on my blogfeet!

Hurray, am back in the game baby :D

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!