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graduate student's daily life

http://dreamsandstruggles.blogspot.com/

A blog about the sorrow and the joy that I encounter in my life of graduate student in Japan and far away from my Tunisia!

Added on: Jan 24th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: dreams
Listed in: Beliefs & Causes Lifestyle
Tags: personal development japan reading tunisia studies faith & peace

Recent Posts

Novels in Arabic by Alaa Al Aswany

Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 06:26 in book, arabic

I grow up reading novels and texts by prominent Egyptian writers and thinkers such as Taha Hussein, Nawal Sadawy, Kacem Amine, Tawfiq Al Hakim, Najib Mahfouz, and many others. I borrowed these books from my father’s collection. Sometimes, I envy m...
Origami tessellations

Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 18:40 in book, origami

I thought that folding along crease lines is the only way to make origamis... until... I start exploring origami tessellation. The twisting capability of the paper, as material, is elegantly used in origami tessellation. In this "new" kind of origami...
Miscellaneous

Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 07:47 in Nihon, miscellaneous

Last Sunday was sunny and warm. Thus, I decided to ride my bicycle to the center.Christmas decorations are already up! Japanese Christians are minority in Japan (about 1% of population according to Wikipedia). And yet, Christmas festivities are popul...
Pierre de Coubertin

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 05:16 in book, sport, peace

Recently, I enjoyed very much reading Davida Kristy's book “Coubertin's Olympics, how the games began”. It is a biography of the life of Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympic games. The baron Pierre de Coubertin was born i...
Couscous this Sunday

Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 02:00 in book, food

I keep a “ritual”: preparing couscous the first Sunday of every month. Tunisian couscous can be found in Japan: Couscous OnLine store Japanese stores for international food products such as YaMaya. The Halal shop of Tsukuba Islamic Asso...
Dido\'s problem

Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 06:12 in mathematics, carthage

The legendary Phoenician princess Dido (عليسة) founded Carthage (814 B.C). The city, then, possessed economic, cultural, and military power in the Mediterranean during Punic and Roman eras. There is a mathematical problem named after Dido:"Giv...