Understanding Fourier transform with..MANGA

[In the lab]

-Amani what you are doing?
-(With full confidence) Reading a manga!
- ^^; ??
-... but don't worry it's about Fourier transform (^_^)

This is a book that I found in the lab's books shelf. The title says "understanding Fourier transform by Manga"..I love it!
I "understood" Fourier transform in my undergrad days once but I'm ready to "understand" it 100 times if you offer it in the form of Manga! （＾▽＾）

The face of the girl to the left in the middle part is hilarious!

The series also has books for many other subjects like Differentiation, Integration, Statistics..
Actually you can find almost anything explained by manga here, but today was the first time I get my hands on one of these.
Now excuse me, I'm busy with manga reading so see you next post!

満開！Full bloom!

Some pictures I took today in Ueno park and the area around it.

Kyuudou .. me want..

cutest thing ever （≧ω≦）

That's all for today!

Two years old!

I'm exactly 2 years old in Japan now. Time really flies!
It feels like yesterday, the day when I wrote the post celebrating one year here!
Will anyone tell the time to slow down a little bit? T_T

One semester to go! wish me luck, I really need it!!!

家でやろう！ Please do it at home!

I have been thinking to write about this for a very long time!

「家でやろう:: Please do it at home」 is a series of "Manner posters" that Tokyo Metro started since April 2008 and publishes one each month since that time.
You can see these around all stations along the Tokyo Metro lines.

The goal of these posters is to encourage "good manners" by pointing out "bad manners" that people should avoid while using trains.
In each poster,one bad behavior is pointed out in a very easy to understand picture, and a small message explaining that behavior is included.
Some examples :

What's so nice about these is that they directly hit the point!
I don't want to go through explaining how great Japan is and compare it to other places, but I believe that the first step for any improvement in any society is to ADMIT that there is something wrong that needs to be changed. This is where Japan succeeds and others,unfortunately, fail.
More are available on the Tokyo Metro page.

Entrance exams results announcement at TOUDAI

This is an old video from 2007 but 2 days ago we had something similar in the university. I was almost moved to tears when I saw people making a new successful step in their lives.



The university cheering team congratulating the new students



Congrats all new students! (wishing to go back again to my undergrad days!)

Pi meets i

Now this is the funniest thing I've seen in a while!

First sunset of 2010

Happy New Year Everybody!!

People are usually interested in the first SUNRISE(初日の出) rather than sunset.. but since I'm a late riser-especially in winter- sunset was good enough for me.

This is today's beautiful sunset with fuji san.. nothing can be more nihonppoi than seeing fujisan on the first day of the year.. (except that I wasn't lucky enough to see it in my first dream of the year..).

For more info on new year traditions in Japan, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_New_Year

Wish you a year full of success and a bunch of dreams coming true!!

Long time no sketching..

It has been a looong time since I last drew a sketch(like more than one year).. here is what I drew last week.

The shading might not be so good but I like the resulting character in general!

はーやく来い来いお正月～♪

JLPT1 next July!!

I took the JLPT2 exam today!
I did well in the vocabulary/kanji and listening parts but had some difficulty with the reading part.
But in general I did good! Results will be out in mid February .. aa long time to wait..

Next year will go for level1 !

美しい東大：：Beautiful TOUDAI

@三四郎池
Today's best shots at SANSHIROU pond!
It was late afternoon when I took the pictures that's why they look a little dark.
I should have gone earlier today when it was still sunny. Anyway, hope you'll enjoy today's shots!

See you next post~

Welcome a new blogger!

Ichigo chan started her own blog!

http://ichigo-mi-chan.blogspot.com/

ganbare! big sis is rooting for you!!

The count down to the JLPT2

Sorry for the long silence!!

One week is left for the JLPT.
I chose to take level 2 this time.

Last week I was invited to take a mock exam for the NEW JLPT.
People who follow the JLPT news know that starting 2010 the test will have 5 levels instead of 4, with a new level between the original 3 and 2 levels.
I was assigned to take this new level in the mock exam. Completed all the sections and at last filled a newspaper large questionnaire , got 2000 yen for my cooperation in taking the exam and filling the questionnaire and went back home.

My feedback about this new level(called N3) : You can get the feeling it is between L3 and L2 .. but it's kind of closer to L3.
As an L2 taker for this year, it felt really easy.. in the sense that I don't expect my mistaken answers to exceed 3 questions.

Anyway, back to the real exam talk.
Two days ago I tried to solve the last year questions from the official 2008 L2 Questions&their answers compilation.
I set a timer for each section and tried to solve the questions as if in the real exam.
... so at last I scored my answers and figured out that I got [337/400] which means84% ...
Very UNSATISFIED..!!

..but the good thing is, while looking at my mistakes and their correct answers I could learn a couple of new grammar patterns that I've never heard of before.
Will do my best in the remaining one week to get a high score!!

Small notice

It has been a long time!
Sorry for the lack of posts recently but I have been extremely .... yes you guessed it!
As you can see the blog became a whole mess.. no posts no updates, even the banner is missing due to the cancellation of the yahoo geocities service.. yes geocities is gone forever~ I used to rely much on it for my file hosting,, including the banner files.

Will try to fix and update the blog some time soon.. so until then!

I'm back!

So finally I'm back to Tokyo.. New battles and challenges much bigger than they ever were are waiting ahead with the start of my 2nd year of the Masters course..Will do my best!

On the way down to Petra a month ago..

I totally forgot about these pictures! I took these pictures during my trip to southern Jordan last month and was planning to include them with the trip post.

These were taken on the road down to Petra. It was very nice to see some Japanese language there! makes me wonder-happily-, why Japanese??

光 by BREAKERZ

Now this is really old!

I lived that time.. anybody shares the same experience?

First MS Windows I ever dealt with. It was installed on the first computer my father had when he was a new engineer

A very old version of MS paint.. It was called Paintbrush

One of the earliest 3D games.. Wolf (?)
This game used to freak me out .. when I grew up a little, I could clear it all..the final boss was really something!

Lemmings any body??
I was taught how to run it from the floppy disk by entering commands to DOS.. I remember I was very young at that time.
Kids these days have easy technology!

This game was installed on the school computers when I was in 1st grade!!

The very first version of Prince of Persia.. I loooved this game

Street fighter!!! Ryu was my favorite!


OK! not very old...maybe I was 9, but this is one of my earliest contacts with the Japanese language. I memorized how to write つばさ from this game..of course not knowing how to read it!

Oh~ nice old days!

JLPTにチャレンジしてみよっかな！

I'm taking the JLPT in December this year!
For the time being I'm planning to take the 2kyuu but feel that the 1kyuu is not impossible either.
Will study hard until the time of application and decide which level I will take by that time.

Special thanks to M川さん who could secure an application form for me while I'm here! It's shown in the picture above.. ありがとうございます！！
More information about JLPT here!

Adventure in South Jordan

Went on a 4 day trip/adventure with my family to the south of Jordan.

Stayed in WadiRum for the first night where time seemed to be stopping while watching the amazing starry night sky in the middle of dessert with hundreds of shooting stars showing every now and then.
It was my first time to stay in WadiRum, such an unforgettable experience!

ご来光＠ワーディ．ラム
Sunrise @ WadiRum

Rum mountains in the horizon and the camp where we stayed(down)

Spent the next 2 days in Aqaba enjoying the nice blue sea.

Relax relax rela~x @Aqaba
ヾ(〃^∇^)ノわぁい♪　＠　アカバ

Sunset @ Aqaba

In the last day, dropped by Petra on the way back.

Finally reaching the SIQ

Hot noon sun @ Petra
ぺトラ。以前作ったぺトラについてのポストはこちら。

It was such a great trip! I enjoyed every moment of it.