DONDAKE
BATCHIRI Happy New Year of the Tiger to everyone! Kotoshi mo yoroshiku onegaishimasu! Minasan, o-genki desu ka? I hope everyone is doing well and alright. May this 2022 will the best year for all of us and the universe. Here we are again, reaching and trying to steal the few minutes of your day by reading our columns and being part of your lives from this moment. From the new normal way of living, from the unexpected things that happened, from the hardships that we have been through, I could still say and many of our "kababayan" will agree with me for sure; that being here and living in Japan, "The Land of the Rising Sun" is perfectly, completely lucky, blessed or as they call it in Nihonggo as "Batchiri". Beside this pandemic and after the earthquakes, typhoons, landslides and flooding in some areas in Japan as well as with our mother land Philippines, seeing the rainbow the day after these things happened was an awakening experience. That reminds us to focus on the right track and do not stop on moving and live life as we must have to.
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Now, I can feel the cold wind blazing as winter season has come. People at this point are still at adjusting stage of the new normal
life. What is important right now is, we can surely cope up and keep our lives with the help of our family, society, community and the Japanese Government which is "batchiri" for me (us) to overcome all of these challenges. Everybody knows even in different countries that Japan is one of the most disciplined and governed countries in Asia. And we can prove it in terms of their help, response and action from the moment we stayed here and during this pandemic. In which, they are willing to reach out to secure their people. And with the cooperation of everyone for sure it won't take long to rise up and start for much better life here in Japan. Living here in Japan is the best thing that happened to me and some kababayan I know. As Filipino migrants here, we are given the same privileges as the Japanese people. At this moment, schools, businesses and offices started to re-open. Almost 100% were vaccinated and more companies started to be on track and face this challenging moment on earth. Again with this new virus called OMICRON, still, we could see the positive perspective Japanese people have and by making their efforts to stabilize CORONA VIRUS and to prevent or secure the spreading of this new OMICRON VARIANT. Although life isn't perfect, no one is perfect and it is okay not to be perfect. Imperfections give us
January - February 2022
