nona
07-31-2005, 04:00 PM
nasan na ang mga filipino dito sa japan?..mula sa huling pagtapak sa bansang kinagisnan bitbit ang lahat ng mga pangako at pag-asa…sa loob ng mumunting bayong n pabaon…na may kalakip ng pagmamahal ng bawat miyembro ng pamilyang naroon upang magbigay ng huling pamamaalam…nakakal ungkot mang isiping marami nga ang nasa tamang dirkesiyon ngunit hindi pahuhuli ang bilang ng mga nawawala sa wastong patutunguhan…
it’s been almost 5 months, 9 days and 15 hours since the last time i saw Ninoy Aquino Airport in our country…never thought at first that i could last this long here in japan…recalling that last glimpse i had of our country’s very most warm and blue atmosphere…(warm for all the tears from my eyes that are continuously flowing…blue for all the unending “flight-sorrow syndromes-feelings” for getting to the point of leaving (for the meantime i guess) almost everything you’ve been for 26 years…) to face a whole new life, culture, norms, set of standards, people…etc…here in JAPAN
working here isn’t easy of course…as i recall that last glimpse i can’t figure it out very clearly, maybe enough only for me to be able to share this to you but not as much as wanted it to be…life in japan sometimes is too absurd…living for nothing…working for nothing…but still waking-up everyday just to meet the bus on time and be there in front of your place of work…with this i can’t help myself to wonder things about what i’ve learned with some of our kababayans here…i may not sound so positive here but here’s how i observe almost all those who catches my attention…and those who i happened to talk with…
filipinos we are…in blood…in lifestyle…in language…and in dignity…and i know everyone of all the filipinos here in japan have one common denominator of being here!?? to earn and be home again as soon as possible… but things change many of us here have been affected with the spreading unevitable virus of selective amnesia…we forget why in the first place we are here…we forget those people we left behind hoping one day we’ll be home soon…we forget those people we left behind with whom we shared our very own promises of leaving just to have enough money to support them and at the end be together again…we forget the very essence of our self-respect to what we had made ourselves believed before we took that first step towards the door of the plane going here…
we let ourselves drown to those things we never could imagine we can have…can be…can do…we can share…and we can be with…in short we let our being be miscalculated and be dominated by the society we belong now…at the expense of where we really belong…i’m sharing this things not for being so perfect here…i’m just hoping at least we could be not like those people…being a freshie it’s a real trauma for me…knowing those things in the first hand information…not just with OFW’s story created and editted by directors in some movies or even tele-novelas…now it’s certainly for real…being one of the OFW’s of our country isn’t really a joke…
let us cut the thread of those filipinos who have been afflicted with those viruses…i’m hoping we filipinos here could build a well-developed, wealthy, and harmoniously progressing community not at the expense of those we truly love mosts…let us not forget…let everyone see with the basis of deeds, that filipinos aren’t just for money here…and have nothing left at the end of the day but broken pieces of promises and to the worst point…never had a chance again to be home because of things we could have been avoided if we are just strong enough…
we filipinos here have dignity and a family-loving man…
let nothing change that…
makulit
08-02-2005, 04:37 AM
ilang beses ko na pong binasa itong thread na ito… ipagpaumanhin po ninyo pero … ano po ba ang gusto ninyong sabihin
shadowman
08-05-2005, 12:32 PM
hahahahaha…ako rin…
are you troubled?
NemoySpruce
08-05-2005, 01:25 PM
Hey you guys are so cruel. She poured her heart out here, mahirap gawin yun no. Baka nalo-lonely lang sha at naghahanap ng Pinoy na makakausap… Pero, anu nga po ba ang gusto nyo sabihin mam nona? may problema ka ba iha? at hindi po amnesia ang dahilan kung bakit ayaw na umuwi nang iba sa atin. Namulat lang ang mga mata at mga baga (lungs) sa malinis na hangin at tamang pamamalakad ng gobyerno. Ok lang po we understand that we sometimes need to express our emotions, and sometimes it feels good to let other people see the pain we are feeling, I think we should have a section for written compositions, as suggested in another thread, so we can post our inner turmoils for the rest of the world to see. If I might make a suggestion mam nona, since nasa Japan tayu, you could try being minimalist…have you ever heard of Haiku? yung sinulat mo pede sa tatlong lines… exampol:
napatid ako
namiglas ang kuko
nanlamig ako
ika nga ng mga kabataan ngayon – pisawt!
juy
08-05-2005, 02:08 PM
hello po ate nona!! talagang mahirap po na malayo sa ating bayan… ako nga po eh kahit lahat ng pamilya namin andito na eh namimiss ko pa rin po ang pinas… pero kung sa tutuusin po eh mas MAGINHAWA manirahan dito sa japan.hindi naman sa na amnesia na po ako… pero kung sa ikukumpara nyo po dito pantay pantay ang tao, mayaman o mahirap eh nakakakain ng masarap, lumalakad sa malinis at magandang kalsada,nakakabili ng mga pangangailangan, at higit sa lahat may sapat na trabaho upang maging maunlad ang pamumuhay… well, depende narin po sa pamamalakad nyo yan… sa pilipinas po ba ay nakakatikim ng kaginhawahan ang karamihan? saka ndi nyo po ba napapansin? polite po ang mga tao dito… di tulad sa pinas na kahit wala namang maipagmamalaki eh ayun para nang kung sino!!! di ko naman po nilalahat ha.
anyways, look at the positive side po. nabigyan tayo ng pagkakataon na makapagtrabaho dito, TAYO po sa dinami daming naghahangad na makarating sa bansang ito… kaya nasa sa inyo na po yun kung mag papaapekto kayo sa Virus ika nga!
saka, hindi naman po ibig sabihin na makakalimutan na natin ang ating pagkapilipino pag nakapag abroad na tayo eh. Tingnan nyo po etong TIMOG FORUM, dba isa po itong halimbawa na nagkakaisa ang mga pilipino, Nagtutulungan, (^_^;) smile naman po jan ate!
basta po pag nalulungkot kayo punta lang kayo dito ha… o d kaya ano po ba email add mo ate? add kita sa messenger ko… kukulitin ko nalang po kayo kung gusto nyo!!
cge po ingat and may the LORD GOD give you peace of mind gaya ko po!!!
NemoySpruce
08-05-2005, 02:39 PM
sugoi neh.
Stacie Fil
08-05-2005, 03:26 PM
Hey you guys are so cruel. She poured her heart out here, mahirap gawin yun no. Baka nalo-lonely lang sha at naghahanap ng Pinoy na makakausap… Pero, anu nga po ba ang gusto nyo sabihin mam nona? may problema ka ba iha? at hindi po amnesia ang dahilan kung bakit ayaw na umuwi nang iba sa atin. Namulat lang ang mga mata at mga baga (lungs) sa malinis na hangin at tamang pamamalakad ng gobyerno. Ok lang po we understand that we sometimes need to express our emotions, and sometimes it feels good to let other people see the pain we are feeling, I think we should have a section for written compositions, as suggested in another thread, so we can post our inner turmoils for the rest of the world to see. If I might make a suggestion mam nona, since nasa Japan tayu, you could try being minimalist…have you ever heard of Haiku? yung sinulat mo pede sa tatlong lines… exampol:
napatid ako
namiglas ang kuko
nanlamig ako
ika nga ng mga kabataan ngayon – pisawt!
Ano po yung “PISAWT”?
Paul
08-05-2005, 04:08 PM
Ano po yung “PISAWT”?
kung hindi ko nagkakamali, it ay jinologs na “peace out”. tama ba?
NemoySpruce
08-05-2005, 05:17 PM
tama po kayo-- jinologs hehe…
hotcake
08-05-2005, 08:56 PM
i know everyone of all the filipinos here in japan have one common denominator of being here!??to earn and be home again as soon as possible… but things change many of us here have been affected with the spreading unevitable virus of selective amnesia…we forget why in the first place we are here…we forget those people we left behind hoping one day we’ll be home soon…we forget those people we left behind with whom we shared our very own promises of leaving just to have enough money to support them and at the end be together again…we forget the very essence of our self-respect to what we had made ourselves believed before we took that first step towards the door of the plane going here…Thank you sa mga unang sumagot dito. Ilang beses ko na din binasa ito kaso di ko maintindihan kung ano ang gustong isaad ni Ms. Nona sa mahaba niyang sulat.
Ms. Nona, yes it is true that most of the filipinos here in japan went here to earn . Pero we don’t forget why we are here and most of all we don’t forget those people we left behind. Kaya nga most of us ay naggagambaro ng mabuti para sa mga naiwanan natin diba. What we earn here is not enough kung uuwi tayo sa Pinas. Alam mo naman siguro ang hirap ng buhay sa atin. Kaya nga marami sa Pinoys ang nagtatagal dito kasi alam nila na kapag umuwi sila sa atin ay wala rin mangyayari. Sana maintindihan mo rin mo ang sitwasyon ng ibang pinoy dito sa Japan. 
Hope you won’t mind if I ask you a question… If you think you have earned enough para pwede mo ng makasama ang mga naiwan mo sa Pinas, why are you still here in Japan and earning? (hope you don’t get me wrong) 
If you are married to a japanese then you don’t have the right to say those things…
makulit
08-06-2005, 03:27 AM
Hope you won’t mind if I ask you a question… If you think you have earned enough para pwede mo ng makasama ang mga naiwan mo sa Pinas, why are you still here in Japan and earning? (hope you don’t get me wrong) If you are married to a japanese then you don’t have the right to say those things… Hotcake as per Ms Nona ‘it’s been almost 5 months, 9 days and 15 hours since the last time i saw Ninoy Aquino Airport in our country…’ wala pa syang 6 months dito, so definitely wala pa syang ipon …
hotcake
08-06-2005, 06:34 AM
Hotcake as per Ms Nona ‘it’s been almost 5 months, 9 days and 15 hours since the last time i saw Ninoy Aquino Airport in our country…’ wala pa syang 6 months dito, so definitely wala pa syang ipon …
Dear Makulit,
Thanks for your reply, sorry if I lost that part. E di mas lalong di niya dapat i-judge ang mga Filipinos. Since her experience is not that long enough. Correct me if I am wrong, all of us here have our own reason for staying long. Yes maybe she can say that only now kasi wala pa siyang six months but once na makaipon na siya and I know she will feel also the same like most of all the Filipinos here. Hope ko lang sana ay hindi rin siya maapektuhan ng virus na sinasabi.
nona
08-07-2005, 02:25 PM
ang cute talaga ng mga tao dito sa timog…you know what guys…i’ve been into many forums online but this one is really so amazing!!! never had a chance of knowing the real essence of writing and posting??? ??? never had a chance of going directly to what is going on before knowing who is involve in such happening??? some things may strike you at the most and may strike you blindly folded with own intuitions…and know what try to be brave accepting others you may don’t get it that precise but people comes from different point of views and prespective in life…everybody owns this page…i guess so??? i may not have experienced yet what you had all experienced here in japan…but don’t mis-lead the fact of just being here for more time is also knowing more than others who happened to come after you guys here okay?..and if ever you cross-paths with somebody not in the same direction as you are…be polite ok…thanks for all the efforts of at least reading…ingat na lang kayo lagi…at sana palagi kayong maging masaya dito sa japan…kasi ako to correct all of you…napakasaya ko dito…and for the second time around IM REALLY SORRY FOR HAVING YOU ALL GUYS TROUBLE READING MY POST…
makulit
08-07-2005, 11:32 PM
ang cute talaga ng mga tao dito sa timog…you know what guys…i’ve been into many forums online but this one is really so amazing!!! never had a chance of knowing the real essence of writing and posting??? ??? never had a chance of going directly to what is going on before knowing who is involve in such happening??? some things may strike you at the most and may strike you blindly folded with own intuitions…and know what try to be brave accepting others you may don’t get it that precise but people comes from different point of views and prespective in life…everybody owns this page…i guess so??? i may not have experienced yet what you had all experienced here in japan…but don’t mis-lead the fact of just being here for more time is also knowing more than others who happened to come after you guys here okay?..and if ever you cross-paths with somebody not in the same direction as you are…be polite ok…thanks for all the efforts of at least reading…ingat na lang kayo lagi…at sana palagi kayong maging masaya dito sa japan…kasi ako to correct all of you…napakasaya ko dito…and for the second time around IM REALLY SORRY FOR HAVING YOU ALL GUYS TROUBLE READING MY POST… I understand that most people are not gifted when it comes to writing. Some are not able to express themselves clearly in their own language, what more using a foreign one?
Clearly, you misunderstood that we, your co-timog members are trying to reach out to you. Nobody is saying that they know more than you. Difference in opinion is healthy. And timog members are all wise to respect one’s opinion.
Glad to know that you are happy here. May God bless and keep you for the family that you left behind in Philippines. Mabuhay Ka Ms Nona!
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