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benelynne · « **on:** May 30, 2008, 05:23:09 PM »

I'm home alone, and I'm not alone!

According to the Japanese national census in 2005, close to 43% of households in Tokyo contain only one person.

In fact, according to the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS) , for the first time in 2006, there were more persons living alone than persons living with their spouse and children.

Households with only one person in them comprise 30% of all households in Japan in 2006.

Some of the reasons cited were:

--Fewer Japanese are marrying and more are divorcing.

--Many of those who do marry choose to have fewer children or not have any at all, thus the declining fertility rate. In 2006, the population of Japan dipped for the first time, with more deaths than births.

--The widespread use of e-mail, blogs, forums and mobile phones have enabled people living alone to connect with others anytime without actually being with them.

--Japanese are culturally a closed society, and are not used to sharing a house or an apartment with non-family members.

--Landlords do not want to rent out an apartment to those who wish to share it, because of the guarantor system. If one person moves out, the other may not be able to pay the whole rent.

Maayo na lang naa ko'y TB, TFC ug DYRD. Ug wa pa, mingaw intawon ang kalibutan diri...

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Bambi · « **Reply #1 on:** May 30, 2008, 11:05:53 PM »

I understand Sir...your life over there is incomplete coz the 57% of it is out of Japan.

This is a cycle of life! You are always in their mind and heart and that is 100%. TB heals nostalgia and you are a part of our nice thoughts as well. Need not to sing for you this Visayan song?
"Kamingaw sa payag kanhi atong gipuy-an" otherwise you will

, makasip-on ra ba gjod

sayang lang sa panyo (she is not here to wash it).

The Germans and Japanese are not only war confiderates but they have same 100% way of life. Our greying populations rapidly increasing, the pension budget is empty. The Russians and some other foriegners who settled here might find a solution. Russians and Pinoys have similar mentality. Having kids even they have no job...good that the German government supported this system, increasing children allowances until the age of 18 to save the flattline/dying German generations.

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ms da binsi · « **Reply #2 on:** May 31, 2008, 12:48:17 AM »

Benne i like that phrase; i am home alone, but I'm not alone.

I am a loner type of a person pero daghan ko ug connection sa gawas. I dont want too much people around me all the time, and yes when i was renting an apartment in LA i dont want anyone stay with me. I thought i was crazy but i learned from your post nga I was not alone too!

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benelynne · « **Reply #3 on:** May 31, 2008, 05:31:46 AM »

I understand Sir...your life over there is incomplete coz the 57% of it is out of Japan.

This is a cycle of life! You are always in their mind and heart and that is 100%. TB heals nostalgia and you are a part of our nice thoughts as well. Need not to sing for you this Visayan song?
"Kamingaw sa payag kanhi atong gipuy-an" otherwise you will

, makasip-on ra ba gjod

sayang lang sa panyo (she is not here to wash it).

The Germans and Japanese are not only war confiderates but they have same 100% way of life. Our greying populations rapidly increasing, the pension budget is empty. The Russians and some other foriegners who settled here might find a solution. Russians and Pinoys have similar mentality. Having kids even they have no job...good that the German government supported this system, increasing children allowances until the age of 18 to save the flattline/dying German generations.

You're right, Bambi. Even if I am physically alone here, my family and I are 100% mentally and spiritually present to one another. We talk everyday. Maayo na lang gani kay negosyo naku ang international phone cards, kung dili purdoy. We are still getting an internet connection in Tagbilaran and I am bringing home a Japanese system computer on my next trip in July kay web cam can cut costs and give us a sense of real presence...

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benelynne · « **Reply #4 on:** May 31, 2008, 05:42:29 AM »

Benne i like that phrase; i am home alone, but I'm not alone.

I am a loner type of a person pero daghan ko ug connection sa gawas. I dont want too much people around me all the time, and yes when i was renting an apartment in LA i dont want anyone stay with me. I thought i was crazy but i learned from your post nga I was not alone too!

Hi Belle,

I am slowly getting used to the sense of freedom of being alone. I have Filipino neighbors who are very good friends, but it is not our habit to make babad in one another's presence. We all have our own lives and routines, and we meet only on appointed times.

The last time I shared a room with somebody not related to me was in college, which was ages ago. Next to being with the family, I also prefer being alone. I don't think I can share a room with somebody just to pay a lower rent. Murag irregular ra kaayo akong working hours and personal habits to be able to live harmoniously with a roommate. Besides, room sizes in Japan are really just for one person. And you can talk boisterously on the phone, laugh aloud at TB, or listen to DYRD full blast without having to worry about inconveniencing the other.

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benelynne · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2008, 05:52:35 AM »

By the way, do you listen to DYRD? Pirting katawa ang akong church-mate nga amiga pag-ingon naku nga gapaminaw kug radyo kay karaang tawo na daw ko... Giklaro naku nga di baya ni old technology kay maminaw man ko over the internet while doing my less mentally taxing jobs.

My relatives in Bohol were amazed that I am abreast with most developments, know a lot of public personalities, and have a lot of personal friends courtesy of TB despite not having been in Tagbilaran until very recently.

Indeed, living alone is not as lonely as it used to be. Technology has given us more ways to cope with our moments of melancholia.

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grazie7y · « **Reply #6 on:** May 31, 2008, 06:28:57 AM »

I am alone, but I am not alone, too! The whole day while my husband is at work, I am all by myself in the house and I like it. Our neighbors even complained they have no way of knowing I am inside the house because sometimes I don't open the drapes. I really enjoy being like this and if I want company, I just log on to TB or samok-samokon ang ubang TB people by calling i.e., Maring Bil!

Bene san, mamati kaha ko ana ba kay gani kon naay news dire sa TB unya tawgan nko silang Mommy matingala gud sila naka una pa ko. Unsa na lang kaha kon mamati pa ko'g DYRD. I think pwede pod mag "didikit" diha sa DYRD kay one time ning ari dire akong relative from Michigan unya nag spend sya one night sa usa ka taga Tagbilaran (former Ms. Gallares), nagpa "didikit" daw sila sa DYRD!

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benelynne · « **Reply #7 on:** May 31, 2008, 06:58:39 AM »

This piece of news today is even more mind-boggling: a Japanese man has been living with a roommmate he was not aware of for a year! And it had to take some technological sleuth work to find it out...

Japanese woman caught living in man's closet

By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Writer Fri May 30, 3:21 PM ET

TOKYO - A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.

Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man's closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday.

The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen over the past several months.

One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home Thursday after he had left, and he called police believing it was a burglar. However, when they arrived they found the door locked and all windows closed.

"We searched the house ... checking everywhere someone could possibly hide," Itakura said. "When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side."

The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man's house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.

She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman "neat and clean."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080530/ap_on_re_as/japan_closet_woman

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grazie7y · « **Reply #8 on:** May 31, 2008, 07:02:16 AM »

Pagka dako jud diay iyang closet kay undetected man na naa na diay mattress! So she didn't leave the house all these time? tsk tsk tsk free board and lodging jud diay!

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ms da binsi · « **Reply #9 on:** May 31, 2008, 07:32:34 AM »

Tiya basi ang tag-ija sa closet way kligo kligo kaajo? or ilis ilis ba kaha? kay nganong wa man nija maatiki aber?

hahahaha

net jud si manang kay wa man jud bisan mga crumbs nag tagak-tagak!

OMG kahadlok!

OT: Benne sad ,my banana heard about that home security cameras nga mo transmit sa phone or sa pc. he is planning to get that ug di na daw mahal kaajo...

have you seen that?

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benelynne · « **Reply #10 on:** May 31, 2008, 07:41:22 AM »

Tiya basi ang tag-ija sa closet way kligo kligo kaajo? or ilis ilis ba kaha? kay nganong wa man nija maatiki aber?

hahahaha

net jud si manang kay wa man jud bisan mga crumbs nag tagak-tagak!

OMG kahadlok!

OT: Benne sad ,my banana heard about that home security cameras nga mo transmit sa phone or sa pc. he is planning to get that ug di na daw mahal kaajo...

have you seen that?

belle,

nope, haven't seen it yet nor know how it works. perhaps it works the same way as phone calls. when i am not at my office, i set my phone so that all calls are transmitted to my mobile phone...

ug bahaw ra ang ijang makuha sa akong ref, di na siguro na kinahanglan elaborate security gadgets ... what still perplexes me is how that woman went undetected for a year. di ba siya muhagok, mulihok, mupagawas ug hangin nga wa man jud siya namatikdan?

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grazie7y · « **Reply #11 on:** May 31, 2008, 07:47:41 AM »

hahahahha you choice of words is impeccable, Bene san! mupagawas ug hangin in other word, utotski!

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Bambi · « **Reply #12 on:** May 31, 2008, 03:53:01 PM »

Sir Bennelyne, be aware! Check-out your bathroom before leaving the apartment. Who knows sliver...eye-catcher behind the shower curtains.

Belib gjod kos mga happenings dinhi sa Japan...frighten and funny alike.

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