A few days after the New Year, I met with friends, Darrel Marco and Ann Grace Bansig for a holiday get together. We missed Audrey Anday so, another reunion was scheduled. We met at a bookstore, of course, in Fullybooked and headed to a nearby Japanese cafe for an early dinner. Apart from our passion for books and reading, we also share the same advocacy, a love for travel and food!
Imagine our surprise when we found out that Fullybooked is still running the Fukubukuro reading and book promotion. For Php 2,000.00, we got a Fukubukuro with three books and a journal.
Fukubukuro is a combination of two Japanese words, fuku, meaning luck or good fortune and, fukuro, for bag. Fukubukuro is a lucky bag which store owners use to put in mystery objects from their stores to sell to customers. It is a Japanese custom in the New Yera for stores to sell fukubukuro at a very low price.
Darrel got the copy of Antoine De Saint Exupery's The Little Prince, a pocket book edition that he can bring with him in his travels. Ann Grace got the DIY book for travelers and tourists that is aptly titled, The Best Things In Life Are Free (Lonely Planet). As for me, I took the journal and Robert Greene's The Laws of Human Nature because, well, I am already a certified #titasofManila.
After all the internal drama and struggles of 2018, I feel I have just begun a new life cycle. What better way to chronicle this journey but through journal writing and reading books to accompany me in this life journey.
Fukubukuro, indeed!
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