how do you leave your mother?

ikoku nikki/diary of a strange land, tomoko yamashita or better yet, how do you leave your motherland? this morning, i received an sms from my bank saying they weren’t going to approve my application for the waiver of my annual fee. this annoyed me. the fee was worth P4,500—that’s two games. maybe three or five books, depending on the price. a shit ton of coffee. one and a half month’s worth of my…