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Raw Passage: Your Storied Life
Your life is a story. A clutter of seemingly random events. You look back to highlight certain moments in your book of life that are vital, significant to the main plot. You trace each thread back to their origins, where you think is it’s beginning, finding omens, signs and ironies dispersed along the way. Until…
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Raw Passage: The 42.195K
21K – He doesn’t know what beach this is, but he feels he should know it. Since it’s an urban jungle, it is the first coastline and green trees he finally gets to see. The sea, well it smells putrid. Maybe it was just the ‘right place, wrong time’ sort of thing for the runner.…
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World Philosophy Day: Existentialism
What gives your life meaning? God? Money? Love? Work? Shopping? Jujitsu? Donuts? You must have a personal sense of purpose in your life. A sense of meaning is what we all crave, whether you consciously realize it or not. I believe it’s a personal responsibility to try to understand how and why we should make…
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Choices
I’ve a problem with individuals who says, “what’s the point?” whenever it’s about self-improvement. Look, I’m a firm believer of having the right to live however you want. Even if that means eating junk foods daily, smoking your lungs out, alienating yourself from friends and family, not bothering to exercise to stay healthy, avoiding jobs…
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Personal: A Dream
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau. I don’t usually get personal on my blog. It’s intended to be a place for my existential thoughts and creative writings. But this seems like a story (or dream) worth sharing. Months ago, I had a very…
Hello there! My name is Faizul (ファイズル)
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Brief Overview of Curriculum Vitae
Social Research Experience
Research Assistant to Special Academic Advisor
Universiti Brunei Darussalam | 2019-2021
Research Assistant (Part-Time)
Centre for Advanced Research (CARe) | 2018-2019
Research Assistant (Part-Time)
Institute of Asian Studies (Universiti Brunei Darussalam) | 2015
Work in Japan (Part-Time)
KLC International | 2023-Present
Native English Teacher
Universal Campus | 2023-Present
Native English Teacher
Education Background
Kyoto University
PhD in Southeast Asia Area Studies | 2022-Present
Attending the Graduate School of Asian and African Studies (ASAFAS)
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
MA Anthropology (By Research) | 2020
The Reasonable Writer by Faizul H. Ibrahim 