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Week 1: Going to Work/School is #BetterByBicycle

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When I ditched the city life more than a decade ago, I knew that I'm gonna be like one of those characters  from the various slice of life anime series or Jap films  I watch. My main motivation to cycle had always been to cut down on my carbon footprint, but there's also a part of me secretly wishing to live like some high school student in Japan. I knew my time to live that life had passed, luckily I work in a school, so going to work with my bicycle oftentimes makes me feel like I'm a   joshi kosei, to some a kokosei 😅. I even got myself  a randoseru and I secretly celebrated every time my colleagues or students comment that I'm like a Japanese student (sometimes they'd say Korean and I would instantly correct them 😆) when I enter the campus gate on my bicycle donning a randoseru .  Next time I'll get an Insta 360 cam to get a better shot of my j oshi  kosei / kokosei cosplay.  Cosplaying aside, I wish more Filipino students and workers would choose to com
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A Personal Challenge

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More than a decade ago, I decided to quit my job in the city, giving up a relatively reasonable compensation package in exchange of a laid back lifestyle of the province. I wasn't really sure of my next career move then but all I know was that I want to reduce my carbon footprint. I want to work where I could just use a bicycle as a transportation. I tried applying in our municipal hall because I thought, well I want to change the world, perhaps I should be in an institution that has direct power to make changes. How naive eh? So I submitted my resume but I never heard anything back. Then a relative informed me that her former employer, which was a state university, was looking for part-time instructors in Psychology. At the time, I was skeptic at the whole idea of me teaching. I had no teaching experience and I remember having very little patience in tutoring my peers back in high school and college. But I had nothing to lose so I gave it a shot anyway. I submitted my resume and w
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