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Post-Trip Reflections

I left Chiang Mai feeling like I understood the local people. People draw the distinction between the ‘tourist’, who gleans knowledge of the place and the people on only a superficial level, and the ‘traveller’, who experiences the place walking alongside the people, walking even in their shoes. I feel that during this trip, I…

Post-trip Reflections

As much as I was reluctant for it to end, the Chiangmai TOPS trip drew to a close after 7 days. This trip has indeed been an enriching one for me. During a short span of time, I have experienced different aspects of multi-disciplinary education. From the preparing our research materials before the trip up…

Post Trip Reflections

Now back in the comforts of my home, I look back to my USP Study Trip with fond memories. I can appreciate how it has allowed me to immerse myself in the research completely, to think deeply about the issues of heritage preservation, as well as consider various forms of documentation to best suit…

Post-trip Reflections /หลังจาก/

It has been more than a week since flying back from Chiang Mai. I’ve slowly attuned myself to the routine of school, to the heartbeat of the new semester. Yet, Chiang Mai continues to tug gently at me, pulling my thoughts towards its charming quaintness. It has a sort of beauty in being torn between…

Post-Trip Reflections

“It’s about daring to be different; stumbling but learning to pick yourself up.” – It appears I sounded a little ambitious, I admit, when I penned this down in my pre-trip projections. I may not have achieved anything extraordinary in this trip, but it’s certainly been made extraordinary with the people met and lessons learned….

My Post-trip Reflection

Oh, how I miss Chiang Mai. It has merely been three weeks since we touched down into Singapore and concluded our trip in Chiang Mai. I’m sure everyone will resonate with me when I say I MISS THE WEATHER the most. The heat in Singapore has been excruciatingly painful to deal with, and I miss…

Looking back

Although this Chiang Mai trip was supposed to be a research trip, it turned out to be so much more than that. Unexpectedly, the research process of the trip turned out to be very interesting. It became an invaluable chance for me to interact with the locals. While I had been on a school trip…

In retrospect: post-trip reflections

It has only been a while since we got back, yet it feels like the 7 days in Chiang Mai were a distant dream. With school work piling up and course readings running after me to be read, how I wish I could teleport back to the days in Chiang Mai. Although I knew that…

Post trip musings – ROOTS

As I summarize the trip and end off my reflections, I aim to keep this in mind: “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical…

Post -trip reflections

Post -trip reflections Fay, Fuyang Shen My December holidays have been extremely taxing. I interned for one full month at a company and gave many tuition classes during my limited free time. I was exhausted. I was a bit unwilling to go on the trip because I was not physically well-prepared for this trip….