2. Daily Postings Assignment Chiangmai Study Trip 2015/16 General

University Scholars Programme

Day 4: Is it Really Heritage Preservation?

Day Four, 7 January 2016. Showing off our dazzling smiles in front of the dazzling White Temple We set off for Chiang Rai this morning. The bus ride there was rather bumpy but it was worth the rough ride the moment we reached our first destination. The White Temple. It was a piece of art…

Day 3: The Importance Of A Break

Day Three, 6 January 2016 Candid of Heritage group enjoying ourselves by the CMU lake Today, the entire USP went to Doi Suthep as a cohort. When we reached the entrance of Doi Suthep, we had to take a group picture and I felt like at that time, we were really being quite an inconvenience…

Day 2: Coming Together

Day Two, 5 January 2016. Heritage Group at Fulldome.Pro After a hearty breakfast, we went to a house where a company called Fulldome was going to host us. This was a company which specialised in playing of videos within a dome structure. The bus ride there was about 20 minutes and I could sort of…

TOPS Day 4: Legs Day

Our first stop was at the School of Family Medicine, Chiang Mai University, where we were given the opportunity to interview two doctors. The doctors gave us first-hand knowledge of his experience working with patients, important statistics pertaining to nutritional knowledge and the various campaigns that are currently implemented in Chiang Mai. The success of…

Day 0+1

DAY 0 I love taking airplane rides, being in the clouds and looking down at all creation. I reminds me of how amazing and intricate the world we live in is. The meticulous detail in how the mountains fold and how the rivers meander, keep me in constant awe and wonder. I look at the…

TOPS Day 3: The Importance of Company

It was yet another early morning bus ride, but this time, we were travelling up a mountain to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, a temple located within the Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, and is also a sacred site to many Thai people. As we started with a walk up the 300 steps of the intricately carved…

TOPS Day 2: Immersion & Assimilation

Another early morning start and we’re headed back to Chiang Mai. On the way back, we made a stopover at the Wat Rong Khun White Temple for some cultural immersion and learning about Chiang Rai’s heritage. As we checked back into Le Meridien Hotel, our tour guide Pat brought us to Warorot Market, where we…

TOPS Day 1: First Impressions.

Chiang Rai. We were up bright and early as we boarded the bus yet again for the 2-hour journey to Chiang Rai. After an hour or so of driving, we stopped by at a local Chiang Rai hot springs for a short toilet break and to stretch our legs. I managed to get my first…

Post trip reflections – Lessons in Chiang Mai

Picture of Healthcare group in CMU, picture credit: Ng Xinyu To briefly sum up my pre-trip reflections – I wanted to become more open-minded, I wanted to gain good exposure in research and I wanted to improve my interpersonal skills. Besides that, I hoped to make new friends in Chiang Mai. Now that I’ve been…

Day 5 – Amazing Chiang Mai

Picture from CMU, picture credit: Ng Xinyu We started the day bright and early today with an Amazing Race! To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from it. I’ve been to a few orientation camps and amazing races are a pretty standardised part of such camps. But when we were first introduced to the professors…