Fieldwork and Documentation

Post-Trip Reflections

In retrospect, I am thankful to have achieved some of the things I hoped to attain in my pre-trip projections. Yet, there are also areas I could have done much better in. I will elaborate on my post-trip thoughts in the paragraphs below. First, I feel that this trip has certainly given me chances to…

Daily Reflections – 8 January 2016

My group mates and I conducted the last interview for our trip at the Chiang Mai Tourism Authority this morning. I was really excited to visit the Tourism Authority as it would be my first time visiting a government organisation in a foreign country! I also believed that interviewing the assistant director to find out…

Daily Reflections – 7 January 2016

My fellow USP batch mates and I started Thursday with a visit to the Political Science faculty of Chiang Mai University (CMU) for a lecture on Globalisation in Chiang Mai. The lecture reinforced for me that globalisation arises from the greater interconnectivity of capital, people, as well as goods and services. In particular, I was…

Chiang Mai Post Trip Reflections

Chiang Mai Post Trip Reflections: Finally, we have reached the end of this trip. I’m proud to say that it was not a wasted trip, for I have interacted with so many wonderful people along the way and accumulated memories that I will never forget. It is really different to go on a research fieldtrip,…

Chiang Mai Reflection Day 5

Day 5 of Chiang Mai Trip Today, we visited the Tourism Authority of Thailand. The interview format this time was a little different from our usual street interviews. This time, it was done in a panel discussion format, and perhaps due to the formal occasion, I noticed that there was a certain tension in the…

Chiang Mai Reflection Day 4

Day 4 of Chiang Mai Trip The day kicked off with a visit to Chiang Mai University again. This time, it was an official school visit with a welcome lecture by a professor from CMU. The lecture had some interesting stories about the history of Chiang Mai, though I wouldn’t say it amounted to anything…

Chiang Mai Reflection Day 3

Day 3 of Chiang Mai Trip Today we went to yet another temple, Wat Phra That at Doi Suthep. Compared to the previous temple (White Temple) that we had visited, this one feels a lot more like a “real” temple. I also noticed that there are more locals in this temple as compared to the…

Chiang Mai Reflection Day 2

Day 2 of Chiang Mai trip The day started with a visit to the white temple. It’s probably the most picturesque place I have ever seen in my entire life, with the stunning blue sky as its backdrop, the lush greenery and of course, the walls that are pristine white. Every structure in this place…

Chiang Mai Reflection Day 1

Day 1 (Chiang Rai) Today is Day 1 of our Chiang Mai trip. I have come into this trip, thinking that it would not be too difficult to spot bad behaviours of Chinese tourists. And sure enough, when we visited a spa village today, I saw china tourists putting their slippers into the hot spring…

Post-trip reflections

Have my expectations from before the trip been met? Absolutely. It was a blast – it proved to be one of those rare learning experiences that you’ll never get anywhere else, probably not in NBS. Here, I’ll touch on some of the issues that I haven’t yet discussed in the daily reflections, as well as…