{"id":11,"date":"2006-08-17T11:17:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T18:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/wordpress\/archives\/11"},"modified":"2011-03-24T08:08:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T08:08:23","slug":"getting-back-to-the-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/11","title":{"rendered":"Getting back to the&nbsp;routine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/dscn7318.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dragon Tree\"><img src=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/dscn7318-150x150.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Dragon Tree\" title=\"Dragon Tree\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"1\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Well after what feels like 3 weeks of craziness, I&#39;m slowly getting back to my routine of eat, sleep, work, study, reading&#8230;  The past week and a bit threw me off my finely-tuned system of getting as much done as possible within a 24-hour period.  Not counting my social life (which coincidently enough is almost non-existant), I have two jobs (possibly 3), studying my Masters online and via distance ed, and trying to stay healthy and in shape. So what threw me off this past week and a bit?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/dscn7402.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Isaan temple and mural\"><img src=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/dscn7402-150x150.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Isaan temple and mural\" title=\"Isaan temple and mural\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"1\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Well, it was this rural development tour I went on with the agency that sent me to Thailand.  It was the first time to get out of Bangkok and the craziness of urban life so it was a nice change.  The one-week tour was basically checking out rural development projects and alternative types of agriculture (i.e. organic) around the Northeast Region of Thailand, aka &quot;Isaan&quot;.  The tour touched on a whole lot of issues from politics, development, agriculture to just group dynamics, especially when you&#39;re bascially living and eating with people you hardly know for a whole week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/dscn7379.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"A rural temple\"><img src=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/dscn7379-150x150.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"A rural temple\" title=\"A rural temple\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"1\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>All in all the tour was great!  We had a chance to see organic farming in action, a herbal hospital (where I was able to get free meds!), a very impressive wat\/temple, and met great people from all over Thailand.  Oh, did I mention that we were able to see &quot;wildlife&quot;?  Yep, with the roaming cows, the firery &quot;mot daengs&quot; (red ants), mosquitos galore, and a spider the size of a small bird, this was definitely an interesting week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well after what feels like 3 weeks of craziness, I&#39;m slowly getting back to my routine of eat, sleep, work, study, reading&#8230; The past week and a bit threw me off my finely-tuned system of getting as much done as possible within a 24-hour period. Not counting my social life (which coincidently enough is almost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/11\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting back to the&nbsp;routine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}