Monday, October 11, 2004
Only a trainride away.
Over the weekend, I was away in a small town across the causeway for a class field trip. In the sweltering malaysian heat, we visited fruit and oil palm plantations in a bid to, err, better understand the agricultural aspects of the life science industry. There's no post-trip report due and we've got plenty of r&r time, so it is pretty much a relaxing getaway from city life for 120ish students. The hotel we stayed in is the only tall building around the area at 14 storeys, and it wasn't half as bad as professor had made it out to be. We were spoilt silly with the fabulous food - the rustic beef rendang, durians and hotel buffet dinner, complete with spit roasted whole lamb. Dinner was accompanied by a professor-arranged, reluctantly-attendedkaraoke session community singing session supposedly to boost comradarie and class bonding. Surely so, when the exchange students from korea belted out the theme song from a korean love comedy that got all the girls gushing about. Karaoke aside, I haven't forgotten important stuff like integrated pest management (Ipms) and that industry standards dictate exactly 136 oil palm trees are grown per hectare to convince mom this was truly one educational experience. Indeed she wasn't, haha. 
Over the weekend, I was away in a small town across the causeway for a class field trip. In the sweltering malaysian heat, we visited fruit and oil palm plantations in a bid to, err, better understand the agricultural aspects of the life science industry. There's no post-trip report due and we've got plenty of r&r time, so it is pretty much a relaxing getaway from city life for 120ish students. The hotel we stayed in is the only tall building around the area at 14 storeys, and it wasn't half as bad as professor had made it out to be. We were spoilt silly with the fabulous food - the rustic beef rendang, durians and hotel buffet dinner, complete with spit roasted whole lamb. Dinner was accompanied by a professor-arranged, reluctantly-attended
