down the food chain and back up

I'm back!

Back from India, safe and sound :)

Though it was barely more than a week, i've gone down the food chain and come back up - from examining the crops on the farms to letting them all go on the toilet bowl.

In fact, i spent so much of my time there on the toilet bowl, i still think of india whenever i'm doing my business here now. haha.

Other than the food that my delicate stomach could not adapt to, India was GOOD.

Good, because it was the first time i really went to a farm after years of knowing that Old MacDonald's had a farm.

Good, because i saw food beyond the meal on my plate, from how it's grown and processed to trade.

Good, because this was the reason i had come into journalism. Not for the day-to-day scrambling in a daily newspaper, but for a chance to listen, to help carry a burden, and possibly, to make a difference.

p/s: for more details about what we did on a day to day basis, as well as photos, visit www.gofar2008.wordpress.com