Nervous God Posted April 9, 2010 Report Share Posted April 9, 2010 Living with a Thai Girl – The Real Songkran Well, contrary to official notices it started today in my village. Not the chaos, well, OK, I admit some of the chaos is starting, but the old style tradition is alive and well. Sorry about the poor quality of photo's, taken with the mobile, but you get the general idea. Everyone gathers under the town hall, err, shed without walls. The old people sit around two edges, no particular order that I can discern except the old men are first,. There is only a handful of them, compared to the number of ladies. Oddly the oldest person in the village, a old man who walks 2 – 4 km a day isn't there. Families are there, outside the shed, with specially prepared buckets of water. The water is sprinkled with flowers, you can see my kids making their water, then some add nice smelling powder, the stinging powder is never used. Next the teachers from the school arrive, and the village Shaman sits in the middle of the hall, with his wife, and the headmaster leads a prayer, after that everyone queues up and with their bucket of water and a small cup, sprinkle water and flowers in the hands of the old people. The old people then take the water and pat the back of the person sprinkling them. Everyone is fairly wet and cool by the end, music starts and I had a dance with a very sprightly sexy gal of 72. My son chose his favourite old gal “Sexy Woman†as he calls her, for a dance. All in all, a great start to songkran, and glad it's still done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted April 9, 2010 Report Share Posted April 9, 2010 Nice Pics Dyslexic Dog, the quality does not detract from the image. Good to see the old traditions are still being upheld. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted April 9, 2010 Report Share Posted April 9, 2010 Hi, I think we'll have a similar ceremony when we get back, although more close-knit (family only). Mom and Dad will sit on the 'porch', family lines up to sprinkle a bit of water on their hands and get a white string attached to their wrist. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeitgeist Posted April 9, 2010 Report Share Posted April 9, 2010 I've really enjoyed the last few posts you've made. Nice to see a snapshot of village life. Keep it up...please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo_bill Posted April 9, 2010 Report Share Posted April 9, 2010 Fully agree , I would even say that this Nervous God does partially replace the bygone CTO who has always been great at publishing village photos . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted April 9, 2010 Report Share Posted April 9, 2010 Its like a bargirl making merit - you know they are going straight from the temple to a ST room Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumsoda Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 Living with a Thai Girl – The Real Songkran My son chose his favourite old gal “Sexy Woman†as he calls her, for a dance. [color:red]555 The old one with the HUGE tits...lol... Like Father like son.... Glad my little mate is having a good time[/color] All in all, a great start to songkran, and glad it's still done. [color:red]Thanks for sharing....It's all started up here as well....Just had a procession of about 60 people....dancing to the drum beat come swaying down my driveway...lots of water "sharing"....I was lazy and got out the hose...lol.... a few very attractive youngens' amongst the crowd.....Dunno why but they got the longest cooling off from the hose..... everyone had a ball....and I got to check out 3 or 4 very cute Wet T shirts..... Songkran....Love it![/color] Gobble....whilst your observation is probably accurate....One needs to consider the fact that the $$ earnt in those "ST's" help to enable a lot of these old folks to survive... In a Western sense it's hard to comprehend sometimes....but here...It's just part of life! Most of the old folk are real characters....and I've found them extremely farang friendly....they all want to have "Chat"....and have a feel..(NOT "That" way) Country life is fantastic....once you get into the "Groove" Cheers...and Happy Songkran to All "Farmer" DC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 Shirt on the right in Image 5 will be hard to beat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchapstick Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 [quote=Dumsoda "Farmer" DC no comment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumsoda Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 LOL Happy Songkran Chappy We're growin' all sorts of good things up here.... I'll be "checking out one of the "Crops" over Songkran... Hehehe....The next 5 years worth of Soi Cowboy "recruits"... ..and ALL with WET T shirts Ahhhh...Cuntry life....just love it Cheers (Not so) DC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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