Bangkok, Thailand
Monday 14 April, 2025
Happy Songkran 2025!
Hi there,
Thai people especially in Thailand actually started celebrating Thai New Year 2025 or better known as Songkran festival on 13 April already. Like most countries, Thailand embraced Gregorian calendar or solar calendar from the West that considers 1 January the beginning of a coming year. However, that was not happened here until 1931. Prior to that, people in Thailand had officially used lunar calendar and regarded 13 April as the beginning of each coming year. Until 1930, The country and the ways of living were modernized in many ways, following the influence of western expansion in Southeast Asia, Thailand thus had only around 8.5 months counted in 1930.
Yesterday ,or Songkran Day, I simply stayed at home with no intention to go out. Although many went out and enjoyed water splashing during this very hot season, I chose to hide in the shade, praying for good things hopefully to come into my life later this year, watching a TV series that I had missed when it was first on air and playing with my cats. Don' think I would have missed the world outside. No, I didn't, even if I would love to. Thanks to modern communication technology these days, what's going on outside in Thailand and around the world can reach me through TV news channels and social platforms on the Internet via my mobile phone, if I don't turn it off.
Today continues another pubic holiday. At first I planned to get up late, but my cats seemed to think differently. They woke me up before dawn and once waking up, I couldn't get back to sleep. So, I just had to go with the flow ,and I have killed my time quite effectively ever since. I cooked two delicious dishes for lunch: spicy chicken and pickled bamboo shoot stir-fry and melon skin in spicy dried fish soup, which will be my dinner later. No heavy chores beyond that though because I remember some people said do not work on New Year Day, otherwise you would have to word hard throughout the year. Despite I don't seriously believe such, follow that advice is not bad.
Happy Thai New Year. Happy Songkran!!! 😁
Gigi
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