November 12th 2011 - My friend bought me to a Thai ancient festival, Loy Krathong which is celebrated in Wat Chetawan, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Loy Krathong has been widely celebrated in Thailand since the ancient Sukhothai era and it's belief to be an offering to the Goddess of Water to bring peace, health and luck.
Krathong
So what is Loy Krathong?
Loy means "To Float" Krathong refers to the Lotus-shape receptacle which can float on the water. The Krathong contains food, nuts, flowers, joss sticks. candle and coins as the offering to the Goddess of Water, Phra Mae Khongkha.
Upon arrived in the temple.. My friend and I walked around the temple and took a few shots of the temples, visited the main building, pray... then went over to the hall to get ourselves a Krathong, brought it to another hall and stood there for chanting.
Wat Chetawan - Main Building
The Tower
The chanting before the offering
After the chanting, all of us proceed to Taman Jaya Lake which is 10 mins walk from Wat Chetawan and offering the Krathong to the Goddess of Water...
Offering to the Goddess of Water
Had one guy and one lady as the newcaster :p
From the participated crown... I felt that this festival not only celebrated as an offering to the Water God, it also brings the family and friends together...
Anyway, i hope by offering to the Goddess of Water, I hope it will bring good luck and mercy to the people of Thailand, the water in Bangkok will be subsided soon.
Last night during the dinner, my friend told me the news. He received a mail from the organizer of the 1st Thailand international Half Marathon. The marathon has postponed from Dec 11 2011 to Feb 2012. Oh no, we have bought the air ticket to Bangkok and the ticket was NOT refundable. So we still need to go on with our plan to visit Thailand.
So as the international run got postponed, we are going to re-plan our journey to spend more time outside Bangkok and only spend our last weekend @ Bangkok before we fly off. As for the run, we gotten two options either run on Feb 2012 with 1st Thailand International Half Marathon or pushed the participation to 2nd Thailand international Half Marathon.
At the end, we decided to push it to Dec 9th 2012 - So see you in Bangkok for the 2nd Thailand International Half Marathon eh~
I was walk around the Bintang Walk area with friends last Sunday. Since i was there, my friends recommended me to fix my iPhone screen as the phone is not working. Since my iPhone was in the workshop, we were walking around to kill time at Sungei Wang and BB Plaza.
We have lunch over in Lot 10 as my iPhone could not fixed within the agreeable hour i.e. 2 hours ... We dropped by the famous 十号胡同 Lot 10 Hutong. The moment we walked into the Lot 10, I saw so many blue color box with YES hanging at the center of Lot 10, every corner of the shopping mall was hanging with the YES banner... YES here and YES there... This is definitely NOT a Celcom territory... It's YES territory...
It's has been one year since YES launched. Not sure how good is YES after one year back... Anyone using YES package now or has used the YES package? Can you provide us some update/comment?
I skipped gym for 5 days straight, i was tied up with all the activities that came out last minutes. I tried to finish all my task on time around 4pm but the moment i wanted to pack and leave the office... something came out and my boss assigned them to me. The task was so short lead time that i need to accomplish within hours. So, I have NO choice but staying back to complete them :(
Anyway, i managed to hit the gym yesterday and have a nice workout. I hope the coming week will not gate me to gym...
Please please let me go to gym eh~ I need to train for my Penang Bridge run on Nov 20th 2011.
