“I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Crazy Thai Water Festival
I talked to Tan on the phone today and she told me that the Songkran Festival is going on right now. It's a very interesting Thai celebration. Thai people take water hoses, squirt guns, water balloons or anything to get each other wet. They also throw powder on each other. Sounds like fun. April is the hottest month of the year in Thailand. I think it is a Buddhist holiday. Songkran also sounds like it gets out of control. Guys like to get girls wet and then grab them. It sounds like it might be the Thai equivalent of a Mardi Gras party. Tan doesn't want to go out during Songkran because the Bangkok police won't do anything to control the craziness. Some girls complained about it on the news. I wish I could see it. I'll have to stay for it sometime.
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