Mostly about me, too boring?

Last week it was Thai New Year.

It lasts from 13th to 15th of April. The party highlight (for "farang" - foreigners in Thai language) is a stroll in Khao Sarn Road in Bangkok where everyone is armed with a plastic water gun and powder to cream everyone's face.

I feel really lucky since I spent Songkran with Thai friends. On Thursday evening we went together to a big club called "Holliwood" where most of the people were Thai. The place is really different from any club I've ever been before. There is a huge catwalk in the middle on the floor and there is live music and a huge amount of girls singing and dancing on the catwalk. The one thing I was most impressed by is how all Thai people were paying respect to unwritten rules. Up till midnight, hardly nobody shot water with their gun and then, after midnight, the wild party started. While the people started shooting at each other, on the catwalk the girls were less and less dressed (please note: most of the audiance in the club were Thai girls). At the end a group of them had just a star on their nipples... I'm not sure about this last batch of girls, but all the other after the show on the catwalk were just joining the crowd and mingle with them.

Anyway, something I really liked was that nobody throw anything (other than water) and for the whole night (despite the heavy usage of alchool) the guns were always loaded just with plain clean water.

I feel great respect for a population that can enjoy a wild party without loosing respect for some basic rules. After unexpectedly shooting a complete stranger, the usual custom was to bow with join hands to salute and thank the shooter... :-)

The first pictures are from Flickr (just search for Songkran or Kao San). The following shows one of the many great performances in the Holliwood. :-)