2012 THINGYAN DAY (04)

THINGYAN NOTES

Hi Everyone! 2012 Thingyan is such an unforgettable moment for me. After all, I have had a chance to make Thingyan photos without boundary. I walk along the streets of Yangon alone, I drive around the town with my camera. I shoot pandals, I capture lives of street vendors, I catch the happiness of revelers, and present all these as mesmerizing Thingyan New Year Water Festival of all Burmese people.

Everyone is having fun wearing so called celebration mood. Yesterday, I’ve launched a series of Thingyan Day (03) photos in a different perspective; all in Monochromatic tone. Thanks for all my friends and fans who visit and left comments. And today, I am giving you another set of Thingyan photos taken on Day (04).

Happy Myanmar New Year to you all!!!

Best Wishes…
YE LWIN OO (MPS)

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လိုက္တယ္ မွတ္လား။ သူကိုင္ထားတဲ႔ ပိုက္ နဲ႔ သူ႔ ခႏၶာကိုယ္ နဲ႔။ အဟိ…။

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သာသာ လုပ္ပါ အန္တီရယ္…။ သားတို႔ မခံသာဘူး…

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အေနာ္ရထား လမ္းေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္ ျမင္ကြင္း…

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ေပ်ာ္မဆံုး ၊ ေမာ္မဆံုး တဲ႔ လူငယ္ တစ္စု…

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ေကာ႔လန္ေနေအာင္ က ေနေတာ႔တာပဲ။ အက်ီမွာ ေရးထားတာ ကလည္း အမိုက္စား ဗ်…။ SPY… WHO LOVE ME?

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ေနာင္ေတာ္ႀကီး Nyikita Nyi က ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ မွာလိုက္တယ္။ အလန္းေလးေတြ ပါပါေစ ေနာ္… တဲ႔။ ဟုတ္ကဲ႔ ပါျဖစ္ေအာင္ ႐ိုက္ခဲ႔ပါတယ္ ဗ်ာ…

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မ႑ပ္ နာမည္ကို ရွာရွာႀကံႀကံ ေပးတတ္လြန္း ပါေပတယ္။ တစ္ခါထဲပါ တဲ႔…။ ဟိ ဟိ ဟိ…

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တို႔မ်ားဆီမွာ လုပ္တတ္ရင္ အကုန္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္… ေအးေဆး…

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ေရမႈန္ ေတြၾကားတဲ႔ က သူမ…

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မ႑ပ္ေပၚက ေရပိုက္မ်ား ပိုင္ရွင္…

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အကို… ႐ိုက္ၿပီးရင္ အင္တာနက္ေပၚ တင္ေပးပါ ေနာ္ ဆိုတဲ႔ လူငယ္ တစ္စု…

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အမ်ိဳးသား ၾကက္ေတာင္ကြင္း ေ႐ွ႕က ဂရိတ္ေဝါ မိသားစု ေရကစား မ႑ပ္ ပါ…။ ေရခဲတံုးေတြ အျပၫ္႔ နဲ႔ လက္နက္ အင္အား ျဖၫ္႔တင္း ထားပါတယ္…

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ဂရိတ္ေဝါ မိသားစု စတုဒီသာ မ႑ပ္ ပါ…။ ေတြ႕သမွ် ၊ ျမင္သမွ် ေရပက္ခံ ကားေတြကို ဖိတ္မံတက ျပဳၿပီး ေန႔လံုးေပါက္ ၾကာဇံခ်က္ လွဴဒါန္း ေနတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္…

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အက်ိတ္အနယ္ ခဲ တဲ႔ပြဲ…

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(၄) လမ္းထိပ္က မိသားစု ေရကစား မ႑ပ္ ပါ…

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အျဖဴ က တစ္မ်ိဳး ၊ အနီ က တစ္မ်ိဳး . . .

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တီး တာေလးလဲ ေကာင္းပါတယ္ ၊ အဆို လဲ ပီျပင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပသိ ဘာလို႔မ်ား သႀကၤန္ မွာ ဂိုးသြင္းေကာင္းတဲ႔ ကိုကို သီခ်င္း ကို ဆိုရတာလဲ…

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သႀကၤန္ကို မွီၿပီး သူတို႔လဲ စီးပြားရွာၾကသည္။

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ေရေက်ာ္ ထိပ္က Hisense ေရကစား မ႑ပ္…

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ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဘာမွ မလုပ္ဘူး ေနာ္…။ သူ႔ ဖာသာ သူ ကၽြန္ေတာ္႔ View Finder ထဲ ဝင္လာတာ…။ ဟိ ဟိ ဟိ…။

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ညီေလး ေရ… လုပ္ထား ၊ လုပ္ထား။ ဒီ အခြင္႔အေရးမ်ိဳး သႀကၤန္မွာပဲ ရတယ္…။

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သူတို႔ ခမ်ာလဲ ေျပးေန ၊ လႊားေန ရတယ္။ အရက္ ေရာင္းခ်ခြင္႔ လိုင္စင္ မရိွပဲ အရက္ေရာင္း လို႔ စည္ပင္ က ဆြဲစိ ေနတာ ၿမိဳ႕အႏွံ႔…။

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မခို႔တယို႔ ေလးနဲ႔…။

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THINGYAN MEMORY 2012

FROM YE LWIN OO

Dear fans, friends and families:

This is auspicious Myanmar New Year time. Happy Myanmar New Year to you all! A few days back, I have had a blog post about Myanmar New Year festival. Narrations and descriptions are 100% English. Please follow the photos here…

This time, I am going to write in Burmese (Myanmar). For my foreign friends, my sincere apology to you all. It intended to write some local language to my native friends.

By the way, everything in this post is in Monochromatic expression. Well, Thingyan is fair. Thingyan is unbiased. Thingyan is consistent. Whether Thingyan photos are colorful or B&W, it still give you the same happiness, joy and merits.

ႏွစ္သစ္ ဆုေတာင္း

သူငယ္ခ်င္း တို႔ ေရ…။

ျမန္မာ သကၠရာဇ္ ၁၃၇၃ ကို အၿပီးအပိုင္ ႏႈတ္ဆက္ရေတာ႔မယ္႔ အခ်ိန္ကို နီးကပ္လာၿပီ ေနာ္…။ ႏွစ္ေဟာင္း က ကံမေကာင္းမႈေတြ ၊ ဆံုး႐ံွဳးမႈေတြ ၊ အပူအပင္ေတြ ၊ အခက္အခဲ ေတြအားလံုးကို သႀကၤန္ေရ နဲ႔ အတူ စီးေမ်ာခြင္႔ ေပးလိုက္ ၾကရေအာင္…။ ေနာက္ၿပီး ျမန္မာ သကၠရာဇ္ ၁၃၇၄ ကို လႈိက္လႈိက္လွဲလွဲ ႀကိဳဆိုၾက ရေအာင္ ဗ်ာ…။ က်က္သေရ မဂၤလာ အေပါင္း နဲ႔ ထိန္ေဝေညာင္းတဲ႔ အတာ သႀကၤန္ ႏွစ္ကူး အခါသမယ မွာ စိတ္၏ ခ်မ္းသာျခင္း ၊ ကိုယ္၏ က်န္းမာျခင္း နဲ႔ ၿပီးျပၫ္႔စံုၿပီး လုပ္ငန္း စီးပြားမ်ား အဖုအထစ္မရိွ ေခ်ာေမြ႕ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ လုပ္ကိုင္ ေဆာင္႐ြက္ႏိုင္ပါေစ ေၾကာင္း ဆုမြန္ေကာင္းမ်ား ေတာင္းလိုက္ပါတယ္ ဗ်ာ…။

၂၀၁၂ သႀကၤန္ (သို႔) ကၽြန္ေတာ္ နဲ႔ ရန္ကုန္ သႀကၤန္

ဒီႏွစ္ ၂၀၁၂ သႀကၤန္က ကၽြန္ေတာ္႔ အတြက္ေတာ႔ ထူးျခားတယ္ ဆိုရမယ္ ဗ်။ သႀကၤန္ အခ်ိန္ဆို ရန္ကုန္မွာ ရိွဖို႔ ခဲယဥ္း ေလ႔ရိွတဲ႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဒီႏွစ္ေတာ႔ မျဖစ္မေန ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ မွာ ရိွေနတာ ပါပဲ။ ေနာက္တစ္ခု က ဘယ္လို အေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ မွ Blog Post ေတြ ျမန္မာ လိုနဲ႔ မေရးတတ္တဲ႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ျမန္မာလို နဲ႔ Blog Post တစ္ခု ကို ေရးဖို႔ ငယ္သူငယ္ခ်င္း တစ္ေယာက္ က တိုက္တြန္း လိုက္ျခင္းပါ ပဲ…။ ထံုးစံ အတိုင္း ေမာင္ရဲလြင္ဦး တို႔ ကာလာဓါတ္ပံုေတြ ၾကၫ္႔တာမ်ားလာရင္ ၿငီးေငြ႕တတ္တဲ႔ အက်င္႔ဆိုး ေၾကာင္႔ အျဖဴ ၊ အမည္း ကို အာ႐ံု လာေနတယ္။ သႀကၤန္ ပံုေတြကို အျဖဴ ၊ အမည္း ဆိုရင္ လူေတြ ႀကိဳက္ပါ႔ မလား ၊ ၾကၫ္႔လို႔ေရာ ေကာင္းပါ႔ မလားေပါ႔။

“မိုးေပၚ ခုန္တက္ ကလိုက္ ခ်င္ပါတယ္” ဆိုတဲ႔ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ ဇာတ္ကားမွာ မင္းသား ေနေအာင္ ေျပာတဲ႔ စကားကို သြားၾကားေယာင္ မိတယ္။ သႀကၤန္ ဆိုတာ သစၥာ မေဖာက္ဘူး ၊ ဖက္မလိုက္ဘူး။ ပိေတာက္ ဆိုတာလဲ ကတိတည္တယ္ ၊ သိမ္ေမြ႕တယ္ ၊ တံု႔ျပန္မႈေတြ ညီမွ်တယ္။ အဲလိုပဲ အေရာင္မစံုတဲ႔ အျဖဴ ၊ အမည္း ပံုေတြ ျဖစ္ေပေသာ္ျငား သႀကၤန္ရဲ႕ အေငြ႕ ၊ အသက္ ၊ သႀကၤန္ ရဲ႕ ေပ်ာ္႐ႊင္မႈ ေတြကို ဖက္မလိုက္ ၊ သစၥာ မေဖာက္တမ္း ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ ေနမယ္ ဆိုတာ…။

ဒီ တစ္ခါေတာ႔ ခါတိုင္း ေရးေနက် ပံုစံမ်ိဳး မဟုတ္ပဲ သူငယ္ခ်င္း အတြက္ ေပါ႔ေပါ႔ပါးပါး ေရးသားၿပီး ပို႔စ္ တစ္ခု တင္ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ Formal ပံုစံ နဲ႔ ေရးရတာ မ်ားေတာ႔ တစ္ခါတစ္ေလ လြတ္လပ္တဲ႔ အေရးအသားမ်ိဳးေလး ဆို အေျပာင္းအလဲေလး ျဖစ္မလား ဆိုတဲ႔ သေဘာေလးပါ…။

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ဒီႏွစ္ ႐ိုက္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ ပံုေတြထဲမွာ အစြန္႔စားဆံုး ႐ိုက္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ ပံု လို႔ ေျပာလို႔ ရတဲ႔ ပံုေလး တစ္ပံုပါ…။ ကင္မရာ ေရစိုမွာ စိုးလို႔ ဘုရား သိၾကား “တ” ၿပီး ေရေတာထဲ ဝင္႐ိုက္ ခဲ႔တာပါ…။ ကိုယ္လိုခ်င္တဲ႔ ပံုေလး ရလိုက္တာမို႔ အေတာ္ေလး ဘဝင္က် ခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ၊ လမ္းမေတာ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ (၁၁) လမ္းထိပ္ မိသားစု ေရကစား မ႑ပ္မွာ ႐ိုက္ခဲ႔တာပါ…။ ညေန ၅း၀၀ ​ဝန္းက်င္ ေနဝင္ခ်ိန္မွာ ေနကို မ်က္ႏွာခ်င္း ဆိုင္႐ိုက္ထားတဲ႔ ပံုတစ္ပံု ျဖစ္ပါတယ္…။

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ဒါေလးလဲ တ႐ုတ္တန္းမွာ ႐ိုက္ခဲ႔တဲ႔ ပံုေလး ပါပဲ။ ေနရာကေတာ႔ (၁၆) လမ္း ၊ မဟာဗႏၶဳလလမ္း ထိပ္မွာပါ…။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ငယ္ငယ္တုန္း က ႏွစ္စဥ္ ၊ ႏွစ္တိုင္း (၁၄) မိသားစု ေရကစား မ႑ပ္မွာ ေဆာ႔တယ္ ဗ်…။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္က (၁၄) လမ္း အဖြားအိမ္မွာ ႀကီးျပင္း ခဲ႔တာ ကိုး။ အခုေတာ႔လဲ (၁၄) လမ္း မိသားစု ေရကစား မ႑ပ္ ဆိုတာ မရိွေတာ႔ ပါဘူးေလ…။ သႀကၤန္ နီးၿပီဆို ႏွစ္စဥ္ မပ်က္ တက္တက္ႂကြႂကြ နဲ႔ ဦးေဆာင္ တတ္တဲ႔ သြားေလသူ ကိုညီညီေမာင္ ကို သႀကၤန္ေရာက္ရင္ ပိုလို႔ သတိ ရတယ္ ဗ်ာ…။ သူသာ ရိွေနေသးတယ္ ဆိုရင္ ဘယ္သူေတြ ဘယ္ေလာက္တားတား မျဖစ္ျဖစ္တဲ႔ နည္းနဲ႔ ေရကစား မ႑ပ္ကို တာဝန္ယူ လည္ပတ္ ေပးစၿမဲ ပါ…။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ကို ႐ုတ္တရက္ ခြဲခြာ သြားတဲ႔ အကို ေကာင္းရာ သုဂတိ လားပါေစ ဗ်ာ…။

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ရန္ကုန္ ၿမိဳ႕တြင္း (၆) ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အတြင္းက မ႑ပ္ေတြ ထဲမွာ အစည္ကားဆံုး မ႑ပ္ ပါပဲ။ အေနာ္ရထားလမ္း ၊ စၪ္႔အိုးတန္း နဲ႔ ၁၉လမ္း ၾကားက SKYNET နဲ႔ SHWE FM တို႔ရဲ႕ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖေရး မ႑ပ္  ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံေက်ာ္ အဆိုေတာ္မ်ား ရဲ႕ ေတးဂီတ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖမႈေတြ ပါဝင္တာေၾကာင္႔ လာေရာက္ ေစာင္႔စား ၾကၫ္႔႐ွဳ သူမ်ား နဲ႔ က်ိတ္က်ိတ္တိုး စည္ကား လွပါတယ္…။

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ေရမႈန္ေတြ ၾကားထဲက သူတို႔ တေတြရဲ႕ အေပ်ာ္ – ႏွစ္ေဟာင္းက အဆိုး အညစ္ ေတြ သႀကၤန္ေရ နဲ႔ အတူ စီးေမ်ာ စင္ၾကယ္ ႏိုင္ၾက ပါေစ ေသာ္ဝ္…

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တခ်ိဳ႕ တခ်ိဳ႕ေသာ မ႑ပ္ေတြ… ေဆာက္ထားတာ ဧရာမႀကီးေတြ ဗ်ာ…။ ေရပက္တဲ႔ သူက သံုး – ေလး ဆယ္ ေလာက္ပဲ ရိွတယ္။ အဲလို လူနည္း ရျခင္း အေၾကာင္းအရင္း ကေတာ႔ ေရကစားခြင္႔ လက္မွတ္ ေစ်းႏႈန္း ေၾကာင္႔ရယ္ပါ…။ မ႑ပ္ တစ္ခု ရဲ႕ ေၾကာ္ျငာ မွာ ေရးထားတာ…
ALL DAY – 120,000 KYATS / 3 DAYS 80,000 KYATS / 1 DAY – 50,000 KYATS ဟူ၍သာ…

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သႀကၤန္ အၿပီး စီပြားအျဖစ္ဆံုး လူတစ္စု ကို ေျပာျပပါ ဆိုရင္ ကားဝပ္ေရွာ႔ ဆရာမ်ား ဟု ေျပာရပါမည္။ ကား တစ္စီးလံုးကို ရစရာ မရိွေအာင္ ကျပ ၊ ခုန္ေပါက္ၿပီး ဒြန္႔တတ္တဲ႔ ညီငယ္ေလးေတြ ရိွေနလို႔သာ ကားဝပ္ေရွာ႔ ဆရာမ်ား ထင္သည္ထက္ ပို၍ အလုပ္ ျဖစ္ၾကပါသည္…

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Lady Ga Ga ရဲ႕ Bad Romance သီခ်င္း ၊ အမူးသမား ၊ ပုဆိုး ကေတာင္းက်ိဳက္ ၊ ကတၱရာ လမ္းမေပၚ မွာ Underground အက။ ဘယ္လို မွ စပ္ဟပ္ လို႔ မရတဲ႔ မဆီမဆိုင္ ကို႔ယိုကားယား ဗ်ာ။ သူ႔ Underground ဆိုတာ ကလဲ ၾကၫ္႔ရင္း ၾကၫ္႔ရင္း ၾကက္ဖခြပ္တန္း ေဆာ႔သလို ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ေနတာ ဗ်။ အဲ… ဒီလို ေပါက္ကရ အက မ်ိဳးေတြ က်ေတာ႔ သူငယ္ခ်င္း ေ႐ႊမန္းသား မာမီ ညီမင္းစံ တို႔ သိပ္ပိုင္ႏိုင္ တာေပါ႔ဗ်ာ…။ မယံုရင္ သူ႔ဆီ သြားသင္…။

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2012 YANGON THINGYAN

GREETING & NEW YEAR WISH

Dear fans, friends and families:

Happy Thingyan New Year to you all !! Warmest New Year wish from Yangon, Myanmar. May this Thingyan New Year bring all smiles and cheers; wipe your tears and bad luck along with its water.

ME & THINGYAN

The very last time I shot was 2008 Yangon Thingyan, it was four years ago which I still feel like a few months back there. In the following year, I was in Bangkok with my Mum. What about 2010 and 2011 Thingyan? Oh, I was in Singapore. And this year, I decided to be in Yangon as I need to babysit my beloved Mum. Every year if I happen to be in Yangon during Thingyan, I hardly ever go out and play water. Why? Thingyan, to me, is an absolute leisure time which I want to utilize it wisely. So what is my wish-list for Thingyan holidays? Stay home, spend time retouching old photos, write blog and recharge energy by getting enough sleep!

THINGYAN PHOTOS

A few days back, my notorious sister, Saw Yu Mon, said she was so much fervent too see happenings of Yangon Thingyan. She wanted me to go one round of Yangon and shoot. And on the next day, I was told by my girlfriend how much she was craving to feel the essence of Padauk and Ngu Wah flowers (flowers that blooms during Thingyan). That is the origin of this Thingyan post. That’s how I happen to shoot 2012 Yangon Thingyan. Not just for two of them, I have tons of my fans out there to share this joyful moment with. To my local friends who do not play water, to my friends in overseas who could not come back, to my foreign friends who would like to know more about Thingyan, I have put a big time for you guys.

THINGYAN, THE TRUE MEANING

“Thingyan” is the word derived from Sankrit, translate as “transit of the Sun from Pisces to Aries“. Among various festivals of Myanmar Lunar calendar, Thingyan is the merriest and the biggest celebration nationwide. In the cities of big or small, in the villages of far or near, everyone plays water…

THINGYAN, A HARMONIOUS BLEND OF FOLKLORE & BUDDHISM

Thingyan is ushered in by three or four days (five days in some years) of the Water Festival. The folklore says, Thagyarmin (king of the celestial), will be on a visit to the human abode for three days during Thingyan. It is by way of helping and guiding humans that he comes down to bring the New Year and remind people of their religious and spiritual duties. Thus, Thingyan is the time for Myanmar people to wash away themselves of the defilement and sins they might have collected during the old year and look forward to a better year and future. With Thingyan Yay (New Year Water), all the bad things will be washed away.

THE CELEBRATION

The main feature of Thingyan is water-throwing or pouring water. Temporary water-spraying stations, known as pandals, are set up along the road sides.  Some of the pandals are with music bands and traditional / modern dance performances.

“Thingyan” usually falls around mid April (the Burmese lunar month of Tagu). It is a Buddhist festival celebrated over a period of four to five days culminating in the New Year. In the past, the dates of the Thingyan festival are calculated according to the traditional Burma Lunisolar calendar and but now have fixed to base on Roman calendar (13 to 16 April) equivalent it often coincides with Easter. The dates of the festival are observed as the most important public holiday throughout Burma and are part of the summer holidays at the end of the school year. Water throwing or dousing one another from any shape or form of vessel or device that delivers water is the distinguishing feature of this festival and may be done on the first four days of the festival. However, in most parts of the country, it does not begin in earnest until the second day. Thingyan is comparable to other New Year festivities in Theravada Buddhist areas of Southeast Asia such as Lao New Year, Cambodian New Year and Songkran in Thailand.

References:
- Presenting Myanmar, Maung Kyaa Nyo, June 2000
- Flowers & Festivals Round The Myanmar Year, Khin Myo Chit, February 2002
- Myanmar Customs & Culture, U Than Pe, July 2009
- Wikipedia, The Free Online Encyclopedia

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“The Golden Padauk” – April in Myanmar unveils the burning climax temperature of all year round. It is the time of the year the leaves of the trees have dried up, curled crisp and fallen. But one large tree stands tall and green with its canopy of emerald leaves. That is Padauk!! Padauk (also spell as Pa-Dauk) waits for the first rain showers to burst forth into the bloom with its tiny fragrant yellow gold flowers.

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“The Majestic Bloom” – These Ngu Wah trees along the University Avenue road are in full bloom and their bright yellow flowers looked majestic with the autumn’s sunlight… This picture is captured for my girlfriend as to fulfill her wish…

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“Poetic Autumn’s Blossom” – Like Padauk flowers, Ngu Wah (also known as the Golden Mohair) is commonly seen in Myanmar. Ngu Wah is the national symbolic flower of Kingdom of Thailand where Myanmar’s is Padauk…

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“Round The Yangon” – A jeep full of revelers is doused with water on the streets of Yangon…

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“Magical Thingyan Yay” – Thingyan is the time for Myanmar people to wash away themselves of the defilement and sins they might have collected during the old year and look forward to a better year and future. The folklore says, with Thingyan Yay (New Year Water), all the bad things will be washed away…

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“J-Me & His Audience” – A local radio broadcasting company, Shwe FM, hosts a giant pandal in Yangon Chinatown with the live performances all day long…

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“Ni Ni Khin Zaw’s Performance” – 20-minute performance of new artist, Ni Ni Khin Zaw, at Shwe FM’s pandal  became a hit in Chinatown with her loyal fans and audience…

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“Rolling Stone” – Mazda B-600, a vehicle with the age of my Dad, still rolling on the street of Yangon… By the way, it is a very popular choice for revelers during Thingyan…

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“Cram on Kabaraye Pagoda Road” – The road features most of the giant pandals in town, traffic is simply dire even on the first day of the celebration…

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“Joy With The Water” – It is really blissful to see these people’s joy amidst the splashes of Thingyan New Year Water…

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“Hello Lady Fire Fighter” – She wants to use that 2-inch Fire Hose to play water but seems like she can’t handle well…

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“Thingyan Fashion” – People don’t set any boundary during Thingyan. Some young people dress up like this…

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“Thingyan Candid” – It wasn’t intentional at all. I swear! She passed by, I saw and I clicked! For my Shwe Mann Thar buddy, Nyi Min San. Lolz…

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“Thingyan Hangover” – People lose control and forget the limit with the joy of New Year… Every year, Thingyan ranks highest per day national alcohol consumption…

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“Splash Splash” – The revelers in front of POKKA’s pandal on Kabaraye Pagoda Road…

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“Dance With Water” – She noticed that I was shooting her. Do you know what did she do? She danced faster, moved sexier and shake her body harder… Oops!

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“Festive Thingyan Mood” – Those people on the pandals, those people on the road, those revelers on the cars, those people who passed by… They all have the same festive Thingyan mood… Because it’s Thingyan merit making and joy sharing time…

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“Shake Shake Shake” – With the music beats up and down, she shakes flawlessly in ease..

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“Five Whole Days” – 2012 Thingyan has five whole days of water splashing… People get one more day to play water compared to last year…

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“New Year Family Union” – Along with New Year merits, cheers and joys, Thingyan also is a time that most families celebrate union. Like Chinese New Year in China where people enjoy long holidays, Myanmar people normally take this chance to go back to native or hometown and enjoy once-a-year union with their loved ones…