Burmese New Year 2010

              I woke up 5 am this morning, and called to my parent who are living in west Burma. It's about 11.45 am in there. My sister picked the phone, asked if i can speak to my mother. But she said '' Mom has gone to Beauty salon''. Oh ya.. They're gonna celebrate new year.
              Very famous festival in Burma. It's also called Thingyan. I really really love Thingyan ,it's been two years that I couldn't take part.Basically , it's celebrated for 3 days.

The older people go to the monastery and worship to the Lord Buddha and the monks. But the young ones go out driving in their cars. Most of the cars used in the Water Festival are jeeps. A jeep can carry only 6/7 people normally, but in the Water Festival days, it carries over 25 people standing and climbing on all parts of the car, even with some people sitting on the hood of the engine. It looks like a man-tree from a distance. While they are driving, they are singing songs and shouting. Some ladies and women are among those on the cars.
When they are driving, they spray water from pumps or they throw little plastic water-bags on each other and have fun. Some young people and children walk in groups carrying buckets or cans or plastic containers full of water, going to and fro along the roads. If they meet the water festival cars or the car passes by they throw little plastic water-bags and pour water on them.
Some young people spray water on the people on the cars by using big pumps from stages. On the stages, there are music bands and a variety of dances done by the school girls. In Rangoon, the capital of Burma, the government builds many stages in different places for the government officials and their families to participate in the festival.