Friday, February 26, 2010

Chinese New Year Celebration In Thailand

For my second blog, I am going to share about the Chinese New Year celebration in Thailand. In Thailand, Chinese New Year also known as 'Trut Chin'. This is a festival of thanks giving and ancestor worship, and a time of family reunion. They will have days off to perform the ritual to worship gods, godness and ancestors. Beside that, visit their senior relatives when new year begins. All the practices are origin of the term 'Buying Day', 'Worshipping Day' and 'Observing Day'.


'Buying Day' is the day before new year's eve where for the Thais who have not yet preparing things and they must finished doing it within that day. 'Worshiping Day' is the day that each house performs ritual to worship thier ancestors. They worship land of gods in the morning while worship the ancestors during the afternoon. During 'Observing Day', everyone will do and say only auspicious things. 'Observing Day' is also call 'going out day', it is derived from the fact that when children and employers get 'angpao'.



Wednesday, February 3, 2010

My First Blog

Today English lesson is different from the usual. Our English teacher brought us to the computer lab in school . Everyone was excited the moment Lin Li told the class that we were going to computer lab. They started to pack their school bags. The reason why teacher wanted us to go to the computer lab was for us to create our blog mainly for our English subject. Most of the students in my class are good in computer so creating a blog is as easy as ABC for them. In just a few minutes, most of them were done. I had heard of blog before but never paid attention to it until today. I didn't know what to do when teacher asked us to do create our own blog, luckily my friend helped me out. I was very happy when I finally created my own blog. :)
I think it is nice that everyone can share their ideas and opinions in their blogs.