*~HAPPY THINGYAN~*

The once a year THINGYAN IS HERE......

Thingyan is the Burmese New Year Water Festival and usually falls around mid-April (the Burmese month of Tagu). It is celebrated over a period of four to five days culminating in the new year. The dates of the Thingyan festival are calculated according to the traditional Burma lunisolar calendar and hence have no fixed Roman calendar equivalent although 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 the more widely known Songkran in Thailand.

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The 2008 THINGYAN is finally here. The long await. The long anticipation. Wooo...

Dear Friend,

We are pleased to invite you to our traditional festival, THINGYAN and enjoy yourself with many traditional food items.SA TU DI THA like NAN KYITHOKE, MONT LONE YE PAW, SHWE YIN AVE, MONT HIN KHAR and many many more on this coming SUNDAY (13/04/08), starting from 7.30am at Toa Payoh Burmese Buddhist Temple.

Please inform all your friends and family.

Do come down!!!

Esp all the foods are FREE <-- see this word, isn't it attractive!!!

Aww.

Nin yaw pyaw lar?

Ngar pyaw tel ayan!!!

Burmese Buddhist Temple 14, Tai Gin Road Singapore 327873
Bus 139 , 145 from Toa Payoh Bus Interchange.

Try not to take the train because you will have to walk quite a distance.

If you happen to be at Toa payoh MRT station, take bus 145 and alight on the 3rd stop.

After you have alight, walk 3 o clock to your right. After about 100m, turn to your left and follow the little path way to the temple.

Look at the pictures if you need help from the web site below.

http://www.burmesebuddhisttemple.org.sg/templetour.htm

http://www.burmesebuddhisttemple.org.sg/IMAGES/templetour/a_fr.jpg

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.

Pictures below are taken from the Internet.

Thingyan festival in Myanmar.

*Have to emphasize the picture above contain handsome guys.


See how fun and joyous is Thingyan celebrated in Myanmar, it really make one envy.

Hope you have a blast!

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HAPPY THIN GYAN

will be back with lots of photos on how i celebrated ThinGyan.

Tat tar.

CHIT.