Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Day Off on Valentine's Day for the Strawberry Festival 2010





If you are looking to spend a day off,here is for you.
On 12th to 14th of February are set to be the Strawberry Festival in Samoeng , a district which far from the city Chiang Mai just about 50 kilometers. For years Sameong is known as the largest strawberry farm in Thailand.

Yet, there you will find not only a thousand of strawberry farms, but also hundreds of amazing things of each community. The word "Samoeng" originally means "the Three Cities” in northern Thai dialect. In Karen language is “The morning brightens”

One reason to the term is as in the past there were actually three ethnic groups lived there in Samoeng. The reason for the Karen translation is that since Samoeng is located in such good environment and atmosphere, that is why they named the place as "The Morning Brightens".

This year there are activities in acddition to the festival unlike earlier. According to the the marshal of Samoeng's report on FM 100 Chiangmai, he said there are cultural shows of the local people Muang, Leu, Hmong, Leesu, and Karen as well as exhibitions of the relevant authorities in Samoeng.Moreover, eapeacially for those who are getting married on the Valentine's Day, they would also issuing you a marriage certificate on such day!

At night also you will enjoy with the Miss Strawberry Contest , Ethnic Contest and Miss Hermaphroditic Contest!!

Don't forget to fill up your eyes!! There are alot for you to see!
See you there at Samoeng the second Switzerland of the world!
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  • There are alots of things which waiting for us to discover. All knowledge is not around us,but inside. It is depended upon our ability to realise and pick it up. The apple falls from the tree,and if Newton failed to learn from it,then the law of gravitation would have not been discovered!!!
  • India is the country of contrast. You often see someting beyound your expectation.Yet,and I found that there is a tool similar to Hmong's ones expecially the stick used for balancing the two baskets for carrying water. I observed that their's one is like ours only. In Hmong language we can read it phonetically as " / dΛ ŋ/ ". This attracts me to look forward for the connection.
  • India has also have a interesting story "Why corps in the filed do not come home themselves like in the past?" I have heard this story when I was a child. Thus when I came across this Indian legend ,it reminds me of the Hmong version. If you are interested you can check it out form my page in Thai text,otherwise you can surf it. This story creates another couriosity in me. I want to find out if we had been to India before we reached in China. Because the ICE AGE or the Peleolithic Age or The Earliest traces of human existance was in India.
  • India is where we Hmongs think that there are also Hmongs live in. But I have experienced that there is not Hmong Indian. Yet,there is a gruop of people who call themselves as "Mizo"(with the similarity of the Hmong's names given by the Han, i.e. Miao zu,Meo or even Mizo ) .But as far as I have learnt form my Mizo friends in college,our language is competely different to one another.Moreover, our dress also is different. However there are many Hmong researchers suggested me that there are Hmongs living in India,and yes, there are Hmongs living here, but only living for studying.
  • I was in debt to India. She educates,guides and teaches me how to be a great survior.
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