My Khmer New Year-2011

This year, my new year vacation is quite good.

On the first day, in the morning I went to Wat Vihea Sour locating in Kondal Provice (as I know). It is about 40km (Makara told me) from Phnom Penh. It is a very big Wat I had ever been to and also the first time that I went to and lit lots of insanes in many small huts (hermitages)where we took some pictures. It was ashamed that we (my wife and I) did not cook anything to offer to the monks there as we got up late by ringing sound when Lena called me. So we decided to buy a case of instant noodle, some sugar and some tea only. By the time we reached there, Lena and his nephew, and Makara and his family had already been there and offered their food to the monks; therefore we (my wife and I) offered ours just before we left there. We had to hurry home because Korney Devy was coming at 1.13 pm. Because of the time limit, I could not bring the fruit to my mom, but I hired a motor taxi driver to do it. In the afternoon, I went to Makara's and played cards until night.

I did not do anything much on the second day. My mom called me and said that she was not fine, so we had to go and took care of her nearly all day. We went home late afternoon and as usual played cards at Makara's again. It was my bad day. I lost some money which I won on my first day.

On the last day, my wife and I went to Wat LangKa. We offered food to the monks there and took some pictures. Oh, I haven't gone to pick those pictures yet. We felt good then. We washed a stutue of Buddha and built a mountain of sand and wished for good luck for the coming year. And you know what we do when we came back? Hasha, we played cards again. That day, we won a lot of money.

Now I know an abstract reason why I won on the first and the third day. I went to pagodas and lit insanes (and also at home). I have started to believe in it much more than before.