Happy Songkran
April 20th 2013 Happy New Year- again! In the past four months I have celebrated New Year's according to the Gregorian, aka Western, calendar- January 1, 2013; Lunar, aka Chinese, calendar- February 10, 2013 (or the year 4711); and the Buddhist, aka Thai, calendar- April 13, 2013 (or the year 2556).
April is the hottest month of the year in Thailand, so the new year is appropriately celebrated with nation-
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