For the first time in many many months, I’m finally getting to spend more than one night a week at *home* during this long weekend. Well, as some of my colleagues put it, they even teased me that I’m going back to the country-side during this Thai new year holiday season. That’s not so far from the truth as my house *is* really far from where I work! In a completely empty-road times, it probably would take me about 40-50 minutes of driving, but of course, during the rush hours of the usual traffic, that would translate to probably up to 2 hours of driving ONE-WAY. So, if I were to live at home, that would be *AT LEAST* 3 hours of my life everyday wasted on the road!

That, on top of the fact that right now my mom’s choosing to stay at my grandpa’s, is more than enough reasons for me to not go home unless for the Saturday night.

But anyway, I was planning to spend AT LEAST a whole day at home during this holiday. That plan completely fell through though. :( *sigh* A shame, really, since I never get to do that during the regular weekend, what with all the having to go back and forth between here and my grandpa’s place anyway.

Sometimes as I watched the whole “new year” celebration of splashing the water onto the passing cars or the motorcycles (all from the dryness of my car, of course), I sometimes wonder if this whole thing had gone too far and what really is the point of it all? I mean, sure… maybe some people think it’s fun… maybe it’s a tradition, but sometimes seeing kids rushing out onto the street with a bucket of water onto the running motorcycle, I couldn’t help thinking that it’s a) a little reckless & dangerous and b) quite a big usage of water resources!!

But who am I to judge this long-lived tradition?