Students from Pattaya School No. 9 performed many
Thai dances in honor of HM the Queen.
Pattaya Mail Team
Eastern Seaboard residents prayed, made merit, paraded and helped the needy
in honor of HM Queen Sirikit as the area marked her 82nd birthday.
National Mother’s Day events began early with Banglamung District Chief Sakchai
Taengho leading former Chonburi MPs, politicians and residents in a 7 a.m.
merit-making ceremony. They gave dried food and rice to 83 monks then laid the
traditional Buddhist cones of jasmine flowers in front her painting, signing
their names to a blessings card to offer their best wishes and prayers to the
queen.
Events repeated themselves at 7 p.m. in Pattaya, with Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome
this time leading thousands of city workers and residents in a similar flower
tray and prayer ceremony. The event was capped with people singing the Sadudee
Maharaja song to pledge their allegiance to Their Majesties and chanting “Long
Live the Queen” before a festive fireworks display.
The largest celebrations, however, came on the streets where people turned out
for parades along Pattaya’s beachfront.
Children from Pattaya’s 11 public schools, and people from Pattaya’s businesses,
clubs and other groups decked out in blue shirts marched down Beach Road around
5 p.m., parading from Royal Garden Plaza to Bali Hai Pier where they waited for
the evening’s ceremony to begin.
In Sattahip, District Chief Phawat Lertmukda led public servants and local
residents in a Buddhist merit-making ceremony, offering 82 monks packets of rice
and dried food before he led people in signing a book to express their well
wishes to HM the Queen on her birthday, wishing Her Majesty “excellent health,
great prestige and power to keep the nation peaceful and secure.”
Gov. Khomsan Ekachai did the honors at Chonburi’s Chalerm Prakiat Pavilion,
presiding over chanting by royal monks in honor of HM the Queen’s birthday.
That same day, Khomsan and Deputy Gov. Pongsak Preechawit hosted the ceremony to
offer alms to 83 monks at Pra Phutta Sihing Hall to show love and respect to HM
the Queen, especially for her dedication to helping the less fortunate in
society with her supplemental vocational project, which produces jobs and
increases income, and for her concerns on the environment and growing trees to
help save the world from global warming. The dry food presented to the monks
will be given to ailing monks in hospitals in Chonburi, and the elderly, the
less fortunate and the poor.
Gov. Khomsan Ekachai hosts the ceremony to offer
alms to 83 monks at Pra Phutta Sihing Hall to show love and respect to HM the
Queen.
HM the Queen’s image takes pride of place in the
parade, adorning this car beautifully decorated with white jasmine, which
represents children expressing love and loyalty to their mothers.
Gov. Khomsan Ekachai presides over chanting by royal
monks in honor of HM the Queen’s birthday at Chonburi’s Chalerm Prakiat
Pavilion.
Students from the Asian Maritime Technological
College lead the parade down Beach Road.
Banglamung District Chief Sakchai Taengho presents
phanpum (jasmine flower cone) to a portrait of HM the Queen Sirikit at
Banglamung District Hall.
Local Lions Clubs parade together on August 12th.
Staff from Nong Nooch Tropical Gardens join the
parade.
BTV Cable network shows their loyalty to HM the
Queen.
Sattahip District Chief Phawat Lertmukda leads
public servants and local residents in a Buddhist merit-making ceremony.
Pattaya Mail Media Group once again participates in
the annual parade and pays homage to HM the Queen on her birthday.
Wannapa Wannasri (left) from the Pattaya Education
Office, and Peter Malhotra (right), MD of Pattaya Mail Media Group, emcee the
event in Thai and English.
Red Cross members offer alms to monks on Mother’s
Day in front of the Banglamung District Office.
Dusit Thani Pattaya staff members participate in the
citywide celebrations of Her Majesty the Queen’s birthday, which is also
celebrated in the Kingdom as National Mother’s Day.
Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome presents his jasmine flower
cone to HM the Queen’s portrait.
Traditional dance in front of HM the Queen’s
portrait.
Praichit Jetpai and members of the
YWCA sing their loyalty to HM the Queen on Mother’s Day.
Pattaya Women’s Development Group
attends the ceremony
Mother in red representing the
Nation and the child in blue representing HM the Queen on Mother’s Day.
A little child waves the Thai
flag.
Students from the Asian Maritime
Technological College express their loyalty.
Thousands of Pattaya citizens light candles to
celebrate the 82nd Royal Birthday of HM the Queen at Bali Hai in South Pattaya.
(Above) Beautiful fireworks brighten the entire Khao
Pratamnak area.
Students from Pattaya School No. 9 perform a Thai
traditional dance for the gods at Bali Hai in South Pattaya.
