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Photos from Day 1 of the Bon Om Touk (Boat Race Festival)
A man prays on his boat before the start of racing on the Basak river in Phnom Penh November 23, 2007. Cambodia's annual Water Festival and boat racing takes place between November 23 and 25. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Participants prepare to start the race on the first day on the Basak river in Phnom Penh November 23, 2007. Cambodia's annual Water Festival and boat racing takes place between November 23 and 25. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Participants prepare to start the race on the first day on the Basak river in Phnom Penh November 23, 2007. Cambodia's annual Water Festival and boat racing takes place between November 23 and 25. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Participants prepare to start the race on the first day on the Basak river in Phnom Penh November 23, 2007. Cambodia's annual Water Festival and boat racing takes place between November 23 and 25. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Cambodian boat racers row their boats in front of Royal Palace during a first day of annual water festival along the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 23, 2007. The three-day annual water festival starting Friday is to dedicated to the Kingdom ancestral naval warrior moreover to the mighty of Mekong water that provides a vital natural resources and fishes to Cambodian. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Cambodian boat racers row their boats in front of Royal Palace during a first day of annual water festival along the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 23, 2007. The three-day annual water festival starting Friday is to dedicated to the Kingdom ancestral naval warrior moreover to the mighty of Mekong water that provides a vital natural resources and fishes to Cambodian. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A man prays on his boat before the start of racing on the Basak river in Phnom Penh November 23, 2007. Cambodia's annual Water Festival and boat racing takes place between November 23 and 25. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Participants prepare to start the race on the first day on the Basak river in Phnom Penh November 23, 2007. Cambodia's annual Water Festival and boat racing takes place between November 23 and 25. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Participants prepare to start the race on the first day on the Basak river in Phnom Penh November 23, 2007. Cambodia's annual Water Festival and boat racing takes place between November 23 and 25. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Participants prepare to start the race on the first day on the Basak river in Phnom Penh November 23, 2007. Cambodia's annual Water Festival and boat racing takes place between November 23 and 25. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Cambodian boat racers row their boats in front of Royal Palace during a first day of annual water festival along the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 23, 2007. The three-day annual water festival starting Friday is to dedicated to the Kingdom ancestral naval warrior moreover to the mighty of Mekong water that provides a vital natural resources and fishes to Cambodian. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Cambodian boat racers row their boats in front of Royal Palace during a first day of annual water festival along the Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 23, 2007. The three-day annual water festival starting Friday is to dedicated to the Kingdom ancestral naval warrior moreover to the mighty of Mekong water that provides a vital natural resources and fishes to Cambodian. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
4 comments:
Happy Bonn Om Tuok (Water Festival)!
Gen. Ke Kimyan: After the holiday, the new transitional government and the transitional prime minister will be installed.
Oh yeah? And who will be the lucky person, 5:17?
Philosophy from Bon Oum Touk,
As I can see, the Bon Oum Touk or boat racing ceremony shed us two concepts of philosophy:
1. It is good for Cambodians to preserve this long traditional ceremony of Cambodia. It symbolizes the strength of Cambodian navy, pay gratitude to the water, to farewell the starting receding of water, and to entertain Cambodian peasants from hard work of crops cultivating.
2. But it is surely if you watch TV or listen to Radios, or read newspapers; Cambodian's bon oum touk is the occasion for those Cambodian high-rank officials advertise their names, power and position through sponsoring with many projects: starting from sponsoring TVK, to boat crew, to rice, to cloths, to many and others.
So it is remarkably that invaluable Khmer traditional bon oum touk has become the central place for those corrupted government officials to make money laundering and advertise their cronism/favoritism.
If younger Cambodian generation wants to see brighter future of Cambodia, they must understand that this charity culture from those higher rank officials are only the encouraging of perpetuating corruption and Cambodia as a state has become weaker and weaker through this behavior.
Many those high-rank officials are happy to advertise themselves through the opportunity of bon oum touk and presence of the King.
Their legitimacy is very low and disgusting....this low profile political legitimacy culture comes from their evil backgrounds and less education.
KY
1:54, how many times do I have to tell you to stop smoke the Long Beach crack, huh?
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