Did you noticed that lots of holidays here in Penh?

Anyway, today is Monday (we all know, lolz) and CJ’s at home, its the 3rd day of the Royal Ploughing Ceremony here in Cambodia. It is an ancient royal rite held here and in Thailand to mark the traditional beginning of the rice-growing season. In the Khmer language, it is called “Preah Reach Pithi Chrot Preah Neangkol.”

In the ceremony, two sacred oxen are hitched to a wooden plough and they plough a furrow in some ceremonial ground, while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen are offered plates of food, including rice, corn, green beans, sesame, fresh-cut grass, water and rice whisky. Depending on what the oxen eat, court soothsayers make a prediction on whether the coming growing season will be bountiful or not. The ceremony is rooted in Brahman belief, and is held to ensure a good harvest. (Source: Wikipedia)

Last Saturday, King Norodom Sihamoni  presided the annual Plowing Ceremony at Veal Mean Park here in Phnom Penh, wherein the two royal oxen ate corn and beans but not rice. Royal Astrologers said that these two crops harvest will be bountiful but prompting fear of poor rice harvest among farmers!

We just stayed home today except for K who had a meeting. Tomorrow Kuya will be back to school, K and I will be busy doing some errands…I hope it will get cooler again because this month, our electric consumption was higher to what we used to consumed, blame it to AC, hehehe! Busy week ahead…

Anyway, Happy Monday, everyone!