PART 1---SONGKRAN IN CHIANGMAI IS A BLAST! SPLASHING GREAT FUN AND GUARANTEED TO BE WET, WET, WET! FROM HEAD TO TOE AND MOST OF THE TIME YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE THE WATER IS COMING FROM! SONGKRAN IS THE THAI NEW YEAR AND IS THAILAND'S MOST IMPORTANT 3-DAY HOLIDAY AND CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT KINGDOM OF SMILES. THOUGH 2017 IS THE FIRST TIME SONGKRAN IS CELEBRATED AFTER THE ASCENT TO HEAVEN OF HIS MAJESTY KING BHUMIBOL ADULADEJ THE KING OF THAILAND, THE THAIS MANAGE TO ENJOY THEMSELVES THOUGH OFFICIALLY THE EVENTS TONED DOWN. BUT THE TOURISTS MADE UP FOR THE RAUCOUSNESS AND AS USUAL THE WATERWORKS COMPANIES REAPED THE HIGHEST PROFITS THIS TIME OF YEAR! MIND YOU, MOST OF THE WATER WERE DRAWN GRATIS FROM THE CANALS!

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 THE NIGHT BEFORE SONGKRAN ON 12 APRIL 2017 WHEN REVELLERS MINT, JESLYN, RICHARD LIM AND LAY HAN STARTED BUYING ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS FOR THE NEXT DAY WHEN SONGKRAN WATER FESTIVAL AND THAI NEW YEAR STARTED ON 13 TILL 15 APRIL 2017

 MICHELLE JOINED THE TEAM IN STOCKING UP ON WATER GUNS!

 ALL PREPARED AND ARMED FOR THE WATER BATTLE THE NEXT DAY ON 13 APRIL 2017 IN CHIANGMAI! 

 PUI JENG LEONG AND MON JOINED THE TAT MALAYSIA BATTALION

CUTEST GUNS! 

 ON 13 APRIL 2017 AFTER BREAKFAST, DATO KEE HUA CHEE PRIMED HIMSELF FOR THE COMING ASSAULT

 SEE, HIS CAP COULD OPEN TO REVEAL FEROCIOUS TEETH

 TOOTHLESS TIGER AS HE IS A SPONGEBOB. WELL, SONGKRAN IS ABOUT WATER SO WHO BEST EXEMPLIFIES IT THAN SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS WHO WILL ABSORB ALL WATER THROWN ON HIM?

 VIPS AT THE LAUNCHING CEREMONY OF SONGKRAN 2017 IN CHIANGMAI

 STAGE

 MISS AND MR SONGKRAN 2017

 DATO KEE HUA CHEE JOINED THE BEAUTIES

 IN ASCENDING ORDER SUMORE

 THE DIGNITARIES WORE BLACK AS THAILAND IS STILL IN MOURNING SINCE THE PASSING OF KING BHUMIBOL ADULADEJ OF THAILAND LAST OCTOBER

 ARRIVAL OF THE PROCESSION 

 MAIDENS FROM LANNA KINGDOM

 3 QUEENS FROM THE ANCIENT LANNA KINGDOM BEING CARRIED BY HUNKS

 MISS THAILAND UNIVERSE

 THE GOVERNOR POURING WATER INTO THE BOWL OF THE BUDDHA

 1ST RUNNER-UP OF MR GLOBAL

 HIS EXCELLENCY AND DATO KEE HUA CHEE

 AMONG THE MOST HANDSOME MEN AND BEAUTIFUL LADIES OF THAILAND!

THE EARLY LANNA KINGDOM KINGS  

 HANDSOME!

 TO STAND OUT YOU MUST BE TALL!

 CONTESTANTS FOR MISS BICYCLE

 CONTESTANTS FOR MISS CHIANGMAI

 ONE IS DEFINITELY NOT A CONTESTANT

 AFTER THE SHOW

 RECOGNISED HIM?

WITHOUT HIS TRADITIONAL COSTUME? NO, NOT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, THE OTHER ONE