I couldn’t login to my blog last night, so here are some pics I took on the 24th. I went out with my cousin (well, uncle, technically) Ivan to go check out some of the Wesak sights. Here’s what I saw. Sorry a lot of the pictures didn’t come out well. I still haven’t got the hang of this “Night-shot”-mode! I also realized I didn’t get a picture of the ‘standard’ Wesak lantern which is basically just a square/rectangular shaped paper lantern.
In the very first picture you can see how busy the street was. Now, I was thinking that the street would be closed for traffic (similarly to when St. Laurent/Crescent street are blocked off during our festivals in Montreal). Wrong. Not in Sri Lanka. 3-wheelers, motorcycles and SUVs were making their way through the crowd as well! The other pictures show some of the Wesak displays. Each “booth” has a number because it’s a competition.
These are Pandols which tell a story of…something. I think each Pandol is supposed to be like a parable and each picture is numbered so you get the correct sequence of the tale. You can also see how big these are relative to the size of the spectators!
I REALLY LIKE THE PICTURES.ARE YOU A SRI LANKAN?IF SO I AM A SRI LANKAN TOO. I LOVE THE SRI LANKAN FESTIVALS ESPICALLY WESAK, TAMIL AND SHINHELISE NEW YEAR AND PERAHERA.
P.S.I AM TAMIL ALSO.
HEY IT’S ME AGAIN MY NAME IS LIAH. YOU ARE REALLY HOT JUST TO LET YOU KNOW. I LOVE YOU BYE
IF YOU READ MY COMMENTS WOULD YOU SAY HI TO ME? JUST COMMENT YOURSELF.
Hi Liah! Thanks for the compliments! I’m glad you liked the pictures! Cheers!
Hey u saw my comment thanks for replying hottie
Just to let you know my name is not Liah, its Theva Ragu. Happy Valetines day hottie.
do u have any other infomation about sri lakan festivals and culture, since i was born in toronto and i’m not familiar with culture and festivals and i have a project to do about sri lanka so if you know where i caould get some good info can you tell me
~ Theva (aka Liah)
Please tell me it’s really important for my second semester
~Theva (aka Liah)
it would be great if u could tell me before 21st of febuaray.
~Theva(aka Liah)
I READ SOME OF YOUR OTHER STUFF AND BLOGS AND ITS COOL MAN!
~THEVA
Theva – Good places to start for ANY research project are:
Google and Wikipedia
Learn to use those website properly and you can find lots of stuff. Good luck with the project!!
what do you mean by properly?
~Theva
i use them all the time anything else other than Google and Wikipedia .
~THEVA
Can i ask you a question? If yes continue reading!!
Do you always say cheers to everyone’cause i read devan’s bolg and it said ………… cheers!
~Theva
you know something akward my birthday in on the 9th of January too!
~Theva
how many places have u visited?
~Theva
u are doing a project on sri lanka too !
****sweetgirl
it would be cool if you could get the info in french since it’s a french project.
aren’t you going to answer me?