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Lao New Years 2008, Saginaw Texas
By Tinah | January 19, 2009
Another group of outdated pictures. It almost makes me excited for this April! Well of course I’m excited! Lol I’ll have a new set of pictures to share. If you notice alot of roof top shots thats because I wanted to show the different paintings and murals of Buddha. They have different scenes painted on each side. I also totally regret not taking pictures of food! The upcoming year i’ll eat lots of food and totally take pictures of everything!~ LOL
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*This was one of those Random Shots lol *Asian Storm is My daddy’s band;
Topics: Life & Culture | 22 Comments »
January 19th, 2009 at 5:59 am
girl.. I’ll be back to view and comment on your blog. I just got home, so I gotta get ready for bed now since I gotta rise early in the morning.
January 19th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
the Wat looks very authentic, like the ones in Laos.
Here in Florida, our Wat looks like a house, but still serves the same purpose though. So I guess that’s all that matters.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
The temple look almost exactly the same as remember it with a minor change on the exterior.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:01 pm
just 3 more months until Lao New Year!!!! This year, I will go all out and buy loads and loads of Lao Foods to bring home with me. So I better start saving some money cause those booths are expensive!
January 21st, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Girl I’m with you! I plan to tank 1 K into food this year at new years.. last year we were there for 12 hours! And only ate 3 times! this year my dad’s performing on the big stage so I’m gonna catch that too llol and last year we spent like 200 on food and we ate only 3 times? LOL so we’re saving at least 1 K for food this year because we want to eat everything lmao…
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:01 am
dang, that’s a lot of money on food compared to my 20 bucks that I spent. lol.
I only ate one time there.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:10 am
This is a very nice temple, ours is really run down in comparison to yours, well, can’t really compare. I do wish that we have one like this here.
February 26th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Nice Web! I am you dad’s friend and the one coordinated all of the live band event every year. My band is called “X-ban”. This year will be BIG!very BIG! specially the live band section. this the following band that will be here:
Sarky(CA)
PASTDUE(CA)
TIC Norasingh(CA)
KEO&KHAM(KS)
XAY Siengsavanh&Chidpanya(MN)
Texas Five(DFW)
Asian Storm(DFW)
Dr. Philips(DFW will also be sponsor our stage, lighting and sound)
See! everyone down here in TX! love to all…
February 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Of Course! my band will be performing at the main stage this year. “SiSouk Chanthavilay” will be our main singer and a lady singer coming from Laos..
I do it! from the heart and passion….
March 24th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Thanks for dropping by Ken; I’ll look forward to your performance! This year I’ll try to get good shots of all the bands lol last year I was using a really horrible 4.0 mp camera lol. Well my dad’s part of Asian Storm, but I wouldn’t say it’s his band lol -.-” he just sings every now and then at the end
March 24th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
So my friend is trying to lure me out for the New Year. My question is it really off the hook? Mardi Gras for Laos people?
March 25th, 2009 at 4:14 am
Lol well it’s awesome i’ll tell you that
the party doesn’t stop until the last person goes home :p and even so they all end up coming back the next morning to continue it.. but really though if you want to come out then the one on the 25th would be the best one.
April 7th, 2009 at 3:10 am
I’d like to attend the 2009 Laos New Year. What does are the celebration, the 18th and 19th?
April 7th, 2009 at 3:11 am
Sorry, I meant, what are the celebration dates?
April 7th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
The celebration dates are the last weekend of April Ja….which is the 25th and 26th of April… There are other dates for the Rockwall temple which I’m not quite sure of but for sure the 25th and 26th is the date for the Saginaw temple in forth/worth area..
These are the specific details ja these are from what I know the dates but they could have changed but the last date is correct..
APRIL 11-12 ROCKWALL
Wat Lao Siribuddhavas
2772 Blackland Road
Royse City, Texas 75189
APRIL 18-19 KELLER
Wat Buddharatanaram
13075 Se-Ha-Payak Road
Keller, Tx 76248
APRIL 25-26
Wat Lao Thapnimith
7105 Marvin Brown Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76179
April 7th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Ok the correct date for Rockwall
APRIL 18-19 ROCKWALL
Wat Lao Siribuddhavas
2772 Blackland Road
Royse City, Texas 75189
I’ll make some updates in a blog post ^__-”
April 7th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Thanks, we plan to drive down from Kansas.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:48 am
I just moved to Mckinney Tx from Iowa, what is the nearest city that I can attend one of these festivals? I miss Laos food and would like to be able to go to one of these.
Thank you.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Hi Tinah,
Wow!! The temple looks very nice. The best of all the Wats i have seen so far. We are going be traveling with family down to Siganaw for this year’s Pi Mai Lao. Do you have any suggesting for lodging?
May 1st, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Hey i am new here to texas and is interested in attending temple. Can you give me the address? And do they normally do a regular sunday service?
May 1st, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Oooops sorry i got it now. I scrolled up and saw the address for the one in ft.worth. Thanks!
January 30th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
This weekend our Temple in Dallas is celebrating Mek Bochea ( the day Buddah was born) is you have some time please come and join the wonderful celebration!