Hua Hin…………, what where when why who whom? in Hua Hin …following me.…

Almost all the people in Thailand are interested in Ong Jatukarm Ramadhep”, this name comes from the south and is a very famous name. In Hua Hin District at the famous “Huay Mongkol temple” an Abbot named “Pra-Kru Phairoch” has made Ong Jatukarm Ramadhep (as a Magical Buddhism) so it made the holy Jatukarm a reality, at the present time there are many monasteries required to make “Ong Jatukarm” for sale, they are good for making money.

Wondering of making sacred by some magic, the Ong Jatukarm, I have been in formal procedure all the people just looking at the sky who saw the sun was encircled by a halo, and another day the sun was a Jatukarm as a picture of reality, not only this all the television shown a Jatukarm surprise.

Jatukarm made by the magic soil & some magic praying & banana & flower, this is similar to making the magic Buddha rather strong informed sources, so the price changed very fast and is very expensive, starting from 299 baht to 3,500 baht. This is because the people are taking a lot of interest Jatukarm at the moment.

May I introduce to Dr Chainan Thayawiwacha (pictured), managing director of Hua Hin Hospital. He was worried about the medical equipment, especially since the hospital has no budget, his mission was to try to find someone to donate. Finally he went to meet Pra Kru Phairoch Prapasro, Abbot of Huay Mongkol temple, he needed to have around three hundred thousand Ong Jatukarm Ramdhep images. Out of his kindness the abbot donated 3 million baht to the hospital.

Today Dr Chainan Thayawiwat said …now our hospital has funds of about 90 million baht, we can buy the medical equipment already, he said the committee decides how to take care how to use then money and at the present time we have 25 doctors at Hua Hin Hospital.

Reported by …Tuck Dechapanya……………….

You might have noticed that a lot of people in Hua Hin are wearing what appear to be Olympic bronze medals suspended by a chain around their necks. There is nothing athletic about them. They are Buddhist amulets, called Jatukam, believed to have magical powers. The whole country has been swept up in Jatukam mania.

It all started in the southern city of Nakhon Si Thammarat, located at about the same latitude as the much more famous Phuket, although on the Gulf of Thailand side of the Malay Peninsula rather than the Andaman Sea. From there is spread throughout the country.

This historic city (it traces its origins to the 13^th Century and beyond) is still the epicenter of the phenomenon. Of the city’s 560 Buddhist temples more than 200 are producing the special amulets. Along the main street whole stores are given over to displays of the amulets in their plastic containers, selling for 2,000-5,000 baht.

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Busy times on the forums last month as our membership reached 2,500 and readership exceeded 45,000 per month making HHAD officially the town’s best read website. Plenty of discussion on local issues such as Hua Hin’s water supply, the state of Soi 102 where the immigration office now resides, and litter problems around town and the beach and what we can do to help. As low season is now upon us the streets of downtown Hua Hin seem a little quieter but the number of people moving to the town on a semi-permanent basis is definitely on the increase.

All that jazz …
A great time was had by all at this years Hua Hin jazz festival, the music certainly didn’t disappoint with solid performances from Italian lounge jazz band Montefiori Cocktail. They were the only band of the evening to get the crowd up and dancing, some were even in the ocean and on Hua Hin’s famous rocks. Saturday’s lineup was also very impressive with some awesome guitar work by Prode Tanapat and a powerful performance from Caroline Henderson. Unfortunately though the overcrowding problems were worse than previous years due to the scaling back of the event from three nights to two and two venues to one. We hope the organizers will bear this in mind for next years jazz festival. A website has been setup by local jazz and Hua Hin aficionados to help promote the event online, it can be found at www.jazzfestivalhuahin.com

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Another year, another Hua Hin jazz festival, this one to be bigger and better than the rest … however that wasn’t quite the case! Everything from the musical talent, fewer international artists, to the number of nights, the number of stages, and even to the toilet facilities seemed to be scaled back this year. The only thing that was bigger was the crowds squeezing onto a rapidly diminishing stretch of beach as the tide came in. Organisation problems aside it was still a great event with a fantastic show by Italian band Montefiori Cocktail on friday night. The twin brothers entertained the crowds with a top notch performance which had people dancing in the ocean before the night was out. Saturday afternoon was throughly pleasant however it became very busy very quickly with hordes of Bangkokians getting down for the weekend, with at least 10,000 people and only one stage on the beach we did not stay for the final act but did enjoy the smooth electric guitar solos of Prode Tanapat. We hope a little more thought will be given to the organization and number of people attending future events. More photos and info on the event can be found at www.jazzfestivalhuahin.com

A strange phenomenon was observed in Hua Hin and all over Thailand on Friday when the sun appeared to have a halo around it. Mystified locals emerged from their houses and consulted each other in hushed voices at the solar spectacle. The halo is actually caused by ice crystals in thin clouds in the upper atmosphere, the crystals behave like tiny lenses and as they are all similar in shape refract the light at 22 degrees which corresponds to the radius of the sun halo. Needless to say more lottery tickets were purchased in Thailand that day!