Love in air, feet on floor for Valentine’s Day

PATTAYA:--Love is in the air even more than usual in Pattaya as the city prepares for Valentine’s Day tomorrow.

City hall turned Sukhumvit Road into a Valentine’s card, set up a photo booth on Pattaya Beach for couples to take romantic snapshots and decorated hearts and flowers around the city. Department stores and bars also have gotten into the spirit, preparing promotions and decorations for Feb. 14.

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! this year continues its unique couples’ events for Valentine’s, eschewing the “World’s Longest Kiss” competition of recent years for a new attempt at a Guinness Book of World Records mark: The world’s longest dance marathon.

Couples will have to dance together for at least 35 hours and one second to get into the book. The contest will run Feb. 13-14 at Royal Garden Plaza and organizers believe it will draw dance fans from around the globe for a piece of the 200,000-baht prize purse.

“Each year during Valentine’s Day, Ripley’s holds unique activities for couples to welcome the love festival,” said deputy managing director Somporn Naksuetrong. “The participants will have to move their feet at all times according to the music beats and winners dancing the longest will win more than 200,000 baht.”

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-- Pattaya Mail 2015-02-13

Love is in the air ...why....who says so?

Yes I am an old fashioned Belgian farang (more than 70 years old) and happily married in Thailand since 1987.

When I was a teenager "Valentine's day" was unknown to me and did not exist in our local culture....

I have nothing against "Valentine's day" but I wonder why people need always to be "instructed" by market forces about the days they NEED to be happy and NEED to spend.

I really do not understand the doctrines of Buddhism but the way of life I learned from my Buddhist Thai wife is enough : we cannot survive a permanent state of happiness because it requires too much energy (the same way we cannot survive a permanent state of mourning). For me it is important to be satisfied and from time to time to be happy....and I am grateful this still happens without a need for instructions from market forces.