Pong Nawat enters the monkhood

Everyone calm down, it’s temporary!  I know someone will ask in the comment section, why is he doing this? It’s just a religious rite of passage that some Thai buddhist men chose to take to honor their parents, ward off bad luck, to find enlightenment, or for a funeral. Some do it for a week, others 2 or 3 weeks, some for 2 months, it depends on the individual.

I like doing ordination (entering the monkhood) news though it’s boring because you get to see the intimate side of the individual who is being ordained, you get to see their family and friends because this is a very important affair. Most importantly, if they are seeing someone, you get to see their girlfriend carrying their monk pillow during the parade to the Wat (temple).

And I always like to compare the before and after pictures–does the person look better with hair and eyebrows or without, cause some people just look busted without. You get a good laugh out of their new look, the balded monk style with shaven eyebrows. The verdict on Pong is that he looks alright. He has the holy, trustworthy head. It’s egg shaped, that’s why it’s holy.

Thirty-one year old Pong was ordained earlier today at the Wat Intrawas in Ayutthaya province, he will be ordained for 15 days.  This time around because this is not his first time being ordained, he will continue on his spiritual journey at the Wangnamkheo in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima. Because his parents are from Ayutthaya province, he decided on this temple and not some Bangkok temple.

Look, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, nope, it’s just too many photographers and people are getting confuse.  The dilemma, which way to look? Mos is looking up to the right; Khun Boy, Pong, Pong’s mother Kalaya, Fang, and Captain are looking left. Pong’s dad Viboon is looking straight.

Nice pink with a dog in the center t-shirt ‘Pookhai’ Phongsiree Banluewong. So girly!

Pong posing with his parents and giving an interview with the press. Pong looks nothing like his mother, he takes after his father.

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