In Thailand there is one person who is the most important as well as we can call “The soul of Thai people”. He is the beloved king of Thai people; the Ninth King of Chakri Dynasty.So, we would like to present you why His Majesty is always in our mind and why he is important for us.
His majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej birthday is on 5th of December in 1928. He was born in Chakri dynasty and he became the Ninth King of Thailand when he was only 19 years old (just temporary). Because his brother was dead on a sudden. Therefore, he needed to have responsible after his brother’s death. However, he was too young to be a King at that time, so he had to go to study in Switzerland; he changed his major from Science to Social, Law and Public Administration instead in order to rule over the country.
While he was going to go to Switzerland, there was a man shouted at him “His majesty don’t leave us” and His Majesty was only answering in his mind “If my people don’t leave me, how can I leave them” . Then, 20 years later he returned to Thailand and answered to that man and all Thai people. He officially became a Ninth King of Thailand in 1951 and he said to his people that “I will rule over this country in decent ways for all Thai people” His remarkable talent in music.
His majesty loves to write songs melody since he was a child and his songs that he wrote 48 songs allotter ; in English there are 5 songs; "Echo", "Still on My Mind", "Old-Fashioned Melody", "No Moon" and "Dream Island”. Moreover, there are 2 more songs that he created and adapted “The Impossible Dream” and “We fight”
Musical instruments: First, he started with accordion but he didn’t really like it, after that he practiced saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, guitar, piano, Thai flute and violin. He had also joined in Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong. In addition he liked to play music while he was sailing.
His Majesty loves to play many sports since he was young in Switzerland; ice skiing, shooting, golf, tennis, badminton, glider and sailing.
He was interested in sailing most because he is skillful in craftsmanship. He made his sailboat up by himself, and he participated in sailing competition; his sailboat named “Ant Sailboat”. Later on, his model of sailboat is popular in many sailors.
Furthermore, he made another sailboat; this kind of this sailboat is O-K and he gave it the name is “VEGA”. He’s sailed VEGA across Thai bay to Klai Gangwon at Hua Hin. We can say that there isn’t any King in the world who is as expert in sailing boat as our King.
The King majesty have a lot of capabilities in language especially creating literatures and applying stories that useful in our daily lives, such as “MAHAJANAKA”, "The Story Of Thong Daeng". Moreover he had translated some novels into Thai; “Mr. Inn who is gild on the monk back” and “Ti To”
His variety initiative projects.
"Monkey Cheek project"
(Kaem-Ling Project)
Because there was a problem with the land which can’t hold water, many people needed help in making their land in a better condition. They need rain water to run slower in order not to avoid flooding and causing other natural disasters. His Majesty is aware that was a big problem, if the land can’t save water or there is too much water to use, to drink or grow plants, there will be more problems.
But our King is a good observant person, in his palace there is a cage of monkies, suddenly he saw a monkey eat bananas. When the monkey was given bananas, they crammed them into their mouths and saved bananas in their cheeks, hence there is the expression ‘monkey cheeks’. After that, they slowly swallow the bananas. Then, he thought that “if the water can keep in marsh or in somewhere bigger, it will save people from flood or natural disaster”
His Majesty the King and Her Royal Highness PrincessMaha Chakri Sirindhorn inspecting the Makkason Swamp project.
After that, His Majesty tried to create a project in order to keep water by building a big dam. Although, he was very exhausted but he always think that “People need water for drinking, using or for planting”. So, he succeeded the first dam which was named after him “Bhumibol” at Tak province. Not only built this dam for keeping water but also it can produce electricity from water current too.
The Sufficiency Economy means complete self-reliance or autarky. His Majesty the King said
“This self-sufficiency does not mean that every family must grow food for themselves, to make clothes for themselves; that is too much. But in a village or sub-district there should be a reasonable amount of sufficiency. If they grow or produce something more than they need they can sell them.But they do not need to sell them very far; they can sell them in nearby places without having to pay high transport costs”
His Majesty’s wisdom has earned not only respect and admiration within Thailand, but also throughout the international community, where the philosophy of Sufficiency Economy has been recognized as an effective approach towards sustainable development. In recent years, many developing countries have sent delegations to study His Majesty’s royal projects on alternative development to see first-hand how the philosophy can be applied.
Since beginning of his reign he always visiting to deserted villages or wasteland that the area of his people lives. No matter how far is it he would go to visit, help and develop the area and his people life for better. Moreover, he always worries in working, living and care about his people health. When natural disaster was happening he would help his population by donating money and supplies and visiting them, it make people in Thailand feel good and feel that they have “A big Father” who always take care of them when they feel lack of something or they need some helping. In addition, His majesty giving million baht to set up foundations to sponsor students with his scholarship. It is the best opportunity for good students who have no money for study but have an intelligent.
Those are the reasons of why Thai people love and respect him. And we also call him as a father of Thailand, because of his responsibility and he never leaves us wherever we live, like our father. There is a sentence he said since beginning of his reign that “I will rule over this country in reasonable way for all Thai people” it show that he has real attention to do every things in truth way in order to make his people are happy not only their body but in their mind too.Members:
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Reference:
http://www.hawebthai.com/articles/article-441.html
http: //www.thaigoodview.com/library/studentshow/2549/m6-1/no36-41/king/sec04p03.html
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http://www.reflectedknowledge.com/clients/GSB/sufficiency/sufficiency.htm
http://www.women-family.go.th/family/document/%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B3%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%AA.pdf
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