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Each year, celebrations are held in this southern city and its environs. These include exhilarating drum beating and elaborately decorative boat competitions as well as a meritorious ritual known as Tak Bat Devo. 

Each year, celebrations are held in this southern city and its environs. These include exhilarating drum beating and elaborately decorative boat competitions as well as a meritorious ritual known as Tak Bat Devo. 

If someone called me a 'buffalo', I definitely would not be happy about it. That is because in Thailand, when someone is acting like an idiot. We call them 'buffalo' or 'Kwai' in Thai. I am not sure how this tradition started. I can understand why a teacher calls a naughty student 'monkey' but is a buffalo really stupid ?. As a city boy, I had never really seen a buffalo close up. Of course, I had seen pictures of them ploughing the rice paddies and pulling heavy carts. To me, they looked like hard working animals. Maybe people call buffaloes stupid because they are slow animals. Anyway, that is what I thought until I heard about the buffalo racing in Chonburi? Yes, you heard right!

If someone called me a 'buffalo', I definitely would not be happy about it. That is because in Thailand, when someone is acting like an idiot. We call them 'buffalo' or 'Kwai' in Thai. I am not sure how this tradition started. I can understand why a teacher calls a naughty student 'monkey' but is a buffalo really stupid ?. As a city boy, I had never really seen a buffalo close up. Of course, I had seen pictures of them ploughing the rice paddies and pulling heavy carts. To me, they looked like hard working animals. Maybe people call buffaloes stupid because they are slow animals. Anyway, that is what I thought until I heard about the buffalo racing in Chonburi? Yes, you heard right!

If someone called me a 'buffalo', I definitely would not be happy about it. That is because in Thailand, when someone is acting like an idiot. We call them 'buffalo' or 'Kwai' in Thai. I am not sure how this tradition started. I can understand why a teacher calls a naughty student 'monkey' but is a buffalo really stupid ?. As a city boy, I had never really seen a buffalo close up. Of course, I had seen pictures of them ploughing the rice paddies and pulling heavy carts. To me, they looked like hard working animals. Maybe people call buffaloes stupid because they are slow animals. Anyway, that is what I thought until I heard about the buffalo racing in Chonburi? Yes, you heard right!