Suvarnabhumi Airport (this picture search by Google )

Taking flight with spirits

I try to read English newspaper everyday to practise English Language...No wonder If you're reading my blog and found something wrong. I was reading about New Bangkok Airport Suvarnabhumi Airport (Originally know as Nong Ngu Hao). This Airport is the long-delayed new international airport of Bangkok Thailand. After 40 years of dalays, construction started in January 2002, and is supposed to open on September 25, 2005. Some people believe delays in getting the Suvarnabhumi airport project off the ground stem not from man-made errors but supernatural phenomena. Experts recommended a larger shrine, a thaeparak instead of a phra phomm shrine, to shelter all the deities that might be in the area. Virgin teak wood was brought from Chiang Rai to make the shrine, and a Brahmin ceremony held to "invite" dieties at the scene to take shelter there. This things can't be proven. But many Thais believe there is a deity on very land plot. So before a house is built, a ceremony is held to lay the foundation pile. And when the house is completed, they put up a shrine for the deity to live in. An NBIA(New Bangkok International Airport) official said several strange events happened before the shrine went in. Several workers claimed to have seen the shadow of a woman walking about. New Buddhist shrine might brings comfort to workers and blesses the project. I may post about Suvarnabhumi Airport again because it's far away from my house only one bus-stop :) I read Bangkok Post, issue Monday, Sep 27, 2004