There Will Be Water Later On In an article, “The Holy Water is Falling Down in Sparkling Streams of Cristal-Clear Rain Drops to Bring Wetness to Our Land All Over”, written by Manoon Mukpradith in the daily Thai Rath on Dec 5, 1985 to tell a story of a miracle happened during a late evening, one day in Feb. 1985. (The article’s title comes from a passage in the lyric of one of His Majesty’s hit songs, The Falling Rain.) With a heart filled with lots of suffering from a serious drought, an old local woman, who had waited to see HM the King on a royal visit to a faraway village, crawled up close to His Majesty and embraced his feet. She said with tears falling down her cheeks to His Majesty, asking for royal help in bringing water to the village.
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Their level of worries was very high. They mostly spoke in trembling voices and some of them started to cry as they said about their love for His Majesty and their wishes for the quick recovery and longevity of their beloved King. Many of the old people made their wishes for their King to live as long as possible for hundreds of years. I am impressed with some Thai-born members of the Sikh community in Bangkok, who came in groups and expressed their feeling for His Majesty in the same way as other local Thai people. A few days ago, the Bhutanese Ambassador, who took his diplomatic duty in Bangkok for only 4 months, came to sign the get-well book and present the bouquet of flowers from the King of Bhutan, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the young king who is quite popular among Thai people while he was in Bangkok several times during the past few years. He was crowned in early Nov. last year and now the world’s youngest monarch and head of state at 29 years old. Bhutan is a tiny and remote Himalayan country that changed its government system from absolute monarchy to democratic system late last year amidst the protest of some Bhutanese people, who felt that there was nothing wrong with the old system while their level of happiness was very high. Surprisingly, Bhutan is the first country to use the Gross National Happiness as an index for the country’s level of progress.
Their level of worries was very high. They mostly spoke in trembling voices and some of them started to cry as they said about their love for His Majesty and their wishes for the quick recovery and longevity of their beloved King. Many of the old people made their wishes for their King to live as long as possible for hundreds of years. I am impressed with some Thai-born members of the Sikh community in Bangkok, who came in groups and expressed their feeling for His Majesty in the same way as other local Thai people. A few days ago, the Bhutanese Ambassador, who took his diplomatic duty in Bangkok for only 4 months, came to sign the get-well book and present the bouquet of flowers from the King of Bhutan, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the young king who is quite popular among Thai people while he was in Bangkok several times during the past few years. He was crowned in early Nov. last year and now the world’s youngest monarch and head of state at 29 years old. Bhutan is a tiny and remote Himalayan country that changed its government system from absolute monarchy to democratic system late last year amidst the protest of some Bhutanese people, who felt that there was nothing wrong with the old system while their level of happiness was very high. Surprisingly, Bhutan is the first country to use the Gross National Happiness as an index for the country’s level of progress.