Thaipusam...a celebration of bad fishing technique!

You aren't going to believe this...YOU   ARE  NOT  GOING   TO   BELIEVE   THIS!!  Thaipusam is some kind of religious thing...I know it's not the Catholics or the Jews...but it might be the Protestants, or something.  Cassandra said we've got to see this stuff, so we got on the bus, and the first thing I saw was this Russian...

...he was trying to conceal himself, but I spotted him right away.  We got off the bus at the Hindu shoe exchange building...

...and started to follow the ever increasingly large crowd.  Now Mr. Corona is not a fisherman...and I don't know much about how it's done...but I know this looks like how NOT to bait the hook!

...I tell ya...these guys were swimming in the WRONG stream!  And people were just going about their business as though none of this was different...and these guys with all the hooks in them were still trying to get away from the fishermen!  This guy had two hooked on AND  a Christmas tree on his head!

Others looked like they'd had a bad experience with floaters...not that kind, the fishing kind...geez...

 I don't know what the hell was going on, but nobody seemed to care...like these two with the painted heads...on a scooter, no less...

...and these people think it's just another day in the park...

...after all that I needed a drink...I mean REALLY, how weird is all this...

...I know, I know...Bee Hooi...wouldn't normal Hooi do?  I WAS THIRSTY!!!!  Had a beer and some snacks, and got a picture of the Malaysian Charlie Manson...

...and in spite of his efforts to become my BFF, Cassandra said I couldn't take him home with us!  This guy ....I don't know, I just took the pic...

...I think he was from the hairdressers part of the parade we didn't see...but this old lady was sweet!

WHAT?  First ya won't dang wangi...NOW WHAT?