Lesser known celebrations that’ll give you more excuses for a day off.

Did you know that there’s a nationwide celebration coming up soon? Thai National Flag Day is to be celebrated this coming September 28. If you weren’t aware of that, we don’t blame you. This is the first time Thailand is going to be celebrating it to commemorate 100 years since King Rama VI declared the design we know today as the country’s official flag. Sure, it might not be a legit holiday, but hey, it’s all about being patriotic.

With the first National Flag Day coming up, we here at Guru decided to investigate whether there are other obscure celebrations we’ve been missing out on. And indeed, there are a handful of them.

There’s not much said about this day except that it’s to commemorate King Rama VI’s contributions to Thai aviation. We think this obscure day should be brought up, what with the 13 airlines currently suspended from making international flights. Ironic that we have this day to celebrate Thai aviation when just two years ago, Thailand’s Civil Aviation Department was given a red flag by the International Civil Aviation Organization for failing safety tests.

Well, pass the freaking safety tests for starters. Also, any chance we could get ridiculously discounted domestic airfares?

Seriously, why isn’t this day celebrated more widely? The official reason for this day is to commemorate the Cavalry Branch’s contributions to the Royal Thai Army.

We’re not asking for it to be a public holiday, but hey, could we at least have horse-drawn carriages around Bangkok or something? Maybe free horseback rides? GrabHorse for the day? It’s going to make traffic worse, but traffic’s already bad anyway. We just want to ride a horse, dang it!

It’s awesome we have days like these to remind us of the importance of taking care of trees. It’s sad that here in Bangkok we inhale pollution and see more condos than we do trees. Oh, and also, you probably weren’t aware of this day until today. We didn’t know about it until we researched it, that’s for sure.

Since this day is all about trees, we should go buy those colourful fabrics and wrap them around as many trees in Bangkok as we can, thus marking them as sacred. Sacred trees never get torn down which means a whole lot more fresh air for our lungs!