Having fun during festivals

I was watching The Amazing Race today, and was reminded of the Hindu festival Holi, which I had the fortune (misfortune?) to be part of earlier this year. I was reminded of how carefree the Indians were when they were celebrating the festival, how they let their hair down and painted the whole place red (and green and yellow and blue and purple and orange and...)

Thailand has the water festival, Songkran, during which they pour/splash water at each other. All these festivals are fun (if you think of it...) and let people forget being their usual uptight selves and do something that they will normally not do (like throw coloured powder or water at each other). Comparing with Singapore, we don't have festivals like these... or rather, we don't celebrate such festivals, even though they are an integral part of festivities in most part of Asia. I guess our uptight selves with the British history just cannot allow ourselves to detract from the prim and proper behaviour that we are supposed to uphold.

Maybe we should let down our hair once in a while, it can be good in aiding to relieve stress at a national level...