PHUKET: It will be remembered as the Children's Day of the chubby boys.

The day when the kids with liking for an extra helping, usually relegated to the back row of the chorus, made it big.

Everywhere we went around Phuket today, from the hospitals to the supermarkets to the resorts, the beat was the same: Gangnam style.

And at Phuket City's Saphan Hin public park, and probably at every other venue, it was the boys who look like Psy who were dancing the pony dance and shaking up the party.

Up front for once, in the position usually reserved for the brightest girl or the boy who is good at sport.

And with a check shirt and sunglasses, many kids who perhaps couldn't quite make it in traditional dancing or in the school band were doing well today.

There is always something magical about Children's Day. In the West, there are many special days but perhaps a day is required to remember what childhood is like.

How does one recall riding on Dad's shoulders or sucking a lollipop for the first time? Under the shade at Saphan Hin today, the memories were flooding back.

You could see it in the eyes of the parents, and in some cases the parents of the parents. Is it possible to forget what it's like to be a child?

Yes, that's why the world has wars. Is it important to have your memory jogged to recollect a world of complete innocence and charm?

Yes. And maybe that's why Thailand holds Childrens' Day.