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Star of the show: Children's Day. the biggest act goes Gangnam Style

Phuket's Chubby Boys Make it Big Children's Day

Saturday, January 12, 2013
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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.

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Phuket's Chubby Boys Make it Big Children's Day.
There's an important point that you're missing here with this story and that is that fact that Phuket has never had so many overweight kids, my little girl goes to school in Phuket town and I see some 3 year olds in such a state that it's probably too late to help them, I always wonder what the school heads position is on the poor kids who's parents meet them at 3:30 with a coke and a bag of crisps.

Posted by terry on January 12, 2013 22:29

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@Terry...I agree...over the last few years I have noticed a big change in the eating habits of the people that live here..Obviously with the influx of "farang" fast foods coupled with the lack of education on diet and exercise, more and more people are looking more and more overweight...I just don't understand what the parents are thinking...and its really a downright shame.

Posted by sky on January 13, 2013 07:08

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In 2012 more people in the world died from overweight related illnesses than from lack of food and the related deaths that go with that. I believe that was the first year. Some of the kids you see in Thailand are so overweight they struggle to even walk let alone play with the other kids and I'm talking 3 - 6 year olds. I just never hear anything coming from the school and when I ask the question I get a very blank look !

Posted by terry on January 13, 2013 17:51


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