Wednesday, October 11, 2006 | 3:39 AM

Celebrated Children's Day with a lollipop !!

Hey teach, thanks ah!! =) It was really sweet of ya to have remembered, hehheh, though I am sure our nagging helped. Haha..

How did the lollipop come about?

Well, a long time ago, there was this sweet maker who saw a kid eating a boiled sweet and licking it, getting his hands all sticky. And the sweet-maker wondered, isnt it possible to make it easier for a kid to have his boiled sweet , and lick it too? Then his eyes fell upon another kid nearby whos was eating a fried fish skewered on a stick. And.. the lollipop is borned!!

Haha, I can't exactly remember what was the food he saw that gave him the idea,but this was the gist of what I once read.

I was having images of paved sidewalks in little towns, maybe somewhere like Spain, with warm sunlight lighting up all the alleys lined with buildings of olive shades and marble slabs. And somewhere down this quiet side alley full of confectionary and sweets shops where every imaginable kind of sugar based food can be found, lived this nice, portly sweet old man in a shophouse with beautifully stained windows who makes boiled sweets of all possible shades and swirls, and has a ready smile for all his customers.

Think he could be Santa in disguise?

Happy Children's Day everyone =)

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