Where It All Begins..

By Rachel

It was a depressing love story from a long time ago.

There was a great war in a certain country, and a brave man had to leave his wife behind to defend his homeland.

Every day, the wife would sit at the peak of a mountain crying, and praying for the safe return of her beloved husband.

Day after day she cried, till her tears ran dry.

Yet, it was not meant to be. He never returned.

She started to cry blood in place of tears, and those drops of blood became red-colored seeds as they fell onto the ground.

They grew into huge trees full of fruits with the same beautiful red seeds.

The seeds were then known as the "remembrance beans", as they represent the wife reminiscing her time with her husband and her longing for him to return.

This leads to the formerly popular tradition in Singapore, where people give a bottle full of saga seeds to their beloved other half, especially when the latter is going for distant trips.