Chalerm wants plastic surgery to his nose. He told me this while sitting on top of me in the sofa, as if he wanted to control my potentially violent reaction to the idea.
I always thought Chalerm’s nose was his cutest body part, and I told him so. Chalerm has a small, perfectly straight Siamese pointy nose. It is not too big, or too flat, or bent or uneven in any way. It is a great nose by any standards.
If Chalerm had a pancake nose, or a pig’s nose, or a boxer’s nose with a bump, then I could understand it, but the nose he has is hard to improve. I think any change will make him less attractive. I told him this too.
Chalerm would not listen to me. He said he would save up 20,000 baht for a nose job. He had expected I would be against it but would go ahead anyway.
- I will belive you if I ask 100 people on the street and 80 agree with you, said Chalerm with a newfound interest in statistical analysis.
What happpend to his fear of doctors and surgery? Chalerm’s plan is to put an implant on the ridge of the nose to make it taller and more European.
I blame khun B in the office for this. Now I really have issues with khun B. First his bragging about the Australia trip made Chalerm want to go to Farangland. Now khun B is planning plastic surgery to - you guessed it - his nose.
I hardly remember what khun B’s nose looks like. I haven’t paid attention to it. The last time I saw khun B he was hovering outside Burger King on Silom, waiting for his young and handsome farang boyfriend. Khun B probably had a nose then, as it kind of attracts attention if someone is noseless, but I can’t recall what it looked like.
I hope this harebrained plan dies quietly. Maybe it is just a phase. A nose phase.
February 5th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Time to break out the Michael Jackson posters.
February 5th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Resist this lunacy, SF! Thai noses are the cutest on the planet… I had trouble persuading a Thai boy who worked in a restaurant where I was Cellarman not to cut his nose. His name was Kittipong, and everyone called him “Pretty Kitti”, ‘cos he was! He was convinced his Thai nose needed more height, and needed weeks of convincing that he was a heart-breaker just the way he was…Tell Chalerm, I’m one of the 80!
February 5th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
did you get the visa
February 5th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
oh man, tell him the money doesn’t matter (even tho it does to some extent)… tell him you would be heartbroken if he did it, because you love his nose just the way it is, and because you love him the way he is.
i’ve seen his nose… and it is perfect, very cute and just perfect for his beautiful face. it would be such a shame if he were to change it
February 5th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Good luck on this one! It may help if you tell him the story of my own past lover, who (against my wishes) had his eyes done, and then his nose. In both cases, it was to make him look more “farang.”
Well, it turned out to be like getting tattoos. He now regrets it, looking at old pictures and mumbling, “I looked FINE back then.” More than that, all the people who work in show biz can spot these operations in an instant, and I’ve even known one jealous friend of his who seized on an old photo and demanded to know when the operation was done.
The whole thing wasn’t a disaster, but I still believe that he regrets it. The operations were done when the luuk krung ruled the entertainment world in Bangkok, but I gather that is no longer the case.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
…3 out of 80 already. Don’t let him do it. Thai boys with cosmetic surgery on their nose not only look odd but all look identically odd. Thai surgeons can usually only do one nose and give it to everybody regardless of their face. It’s usually a female nose too, slightly turned up. Unless you want Chalerm to look like Thai version of Susan Hampshire, stop him.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Try & discourage him from this.
However if all else fails, remin him he’s free to spend his money as he sees fit & you are free to stop or reduce the allowance.
February 6th, 2008 at 3:38 am
A friend of mine had a boyfriend. She also had a partial not a dental implant. She was a 10. One day he found out that she had a removable front tooth. He asked her to take it out so he could see her without the tooth. She objected saying that he would always look at her funny afterwards but finally after much harassment she popped it out. He laughed told her to put it back in. A few weeks later they broke up. I asked him why. “She was right, every time I looked at her I remembered her with the tooth missing. She looked like a hick afterwards.”
February 6th, 2008 at 6:27 am
also inform him that i knew of a young drag queen that had a nose job and died on the operating table in the process….from a botched job