Easy stuff
Please don’t’ think I am attracted to Thai boys only because of their looks. This is not the case. Rather, it is the intellectual interests of Thai boys that fascinates me, like how they are into science and space and physics.
It gives me something to chat with the boys about. The Queen of Si Saket, for example, has told me how energy can leak from even a super massive black hole. He kept me up all night talking about this. And The Prince of Khon Kaen is working on a revised wormhole theory where the universe has nine invisible dimensions. This makes time travel easy, says Prince, just look here:
There is a chap in New Zealand named Peter Lynds who says Albert Einstein got it wrong and that there is no such thing as time. My Thai boys agree. Time, Chalerm argues, is an illusion tied to objects in motion. If objects don’t move no time will pass. So if the object is for example a Thai boy who does nothing time does not run, it stands still. Thai boys are aware of this and it is why they are so fond of doing nothing.
But according to Buddhist philosophy what we consider time is a rotating wheel where the same events will occur over and over. This is also what the New Zealand guy argues. So, my Thai boys conclude, what is there to hurry for? If we run faster we will only come back to the same point quicker.
We often test scientific theories here in The Mansion, such as the connection between an object and relative time. The object can be a Thai boy who is applying makeup in the bathroom. Then time will appear to move differently for his farang boyfriend who is waiting in the living room than it does for the Thai boy in the bathroom. When the Thai boy comes out of the bathroom he can see that the farang has aged considerably while the Thai boy is still young and fresh.
It took Albert Einstein years to figure this out as a theory. But if Einstein had lived in Thailand with a Thai boyfriend he would have seen the effect right away and saved himself a lot of work.
May 9th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Your explanation of a Thai boy’s concept of time is a classic. You have outdone yourself SF.
May 9th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
a second here too! Does this explain why Thai language has no tense? Live in the present.
May 9th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Still smiling. Very clever.
May 9th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
- which is why we farangs work forty hours every week just to support our bfs, who, of course, are too busy watching the world go by. - but, wait a minute - why are the boys always asking if we would like to buy them an expensive new watch? Are they secretly time-concious? - or do they have a thing about gold and diamonds? Regretfully, I feel that the latter is the more-correct supposition.
As for the worm-hole theory, I would rather say nothing at this time, for my grandmother is still alive and has recently started to surf. What if…?
I know a lovely Indian boy who says that he doesn’t need a watch: he says that he knows I love him all the time. Isn’t that sweet? I think I’ll buy him a new watch for his birthday.
May 9th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
hmm can we just go back to the shallow part and admire how beautiful thai guys are;) haha
and Andrew and the watch part… how sweet.. cheesy bo so sweet! I need to use that line..
May 9th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
I am of the opposite opinion. I believe time moves more quickly for Thai bfs than for farang.
When I met my bf, I was almost twice his age. Seven years later, twice his age is much more than my age.
I tell him he must be aging faster than me and before long, he will be older than me.
When I tell him this, he looks at me strangely. Part of him is sure that I’m trying to trick him, but he can’t quite explain how. And part of him is worried that I might be right.
SF, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same with you and Chalerm.
May 9th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
I have told Chalerm he is catching up with me. He was also half my age when we met, but measured as a percentage the difference gets smaller every year.
I have explained to Chalerm we farangs only get better with age. Regrettably this is not true for Thai boys. As Chalerm sees it his life will be over at 30.
As an example Chalerm cites the case of Farang D’s boyfriend, who is 32. When I asked if Chalerm sees him at DJ Station disco Chalerm shook his head and said in a sad voice: “It is too late for him”.
May 10th, 2007 at 3:27 am
True,some of us age more gracefully than Thai..
May 10th, 2007 at 9:11 am
i agree with loris.. most of the westerners age more gracefully than us..
i am a filipino, 24 years old and now starting to worry how would i look like when i reach the age of 30.. simply because we tend to age faster
i guess i need not to worry.. with the paramount intrusion of modernization and change, i believe science can defy age - still makes me look younger then
May 11th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Wait a minute - isn’t love supposed to be blind? Have I made a terrible mistake? I always thought that love doesn’t see wrinkles, but lust does.
Of course, I never see my Indian bf getting older; I must be in love. (Well, ok, I admit to a little lust now and again; mostly on Sunday nights when he’s gone back to college.)
May 12th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Well Andrew, it depends on what time of night you are viewing your lover. At 2:00 a.m., everyone looks wonderful. By noon the next day, they are unrecognizable.
May 12th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
By the way, wasn’t that also one of Einstein’s law’s?
May 12th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Yes, it was Einstein’s law about the relative beauty of lovers.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Strange… I’ve always thought that white people age faster than Asians (I am white). True, some Caucasians may develop a sort of noble-ish bossy-ness as they grow older, but they also tend to become overweight. And, on average, Asian boys retain their adolescent charm much longer than their Western peers… quite often, well in their twenties…