Ok this topic came to my mind quite a while back. Of late, I’ve been noticing a little something in our Asian behaviour.

I’m going to give a bunch of scenarios. You know how when you see :

• two people holding hands,
  
• the guy holding the girl from the back,
  
• the girl leaning on a guys shoulders,
  
• the guy using his thumb to gentle caress a girl’s hand
  

Now tell me what do you think is the possibility of those scenarios? The two people you see are obviously a couple? They are two people who are starting out on They are the best of friends who happen to be extremely touchie?

To me, those are all endearing touches of affection which is usually meant for a couple. So i pick choice number one. Naturally too, but what I find intriguing about this is that, even though one would think this is meant for a couple, yet there is the possibility that some of those actions are between close friends.

I don’t know maybe it’s just me our part of asian culture, where we are taught not to touch one another or something. Everytime we see the above scenarios though, we will tease our friends that they are into one another, that they are girly wurly and boyfriendy wendy. On a troubling note, it may also cause couples who are already in a relationship to see their partner having that with another person, just have a hard time.

But it’s interesting, cause I mean if you look at western films, the friends are so comfortable with one another that they are all cool to the holding hands, grabbing one another and leaning one’s head on their shoulders. Basically doing stuff you only thought to be with the person you are having a ‘couple relationship’ with.

So you people tell me is it actually ok, to show those kind of affections that can be misleading?