ME time
24 September 2001 - 8:45 p.m.

There's a slight buzzing in my head tonight. I try to drown it with the music coming from my radio. It's all static and unintelligible pop right now, the electric fan beside me is doing a better job than the radio is.

I decided to spend some ME time today. So after taking care of some business I headed off to the commercial center and saw a movie. Alone. It was nice. I just hated the fact that some people insisted on keeping their cellular phones in the "general" mode. I hated all the beeping and ringing in the middle of the movie. I think it's disrespectful. If you don't want to turn off your phone at least put it in silent or vibrator mode.

Funny, one of the reasons why I was actually having apprehensions getting a mobile phone a few months ago was I was afraid I would forget to put it in silent mode during a class or in a theater. I knew if I forgot to turn it off and it rang while I was in the middle of something I wouldn't be able to live with myself.

Anyway, I loved the ME time I spent today. As short as it was. I just needed to do something for myself. And I needed to do it alone. It wasn't just the movie, it was the trip and all the thoughts I thought about today. It's all the walking and the switching of jeepneys, and the ride home, and the staring up at the sky, and the thinking, thinking, thinking.

I want to grow up really bad. Yet somehow I still want the child in me, the little lost girl in me to come out everytime I need something different.

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