Tuesday, October 14, 2008

I am going bald! Yes, this is a realization I came to just now, when I was waiting for the train after kissing goodbye to my special one.

Traffic on the platform was intense. There's always that one person walking in front of you who's just kind of standing there, day-dreaming, lost in their own little private state of complete unawareness(is that a word?) of the world around them.

Then there's me. Attempting to get to just the right spot on the platform so that when I exit the train I am no more then two meters from the escalator. And the faster I can get to this spot, the more time I have to read my delicious new novel. And so there I am, trudging, people everywhere, missing Gaiana, until it happened.

I bumped someone. That's when I heard,

"Watch yourself botak(baldy, in case you're a 3 year old kid who still, fortunately, hasn't been brain-jammed with all sort of crap)!", some malay teenager said as she was trying to pass by.

That was it. Of course little ol' me, the kind of guy who wouldn't touch confrontation even if it was a naked supermodel rolling in sweet jelly, little ol' me, said nothing. I just kept moving beyond the scattered laughter from the obscure passerby's group of friends, my ego squashed, just a little.

But who cares.

So now I'm officially going bald. Of course I've known for awhile, like since after yesterday when I got my haircut. But things in my life are never official until some random person in the subway throws it right back in my face. That's when I know. That's when I have to stop complaining and just accept the fact that for the rest of my life, I will be known as .... that bald dude.

Naa, it probably isn't that bad. Bald handsome dude, yeah that's what I'll shall be known as from now. My egoistical-self-maniac assures me so.