I want to grow up.

After nineteen years and seven childish months on this godforsaken planet, it is finally time I started to live an adult life. One of my ambitions in this life is to be taken seriously as the adult that I am; a hope which is quite possibly in direct correlation with the death of my soul due to the 9-5 working rigmarole. My list of Adult Things To Do Because I Have Grown Up includes:

• Paying my way in life;
• Figuring out how to get from A to B;
• Being sensible with finances;
• Knowing how to cook dinner; and
• Being friends with my ex.

So far, I have accomplished one: Paying my way in life. I have recently become a slave to the wage which has dire consequences when it comes to the state of my imagination. However, it does mean I can buy all sorts of nice things and book all kinds of nice trips, which brings me to my second point: Figuring out how to get from A to B. This might not seem like that great an accomplishment, but for someone who has just booked an overnight trip to Sydney all by herself, it will be a rite of passage; a feat signaling my progression from dependent child into capable adult. OK, so it is not that impressive if I make it to Sydney and back on my own. Though I will need to learn how this ‘check-in’ business works, and be able to find my way around the city on a foreign transportation system. I also booked the hotel and flights on my iPhone using my credit card, which made me feel very important and adult-like.

This brings me to my third point: Being sensible with finances. This I need to work on. Especially if I am going to have any money at the back-end of 2010 to become a fully-fledged adult and go overseas and move out, I need a good old-fashioned budget. However, I hate budgets and I will not make one. In the mean time, I will pay exorbitant amounts of money per month for an iPhone, my internet, and an array of excessive extravagances I am not going to list here for it will make me feel ill, in the hope I will still be suitably cashed up when the time for important spending comes.

The final two points are destined to fail, but one can at least try.

Until next time.