Updating For the Sole Sake of Updating (II)
by YBLalat

I just got a phone call from my kid brother tonight - he got 9A1 (out of nine subjects, of course) for his SPM. To his and our parents amazement, he was pretty calm about it when he received the news, just as I was when I got mine. But, now this one is weird, he was a bit upset that he got a '3' for his English paper's O-Level. I told him that a '3' is okay for an essay paper like that -one that relies heavily on the marker's first impression- but he did not agree.

"I wanted a perfect score, man, the whole nine yards. Fuck the system", he said.
"Relax", I told him, "...not everyone in the family can be a good writer."

Upon hearing that, he scoffed loudly and passed the phone to Mom.

In case you are wondering, The Virgin Diaries is a three-part series. I've already jotted down the main idea/theme for the last of the three-part essay - but I am not able to write it as a full entry for the journal anytime soon this week. Busy, busy, busy. What would it be about this time, you ask? Well...we'll see, we'll see. Probably it will be posted around Saturday night - the quickest.

Writing The Virgin Diaries series is a great chore, I tell you. Do you think it is easy to write as a whollly different person - in fact, as a person of different sex? As a twenty-something, mood-swinging girl? Do you know how complicated that is? Do you know how complicated girls are? And all the small details of her life? Being that I have none whatsoever contact and/or relations with girls, that does not make the task of writing any easier either. Each time I finished writing one, I nearly went into a state of madness - all that self-induced, residual hormonal imbalance in my head.

I hope that most of the details that I wrote/used in the previous two essays are within anywhere near accurate to what actual girls really think/do/wear. If you have anything to add or to correct, I am always available for your endless, high-pitched nagging.

Anyway, if everything is as planned, I might also write a similar three-part series of the opposite focus group: the guys. Diaries written by common types of guys, and not necessarily about my bachelor life, of course. Still, I haven't got a clue on how it should be collectively-titled: "The Bachelors' Diaries(?)" or, since most guys don't have diaries and since they don't think as much as the girls, "Listening to Echoes (of an Empty Cranium)".

Any suggestions? Give me feedback. Like I said, I am always available for your... you know how it goes.