The long and short about Nerd & His Heartless Girl

Nerd is beyond hope.

Instead of working on the assignments that were tasked to him, I caught Nerd spending the better part of the day SMSing Heartless Girl. It seems that she flunked her exams, and he is trying his very best to console her. By the time of writing, she is probably happily digesting the very expensive steak dinner courtesy of Nerd.

I wonder if there are any scientific studies done to scientifically explain why guys are suckers for Heartless Girls. I distinctively remember this old classmate in secondary school who religiously saved his lunch money for weeks just to buy a stupid Mariah Carey CD for the resident Class Ah Lian. This is after she got her ah lian friends to (almost) beat him up in the school loo.

Wait a minute, I was that classmate! On hindsight, she was really cruel to me, even though I wrote the most beautiful of poems to please her. Here’s another.


The Colors of You

“Roses are red, violets are blue.
Pepsi is sweet, and so is you.
Blue green yellow, yellow green blue.
You are like a rainbow, colorful and true.”

-Sibeh Sian
Spring, 1993

I think I’ll try to help Nerd improve his chances with Heartless Girl by teaching him poetry.

With Love,
Sibeh Sian