my collection of quotes


singulars

  1. "That's a LIE!" - Mr Lim BH
  2. "Since you can't choose between singing and hanging up the clock, I shall let you do both..." - Mr Lim BH to Leonard Sin (rephrased)
  3. "Aiyoh lao shi, you ren song zhong gei ni!" - Reuben Foo to Ms. Lim SH (when maintenance sent the broken down clock back)
  4. "I know lar, but I don't care" - John, after Qing Xiang told him that doing history assignments during chinese class was risky
  5. "But they stink already!" -Alvis, today as of writing this, to Mrs Lim Jee Nee.
  6. "In an ideal situation, you should have handed up 6 zhou ji's. But..." -Lin Anrong, on the whiteboard..
  7. "Everyone here? Anybody died?" - Mdm Masayu, every morning.
  8. "I'm arranging this according to merit." - Mr Lim BH, giving out physics test papers
  9. "Whats with the rocks? They attained nirvana?" -Mdm Masayu, commenting on Zhiwei's drawing of corestones (which seemed to have a halo around it)
  10. "Aiyoh! That woman arh!" - [Friend], in a telephone conversation]
  11. "Don't you all feel bang?" - Mr Tan Liang Soon, 3M, Thursday, 8:30 am
  12. "Alvis, go cheer for the other class, that way, our class would win." - Wei Yuan, Interclass Soccer
  13. "Yah lah, shut up lah, Alvis!" - Alvis, 3M
  14. "I shall now take a back seat in teaching you all, both literally and physically." - Mr Lim Boon Huat, Physics lab
  15. "Why did I tell everyone to extrapolate instead of summarise?" - Bowen
  16. "The stupid hydrochloric acid didn't dissociate, instead it turned into a gas. I tried to smell it..." - Wenwei, Chemistry lab
  17. "Hurricanes move at 120km/s" - Yaksy
  18. "90% of flat owners live in flats."- Yaksy
  19. "How do you spell Iraqi?" - Yaksy
  20. "YAKSY SUXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!" - Anonymous (To protect the origin of the quote)
  21. "The Set Theory question was damn easy, why couldn't it have been worth more?" - Chang Yuan, future Prime Minister
  22. "Ahhh...I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you!" - Zhenghao

dialogue

  1. "Do you want to be gay?" - Mr Lim BH
    "Yes." - Leonard
  2. "Anyone knows how long it takes to steam a sticky Chinese New Year cake? (niangao)" - Ms Lim SH to 3M (in Chinese)
    "3 hours" - Alvis Chioang (in Chinese)
    "3 days and 3 nights?" - Wei Yuan (in Chinese)
    "Qi qi ś shí jiu tian!" - Reuben Foo (everyone in class laughed)
    "Choy!" - Ms Lim SH to class
    "What's the matter wif 49 days?" - Alvis Chioang (in Chinese)
    "Aiyoh. Thats the number of days you perform funeral rites and pray!" - Ms Lim SH (in Chinese, quite disgusted tone)
  3. "Hurry up, Maxwell!" - Watch Elizabeth Choy, 23rd January 2003, walking along the paths during Expedition
    "My legs are breaking!" - Maxwell, walking along the paths, trying to catch up
  4. SCGS girl approaches to sell tickets.
    "Can i take a look at the ticket please?" - Liang Yi
    (Looks at the map on the ticket and returns to the girl)
    "Thank you." - Liang Yi
    "..." - Everyone present
  5. "Why do all of you have to talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk?" - Mrs. Maas
    "Chiang!" - Class
  6. "where is he?" - Ms Tang SN (when she realised Zhiwei was not in class)
    "Ma'am, he died." - Wei Yuan
    "Sho mean!" - Ms Tang
  7. "Why did you include the medicated oil? indonesians don't like to use medicated oil wad..." - Cheng Yuan, during Geog Hazards Kit presentation
    "Include medical oil for respiratory purposes? if u breathe in medical oil vapour there would be less oxygen molecules you would've breathed in!" - Unknown
  8. "Oh, we got 0.0848 moles per dm3.." - Reuben and Weiyuan, after titration practical test
    "And I got 0.0852 moles per dm3." - Yixuan
    [punchline has been removed upon persistent request.]

actives

  1. "This! (dramatically) Is Brass!" - Mr Ong CJ, holding brass plug he pulled out from computer. The computer flickered and died.
  2. "Eh! Do you know I'm from RI?" -Mr Ong CJ, waving sheet of paper in front of Wei Yuan, at Parliament House

classics

  1. "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
  2. "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
  3. "I wonder how much it cost them to keep me in poverty." - Mahatma Gandhi
  4. "An eye for an eye only makes the world go blind." - Mahatma Gandhi