Improve Your English: Economics Lecturers - Yet Another Economics Lecturer
- The information avail'eable on the internet
(available)
- every individual has adowed (is endowed)
- it will go when people live the firm (leave)
- [Ministers,] they're raise takers (risk)
- The air'qui'librium of labour (equilibrium)
- You must not stop at here (here)
- [On how to study] You must study smartly. You must not study not smartly.
- Those who really must want to work. (want)
- I won't detate (dictate)
- then they say : "learning by hard (heart - rote learning)
- I tell you, if it doesn't come out in the GCE A level exam, I will chop off
my head and give to you on a golden platter.
- I can lay you a bet. (bet you)
- this diagram can deplete (depict)
- He flung every time (flunked)
- tap all the brains, including my brain (?)
- [On lousy exam answers] Every year I mark 500 scripts. Then every 5 scripts
I mark, I have to go to the fridge and eat and eat and eat, so I'll feel happy.
- rare'per'sented (represented)
- This is the geas of what I have written there for you (gist)
- in rare'lity (reality)
- We have made great lips in our economic growth (leaps)
- I guarantee you ah [that someone will use the word "substitute" wrongly],
or else I will chop off my head.
- They are at risk of dying everytime [they fly] (on why air hostessess are
paid a lot)
- We don't have those special skills to operate people's heart (operate
on people's hearts)
- a'veer'lable (available)
- You call this feather'bade'ing (featherbedding)
- [Giving an analogy of essay introductions] You are introducing me a beautiful
girl (a beautiful girl to me)
- The family mor'gargee sale (mortgage)
- If your answer does not satisfy me, I will go to the fridge to eat, to cool
myself down.
- Great Britain has inacted minimum wage rate (enacted)
- I just labour (label)
- a sar'sin'ly written (succinctly)
- [On why students should study hard] suffer 1 year and 4 more months and your
life will be like a garden with roses... a very fragrant garden (?)
- [On why students should study hard] You will be a very nice rose, even if
you are a guy also never mind
- They bring behind their talent, they bring behind their
knowledge (along)
- [To husband who is running a handicrafts business that is losing money] What
I told him, when I retire, you let me manage your company
- The revenue the final product can generate to the employer (for)
- I am giving you one data response where you have some data
- and then you will bring in my concept - monopsony (she didn't come
up with the concept)
- This is a fat (fact)
- I'm sharing you this experience (I'm sharing this experience with you)
- Back to equilibrium (Shut Up!)
- It is about this man, he has a feetish (fetish)
- We are referring it to (comparing it with)
- Money is a common measuring rot (rod)
- It will be sufficed (It will suffice)
- Later Mrs Lim will show you (For some reason, this speaker is infatuated with
the 3rd person narrative)
- compared to the buck/bahb (baht)
- Don't do this, I will give you time to copy (Don't copy this down yet)
- Mrs Lim is a Catholist, don't eat pork, don't eat beef. I only eat
fish, or breast chicken, to prevent my cholesterol level from going very high
(Catholic)
- The proletariat, like me, Mrs Lim
- Don't get so angry, because your body will produce a hormone. This hormone
is stress induced, it will raise your high blood pressure. Then you may get
a stroke.
- His high blood pressure is 160 degrees (was, ?)
- He told me, "Mrs Lim, I'm very warried (worried)
- They will cause detrimental effects on your body. (have)
- If I am angry, you know what I will do. I will go and walk in the streets,
go window shopping, until my temperature goes down... Or I will go and eat,
eat a lot, ice kachang, chocolates, ice cream.
- Those of you in the student union must work very hard (council)
- You are one of the Exxo members? (Exco)
- I'm not siding the teachers (with the)
- [On essays she marked] I have detected evidence of studying
- [If your essay's introduction is bad,] you will go to hell, cannot go to
Pur'ger'tree (Purgatory)
- [This class,] 8As and 2Bs. One of them, look at girls too much, for two years.
The other one, cut herself botak [bald].
- She said she has nine lives, she killed two already.
- This is not only [a] cardinal [sin], but [a] mortal sin (cardinal sins are
worse than mortal sins)
- You have not allocate your time carefully, which leads to market failure,
which manifests in low marks (allocated, manifests itself in the form
of)
- The spider is still there (referring to mental cobwebs)
- The handwriting was very small, especially the female students
- the pre'leer'm exams (prelim)
- You all have this tiny, teeny-weeny [handwriting]. Aiyoh. I cannot stand it.
- The revenue that this extra worker is going to generate to the employer
(for)
- I have to meet a parrot, parents now (parent)
- not that I want to date you out (date you)
- You got to be cum (calm)
- I'm telling you, this is what people will judge you (judge you by)
- [On people writing slowly and neatly] It is an obzessive compulsive
disorder (obsessive)
- I want to comment you on your behaviour last year (commend)
- We're having a resit test. I don't call it a retest, very strong word.
- Each of us will breathe you on your essay writing skills. (brief)
- In the preleams, especially (prelims)
- of course, I go to church I pray for all of you (when I)
- I only pray, to bless you with diligence
- I pray to God, pless them with diligence (bless)
- [On Valentine's Day {"Friendship" Day}] Although love is in the air, I think
you should still pay attention during Econs lecture.
- I have tried to make your learning less painful.
- tango with me (?)
- [On advice to study hard] You know, I think this is important for you, for
your body, for your soul, for everything.
- [Makes reference to crying and 'crucifying' oneself when one receives bad
grades] You should listen up, so your body will be a happy body...
- How woot you use monetary policy to resolve a recession? (would)
- definitely will come out in the A Level exam, or I'll cut off my head and
give it to you... but I can't give it to you, because by then I die already
(I'll be dead)
- [On her lecture style] This is the way lecture should be carried out.
- If I'm too fast, you signal to me, 'beep beep', then I'll slow down.
- because you are l'year'ed / leered (lured)
- [On advertising] beautiful girl... handsome young man drinking... The objective
is to make you irrational
- [On the people affected by the negative effects of cigarette smoking] Your
friends, your neighbours, your wife, your husband, your girlfriend living with
you... no, you shouldn't have your girlfriend living with you. I'm not advocating
that, don't say Mrs Lim...
- all the citizens in the country can enjoy without pain for it (paying)
- In Great Depression era, then First World War. then Second World War (the
Great Depression, the Great Depression came after WWI)
- [On voluntary unemployment] If I can work, but I don't want to work, I sit
under my coconut tree, my palm tree... my new house, the palm trees are very
romantic... sit on a wooden chair... beside the swimming pool, sipping my lime
juice, 'haiyah', I don't want to lecture already
- [On unemployment] ...your stomach is so hungry... your juices are stirring...
you take to the streets, the crime rates go up. This is true, it happens in
the neighbouring country.
- You want to move up to 7, 8[/10 in your essay], you study my notes
- If I am not at part A [which is on the Production Possibility Frontier], I
am experiencing negative GDP
- Goodbye class... I say goodbye to you.
- [On rioting] or you go to the hotel, you damage, and you eat the buffet...
in some neighbouring countries
- they can be confleeting (conflicting)
- Please listen to me, you will not... bodily pains in March when you come and
collect your results.
- public utilities... water, light, electricity (light is not a public utility!)
- you may hit me for this (hate)
- or if his wife is fierce or assertive like me, she will tell him: smoke in
the garden. Then the trees will inherit, inhale his smoke
- [On her garden] even my mangos also attract my neighbours
- I'm very kind, especially if its rambutans, I will give them bags.
- Mangos, we don't eat. So my gardener will bring them back to Malaysia, to
make pickles.
- We lost 1,300 square feet of our garden
- Are you going to blame the government? Of course the government won't blame
itself.
- play tango with you (tango)
- one piece of good advice, study very hard during the June holidays, so you
don't inflict misery on your body
- because RJC students are very bright, they guess guess guess
- You are hade'ing towards destruction (heading)
- see'miu'taneously (simultaneously)
- Don't use the word non-rivalry. Non-rivalry is a noun. Public goods are
non-rival (non-rivalrous)
- the problem of free-ridership (free-riding)
- whoever marks your paper says... this girl, this female or this male can evaluate
(political correctness)
- [On the Land Transport Authority] They have to, engineers, they have no economists
there
- [On land acquisition] cost is, like compensation to Mrs Lim, 1/3 of my garden
was gone (Her garden was 1/9 the size of the school field)
- [On the previous plan for land acquisition] chop my house in 1/2, then Mrs
Lim has no house
- they compensated me 50,000, although the market value is 1.5 million
(me with)
- [On road construction's effects on residents] so it's equal misery principle
- after they were doing it, my wars collapsed (did, walls)
- I lost ah, 1/3 of my garden... I used to sit there with my mother-in-law...
and enjoy the natural beauty... see the birds fly and build nests in my garden
- there's a big lizard... waiting for me in my living room
- the trouble is, once you unearth a lot of mines (???)
- [On her garden] No words can express the misery that I suffer (suffered)
- Last year, Singapore Bible College got renovated... all the noise pollution...
I was so fed up, I went and bought a condo.
- How can you place a value to life? (on)
- Can you don't eat during lecture please? If you are hungry, I will
let you go out and eat, and you come back when you're full (not)
- my lecture notes on unemployment is ready (are)
- 'Train' [an economist], this is not the 'too too train'
- I know that you are very hungry, but you bear with me as I bear with you
- [On being sick and having gone to the doctor twice] that's why I'm quite moody,
but for you I can't be moody
- [On the role of government] You don't be like the terranical father
(tyrannical)
- Littlechild, 1983, is also another economist... Please, it's not that I cook
it up... I read some books and I give it to you
- Are you listening to me please? (me? Please.)
- Sometimes I test you, see whether you have EQ or not. That's why sometimes
I ask you these questions
- horty (haughty)
- this topic lends itself for testing (to)
- the higher the wait rage (wage rate)
- ... and never say Hi, Mrs Lim
- [Grand voice] I say when I talk I'm the commander
- [On Lisheng's prize money] ... $50, he cannot buy ice cream for all of you...
We thank him in our dreams
- [On a competition] It's good to participate, so you can see your handsome
face on the noticeboard
- And I tell you, this group of students, you cannot fail. You cannot even smell
a C, you must smell a A or a B (an)
- [On the other lecture group] The engineers, they are the pillars, but the
rest, some of them are quite shaky.. I cannot afford to have shaky people here
- What is 'it'? 'It' can be a homosexual, 'it' can be a dog (homosexuals are
not neuters)
- [On Malcolm Frost] When I see chunks and chunks of dry stuff, yucks! ...
lucky last year he didn't mark RJ, he marked Hwa Chong... so I'm very pal'ly
with him (friendly to)
- the 4D bookes, buy cars... 3 wives...
- [On prostitutes' spending being included in National Income calculation by
the expenditure method] know the prostitutes, not to test if you know
the prostitutes (know that prostitutes spend money)
- My notes are not bikini clad, you know? They are very well endowed.
- Wintertime, who wants to visit a holiday seaside resort?... swim in the ice
cold water... unless you want to enter the Guinness Book of Records
- Actually, she's a pretty girl... Like a China girl... [One day,] her face
looked different, then after the tutorial... [mimes lifting a cap from her head]
Mrs Lim, you feel ... all the spikes. She said it's individualistic
expression... She has 9 lives, killed 3 already... I think she didn't study
for common tests... psychosometric illness.
- [On people feeling stressed] You can look for Mrs Lee Soon Bee [laughs from
pupils]... Ms Leong, she's very nice, Mr Dave Sowden, and my doors are always
open... I won't make you do MCQ
- I had 2 smokers... My classes are always very fantastic.
- Reduce unemployment benefits, then they will become desperate. You know why
you will become desperate? Every day, your wife nag and nag and nag.
- [On pride and unemployment] ... rather than think, I am paid $5000,
so I must get $5000 (???)
- It's the rich landlords, who may own cashinos... (casinos)
- market or'rented measures (oriented)
- [On oil the fossil fuel] Oil is needed for cooking food
- Now, I'm going to lead you through the process of self-reflection (this is
ironic)
- meta-cor'nition (cognition)
- It's not for you to study by heart per se and regurgitate (?)
- I am not boasting to you, I am giving you a wise thought that comes out of
my brain (?)
- Mrs Seak... Don't laugh, her lectures are quite good... She's now in YJC...
For your info, all her classes last year all passed
- It's on Island (Ireland)
- Support Lishen. Lishen is here (Lisheng)
- Eh, it means a lot to us to win the challenge trophy. Every year we win, our
results go up.
- What did I say? When I talk I am the commander. That day, someone wrote on
the board.
- I just pick up the phone, and I recommend you... They will ask you for the
interview even without [you] applying... That's how good my relationship is
with the GIC people.
- All men are adultrous. It's just the degree of adultery that varies from man
to man.
- influencing the cos of the economy (course)
- Lecture is a time, it should be pleasurable... you agree with me? Therefore,
you must tango with me, don't just tango and jam alone. I'm not sprouting
nonsense (spouting)
- the Cantonese in Hong Kong, when they talk to you, it has double meaning
- unlashed (unleashed)
- the pubs, we beautify the pubs (parks)
- Brunei is plessed with mineral oil (blessed, oil)
- I'm pressing for time (pressed)
- diagrams must be illustrated (diagrams are illustrations)
- Sometimes, if the government is not vigilant, it is quite lapse (lax,
???)
- ling it to my topic on market failure (link)
- Especially Hong Kong Island, there are a lot of try'ds (triads)
- I intend to do my pHD when I retire... Whether I pass or fail, it doesn't
matter... I'm going to write a book, on my life experiences.
- People love all the 5Cs, but with the 5Cs come the sixth C, car'dee'arc
arrest (cardiac)
- The top 20% of households ripped a share of income 12 times as large
as that of the lowest 20% (reaped an income)
- [On correcting typos] You better tell your friends, those who pontang
- And never never, it irks me hell of a lot, [use] firstly
- What is 'it'? Donkeys, monkeys... [Students: Homosexuals!] Homosexuals, heterosexuals,
lesbians?
- You want to scot, you jolly well learn this essay writing skill (score)
- If unemployment prolongs (is prolonged)
- that will explain why incomes defer (differ)
- if you're born with a civil spoon (silver)
- nickel spoon... stainless steel, worse than stainless steel
- [On a rich, hated man who bequeathed half his wealth to those attending his
funeral and a passer-by being the sole person who did so] and it can happen
to me, it can happen to you too
- a strip of good luck (streak)
- very orphan (often)
- even if a person is poor, but if you are hardworking (if he is)
- [On how to move up the social ladder] you are creative... you have talent...
initiative. The boss may notice you and ask you to marry his daughter.
- [On the 1% of RJC students who don't go to the university] one day you may
meet a nice man, and this nice man is a multi-millionaire's son... He will marry
you... Life is always fair to everybody
- [On why the poor must be taken care off] You need a elect'roar'rate to
vote you in parliament (an electorate, into)
- I can dress in ragged clothes, I can go and bus in Orchard Road (busk
on)
- 'puah bodo' means play stupid. Sometimes, women have to do that... Ladies,
please listen... You must learn to 'puah bodo' so you will have a harmonious
marriage.
- Don't, ah, manipulate my kindness (take advantage of)
- this is in accordance to the revised syllabus (with)
- statutory bodies (boards)
- strictly, no eating during lectures... It is a cardinal sin
- Sometimes, sandwitches, people passing around pastries... My eyes are bionic
in nature
- Let's give Lishen a hand of applause (Lisheng, round)
- I am going to sit on the top (at)
- If you want to apply for an EDB scholarship you can knock 3 times on my door
- see whether we can feel you for interview (field)
- Wah, so many people pontang. That is bad.
- that one, compulsorily must study (is compulsory studying)
- the system went boh'curs (bonkers)
- How do you attend a question like this? (attempt)
- [Revealing the difficulty of the Economics A Level exam] That's why, for your
A Level [Econs] exam, the pass mark can be as low as 30% and as high as 45%
- [On essays] you don't karate chop, you explain
- show them you are not one-side minded person (one-track minded)
- If you keep making grammatical mistakes, you will irk them... keep drinking
the beer... the 'A', draw circle, become a 'D'... bad handwriting, and
the wife nags at them (becomes)
- [On why boys score poorer than girls at the primary level] Boys are like this,
they don't want to show off, like girls... Then when they mature, shoot up,
v-shaped curve
- [On measuring the returns from education] How am I going to measure the worth
of Tan Lisheng, how am I going to measure the worth of Andrew [Tan]?... How
many million dollars?... That girl there, Norris... Natalie
- selective education, we have the GEP programme, SAP programme. Higher Chinese,
Higher Indian (Tamil)
- and not being promiscuous, and getting AIDS... and your population shrinks,
no more labour force
- [On AIDS] Africa will die out one day, Thailand will die out one day, Indonesia
will die out one day.
- Taiwan... they walk along the street, their military training, after that,
R R [rest and recreation], don't know what's that. They thought it's a restaurant,
they go in, they found it's a brothel... I asked them, Did you do it?
They said, of course not
- That's why, what's important, is to lead a good, clean life on earth
- that darers... he was crushed [between a dock and a ship]... I went
to the wake, his face was disfigured. (Darryl)
- That's why, you must be careful when you go for NS, don't be promiscuous,
that's the thing.
- You have 2 pair'rel services existing (parallel)
- ran out their assets (rent)
- behind tariff war (walls)
- not regurgitation, not road learning (rote)
- protectionistic measures (protectionist)
- [On taxes] If you don't pay, hur, you will meet the Godfather there [IRAS]
- [On underdeclaring income] Actually, I think Ghim Moh market, that Char Kway
Teow hawker, he earns a hell lot. He better be careful... they send IOs [investigating
officers]
- so you don't suffer from heartbreaks (heartbreak)
- poe tax (poll)
- [On the poll tax] They tax you for being a human being
- If you don't pay [the] fine, [you] go to prison. Maybe it's better, time to
reflect... Read my Econs notes, become more reflective.
- a minus B grade (B minus)
- You must show to the examiner that you are demonstrating certain skills
(demonstrate certain skills to the examiner)
- I must keep up to my word (keep)
- the next of spouse (kin)
- [Someone outside screams] Don't know why, scream until like that
- cher'ges (churches?)
- [On noise during the lecture] the hormonal level is getting very high already,
very hot (!)
- Good morning to all of you
- aiyoh, I say 'Good morning to all of you'. [You] never even say 'hi'.
- [On busking T-shirts] Don't distribute, please... The next thing, you
will try them on... so immodest. (thing I know)
- Don't change in the TS, especially girls... Boys also... You may get molested.
- The tax incidence, how much will it fall on the consumer? (much of
it will)
- It's very sad to be a workaholic... Singapore, 90% of the workers are workaholic
- it never exceeded beyond that (that)
- to recreate (engage in recreation)
- Wah, so many people pontang. You die flat. Later I set 10 questions on my
topic [for prelims].
- [On some ministerial panel discussion] If you don't attend and get exposed,
not expose yourself.
- Don't be shy, if you think you're very very smart, put up your hand.
- I am very very smart I salute you man!
- This girl, very smart, I nominate you. It's democratic.
- [Nominates a guy before this] Calvin, want to go or not? I nominate you. Both
of you pak tor.
- Andrew, you want to go with the girl, always with you? (who is always)
- Not his girlfriend, I clarify, okay.
- The public has a stick in the government owned assets (stake)
- Sintel (Singtel)
- [If you regurgitate for essays, I will note that] This one is a road
learner. I will write splat on the page, 'pah', 'rote learner', but it's very
wicked, but wait I go to the fridge and eat and eat and eat and grow
fat (rote, if not I will)
- and that costs Vitamin M, m-o-n-e-y, money. (NB: She pronounces 'Vitamin'
as vihtamin instead of vyetamin)
- Complan, c-o-m-p-l-a-n, it's high protein milk powder. It's very good for
the brain.
- de'stair'bilise the economy (destabilise)
- Whenever I set a question on economic development, the word 'AIDS' [will be
use]... don't know where they get the AIDS, developed countries give AIDS to
the developing countries
- backslash... This one ah, want to know how to spell oblique... that's why
I was surprised when people ask how to spell oblique
- [1 week before Science practical] aiyoh, so few.
- aiyoh, terrible. At this rate, like this, aiyoh.
- I feel very happy that those of you who are present... you will do well
- Andrew, you are going in the front (to)
- You cannot use the library to photocopy a whole book... they trace
you and you can go to jail (will trace)
- at least I'm old, if I land myself in prison, everyday I listen to
music (I will)
- Just now my S06A came back... half of them got scholarships... I am very happy,
most of them are doing Econs.
- I will gave that man a tinkle (???)
- [On automatic stabilisers] they are like frahn line soldiers (front)
- I don't want to be the first to be charged. Then all my photograph
will appear in the newspaper. If I am young and pretty, I don't mind. (photographs)
- [On not bringing a whole photocopied copy of Sloman to school] Don't let anyone
know, especially your enemy. Your enemy will play you out.
- If your ears are open, then you lend me your ears. Then you'll become
a wiser person. (lend, you'll)
- the mair'nuitude of economic recovery (magnitude)
- Keynes lived during the Great Depression. He was very depressed.
- I tell you what, I give you that article, you don't photocopy here.
You go to Ghim Moh Market... Coronation Plaza (it here)
- [On strict copyright laws and photocopying articles] That's why I'm very warried,
I don't know what to do (worried)
- this one is also Kay'shain prescription (a Keynesian)
- economic theories don't change, honestly speaking.
- [On Mr S] We do vet each other's stuff. We have a mutual understanding, he
and I. We are very good stuff.
- When you go home, you make your own examples... don't tell your friends, it's
a secret.
- So when the UCAS examiners mark, they drink, you know they drink beer, they
see new things they become very excited (when they)
- [On University life] My maths is useless. What I do, I get one engineering
boy... explain the maths to me... I teach him Econs... my econs is very solid...
network... He's not my boyfriend
- certain friendships are platonic friendships... take my advice, it is a very
good advice (piece of advice)
- I give you 5 minutes to read, because I see the hormonal level is very high
now.
- You must tell myself, 'my growth hormone is too high already,
must let it go down'. (yourself, level is, I must)
- GP no need to study one, you study you die flat (There is no need to study
GP, for if you do you will die flat)
- you must take Complan, then your brain grow larger (will grow)
- all these words are written in my own words (notes)
- a fore in external demand for our goods (fall)
- If the government is not able to have good staticians (statisticians)
- being an admin officer, I've worked in Revenue Division, Budget Division
and Ministry of Communications... make the learning of Economics more
active (in the, the Ministry)
- manoeuvre the facts (manipulate)
- manipulate the fats (facts)
- if you don't hit my advice (heed)
- empirical evidence, the last 4 years, had shown me (has)
- encampass (encompass)
- [On people who mug notes for University] deep in my heart, I say heeheehee,
hahaha, don't possess examination skills
- [On exams] I don't chew my pencil or my pen, hmm?
- You must be able to predict the great you will get (grade)
- dowtchmark (Deutschemark)
- You're very lucky. The other group, the weaker group, they gelek gelek.
- the PPC curve (PPC)
- otherwise ah, the students, when we teach, ahh [Opens mouth] ,
don't know what is happenning
- is that o'clay? (okay)
- the gr'air'phical way of determining comparative advantage (graphical)
- if every baby is breastfed... condensed milk, then it will be better than
if [they drink]... coffee all the time
- on a forthnightly basis (fortnightly)
- to keep either cash balances (idle)
- because the price is dun low, so I buy bonds (darn)
- you should read your scripts, reflect... then you become a better person
- the nerosurgeon (neurosurgeon)
- [On Charity] I give those that do not come under the Community Chest... they
are filthy rich
- these are jargons which you must never forget (this is jargon)
- 10 percent rice in the price (rise)
- the economic rational behind it (rationale)
- I'm not spotting, sometimes I dream... Don't tell you, wait you ask me to
dream for A Levels
- [On the necessity of learning everything in the topic] otherwise, you are
gambling. Worse than Toto, hur?
- I want to see big, strong, friendly handwriting.
- fain handwriting (faint)
- they will air'zit (exit)
- if you are not fateful in doing it (faithful)
- I don't want you to come and see me, 8 hours... do MCQ... 1996... idiot, I
can die... shake her up... 2 years she never do
- Baggy (Peggy)
- can you please check to see that there should be 3 printed pages (are)
- what I want you to do is to feel up your answer sheet (fill)
- You will start only when I arse you (ask)
- please, hur, abide to my instructions (abide)
- Kam Zhiwei, my brother
- oh yah, my good friends. I was asking you, where art thou (?)
- I saw the World Trade Center, very scary. All the top brains... 50 years of
experience
- How must you drest? I don't want girls, spaghetti strap, scantily dressed.
The panel, they are composed of men, old fashioned. (dress)
- [On a scholarships talk] He is going to pay, Mindef is going to pay. I am
going to order the food, I order all the good food for you all... I order the
Laksa... run by former RJC student's father
- I am not going through the outline with you because you are big already
- [On those who did not get a 'B' for prelims] you have to go home, sit, the
yoga style, and ask yourself, where did I go wrong
- sometimes, you all, very creative... the effects of environmental pollution,
the world is coming to an end. The twin towers [of the World Trade Center]...
- this one is a cardinal sin, in fact, the greatest sin on earth in an exam...
It is a mortal sin, you will go to hell
- [On abbreviations] number 4 down there for 'for'
- You meet a girl, an attractive girl... You want to find out more about her,
her name, where she lives, which college she is from... Same for essays.
- You bake a cake, must put your baking powder first, [you cannot] anyhow
put (strew it randomly)
- This one is a venial sin. I upgrade it to a mortal sin
- There was one boy, I told him, I hate to fail you, but I must fail you, because
your answer is so uneconomic, I cannot stand it.
- I think your hormonal level is very high already, please listen to me.
- [On potential growth] You include the inclusion of actual growth, which
is wrong (include)
- you have a pik into my mind (peek)
- air'sair'cly (exactly)
- That's why I put on so much weight... I read the essays... I go to the fridge
and eat my mooncakes... 4 boxes of mooncakes. I weigh myself, I put on
5 pounds. But that is okay because before that I was like a skeleton... During
the holidays I must go and exercise... go to NIE and run 5 rounds, I do that...
or go to my new house. Don't dare to go to Bukit Panjang. Some girl got murdered.
Go to my new condo... 2 swimming pools, one on top of the hill. I run up the
spiral staircase and then I run down, very good. Or I go to the gym. (weighed)
- If you make such a large improvement, you should go straight to church and
thank The Lord, or go to the temple and pray... Confucius' temple, pray for
intelligence
- the currency crisis started in Fai'land (Thailand)
- In 1999, the economy made a v-shaped recovery (quick)
- the dot companies (dot coms)
- fu'fur'ral (euphoria)
- semi-conductor is a microthechip, right? (used in microchip)
- global recession in the electronic markets (electronics)
- we use, huh, several measures (implement)
- government don't interveer (intervene)
- the terrorist attat (attack)
- I just throw, let the ball rolling (start)
- [On her interview to transfer from the administrative service to teaching]
I spoke for 1 solid hour - why I should be a teacher... Finally, his parting
was, You win... we will do something... [to help you to transfer to teaching]
without losing your years of experience and affecting your pension (parting
words were, ???)
- Frankly, if I'm rich enough I offer scholarships, I will dictate terms
to the applicants (and I)
- GIC, ah, Mr Chen, has fedback to me (check past tense of feedback)
- I do not think my English is so bad, right? [NB: It's not, but the webmaster
tends to pay more attention to her to note down funny quips]
--- Yet Another Economics Lecturer
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