“When the Singapore elections were held, and PAP had won, I told the police officer called Tze-Toh, I said, ‘Harry is coming to see me.’ He said, ‘You quarreled with him, why does he want to see you?’ I said, ‘No, Harry is coming to see me. Take a bet with me.’ I bet with him six bottles of beer, ‘Harry comes to see me.’ And he said ‘When?’ ‘Six weeks time, within six he comes and sees me.'”
“Why I said this was, I had one day in Harry’s office, after the PAP split and Barisan Sosialis was formed, we were chatting about the events and I told Harry, ‘How long are you going to rule from this office? When the next elections are held, you will be swept away.’ So now he has proved me wrong, I thought he would come and boast to me.”
“First week went by, second week went by, third week went by, fourth week went by, fifth week was going by and I thought I have underestimated this man. He is not as vain as I thought he was. After the fifth week I gave up hope. Before the end of the sixth week, Tze-Toh said, ‘Come dress up, somebody wants to meet you!’ I said, ‘No I don’t think we’ll go today. Who wants to see me?’ ‘I won’t tell you who wants to see you.’ he replied. I said, ‘Then I am not going to put on clothes and and go meet my visitor.’ Then he said, ‘No,no,no Mr. Lee wants to see you.’ Then I said, ‘Fine, bring the six bottles of beer first! No,no you bring the beer later.’ So I dressed up and went to Rumah Temasek.”