choonping was infernally rude about me and julian the other day, but as with all of choonping's remarks, they're never too ill-meant and are so funny you quite forgive him for it, after you have boxed his ears. so here are his words, for after all he did say he relished being "quoted most unfavourably all over the web." (see su-lin's tagboard)


Choonping:

NIE and PhD? Try getting cloven between NIE and poverty, Mr Spoilt-for-Choice (not as bad, I concede, as Ms Harvard-or-Princeton (there I've said it (gird loins, steel self))). There're vast territories in between alright, most of which already annexed by Hand-to-Mouth and Prostitution.