Acquisition

I made a request to the UW library to get a copy of Amir Muhammad's Lelaki Komunis Terakhir [The Last Communist] and they got it from Singapore in a WEEK. I think it was my appending "this film was banned in Malaysia" to the acquisition request that might have sped it up ^_^ I like the little pomelos on the DVD cover and poster. Will watch and let you know what I think.

They also got Syed Akbar Ali's "Malaysia and the Club of DOOM" for me fairly quickly, as well as James Rennie's "The Operators" for Steve. Operators is a non-fictional memoir about British special forces in Northern Ireland and it's great if you like Tom Clancy kind of stuff. Rosei and Johnson's "Survival Skills for Scientists", the only thing I requested that wasn't purely for leisure, actually took a bit longer to get here.

Especially after Karcy/Cat told me how it can take UM (Universiti Malaysia) effing months to get a book - because of the approval process! - I'm glad I'm doing my graduate studies in the US... But I still want to go back and FIX the system. I hate stuff that's broken. It's not like we're some kind of banana republic wallowing in mud. We HAVE the money. We HAVE the tech. It's just not being used!

A survival skill for scientists: not screwing around blogging the morning right before a midterm exam, which skill I don't seem to have...