Whoever who gave me this problem, thanks for refreshing my memory of trigonometry, but I can’t seem to message you back with it. You can solve it by going back to the basics of trigonometry concerning triangles:

sin x = tentang/hipotenus (sp?)
kos x = sebelah/hipotenus (sp?)
tan x = tentang/sebelah

To remember those if it’s too complicated for you, engrave the following into your head (if you’re Malaysian): saya tak hensem, kalau saya hensem, tentu tunang sayang.

The bolded parts are supposed to refresh your memory about the three formulas. So the answer to the question can be done by:

sin x = t/h
sin 30° = height of yellow line/10
height of yellow line = 10 sin 30°

And the unit is whatever unit the 10s were in, be it metres, centimetres, inches, feet, etc.

(To think that I’m going to need trigonometry in one of my modules… *sigh*)

Me: eek… [insert name] looks kinda scary (and very different) in her friendster piccies o_O
Friend: very different i know…but scary…err i duno la
Friend: she just looks different
Friend: n in the past few weeks she ady had 2 bfs
Friend: haha…so…
Friend: *shrugs*
Me: NO WYA
Me: Er, WAY*
Me: :P
Me: See, shock until cannot type correctly anymore

Oh… how people do change. Or do they actually become more like themselves?

Don’t you hate it when you tell something that you’ll restart later to complete installation, it keeps bugging you about it every 15 minutes? That’s why I dislike updating Windows… it doesn’t seem to pay attention when you click on the “Restart Later” button and it keeps popping up to tell you to restart to complete installation.

Gaah.

I KNOW ALREADY!

Go away, you silly thing! I will damn well reboot when I want to and not just cause you told me to!

Skype!

(just needed more people to bug, my contact list there looks pretty sad at the moment)

Heh. Thank goodness the university didn’t block that one, or else calling home would be like… :|

But boo, my built-in microphone is kind of static-y. :’(

So someone asked to define what really is Asian. On terms like Asian hair, Asian complexion, Asian features… well, it’s hard to say when “Asian” just means people who originates from Asia. The first thing that comes to mind to most people are poker straight black hair, dark brown almond-shaped eyes, yellow skin, and typical Mongoloid features (OT: did you know that the Down’s Syndrome was called “mongolism” or “mongolian idiocy” because of the general appearances - flat face, etc? It’s not in use anymore in the medical field because it’s perceived as offensive).

But then there are many Asians who have dark skin or fair skin or light brown eyes or curly hair. There are Asians (example: most Indians) who bears no resemblance to having Mongoloid features at all. But they’re still Asians because… well, those countries are indeed in Asia.

So I suppose Asians are really further separated into several catagories such as Oriental Asians (people of Chinese/Japanese/Korean origins… please don’t think of it as a “rug” because it really just means people of the Orients), Middle-East Asians, and so on. The term Asians being affixed to so many things and generalised, I think people forgot that there is too much diversity in Asia to really say there is an “Asian-something".

After all, not all “people of the West” are blonde and blue-eyed even if it’s a stereotype (maybe long, long ago… but the term ang-mo, which is Hokkien and still very much in use in common conversations, still means “red/golden/yellow hair"). :)

This is brought to you by seeing the categories “British Asian” on the enrolment form, and it seems that British Asian (or Asian British, I don’t remember) is really limited to Indians and Pakistanis and that geographical area, whereas Asians in the United States are typically more to the Oriental Asians.

Psst, I almost forgot. We upgraded to Invision Power Board v2.0! :)

Lots of new funky features, and the old skins are slowly reappearing as they are getting worked on (much of it is Lauren’s work) and resurrected from the dead. Broken images will be solved as soon as we find it and get our graphic softwares to spit out the additional images needed.

But now, I have induction in less than an hour, I’d better go and do my… morning things (What morning things, you vampire?!). :|

Off-topic, my feet are cold! More circulation needed. >:O

So this thing says my Japanese name is 原 Hara (wilderness) 歩 Ayumi (walk, deeper meaning: walk your own way). Cute. I would’ve gotten Chiaki just like her if I’ve only input “pei” into the input field, but Ayumi sounds cute. :P

When I search up the characters of my name to make a literal Chinese > Japanese translation on Unihan Database, I got Sumomo Obiru Aya (Lee, Pei, and Vern respectively). XD “Aya” reminds me of Parasite Eve. :P It also reminds me of the common exclamation in Malaysia that goes like, “Aiya!”

(to those who are giving me blank stares now, it means something like “What a shame” but in less syllables and no one really knows what language it stems from, I think)

But looks like I’m always stuck with a three-letter nick in any language!

Edit: For the curiouser (like me), Hara, according to Unihan Database, actually means “source, origin, beginning", and Ayumi actually means “step", so is that like a step from the beginning or the starting step? Asian names are so odd sometimes…

It really gets to me when websites redirect me to an “old browser” page when I’m trying to access their site. For goodness sake, I know I’m using a version behind, but I don’t feel the need to upgrade yet, and I don’t think it’ll cause any rendering problems of their stupid site. >:O

Let your visitors decide when they want to upgrade, okay? No one is going to upgrade their browser just to view your site. Talk about bad marketing technique, these UK sites really need some work.

Teehee. Here we go again…

She emailed that to me out of the blue after discovering that I’m awake at 5ish in the morning. Hehe. :P

Joseph: Ever had biscuits and gravy???
Me: Uh
Me: WHAT?
Joseph: It’s an awesome American food.
Me: Dude, if you have cookies+gravy, that’s a pretty frickin’ weird combination
Joseph: They… are… not… COOKIES.
Joseph: Biscuits are BREAD.
Me: THEY ARE TOO COOKIES
Joseph: NO THEY ARE NOT!!!
Me: THEY ARE TOO!

Silly Americans… doesn’t the English language originate from the English?!

Ahahah, I think I need to get one of these posters to put up in my room. XD

Up in the clouds! :)

And just because I find it so amusing, this is the sticker at the back of my ticket for baggage collection.

:D

Well. I’m here. Yes, in England. And I feel beat up and frozen and mowed over. More later (you know where to check on the ramblier subjects).

But I have something to whine about, and that’s my school’s evil network administration. *cries* They blocked all the ports that can be used to connect to IRC, so now I can’t be the permanent landmark in any of the chatrooms I used to lurk in.

:( No more haunting #protagonist either for the next three years. Gaah. Someone get my op status dropped before my nick expires or something.

Luckily, there’s still ICQ, AIM, and MSN.

Oh yes, much <3 to Sookie and Sebastian for seeing me off at KLIA and for the lovely gift (pictures later, you know where to look too). :’)

<paola_> I’m from Bolivia
<paola_> do you know where is located
<pei> Ah, okay.
<pei> No, have only heard of it. But a few months back I didn’t even know where England is, so I consider my knowledge in Geography to be pretty horrendous. :)
<Balthazar> pei, it’s a part of Earth. :P
<pei> Well, that I know :P
<paola_> well than that means that I’m smatter than you
<pei> I suppose so

In another IM screen…

Friend: We have intelligence points?
Friend: How many do I have? :-/
Me: I dunno, I’m the dumb one, heh
Me: I just had a person tell me he’s smatter than me, and he couldn’t even spell smart correctly…

The click sounds that occurs when you click on a link or when you refresh with IE drives me nuts. I usually don’t use IE, but during the occasions when I have to, it still drives me nuts anyway. In case it does that to you too, here’s how to disable it:

1. Go to Control Panel.
2. Double-click on Sounds and Audio Devices.
3. Click on Sounds tab.
4. Scroll down the list to Windows Explorer and select Start Navigation.
5. Change the Sound: to (None).

I sparred with a BLARDY NUTCRACKER!!!!! has signed on.
Me: Nutcracker?
Me: Err… got your *ahem* kicked?

He didn’t reply. How rude! >:O It’s his fault for putting that as his MSN nickname in the first place.

Someone told me that he’ll show all the girls this article. *cough* Well, I figured I’ll help and spread the word. It was pretty… well, interesting. But it’ll probably make more sense if I ever figure out all the references to the Star Trek characters. :P

It is a bit long to post here, but go read it anyway if you want to know the answer to the ultimate question about women that men never understood, “Why Women Take So Long in the Bathroom?”

Arrrggghhh… unnotified water cut in the middle of showering!

I hate this place. *cries*

Looking through my weblog archives from the early days of blogging (when I was still using Blogger, and can you believe that it’s almost 4 years?), I noticed that on some entries I sound exactly like someone I’d rather not mention or be alike to. On other entries, I sound like Hunter (yes, the PostPet cat who didn’t run away after being neglected for almost a year) trying to tell me something. You know. Semi-retarded. And then we have the wannabe entries.

I don’t know whether to laugh or to die from embarrassment that I used to sound like that. Or maybe I still do? :/ Well, meh. It doesn’t exactly motivate a lot of blogging.

Why is it that sometimes, at first glance, black looks grey and grey looks black? Blah. It would appear that my eyes and my brain aren’t being very honest with one another.

And while we’re on the subject of colours, seems like my last monitor lied to me what colour it was that I was using for my layout. :( On my old monitor, the layout looks more orangey, but on this, it’s very obvious it’s more yellowish than anything else. I knew my last monitor had a funny tint compared to others, but I didn’t imagine that it was that drastic.

:(

I tried to change the colours around, but I got lost in my own stylesheet… so, forget it. Heh. I’m so friggin’ messy with my stylesheets. :x And picking new colours is just a tedious process of refreshing over and over again.

This one looks okay, even if I’m not a fan of yellow…

Heh, I have so many friends who had finally found the magic of eBay (yes, the Aussie site, cause most of them are in Australia). Shopaholics! >:O Most of them are in severe need of rehab, and some of them admitted it. :P

_{<littlevoice>
No, I’m not tempted. Nope. *crosses fingers*
</littlevoice>}

Sobby. WhatPulse lost my account. :’( Just when I was already in the top 10 of the team too! They restored the database that was 25 days old. *gripes*

I swear, I had not forgotten about this place. And no, it’s not that the novelty has died off. It’s just that I’ve been so busy downloading/uploading things, my connection just majorly sux0rs, so I’ve been spending more and more time off the computer than on. When it takes you 10 minutes to load a page, you know that your time is better spent elsewhere. :P

Overworking my new computer? Of course not. Just breaking it in (and breaking me in… I’m still making a lot of typos along the way).

Colour me blur, but here’s something I’ve never known until minutes ago:

When you depress Shift and hover over a link in Firefox, a little box comes out displaying the URL and fetches the size of the page for you (I think it only works for static files).

Cute! :D Ultimately useless for me, but still cute.

Thanks to her, I’m browsing around JINX (on top of constantly checking ThinkGeek, oh my). She’s right though. This is way cool (and way overpriced). I can just imagine the reaction to that top. XD

Me: You know, this chicken tastes like fish.

That was disturbing.

Here’s a nifty little non-javascript IE-specific way to make IE read a totally different stylesheet.

<!–[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet” type="text/css” href="forie.css” />
< ![endif]–>

Since it’s in between comment tags, other browsers will ignore its existence. Put it after defining what the other browsers would use, so that whatever new styles defined just for IE will overwrite the one for w3-compliant browsers. It works too… it’s what I’m using to make this layout work in IE (even though it will still show things slightly different in that damned browser, but still, better than nothing).

It figures that Microsoft would come up with their own IE-specific thingamajigs.

Edited to add: Just noticed a pingback that says the copy+pasted code’s not working… whoops. :x It’s probably cause Wordpress converted the darned quotation marks into the curly kind and the double - being changed into something else… eh @ WP.

I don’t know why I still read subtitles of movies and TV shows that I understand fully. I find that habit quite annoying. I end up having two versions of what’s being said onscreen running through my head (which has the annoying habit of replaying words and scenes over and over again).

Oh well. At least I get to laugh when things are getting translated wrongly.

While we’re on the subject of TV shows and movies, I hate it when I’m watching a Mandarin or Cantonese show/movie and I hear a song that I like. Finding the soundtrack is such an impossible task for me, much less the particular song that I’m looking for. *sigh*

Two days ago:

[23:22] Brother #1: is Brother #3 there?
[23:27] Me: sleeping

Yesterday:

[21:38] Brother #1: hellooo.. is Brother #3 there?
[00:02] Brother #1: is Brother #3 there?
[00:02] Me: sleeping
[00:03] Brother #1: I see. okay

Today:

[23:00] Brother #1: is Brother #3 there?
[23:01] Me: He’s sleeping!
[23:01] Brother #1: oh my god, he sleeping everyday?
[23:01] Me: yep

As you can see, we siblings are rather communicative these days.

Eww… my brother’s room smells really bad. Like, really, really bad. The stuff that can kill.

Wonder if he keeps a corpse in there. :| But whatever it is that’s causing it, he needs to get rid of it soon cause the computer area right outside his room is starting to stink up really bad too from the stale air in his room.

_Help.

Anyone realise that it’s already September? That means I have a little over two weeks left. o.O Time really does fly. Wasn’t it not so long ago when I still had two months?

Anyway. This is indeed good news from VFS, considering the time left I have to work with. Less worries now. I just have to go pick it up soon. They sure work fast - I’ve only sent in the application on Friday afternoon, and that means it’s been only two working days so far (Monday and Wednesday). It was supposed to be three to five working days.

I didn’t realise jrnl was LJ-syndicated. :o It must be Phona’s work! Heh.

According to my tracker (I’m still using Nedstat because I’m too lazy to find one that I like and install it on this server), someone’s been browsing through my really old archives (from Blogger and Greymatter days). Teehee. I wonder who. I command thee to confess!

Anyways, I’d like to thank Tiffie and Phonakins for the plugs. <3 Yes, hopefully this bloggie is here to stay; I’m getting quite tired of moving about, always ending up without a home.

Well, I’ve been too lazy to change the old URL to direct people this way because it requires me to download the file, modify, and upload it (such a hassle, no?). Been trying to work with as little programs running as possible because everything gets so friggin’ s…l…o…w… these days, and to modify files off-browser requires Editpad and WS FTP running as well. Boo.

I’ll get around to it someday, I hope.