The PUNisher says...
Well, this is IT. This is the LAST in my series of incredibly boring, text-only, no-graphics no-special-effects no-nothing homepages. (were those sighs of relief I heard??) My account terminates this Saturday, 30 Sep '97, and before I know it, I'll be up and off toLondon starting my medical term. While I've resolved to export my list of email addresses and stuff, and keep in contact with those few old friends I still keep in touch with, I know through experience (ie all my other wonderful friends in faraway lands) that after a while it'll peter out and I'll gradually fade away into obscurity and my own new little world.
Hmm. They always do a "Making Of" for practically everything nowadays, so I may as well do it too. Why is this homepage text-only, you ask. (In fact, you probably asked that 9 weeks ago when I first started, whilst banging your head against the monitor in frustration) Well, as I put it in my first page, I didn't want this to degenerate into one of those typical All about me, my dog and my goldfish!! pages. HAH! YOU CLICKED ON IT!!! You Thought it was a link again ADMIT IT!!! Eventually I settled on a Thoughts of the Week page which basically just gave me a chance to rant and grumble about random events, and since I figured fancy pictures and stuff would detract from the WORDS, which was all my page was about anyway... you get the drift. Initially I'd even planned to do this entire page in black on white.
Last Notes about me
I'm a healthy happy 21 year old Singaporean male who just completed National Service and am currently waiting with bated breath to fly off to medical school in London (14th Sep 1997) at the University College of London. Gee. That's kinda soon now that I think about it. Would that I could bum around and wake up at 12pm for the rest of my life.
By now you'll probably have noticed that I'm intensely personal and do not like to write about ME and what I do and drink and eat (ie those inane Sprite advertisements) or even about my closest friends. I guess that makes me a little Jerry Maguire-ish. Great with friedship, lousy with intimacy. Huh.
What I look like
Has he finally put in a photo of himself??
Pages from the Past
Well, I've decided that since my pages are so small and take up so little server space, I'll just leave them all on the server to get my money's worth. Also, you may have noticed that I don't really have a proper "links" section and some of them make brief one-time appearances. So, I'm really doing this for your sake (yah right).
Week 1 - Where I did my little rant and ended up with my concerned friends calling me up to ask if I was OK.
Week 2 - This was the one about Jacquelyn Choy. If you haven't already seen it, PLEASE do.
Week 3 - Insensitive.
Weeks 4 & 5 - No description.
Weeks 6 & 7- On X-com Apocalypse, the bestest computer game on Earth ever, and walking around in other people's shoes.
Week 8 - NS and The Meaning of Life.
My wonderful Friends' homepages :)
Quek Tsui Chiang's page - Check it out! He's got a couple of poems he wrote himself... and he's funny too.
Tammy Yap's page - She's small but fierce... don't ever insult her typing speed. Highly recommended recipes on this page.
Ho Su-Wen's page - She's not small but she's fierce anyway. Sigh. All my female friends are fierce. :(
Bernard Gao's homepage - Old friend. Greets you with a nicely disturbing picture right out from the start. Cool guy. Also see Su-Wen's page.
Hummer's page - Um no that's not his real name. It's an IRC nickname. This guy's got lotsa really cool links to sites like the Homepage of God and other fun stuff.
Galapogo's Carnasuar page - Another IRC friend with a fetish for dinosaurs.
IRC utilities
Tired of getting nuked/ICMPd? Try downloading these two files :
VIPUPD.EXE - a Win95 update from Microsoft that supposedly patches the s-ping bug (that's ICMP).
ICMPWATCH.ZIP - this utility by Rhad (who also produced Click, the IRC nuke programme) detects IRC nukes and ICMP attempts. I've managed to successfully detect IRC nukes with it, but not ICMPs. Note : needs winsock release 2 to work. Winsock 2 is available at This Microsoft Link.
For more info on the various types of nukes you could try the Darkening which has info on winnukes and ICMP. As for IRC nukes, these are pretty simple. Basically the nuker sends messages to the server or to your PC telling it that you've been disconnected or that there's an "invalid protocol" or a host of other errors, and so the server / your PC kicks you off IRC. If you really *must* experiment with nukes and stuff, try the 7th-sphere homepage.
Incredible Other-Links
Abandoned Places - Actual archived and downloadable All Time Classic games.
Abandonware - Abandonware Central.
The Homepage of God - Self explanatory.
X-com patches & editors - for all you dirty low-down cheats out there...
Well, I guess it's been one helluva year. A blur of intravenous needles. Untimely deaths. River crossings. ORD. Alcohol. Friends old and new. Fears, tears and intravenous needles. Hmm... that's twice... and suddenly it's all over. Yesh, methinks I've had a little too much to drink ...coffee that is.
Haha... a friend of mine just called me neurotic last Thursday. Looking back at all my previous homepages, I must admit that, yah, I guess I am. Haha. Love that gal. Neurotic. Fwah.
I suppose this is the part where I try to bow out gracefully with all my resolutions for the new year and life ahead of me... and resolutions I do have. Dunno if I'll actually keep them; I never seem to, but I'm sure hoping that everything turns out fine, and that I can start on a blank slate, jump into life with a zest and be a New Me. Wanna know why I picked UCL over Mary's and UMDS? Cos I don't know anyone there... it's so much easier to start anew in a completely foreign environment. Now that I think of it... that was a lousy reason. But who doesn't want to start anew... erase the mistakes one made in the past; be someone you never were. Extrovert, impulsive, gung-ho to-hell-with-the-consequences who gives a damn. To try, at very least. Optimistic? Me? Nah. I'm as full of foreboding and unwarranted insecurity as anyone else. I guess it helps that I won't be leaving all my friends behind, since I'm one of the last to go... but who knows. Maybe I'll end up an anti-social recluse after all. Heck, if I run out of cash to buy drinks, I *know* I'll be Mr Unpopularity.... heh. Just kidding. And I just had my little bubble comprehensively burst last thursday... that London isn't going to be the Fantasy In Your Mind... but instead it'll be so Real and Dirty and Smoggy and Smokey and Polluted and your lungs will turn black and wither away and you will be alone and lonely in a foreign land where the water turns fish into three-eyed gargoyles. Not that I minded, mind you... I never really had a fairyland fantasy to begin with... but Reality Bites. Gee. Thanks Sheri. :(
So here I am... closing a chapter in my life? Opening a new? Nah more like writing off one book and hoping to start another. Perhaps a comedy this time. Yah that would be nice. Or maybe a comic book. MMMmmm. For all you gentle readers who faithfully followed this brief series... I'm touched. Truly. I never really expected that number on the counter to cross 2. How many accidental hits can you get in sixty days. Thank you for honouring me by gracing my humble page... and coming back after seeing it in its bareness and scantity. Perhaps words still do stand for something after all nowadays. Here's a little minor thrown-in note. Most of the guys I knew really told me "wah your page ah, buay tah-han... so few pictures... I couldn't make it past the first three lines" while a number of gals said "your page was really cool... some of the stuff you said etc". Something to do with that maturity difference I guess. Perhaps gals really do grow up faster than guys. Ok I'd better stop before I get stoned to death on Orchard Road by an angry mob of hormonally supercharged males. Hmm. What's this parcel I've just received I wonder... and it's ticking too...
Huh. I'd hoped to do a piece somewhere along the way on platonic friendship. Since I kept putting it off... well here it is in a nutshell. I used to believe in platonic friendships. I'd like to believe I still do... but 21 years has been a helluva long time and I've seen my share of life. There's a Chinese saying (gee... me of all ppl quoting chinese proverbs... who'da thought it) that goes Jun Zi Zhi Jiao Dan Ru Shui. Basically it means a gentleman keeps his distance. I think I'm beginning to get it now. Learn something new everyday you do. Absolutely nothing wrong with a platonic friendship I suppose. Just keep your distance is all. There's only so far naivity can go. Enough already. I'm depressing myself.
Right. So here're my last words and well-wishes to all who know me and are reading this. For all those people I'm leaving back here in Singapore, I'll try my best to keep in touch (if you want me to) but you know... maybe you could call me when I get back or email me from time to time (can't guarantee I'll actually have time to reply... pls don't get upset if I just mail back a smiley or something) or SEE ME OFF AT THE AIRPORT (hint hint). For the wonderful people coming to UK with me, friends old and new... visit me in London now and then yah... or call... or something. Will see u all around I'm sure. For everyone else far away, um well... dunno leh. Whatever... I'll mail u lot my email address if or when I get one. Hmmm. Bank drafts and cashiers orders are perfectly acceptable. Cheques will do fine too. And for that certain someone I babbled to sometime back in a fit of NS-insanity and midsummer madness : I AIN'T MISSING YOU AT ALL.
Love u all.
Gotta go open that mysterious ticking parcel now. Hope it's a Pierre Cardin.
Signing off,
accidental hits to date!!
