The PUNisher says...
all in all it's been a frightfully uneventful week. All I did was bum around, sleep, eat and play UFO, enemy unknown. It was wonderful. I loved every moment of it. Oh dear, are those the anguished howls of tormented, overworked and overstressed university students I hear?
So WHO IS this guy ANYWAY?
I'm GEISTHUND and this is my homepage. (Well.. DUH) This is *NOT* a tribute to the PUNISHER® and if you came here hoping for that, GO AWAY and get a life. You should be out there searching for tributes to Vivian Chow and Sandra Bullock. If you're wondering how it is you ended up at the Text Only version that's because you obviously did something very wrong with your browser settings. Incidentally, I was thrilled to note that someone actually DID blunder into my page whilst questing for news of the Punisher of marvel comics fame. He mailed me a complaint too... something about my foul nefarious attempts to mislead the public. :)
All about me
There isn't much to know. Anyway I wouldn't want to bore you with lots of trivial details about my pets and friends and hobbies etc etc etc. 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. The SAF is giving me a little trouble about an exit permit though. Hmm. For all of you out there who know me, I'll be taking this homepage down in September when I terminate my email account with Pacific Internet. I'll send you lot my email address in London when I reach there.
What I look like
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). Maybe I'll actually put a links section up next week. (thoughtful silence)
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.
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.
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, those 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.
Hmm. No real revelations this week. Except maybe that you can't change the font in Netscape Navigator Gold 3.01 and that a 200MB harddisk is simply not big enough to install Photoshop 4.0 onto. Yes, my old 2 GB harddisk is down and THAT is the real reason why my homepage is so visually unenhanced. Not that I'd ever put any scanned images onto my page IF I could get my photoshop up.
I didn't really do a whole lot of thinking this week. I was too busy playing Speedball II and X-Com 1, Enemy Unknown (also known as UFO) which are quite simply, classics. While frantically searching for Speedball II after discovering to my horror that my floppies have shuffled off their mortal... um media, I came across this Old Games site which I think some of you will just LOVE. It's called the Abandonware Ring and has lots of really old games ("classics") available for downloading.
For those of you who're still nuts about the X-Com series, click here for some editors and patches.
I've got these two cool new games called Syndicate II (this really non-mainstream rad game about being an organised crime boss and killing innocent civilians for fun :):) ) and X-Com 3, Apocalypse, but I haven't got enough hard-disk space to install them. (waaaah!!!! *sob*) Stupid Sea-gate medalist harddisks. I got the replacement just last week, but after dismantling my system, attaching the various cables and even MOUNTING in the new harddisk (there's arrogance for you), when I turned on the power I was greeted with the wondrous gut-wrenching crruuuuunch of the reader hitting the media. ie it Crashed. AGAIN. (*fume*) so I've got to wait for NEXT WEEK for a 2 GB harddisk again. Argh. The clock is ticking.
I've got a little piece to say about giving advice and forgetting the past... but I think I'll hold that till I've given it a little more thought. Don't want to say anything that might anger anyone. (whoa whaddaya know, he DOES have a discreet side after all)
Oh yah. I've been listening to "Living Under June", which is The Jann Arden CD. (Yes, she has one) It's my favourite CD next to the Mary Black series. Besides the hits "Insensitive" (which is sooooo good) and "Good Mother", a couple of the other titles eg "Demolitio Love", "Living Under June", "Unloved" and "It looks like Rain" are really good too. Hmm. That's just about the whole CD. Mary Black's got a couple of superb CDs too. There's something so... appealing about the Irish accent; or is it her voice. Try to catch "Only a Woman's Heart" (which is THE best song I've ever heard) and "Song for Ireland" if you can. Or course it could be just me. There're a couple of songs where she sings in Gaelic which STILL leave me breathless... even though I can't for the life of my figure out (since the Whoeverpeople very cleverly scripted the lyrics out onto the CD cover in Gaelic) what she's saying.
Right. That's all for this week
folks. Nothing to say and I was STILL late. Amazing,
aren't I? I'll just end here with the lyrics for
"Insensitive" - as they appear on the CD cover. (ie
what she SANG and not what you HEARD)
Insensitive
How do you cool your
lips,
after a summer's kiss;
how do you rid the sweat,
after the body bliss.
How do you turn your eyes,
from a romantic glare;
how do you block the sound
of a voice, you'd know anywhere.
Oh I really should have known
by the time you drove me home,
by the vagueness in your eyes,
your casual good-byes;
by the chill in your embrace,
the expression on your face
that told me
maybe you might have,
some advice to give,
on how to be,
insensitive (x3)
How do you numb your
skin,
after the warmest touch;
how do you slow your blood,
after the body rush;
how do you free you soul,
after you've found a friend;
how do you teach your heart
it's a crime, to fall in love again.
Oh you probably won't
remember me
it's probably ancient history;
I've one of the chosen few
who went ahead and fell for you;
I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch,
I fell too fast, I feel too much,
I thought that you might have,
some advice to give,
on how to be,
insensitive.
Oh I really should
have known
by the time you drove me home,
by the vagueness in your eyes,
your casual good-byes;
by the chill in your embrace,
the expression on your face
that told me
maybe you might have,
some advice to give,
how to be,
insensitive (x3)
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