The PUNisher says...
Well.... yah this page is 1 week late... wasn't really in the mood for updating and stuff last week... and there's been this UK-bound craze... been soooo busy... yups, lame excuses all the way. Heh.
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.
Week 3 - Insensitive
Weeks 4 & 5 - No description
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, 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.
Incredible 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...
Hmm... I've received a lot of feedback about this page, ranging from SO MANY WORDS to I HATED it; so many $%^$% words to WHERE ARE THE PICTURES. I *did* get someone telling me it was "cool! I like it!!" but that was a girl... heh I guess I was right. Guys ARE singleminded after all... and to think I belong to that subspecies....
Um. I've spent a LOT of time playing X-com 3 Apocalypse this week. It's positively THE best game I've ever played. Men In Black. Yah that's another major revelation. A must-see. Interesting. Now that I think about it, they're both about aliens infiltrating Earth.
I seem to distantly recall promising to write something on giving advice and forgetting the past 3 weeks back, and since it's been such a dry week and I don't have anything else to write... (are those groans I hear?) Anyway, some time back someone was ranting on #rjc (that's an IRC channel) about seeing his ex somewhere-or-other with another guy, and naturally the whole channel (um me too I'm ashamed to admit...) was enthusiastically giving him advice about moving on and forgetting her etc etc etc... and then it suddenly struck me how easy it always is to give other people sensible advice, but how very hard it can be to the person on the receiving end. It's not just confined to simple (?) matters like this... it's anything and everything.... How often have you tried to talk to someone and persuade him or her to tread a different path than yourself, to not make the mistakes you have, only to run up against a blank wall, so to speak? Sometimes when you're on the other side, it's simply IMPOSSIBLE to heed the advice. You just KNOW you're right and the other person is wrong. It's that simple... even if it isn't.
Perhaps in the end it all boils down to empathy. Something, sadly, most people don't really have. Back in JC I was convinced that a number of my schoolmates didn't really UNDERSTAND that other people were sentient beings too... and that the world did not after all revolve around them them and only them. That other people thought and felt... and were PEOPLE too. Naturally, after a while the guy being lectured got pissed off and decided not to bother with listening to the other (well-meaning) people's advice.
There's a small lesson there for everyone I guess. When you're in trouble and lots of irritating and well-meaning people are flooding you with advice, stop and think twice. Perhaps if you cooled-off a little, you'd find there's actually something worth listening to after all, and everyone isn't after all just being know-it-alls and trying to irritate you with frivolous and impossible to manage advice. And when you're the one giving the advice, well, maybe you should pause to phrase the words carefully, since after all, it's so much easier to give advice than to receive it. Rather than get worked up at how "stubborn" your "subject" is, just imagine (cliche cliche) how you would feel in his shoes, and re-phrase the words accordingly. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee had something on empathy. If you haven't read it yet, I'd recommend it wholeheartedly.
Ok. That was positively didactic. I've done my part for you ppl still checking for updates. Back to X-com 3 and movies and waking up at unearthly hours for me. :)
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