This webpage is about me.

It's July 2002, I've completed 6 years of undergraduate medical training at The University of Melbourne, Australia. I trained at the Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre Clinical School. I graduated on Saturday, 4 December 1999, and thence returned to the beautiful country of Malaysia, land of my birth. I am employed by Singapore Health Services Ltd as a Medical Officer, currently posted to Cardiology in Changi General Hospital.

I spent the first 5 years of primary education in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, before transferring to Singapore. I am a Rafflesian-Victorian, in that order. The four years I spent in Raffles Institution were fabulous years. I particularly cherish memories of the Raffles Institution Military Band. I was the cornet/trumpet section leader in 1991, having stayed in the same section all my school life. Special mention must be made of my all-time buddy, Zakeer. He also stayed in the same section all his school life (Pri Sch inclusive). He's a cool dude. We're mates like the Right and Left Alt keys on your keyboard, hehe. I stood on the right side of the field centreline; Zak on the left. And I mention too all the other batchmates of mine. We went through thick and thin, "blood, sweat and tears" in our days in RIMB. That's why, till this day, we're still great mates and still in close contact with one another. You can glimpse some old photos of us in the RIMB link above.

Alas, I was not able to join most of them in RJC after the O levels. I found myself posted to Victoria Junior College, and quite reluctantly I went. But VJC's a great place, and 92S14 is the greatest CT group of all, heheh. Hardcore as I am, I continued playing the trumpet in the VJC Symphonic Band. Legend has it that I was the pioneer Rafflesian in VJC Band. I haven't been able to confirm or refute this.

My interests, besides playing the trumpet and piano, include plane-watching, flight simulation, computer programming and IRC. Catch me as reeed on GalaxyNet, in the #band or #vjc channels. My ICQ UIN is 6193841. On my home PC I run X Windows on FreeBSD, my preferred Operating System. It's a flavour of Berkeley UNIX for the Intel i386 architecture. I write in C and x86 assembler. I also do some Web script programming in Perl. I've been encouraged by the presence of free software on the Internet and I'm very supportive of them. "CareWare" is another interesting free software concept, pioneered by Paul Lutus -- visit his website and read his thought-provoking articles.

I think the most realistic flight sim for PCs in the world is the AeroWinx 747-400 Precision Simulator. I've written a number of free utility and add-on programs for PS1, Waypoint Manager (WayMan), Airport Adder, Demo Recorder, BIG, Inter-Process Communicator (the original, and also the update based upon Dusan Lacko's work), Taxiway and Traffic, VMREAD, Altimeter.

I fly for Qantas Virtual Airways and currently am Executive Officer. QVA uses the Automated Pilot Despatch and Logging System, which I wrote in Perl, to help with the chores of VA management.

Here are some links that I compiled years ago and forgot about. Here too are my current Netscape bookmarks. You can find links to a lot of aviation-related sites, my IRC friends' webpages, Java, UNIX, etc. I keep a small collection of airliner pics taken on various plane-spotting trips in Melbourne and Singapore.

Finally, this is what I look like, on the Grampians mountain ranges in Victoria, Australia. Easter 1998.

Contact me via email or ICQ:br>

Ivan Ngeow <[email protected]>

ICQ UIN 6193841.

Last updated 14 July 2002
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