The website
Pokemymon is a site of random awesomeness. Other than serving as the author’s personal blog (with occasional posts about gatherings, events and milestones in life), the primary purpose of the site is basically as a collection of entertainment news, geeky information and any random interesting or funny thing (be it news, videos, images or other websites) that the author has found on the internet.
The site started out on Livejournal purely as the author’s personal blog journal and served as a repository for any complaint, insight or report he had about daily life. After a brief stint on Blogger and then back on Livejournal (and even a super short period on Tumblr), the website moved to WordPress where, on top of personal stuff (which nobody’d want to read about), the author also began to blog about things on the internet he had come across and found interesting or funny.
Before long, the site grew and changed and, yearning for more complete control of the look as well as wanting more features, the domain (and a webhost service) was purchased and this is where you’re at today: Pokemymon.com, a site for awesome randomness, random awesomeness!
The name
Guess what? Pokemymon doesn’t actually mean a thing! (Like you couldn’t have guessed already). Just a product of the author’s brainstorming for a memorable, interesting name, Pokemymon is at once both nonsensical whimsical (not to mention random, which is the keyword for the site) and suggestive (although, if pressed, nobody would be able to say why exactly it’s kinky) and also references the author’s love for a certain Japanese anime/game series.
The author
Gabriel is a 22-year-old Singaporean (which, yes, is not in China) whose life so far has been described (by himself, no less) as “big dreams, small achievements”. Fresh out of a two year stint in the army and believing that twenty two is the new sixteen, he one day hopes to be, among others, a practicing child psychologist, a novelist, a university lecturer, a freelance magazine writer and a Very Nice Guy. He also hopes to cut an album, be a great tennis player, have a happy nuclear family, drive a Mini Cooper and continue to dream of other such unrealistic goals.
Currently an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore under the Arts and Social Sciences faculty (majoring in psychology), Gabriel previously studied (if “studied” means gallivanting and socializing while doing impressively terribly at actual school subjects) at the Fairfield Methodist Primary and Secondary Schools and, after that, obtained a diploma in Mass Communication from Ngee Ann Polytechnic (which was where he got his very first magazine article published and which gave him a taste of printed blood).
When not busy burying his head in incomprehensible notes and much-too-thick textbooks in an attempt to play catch-up with his academic peers, Gabriel likes to read (mostly fantasy or comedy), write (and actually does so on a freelance basis for some much-needed dough), watch an unhealthy amount of American comedies and dramas as well as Japanese animé, play loads of games on his bevy of gaming consoles or whack some tennis balls (take note that whack does not, despite anything he insists, equate to actual playing of tennis, for he is abominable at the sport).
His greatest wish at the moment, other than seeing a whole of slew of As and A+s on his report slip (an impossible feat that even Hercules would have picked slaying the hydra over), would be to have a constantly ballooning traffic flow for this site so that he could attract some advertisers and at least pay for the domain and webhosting. So help the poor guy out, would you?