connecting to VPn from a hotel(clientside)

I recently move to indonesia staying in a hotel ..i noticed its filtered certain connection like irc and netgames are blocked .... my hometwon is in the pilippines .. planning to run a vpn server or tunnel so i can establish connection for irc and netgames....i tried running winXP's vpn server thingie .. cant seem to connect to my home(server side) ...at home aint using a router directly connected to thebroadband modem ... my mom got vpn access on her laptop connecting to her office vpn server .. using IPsec/UDP and Ipsec/TCP on port 10000 and she can sucessfully establish connection ... so i would like to know what kind of software i could use for the server and also for the client.. and is it possible to tunnel myself so i can connect to irc server and play online games? ...