iphoting's Sink

Now days (pronounced: now-sa-day), the US dollar has been spiralling into a bottomless pit, thanks to the quick emergency manoeuvres initiated by the US Federal Reserve. Well, it’s not that they have much of a choice in the short term. It’s either weaker US dollar (thanks to virtually printing money) or the loss of thousands of jobs due to solvency issues in the near future. Reading the analysts and commentary in business publications, it really is quite scary to be in the hot seat, or just watching by the sidelines.

Here’s a rough low-down on the US Dollar:-

Anticipating that, I managed to open an Chinese Yuan (CNY / RMB) account in Hong Kong and transferred a large part of my savings into Yuan. I hope this can partially offset the depreciation thanks to the US economic meltdown.

As of late, I’ve noticed the closure of many blogs with pretty insightful articles. Sometimes, tracing the cached version would be extremely difficult should the writer choose to remove it. In memory of such posts, I’ve created an automatically generated list of them here. Hopefully, precious gems will not disappear without any traces. Hopefully, the writers would have no knowledge of this repository and hence disclaim liability.

Very well, my posting would be out tomorrow morning and we shall see what kind of life I’ll get to enjoy (or suffer) for the next part of this year.

Having passed out, it was a bittersweet experience which I evaded by dashing straight to Hong Kong, the day after the passing out parade. These 3 months of BMT (PTP) has certainly been an experience of a lifetime. Subsequently, our paths will diverge and fortunately out of mere improbable statistic converge, it will be a totally new experience, be it in Pasir Lebar or some random corner of Singapore.

Of my stay in Hong Kong, I managed to locate and purchase the W950i, a smartphone without photographic capabilities.

That aside, my sources have indicated to me that something unconventional took place in school. I was wondering, should it be a cause of celebration, or mourn? Who’s still left in school that is/was a somebody? Must be the quality of the decision making.

Oh well, I’m back in Singapore and awaiting my posting.

Tomorrow shall be a good day.

Got a 8GB iPod Touch as a prize and managed to finally jailbreak it with the 1.1.4 firmware, with January Features update.

Although the jailbreak is meant to be pretty easy, conflicting and outdated guides wasted a lot of my time. I’ve found the easiest solution to jailbreak an iPod Touch 8GB running 1.1.4 firmware.

That aside, with Wireless@SG up and running almost everywhere, the iPod Touch is really an awesome mobile device. The iPhone will be even better.

I don’t know if I should be angry or happy. Maybe I’m happy because it’s the anniversary of the founding of the school, maybe I’m angry because things didn’t go the way I wanted.

I came to school with a few things to accomplish in mind. First of all, to collect my CCA record and my IB Diploma as according to the DP3’s email, “the IB diploma should be available for collection in February”. Well, the administration office staff claims that June/July would be a more probable date for the collection of the diploma. The next document available for collection is my CCA record.

Despite having made and submitted corrections before deadlines and leaving school, I was still issued a totally blank and clean CCA record. The best solution the staff offered was to look for the CCA Director. This reeks of pure incompetence and negligence as I’ve found that a few other classmates too have a blank record. In spite of my contributions to the CCAs and claiming awards in competitions for the school, I have no official records of them; I’m certainly not going to submit the blank sheet to universities in my applications. Although I have a decent 2005 CCA record to submit in place, I find this incompetence and negligence (despite my earlier notifications) extreme peeving and infuriating.

Meanwhile, I shall ponder on my recourse.