Musings

Friend Jennifer Phang in HKG got her iPhone 3G last Saturday and was she wowed over. Had some problems using the touch screen but she’s learning.

The great news is that the phone is not sim-locked which means it can be used here. She tried her S’pore pre-paid sim card and it worked. Trouble is it’s going to cost an arm and leg to buy it and use it here.

Developer Paddy Tan walked around HKG and found the price of the handset is about S$2000 which is really expensive. But I’m sure there’ll be a few fans who’ll dish out the money.

What a day it was! My 2 friends and I completed the Triathlon relay this morning. Of course, we’re delighted, never mind that it was only a MINI Triathlon – 200m swim, 10km bike and 2km run. Yenni swam, Cindy cycled and I ran. We’re newbies and the fact that information about the relay event from the organisers were scant, we managed to hustle our way and complete in (we think) just under 45 minutes.

Who cares if it’s a little too long than what others did. We enjoyed ourselves, swam, biked and ran our guts out and most importantly, completed the race. Being competitors in other sports – squash and tennis – during our younger years, this was an adrenalin rush that we’re looking for.

The day started at 5am, yes, we’re kiasu, we wanted to get out to East Coast early so that we can get parking space and don’t have to walk too far to the competition grounds. Problem is we’d to hang around until just after 9am when our event started. Luckily our mini event covered short distances otherwise it would be tiring.

Being newbies, we attended the workshops conducted by the organisers which were useful for my friends and I. While the event was really fun – and we would encourage people to participate – communications for the fun events like the relay and the family categories were missing. We’d other competitors asking us what to do this morning!

Watching the kids swimming, biking and running was really cute. Who says it’s all fun for the kids, they were really competing, wanting to win too. Parents too were busy running up and down, collecting their kids’ swimming goggles, passing t-shirts to them and drinks etc.

What really impressed me were the elderly. There was a 62-year-old guy, portly around his stomach, who ran down the ramp with a jiggling tummy to loud applause from the crowd. He completed.

Completing the event is satisfying and to do it with friends, is a bonus. Maybe, we’ll take part in the longer distances next year.

The iPhone frenzy is striking the world again. To be expected. One question nags the jail-broken iPhone users. Can their SIM cards be used in iPhone 3G?

Perhpas it can. If the 1.14 version of the iPhone OS is upgraded to 2.0, then it can be used on the iPhone 3G. Some brave soul will have to try this method by upgrading his iPhone OS on iTunes.

Apple Singapore has remained silent on this. So is SingTel. Apple Singapore says that any issue arising from jail broken iPhone users will have to be dealt with by the telcos. No one is saying anything at this moment.