islandhippy

Living in one of Singapore's only neighbourhoods with no cable access means we rely on Starhub's wireless network, the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV) system, for our viewing needs. We get a much more limited range of channels than regular cable subscribers but it's better than nothing (also known as Singapore TV). We haven't left the Star Sports channel since Wimbledon started thirteen days ago so it came as a big surprise when channel surfing today to see that Starhub has replaced the Star Chinese Movies channel with National Geographic. Fantastic. I'm not sure what we've been missing on the Nat Geo channel but it's got to be better, for us, than the Star Chinese Movies channel, which we hardly ever watch ("I can't watch it," says Sandy "they dub Cantonese movies into Mandarin, I hate it!") Amusingly while writing this post, mother-in-law hijacked the TV remote and switched the channel to a Singaporean Chinese channel! Nat Geo will have to wait ...