Interesting thing in Kuching..

Kuching, Kuching... What is so special about you? Apart from having its people staying on trees and Orang Utan being the best companion.. :) Nah.... I was bored of having to explain to people about people here living on trees and depending on orang utans and crocodiles as the only mean of transport..

I have found out another interesting thing in Kuching.. Yes, this... Satellite receiver or more commonly known as parabolic disc (English), tua tia (Hokkien) or tai bok ma (Hakka) locally..

They mushroomed in Kuching and maybe places like Sibu and Miri, east malaysia more commonly, for the past few years.. For all this while, we have been complaining for not receiving enough attention from the federal government... Yes indeed.. When people in west Malaysia enjoyed better development, we struggled here.. People in west malaysia have extra channels like 9tv and 8tv while we were stuck with RTM1, RTM2, TV3 and NTV7... Although, most of us here in Malaysia don't really watch any of these with the presence of Astro..

Lucky us, we have this... Though illegal, the number of 'parabolic disc' in kuching is ever growing.. Of ten houses, easily up to seven or eight will have them...

It's kind of interesting phenomenon here in east malaysia but honestly, i don't think it's a good thing for Malaysia.. We watch more chinese and taiwan channels instead of locals.. Kids here are exposed more to things happening overseas, china and taiwan mostly..

I wonder why we don't have 8TV and 9TV here since we are all part of Malaysia...