Singapore Superlatives

Ok I am back again....

This time I googled something I read in the newspaper a while back: the rankings of the countries and cities offering broadband services...

Singapore's ranked 7th in the world and 4th in Asia. It's really not surprising to find SOuth Korea and Japan at the top and Japan's 3 cities nabbed the top 3 for city placing - Yokohama, Sapporo, Nagoya. Considering first-hand experience of SingNet's capabilities, the arguably largest provider in Singapore, I think Singapore has MUCH to improve.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/01/news/economy/broadband_internet_connection/index.htm
Well, since I am on this might as well, see some of Singapore's other rankings....

Most liveable City (Monocle): 18th in the world, 4th in Asia!
http://www.monocle.com/sections/edits/Web-Articles/Top-25-Cities/
1. Zurich
2. Copenhagen
3. Tokyo --> My brother's dream city...
4. Munich --> Ach, hab' ich bei hier gewohnt. Muenchen ist schoen aber ein bisschen teuer....
5. Helsinki
6. Stockholm
7. Vienna
8. Paris --> For my dear =)
9. Melbourne
10. Berlin --> Ganz geil!
11. Honolulu
12. Madrid
13. Sydney
14. Vancouver
15. Barcelona
16. Fukuoka --> Maybe my bro likes this.
17. Oslo
18. Singapore --> Singapore's strengths lie in her security and stability, parallelled by few.
19. Montreal
20. Auckland
21. Amsterdam --> Very relaxing, and picturesque...
22. Kyoto --> Or maybe this is my bro's dream city?
23. Hamburg --> Eine schoene Stadt, aber es regnet zu oft....
24. Geneva
25. Lisbon

See any more familiar cities?

Quality of Living
http://www.mercer.com/qualityofliving
Singapore's best in infrastructure. I think Singaporeans should really be proud of so many things in Singapore - security, stability, infrastructure, organisation, efficiency, wiredness etc etc... YEs, there are areas of improvement definitely, but which country doesn't?

MioTV

As always the story starts with a "WOW" factor. Like "Wow! There's a Taiwanese Channel!" My mum was so enthralled by that fact, "Maybe Meow is not so bad after all..."

"OH! We have 东风!" My dad's equally amazed by that.

And me, just realised a few days ago, there's the old XMEN. I was just surprised. Pleasantly. At that time, that is.

But these don't really last long. Being new to TV-on-demand entertainment, it turns out, all the programmes got shut down today. Apparently, we have reached the one-month FOC threshold. Oh well, my dad thought it was spoilt and actually called down the SingNet engineer LOLX... Ok nvm, embarrassing things aside.... The mioHome was initially subscribed because it bundled up all my mioTV and Broadband under an account, and upgraded my Broadband (3Mbps to 6Mbps) at a reduced price. Probably because my original Broadband subscription is becoming obsolete anyway. I guess we can live without mioTV programmes.

I actually sat down and watched the only free things now - the 'Exclusive' 15 blockbuster movies per month thingy. YA, "blockbuster". Was scrolling through, ya ok looking, since only 15 titles, then picked 十二莲花to watch. Never watched before, and since my parents too, it's free, might as well. Turned out it's a hybrid of a musical and drama. Somehow I didn't exceptionally like it. Neither did my parents. Singing's good but think some are dubbed over. But the protagonist is really 悲剧人物. Why do Singaporean films always try to make such films?

So while waiting for my dearest, I kind of surfed the mioTV website and found the pricing list.... zzzz....
http://mio.singtel.com/miotv/channels-on-demand_channels.asp

Ok la, not that ex, if I just go by certain channels... Can consider signing up for my parents. But well, we will see.

Oh there's Jennifer Aniston's old show "Picture Perfect". Wanna watch dear?