Quest to Fight Boredom 2

Went to Oran again last Saturday in our quest to search for a decoder to unlock all the available TV programs and here are some of the random pictures i managed to snap.

This explains how prominent the Chinese are here in Oran. Even construction buildings are sticked with Chinese only posters! It reads Chinese Construction Building.

Sweet cakes being sold in all corners of the streets before Buka Puasa

Love the smell of these freshly baked breads sold in the market.

Shop owner of the most famous bread shop in Oran giving me a smirk at the corner. The queue is always long just before buka puasa. Breads are cheap too. Five loafs of those will cost only RM5 and they tasted great too.

Ok back to our quest to fight boredom. Since Oran does not support any cable tv even if you are willing to pay, so we have to resolve to get the illegal ones. We drove around the city and looking for shops with signage that says "Streams". Streams is suppose to be the machine imported from China that will need the Internet to encrypt the codes for the channels and then transmit the signal to the machine so that we can watch the various programs. We managed to find one shop that wanted to sell us at the price of 30,000 dinar, which is equals to Rm1,500. Since the owner is giving a guarantee of 1 year, that means each month is roughly about Rm100+ and for that money we can view more than i thousand channels! Not too bad aint it?

Anyway we decide to only buy the machine the next day since all we have were USD and couldn't get to the money changer at that time. Plus, Algeria just do not accept USD. The next day, KC came back with the machine but at a price of 15,000 dinars only. Apparently his colleague went to the shop to help him buy the machine and it was offered that price. So it's kinda like ripping us off with a high price just because we are not Algerians. Anyway the machine works wonder. All together it managed to scan a total of 3 thousand plus channels! Great isnt it? The down side is most of the channels in English are all unable to be unscrambled. There are only a handful of channels in English that we can watch whereas the others are in Arabic, French and German. Sigh...so much for our trouble to fight for boredom but then again, it is better than none. Then again, i am starting to learn French after Ramadhan so after that i will be able to watch more channels that i can handle! Hooray!