TV Channels and Reverse psychology
I used to tune in to Animax and Star World for daily doses of serials, but not anymore. Following serials have become a bore to me, especially since they oblige me to have some sort of regularity when it comes to watching TV.
As for now, I only tune in to these channels when I turn on the TV:
- CNN. Seeing what's hot on the news.
- Channel News Asia. Simply the best channel to have your news delivered from a very Asian-oriented perspective.
- Al-Jazeera. A channel where we get to know which new places in the Middle East are bombed everyday.
- BBC. Nothing special from this channel really, except for the fact that I love emulating British accent.
- MTV. Seeing what's new on the music world.
- MNC Music Channel. A daily dose of Indonesian music.
- Metro TV. Indonesian news-oriented channel.
- Trans TV. An informative channel with good shows.
In the past I loved to watch Indosiar, which used to be the most couch potato-friendly channel in Indonesia, but ever since it substituted its Korean and Japanese drama series for the freaking stupid Bollywood-ish Indonesian sinetrons (soap operas), I ceased to watch it. I hope the people in Indosiar are offended by this blog entry, because this is of course meant as a constructive criticism.
Lemme get to the second topic.
Over the last couple of days, I have been playing some sort of reverse psychology in front of my closest people.
Of course I don't lie to them: I despise dishonesty above all else when it comes to people's traits.
The only thing I do is just creating the impression by dropping fake "little hints" here and there on my Friendster, Facebook, MSN, and YM so that they generate the impression that Í'm doing something that I really don't do.
And when they ask me questions like, "Toshi, are you doing this?"
I would answer honestly with a "No, I'm not".
They wouldn't believe me of course, because I always make sure that my honest answer looks like a lie.
Man, I really am nasty, aren't I?
LOL.
Such is the joy of reverse psychology that I don't think that I will stop this game at anytime soon.
Well if you read this blog entry today, I suppose by now you have figured out what kind of reverse psychology I am playing. And you should be happy that you are lucky enough to be my regular reader that you won't get fooled by this little trickery of mine.
PS: The last paragraph above is directed to three of my regular readers; one in Bandung, the other two in Singapore (^_^).
Indonesia TVs are the national nightmare. I guess they will halt our development
Reverse psychology is a two-way street! How do you know that we have not been playing this game with you all along?
Takes two to tango :D
Just a thought.
@akhyari: it really is. that's why I choose to subscribe to cable TV :)
@rob: now that you're telling me, I guess you might be correct :|
hmm.... but i still hope they're not the one playing it on me though :)