Second July

04 October 2007

This time of the year...

is the most torturing.

The trials have just ended and anyone sane would feel like relaxing. The thing is this isn't really the time for relaxing because the mother of all exams is just like 1 month++ away. Crap.

But I wanted to. Especially since Astro started pissing people off by changing all the channel numbers to 3 digits. It's challenging and addictive. You'll feel like changing channels til your fingers get used to the tedious thumb-maneuvering.
Oh, don't forget about the very limited time to punch in the 3 numbers. If thumbs no fast enough, sorry lar. Buff it up mate.

Either that, or you belong to the smarter lot (aka lazy-thumb lot). The smarter lot would press the tiny "Info" button, followed by non-stop of lefts and rights til they reach the desired channels. Followed by "OK".
Or, say you wanna get to TV3, which is channel 103 in Astro. In order to get 103, you have to shift you thumb 2 times to 3 far corners on the control, i.e. top left-1, bottom middle-0, top right-3.
In this case, most of the time your thumb won't be fast enough.The smarter lot would just press to channel Arab Radio & TV Variety (I bet you didn't know there's this channel) at channel 111 (no need to shift you thumb at all), then proceed to TV3 by pressing the "minus P" for 2 times. You literally jump from channel 111 to channel 104 then 103.

Yeah, changing channels has never been more tedious than this.
If you have any better ideas on changing channels, share lar ok?

Labels: The Educatee

posted by: JYLing @ 5:43 PM

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