Recent Posts – Exclude a Category

I’m trying to exclude the posts of a certain category from the recent posts list. Since wp_get_archives does not have that kind of argument, I’m trying the following:

<?php
          $posts = get_posts('numberposts=20&category=-65');
          foreach($posts as $post) :
          ?>
          <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
      <?php endforeach; ?>

I cant quite see if it works since it turns the sorting up side down (From first to last post)

So I tried to set explicit sorting:

<?php
          $posts = get_posts('numberposts=20&category=-65&order=DESC&orderby=ID');
          foreach($posts as $post) :
          ?>
          <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
      <?php endforeach; ?>

Still up side down!

Any ideas?