RESHMI: Drama Trauma!!!!!!!

A trip to the hospital made me thank critical thinking for the very first time as it made me realize the importance of it.I never really paid much attention to the vague words used as i simply didnt care but it taught me just how much one simple sentence could change your whole life.

 My cousin brother was admitted in a  hospital a couple of weeks ago right after he met in a car accident thank goodness he is alright now.But it was a previous accident that was finally showing us its results in this fresh accident.His knee cap was previously at a total lost and with careful measures it was healing but the current accident popped it right back out!I mean how ironic is that right?

so,just like any other desperate patient .....we seeked the doctors help and so he assured us that this surgery that my cousin  will have to undergo is one of the best surgeries.But then it got me thinking....how is it the best surgery?why is it the best surgery?Compared to what is it the best surgery?what is the rate of recovery?what are the expenses like?

After all these questions then finally the doctor opened up and told us that there is only a 50% chance that my cousin brother could actually walk again.We were all in shock and decided to seek for a second opinion which most humans tend to forget about.Those questions on that vague statement that the doctor made just saved my cousin brothers future!

With the second opinion and careful consideration about which surgery to undergo,my cousin brother is once again a walking ,living and healthy person that goes about his everyday routine.Pretty scary when you come to think of how some doctors use vague words  just to get their work over and done with huh....oh well!!!!!

relaxing for a while....^_^

Hmm...this picture is sooooo true!! While I'm doing my FYP, my thinking is about sleeping but when I sleep, my mind just cannot stop to think about my FYP, such a nightmare....>_<

since it’s a long weekend in MMU; holiday from Friday till Tuesday, not really feel happy though coz I cannot go anywhere, stuck with all of these works....T_T  But then, I decide to have some relaxing by watching Korean drama. I watched this drama series many time already. I really like it, the title is boys over flower. This drama is very famous, it has Japanese version, called hana yori dango and Taiwanese version called meteor garden and I watched them all; again and again...^_^

Boys Over Flowers

Metor Garden

Hana Yori Dango

All of them have the same story line and ending, the story is about 2 boys likes the same girl; the boys are from the rich family while the girl is from poor family. Let’s say the first boy's name is Albert and the second boy is Romeo and the girl is Jessica. Albert's attitude is very arrogant and ignorant while Romeo has the opposite attitude. For sure, Jessica will prefer to fall in love with Romeo, but in the mean time, she chooses to be with Albert. Just for you to know, Albert and Romeo are friends since they are kids...hohoho...such interesting story line rite....^^\/

While I'm watching this, suddenly I remember critical thinking assignment, which I have to post something in the blog. I remember to re-writing the ending of the story. Jessica prefers to be with Albert instead of Romeo, while I think Romeo is better than Albert. But then to choose one of them, somehow I found it very irritating. Romeo becomes one of the best friends of Jessica and Albert becomes her lover. This is the plot story that happening in this drama. For me, I prefer the story line to be fair. Jessica did not choose Albert neither Romeo. Jessica just become good friends with both of them and falling in love with another guy that not related to Albert or Romeo. Isn't it better this way? What about you? What do you prefer to be the ending of this story?

This re-writing ending of story done by Ajeng Ila Pratiwi, ID 1051108441

Barry's second entry

Fallacy of Generalization
Last week my husband and I was talking about our grand parents: I told him, course your sister Mariam was joking when she wrote to you about needing to talk with yours 68-year-old grand mother about going into a nursing home. While I admire My concern for my parents, and agree that as one approaches 60 it is wise to make some long-term plans, I hardly think that 68 is the right age at which to talk about a retirement home unless there are some serious health concerns. In this era, when people are living to a healthy and ripe old age, I am jumping the gum. My 85-year-old grand mother power-walks two miles each day, drives her car (safely), climbs stairs, does crosswords, reads the daily paper and could probably do so for at least the next 10 years.

Barry's first entry

Confirmation Bias

He loves me, and there are so many ways that he has shown it. When we signed the divorce papers in his lawyer’s office, he wore my favorite color. When he slapped me at the bar and called me “dear,” he used the word “baby” when he didn’t have to. When I called him and he said never to call him again, he first asked me how I was doing and whether my life had changed. When I suggested that we should have a last trip in order to keep a memory of our marriage, he laughed. If he can laugh with me, if he wants to know how I am doing and whether my life has changed, and if he calls me “handsome” and wears my favorite color on special occasions, then I know he really loves me.

Rational good faith

I know a person who claims to great principles, when things beyond her expectations, she will set a principle. For example, when the wrong thing to her staff, she would without thinking of the accusations, rather West Point, "no reason" to "touch", but, when she made a mistake, she can not say that they boasted of this professional It seems their unprofessional mistakes can forgive and forget not forgive their staff as professional and committed no wrong. This is typical thinking and behavior inconsistent with typical hypocrisy, demanding of others, relaxed demands on themselves.

Many people have such a declaration: this is my principle! Such a declaration to block the other's resistance, to let their actions become a matter of course. When we encounter such a declaration, even a bit arrogant to know it a bit unreasonable, but still could do nothing. Of course, we are often declared to the others with their principles and do not give a single cent retreat. That is, the so-called principle of our life is full of hypocrisy, because in principle only in safeguarding their own interests with the bottom line in the final analysis, Yi or for the themselves, when this principle on his body, it often becomes not on then the principle. This of course can not just thinking, which requires us to do in good faith reason to require others to demand their own standards.

My aunt has a child. He is the son who are poor performance and very naughty. My aunt beaten numerous times in their conduct, the conscious act like this is his son will not be effective, and realized that if her love of education will have good results. However, her love of education required to change his bad temper, and reading childcare books, thinking about his son at this age, which would require her dedication. Unfortunately, her way of thinking forever remain in his mind, his son's performance remained, unruly still, her method of education has remained. No change in their method, but also on how to let others change? !

There is a saying: The world is changing everything, the only constant is change. Although everything is changing, but change is not necessarily willing to accept the things that people, especially the need to stick to the principles of their faith and fight the change is unwelcome. Moreover, the change in heart will not be short-lived, it must be the product of layers of pain. Although we have been able to use a rational understanding of their own ignorance humility, understand their thinking in all kinds of criticism, and already have a rational courage, but because change is not an easy thing, persistent need to play a tremendous role.

I'm Li peijuan, one of my group mambers. My ID number is 1071119953

Ben's second entry

Every weekend when we go shopping at Alamanda, am always telling my housemate that we spend alot of money, but he always answer me back that, there people who spent alot of money than what we do there every weekend, but i think that is shifting the blame to another person yet u do it our self, and that brings as to an argument that points out another person with the same problem tu quoque fallacy

Snail

I have seen a artical what about snail.

"Several days of rain in a row, whether becomes nice and cool. Yesterday, after we had dinner, we went downstairs to the flower bed edges, see a lot of snails,and we started grasping the snail. I want to grasped one by my self...
To the flower beds,I squat body, turn pieces of leafage over,and look for a while, but could not found a snail. We also found it in many leaf, finally I found a snail. I reached my hand out to grabed it.My hand just lay a finger on it, its head pinch in shell quickly,that scare me. snail can bite people??
Recommend from book,said: snails are pests. these snails eating leaves,more hateful Yeah! TV also reported that: a lot of snails chew many vegetables, snails eat leaves of green plants, so many vegetables died.

Think about those, I boost my courage to catched it, throw it on the floor, and made its life ended···"

This artical's style are fresh and fluency,but reveal some thinking by worth of think.
That girl  "throw it on the floor, and made its life ended",I have a bit hurt on my heart.Why the girl hate snail?Because the book says that snails are pest.So,is snail pest or not actually?
If we check information,we will find that, snails are pests  for purposes of crops, but it for purposes of humen,snails are beneficial insect.

Snail's body is a treasure,can be used to do drugs, treat hypertension, heart disease, arteriosclerosis and so on. Eat snails, you can clearing heat, detumescence, detoxicate, hairdressing, lengthen one's life, improve people's eyesight, appetite, sleep and so on. Longevity areas in the world like British and French, there must have snails on the dishes, and be listed as first famous food in the world. On the side, snail has another ability,it helps farmers to find situation of land pollution. French researchers found that the metal contaminants in the snail digestive gland contents to reflect the degree of soil pollution is an important indicator.


Information from this search process, we teach anyone that is not specific knowledge, is not let you to remember all of snails' benefit, but teach you a way for thinking.
First:, look at the issue must be comprehensive and should learn to think from different angles.

Secound,  learn to make question, question is a core element of critical thinking.





I'm Li peijuan, one of my group mambers. My ID number is 1071119953

Stressing Weeks.....T_T

Yup! as the title said, stressing weeks!!! I have two labtest, one submission of assignment and one submission of FYP next week; all in one day which is friday!!! I feel so stress but then I can not go anywhere to release my stress, then I suddenly remember that one of ways to release the stress is using free writing. And here are things that come out from my mind for the first ten minutes:


headache-scared-vomit-hot-stress-blur-hang-blank-hungry-sleepy-work-tired-sad-red-crying-thinking-chocolate-waffle-ice cream-coke-mini market-class-meeting-library-my apartment-chatting-calling-handphone-ipod-money-FYP-assignment-labtest-C++-PHP-stocks-journals-index-market-internet-laptop-mouse-mmls-google.com-altafista.com-imf.org-bursamalaysia.com-blogger.com-youtube.com-facebook.com-yahoomail.com-yahoofinance.com-microsoft word-microsoft excel-power point-slides-fridge-drink-food-table-chair-paper-pen-calculator-games-critical thinking-computer programming-computer networking-groupmate-housemate-friends-boy friend-my lecture-my supervisor.


Hmmm....feel a bit ok now after doing my free writing for ten minutes. Still feeling stress though but at least better than before...now I have my spirit again to do my works....hohohohoho...^_^

noted :
If anyone of you feel so stress maybe you can do free writing, as the free writing benefits are:

• It makes you more comfortable with the act of writing.
• It helps you bypass the "inner critic" who tells, you can't write.
• It can be a valve to release inner tensions.
• It can help you discover things to write about.
• It can indirectly improve your formal writing.
• It can be fun.

This free writing done by Ajeng Ila Pratiwi, ID 1051108441.

Vague sentences (Vignesh)

Last year for valentines I called a girl for a date. We were chatting online using 'MSN' chat box. I was chatting with her for 3 months. Finally I got her for a date. That was on Valentine’s Day. I called her for a drink at 8pm at Penang road. She agreed to me. A week after that was our first date, she went straight to the Bar and ordered beer for herself and a Pac of whisky for me. I was surprise, and I asked her, “I told you that I want to go for a drink" she said yes we are going to drink. The word DRINK is VAGUE to her because she was thinking it is going to be whisky and beer. What I meant was star bucks coffee.

Ben's first entry

'I have come to realize that my girlfriend loves me very much because she cares for me, she cares for me because i think, i don't cheat, the reason why i don't cheat because she loves me. i found out she was applying a fallacy unknowingly because ; A is true, then B is also true , then C is also true  because A is true.
that is application of  Circular Argument under the petition principii , the reason goes back to her loving me.

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