Problem Solving doesn't work on kids.

I'm tutoring my neighbour's kid Collin for about 6 months now. He's in 5th grade. Absolutely no idea what 5th grade compare to our standard national school cause he studies in an Internationl School. It wasn't easy. He loves to talk. ignore when I tried to explain question solution, play games and easily distracted by food. I tried from being stict to finish up your work then only play to telling him to shut up and do ur work. I even tried telling him "Do you know how adults solve problem?" I actually showed him my notes on Critical Thinking Tutorial 5 , title Solving Problems. He was more interested in the picture instead of the content. Typical small boy.

Piece of advice, dun bother none of this works for kids his age. It took me awhile before figuring out a way to teach him focus.
Since he like taking picture I thought I'd played a game with him.

The rule of the game is simple.
If he manage to finish up his work within the time frame he gets to show his parents my pathetic picture else I'll show my friends his picture.

Work like a charm.

Force- Fitting Word Association?

Wednesday is always tiring. 4 classes 12 hours in campus. 8am to 7pm. then rush back and tutor my neighbour from 8pm to 9.30pm. Hectic! Yesterday was so darn tired I straight fell to sleep like a dead cow right after. Woke up again at 1am. Returned a miss call then went and meet some of my friends in McD.

6 of us were there including me, Edmund, Jess, Sharon, Vincent, and Aaron. It was 1 something in the morning. I was dead tired. One of them I never saw before. Name = Sharon. everyone was teasing her when I got there. dunno why as usual being a prick I joined in. The bunch of us just kept teasing and joke and laugh. Got alittle hungry and help myself to the new McFlurry Mudpie.

Towards the end, incidentally my friend Aaron suggested that we play a one word game. We used to play this sort of word game awhile back but usually with a deck of cards.We will each flip a card and try to make a sentence relating to the card to make up a story. but there wasn't any cards so we just played a one word game.

Its like one person start a word then the next person will continue on and on in a circular motion.

Lets me say this first, this is not a make-up. It really did happen.I am serious! and Aaron did jot down our crappy story. so here goes....

It lost his balls and saw Agua.(transvestite) Agua dick erected when looking at him from a view then grab something huge and started running towards Vincent but he go run then saw Edmund's friend Aaron then he stuff the dildo in his ass but it has spike and ended in Kenny's mouth.

In the end I was the fool. cibai friends I have.
Again exsqueaze me I seriously wan to emphasize I am not making this up.

We are all Immigrant

excerpt taken from Star newspaper 3rd of September.

"Bukit Bendera Umno division chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail had called the Chinese pendatang(immigrants) at a ceramah prior to the Pematang Pauh by-election".

More nonsense from our so called politician. Again what is wrong the brain of our representative. First we have the 'keris' now 'Immigrants'. What bullshit is this. that was so unjustified. I bet he's one out of a million malaysian that will say this. How does calling Chinese immigrants has anything to do with the Permatang Pauh by-election? If anybody should apologies it should be himself and not Najib. It has nothing to do with Najib.

Amazingly he manage to combine 2 fallacy into one statement. Hands down.
Tu quoque Fallacy (attacking same mistake. in this case immigrants.)
PETITIO PRINCIPII - RED HERRING (Chinese being immigrants has nthg to do with the election).

Mode of the Day : very much delighted
Reason : still confidential

Why do women fuss over petty matters?

This morning Me, Mom , and Sis went to Heong Leong bank to deposit money into Fixed Deposit. Its giving 4% interest which is pretty high in the current market now. Okeh, so first thing first is enquire and nego what's the deal and catch in the plan.

Any numbers mention here are fictional to cover up any unnecessary incident.

The lady explain that the maximun amount in one fixed deposit account is RM X and we have RM 3X. Thus, we need to split it into 3 separate account. Apparently, my Mom already knew that. 3 of us Me, Mom , and Sis. We open one account each.


After hassling thru all the document and paper work then Mom say according to the brochure each account of X amount is entitled to get a free gift(in this matter a towel). Then the attendant say "of this is out date brochure. we got a new order saying that only one towel at any one time." Obviously, unsatisfied we complained. "It is written here clearly that Each FD account is entitled to one free gift", stated clearly in the brochure. "So what nonsense are you talking" ask my Mom furiously. the commotion was pretty intense. Sis join the fun. even merrier. Me stood there embarrass even though knowingly that we are in the right stand. but you see when women argue its never like man.
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Man to Man

Man : "Why cannot?"

Male Attendant : "Cannot lo. rule is rule. Its a direct order from the top. What can I do."

Man : "really uh? can la , try see help me. "

Male Attendant : "really cannot la. I got no say in this thing. Understand my situation pls."

Man : "Like that uh, okla nvm."

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Woman to Women

Mom : "Why cannot!!!" Here say can!!

Women Attendant : "Nooo, you see this one is old brochure. This new plan change abit already."

Mom : "NO! I dun care. You give me 3 towel. or else i duwan this fixed deposit."

Women Attendant : "What!"

Sis : "Why cannot? here say can." (giving the same reasoning again)




Women Attendant : "Cannot la, I told you the new rule is cannot. and I'm not incharge of it. Its from the top." (Ad Populum Appeal To Authority)

Mom : "then you go ask the person in charge. NOW!"

Women Attendant : "Ok, wait."

Women Branch Assistant Manager: "Cannot! We cannot do that. We only left one more towel."

Mom : "No. I saw you got alot more in the box." (Ad Populum Appeal To Force)

me *roll eye when did she too a peek at it? still embarrass
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it went on for another few minutes before they started a cat fight. (okeh, j/k)
In the end the Women Assistant Manager gave up. We got the 3 towel and left right after signing all the paper work.

The main purpose we went to the bank in the first place was to deposit in a Fixed Deposit which eventually turn into a fight over TOWEl . So actually which is more important to women? Money or the free gift that comes along? Its no wonder many shops , goods and even food chain store like MCd always comes with freebies.

Hence, the saying "Good thing always come in package."

Mode of the Day : Happy
Reason : confidential

Simple yet Effective

I have been going out very often lately.My mom clearly wasn't happy about it and started slanting me. where you go? why so late come back? very rich now izzit, u thing petrol cheap ah? I gave her a disagreeing look and said

"of course la, this is because of the assignment. management is like that one. its all about meeting ppl and communication. get idea from outside world. If I stay at home what i get? nagging? So, I mah go out lo."

After hearing it, she just roll her eye and "aiyah whatever la."

Success. she stop nagging.

All I did was follow the rule of Simple Argument.

Definition of Simple Argument is must have

1. a conclusion
2. at least two premises.

Merdeka

Today is Merdeka! Our Independent Day. we should be all hype and proud that its the day our country became Independent from British colonial since 1957. however that wasn't the case. all I saw was ppl minding their own business even when the national anthem was playing. Me too wasn't giving much attention to it. So me and my friends just happen to discuss about this topic.

F1 : "Look, we Malaysian are sad.Nobody give a damn about Merdeka."

F2 : "Obviously la. U see what the morons running our country are doing!"

Me: "What? Thinking of an excuse to explain the inflation?"

F2 : "Abuden, see what they doing to Malaysia. With the petrol hike everyone is
suffering. Who would give a damn merdeka. we are going down,man."

F1 : "Yalar, true also. nobody's willing to spend. Heck even the minister won't spend
on unnessary things like that. I think they rather keep the 'rasuah' to them self."

Here is an example of ASSUMPTION.

Assume = makin an Ass out of U and ME

Me : *thinking to myself. this is it. I just got myself something to write for the blog.
Yes!

Firstly, I want to state clearly that what I'm going to write next will be alittle disturbing and sensative. I hesitated at first but I still write it anyway because I did not see any rule or regulation or limitation in the assignment question stating I cannot do this.It may be stupid yet simple truth.

the conversation continued on but this was the bomb.

F2 : "u see, a witness came forth about the *censored* case(foreign model) regarding our (DP). next thing u know, the opposition party leader was accuse of 'sodomy' scandal. they are just trying to cover their ass only. focusing on nonsense instead
of what really matters. catching someone who did sodomy instead of a murde..."

Hear is an example of PETITIO PRINCIPII - RED HERRING (the arguer tries to sidetrack his audience by raising an irrelevant issue.)

Red Herring is very often used by politician. using very irrelevant reason.
If the people managing our country are morons does that make us citizen little morons?

Sexy or NO you tell me

sex·y [sek-see]
–adjective, sex·i·er, sex·i·est.

1.	concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué: a sexy novel.

2.	sexually interesting or exciting; radiating sexuality: the sexiest professor on campus.

3.	excitingly appealing; glamorous: a sexy new car.

excerpt from CBCNEWS

Earlier this month, the country's Arts, Culture and Heritage Ministry labelled Lavigne's show unsuitable, especially since it is scheduled to take place two days before Malaysia's independence day celebrations.

The youth wing of a fundamentalist opposition party, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic party, had complained the punk-pop performer was "too sexy" for the conservative Asian nation.

all right folks, I find this very ridiculous. this Pan Islamic Party is being so unreasonable or shall I say shallow minded. "too sexy" come on , I dun see anything wrong with Arvil songs or image. sometimes I just don't get it. are we in the 21th century or still in 'zaman purba'. this sort of claims really make me feel all the more sad to a a Malaysian.

This here is an example of BIAS ARGUMENT.
This falls under Ad Populum Fallacy of False Dilemma.
and "too sexy" is too VAGUE.

What is Critical Thinking?

FREE WRITING
Speed is feeling , Time is speed. Ever experience not having enuf time for the day? this was what i felt today. Ok, just as any other Friday I struggled up brush myself, dress-up ,pet my dog before heading out with my weapons for yet another day of war. As usual, sat and stone through 4 hours of tedious lecture. By this time, its already 12pm. Walk off to the car under a colossal scorching sun whispering to myself " Yes, FREEDOM!".

THis is where my ever hectic day starts. So I was driving to my friend1 apartment to check out his newly bought 'Xs GS' guitar. Bang! it just struck me 'assignment' 'blog' 'critical thinking'...noooway of all time not NOW!!

*panting*

absolutely no idea what I'm suppose to do or write. what to do ...what to do. Okeh. I reach my friend's apartment in Sri Kembangang(SK). while checking out his uber cool guitar. my phone rang. apparently friend2 needs my help to load his furniture and stuffs from SK to Kelana Jaya. since i got time (clearly something I dun have) plainly agreed to help.

*burning*

the weather is freaking hot . curse!! I got out of the apartment. On my way to friend2 place, WTF traffic out of no where!! what the. ppl just illegal park , double park , some even triple park on a one way sraight road.
After loading everything to my car and friend2 car, we head straight to Kelana Jaya. Traffic was smooth until the Subang toll. gosh!!! at 3 pm why in the world is there so many vehicles??? it was practically stationary.

*pondering*

so there i was waiting patiencely(barely loosing it) ok what do i need to write for the blog?? no idea... *blank ..sumore under the circumstances still nthg came to mind.
this is when i started asking myself WHAT IS CRITICAL THINKING? i've been seeing this question quite often yet i did not bother. In fact in the first lecture slide as well as in the mid-term test 'what is critical thinking and how does it help a manager?'gee why did i not bother about it?

*Critical Thinking is the single most boring subject ever*

that was what I thought at that point.trying to recollect whatever I know or learn in the class and then suddenly without me realising , while still trap in the traffic, i started looking at every single thing.
road signs, ppl's car plate , advertising board, whatever that could give me inspiration all the way to Kelana Jaya. 5.20pm. it took us 2 and a half to reach.WTF. okeh , unload off everthing then i straight rush back home.

Had my dinner, took my shower and off I'm out again! this time to SS14 PJ Digital Mall to get myself a printer which I have been surveying for a week.Time i left 7.40pm. Time i reach 9pm.

*Traffic King*

yes, stranded in a f***king jam for the 3rd time. at this point i was already loosing it.
i cursed all way from Western Digital all the way to Digital Mall. imagine, a distant of 40km which usually took 40 min at most to reach took me a freaking 2hour plus. Hell i could already reach Mallaca by now. imagine. ok my point is although i was cursing most of the time , i was actually looking at sign, banner, billboard along the highway ,anything that could lead me to critical thinking.

*lights of hope*

Bought the printer , had a drink , say bye-bye to friend then head home.(still no idea what critical thinking is all about).
disappointed. the only reward after a long stressful terifficking jam day is the new toy i got myself(printer).
Here I am staring at the pc blogging. last thing i ever thought i would do.
Alright fine, give up.
Honestly, i can't explain what critical thinking is.
But in my opinion, I think critical thinking is about thinking differently.
what i mean by it is that I was actually having fun looking out for ideas to put in this blog by coming out with all sort of ideas which i never thought off before. exp. implementing what I've learn in tutorials. I was actually trying hard. For a subject I find very boring this is really something i never experience. If you were to make something fun out of ordinary , it become fun. I am actually wanting to read up more on critical thinking. Okeh okeh back to my point. Critical Thinking is about putting your mind to it. understanding the meaning of words use in statement or argument. make it fun if its boring.if helps. bombarding ppl with 'u just use ad hominem fallacies' and make ppl go huh!.such as how you should generalise a matter before jumping into conclusion and above all being rational.
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