I MADE IT OUT ALIVE!

School days were awesome! I still remember when I made it into the Royal Military College in 2002. It was one of my memorable years as to date. You can say I went through hell when I was there. The seniors are all about ragging and bullying. This one time, I was called by one of my seniors. I don’t know why I was been called up for but I know that it didn't sound good.

When I reached my senior, the moment he saw me, he simply said, “Ferrari, you’re in some deep s**t!”

Then I asked him, “Why Sir?”

He replied. “Simple, I just don’t like you. I just feel like beating the crap out of you because I just hate you!”

From this conversation, my senior have applied Petitio Principii fallacy in which he used the word of the same meaning to attack me. This can be seen on the phrase “Simple, I don’t like you. I just feel like beating the crap out of you because I just hate you!” 

The phrase I don’t like you and I just hate you means essentially the same thing. This can be considered as Petitio Principii fallacy for it's principle that stated, “S is true, because S is true.”

Life in the Royal Military College wasn’t that easy. Sometimes the seniors would just bash you because they don’t like you. But at the same time, it teaches you on how to survive. At the end of the day, you'd be glad to know you made it out from there alive.


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3rd September 2010

MOVIE TIME

One day my friends and I went to KLCC to watch a movie. There were five of us, and we were waiting for another friend, Nisa to come. We were waiting for her about half an hour and the movie about to start in 10 minutes and yet we still haven’t bought the tickets. We were not even queuing at the ticket counter. After awhile, my friend Midi was getting tired of waiting. He suddenly said ;


“ Where the heck is Nisa? Is she really going to come? She had promised us right? I still remember about what Syafiqah said, when it comes to promise, Nisa always gives many reasons not to make it. Well, she is really hard to believe. She should be like her, always keep her promise .Now I’m really sick with this kind of situation! ”


“Who are you talking about? Nisa or Syafiqah?” I then replied. There were several confusions in the sentences in Midi’s statements when he was expressing his feeling of dissatisfaction.


By relating this situation with the critical thinking application, one should not use an AMBIGUOUS sentence / word in his or her argument as well to make it become a valid one. Shortly said, the ambiguous stuff is just going to bring out confusions and unclear to the person we are having argument with. Furthermore, this is one of its ways to win an argument if someone does not use this confusing material during the argumentative process.

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MOHD ALIFF SYHAMI BIN SUHAIMI
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STOP THE BLAME IF THE FAULT IS ON YOU!

Earlier today, I had a quarrel with my girlfriend. She called me numerous numbers of times before I finally realized that she calls. And when I pick up her call, she accused me of bad things that wasn’t really pleasing to my ear.

“ Why is it so hard for you to pick up my calls? Do you realize that today we’re supposed to go out? Do you know what time is it now? And where did you go last night?  I called you four times and you did not even return my calls! “, my girlfriend noted.

“ Dear, why are you so mad? I know it’s already past 2pm, but we can still make it for ‘buka puasa’. Just give me an hour for me to get ready and we’ll meet up later k? “, I replied.

“ It’s always like this, you are just trying to run away from your mistakes. Every time when we’re supposed to meet up, it’s always cancelled. Is this a good kind of example of a boyfriend should be? “, she goes beaserk.

“ It’s not that I’m trying to run away with it, I know I woke up late. But atleast let me explain first. I haven’t sleep since Thursday you know. And last night was my redemption. You know I’ve been busy with my assignments at school right? ", I explained.

“ Always with your assignments and stuffs. If you are just to busy for your girlfriend, its better you find another girlfriend! You woke up late and you didn’t even return my calls last night, where did you go huh? Did you go clubbing last night? “, she accused even more.

“ Okay that one just went a little bit to far. I already told you that I was sleeping last night, and why would I go for clubbing in the middle of the ‘Ramadhan’? Don’t just simply accuse me of something that I didn’t do. You know that pisses me off right? “, I defended.

“ You’re just full of excuse. Huh!”, and she replied.

“ Hey, don’t simply blame me like that! Did you remember last week, we’re supposed to go out, and who woke up late that causes us to miss our date for ‘buka puasa’? You’re the one who’s late last week because you were out the whole night hanging out with your friends, and now you are blaming me the for the same traits that you did? “, and this is when I really defended my ground and at the same time, the call end.


By relating this conversation to the Critical Thinking application that I have studied in class BCT1024, I can conclude 2 rules of Critical Thinking application that is being used.


In the first series of statement that I have highlighted above, the rule of Analyzing and Formulating Rational Argument is been applied. In the statement, the argument is considered as an INVALID ARGUMENT. However it is inductively strong since the conclusion follows probably from the premise.

While on the second paragraph that I highlited, I have applied the rule of Ad Hominem Tue Quoqey to my conversation. Tu Quoqey fallacy involves an accusation of another person of the same traits to that person has attributed to the you. From the conversation, I have point back the blame to my girlfriend by mentioning back on her mistake last week that causes the date to be cancelled.

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Ahmad Ferrari bin Ahmad Fauzi
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28th August 2010

why cant i have guy friends

This is a story about me and my boy friend. We always fought about small things but it will end up with no ending and repeat again and again. Below is our conversation

Me : how can I make friends if you don’t let me to have friend
him : Can’t you find a girl friend?
Me : what is wrong if i make a guy as my friend? I do have a girl friend
him : I only let you to make friend with girls. Even I don’t have a girl friend
me : don’t lie, you have tons of girl friends in your phone book
him : but I hardly contact them.
Me : You and I are the same, you have girl friends and i have guy friends. So why are so damn angry at me?
him : i just don’t like you to be friends with them because i am afraid if you like them.
Me : i know my limit. Don’t worry.

From the above conversation, we may apply Tu QuoQue fallacy as it shows that both of us are the same of having the opposite gender as a friend.


by

Hazwani Aimi Binti Mohd Hisham

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hypocrite

I used to have a good friend, but it was over about a year ago. It started when I found out that she talks behind me to other friends about me. Later, I found out from one of my dear friends when she reveals the evidence. She saved all her conversation with her. From that day I knew that she couldn’t be trusted. She made up stories about me telling bad thing about people and because of that I lost my good friends one by one. But that was before. When I faced the other person and talk to each other about what had happened to our friendship then only we knew that it started because of her badmouthing.
Conclusion, Ad Hominem Fallacy could be applied to the above story. What she does is wrong and one day I hope she will realize that her attitude will make her lose her friend easily.

 By
Hazwani Aimi Binti Mohd Hisham
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YOU’RE THE BEST SIR!

During my internship program at this one particular company back in 2009, I have experienced many things about the organization, management, operation and everything that need to be taken in terms of making the company that everyone is working in as a good and develop company. Well, every company wants it to be that way.

While everyone is looking forward and hardly working to make the good things happen, I have noticed that there is one habit that some of the employees have and I think it’s kind of annoying and unethical. I don’t know about anyone else’s views toward this habit; or they might as well just don’t care about what is happening around the workplace. Come to the workplace during the morning, do their jobs, and then leave when the time has finished. They do not socialize at all with the mates. Well, I may say that’s too boring being them.

Back to the main point, there is one habit that we call ‘Apple Polishing’. There was one guy who used to do this ‘Apple Polishing’ habit when he needs something from someone. (From the top level management or even his friends) Sometimes, it goes like this;

“ Dear sir, you look great today! I like your necktie, it looks very exclusive. Bet it must be expensive.
Anyway here I bring you a cup of coffee that I just bought from the coffee house.”
- The Guy

“ Thanks for the compliment, and the coffee. You’re a good worker Mr. X. Let me know if you need anything.”
- The Manager

“Welcome Sir. Thanks to you too. You’re the best boss ever! Errr…. anyway can I go out for awhile? I need to pay the bill.”
- The Guy

“Alright but don’t take too much time yah.”
- The Manager

This is a kind or flattering words simply aren’t relevant to the truth of an idea or validity of a position. It is also categorized as an appeal to emotion because it appeals how a person feels about his/herself rather than his/her ability to critically analyze a claim. In critical thinking words, we call it as Ad Populum Appeal to Vanity.

In this case, it’s a lot easier for the guy to ask a permission to leave the office by doing this method.
It can be slightly considered as psychological approach where we know, human beings; they just like to be praised by others. When that takes place, the person will not think too much on interpreting simple stuff like the case above.

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MOHD ALIFF SYHAMI BIN SUHAIMI
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PLKN

My second story that I want to share is about what I did back then on year 2004. At that time, I joined the National Service (PLKN). For the first time, I mix around with new set of friends from Sabah and Sarawak. I don’t know how to get along with them. I can’t understand their accent, but they can understand my language. At that time, i am so lazy to take food from the canteen, the canteen was so far from my dorm, my friend Hidayah and I decided to asked one of our friend from Sarawak named Lily to go and take food for us. Before we asked her, we praised her with many sweet words that can make her smile. One of the things that we praised her at that time was, “You look so beautiful today, you looks like a model, You can be a supermodel one day!”. After that, she just agreed to take food from the canteen for us. therefore, me and Hidayah just relax and wait for our food to be served by our poor friend Lily. When I remembered this incident, I laugh alone. I know that what I did to her was bad, but this is one of my sweetest memories when I was in PLKN, from this incident I applied Ad Populum Appeal to Vanity to her.

NAME: NOOR SAKINAH BT ABDUL JALIL
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