:: NatiOnaL cAr ::

Yesterday, while chatting with Jetching, he told me that his friends said that Proton Savvy returned from a journey across Peninsular Malaysia on 1⅔ tanks of petrol to set a national fuel economy record for a standard showroom model vehicle above 1000cc. It is quite worth to buy that car at the moment when the petrol price is increasing.

I asked him whether the source is reliable and he told me that the car had just attempted for a place in the Malaysia Book of Records.(Wow....)


"How is fuel consumption of your Perodua Myvi?" I asked.

"Haiz... Don't mention it ... The car was not consuming the oil but 'drinking' the oil indeed. All the national cars are like this." he answered.

I puzzled that Proton Savvy was not a national car???

The statement is having paradox. What Jetching's talking is opposed with the one his friend mentioned. But both statements make sense logically.


BCT: PARADOX

:: Pasar Malam Taman Connaught ::

Last night after class, my classmate and I went to the largest night market in Cheras, Malaysia - Pasar malam Taman Connaught.

It was my first time to go Cheras. Everyone was so excited and we planned to have our dinner at there.

Nick was the driver and a lots of funny stories happened along the journey to there.

Jitsern who sat beside Nick became the "navigator". He had to help Nick to read the signboard and informed him whether to turn into the entrance.

"500m ....Turn this side!! Faster!!"

"Which side do you mean?"

Aikz... We missed the 1st entrance which was the faster way to reach. Therefore, we have to make a U-turn far away from the entrance.

Because of the ambiguous statement - "turn this side", the 30 minutes journey was turned to 50 minutes.

BCT: AMBIGUITY

:: TuiTioN Fees ::

Last date of payment for tuition fees is 5th September 2008.

This is going to put unnecessary pressure to students due to the deadlines for exam and course regristration.

Students are advised to make early arrangement for the payment to avoid any inconveniences.

However, my classmate - Nick told us that didn't have to worry about the due date of payment.

He said that it can be easily unbarred from credit management unit.

My friend, Jiun Wei was trying to persuade Nick to make the payment earlier.

There is an interesting conversation between them.

Jiunwei: "You have to make the early payment. If you don't, you' ll get barred from the exam unit. You'll unable to take your final examination. And you can't even graduate from MMU. Therefore, you can't get a job. You'll end up single, live an unhappy live and die all alone".

Nick: "Okay... okay... I make the payment right now."

Finally, Nick agreed to make the tuition fees payment.

From the conversation above, Jiun Wei was using Ad populum appeal to indirect consequences. His persuasion was intended to make Nick worried about his future and agree with him.

BCT: AD POPULUM APPEAL TO INDIRECT CONSEQUENCES

:: FLooD :: =.=

The picture showed that there was water in the drawer.

After having my 3 days holidays, Jiun Wei, Jit Sern and I came back to Cyberjaya. On the way back from hometown, we received a call from our housemate - Braddon.

"Hey! Jiunwei, got water leak from your room!!"

From the picture, I can imagine that what was happening just before, just after and just as the picture was taken.

Before this, the water was leaking from the toilet pipe and flood onto the room.

Now, Jiun Wei looked at the drawer which was full with water and puzzled how the water flows into his drawer.

After that, he will start to clean up the mess and water in his room.

BCT: "UNKNOWN BIOGRAPHY"

:: SinGaPoRe cAr PLaTe ::

Today is a public holiday. I followed my sister and bro-in-law to Johor Bahru for shopping.

We shopped around for 3 hours and went to have lunch at somewhere near Nusajaya, a place which is closed to our neighbouring country - Singapore.

When we passed by a show house at residential housing area - Horizon Hills, my sister saw many cars parked along the roadside. Some of the cars were from Singapore.

My sister came out with the conclusion that all Singaporeans like to buy house at Nusajaya.

I found that her statement is having hasty generalization.

She concluded that Singaporean like to buy house at Malaysia just because she saw some of the Singapore's cars park nearby the show house.

BCT: HASTY GENERALIZATION

:: YoGurT DrinK ::

After dinner, I fetched my mum to hypermarket - Giant for buying some daily needs.

When my mum was buying the grocery, I went to the cold beverage area for looking my favourite drinks - Tropicana juice.

While I was searching for my favourite drinks, one of the brand at the rack caught my attention.

"Nestle - Yogurt Drinks"

"Tropical & Mixed Fruits??"

I was confused with the words.

How would the drinks taste?

What was the taste of drinks with combination fruits from pineapple, mango and etc.?

I was having 3 levels of feelings:

1. Sensation
2. Emotion
3. Intrepretation

Sensation: The description of drinks caught my attention.

Emotion: Confused

Intrepretation: The taste of drinks

BCT: 3 LEVELS OF FEELINGS

:: mY bRiLLiaNt NePhew ::

This morning after the breakfast, my aunt dropped by my house and brought her lovely grandson - Ryan. He was so chubby and adorable. He brought his whole collection of train - "Thomas & Friends". While I was playing with him, I realized that he could spell out certain words and named each of his toys .

"Thomas, Henry, Spencer . . . "

He named out almost all the toy he had.

I was so amazing that a two years old baby can spell out so many words. I uploaded some of his pictures which he was holding his favourite toys - "Thomas & Friends".

The thinking process that he used is semantic knowledge. It is about abstract knowledge, such as how to spell certain words or the meaning of concept.

BCT : SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE

:: IrResPonsibLe?? ::

Right after the BCT replacement class, my classmate and I went to have supper at Seri Kembangan. After settled down everything, it was already 11.00pm. While I was chatting with my friend, she complained to me that the lecturer in university is irresponsible.

I wondered why she said so.

She told me that the lecturer always say: "I won't cover this topic, you're suppose to know that."

I found out that her statement is invalid. How could she conclude the lecturer is irrespossible just because of the single event.

Premise: "I won't cover this, you're suppose to know that".
Conclusion: "the lecturer is irresponsible".
The conclusion follows probably from the premise but not necessarily.

BCT: INVALID STATEMENT