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Have the Courage to Follow Your Dream: A Lesson from The Mighty Macs

A sense of boredom was what urged me to pick up a movie from my DVD collection in the first place. Another case of minor health problem, forced me into taking bed rest last weekend. With nothing better to do, I reckoned a good movie would improve my mood. So I chose to watch The Mighty Macs, a movie based on the inspiring true story of Cathy Rush,  the head women’s basketball coach at Immaculata College from 1972-1977. According to Wiki, Cathy Rush led tiny Immaculata College (under 500 students) to three consecutive AIAW national titles from 1972-1974. She led the [ ... ]

Happy Belated Birthday Sesame Street!

The world celebrate Sesame Street’s 40th Birthday, on  Nov 4th 2009, and frankly that evoked so many good memories I have of my childhood. I looooooved Sesame Street..and I still do! Sesame Street is my first introduction to English. Back then, I watched Sesame Street on RCTI (Indonesian Channel) still in English language, with tiny subtitles below (unlike today’s re run which use dubbing). So I learned a lot about English words, pronunciation, and structure. I remember, I learned about the English words for colors, numbers, animals by watching the shows.. Imagine, how many 8 year old Indonesian child could [ ... ]

Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone..

Sorry for disappearing for a while. It’s just that I’ve been feeling so negative this last couple of months which affected my writing. Since I don’t feel keen about publishing my complaints and confusion, I decided to lay low for a while. Gratefully, my mood is gradually getting better..and Walah..at last, an inspiration came to write something positive rather than the usual endless rants and complaints. It started from watching a show called MTV MADE (Yes..I recently became “anak nongkrong MTV” ;p). MTV MADE is a self-improvement reality television series broadcast on MTV. The series follows teens who have a goal and want [ ... ]