-the late Michael Joseph Jackson
I wake up at one in the afternoon today, drag my yawning bottom to the bathroom, sang a few classics in the shower, drag my then soaking but still sleepy bottom back into my bedroom, turn on the laptop, get on Twitter and the first thing that catches my eye is a Tweet from a certain Seebs stating that “Jackson has died at age 50.”
So of course, the first and sole Jackson that came to mind was Michael J, the King of Pop himself. But then I thought to myself, “What? Who, MJ? Dead???? ...NAHHHHHHHH. [goes back to Twittering about lost underwear]”
Chuan comes and picks me up and Michael Jackson is emanating from his stereo. Pretty odd, I think to myself, Chuan usually has Velvet Revolver or The Final Riot! playing. Oh well, I like this song anyway and I carry on with my off tune ‘Annie are you okay, are you okay, are okay Annie?!’ sing-along with the CD.
I get to Neo and suddenly everyone’s talking about Michael Jackson dying of cardiac arrest. And I’m like, “Okay, seriously, these people have GOT to stop kidding around!” And Chuan goes, “Dude... he died. For real man.” And I’ve got this what-the-f*** expression on my face and I’m like, “Dude, stop f***ing with me man.”
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I think that’ll do for my narration of how I came to know the great MJ has gone and passed. And all I can say is... dude, what?! HE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO GO YET! IT’S NOT RIGHT! I haven’t even met the guy for Pete’s sake!
Okay, so he came and did a concert here once, but that was ages ago! I was like, what, 2 years old? I was probably just a screaming toddler shouting for my pacifier and shouting in limited vocabulary at my mother to go back home while the awesomest, most legendary pop icon of all time was standing in front of me, signing auto-freaking-graphs! And yes, I know he was standing in front of me, signing auto-freaking-graphs because I have a photo of it. Wanna see? Email me at—so anyway, I just can’t get over the fact that I won’t ever get to meet this legend. Bummer.
He was such a great person, he inspired so much and he made his mark on everyone. He will forever be remembered, I’m certain. To hell with all the surgeries and child molestation charges, he wasn’t proved guilty anyway. Him dying is just... whoa. You know, like, whoa. It’s one of those things that can’t really happen. I suppose everyone dies but still! He can’t. He just can’t. I loved the guy! He was epic in every possible sense and connotation of the word.
He inspired loads to sing, to dance, to perform. To make history, to make something out of their lives. To change the world and to make their mark on this place. Heck, he even got me to update my blog in his honour after putting off writing for a month! Can you not grasp the hero that is Michael Jackson?
No one can be Michael Jackson, he was most certainly and without a doubt one of a kind. You know what... maybe Ryan Higa from YouTube is right, maybe he is an alien. Now that would explain a lot! Like you know, the skin color changing (I mean come on, no one’s ever done that before), the awesome and impossible-to-mimic-completely vocals, the catchy crotch-grabbing and moonwalking dance moves and not to mention the incessant and original AEOW! This man is surely a unique entity.
And you know what, he’s died. Maybe the line “ah, he’ll live on in spirit” applies most perfectly here. MJ may be gone in body, but I swear on my original Fall Out Boy **** Live in Phoenix DVD that he lives on, in spirit. Like I said, the man cannot die. He just can’t. He’ll be everywhere because all legends live on. Why, just an hour ago, Mina IM’d me on MSN that she received an email from Twitter announcing that Michael Jackson is now following her. The man just died of cardiac arrest 14 hours ago, for goodness sake. See? I told you he’d live on! He’s following Mina on Twitter after his death goshdarnit!
Michael Joseph Jackson was a great man, and he’ll stay in our hearts & memories as long as we live.
To end this tribute to MJ, here are the words to my all time favorite song by Michael Jackson. The lyrics are simply amazing. It’s called HIStory.
He got kicked in the back, he say that he needed that
He hot willed in the face, keep daring to motivate
He say one day you will see his place in world history
He dares to be recognized
The fire's deep in his eyes
How many victims must there be slaughtered in vain across the land?
And how many struggles must there be before we choose to live the prophet's plan?
Every day create your history
Every path you take you're leaving your legacy
Every soldier dies in his glory
Every legend tells of conquest and liberty
'I'm the greatest of all time'
Don't let no one get you down, keep movin' on higher ground
Keep flying until you are the king of the hill
No force of nature can break your will to self motivate
She say this face that you see is destined for history
How many people have to cry the song of pain and grief across the land?
And how many children have to die before we stand to lend a healing hand
Every day create your history
Every page you turn, you're writing your legacy
Every hero dreams of chivalry
'I have a dream'
Every child should sing together in harmony
All nations sing
Let's harmonize all around the world
'I am happy to join with you today, in what will be down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.'
How many victims must there be slaughtered in vain across the land?
(Lord, we need your assistance)
And how many children must we see before we learn to live as brothers and be one family?
'Some men see things as they are and say, why? I see things that never were and say, why not?'
'That's one small step for men, one giant leap for mankind.’
Makes you wanna make history huh? I especially love that line, “One day you will see his place in world history/this face that you see is destined for history.” Well Michael, I’m gonna make history one day, you’ll see. I’ll make you proud.
Here’s to you MJ, you are loved. Rest in peace and may God bless your soul. I didn’t get to meet you down here but hey, I’ll see you up there later won’t I? Long live the King of Pop.
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Labels: deep stuff, people, personal things, school
So I was looking for stuff on the web to post as an entry here and I found these, all written by kids when asked questions concerning love&wisdom. And boy, they say the Darndest things.
What Is The Proper Age To Get Married?
"Eighty-four. Because at that age, you don't have to work anymore, and you can spend all your time loving each other in your bedroom." (Judy, 8)
"Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find me a wife." (Tommy, 5)
What Do Most People Do On A Date?
"On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that usually get them interested enough to go for a second date." (Mike, 10)
When Is It Okay To Kiss Someone?
"You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause she will want to have videos of the wedding." (Jim, 10)
"Never kiss in front of other people. It's a big embarrassing thing if anybody sees you. But if nobody sees you, I might be willing to try it with a handsome boy, but just for a few hours." (Kally, 9)
The Great Debate: Is It Better To Be Single Or Married?
"It's better for girls to be single, but not for boys. Boys need somebody to clean up after them." (Lynette, 9)
"It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble." (Kenny, 7)
Concerning Why Love Happens Between Two People:
"No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That's why perfume and deodorant are so popular." (Jan, 9)
"I think you're supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn't supposed to be so painful." (Harlen, 8)
On What Falling In Love Is Like:
"Like an avalanche where you have to run for your life." (Roger, 9)
"If falling in love is anything like learning to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long a time to learn." (Leo, 7)
On The Role Of Good Looks In Love And Romance:
"If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful." (Jeanne, 8)
"It isn't always just how you look. Look at me. I'm handsome like anything and I haven't got anybody to marry me yet." (Gary,7)
"Beauty is skin deep. But how rich you are can last a long time." (Christine, 9)
Concerning Why Lovers Often Hold Hands:
"They want to make sure their rings don't fall off, because they paid good money for them." (David, 8)
Confidential Opinions About Love:
"I'm in favor of love as long as it doesn't happen when The Simpsons' are on TV." (Anita, 6)
"Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I've been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me." (Bobby, 8)
"I'm not rushing into being in love. I'm finding fourth grade hard enough." (Regina, 10)
Personal Qualities Necessary To Be A Good Lover:
"One of you should know how to write a check. Because, even if you have tons of love, there is still going to be a lot of bills."(Ava, 8)
Some Surefire Ways To Make A Person Fall In Love With You:
"Tell them that you own a whole bunch of candy stores." (Del, 6)
"Don't do things like have smelly, green sneakers. You might get attention, but attention ain't the same thing as love." (Alonzo, 9)
"One way is to take the girl out to eat. Make sure it's something she likes to eat. French fries usually works for me." (Bart, 9)
How Can You Tell If Two Adults Eating Dinner At A Restaurant Are In Love?
"Just see if the man picks up the check. That's how you can tell if he's in love." (John, 9)
"Lovers will just be staring at each other and their food will get cold. Other people care more about the food." (Brad, 8)
"It's love if they order one of those desserts that are on fire. They like to order those because it's just like their hearts are on fire." (Christine, 9)
What Most People Are Thinking When They Say "I Love You":
"The person is thinking: Yeah, I really do love him, but I hope he showers at least once a day." (Michelle, 9)
How A Person Learns To Kiss:
"You learn it right on the spot, when the gooshy feelings get the best of you." (Doug, 7)
"It might help if you watched soap operas all day." (Carin, 9)
When Is It Okay To Kiss Someone?
"It's never okay to kiss a boy. They always slobber all over you.... that's why I stopped doing it." (Jean, 10)
How To Make Love Endure:
"Spend most of your time loving instead of going to work." (Tom, 7)
"Don't forget your wife's name . . . that will mess up the love." (Roger, 8)
"Be a good kisser. It might make your wife forget that you never take the trash out." (Randy, 8)
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Funny how that’s true.
Speaking of which, we’re getting old. How many times has that been said before? Pffft, a million more times than I’d like to hear, and I don’t wanna grow up. I mean, yeah, we probably wouldn’t wanna be 30 and married, 40 with children, 50 with flab, 60 with no ha-- Okay, never mind that, but the thought of it freaks the daylight out of my skin. We won’t always be like this, the reckless youth of our day huh? One day, we’re all gonna have to graduate, pack up, go to college and spend the rest of our lives in stupid, cramped up cubicles, getting yelled at by your boss and having no time for anything else.
NOT ME. That is definitely NOT gonna happen to me, not ever. I don’t wanna end up like my mom, her stupid senior thinks he’s all that and treats everyone like slaves. Not happening to me, I swear. I’m gonna study ass hard, graduate, get into some big name college, get a diploma or something, work in a hotel and eventually open my own up. It’s a high ambition (: And yeah, I bet you’re probably all, in your dreams. Whatever. At least I know where I’m going. Do you?
I envy Paths. In terms of she’s-got-everything-going. Her passion’s photography and she’s is REALLY good at it, and now look where she’s at. Sixteen and handling her own photo shoots. Whatta kickass photographer. You can honestly say, she’s gonna have photo shoots for all those glamorous people and make cash out of it. And it’s not even about cash, it’s about passion. Know what I mean?
Here’re immature ambitions of mine:
Ambition #1: To see human dominoes; preferably caused by myself, preferably during assembly.
I saw this really cool ad where the whole city went domino-wise and I have dreamed of doing that ever since. I’ve attempted a couple of times so far (pushed random people standing in a line, maybe I should try in public), but…it didn’t work. Not giving though :p
Ambition #2: To see Technicolor fart.
That’s probably the STUPIDEST thing in the world, but I find it hilarious. It’s scientifically impossible too, so I probably won’t see it. Ever. Everyone thinks it’s stupid. So do I.
Ambition #3: To stumble upon a swimming pool filled instead with popcorn (buttered).
Popcorn. Popcorn. Popcorn. No microwave please, it gives you cancer. Seriously, it does.
Yeah, stupid.
Here’re the more sensible ones:
Ambition #1: Be a hotel manager and open up my own kickass hotels around the globe.
All I have to do is focus real hard on studying (I got that), graduate, go to college, take HRM and at the same time get a job at some awesome hotel and work my way to the top and eventually becoming hotel manager. All support welcomed.
Ambition #2: Get in a band, you know the drill.
Probably has little chance of becoming reality, but right now it’s good, I’m in a couple of bands as rhythmist and lead. I just wanna be known someday, you know, I mean, DON’T WE ALL?
Ambition #3: Make poverty extinct.
Help me out here people. Really.
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Kidding on what I said about the Ten Things. I’ll at least try to write down stuff I like about life. I’d like to rephrase “The Ten Things I Love About Life” to “Some Of The Things I Love About Life”. So here’re the few things:
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"..Today we salute you, failures of our time, who have inadvertently scored an F in our last test. As a consequence, you have been brutally embarrassed, laughed at and screwed several times over during break. Now that you are being humiliated, think of us kicking back, laughing at your arses. As you stand there, shamed beyond degradation, you think “How the hell did I end up like this?”. Just remember that we will always remember this as the day you have failed, and have been absurdly falling from grace. And from this day forward, you people will always be known, embarrassingly, for what you have endured, due to the harshness of the bloody academy."
Okay I’m not that much of prick, I just felt like writing a speech dedicated to the students shamed today by our absurd BM teacher. Actually I feel quite bad for them, how self contradictory aren’t I? I think I may have a mild case of schizophrenia but never mind that now. What happened was, we had a test, almost everyone failed and yeah. The BM teacher ludicrously punished the failed by humiliating them during break. Yeah. I’m not even gonna mention what they had to cause it’s so stupid. It’s amazing how simple things can scar you for life. Like, now everyone’s gonna go like, “hey, I know you, you were that dude lalala, man that was embarrassing! Sucks to be you.” Mightily humiliating, truth be told.
So yeah. What made it worse for them (you should’ve known by now that I wasn’t included, which my teacher regretted. I don’t know what’s with him but he said he was quite surprised I wasn’t along with the others.
“Chelsea, I don’t know how you passed. I expected to see you there.”
“Pfft. Yeah well, I’m over here.
“I wanted to see you here so I can laugh at/embarrass you (his life long ambition, really).”
“Yeah well now I’m laughing at you.”
And at this pointed I went all Bart Simpson-like and laughed my ass off at him.) was that the seniors actually laughed at them as they did the punishment. Major ouch. Well that’s what you get for not trying hard enough. Can we be blamed though? We don’t need all that bullshit when we get into college and setoff for life. I mean what the hell? Can’t they teach something that is actually USEFUL for once?! All this is for the sake of marks and I don’t even think they care about our education. I remember our head disciplinarian once say he only cared about us getting a good future, because apparently WE are the future, and that if we screw ours up, it’ll screw HIS CHILDREN’S up. Talk about self-centered. Really. That guy has issues. He even admitted that the some, I said SOME teachers there don’t give a damn about our education.
Labels: deep stuff, people, school
Somehow everything's gonna fall
Right in to place
If we only had a way
To make it all fall faster everyday
If only time flew like a dove
God make it fly
Faster than I'm falling in love
This time we're not givin up
Let's make it last forever
Screamin’ Hallelujah
We'll make it last forever
Holding on to patience wearing thin
I can't force these eyes to see the end
If only time flew like a dove
We could watch it fly
And just keep lookin up
This time we're not givin up
Let's make it last forever
Screamin’ Hallelujah
We'll make it last forever
And we've got time
On our hands
And we've got
Got nothing but time on our hands
Got nothing but
Got nothing but
Got nothing but time on our hands
This time we're not givin up
Let's make it last forever
Screamin’ Hallelujah
Hallelujah.
Labels: deep stuff, lyrics, music, personal things
Butterflies. Like I said, they’ve taken over my gut for the past few weeks now. Honestly.
We had a blackout yesterday, yepp. Almost the whole country did. Everything went off at around 4 and damn, was it hot. Eeesh. I DON’T LIKE BLACKOUTS. It’s just…HOT. Plus my phone ran out of battery. I ended up watching Poseidon on my dad’s laptop outside in the middle of the garage since the wind was blowing. Until the laptop ran out of battery. Haha. Ohh well. At least we didn’t have to stay in the house that night and wait for the lights to get back on. My parents had to go somewhere that night and I grabbed all my battery chargers and charged everything over there. HAHA yeah.
Then I kept asking God to bring the lights back on. Eventually he did, at around 10. But you know, I noticed the stars were awesomely bright last night, honest. I was just speechless to see the beauty of the sky, it was so…wow. Just wow. You should go see the stars for yourself some time you know, and I bet God gave us that blackout just so that we could appreciate the awesome beauty of the sky. Seriously.
Anyway, can you believe it? It’s Monday again. SO FAST o_o Don’t you think time goes by wayyyyyy too fast sometimes? I know I do. It’s uncanny. Gosh. But yeah, my stomach’s got butterflies in it right now. Me and Aikks had this bet and yeah if I lose I’ve got to pay her 10 bucks. Azim wants in too. It’s too easy, I am SO not gonna lose 10 bucks. I don’t even have 10 bucks which means I CAN’T lose.
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Cocky, I can be. Okay, so I tend to be a little wee bit nasty when it comes to comebacks. MY BAD. Honestly, you don’t have to get so worked up about it you know, everything I said; I WAS KIDDING, don’t you get it? And please, you don’t have to take it too damn seriously, dude, I thought we were just kidding around. And there you go, accusing me of ‘taking it too seriously’ but who’s pissed at who now?
Can’t we just talk about it? Cause you can’t keep walking away from me for ever.
Labels: deep stuff, school
WHO COULD DENY THESE BUTERFLIES?
THEY’RE FILLING MY GUT.
That’s what you get when you let your heart win.
So just stay where I can see you.
Please don’t mind what I’m trying to say, cause I, I’m being honest.
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One of the many bloody awesome songs of Boys Like Girls. It’s called On Top of the World and the lyrics are beautiful and, and-- I can’t exactly find the words to explain. It’s really good, that’s all I can say. Beautiful song right there. I've always imagined the top of the world to be me and someone on the top of a Ferris Wheel, with front seat view of the city skylines && fireworks and this song playing. Ohh, the beauty.
“..Look up, the stars are fading
And I am still here waiting
To see you again
Be with you my friend
When the moon is gone forever
I hope you're up there somewhere
I'll see you again
Be with you my friend
'Cause all the roads they lead to where you are
And all the streetlights shine like they were stars
That's where you are
Let's spend tonight on top of the world
And we can do anything,
We can be anything
I'll meet you tonight on top of the world
As real as it seems,
You're only in my dreams.
Look out across the water
Faces of lonely daughters and mothers who care
But just can't be there
Swear that I will see you someday
I have to find a way
To show you I care
Even if you're not there
So I'm following the road to where you are
The streetlights they will guide me to the stars
That's where you are
My heart is empty without you
Sometimes you don't know what you do
And I need you tonight
I'll fall asleep and it's alright
Close my eyes and I'll be by your side
Let's spend tonight on top of the world
As real as it seems,
You're only in my dreams.”
If you wanna check out the real thing click this. It’s the acoustic though, but still as awesome if not better.
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