I noticed that Michael Jackson was in the trending topics section of Twitter and some of my friends tweeted about him. I couldn’t understand WHY they were doing this.. does he have a new song out, a scandal perhaps (LOL.. cause almost every artist you think who’ll be the last to get involved in that suddenly GETS into one), or did he do something silly relating to child molestation again?

And then I saw somebody put the RIP word next to his name.

WOAH.

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I think he died too early. REALLY REALLY EARLY. He could’ve done so much more with his life.. where was he during the last months? The last thing I’ve heard about him was that child molestation issue. Nothing recent about his music, or maybe a movie.. a new music video — nada. People really shouldn’t care that much about the molestation issue. I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT IT. I mean, for me, it’s not really a big deal. It’s not like he’s the only one who does that. Sure, it is bad. But whatever. People have sex with minors, isn’t that molestation too? And they don’t get the same legal punishment that he undergo when he molested those kids. People kill other people, worse case scenario is that they’re artists like him as well.

More issues and scandals surround people around the entertainment industry now, they don’t take it as a big deal. But apparently everybody thought what he did was a mortal sin. Geez, get over it. Don’t lie that you did not enjoy his music! His songs, what he did for a living, were good. Lyrics made sense, the message was there and clearly delivered.

I blame the media and people who were just making fun of him just for the heck of it. I feel bad for him at the same time because, to me, he let them get into him. He shouldn’t have ‘lied low’ but continued to make music instead. Look at the other artists who are trying to keep up with the times even if they’re starting to lose their glam — they still make it out somehow.

I remember making a MJ-related entry last year, Pop Lives, check it out. Most of what I have to say are already written there and I don’t see the need to repeat it anymore, it gets redundant that way.

Last night, I witnessed a couple of Michael Jackson related coincidences during my last class. It was during my Technical Drafting class from 6-9PM. The professor was discussing about ortographical drawings and he made an example of what he was talking about on the Batmobile. And then he mentioned that Michael Jackson owned one of those Batmobiles. I researched on that just now and it seems to be false information hahaha.

Next coincidence was during the demo of our prof for the next plate that is due next week. Out of the blue while he was doing a demo (concentrating and making lines on the drafting paper), my friend started doing the moonwalk (and then I loled.. in my mind, HEH) back and forth. Of course it was hilarious (to me), but I wanted to concentrate on the demo so I shrugged it off..

And then I got home, went online, slept late (again) and when I woke up .. POOF, MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD HEADLINING MY TWITTER AND TUMBLR DASHBOARDS.

This is truly devastating.. the only pop icon the world has is gone now. He shouldn’t have died now!! He has to come back to the Philippines, make a last concert tour (just like NIN is doing now) before deciding to end his life! I can’t bear to listen to more than 1 song from him right now.. I’ll only start tearing up. But I must share this one video right now. It’s “They Don’t Care About Us.”

Okay.. the video won’t let me embed it to a site, here’s the link instead haha.

When I used to watch this as a kid, I thought the whole video was shot in the Philippines! On some province.. like, er, Palawan? It ‘looked’ like it was Palawan (to me). You could say I was too dumb then, I think I was 10 or 12, or.. 8-9?

The video is interesting to me cause of the way how everybody worked together on this. Seems like the whole city was engaged on this activity and cooperated with each other as well. And uh, he looked hot in the video and also on the videos that followed that. Fuck off, k. HE WAS HOT.

In the Closet is good too, seeing it at a young age made me feel awkward.. both of them were damn steamy inside the closet. Ooh, didn’t know Naomi Campbell was the girl in the video until years later.

I agree with this guy’s comment on the video:

He’s not misunderstood, it’s just that the haters are making all the noise. Normal? people love the guy!

Man I wasn’t ready so such a news!

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY.

Back to “He should’ve come here in Manila before dying” part of my post up there, he did came here in 1996. Too bad I was young that time. I don’t remember seeing that on the news as well, tsk tsk tsk! According to this, the concert was held around Parañaque.. my god, that’s where I live!! :|

Now I really wish I have a time machine.

RIP, Michael Jackson. You are ultimately a legend and a rare gem to the entertainment industry and an inspiration to your fans for your music.

And now our term calendar is fucked up and we have no more 1 week’s worth of Term Break. I am still confused when we’re really going back to school. According to the website, school reopens on the 19th of June, but yesterday night the news announced that it’s on the 22nd. So which one do I believe? I want to believe the one from the news but the website still says on the 19th.

Meh, unexpected turn out of events. We’re delayed and late at the same time. I’m kinda happy because I have almost 2 weeks of free days but my pile of work is not going to finish itself so I still have to make time for it.

TO-DO List:
- 4 plates for technical drawing
- 2 plates for 2d animation
- 1 portrait one-light studio setup photography plate
- 3d sword for my 3d animation class
- start researching about my topic for web dev’t
- revise my storyline for vid production

Wow, didn’t realize I have a lot to do! Can I finish them in a week? So I can enjoy next week when I am done? I HOPE SO!! I don’t want to do things the last minute. Hurrah for the break, woohoo!

Though, it is depressing that we don’t have any Term Break anymore. First time I’ll have classes on my birthday. So much for plans to go out of the country.

Anyway.. I finished reading a book recently. Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife. Took me like 2 months to finish the book! Hahaha, I’m always a lazy reader at first but once I get to the interesting part (usually the middle part of the book) that’s the time when I can’t put off the book and read it faster.

The movie comes out this August and it’s really frustrating that there aren’t any 1) posters, 2) trailers and 3) anything to promote the movie at all. I only know of a couple of set photos floating around the internet and that’s it, nothing more.

I recommend the book! Yep, it’s a love story but really touching. I’m excited on how this will look like in the big screen! There are scenes in the book that I enjoyed and at the same time I’m curious how it will turn out. Please don’t disappoint me!!

Though, I am disappointed already because they removed a few ‘major’ characters. *sigh* Oh well, you can’t have everything.

Am I the only one who sees this as a The Notebook II movie?

School works are waiting, I have to go! See you around the WWW!

Yes, I needed help that time!

Nervous, yes. Hopefully I won’t breakdown in the middle of the term. Good thing I’m a person who does things in advance. *panics* Just need to think of an easy character.. *sigh*

I’ve yet to attend my Monday and Tuesday classes. I have Web Development, Video Production and 3D Animation classes for Monday and Tuesday. I don’t want to assume that I’m going to do well in Web Devt. subject just because I know a little bit about it, I know it’s always going to be hard. Just like in my Computer Graphics class before, I thought it’d be easy cause I know Photoshop blah blah blah, but its definitely hard.. harder than I expected. I’VE LEARNED MY LESSON. I’m going to walk in that class knowing NOTHING about web design, haha.

Concept Photography is my only class during Fridays.. I didn’t realize how hard this subject is until I actually attended that class. See, my friends took the subj earlier than me, and they’re always saying how it’s hard to conceptualize. Next meeting we have to shoot still life objects, and portraits too I think. Damn, I seriously need to get my photography mojo back. And one of our exams includes a shoot where you have to copy an ad. Say, a photo of a model, you have to do a shoot like that.

To make this short and sweet: JUNIOR YEAR WILL BE THE BUSIEST AND POSSIBLY THE TORTURE YEAR OF MY LIFE.

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As for the part of coming back to the gigs scene. I took a break from school and decided to go watch some bands the night after. Friday night I went to MOA with my brother to watch the MTV Exit event. MTV Exit is an event to raise awareness and increase prevention of human trafficking.

We only watched two bands, Pupil and Itchyworms. Watching Pupil again after 2 years gave me the push to go out and be active in watching live bands again. It’s going to be hard to catch up now cause school’s definitely going to be busy.. but I hope I can make it to their upcoming Hard Rock show! I really want to shoot bands again now that I’m using a DSLR, I’m more motivated.

BTW. I’m thinking of making this website Tumblr-powered. I have another ‘blog’, AE on Life, it’s basically the same as this one except it’s updated every day and I show a photo or two per post. It’s like a photo journal, but easier to manage. What I plan to do is, get rid of WP and replace it with Tumblr.

I’m not sure as of now.. the fact that I have more comments and more posts here (dating back to 2005) is holding me back from doing the big switch. It’s no biggie for me to manage 2 blogs.. but I thought I’d make things easier, for me.

If I did switch, it won’t be the same. I lose pages, comments and posts.. (but still have backup of it). I could put Disqus on the posts but it won’t be the same either.

*shrugs off*