I remember when I was a kid, I saw MJ’s mtv on the tv. I can’t help but thinking that he’s a girl. He looked and sounded so much like a girl in the music video “childhood.” Well, I was too young to differentiate. What do you expect from a 4-5 years old?
What else do I remember?
I remember tape-recording the concert tour Michael Jackson had in Malaysia, that was back in the 90s. I tape-recorded it, it was on ntv7 and ntv7 was just hatched from its shell. Plus the motion was blurred due to aerial system. I watched it repeatedly for days and weeks, I never stopped watching it until the tape was spoilt when the flood occurred. Few years later, the show “Ghost” was aired, it’s produced by MJ himself. Again, I tape-recorded it. That’s one of the superb videos ever created. Although it’s a scary show, it didn’t matter because I know the “ghost” is MJ.
It was just about a month ago when it was still our semester break, my younger sister asked me to dance along with her. I said to what song? “Thriller” she said. It was a tutorial dance steps and I managed to follow some of the steps. It was fun. Even mom said “dance during erchey’s wedding” and I hesitated because it’ll be awkward. Now my heart tells me to follow what mom said. I’m still considering. [lol]
He’s an awesome lyricist/singer/dancer/performer/producer/ you name it. I’ve never met him before nor been to his concerts. But as a fan of his, I felt terribly sad when I heard about his death. It sounded like a joke yet it was real. I can’t stop myself from not accepting the fact that he’s gone. I heard the news from Shan. I was in shocked and I didn’t believe her. So she said “listen to radio now, everyone’s talking about him” but I told her “I was listening throughout the journey to school but no, I didn’t hear about it.” I’ve this habit of switching radio station just to look for nice songs to listen to, no wonder I didn’t get to hear about the tragic news.
Luckily our tutorial lesson was all about the Internet. Therefore all of us get to browse the net and so I google-searched him, I read news about him. On my way home, I listened to the radio and this time I didn’t switch the stations since every they played MJ’s songs as a tribute to him. Along came the song “You Are Not Alone” and I can’t believe that I teared while listening to this. [didn't see that one coming.]
I got home, I watched CNN/BBC for hours to see how other people feel about the incident. Some are celebrating, some are mourning. He died of cardiac arrest. Question is how or what causes the cardiac arrest? Some said he injected drugs into his body, a suicide case. Which is true? The autopsy report will be out either tonight or tomorrow morning. I just hope that he didn’t suicide.
This legendary icon “King of Pop” will always be in our hearts. We love you and we will miss you, Michael Jackson. May you rest in peace.
June 25 2009
