Long live the King of Pop

"You are not alone, I am here with you, Though we're far apart, You're always in my heart, You are not alone."

When I first read Ate Camille's plurk that Jackson was dead... I thought, "Wait. Jackson who? Michael Jackson?" At first I couldn't believe it. But then when I checked some sites through Google search, it is has been confirmed. The King of Pop passed away because of cardiac arrest.

I couldn't get over the fact that he's died already. Everything was so sudden. And to think that he had a following concert! In Europe, I think?

I feel so depressed. And I'm sure the whole world's with me. With every song in his album, people from all over connected with him. I've been a big fan ever since I was a kid. Favorite songs have to be Man in the Mirror, Smooth Criminal, Scream and You are not Alone.

The world will miss him. May he rest in peace and all of his contributions to the world of music as a singer and as an individual live forever in our hearts and inspire people. Long live the King of Pop, Michael Jackson!

Of faces and sounds

Who can tell me who's the guy in the blue shirt? Hahahahahaha! Oo alam ko... Hindi kamukha ng taong nais kong iportray. Pero come on, make a wild guess! XD

I've been practicing drawing these past few days. I'm trying to experiment with other various styles of drawing and coloring. Besides drawing I've been playing the piano more often too! When I was a kid, I've always wanted to learn to play the piano because of all the musical instruments in existence, the piano, for me, makes the most beautiful sounds. And I love listening to classical music. But since I'm such a lazy kid back then and my studies were my first priority, I didn't get to learn.

However, last April, when Julie and Levi went here to sleep over, Julie saw our piano and played lots of great pieces! I got inspired again so she taught me how to play the intro of Yiruma's River Flows in You. Since then, I've been searching tutorials in Youtube to teach me some of the songs I've been dying to play in the piano. So far, I can play the intro of A Thousand Miles, Boston and How to Save a Life. But I'm still trying to practice ATM because it's so fast. haha Thank you Julie for inspiring me once again! Haha

On my way

Brother Bear aired again on Disney last Saturday. Since I still had a hangover, I decided to draw a fan art! Here's Kenai as a bear and the spirit of the eagle is his brother Sitka. This drawing is about living a new life in new shoes, well in Kenai's case, in paws! While I did this fan art, I played Phil Collins' On my Way and Look Through my Eyes in my iPod in loop! It inspired me more and gave me the right atmosphere to work because those songs hold inspirational messages. :D

Last Saturday I watched Brother Bear again in Disney Channel and I couldn't help but cry when Kenai realized that the bear he killed in the start of the movie was Koda's mom. I always cry in these kinds of parts! But I have no problem with that because I want to feel the message being brought by the movie, you know what I mean? Disney movies always leave a big impact on me. Like Hatching Pete, which was aired yesterday night. (Wait, lookie here. I just turned on the TV and it's airing now. HAHA)

It's about stepping out from your comfort zone, taking a deep breath and plunging into the great depths of the ocean below. It's about taking a risk, an opportunity that might never appear before you again. 

But in time you will know that nothing will ever come to you when you don't take chances and don't accept changes. Pete Ivey had a choice when the whole school wanted him to take the mascot off. What did he choose? He chose to take it off, take the burden of not being confident enough off. A chicken is not meant to stay in the quarters of its shell but to hatch from it and live a life. To be known. To be loved. And the outcome? People cheered for him, for Pete. And that made all the difference!

The impact brought by this movie to me was that I became more confident with what I want to achieve in life even though it seems impossible to happen. And it made my image on myself healthier and wiser. 

Man, I love Disney movies. :D