It was quite an awful day to start. Went to office and was just checking my email when I saw this news in one of the email items. At first I couldn’t believe it, then I followed the story and it was everywhere, yes, it’s true, he is no more. I called up a few friends and most of them were yeah surprised a little but not depressed and gloomy like I was.

It was the year 1984 my Abbu brought home this thriller video. We sat down and watched it through. As a kid I was frightened a little but I absolutely fell in love with the song and this where I first heard his name, Michael Jackson. I asked my mom, if I could get the jacket he’s wearing in the thriller song with an M embossed right on shoulder (if I remember correctly). Then I remember watching the Billi Jean, what superb number, totally took me away, the dance, that moon walking was so unreal and so exciting. I tried to do that a lot, unsuccessfully though while at home.

Then time passed by, I connected to his music again when Dangerous was released. The black and white, do you remember and all the numbers were just so great, oh i forgot the song I most admired was GIVE IN TO ME … wow what a number.

Michael Jackson was THE pop star. Everything he did, the videos he made, the way he performed was all out of this world, and I know I really can’t justify his art with my words. For me, he was my childhood, my first pop star. At one point, we also made a website called MJ Mania as a tribute to the legend. I tried to get to that site today but for some reason it was not there. I will hopefully put up the link soon.

I know a lot of people just love to talk about the controversial side of his life. I really don’t care much. I mean we should just stop judging people and take them as they are. I have reasons to believe, he was a good guy, supporting more than 29 charities at one point.

Well, thought my heart is all heavy and depressed, and I can keep on writing about him, but I guess all I am trying is to give back a little to him, for all the everlasting entertainment and music that he made for us.

Long live Michael.