Michael Jackson’s body finally buried

Exactly 10 weeks after his shocking death at the age of 50, Michael Jackson was finally laid to rest Thursday evening at a highly guarded mausoleum in a Los Angeles suburb.
The service had been scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. at Glendale’s Forest Lawn Memorial Park but didn’t actually start until about an hour later than planned.
The coffin was covered in white lilies and roses and topped with a crown. Insiders say the King of Pop’s three children each wrote special notes to be slipped into their father’s casket.
The 90-minute ceremony was attended by both Michael’s family and his famous friends including Elizabeth Taylor, Lisa Marie Presley, Macaulay Culkin, Quincy Jones and many others.
Jackson’s brothers and his two sons all wore black suits and red ties and sported purple arm bands embroidered with gold crowns as they filled the front rows. According to the L.A. Times, his young daughter Paris wore a dark dress as she watched soberly.
Gladys Knight sang at ceremony, while civil rights campaigner Reverend Al Sharpton spoke, reports BBC News.
After the service, the family released a statement, saying, “The Jackson family wishes to once again thank all of Michael’s fans around the world for their generous outpouring of support during this terribly difficult time.

Michael Jackson finally laid to rest

Michael Jackson has reportedly been laid to rest at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills.
No fans were present and only his family attended the final farewell. His body may even be moved for security reasons, the Daily Mirror reported.
“Michael has already been laid to rest, but other than the Jackson family and the management at Forest Lawn, no one knows the exact spot,” the British tabloid quoted a source as saying.
“Staff at the cemetery have been fed several locations; it’s as if they are hoping to confuse everyone so it can’t leak out.
“The fear is that thousands of Jackson fans will descend on the cemetery and create a security issue or maybe even damage or deface the grave.”
According to Britain’s Daily Star, MJ is believed to have been buried in a mausoleum owned by his close friend, Motown mogul Berry Gordy on Thursday— just hours after his brain was reunited with his body following weeks of examinations by doctors attempting to determine the cause of death.
The late King of Pop was interred without a service, as his family were believed to be contented with the ritual held on the morning of his huge memorial concert in L.A.

Barack Obama Joker Poster

The hatred for US President Barack Obama keeps on coming.

After becoming a victim of a Google bomb for the search phrase “worst failure ever” two weeks ago, Obama joker posters have appeared all over Los Angeles and Atlanta depicting Obama as Heath Ledger’s Joker character from the movie “The Dark Knight”. The caption “socialism” appears beneath each poster.

No person or group has claimed responsible for the Obama socialism posters yet although I wonder why they juxtaposed the term socialism with the Joker. His critics can maybe attribute to Obama as being a socialist but not to the Joker. The Joker simply conforms to anarchy; a state of lawlessness and disorder.They should use a different image next time.

Philippine ex-leader Cory Aquino dies

Former Philippine leader Corazon Aquino, Asia's first female president, has died at the age of 76.

orazon Aquino had been suffering from colon cancer for more than a year

She had been suffering from colon cancer for more than a year and recently refused further treatment.
Her family had said she was leaving her fate to God, prompting church services offering prayers for her health.
National mourning has been declared for Mrs Aquino who became president when the 1986 "people power" uprising deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Hundreds of people have been visiting her home and the EDSA shrine where her 1986 revolution culminated, leaving flowers and lighting candles. Many tied symbolic yellow ribbons to their cars, and on trees near her home.
Mrs Aquino's body will lie in state at the De La Salle Catholic school in Manila from Saturday evening to Monday morning.

She will be buried beside her husband at the Manila Memorial Park in a private ceremony on Wednesday, her son said.

Coup attempts
"Our mother peacefully passed away at 0318 [1918 GMT Friday] of cardio-respiratory arrest," the son, Senator Benigno Aquino Jr, told the media.

"She would have wanted us to thank each and every one of you for all the prayers and the continuous love and support," he said.
"It was her wish for all of us to pray for one another and for the country."
Mrs Aquino, who was known as Tita (Aunty) Cory, had been admitted to hospital about a month ago suffering from a loss of appetite related to her condition.
A series of daily masses were held to pray for Mrs Aquino's health, at least one of which was attended by her former political rivals, President Joseph "Erap" Estrada and former first lady Imelda Marcos.

Catapulted to the top

Mrs Aquino was catapulted into politics following the murder of her husband, the prominent Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, who had been preparing to run for president.
He had already spent seven years in prison following President Marcos's declaration of martial law, with his wife as his only contact with the outside world.
Mrs Aquino said of her husband's death: "What is more important is that he did not die in vain and that his sacrifice, certainly, awakened the Filipino people from their apathy and indifference."
After winning the presidential elections in 1986, she went on to run a country deeply divided after years of martial law and communist insurgency.
She battled several coup attempts against her rule, protected the country's fledgling democracy and freed political prisoners.
In recent years, she campaigned against former President Estrada, but then reconciled with him to join protests against incumbent President Gloria Arroyo over allegations of vote-rigging and corruption.
She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 and later received several awards and citations for her work to promote democracy and human rights.

The Black Funeral of Michael Jackson

The Nation -- Funerals tell us more about the living than the dead. It's why anthropologists often begin with rituals of death as an entry point for understanding societies and cultures.
I remember watching the funeral of Princess Diana. It was a perfectly British event: the poignant, silent march of her children, the bells tolling at Westminster Abbey, the red coat pallbearers. But I remember being taken aback as the car carrying Diana's casket drove through the streets of London. I was surprised because at that moment the mourners began to applaud.
They'd stood for hours lining the streets and as the casket passed they needed to grieve collectively and publicly. Stiff-upper lip British culture does not have a mechanism for such public grieving. There is no piercing death wail, no garment rending, no ceremonial dance, so instead the British applauded. Those applause revealed the missing place in English life for public mourning.
The death and remembrance of Michael Jackson has been an interesting window into American culture, its relentless cable news cycle, and the overwhelming but false sense of intimacy our celebrity culture engenders. But for me it was the peek into African American culture that was most intriguing.
Within a week of Jackson's death I watched the avatars on my twitter feed turn from Iran-solidarity green to iconic photographs of Michael Jackson. But the photos were exclusively of "black" Michael Jackson: some from his childhood, some from the Off The Wall era, and many from the Thriller era. Few of my African American tweeps were visually remembering the Michael Jackson of the past decade with diminished features and whitened skin.
Memorializing Jackson included selective collective memory that allowed African Americans to see him as belonging especially, if not exclusively, to black folks.
Some African Americans were incensed by the misogynist, racially stereotypical B.E.T. Awards that gave the first public tribute to Jackson. Many have been critical of B.E.T as a network for more than a decade, and the tribute to Jackson renewed that those criticisms. The contrast of Michael Jackson with Soulja Boy felt particularly stark, regressive, and embarrassing.
Memorializing Michael Jackson renewed critical conversation about the direction of black music.
Jackson's passing inspired memorials that reflected local cultures, my favorite was the Second Line in New Orleans, but it was the massive funeral in Los Angeles on Tuesday that was most revealing. Michael Jackson was an international music icon and his memorial was covered on mainstream media, but it was black tradition most fully on display Tuesday.
African American death rituals have long been celebratory as well as mournful. As a marginal people whose collective identity is rooted in struggle, death is celebrated as a release from pain, inequality, and torment. As a deeply religious people, death is celebrated as an opportunity for reunion with God. As a people who were often denied dignity in life, the dignity of a proper homegoing is a critically important sign of respect. Along with these celebratory aspects of funerals, death rituals among African Americans are marked by loud, deep, displays of emotion and public grieving that mark the sense of loss experienced by the whole community.
All of these aspects of black life were on display Tuesday. And it tells us more about us than about Jackson himself. Jackson's radical surgical choices largely eliminated his black phenotype. Jackson's romantic choices did not include black women. His wealth and eccentricities set him apart from most black people. In the final years of his life his music was much more popular in European and Asian countries than among black American listeners. But in death black folks embraced Jackson.
Memorializing Jackson reminds me that death is still a segregated business in America. Funeral homes still anchor black neighborhoods and are a central path of black entrepreneurship. Though he may have transcended or "escaped" blackness in life, Jackson was rendered fully black in death. And that says much more about us than about him.

Only You (Philippine Version)

Only You is an upcoming Philippine remake of the Korean drama of the same title aired by SBS (South Korea) in 2005. It stars the Hottest Property of ABS-CBN, Ms. Angel Locsin on the lead role, along with Sam Milby and Diether Ocampo, under the direction of Rory Quintos. It will air this April 27, 2009 replacing I Love Betty La Fea on ABS-CBN Primetime.

CAST

Sam Milby as TJ (Han Yi Joon)

Angel Locsin as Jillian (Cha Eun Jae)

Diether Ocampo as Jonathan (Jung Hyun Sung)

can't believe I'm gonna say this... But... Here it goes... I can't wait for this remake... I am kinda against remake but this one, really is an exception...Trailer alone, gives me goosebumps.I think that Angel was perfect for this part and finally I'm going to see her as a human being... LOLNo More SuperHuman Power, just the power of taste.And Surprisingly, Diether and Angel actually have a great chemistry... Hope this remake surpassed my expectation, which is currently high.Up for Angel, Up for Only YouOnly You, April 27 only on ABS CBN

F4 Fans Compare The China and Korean Versions of ‘Boys Over Flowers’

It was revealed on China portal site sina.com the uniforms that the main characters to China’s version of ‘Boys Over Flowers‘ and it has received various kinds of response from the Korean netizens.There has been great interests in comparing the Japanese, Taiwanese and the Korean version of ‘Boys Over Flowers‘ so far. The comparisons were in terms of the appearance of the main characters, their acting and fashion.As can be seen, it is the checkered style for the uniform fashion of the China’s version. And they also uses red colour for their ties.The responses from netizens were mixed, “It absolutely cannot be compared to that of the Korean version”, “This looks like Korea in the 1970-80s” and “But still the female uniform looks nice on the female lead”.The main cast to the China’s version of ‘Boys Over Flowers‘ were Jang Han (Goo Joon Pyo, Jang Han), Hwi Hao Ming (Yoon Ji Hoo, Yoo Ho Myung), Joo Tze Sao (So Yi Jung, Joo Jae Ho) and Wei Yi Cheon (Sung Woo Bin, Hwi Shin).

China’s ‘Goo Joon Pyo’

China’s ‘Yoon Ji Hoo’

China’s ‘So Yi Jung’

China’s ‘Sung Woo Bin’

China’s ‘Geum JanDi’

China’s F4

Korea’s F4

A comparison of manga-Taiwan-Japanese-Korean-China versions of ‘Boys Over Flowers’

Who do you think got the best group?

2009 MTV Movie Awards: And the winners are…

Twilight, the popular vampire drama based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Stephenie Meyer, took a big bite out of Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards, winning best movie, best fight, best kiss, best female performance and breakthrough male performance.
Following is a complete list of winners at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, which were held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City.
Best Villain: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
Breakthrough Performance Female: Ashley Tisdale, “High School Musical 3: Senior Year”
Best Fight: Robert Pattinson vs. Cam Gigandet, “Twilight”
Breakthrough Performance Male: Robert Pattinson, “Twilight”
Best Male Performance: Zac Efron, “High School Musical 3: Senior Year”
Best Kiss: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, “Twilight”
Best WTF Moment: Amy Poehler for Peeing in the Sink in “Baby Mama”
Best Song from a Movie: “The Climb” by Miley Cyrus, “Hannah Montana: The Movie”
Generation Award Winner: Ben Stiller
Best Female Performance: Kristen Stewart, “Twilight”
Best Comedic Performance: Jim Carrey, “Yes Man”
Best Movie: “Twilight”