I was MJfied...

I would say that I was MJfied last night.
I grew up listening to pop music, but the other genre like alternative, blues, RNB, ballad, rock and many more guided me also every day.
I remember I was dying to listen to all the songs of Britney Spears, wow she’s a goddess to me. She sings very enthusiastic and kind of hippy. I like her songs “Sometimes” and “Overprotected”. Somehow, she came into my life and taught me with many lessons from her songs. Until now, I’m craving to see her in person. I remember, I said to my classmates that when she will be having her concert here, I will make an effort just to see her, that how Britney is in my life.
Michael Jackson… the king of Pop… the greatest entertainer in the whole world, who wouldn’t recognized him? His upbeat to low tempo music, to rocking and crazy song, to heartfelt and really touchy voice, he ruled me, honestly.
A friend of mine sent me a message on my cellular phone saying that MJ is dead. At first I did not give much attention to it, for I know this s just a rumour, another rumour like Britney who were found out dead on her crashed car, or Jolina Magdangal found dead on her room or Piolo died on his bathroom. So I ignored it. But later that night, when I switch the TV on and tuned to CNN for some news, I saw a crawler saying that Michael Jackson died on an overdosed. Well, I checked again the crawler I went near to the tv scree, I read it slowly, and yes, he is dead. I was stopped for maybe five seconds. I don’t know why. Who is Michael Jackson anyway? Did he helped me in my studies did he let my life the best ever? Well, these might not the role of him, but at least he meant something to me, I don’t know what it is.
Then I watched his memorial service at the Staples Center. Wow! He is a star even he is dead. I followed his coffin being driven to that center. So many fans were waiting for him. So many, as so many fans…
Then Mariah sang the famous “I’ll be there” I am starting to get goosebumps. It was a solemn opening from her, singing in front of MJ’s coffin.
What made my tears fallen was when Usher sang “Gone to Soon”. I said to myself, “Oh no, why I’m having this feeling?” and when he touched MJ’s coffin, I can’t help but crying.
I don’t know, right now I’m enjoying listening hard, metal, and alternative music, Disturbed’s “Down with the sickness”? c’mon! But still I was touched by him, maybe this is just an evidence that no matter who you are, what music you are listening to, no matter how hard you are, you can still be soften by him… and I would say, I was really MJfied...

TAYO MISMO?

To be honest, I just joined this "AKO MISMO" campaign, an idea developed to promote awareness and voting empowerment to everyone, especially to the youth.

But, as I was browsing the organization site, I noticed that there's only less than 230,000 members. This is not enough to win a presidentail candidate.

What I would like to say is that, is his enough to encourage he youth to exercise their right to suffrage or juts like the previous campaigns that its just fad, trying to disturbed the focus of the people on the current political status of the contry.

I also noticed that you can invite a friend or make comments to their posts (wall of commitments).

what do you think?

DO YOU HAVE ETHICS?

Ethics, as defined, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the rightness or wrongness of human act.

In our present situation, we encounter ethical issues. From the people we used to talk everyday, to the local news we saw on TV. From the radio announcers and even to ourselves. Evrythings ahs it, it has an ethical issue indeed.

In our class Media Ethics, we learned that even the most respected news organization in the country commits violations with regards to media ethics.

But, why we have to follow these words? Isn't it enough that we've delivered the information for the consumption of the public? Isn't it enough that we just did what we have to do as a journalist?

Well, my answer would be, no.

That's why we have this what we called ethics, we live to follow these, and breaking it is a mortal sin.

As we go further in our class, we keep on discovering ethical issues that even in the early days of journalism, these were already violated.

As one's says... "The Journalism (media) is the watchdog of the public."

We should be responsible in any information we deliver, we should not be basing on the legal guidelines, but we should also consider our ethics.