We Are the World – How It Started

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I was still a little girl during the time when “We are the world” song was released. The initial intention was to raise funds to help famine-relief efforts in Ethiopia which had experienced unusual drought and political instability in 1984 and 1985. This song raised over US$63 million during that time.

The song is written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. It was produced and conducted by Quincy Jones and recorded by a group of 45 popular musicians, singers and other celebrities.

Imagine the recording of this song happened that night after the American Music Award at the A&M Studios in Hollywood, California. The artist arrived looking exactly like they were during the Awards night from limousines, shining car grills one by one arriving in a studio. And the rest is history.

Farrah Fawcett: One Less Angel

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Apart from Michael Jackson, I am also sad about the passing away of Farrah Fawcett. Looking back as a kid, our household was a regular viewer of the original cast of Charlie’s Angels. Charlie’s Angels were the standard of beauty back in the 70s.

The other members were Jacklyn Smith and Kate Jackson. There was a time that it was difficult for us to accept that Farrah had to be replaced by Cheryl Ladd. She’s such a darling to many people and I am sure she will be sorely missed.

Michael Jackson: Reason of death

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My husband and I were talking about having PS3 price canvassing since he wanted to have a PS3 instead as video player if we wanted to buy a DVD or blueray player. Suddenly, he saw on TV the news about the death of the King of Pop Music.

The world was really shocked about the reported heart attack and death of Michael Jackson after a coma since it was only a few days prior to his up coming concert in London. Although the autopsy report is not yet published, people are still in doubt on what the reason really is for his death. Hopefully this autopsy will be released soon and will answer millions of fans.

Michael Jackson: Gone too Soon

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The world’s music industry is certainly feeling the loss of a legend with the untimely death of Michael Jackson at 50 on June 26 (Manila time). I literally grew up with his beautiful songs starting with Happy, Ben, She’s out of My Life, I just Can’t Stop Loving You down to Gone Too Soon. In fact, I would always sing his One Day in Your Life whenever I’d go to Videoke bars. Yes, you may count me in countless fans of Michael.

Pussycat Dolls and Super Packman In a Movie

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After the successful concert of Pussycat Dolls here in the Philippines, there are rumors in the entertainment industry about the plan of Solar Entertainment to tap the Filipino- Russian-Hawaiian-what-else-can-we-call-her lead singer Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger whose father is a Filipino and her mother was a Russian/Hawaiian. She will be partnered with the world’s number one pound for pound boxer and the “people’s champ” Manny “Pacman” Paquiao in a movie.

According to some reports, the movie is about super heroes. So whatever it will be, let’s just hope it will push through and that it has a mighty good story. Both deserve a film as great as they are and not just to have them work on treadmills and exercises during the movie so that this would be a box office hit.

Belgian Chocolates

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A week after our visit to Belgium, someone advised me to take diet pill with all the Belgian chocolates I have eaten. As we all know Belgium is very famous for their chocolates. We visited a place in Brussels where there is a long street full of stores dedicated to selling chocolates. You can even have try them for free before buying.

From a bargain set of chocolates like Guylian to the more expensive brands including the popular Leonidas and Godiva, my bag runs over full of them before we got back home.

Star in a Million Winners

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I wonder where are the other ABS-CBN Star in a Million Contest winners right now. Only Eric Santos seemed lucky that he was given a chance and also the season four winner Kris Lawrense to really shine compared to those other seasons’ winners. Although we could see Frenchie Dee. For me there is no need for a fat burner review since she could carry herself well as could be seen in one of ABS-CBN’s show Singing bee. We could not see or hear season three winner Jerome Sala.

Although some of the runners up were also given a chance like Sheryn Regis 2nd runner up of 1st season, Christian Bautista, one of the top contenders of the season, OJ Mariano , 2nd Runner Up of second season, Nikki Bacolod 2nd runner up of the third season who eventually became an actress.

They were also like of those winners from American Idol who did not really make it that much in show business.