A Tribute to Michael Jackson

MICHAEL Jackson was a child prodigy, a musical genius and remains one of the most idolised artists on earth.
The 50-year-old pop megastar was taken to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest at his LA home and died this morning.
Born on August 29, 1958, Jackson made his show business debut with four of his older brothers in the Jackson Five pop group, and went on to lead the stage clan with a piping soprano and dazzling dance moves.
By 1969, the group had signed a contract with Motown Records, becoming one of the last great acts to emerge from the legendary label.
The Jacksons produced seven platinum singles for Motown, selling over a million, and three multi-platinum albums, selling more than two million. They moved to CBS's Epic Records in 1976.
Despite the early success, Jackson was to recall those years as unhappy and lonely ones. Eventually the family act broke up, as Jackson went solo.
In 1979, Quincy Jones produced Jackson's first solo album for Epic, “Off the Wall”, a huge disco-oriented success that sold 10 million copies.
They teamed up again in 1982 for what would be Jackson's breakthrough album as a composer and co-producer, ”Thriller”, which became the top-selling album of all time, with sales exceeding 41 million.
”Thriller” was followed by ”Bad” in 1987 (20 million sold) and “Dangerous” in 1991 (21 million sold) with videos whose auto-erotic dance contrasted with Jackson's sweet, childlike personality offstage.
In 1994, he stunned the public by marrying Lisa Marie Presley, the 26-year-old daughter of Elvis Presley.
The marriage lasted less than two years and was a hot topic for the tabloids. However, the renewed interest in Jackson's love life did not spark interest in his music.
Jackson then married Debbie Rowe, a 37-year-old nurse he met while undergoing plastic surgery in 1997. They had two children, Prince Michael and Paris Michael Katherine, before divorcing in 1999.
Jackson had custody of the two children and of a third, Prince Michael II, born to an unknown woman, when in November 2002 he came under fierce public criticism for dangling his youngest child from a fourth-floor hotel balcony in Berlin for photographers.
(Article from News.com.au,26 June)

Michael will always be remembered as one of the greatest musician of all time...

Rising from the Ashes

I'm pretty convinced tht many of you guys grew up with TVB dramas, just like myself. And everyone would have got their own favourites.

Being a big fan of the TVB productions, i would like to pay tribute to one of my favourite actor, Wayne Lai(黎耀祥).I am sure most of us has seen him acting, but not many would remember his name, one reason being that his name is hard to pronounce let alone remember and another being that he might not be as attractive as other young and upcoming male actors...I think most of us might recognise him as the one who acted as "zhu bajie"(豬八戒) in the ever popular TVB classic "Journey to the West".
Not many would have realised that Wayne Lai has actually joined TVB for more than 20 years now, 26 years to be exact. Starting from being a office boy before turning into acting roles. Despite his fabulous acting skills which equipped with what a person might need to be a "first in the line" actor, he is hardly given any lead role in a drama until recent few years. Usually only the lead supporting actor of a drama.
What i really appreciate from Wayne is his act of professionalism and to always give his best in watever given role. With this,his even outshined main actors in many occasions.
All his hard work and patients has paid off when his awarded the "Best Supporting Actor" in the 2008 TVB Drama Award Ceremony. The drama that has won him the award is "The Gentle Crackdown II"(秀才愛上兵), starring as 戴從文. The recognition has also provided him with his first lead actor role in his latest drama "The Rosy Business"(巾幗梟雄 ) as 柴九."The Rosy Business", which showed during May in Hong Kong, is still leading the 2009 most watched drama chart in HK.

I hope he would keep up with his good work and continue to produce great dramas for fans like me. Got to sign off now:)