MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD

Pop icon Michael Jackson dead at 50
AFP - Friday, June 26
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - - Michael Jackson died on Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest, sending shockwaves sweeping across the world and tributes pouring in for the tortured music icon revered as the "King of Pop."
Jackson, 50, collapsed at his rented mansion in the exclusive Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills and was rushed to hospital by paramedics before being pronounced dead at 2:26 pm (2126 GMT).
Jackson, one of the most influential figures in pop music history whose four-decade career included the highest-selling album of all-time, "Thriller," had been preparing for a concert comeback in London next month he had dubbed "the final curtain."
News of Jackson's death triggered an outpouring of grief as shocked pop music superstars, foreign governments and devoted fans paid tribute to the troubled star who struggled to rebuild his career after a 2005 acquittal for child abuse.
Los Angeles County Coroner's spokesman Lieutenant Fred Corral said an autopsy would likely be carried out on Friday and would not speculate on the exact cause of death.
Jackson's brother Jermaine, the family's official spokesman, later revealed physicians had battled for more than an hour to revive the star after his arrival at the UCLA Medical Center before he was pronounced dead.
"Our family requests that the media please respect our privacy during this tough time," Jermaine Jackson said. "May Allah be with you, Michael, always."
As the sun began to sink over Los Angeles, a coroner's office helicopter bearing Jackson's body took off from the UCLA Medical Center, where hundreds of media and fans had gathered throughout the day.
Meanwhile police motorcycle riders surrounded Jackson's gated mansion as crowds of tourists and fans gathered, snapping photographs of the property's wrought iron gates.
Pop diva Madonna was among dozens of celebrities who struggled to cope. "I can't stop crying over the sad news," the singer said in a statement. "The world has lost one of the greats, but his music will live on forever!"
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband also posted his thoughts on micro-blogging site Twitter. "Never has one soared so high and yet dived so low. RIP Michael," Miliband wrote.
Lana Brown, a 49-year-old tourist from Dallas, broke down in tears as she digested the news. "Right today I can't believe we might have lost the best entertainer this world has ever seen," she told AFP.
Jackson's death came as the singer prepared to make a keenly anticipated concert comeback in London, his first series of shows in more than a decade and the first since his 2005 child molestation trial.
However those concerts were thrown into doubt after Jackson pushed back the opening dates last month, although organizers insisted the delay was not linked to Jackson's health.
Randy Phillips of concert backers AEG Live said at the time: "I would trade my body for his tomorrow. He's in fantastic shape."
But Jackson attorney and family spokesman Brian Oxman said he had harbored concerns over the singer's condition, revealing that he had taking prescription medication as he prepared for his comeback.
Oxman compared Jackson's fate to the overdose death of Playboy centerfold Anna-Nicole Smith, voicing concern over "enablers" in his entourage.
"The people who have surrounded him have been enabling him... if you think that the case of Anna-Nicole Smith was an abuse, it was nothing to what we have seen in Michael Jackson's life," Oxman told CNN.
"When you warn people that this is what's going to happen and then it happens -- where there's smoke there's fire."
While Jackson ruled the charts and dazzled audiences with electric dance moves like the backwards "moonwalk" in the 1980s, his once-stellar career was overshadowed by his colorful public behavior, his startling physical transformation and multiple allegations of child abuse.
Jackson lived as a virtual recluse following his 2005 acquittal on charges including child molestation and plotting to kidnap his young accuser.
Despite his acquittal, the trial was a body blow from which the pop music superstar, who named his ranch for Peter Pan's "Neverland" of perpetual childhood and furnished it with Disney-inspired rides, struggled to recover.
Four years later, Jackson was still worshipped by fans for revolutionizing music, dance and music videos at the peak of his success.
The attention paid to him in recent years was less flattering, focusing on apparent cosmetic surgery -- which he denies -- his baby dangling antics and a decade of swirling child abuse allegations.
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.
Jones reacted with shock after being informed of Jackson's death Thursday.
"I'm absolutely devastated at this news," he said. "I just don't have the words. Divinity brought our souls together and allowed us to do what we could do through the '80s," Jones said.
"To this day that music is played in every corner of the world, and the reason is because he had it all -- talent, grace, and professionalism. I've lost my little brother today and part of my soul has gone with him."

I love his music and he has got this great personality. Very sad to hear about his death. His a Legend..Berysukur kerana dia telah menjadi seorang Muslim sebelum dia meninggalkan dunia ini. I remember when many years ago Princess Diana passed away I felt so devastated no is Michael. I grew up with his music.. I love you Michael may your soul rest in Peace. ALfatihah..

New Years Eve Pic

I love this pic of myself was taken last late last year during New Years Eve was having dinner with someone at that time.. It was a bit sexy the dress but when I walk into the restaurants everyone was looking at me and the funny part is my friend was approached by some people jus greeting us while we were sitting down having dinner. It was ok maybe they appreciate us.

Sad Days...

I was very upset for the past couple of months because I loose a deal that cost 15K well thats a lot of money you know for me atleast.. I was working very hard for it but in the end someone else took over its really pathetic.. And now didn't feel like doing anything at the moment. I prayed last night and reading surah yassin just want to be with God.. I have alot of commitment so that is why the deal really mean alot to me. But I understand bukan rezeki, my aunty came last weekend and I told her about it but she says "its ok don't give up mungkin bukan rezeki kita" so after hearing that I felt abit better. My luck was very good during the beginning of the year after that slowly it when downhill but alhamdulilah I still got my job. Few weeks ago my friend brought me to a shop that was selling all those stones like Jade etc, the owner a chinese was good at fortune telling so he look at my face and told me that I am facing a tough time now and that now one is helping me I have to go through it all alone but so he told me not to cover my forehead and get a hair cut. Well ofcozlah we can't believe so much on this sort of things especially a Muslim like me but just to take precautions.... But insyaallah give me another few weeks to get back into shape...

Sultan Selangor is out from ICU

Heard Sultan Of Selangor is out from is out from ICU syukur Alhamdullilah, semoga Tuanku akan kembali pulih dan kembali ke tanah air. I have been quite worried for the last couple of weaks. I met Tuanku many years ago together with YAM TEngku Sulaiman who has been my good friend for a very long time now. I even met Almarhum Baginda Tuanku Sultan Salahuddin long before when I was about 17 at that time I was working part time during my school holidays as a Public Relation in an exclusive restaurants. Almarhum Tuanku Sultan was a very humble person tak pernah memandang rendah pada sesiapa. He treats everyone the same I feel very thankfull coz able to meet Almarhum Tuanku inperson. The day when Tuanku mangkat I really feel very sad because I understand coz it was agreat lost to the country and the people.

Patik mendoa kan semoga Tuanku Sultan Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah akan cepat sembuh dan dipanjangkan umur baginda serta dilimpahi rahmat dari Allah SWT.

THE GUY FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND MY MUSLIM CONSUMER DIRECTORY

I used to worked as a Marketing Executive for a publishing company that was run by a well known Malay businessman here. The company publishes the First Muslim Consumer Directory and I am part of the team. When it first started my boss was only targeting on Muslim companies for advertising but later on I came out with an idea of inviting the non muslim's company to participate so as they can promote their items to the Muslim consumers and it really paid off. I realised that we are the one who started the marketing of the halal and Muslim product that is why we see many companies from the event management are following suits by having an exhibitions everywhere. Then later on after the launched of the directory my boss decided to look out for an investor, then I was thinking it might be a good thing so I proposed to my good friend Datuk Syed Yusof and eventually after a few meeting with my boss Datuk agreed to the idea. But later on I found out that my boss was asking way too much that I personally feel it is not worth because I know how much the whole operation cost so I told Datuk to back off from the deal because I don't want to be blame or be responsible if the company doesn't make any profit.

So after quiting I was offered a job with a good friend of mine Syed Ahmad he used to work for Utusan Malaysia but based in Singapore at that time. He open up a company call UMS Event so I was working as an Assistant Manager, my job was to look for sponsorship from big companies and during those days I was often been invited to some functions & Seminars and there is when I laid eyes on one of ex-politician he was a graduate from Harvard University and a very ambitious man, he was a shareholder of many listed companies. Very tall, smart, inte;;igent and I must say he got this great personality, he was looking at me the whole time and I kind of like him at one point but we didn't actually had any conversation until later on when I followed my boss to Kuala Lumpur to attend the opening of the new Utusan Office. My boss invited him to the opening and telling him that Tun Dr Mahathir at that time Tun was still Malaysian Prime minister will be the guest of honour. So I made a call to him and he was actually on his way home and was already in JB, when he heard that I was in KL he told my boss he will drink "RED BULL" to keep him awake and that very day itself he drove all the way back to KL.

So my boss and my other colleague making a joke out of it they said" tengok tu dia tahu you ada pat sini sanggup minum Red Bull and drive back all the way back" hahaha it was funny and I still remember that... So when he arrives he call to my room and we chatted on the phone for a very long time, he wanted to buy a Baju Kurung coz I was complaining that I had nothing to wear for the occassions. But then ofcoz I didn't buy any because it was already too late and all the shops are closed and I am the sort who doesn't like to be obligated to someone. So the next morning we went for the opening ceremony I followed my boss in one car and he drives his Merc from behind as he was driving back home after teh ceremony and he was asking me to tag along but ofcoz I couldn't as I got other things to do. So from then on he started calling me, fetching me from work etc. He is married of coz with two kids and he love his children very much. After the third date he asked me to marry him, I was shocked because I just knew him for couple of weeks mana boleh I kahwin dengan dia besides he is already married and I told him I am seeing someone at the moment which is true I am seeing someone but not to the extend of getting engage or married but I am seeing someone I told him. He refused to eccept my explaination probably coz of Ego biasalah lelaki maybe he think he is nothing to me as to compared with my other boyfriend. But I didn't think that way for me I am just not ready to get married at that time. He is nice a prefect man who have everything, loves reading and intelligent (this is what turns me on) but the only set back is that his married and saya tak suka merosak rumahtangga orang lain.

So we went out for few months until one day his wife started calling my office she ask me are you Sherry I said yes then she told me that she found my name on her husband's diary and her husband also wrote my birthday date, so I actually told her the truth and she was quite calm while listening to my side of story. But then later she started calling me again by then I refused to take her calls, her husband also called me saying that they both have been quarrelling for many days now and that he reminded me about his wife will come and look for me. He was nice coz he wanted to protect me in away because he knows I am not at fault as he was the one who in the first place started all these. Few times she called but I didn't want to answer her calls and my colleague Nassier was the one who answered all her phone calls , Nassier got scolded by his wife many times just because she can't get hold of me. Its been going for awhile almost all of my closed friend knows about it becos he was a prominent businessman here.

Then one day she called again I answered and we spoke for a very long time. I realised that she was quite a nice lady and she actually told me about her husband weakness in woman. And she told me that her husband kept denying about going out with me and she told me that her husband was blaming me for everything and she wanted to know the truth who actually started. She then wish to meet up with me in one of 5 star hotel Lobby Lounge I agreed, the day came I was sitting down waiting for her, she came and introduce herself. I wasnt afraid because i wasnt the one who started the affair it was her husband's who is so madly in love with me. But she was nice lady because as a woman maybe understands my situation she then told me that she had invited her husband for a drink with us but didn't tell him that I was also there.

About after 15 mins her husband arrived looking so stunned to see me there together with his wife, his wife asked him to confessed everything infront of me, and to her surprised he started to praised me instead and his wife got so mad and told me that was not what she heard from his mouth before. She then said " Betul Sherry he critizes you earlier on and now suddenly infront of you he says differently thing" . He told his wife not to get me involved I was not in the wrong, he told her I was the nicest girl he have ever met, itu yang membuat Isterinya lebih sakit hati. My heart melt after hearing the nice words that coming out from his mouth. His wife then told him " You don't love your children anymore is it? why are you doing this things to us" Well Its normal for a woman putting children into the pictures so that the man will feel guilty... I didn't want to prolong the conversation so I excused myself. later that evening he called me and says that his wife wants a divorced but I advice him to stick to his wife & sake forgiveness because as a woman I know how she feel. and i know I can't take him at that moment because I was engaged to someone at that time already but maybe if I am not engaged I would have considered accepting him as my future husband because he got this fatherly figure that i am looking for in a man.

After the whole ordeal was over his wife called me up & we went out to have lunch and she told me that her husband have said sorry and that things are getting back to normal. She also thanked me for telling her the truth because if not she would not have known her husband true colour. But stilll after a few month I split with my fiance for some reasons then again my phone rang and when I answered it was him, they both were having an argument again, tak habis habis!!. I heard his wife kept telling him to tell me off on the phone ( macam tak puas hati)when I know he never will. He then told me that his wife was not satisfied because he was all the time gentle and nice to me and that she can't take it. She really wanted him to scold me badly, and then my mother heard me talking on the phone with them, my mum just took the phone and told them off saying " stop disturbing my daughter another time you call my daughter i will take actions" after that I never heard from them ever again. I still have the small diamond ring that he gave me. I know in his heart he still have the liking in me because ever once I called him regarding about some business, he then told me that I have created a big scarr in his heart that would never heal ( drama mama!!) I was laughing because for me what ever happened before I will never take it to hard and tend to forget about it easily but ofcoz when I think back I still feel the same towards him. ...

Just few months ago I saw him taking the same lift as I am just near my office together with his business partners I was stunned to see him in the lift and so does he. He kept starring at me through the lift mirror even his business partners realised it because he didn't responds to them he just stands there starring... Well that was my story about this man I am not sure what he is doing now but he is such an intelligent man who study hard & work hard for his family.

Selangor Sultan to undergo open heart surgery

Selangor Sultan to undergo open heart surgery
By EDWARD RAJENDRA

SHAH ALAM: The Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah is scheduled to undergo open heart surgery at the Stanford University Medical Centre in Palo Alto, California.
The surgery would involve either the repair of a heart valve repair or a replacement for “mitral regurgitation,” depending on what the medical team decides when they begin the procedure.
Selangor State Secretary Datuk Ramli Mahmud said the valve surgery would be done under general anesthesia and would last for about five to six hours.
Mitral valve regurgitation surgery is recommended when a person’s ejection fraction -- a measurement of the heart’s efficiency -- drops below 60% and/ or the left ventricle is larger than 40mm at rest.
The ejection fraction can be used to estimate the function of the left ventricle, which pumps blood to the rest of the body.
Ramli said Sultan Sharafuddin, 63, will undergo the operation on Saturday. It would be carried out by two eminent medical professionals, Professor Dr Alan Yeung and Professor Dr Craig Miller.
Whether the surgery would involve repair or replacement would be the medical team’s call and would depend on the type of damage to the mitral valve, Ramli said.
Repair is more successful if there is limited damage to certain areas of the mitral valve flaps or to the tough fibres that control movement of the mitral valve leaflets. But replacement is usually preferred for people who have a hard, calcified mitral valve ring or widespread damage to the valve and surrounding tissue.
On Wednesday, Sultan Sharafuddin left for California from Singapore accompanied by his younger brother Tengku Indera Setia Selangor Tengku Ahmad Shah, Sime Darby Medical Centre Subang Jaya specialist doctor Datuk Dr Anuar Masduki, Datuk Pengelola Bijaya Diraja Selangor Datuk Zakaria Abd Rahman and Tan Sri Datuk Seri Syed Mohd Yusof Tun Syed Nasir, a Member of the Selangor Royal Assembly.
Private Secretary to the Sultan Datuk Mohamad Munir Bani said Sultan Sharafuddin has called upon Selangorians not to worry about his medical condition but to put it in prayer.
Ramli asked all places of worships to hold special prayers for Sultan Sharafuddin for a speedy recovery during his three-week recuperation period at the Stanford University Medical Centre.

I am feeling so sad when I read about this news. I hope everything will go well and my prayers goes to him at all times.
Sedih apabila mendapat tahu tentang keadaan Tuanku Sultan Selangor, semoga segalanya akan berjalan lancar dan saya akan mendoakan agar Tuanku akan cepat sembuh kerana ianya sangat bermakna.

HANDPHONES

I own one of these IPhone. Very convenient can actually download many things but the only setback is that you can't actually forward your smses. Talking about handphones I was one of the first few that used handphone when its first came out. My uncle until today kept mentioning it saying that 'Oh you are the first one who carries hadphone during those days" and he was proud of it!! hehehe...I remember having the bulky type of Motorola and its really heavy, before that we use to have this things call Pager, where people have to paged for you and get you to return call. The pager that I have was actually a Birthday present given by my good friend Mr Simon Lim at that time. I was so excited and he even include a special number for which end with 0388 which means "luck" in chinese I think... Then later when they started to introduce handphones and I actually paid S$2000 in those days by cash, well I didn't earned that much during those time but my ex-boyfriend was the one who bought it for me. And I remember while I was in a train I met one of my ex school mates Marini so while talking to her my cellphone actually rang and as I was digging my handbag to look for the handphone I could see the expression on her, she was staring at me and she was so surprised after knwoing that I actually owned a handphone. As in those days it was too expensive and no one can actually afford it except for businessman. Few days later one my the other friend called, telling me that Marini told her about seeing me carrying a handphone and she actually accused me of being a kept woman just because I owned a handphone isn't it crazy.!!

Now you can easily see almost anyone own a handphone some even have a few with different numbers it's so common now..