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nessie | :( on Jun 27, 2009 @ 05:23 am
I grew up on a very isolated island musically, and most music we got was either reggae, british pop, or Michael Jackson. Other than Madonna, he was the only popular American singer I knew of. We didn't really get all his music down there, but I knew he existed, that's how big he was.
The day Diana died I was at home getting ready for the beach. The minute I heard I tried to call my best friend, because she had a royal family obsession, with Di in particular, but she had gone to church, and I remember just feeling horrible for her, and me trying to get through to her to break it to her. It was the first time I think I actually sat down and watched news for hours.
On 9/11 I was in my second year at university, and in a class called Holy/Unholy Books. We were reading some Buddhist texts. The point of the class was to read some sacred literature, and then read a piece of transgressive literature that grew out of that book. We were set to read the Koran in a few weeks, and The Satanic Verses. When I saw everyone standing around after class in the UCC staring at the TVs I stopped too. I thought it was a joke at first, and then I thought it was an accident. I actually didn't know what the twin towers were until they fell, having grown up so far away, and most third world countries have a love/hate attitude towards America, so i was torn, but so many innocent people...our class actually used the events to center our lectures - we approached the event each week from the perspective of a different Holy book, and it was really interesting. I think it really helped us to deal with it, because we talked about it, and began to understand other reactions around the world. I will never foget it.
I have no idea when MJ died, because I still don't know when he really died - I always get this sort of news a week late or so (I took me a week to learn that Saddam had been captured). But i figured something had happened when people started sending me Utube links of him, and everyone was suddenly posting stuff on him online. My fiance shouted at me from his computer that he had died (read it in The Standard, belgian newspaper, so it had to be true!) I read it oficially in the papers yesterday over lunch. | | Reply | | 
misschickie | where I was on Jun 28, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
Diana - I actually don't remember. I was still living in Winnipeg at the time, but aside from remembering how sad I was to hear about it, I don't recall how/where I found out.
9/11 - I was at Claims School in Kitchener - required training for my job as an insurance adjuster. During a break from classes we all went to watch. We all thought it was an accident and discussed how catastrophic this was for all insurers and how this would affect premiums in the class. When they started saying it was terrorism we watched some more, but essentially were told to go back to class and finish the session. Kind of cold, hey? We also realized that one of our biggest clients had a head office there so people knew colleagues trapped in the towers. When the gravity hit, everyone was really stunned/shocked.
Michael Jackson - I read it on the TTC platform as I was getting on the subway after an appointment immediately after it happened. The way it was reported it sounded like it was more of a rumour than reality. Poor guy. | | Reply | | 
agaphmou | mj on Jun 28, 2009 @ 05:12 pm
he was definitely a strange and mysterious person,god rest his soul.Cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack in that in cardiac arrest you just stop breathing and then your heart stops,whereas in a heart attack your coronary arteries aren't supplying enough blood for he heart ,so some heart tissue dies.I strongly believe this was due to a either a drug overdose,or a combination of painkillers.It's a shame | | Reply | | 
mizzrobin | my reaction on Jun 29, 2009 @ 01:06 pm
Funny you should mention that misschickie, my reaction to the news was that it probably was a rumour as well and not reality. It was only after a few more hours and then CNN jumping on board that I believed that it was truth. Sad.
Agaphmou is absolutely correct, cardiac arrest is entirely different from a heart attack and many times it is due to drugs etc. We shall see once the autopsy results come out... | | Reply | | 
sassy | Where I was... on Jun 30, 2009 @ 09:03 am
on 9/11 in my grade 10 family studies/social studies class. We were going to watch a Disney movie Snow White and then analyze it. As the teacher turned on the TV we saw the second place hitting the building, live. We thought it was a movie. The teacher said "ughh those third world countries" and put in Snow White. I knew I saw the towers so it couldn't have been a "third world country". What an idiotic statement to make to a class that is 80% Pakistani, Indian, Sudanese with me as the token white girl.
10 minutes later an announcement came on, detailing what has happened. School was dismissed.
on the day MJ <3 died: I was on Twitter and watching the news on TV. I saw Ryan Seacrest message in a confused state...I was glued to tv reports since. He was an icon. He was great. There will only ever be ONE MJ.
People should not diss him because of his skin. He did not bleach it, he had a desease where patches of skin slowly lose their colour. | | Reply | | 
becky | where was I when.... on Jun 30, 2009 @ 11:44 am
Diana died: I was actually on vacation at the time, and a few of my cousins came by saying "did you hear Princess Di died!" and I was like yea ok whatever (didn't beleive them), only of course to later learn that it was true :(
9/11: I remember this day clearly. I was in school between classes and was in the cafeteria where we also had an overhead projector that usually showed CNN or CBC. I walked into the cafe and turned my head towards the wall the projection was on just in time to see the first plane go into the first tower, and watch on in amazement as the second tower went in. Almost immediately they announced that it was a terrorist act, I ran to the payphone and called my dad telling him to turn on the TV and look. I agree with Nessie in that America really really hasn't established friendly relations with 3rd world countries in the past .... hopefully with Obama in office, he'll do something to change that.... but all those innocent people :( :( :( :( really really sad
Michael Jackson: I actually don't know how I saw it, I probably saw it on TTC or something but I don't remember... I remember all of a sudden googling MJ to see how he's doing and saw all these sites saying he died, and some sites saying that he's rumoured to have died. I txt'ed my friends and no one had even heard yet. We google'd some more, and.... it was just really sad when I learnt that he really did die. He's one of those personalities that was such a part of my childhood - I grew up in England so Michael J and Madonna were basically the only singers I knew too!! He's just one of those larger than life people you never expect to not be there... :( | | Reply | | 
mamaluv | oopsies! on Jul 01, 2009 @ 12:08 pm
Thanks Agaphmou and MizzRobin for catching my error (re: cardiac arrest vs. heart attack). "You learn something new everyday", right? I just did. Too bad it had to be like this. | | Reply | |
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