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Only hours after his death, much had been said already with the passing of one of the most popular pop icon in the music history.

But I’m wondering what’s with the number “5” on the life of Michael Jackson? I have read several articles from several websites that posted their own write-up about his untimely death this morning and it just struck me that the number 5 was repeatedly mentioned and I believe that this number has a very close relation to him.

First, Michael Jackson collapsed in the morning of June 25, 2009 at his rented home Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. He was then taken to the UCLA Medical Center by L.A. Fire Department paramedics, and was later officially confirmed dead due to cardiac arrest. He died at the age of 50.

He was born on August 29, 1958. His album “Thriller” was one of the best-selling albums of all time for an estimated 50 million copies worldwide. He just celebrated the 25^th anniversary of “Thriller” last February.

On March 25, 1983, he reached the peak of his success when he became most famous by his signature dance move, “the moonwalk” when he performed with the Jackson 5 on Motown 25^th anniversary.

He is the lead singer of the famous group Jackson 5 with the rest of his brothers.

He released the album “HIStory” in 1995 which sold more than 2.4 million copies.

In 2005, he was charged and tried for sexually abusing a 13-year old child, but he was later acquitted.

He was scheduled to perform 50 concerts and shows in London, starting on July 13, 2009 until March 6, 2010.

Now, isn’t it creepy or what or it’s just my inquisitive mind that is playing with me?

Well, aside from that, I will not delve anymore on any essential aspects of his memoirs except for what I already mentioned above. If you want to know more about the King of Pop, there are lots of articles now circulating in the Internet and you can simply pick one and you’ll know more about him than what you read in my simple post.

He is one of the most influential and beloved performer of our generation. Even if I’m not a big fan, I knew most of his hit songs, and I doubt that no one can say that he or she didn’t knew him. In fact, I can assure that everyone at least knew a song or two from this pop icon.

Even if he was flawed by the charges that were thrown upon him, his music touched many lives and his name will be remembered as one of most talented entertainers of all-time..

And the story of the bug goes.

There is nothing more to say than it’s more than meets the eye. No I’m not quoting this famous line from the “Transformers”. This is not an article for the blockbuster movie. I like it; actually, I really love this movie and not just the movie but the Transformers itself. It’s really fun reminiscing one’s childhood memories of toys and cartoons; and Transformers are my favorite. I do have a few Transformers toys myself. Now, my significant other is the only one who knows that I’m still craving to get another one. Maybe I haven’t grown old of these things.

I remembered Transformers because of Bumble Bee and because it will be showing right this date and because the name itself is for a bug and it’s about the bug that I wrote this article.

So much for the introduction, this is just about the wicked insect bites that I got on Father’s day night in Sunday. I was sleeping on a room that was just vacated and made sure that it was cleaned before I slept on it. And it’s what I thought.

I suddenly woke up scratching the hell up on my eyes, arms, chest, back and almost 80 percent of my body. I stand up to see in the mirror what happened and to my horror I could not recognize myself in the mirror! It seemed that I’m been stung by swarms of bees on my arms and body and my eyes were swollen and it engulfed half of my cheek like I’ve been into the boxing ring and losing to a world champion!

So to my rage, I tried to find the culprit in the room, and to my amazement, I only found a little black cockroach-like bug. The body is diamond-shaped and I saw it before. I didn’t see it fly but somewhat jumped sometimes.

I knocked out the poor bug into bits and pieces and now I’m trying to check what this bug’s name is. No, not a proper name but its scientific name and check how a small bug can wreck havoc in a human body. I know many insects or organisms can make something worse than this, but for the life of me, I am checking on it for 2 days already.

I went to the hospital that same afternoon to get a checkup and I was checked by an ophthalmologist because no internal medicine doctor was available. Well, it’s nothing worse than little bug bites, it’s just that its venom or toxin was really potent that I initially developed allergy according to the doctor.

This bug actually helped me because it gave the leeway to get the leave that I need in my hellish work. The doctor advised me to get at least a week of leave but I just said that I just needed 2 days for this to subside. And thank God the eye of the boxer was now healed.

Happy Father’s Day!

I know it’s late. There is no excuse for this because I knew that I can still write something on the day itself but I didn’t for the simple reason that I don’t know what to write.

I’m sorry for being such an idiot to assume that Father’s Day is on June 7. I thought it was on the first Sunday of June. Well, I’m really mistaken. It’s evident when I instructed my little sister to give the card on that day to my dad because I couldn’t give it myself because I was out in the house.

My dad was laughing according to my sister when he received the card because he knew for himself that it wasn’t until the 3^rd week of June to celebrate this event, that’s June 21 to be exact.

Actually, I’m wondering on that Sunday why there are no advertisements on TV for Father’s Day and no articles about it on the Sunday paper.

To make the long story short, I’m just such a moron to assume something I wasn’t sure about. Yes, indeed I’m guilty of this many times already.

To save myself from the shame, I just wanted to tell everyone that we should not just celebrate this occasion on this day only, because we should definitely commemorate it every day or should I say let our father know that we really care for them even if it was really cheesy to say. I am really blessed with a father who is responsible and dependable. He instilled in me the values that I needed to be what I am right now.

I knew of course that he is no saint. He has flaws, many flaws. But this doesn’t mean that I will not respect him. Yes, I knew that there are people who are not blessed to have a father like me. What I can only say is I’m really thankful to God that we have him. I’m not the best son a father or parents can have but I tried my best to live up to the values that they taught us.

Well, this is my short write-up for this day. As for the encounter with the bug, continue reading on the next article.

Most of the websites in the Internet today are failing on several aspects. I’m not saying that this site is flawless, of course there are many facets in web development that I need to enhance and also follow but what I’m telling is you can learn to these questions that I’m going to ask you:

• Does the design represent what you really want to convey to your readers, visitors, prospects, clients or customers? The design should be more on the side that gives light to what you stand for.

• Do you have a ‘Contact Us” information page? For me, this is one of the very important pages on your site. If your site is business oriented, of course you want your potential clients or customers to contact you via telephone or email for questions, and this is vital if you’re into sales.

• Have you considered having a “Frequently Asked Questions” page? This is imperative to website owners if their site is more about products or services. Most customers will ask or check for some important questions along the way that could be answered in this page without having to contact or write you an email, and therefore saves you, the developer the time to answer every bit of questions.

• What about the content? Of course, the content should be well-written, concise, and clear. Many readers will skip and most probably leave the website if they find many flaws on the grammar, spellings and the meaning of words that is not cohesive enough to be understandable.

These are really simple phases in websites development that developers should consider if they want visitors to be regulars and to maintain good traffic.