Requiescat In Pace

weili - RIP Michael
ah boon - RIP King of Pop
louis - In God's Hands
keith - you were and are a legend, thanks for the memories
mingxiu - just beat it
pedro - God Bless the King of Pop
jiewei - Bless him
melvin - because 'm bad
sean ho - I want to remember all the good you did for music-lovers throughout the world, shaping so much of what that came to be for so many years and so many years from now. Rest in peace, Michael! You are already immortalized in the world of music!
andrew tien - Rest In Peace
sivamani - remembers Michael Jackson & Farah Fawcett and wishes them peace
jamuna - MJ the best!
sook zhen - stop existing and start living
tasneem - wanna be startin' somethin'
keith - Today, my idol died. FML
melvin - long live the King of Pop. You will be missed.
jeanette - reeling in shock over his passing. Michael Jackson has always rocked our world, and always will.
jiahao - RIP MJ and Farrah
rachel - RIP, MJ. the helicopters are still buzzing above the hospital where you are and i can hear them from my room. shh, it's almost 1am.
amos - oh dear. mj is dead.
desmond - Despite Michael's troubling rationale, the King of Pop's life has expired, but he will always be remembered for his dazzling entertainment and musical ingenuity which enriched the world's ear.
calvin - has always wanted to attend a MJ concert
ros - RIP MJ.
juliet - More than the King of Pop...
deryck - Michael Jackson forever.
praba - R.I.P MJ!
wanyu - How could he have died...
cheeyuen - Let us spare a moment of silence to remember the King of Pop, who has left us recently to spread his culture to another world.
selly - in memory of Michael Jackson
yiyong - R.I.P MJ... we gonna miss u
jose - RIP MJ
dj - RIP Michael Jackson. You were everyone's King.
serene - RIP MJ. You'll be missed.
priya - R.I.P Michael Jackson. You were the man!
shi jian - farewell, legendary moonwalker
lyon - RIP, MJ. No matter how much of a quack they make you out to be just know your music has touched millions.
me - if we run all the lights: 1958-2009

i remember one of the headlines running along CNN's banner was something like "News of Death Fanned via Social Media".

jacko's death had a groundbreaking effect on the internet, slowing down traffic, causing google, wikipedia, twitter, AOL and the first two news sites carrying the news to crash.

at 1.14am of 27 june local time, almost 20 hours after jacko's death, while a bunch of us were at acid bar, the live band's instrumentalist spontaneously broke out into 'Beat It', a tribute, in his words, to our generation's King of Pop.

sweet.