JUST STAND UP to Cancer/ BFFs

Last Monday, my BBFs went out for a date. Just to catch up on everybody else's new thingy's, gossips, lovelife and non-sensical stuffs. Evie got a new phone and she was also so ecstatic about the Boyzone reincarnation that she already got their new single. She even tried to reserve a copy of their album that wasn't out yet. Then come Ash who has a flourishing lovelife and is still juggling work from his studies. Finally, Abi, who just celebrated her birthday yesterday who expresses her company's marked VTO occurence and her new slave. haha.

While browsing Ash's iPod, I found this new song. A live collaboration performance for the benefit of cancer research programme, "Just Stand Up to Cancer." Vocals for this performance we're Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Nicole Scherzinger, Natasha Bedingfield, Miley Cyrus, Leona Lewis, Carrie Underwood, Keyshia Cole, LeAnn Rimes, Ashanti and Ciara. Here's the video clip form youtube.com (notice the absence of Sheryl, LeAnn and Ashanti, but they're on the record, I think nicole replaced some of their parts.):



Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is a non-profit organization established by a group of media, entertainment, scientific and philanthropic leaders, whose lives have all been affected by cancer in significant ways. A joint initiative with the Entertainment Industry Foundation and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Stand Up To Cancer is leveraging industry resources -- people, as well as mediums such as television and the web -- to fight against cancer as never before. They're putting together the best and the brightest minds in cancer research -- those on the edge of accomplishment -- investing in their projects and taking the bureaucratic obstacles out of their way. They are building interdisciplinary "Dream Teams" of scientists, clinicians, technicians and other experts, who will focus on a specific cancer problem.

Raising conciousness is one of the agenda so here comes blogging, a Virtual Stand Up. After all, my grandfather died of Leukemia, and most probably I'm going to die with one of the many cancer types, no kidding.

You can donate to JSU2C if you want but it's better to just donate here in the Philippines. We have so many foundations here like The Cancer Institute Foundation, Inc. ( http://www.cifphil.org/ ) and Cancer Warriors Foundation, Inc. ( http://www.cancer-warriors.org/index.html ).