Oh Mikki, you're so fine

Oh Mickey, you're so fine

You're so fine, you blow my mind, hey Mickey, hey Mickey

Oh Mickey, you're so fine

You're so fine, you blow my mind, hey Mickey, hey Mickey

Oh Mickey, you're so fine

You're so fine, you blow my mind, hey Mickey...

Hey Mickey

You've been around all night and that's a little long

You think you've got the right but I think you've got it wrong

Why can't we say goodnight? So you can take me home, Mickey

Cause when you say you will, it always means you won't

You're givin' me the chills, baby, please baby don't

Every night you still leave me all alone, Mickey

Oh Mickey, what a pity, you don't understand

You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand

Oh Mickey, you're so pretty, can't you understand

It's gals like you, Mickey

Ooh what you do Mickey, do Mickey

Don't break my heart, Mickey

Hey Mickey

Now when you take me by the... who's... ever gonna know

Every time you move I let a little more show

There's something you can use, so don't say no, Mickey

So come on and give it to me anyway you can

Anyway you want to do it, I'll take it like a man

Oh please baby, please don't leave me in this jam Mickey

~ Tony Basil

The song Hey Mickey is considered the 1st punk rock song ever and now is classified as a new age song. It was a song that came out first in 1979 when I was 10 and then again popularised in 1982 when I was 13.

Mikki was someone I knew a long time ago. Mikki-san is the only Japanese girl that I remember, the only Japanese girl I consider a friend.

I met Mikki likely in 1990, in Kansas. She was staying in the same house as my brother and at that time his girlfriend. That did not last and the last that I know is that she was back in Japan.

Considering the turmoil in Japan now, my thoughts and my memories bring back to this sweet wonderful person that I knew and I wonder if she and her family are safe wherever they may be. My prayers and love go out to her and her family.

As I started cracking my mind to all the Japanese friends or people I have met, I realise there are but a few.

Apart from Mikki, there were these 2 teachers that wifey and I met on our 1st trip to Bali. They were very nice and we kept in touch for a while. My thoughts, love and prayers go out to them too.

Then there was Naka-san whom I met while doing a project in Sanden. I hope he and his family are doing well too. My thoughts, love and prayer go out to him and his family.

Then I just realised that my host mum in Steven's Point is half Japanese, her mother has long passed but she has relatives in Japan. And while I do not know them personally, my thoughts, love and prayer go out to them too.

And I know foreigners currently in Japan, like a teacher Weighed, my thoughts, love and prayers go out to him and his other teachers.

While I am at this, I find the cartoon in Berita Harian yesterday rather distasteful and disrespectful. Trying to be humorous at the wrong time.

I will not paste it here but basically it was a cartoon of the tsunami coming in towards land with cars and buildings and a cartoon of Ultraman running away from the tsunami. Utterly distasteful and idiotic.

The Star on the other hand at least put out a tasteful cartoon with the Japanese flag at half mast and the words "Our thoughts and prayers to everyone affected in Japan."

The earthquake has been upgraded to 9.0 on Richter. A lot of damage from the Tsunami and earthquake in Japan. In every situation like this, clean drinking water and safe refuge becomes priority.

The Japanese have the resolve and faith to rebuild and so they will.

But until then, my thoughts and prayers too to everyone involved in this natural disaster but also my love, my infinite love to everyone there that is going through this tough time.

Take care and be well.