Risa’s Birthday Post 2 – What Happened Was…

This is where I post about what I did / how I celebrated Risa’s 20th birthday and this is gonna take a looooooooooooooooong time ^^

At the moment the UK is 8 hours behind Japan, so Risa’s birthday technically started at 4pm on Sunday 19th October British time. Which, as I decided we’d celebrate right up to 23:59pm 20th October British time, gave myself and Shirow 31 hours and 59 minutes of ‘celebration’ time, minus the hours that we needed to sleep. I think we went to sleep at about 2am on the 20th and got up at roughly 11am (on the 20th), so we lost 9 hours overal. Not bad considering I sleep like Eri (as much as I can)! With my amazing mathematical skills I calculate that as 22 hours and 59 minutes of valuable ‘I Love You Gaki’ birthday time!!!

Just a bit of backstory before I plough through this. Earlier on in the day (Sunday) the pair of us went to Camden Town to have a look around Camden Market. Totally surreal experience for me, I’ve never liked markets – even when I was young – and I didn’t really like this place. However I did buy myself a new pair of trainers which were Risa inspired, and a lovey (read: nasty) green tie from a market stand. These two things come in to effect on the Monday. But as a point of interest, we were walking around on the Sunday in Hello! Project t-shirts. Shirow was wearing his Berryz Kobo ‘Uh! Ha!’ t-shirt, and I was wearing my Risa Single Daizenshuu~ t-shirt AND Risa Cinderella wrist band ^^ I stood out like nobody’s business *sweatdrop*

my new trainers – they are exactly the same colour as my Risa Cinderella wristband. Like a lime green. Tasty!

Sunday 19th October

Well then…At 4:00pm on the 19th October, myself and Shirow were wandering through Lambeth North which is on the Bakerloo Line (yep – I’m a freaking walking Tube map after this holiday). So not long after I went ‘OMG! It’s 4pm – Midnight in Japan – HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAKI-SAN’ the pair of us rocked up to the nearest pub and enjoyed one drink each. Yes, just one. Why one? Well…it’s all because Shirow paid £9.00 for a pint of Fosters and a single Malibu & Lemonade!!! LONDON IS EXTORTIONATE!!!

After that we made our way to the - Imperial War Museum. Yeah…we know how to live it up! We didn’t spend long in there at all (need to go back), but I did manage to do a Mayuge Beam in honour of Risa, in front of a statue of a WWII soldier. Don’t believe me and wanna picture? Well tough shit you aint getting one, purely because I look like crap in it :3

After leaving the Museum we made our way back to Piccadilly Circus, wandered to the Chinese shop to buy 10 bottles of cheap beer (98p FTW!), then decided to have dinner in a rediculously expensive Indian restaurant. Actually the food was well priced, but my can of Coke cost me £2.50 \o/ and they stuck a 10% service charge on, even though the service was awful. Bastards!!! After that we went back to the scummy hostel and watched Risa and Ai’s Ura Uta Doki’s and the Berryz Kamen vs. C-utie Ranger concert…again! Went to bed around 2am (like I said earlier).

we signed this on the evening of Risa’s birthday. I wore it ‘plain’ during the day. Same colour as the green on my trainers

Monday 20th October

We got up later then we wanted to, but made up for it by having a full day ^^ Today was ‘Suit Day Part 2′ but as I didn’t have an actual suit, I had to wear the nearest thing I had. So cue me in:

• White Shirt
• Black Trousers
• Black Waistoat
• Black Pin Striped Velvet-y Jacket
• New Black and Green Trainers
• Sexy Lime Green Tie

I’m sure people were wondering what the hell was going on, but it was Risa’s birthday and I wanted to show my fandom in a ‘posh’ way. Thus I ignored all the looks my tie was generating LOLS.

After skipping breakfast because we got up later than normal, we made our way to Sloane Square in Chelsea (Circle Line), to look around the National Army Museum. Took us forever to locate the freaking place, so on the way we stopped for a Subway off doom!!! I opted for a ‘foot long’ Tuna, Cheese and Mayo toasted sub with a Coke. Man…even though we skipped breakfast, I had to force the whole thing down my throat. Shirow on the other hand could not eat all of his – FAIL!!!

When we got to the museum (eventually), it was pretty goddamn boring / shit. We didn’t realise that we couldn’t take photos in there, but Shirow got a pretty good one of me saluting next to a soldier model ^^ Whilst I was trying to take a photo of a bottle of ‘Bum Cola’ (coke cola from some foreign country) a Security Guard came up and told me not to take photos. Bastard! So I can’t share that one, only argue that it did say Bum Cola on the label. Yeah…I find the silliest of things funny >_<

After leaving the museum, we then went to Kinghtsbridge, to take a stroll around Harrods…again. Didn’t buy anything in there, just went to sign the Princess Diana memorial book and lol at the Diana and Dodi statue XD

my HYD / MM inspired message. Probably not fitting for a memorial book…oh well!

After looking around the over priced posh crap, we headed out and along to Bond Street (Central & Jubilee Lines) hoping to find Tiffany’s the Jewellers. Because we didn’t have a map book on us at the time so we decided ‘fuck it’ and wandered down Oxford Street instead. Went in to the other big department store – Selfridges, where we looked at anything and everything. Didn’t buy anything though. Then if I remember rightly, we walked along Regents Street back to Piccadilly Circus, then went to Yo! Sushi for dinner.

In Yo! Sushi I ate alot but not alot, if that makes sense. I had 2 bowls of Miso soup, Chicken Yakitori, Chicken Katsu and Tamago Nigiri, washed down with water and NOT Asahi. OMG SHOCK HORROR!!! Was funny in there because they had wooden chopsticks for retards, so I used them! LMAO!

Whilst we were sat in the restaurant God Tsunku decided to smite us for the persistant Aika bashing, and it started pissing it down. So when we left we went back to our shitty hostel, so we could get coats and I could get my hat. Then we went round to Chinatown and bought 2 Chicken Buns and then went to the Japanese Shop to buy some cans of Asahi and Sapporo (Shirows).

Ching Chang makes good buns!

Then we just plonked ourselves on my bunk in our room, ate Japanese snacks along with Korean Pocky type things, drank Japanese & Chinese beer and watched the Singles Daizenshuu~ Concert (again), making remarks about Aika the whole time LOLS. We went to sleep about 2am again, knowing that the next day we’d be going home *sob sob* I’m really happy though because not only did I get to celebrate my favourite Idols birthday in an amazing (yet expensive) city, I got to celebrate it with a really good friend who appreciates H!P / Idols as much as I do.

Many Thanks Shirow. You are AWESOME!!!

I think there’s nothing left for me to do now, but to kill the whole post by sticking a photo of me on it – in my Risa birthday outfit – doing a ‘Lolli-chan desu’ pose. Just so you know, all the colours in this photo are accurate! YES, the walls were a disgusting peachy orange, and YES my tie was that bright ^^ Check out my free shades! I look like a reject Terminator!!!

My sincere apologies *bows 1 million times*