Cheers! Kampai! Chin Chin!

I don’t think there’s a better way I can open this new blog then with the post I have right now. Why’s that you say? Because it contains alcohol, and in the UK alcohol is a stable part of any ceremony / special occasion. Even something as dire as funerals (yeah, I don’t know where that came from either). Moving on…

This is a excerpt from an Ongaku Gatas radio show episode, where a fan sent in a letter about Yossi and Risa drinking together. Yossi decided to explain about the night in question and it’s pretty darn funny. Everything here has been translated by darje and brought to my attention by tensai87. So all thanks should go to them.

Fan Letter: Everyone in Ongaku Gatas, good evening. Morning Musume’s Niigaki-san talked in the radio about Yoshizawa-san coming to her house to drink together with her. Yoshizawa-san can apparently hold her alcohol really well, so she stayed up drinking with Gaki-san’s mom and dad after she’d gone to sleep; please talk about that particular moment. Are the other adult Ongaku Gatas members good at holding their alcohol as well? If there are any other anecdotes about heavy drinking, please talk to us about them.

Yossi: So this finally came up. I’d much rather this didn’t get announced on the air though. Yeah, I did go drinking with her. That day I got a mail saying “What are you doing today, Yoshizawa-san?” from Gaki-san. After futsal practice I didn’t have anything else to do, so I told her “Nothing”. What to do, where to go? I ask her, but Gaki-san always tells you “The good building“. There’s this “good building” in Yokohama Bay.

Konno: Yeah, she says that a lot.

Yossi: In the good building, there’s this fairly famous garlic shop that Gaki-san always goes to.

Konno: Should’ve known you went there. lol

Yossi: Yeah, after going there, the following day Gaki-san always stinks. It’s a sort of “you went to the garlic shop yesterday, didn’t you” no-joke smell, mind you. “But it’s delicious”, she always says. So anyway, “I’ll show you around the good building, Yoshizawa-san”, and off we go to the good building. We go to the garlic shop, have lunch. Since Gaki-san has turned 20 years old, ‘Let’s go drinking, since you’ve been waiting for this for a while’ I say, and when we did just that Gaki-san’s spirits went through the roof.

Konno: Really? lol

Yossi: Gaki-san got fairly drunk. Heading back home, she’d say things like “Yoshizawa-saaan, jusht a moment, itsh over heeere”. At home we found her dad and mom. They told me “Please stay over for the night”, but I went “But the whole family’s here, right?”. They told me “welcome” in unison. Her dad tells me “I hear you like to drink, Yoshizawa-san” while bringing over the champagne, “it’s fine, drink some more”. We toast, and by this point Gaki-san is pretty much smashed. Next day she asked me “Did I say something embarrassing?” several times over. Well, halfway through, Gaki-san passes out. Funny thing is, Gaki-san’s dad asks me “Didn’t you come to change clothes?” or something like that. I was wearing a representative, uh… a soccer, um…

Konno: Uniform? lol

Yossi: I’d come wearing my uniform. “You shouldn’t come wearing your uniform, can you?”, they tell me. lol So we’re talking about this and that while Gaki-san sleeps. By the way, Gaki-san’s mother is pretty good at holding her alcohol as well. Her dad had work the next day so he also went to sleep at some point, but I went on with her mom pretty much until morning.

Konno/Sengoku: Incredible…

Konno: It seems amusing.

Yossi: At some moment we also played a concert DVD from Morning Curry times, so that kinda looked like a live-corner thingamajig. It was fun. Also, at some point Gaki-san mentioned calling Konkon.

Konno: That’s true, it was probably that day. Since Gaki-san turned 20 we talked about going out to drink, I actually received a mail about that today. But I always have school or the moment is just not the right one, so I haven’t gone out to drink yet.

Yossi: Really? Then let’s gather at Gaki-san’s house soon.

Konno: At Gaki-san’s?

Yossi: Let’s all gather at their house!

Konno: Let’s lol

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Reading about Risa going out and getting ’smashed’ got me really excited lol – I don’t know why (nothing pervy I might add)! Possibly because I do enjoy going out and getting totally ‘off my trolley’ with my friends…sometimes (moderation yo!). I just wonder what Risa drank to make her like that. Okay…if she’s a good girl then this would’ve been the first time she drank alcohol, so even a few could’ve had that effect on her. But I personally don’t believe she is that angelic! Especially seeing as her parents were pushing champagne in Yossi’s direction after they arrived at her house.

Hmm…anyone want to hazard a guess at her choice of tipple? For the lols ^^