On Halloween

That's me on the right, wearing the cheapo mask which I won for being the Halloween King. On the left is Heng Jie, the Halloween Queen.

I am still disappointed, and to some extent, feel conned and bamboozled, for I had all the while assumed that the $50 TOPSHOP voucher is the second prize for the Best-Dressed Competition.

And I wanted that voucher SO BADLY!!! When it came to my knowledge that the TOPSHOP voucher would be given out during this Halloween Bash organised by the Athena Faculty, I was exhilarated!!

I cracked my brain and let my creative juices flow freely to come up with a costume for this event. I made full use of resources that are leftovers from SCREAM! and quickly found myself a piece of tattered and torn "blood-stained" dress which I draped it over myself. I then found a cushion (which belongs to Ya Wen, I believe) and stuff it under my dress to create an enlarged abdomen. I slit a hole on the dress and attached "intestines" into it.

Now I look like a pregnant man, carrying (supposedly) an alien in my womb.

Being a man and yet pregnant sounds like an impossibility and wrong. Being pregnant with an alien is another impossiblity. You put these two impossibilities together and two wrongs will make one correct.

But alas! To my horror, the voucher is the second prize for the Lucky Draw.

My heart immediately sank for I know that I am not a lucky person when it comes to 横财。But I still have my fingers crossed, for I have faith in miracles.

Expectedly, I was not lucky enough to win that voucher.

Instead, stupid Jia Wei who was two seats awayfrom me, "stole" my voucher...

I will remember him forever for that.

Speaking of SCREAM (Hwa Chong's annual Halloween Celebration which consists of a Haunted Maze, Haunted Trail...etc), I managed to clinch the role of Timmy, a cannibal who dresses up in a black Bad Boy tee-shirt and Hwa Chong P.E. shorts and claims that human meat tastes like chicken.

According to reliable sources, it seems that a lot of guys in council yearn to land themselves onto this role.

Hahah, but too bad! I am the only guy in the entire council to have some experience in acting. No way is any of them a threat to me getting the role of Timmy.

The acutal event was tiring. Having to maintain the same agitated emotion is mentally-exhausting, and to growl using my throat for about 20 times each time a new group of thrill-seekers visit my station is harmful. At the end of the whole event, I sounded like I was experiencing puberty for the second time.

Scaring girls is the only incentive that kept me perservering. Otherwise, who would be willing to be stuck in a freezing room with thick makeup and face paint on your face and have your bladder muscles in constant tensed-up mode as a result of not being able to go to the toilet to relieve its contents.

I tell you, hearing the screams from girls is .... shiok! It's better than sex striking lottery. Hearing their screams compensates for all my loss, such as damage to bladder from prolonged withholding of urine.

If only we can do this on the Seventh Month of the Lunar Calander. Somehow, the flavour of Halloween is lost when we celebrate this American festival in tropical Singapore. But should we celebrate our local Hungry Ghost Festival, any haunted maze and haunted trail will have ten times the fear factor of those held during Halloween.

Boo!