Boo!

In this country, Halloween is also another word for Candy. And in this country, candy means not only sweets and lollipops. It also means chocolate and/or anything with sugar in it.

So have you thought of what to dress up as? Coz’ I haven’t and would love to steal your idea if the entire costume would cost less than USD$10.

I realize I would make an effort to dress up every year since I move to the United States. Except that I broke the tradition when I moved to Vegas last year, right before Halloween.

Sorry, I can't find the photos from 2001(devil girl)-2002(Milla Jovovich's character in '5th Element').

2003 as a weird clown—modeled after a toy figurine with Sayaka's parents

2004—as a pirate grrrrrrrrrr with Sayaka as Frida and Shinta in her bathrobe
2005—as Robin (pic taken with a bunch of other superheros. costume found in thriftstore for like less than 10 bucks.)

2006—as a sixties' air stewardess (won best costume in the agency! yay! too bad you can't see my patent white boots in this picture.) with dear eric as Dorothy.

Mainly because I haven’t befriend a single soul and there isn’t any ‘unofficially official’ street party over here like the ones I would go to on Market and Castro in San Francisco.

What the heck. I think it’s entirely because I had no friends here.

But fortunately last year, an old friend unexpectedly visited me from SG that week and since it was too late to get a costume, we just wandered around the Strip admiring other people’s costume. It was wonderful because when I see those skimpy nurses/Victoria-secret’s-angels/policewomen/firefighters/insert-skanky-stereotypical-identities-here, I felt incredibly blessed in my warm, cozy outfit out on the freezing desert night.

Nevertheless, once the calendar turns to October, I see Halloween items everywhere for sale. I wonder how will ‘business’ be this year due to the massive economy catastrophe. Will people ration the amount of candy they distribute? Will people even bother to dress up amidst dark times?

One of my colleagues actually put up a Halloween candy bowl on his desk. He fills it up with miniature Snicker bars, Crunch, Reese’s Pieces and assortments of sweets and they are free-for-all. The girls stop by like bees to a flower. I reckon he just wants to be more popular. But I warned him that by the end of the month, the girls would be coming over to blame him for fattening their asses and he should prepare for it.

The ridiculous thing is, he himself never once ate anything from that bowl. He is a health freak.

So I was strolling along the vast aisles of a ordinary supermarket here and eventually bought a purple wig on my way out. Dang. I’ve always wanted a pink one à la Natalie Portman in “Closer”.
Oh well~ purple is as cute.

So now I am stuck with a new purple wig, in a short bob just like my platinum blonde version, with no idea what to match up.

Any ideas for a character or something you imagine in your farked-up head? The reward will be a life-size photo of me in your costume, sign and sealed with a kiss. LOL.