TODAY is Halloween! Yippee! well, honestly, i didn't exactly participate in the mass trick-or-treating or the whole house decorating affair. but it sure was a whole lotta fun walking atlas today and looking at the weirdest costumes, and most importantly, the weirdest people wearing these costumes.

of course, there were black-trash-bag ghouls and ghosts, paper-cone-hatted witches and warlocks, several green monsters of varying dye colours and fairies.
why fairies?? why on earth are fairies considered a halloween costume?! erm, fairies MIGHT be scary to wee tots i guess, maybe it's the wings. or the endlessly shimmery sparkles that could cause blindness and dizziness.

and of course, there were bald old men in bright yellow spongebob squarepants outfits. i mean, come on, who isn't afraid of spongebob? and come on, who hasn't seen bald old men wearing spongebob costumes before? yeah you read right, brendan (my brother fyi) passed by a doddering dude dressed as sbsp. oh god. what are we teaching young children nowadays?

but the cool thing was that the whole neighbourhood was abuzz with little kids (and old men) running around the place, chanting scary songs and shouting at the top of their voices, demanding for candy. it is the only time i ever see people (who aren't domestic helpers walking dogs) around the streets in the area. it's like all these people suddenly appeared from nowhere. it's like they appeared from Hell. GASP! imagine if they weren't really costumes! these haunts must be really poor, only can afford a plastic trash bag to wear or a paper wand to wave around.

anyways. the decorations some of the houses put up was really cool! some family probably ran out of pumpkins and carved faces on watermelons instead. LOL! jack-o'-melon. and the carving was really well done too! it had an appropriately lopsided grin, perfect balance of the eyes and nose, and good skin tone too!

here's something from wiki (cut short to spare thine eyes):

An old Irish legend tells of Jack, a lazy yet shrewd farmer who uses a cross to trap the Devil. Jack was getting chased by some villagers whom he had stolen from, when he met the Devil: it was time for him to die. However, the thief stalled his death by tempting the Devil with a chance to bedevil the church-going villagers chasing him. Jack told the Devil to turn into a coin with which he would pay for the stolen goods (the Devil could take on any shape he wanted); later, when the coin/Devil disappeared, the Christian villagers would fight over who had stolen it. The Devil agreed to this plan. He turned himself into a silver coin and jumped into Jack's wallet... only to find himself next to a cross Jack had also picked up in the village. Jack had closed the wallet tight, and the cross stripped the Devil of his powers; and so he was trapped. Jack only lets the Devil go when he agrees never to take his soul. After a while the thief died, as all living things do. Of course, his life had been too sinful for Jack to go to heaven; however, the Devil had promised not to take his soul, and so he was barred from Hell as well. Jack now had nowhere to go. He asked how he would see where to go, as he had no light, and the Devil mockingly tossed him an ember that would never burn out from the flames of hell. Jack carved out one of his turnips (which was his favourite food), put the ember inside it, and began endlessly wandering the Earth for a resting place. He became known as "Jack of the Lantern", or Jack-o'-Lantern.

freaky. "endlessly wandering the Earth for a resting place" is particularly .... scary. Halloween is a really spooky festival to celebrate, but luckily pple have turned it into a nice cheesy cutesy kinda event, with little kids being the main perpetrators, and pumpkin-carving, costume-designing and decorating being the main highlights.

and here's smt else i picked up on wiki, which sounds downright freaky.

The will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus, or in plural form as ignes fatui ("fool's fire(s)") refers to the ghostly lights sometimes seen at night or twilight that hover over damp ground in still air — often over bogs. It looks like a flickering lamp, and is sometimes said to recede if approached. Much folklore surrounds the legend, but science has offered several potential explanations.

what these explanations are, you'll have to find out yourself. that's because ..... (play spooky, haunting music) but before this, let us go for a commercial break. lol, kidding. i'm going to bed la. you guys probably arent even interested in this, so i won't waste digital space and memory capacity.