The friends and I, we're all done with dressing up in fancy-gore costumes to parties, play silly Halloween games, dabble in divination nonsense, and eventually get drunk (or hooked up). That's just so...high school. Scratch that, college too. But we still find it fun to dress up half the house to scare the children who come trick-o-treating.
We kept with the tradition of trading ghost stories and watching horror films. Had an impromptu movie night at the friends'. We skipped the pumpkin at dinner. Enough of pumpkins this October. We stuck to tapau-ing good old sambal stingray, tulang and awesome hawker fare that doesn't include the artery-clogging char kway teow. Of course the alcohol would never be far away. Good old bottles of single malts ruled. We're immensely glad that friends and family on the East Coast are doing fine in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Their estate sorta celebrates Halloween, and whichever house that welcomes children trick-o-treating, would hang a pumpkin lantern at the gate/ringer. We did that, stocked up on pretty decent lollies, cookies, chocolate and candy, and surprisingly depleted our basket of sweets by the end of the evening.
We watched re-runs of timeless 80s horror classics that had us chuckling at bad movie effects, but so rich in plot and corny moments- 'The Devil's Carnival' and 'The Evil Dead', and 'The Evil Dead II'. We weren't totally concentrating lah. The movies were more like background noise, and at all the exciting parts, conversation paused to allow a closer viewing. By the end of the evening, we literally ROTFL before stumbling out of the main door. The movies, were too funny for words.
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