Today is officially All Hallow’s Eve, but here, the young youths and adults have been celebrating it in advance since Saturday, and the ‘ickle kiddies will be celebrating it this Monday!
I have never seen so many fancy dress costumes that had nothing to do with Halloween. According to the news, the most popular Halloween costume of this year is Charlie Sheen. CHARLIE SHEEN! How does one manage to dress like that?! I guess that means the holding of a few bottles of alcohol, a white shirt, a suit, and a slurry tone of voice spouting outrageous phrases and profanities!
I saw a girl dressed as Katy Perry, a man wearing a baby suit, a Superman pimp with Supergirl on one side and Selena the witch (Supergirl’s enemy in the 1984 film) on the other…basically, I saw many costumes, and a lot of them weren’t to do with Halloween! It’s true, most of the female costumes are sexy versions- I even saw an Alice in Wonderland girl costume that reminded me of those Japanese flicks where a cartoon woman old enough to be an adult but with the look of a prepubescent girl does cosplay to look cute and sexy. I distinctly remember Alice only being a young girl in the book, and not wearing so much see-through lace! Some of the women’s costumes here were quite scanty, but if the girl has the body for it, then good for her! I do feel a little like a puritan saying all this, but I thought Halloween was to a celebration to pay homage to the dead, therefore costumes should allude to some aspect of that? What do you reckon?
Here are some photos of the various Halloween getups I saw, and what Winston and I dressed as too (sorry for the blurry shots, I couldn’t get the right setting on my Blackberry):
We went to a Halloween house party first of all, which was held by Winston's friend Sid’s work colleague. I ate some bacon pasta, fried lumpia, hummus chips, crunchy fried chicken wings, tortilla chips with guacamole and spicy tomato salsa, and some meatballs in barbecue sauce. You know how hummus is usually eaten with breadsticks or pitta bread in the UK? Well, hummus chips here are thick and quite hard bland flour squares that are cooked with oil until they’re dry like crisps. You can buy hummus chips in packets, like crisps. I ended up eating them without hummus because I forgot to get some!
Winston made chicken wing nilaga the other day and it was so tasty that I’ve posted a picture of it below to remind me of how good it was. It had pieces of potato, cabbage, carrots and beans along with chicken wings all immersed in a tasty savoury chicken broth. It’s brilliant that he can cook!
Actually, I’m probably being over-enthusiastic regarding its simplicity, but this meal was preceded by me cooking two days worth of curry-type food, so you can understand why he cooked nilaga, haha!
I found out a pet hate of Winston's that I’d never have known if I hadn’t started eating them here in front of him. He doesn’t like it when people lick their fingers after eating crisps. We were eating cheesy cheetos, and he gave me a pair of chopsticks. I asked what they were for, and he told me they would stop the cheeto flavouring from going on my fingers, thus leading to finger licking! There is some logic there, and it was an unusual novelty to use the chopsticks to eat crisps.
I watched two movies recently- one called ‘Daybreaker’, and the other called ‘I love Philip Morris’. Both are really good movies, but I especially liked Daybreakers. If you can, you should watch both movies!
Daybreaker Synopsis: ‘Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.’
Hope you have a WICKED HALLOWEEN!!
MUHHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!!!!
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