As Suanie Sees It

On Friday night, a bunch of us went to the SCREAM Halloween party @ Sunway Lagoon Theme Park. Was running a bit late because I had the book launch thingy and KY had something on as well. So sorry Caryn for making you wait for us.

It was a long walk to the party though. Had to walk past the mini zoo, which means taking in both good things and bad things. The good:

Beautiful view of the Sunway hotel

The bad: Animals stink. Go figure.

There were lots of SCREAM actors (a.k.a. people wearing costume and make-up pretending to be your worst nightmare walking around trying to take you by surprise so they could frighten you half to death), quite a number of people dancing too. The only problem was that the crowd was a bit too scattered because it was a large venue. Also, S.a.D. took the stage at 11+ pm; I didn’t think it was a good decision, heh. It was funny looking at them in their costumes, though…

Adib from S.a.D.

The only dude whom I thought was quite convincing was a zombie slouching around with a maniac grin. Xaviera had paint on her face and drawings of cobwebs on her arms. No idea what that was Two Chinese vampires were there, the female eventually won Best Costume.

Assorted ghosts and corpses

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Saturday evening was the Nokia Nuffnang Halloween Party at the Borneo Baruk Club in KL. I got there early because someone told me that he was going early. Turns out I was one of the earliest. Luckily Serge was there early as well, so got kawan to borak a bit.

Then people started to arrive, and it was fun looking at all the costumes there. My favourite was the milk carton who danced the night away! Another favourite was KlubbKid, dressed as Kurt Cobain with gunshot wound and all.

Come… as you are….

Sorry if I seemed a bit anti-social. (1) I memang am a bit anti-social, heh; and (2) I was mostly hanging out with Elfie, Michael and LucyLiu upstairs, pre-occupied with the beer that David Lian got us.

Can everyone say, “I LOVE DAVID LIAN!!”…

The first band was quite good, but like someone said, the songs sound almost the same? The rapping duo was good also, rather funny. I know there’s a third band because I heard them rehearsing earlier. Didn’t catch their performance but they sounded good in the rehearsals.

Would have loved to stay longer, but Michael, Elfie and I had to go to Zouk for another party. By the way, the black feathers you see around the club belong to Kim.

** Click here to view my entire Halloween ‘08 Flickr set, including some photos not published here.

What are you doing this Halloween? No plans yet? Hahhhh why not check out the SCREAM party at the Sunway Lagoon Theme Park this 31st October for some ghouly fun?

There will be:

* Live performances by One Buck Short, S.a.D., Y2K and Beat The System
* Dance music spun by DJ Joey G, DJ Ndroid and DJ Rob Nutek
* Camwhoring op with Freddy Krueger, Jason X and The Living Dead
* Screamtails (as opposed to cocktails) such as Scream Slime and SoCo Lava (I’ve seen the photos. They look gruesome but weirdly fascinating)
* Finger food such as Spooky Sandwiches, French Toes and Creepy Witches’ Fingers, and Brainy Cupcakes available, ranging from RM5-RM10
* RM1000 cash prize to winner of Best Costume

Sounds fun right? Heh I’ll be there as myself. That should be enough to scare anyone. You can purchase tickets to the event at Axcess - RM55 for pre-sale and RM65 for door-sale, inclusive of 2 beverages.

Or you can enter my SCREAM haiku contest to win a pair of tickets to the fun-filled party! I have 5 pairs of tickets to give away to readers who can come up with the most awesome Halloween-theme haiku. My example:

Gore, blood, ghosts, Reaper
Don’t scare the shit out of me
Only B.N. does

Hehehe. I’m sure you can do better than me! Bring forth the poet in you!

Terms, Rules, The Fine Print, Whatever You Need To Know:

* Tickets are for the SCREAM party at the Sunway Lagoon Theme Park on 31st October 2008 (Friday). Party starts from 8.30 pm till late.
* Don’t be silly, tickets are not exchangeable for cash.
* Contest ends on 26th October 2008 (Sunday) at 11.59 p.m.
* You can either e-mail me or enter your haiku in the comment section. Please enter a valid e-mail address, else I wouldn’t be able to contact you.
* Only for those age 18 and above. Valid ID is required for entry to the party.

Pretty straightforward right?

Assorted stuff and photos for Deeparaya, Deepavali, Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Halloween, Putrajaya, KY, ShaolinTiger, Toys’R'Us, toes, cam whoring.

I would like to wish you all SELAMAT DEEPARAYA!!! No? Then Uncle Viewtru has something to tell you.

I’ve been seeing some Rangoli around, here’s Midvalley’s effort for this year.

The stage was for performances at certain times. I happened to pass by the area during one of the performances, it was really good so I hung around for a bit.

They played these tunes without stopping : some old Chinese tune, Selamat Hari Raya (yes I know there are many Selamat Hari Raya songs, this was the one that goes ‘Selamat Hari Raya, kepada saudara serta saudari, setahun hanya sekali’ etc), Never on Sunday, Love You More Than I Can Say, Gong Xi Gong Xi. Then there was a pause, and they continued with Chan Mali Chan and a P.Ramlee song, then I had to go off somewhere.

But I tell you this, standing there listening to them play, I’d never felt so Malaysian in my life.

At Midvalley’s Carrefour, I saw some of the employees making a Rangoli.

There was also a small one at PJ State’s Tenaga Nasional.

I didn’t manage to take much photos of Hari Raya decorations. Here’s Midvalley’s Hari Raya decor for this year (minus performance).

Last year they had a kampung house setting, I liked that better. Anyway to make up for my not-so-many photos for Hari Raya, I am willing to be your DBKL/ MPPJ. Just e-mail me your phone number and I’ll be at your house during the first and second days of Hari Raya and I’ll personally show you how apologetic I am.

This is a backlog photo. ShaolinTiger has a friend, yay!

A lot of people are seriously pissing me off. Will see what happens after the holidays.

KY thought it would be too lonely to renew his IC at Putrajaya alone, so he got me to tag along. It was my first time to Putrajaya.

It felt like we were in another country!

Totally unrelated, we have freaky toes.

I bought another insurance plan yesterday. Broke broke broke.

Plastic wigs from Toys ‘R Us.

And Janice is exploring her life options.

And that’s almost it.

I would like to wish all of ye a Happy Halloween!!!

That’s it.