finally! photos from that halloween night. i haven't gotten all my photos yet. some of them are still with j. but these will suffice.
j managed to snag us some tickets to be part of this halloween bus entourage, an exclusive event (6 buses, 6 locations, 6 hours) organised by one of the radio stations. this bus brought us club-hopping around the mohamed sultan / town area.
for those not in the know, i went for this party as chicken little.
my chicken little t-shirt, which i painstakingly painted the night before the party. white t-shirt courtesy of giordano. all other art materials courtesy of my company's art store. the secret to my perfectly painted, seemingly impossible straight lines? masking tape. just one of the many random things i learned while working for an art company.
my chicken comb / crown. the damn thing refused to stay up the whole night.
my piece de resistance: the glasses. i must give credit where credit is due. i didn't make these glasses. han engineered them one fine day, using straws, plastic covers and masking tape, whilst we were driving around the island, meeting out clients. by the end of the day, when we were done with all our appointments, she had finished crafting this little piece of jewel.
me with j. i was supposed to be chicken little. but i looked a little too happy and chirpy amongst all the half dead and goths. so d decided to add some fake blood to my neck. for the rest of the night, i was kentucky fried chicken little. which is a little closer to the halloween theme i guess. j was the little boy from ju-on. he had his costume down pat, and was a hot camera favourite for the whole night. not that it bothered our cam whore. heh.
j and d, the chambermaid / nurse. a standard conversation which was heard throughout the night:
person trying to pick d up: oh my, you hot sexy nurse you. i need you to clean my wound.
d: (deadpan) i'm a chambermaid.
person trying to pick d up: i need you to clean my room then.
(d walks away with a disdainful look on her face)
j and spanky. i don't quite know who spanky is supposed to be. but kudos to him for spreading the body paint so evenly! a post-party debrief revealed that he got his mum to help him. aww...
anyhow, as i said, j was a hot favourite that night. he spent most of the night creeping behind pple, getting into character, and being a most convincing toshio.
the party began at butterfactory, and moved on to the hacienda, which was a nice, chill out place along dempsey. nice, but completely wrong as a venue for a halloween party. drank more martell there (i REALLY do not like that drink, but they were a main sponsor i suppose), and got to know a few of j's friends:
(from left to right) the black widow, j, bao zhu po (another hot, hot favourite of the night) and THE maid. whilst d was A maid, this lady in red was THE maid. as in, from the local horror flick. the very red dress she had on was on loan from her bridal studio. most generous of them i must say! i do think she looks a little too beautiful to be a horror figure though.
after hacienda, we moved on to attica, which was very small, very dark, very smoky and very crowded.
(from left to right again) spanky, his gf, j, my bro, d and myself at attica.
from attica, we moved on to double o, which was amazing. they played music from the 80s which suited the crowd i was partying with, and of course, myself. we managed to dance and move quite a bit despite the ridiculous number of people there. the whistle used to signal that we were moving on to the next destination came all too soon, and before we knew it, we were on the bus again, with burning vodka poured down our throats. bar none was next, and i met jae, my boss there! she took one look at my costume and asked, "did you finish your entire outfit in the office?" she was a most understanding superior though, and just laughed when i admitted to my misappropriation of company resources. next up was dxo. no more alcohol for me at this point. i ordered coke, pretended it was some alcoholic drink or other, and drank up with the rest. our final stop was q bar. i have jogged past this place plenty of times during beefcake sessions and have been wanting to visit for forever, so i was psyched when i finally got to step into this bar! music wasn't fantastic, but i met shann in the toilet! which was really quite something considering shann and i have been planning (and failing) to meet up since the end of our diploma lessons in may. we stayed at q bar for quite a while, and i was beyond tired by the time we left.
this picture was taken just outside q bar. j's pretty much gone, and out of his toshio character. bao zhu po and i still grinned madly, but i suspect it's the adrenaline more than anything else. i remember all of us taking a photo where we were all sitting in the middle of the road. amazing. i also remember j, d and i racing down the road outside the old supreme court, which was closed to traffic. fun. then j kicked his feet, and his slipper came flying and hit me in the face. not so fun.
we had supper after we left q bar, and i don't remember much else. i must have crashed upon reaching home, and woke up only when my bro asked for the car keys.
definitely a night to remember.
