Most of the time, people don't celebrate Halloween because of its dark history. People celebrate Halloween simply because it was the perfect excuse to be in costume. Like how a girl always find an excuse to own one more handbag, one more pair of shoes.
A night we can be ANYTHING and not be ridiculed.
I was a beer mug with a cup of salted nuts.
No Halloween party is complete without cobwebs. But it isn't easy hanging them up!! Bunched up, it looks like an abu-neh-nehs thick long locks. You actually need to stretch it out with a technique!
Daiso has all sorts of Halloween deco, and all only $2!
Bloodied Harry Potter, complete with lightning scar.
Alcoholic Kitty Abuses Farmer.
Like a typical woman, i can't be seen in the same outfit twice. So the next party, i was a Blow Fish.
Alas, i rushed out of the house so i forgot my bubbles which i was supposed to BLOW. Geddit,geddit?
W&V throws the best theme parties. The hostress puts in alot of effort in the decoration and theme.
"Who Killed Oliver Scott?"
I'd say who killed the fish?!
Somebody tries to steal the expensive Koi in the pond.
Examining my scales.
Brainchild of the hostress. So clever! When i first entered, i actually thought someone passed out drunk under the coffee table. It was actually clothes filled with newspapers!
I love my ?! expression in this one.
Yes, i am always afraid of dentists.
Best costume of the night!
And it's true, Halloween is also a night the Sluts Come Out too. She isn't exactly hot, by the way.
Then it's Spooktacular at Sentosa.
Quite frankly, i am disappointed. I was thankful though, due to our kiasu nature, we met up at 5pm, went in at 6pm and were first in line once the clock strikes 7. We finished all 4 trails in record time, 90 minutes. People who came later snaked around in a queue.
Tacky deco were strewn around.
When it came to the trails, there were too many "ghouls" springing from every corner that makes the entire trail lose its suspense. BUT i got to give credit to those ghouls who crawled on the floor. Those were scary. Wax museum was the best, because of that movie with Paris Hilton in it. Wax museums always make my hair stand even in daylight. Unless it's Mdm Tussauds, i would love for Brad Pitt or Aaron Kwok to come alive!
The Tiger Observatory Tower was renamed Tower of Terror that night. It was meant to be a "CALMING DOWN TOUR". We were greatly amused and sorely disappointed it wasn't horrific.
Kudos to all the actors that night who stayed in character throughout!
I have heard of strict parents who forbid their children from watching television, even going to the cinema. Mid-level strict parents will supervise their children's tele-time. My uncle ONLY allows National Geographic, Discovery and the likes to his children once their old enough to watch (4 years old?)
There's good in it, because my cousins grew up to be VERY bright (now 8 years old). He could recite all kinds of facts he has learnt form Discovery.
However, i felt a little sorry that he has not much of a 'normal' childhood. One where he can innocently remember fondly like we do now about Sesame Street and Putt Putt the car as adults.
I'm not sure how many of you are aware, or perhaps none of you is as hum sup (dirty minded) curious as me to go google, but society now has eroded to even tainting our favourite childhood characters.
Introducing Disney Porn.....
I had to mosaic the bits because i am shy. Otherwise, they were pretty nasty. So much so that it makes me blush. When did people start fantasizing about cartoon characters? Are the human species this warped? Have we ALWAYS BEEN?
There are alot of information on the internet about sexual subliminal messages in our cartoons. Here's a somewhat interesting opinion on Disney being 'Satanic' (you got to be prepared to read though. ALOT of text).
Here're the possible explanations for some and further accusations: taken from listverse.com
The rather odd shape protuding from the minister’s pelvic region during the scene in which a Ursula (disguised as ‘Vanessa’) attempts to marry Eric using Ariel’s voice. However later shots in the film show that the minister had rather bandy legs that blended in with his tunic and the ‘erection’ was actually his knees.
Another popular one. Long has been the debate over the dust cloud in The Lion King. In the scene just before Simba meets Rafiki, he tiredly flops down on the edge of a cliff, a cloud of dust rises which allegedly for a few frames spell the word S-E-X. The debate is that the special effects team put it in intending it to read S-F-X to leave their little mark on the film. But it really does kinda look like Sex to me even.
Now, the next one is REALLY interesting. Took me 3 times to HEAR THE REAL MESSAGE!
The scene in Aladdin on Jasmine’s balcony in which the hero is trying to brush off the growling tiger Rajah, he can apparently be heard whispering “Good teenagers take off your clothes”. The script says that the line is “Good kitty, take off and go”. The clip sounds like somebody else other than the Aladdin voice has whispered the line in but no matter which line is actually spoken, this allegation got Disney in hot water with the American Life League who used it to try and get Disney films banned, claiming they had been sneaking sexual messages to children over the years.
In 1999, Disney studios announced that they would be recalling the home video version of the 1977 movie The Rescuers because a few shots contained an “objectional background image”. During the scene in which the mousy heroes Bernard and Bianca fly through the city in a sardine tin (about 38 minutes into the movie) a photographic image of a topless woman can be seen in the windows they pass. While some of the items on this list are objectionable and some have been proven wrong, this one is pretty clear and Disney studios had to hang their heads in shame. It was confirmed by a Disney spokesperson who simply said that the tampering “was done more than twenty years ago” and the company recalled 3.4 million copies of the video that had been sold.
Children's songs were also not let off scrutiny, adults went to reverse play the Barney song like how you'd play Satanic music. The song lyrics are still imprinted in my mind since childhood! Is this really true?
Needless to say, Little Mermaid was definitely dirty according to some. They claim that Under the Sea was downright dirty and sexually suggestive. How could you expect Under the Sea NOT TO BE WET??!
Little Mermaid was my favourite Disney film. I always imagined i was a little mermaid when i went swimming, and i would sing all its songs in the shower! When I was Wet!
Frankly, i think adults are reading too much into things. Perhaps Disney is not warped, but the scrutinizers are. Maybe they ARE the dirty minded ones. Or maybe EVERYONE is warped, there's some sort of conspiracy going on in the world i'm sure.
Sesame Street has also been under fire for being adult, what about Bert and Ernie being gay because they're both males, really close, live together and yellow (yellow yellow, dirty fellow?)
I think it's a ridiculous and far fetched accusation.
In 1983, after actor Will Lee — who played chatty shopkeeper Mr Hooper — dies in 1983, the program pays tribute with an episode that deals directly with death. Wrestling with grief, Big Bird imparts the lesson that life necessarily ends, a theme many parents feel their children are too young to confront. (Watch a clip from "Farewell, Mr. Hooper") And in 2002, to fight stereotypes about people with AIDS, "Sesame Street" introduces an HIV-positive muppet named Kami. Some parents protest that their children are too young to face the harsh realities of the virus. (Watch Kami discuss the HIV virus with Bill Clinton) from http://theweek.com/article/index/102691/Top_10_Sesame_Street_controversies
I'm not sure how the Westerners teach their children, but i know for sure Asian parents back then were too shy and do not teach their kids about the birds and the bees or diseases. So i'd think that learning from educational programmes will be beneficial and not embarrassing!
Recently, there's been another uproar over Katy Pery's bouncy mammaries on Sesame Street. Got to admit, i did get a little high just watching it.
That spunky singer, of course would do a spoof after to further incite anger. You go, girl!
and the internet takes over, with plenty of warped spoofs (which hopefully children will have no access with child online protector software, that's sarcasm in case you didn't know).
In my opinion, the boobs were abit too overflowing and perhaps a little inappropriate for children. Then again, they ALL GREW UP SUCKING NIPPLES! So it's not like they've never seen those puppies before.
But i have to agree, children nowadays know sex and anatomies alot more than children a decade ago, due to the exposure of all forms of media. Is this actually good? Or do you think it's bad?
According to Wikipedia,
In the book Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America, by Strong, Devault and Sayad, the authors point out, "A baby boy may laugh in his crib while playing with his erect penis". "Baby girls sometimes move their bodies rhythmically, almost violently, appearing to experience orgasm." Italian gynecologists Giorgio Giorgi and Marco Siccardi observed via ultrasound a female fetus possibly masturbating and having what appeared to be an orgasm.
I have bear witness to something like this to a 3 year-old boy and a 9 year old (who seemed to have his first taste of pleasure) in a Jaccuzi pool at Jurong Swimming Complex, but that's another story another time!
Movie goers dressed up in their favourite superhero costumes when Megamind premiered in LA. Vivacious Omy challenged us bloggers to do the same. So we did!
Before the real mascot showed up, i was the temporary mascot to entertain the kids.
Super Mario is really legendary. It's a game played decades ago, but till today 6 year old children are aware of him and there are many creative variations of Mario on Youtube and cyberspace.
Then the real mascot appeared and stole my temporary thunder.
Moustache barely stayed on for more than 3 minutes. The perspiration on my upper lip wore it down.
Santa is certainly EVERYONE's superhero.
1) he can fly (with reindeers)
2) he can read our minds (he knows what presents we want)
3) and he brings presents (hero!)
Very creative, Yongwei.
For the first time, there's no misleading advertisement with their tagline
"Superhero movie will never be the same".
It certainly isn't your typical Good Guy VS Bad Guy. I love how the story opened with a little backgrounder on the 2 superheroes. Childhood IS very important to character development.
Then pleasantly surprised how an entire romance develops between the characters (this then becomes very adult as the principles about loving someone without judging a book by its cover).
Do we be this person just because everyone says so? Once a rotten apple, always a rotten apple?
Whether it's a bad apple or a good one, do you know what they have in common?
