Some people really get into the spirit of things come Halloween!
Then there are those who don't need a festive excuse
to indulge in tricks (and jokes)... ;b
This
evening and also last Saturday night, I saw people out on the streets
and in the MTR dressed up as ghosts, ghouls, zombies and -- more
cutesily -- as pumpkins; something I've come to increasingly expect when
Halloween comes along (and also the closest Saturday night before it).
But while I've been occasionally amused by those parading about in
costume during this time of the year -- including, most memorably, a
woman dressed up as a Na'vi from Avatar
who was in the same MTR carriage as me one evening a few years back -- I've not felt much of an inclination to join in the dressing up.
And
for the record: I definitely have not been inclined to do up my abode
in ways that get one realizing that some people really get into the
spirit of Halloween when this American festival whose popularity has
spread around the world, including to Hong Kong, comes along. However,
upon coming across a patch of road that had streaks of red candle wax on
it while out hiking with two friends one afternoon, something
mischievous took hold of me. More specifically, I saw the possibility
of a good horror image coming out of my going and lying on it!
Interestingly, although the friends I was with and I all had an enjoyable giggle while I lay down on the fortunately very quiet, deserted road and made like Death had taken me into its embrace, one of them later had cold feet about my posting the picture on this blog. At the very least, he suggested, wait until Halloween to share the photo. Then people will be more likely to be amused rather than shocked, or even horrified -- and, I suppose, view the image as a comic treat rather than bad taste joke/trick! ;b
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