Alrighty, I have some tricks and I have some treats too.
Firstly, the tricks, you guys have to wait for the photos of the Halloween Night organised by Glenmarie Cove Residents. 1st Reason? I have yet to receive them from the cameramen, ie, Tony Wee, Zafri, Venu the Werewolf. How about my own camera? Well, the camera fell while busy shuttling around the precinct and somehow, the memory card's lost it's memory, what an irony!!..sigh. It's very frustrating because I have loads of photos inside.
Now the treats. We had a FANTASTIC Halloween Night!!!! I would sum it up as a BLAST. The organising committee would like to express a big thank you to the residents of Glenmarie Cove Precinct 1 for the co-operation and kindness in treating all the children with so many wonderful candies, sweets, chocolates and whatnots.
The night started with registration and what a sight to behold. We have witches, draculas, vampires, pirates, angels and a few others. The photo will tell a better story, wait for the outcome from our cameramen.
(The group of children before the start, photo by Tony Wee)
The children were split into three teams and covered different roads at different time. I followed the three teams on different occasions and glad to report that houseowners / residents (most of us anyway) were very excited and quite a number dressed in their royal spookiness to scare the children. One houseowner even go to the extent of playing spooky music and stationing one "keeper" to "play" with the children. As in all things, some kids find that amusing and exciting while some others were scared stiff and cried, ah well, all in a day's trick or treat. To that houseowner, congratulations for the effort, you are truly one of a kind. I don't know which unit because I missed it.
Many houses instead of leaving only the porch light on, took the extra step to prepare Jack-o-lantern, pumpkins carved beautifully, or should I say eerily, and I took those photographs but unable to share it due to the reason above...what a waste. I hope the other managed to take the Jack-o-lanterns carved by our people.
The Jack-o-lantern at Thomas' house (taken the night after, the first was MIF - missing in falling)
The Jack-o-lantern at Tony Wee's house
Mike from DL 3 also dressed like the rest of his family member, for this night, the whole family decided to reveal their trueself, The ADDAMS family, albeit the blood sucking one.
The "ADDAM'S FAMILY" - Mike was at home waiting to scare the kids...
Parents and adults that dressed according to the theme too, were Agnes (the chairperson), Cathy, Ramasamy and his children, Sheila and a number of others whom I didn't get the chance to get their name.
The adults were complaining that they didn't realise that to walk the whole precinct was pretty tiring, I say to you guys, good exercise eh? If adults complained about exhaustion, imagine the kids. And the kids were indeed pretty tired, probably because there are still many empty houses and they have to walk long stretches with nobody to treat or trick. Let's hope this time next year, we will have more occupancy so it will be more bustling trick or treating for the kids.
I assure you that the kids got loads of candies to last them 3 months at the very least!!! Glenmarie Cove Residents are really generous lot. We hope that the residents shifting into the empty lots in the future will share the same spirit and generosity, in their candies and friendships, right?
After the houses has been covered, the children adjourned to the playground for some impromptu games. The parents and adults cheered them during the competition, pitting the team of Witches led by Tracy, Pirates by Andy Mok and Claws by Brann (am not sure about Tracy and Brann as they both looked alike, doesn't matter) against each other. It was really a very festive atmosphere with the encouragement from the parents rooting for their kids. It was fun to see the children playing games and it is really not easy to manage a bunch kids, phewww, am I glad it is over!!!
Anyway, when the game session was over, children safely tucked in, to dream of 1001 ways to finish off their loots without the parents' restriction, the parents / adults sneaked out and adjourned to the Senangin Pier for some chit-chat, catch up and gossips. The night owls consisted of Tony and Mary Wee, Jeff and Cathy, Ramasamy and Gee, Robert and Delia, Agnes and Albert, Shirley, last but not least, Penny and yours truly.
So, there were beers flowing freely and Agnes bought everyone a round of roti canais, roti pisang, chapati, chicken wings and Gee sponsored some fried rice half way through the rotis, everyone would have finished it off if not for the over stuffed stomach. Still, being one not to resist any good food, at least half of the fried rice were gone within minutes.
I brought along a canvass to be spreaded on the grass and everyone sat around and chatted until about 2.00 a.m. before we called it a day. It was a time well spent. Truly, it has been one of the longest night and hopefully, such high standard could be replicated again and again. I know some kids were asking when will be the next "party"...I wish I have that much energy too...Until the next updates...
"TRICK OR TREAT,
SMELL MY FEET,
GIVE ME SOMETHING NICE TO EAT"
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