Captain Obvious strikes!

We partied on All Hallow's Eve

Let's see, last night's party saw two Jokers, two devils, two Lady Gagas, two pirates, one hippie, one zombie, one fairy, two witches, one goth girl, one Black Widow, one Risky Business Tom Cruise, one Facebook page, one football jock, one cheerleader, one feral bogan, three schoolgirls and one schoolboy, two nerds, one Wolverine, one reaper, one Scream, 5 emo boys/Gerard Ways/Jared Letos, one Sinbad, one 70s jogger, one Fred Flintstone, one Adam Dutkiewicz, one Michael Jackson, one Phantom of the Opera, one Devil's Advocate, one Pocahontas, one Cat-woman, one Geisha, one Mr. Incredible, one Kungfu Hustle landlady, one Cloud Strife, one Harajuku/Lala-mui, one Datuk, one Blair Waldorf, one princess, one Mexican, and one Audrey Hepburn.

All in all, 53 people dressed up and some other people showed up. Biggest house party I've ever had a part in throwing ever (of course, the whole Lorne Avenue gang collaborated on this one).

Yeap.

You saw it coming didn't you? I've always wanted to do Audrey Hepburn, it's just that nobody celebrates Halloween back home. Dress + Gloves = AUD99. They were birthday presents to myself. This dress is the single most expensive (if you convert to RM) and the single classiest thing I've ever bought. Aside from the gloves. Props to Lady Tassel from the shop Fantassel in Hahndorf for selling me the beautiful gloves for a discounted price, and also to Carmen for doing my hair, and Jacqkie for lending me her pearls. Lady Tassel curtsey-ed to me when I introduced myself as Audrey (her favorite actress is Miss Hepburn herself). It was the most surreal experience of my life.

My Pinoy friend Gilson de Guzman as Tom Cruise in the movie Risky Business. GENIUS.

Sherry as a sexy Cat-woman!! I just loved her makeup!! Meowrrr!!

Jacqkie's Lady Gaga costume. SO AWESOME. She was a hit! I lent her my blonde wig and did her lightning bolt.

Mas makes the cutest cutest hippie~!! We also found out from our Greek classmate George that her name Mastura is Greek for WEED. It's fate.

Snowy as a loverly loverly fairy~!! She looked so pretty~!!

Our neighbor David as SCREAM. God was he awesome.

Jen as a kimono-girl/geisha! She made the costume herself!! D8 WITH A GLUE-GUN.

Carmen's mom as a witch~!! She's so cute and such a sport too~!!

The brothers Vin and Han, as two emo...brothers....perhaps they're the Way brothers.

AH MAI AS A 70s/80s JOGGER. Those glasses were WIN, but so hard to put on. Those pants were short.

The cutest couple~!! Jay as a football jock and his lovely girlfriend Anne as a cheerleader~!! XD

Rachel as a Black Widow. She looked GORGEOUS with Rubee's dead birthday present (the flowers, by the way).

Tim was Michael Jackson~!! Was so hoping to see at least one MJ at the party!!

My Sri Lankan friend Jerome was father Death~!! He even painted his face black for it!!

Douglas will forever be...the ONLY Brazillian-born Japanese dude to come as a Mexican for Halloween.

Ida was hot stuff in her Devil costume~!! Even if it was a rental, she still went all-out!!

Another cute couple~!! Kien and Carmen both went as NERDS, and they didn't know!! SO CUTE HOMG.

Yuen was another SEXY DEVIL~!! *we bought our dresses together!!* But people kept calling her Mike Tyson because of the tattoo I drew on her face. D8

Jeffrey went as YABBA-DABBA-DOO!! Fred Flintstone!! He made the costume himself!!

Rubee was a SCARY-ASS ZOMBIE, hokay?! And the blood looked so real!! That's her real skin-color by the way.

This will be the only time I call a Lala-mui CUTE. Cos' Cindy is indeed the cutest Lala-mui I've ever seen!!

Our neighbor Zeia as a goth-girl. Complete with black lipstick!! *psst, she cosplays too!*

That is indeed my dear friend Phillip Ong as another Lady Gaga. BITCHES, he was the smex!!

Sam came late after work, so he couldn't get a solo shot, but he was a great Mr. Incredible and he put on a great GUN SHOW. >8D *waffles lol*

Here's the UniSA Japanophillia gang. Chris as a schoolboy, Luke as a schoolgirl/Britney Spears and Vlad as Adam Dutkiewicz (his Guitar Hero console has some awesome stickers!).

Lalita with her SEXAY SEXAY piratess costume~!! Too bad she didn't get a solo shot! It would've been gorgeous!!

I didn't expect Arbi to attend~!! I haven't seen this dude since I moved out of Hosanna! Thanks Nevis for bringing him over!! He came as Logan/Wolverine! (that's his usual hairstyle by the way)

My dear dear friend Nevis Shkenza as the HeathLedger!Joker!! His makeup was fading a little towards the end of the night though.

Justin wins the award for most original costume (if there was one), for coming as FACEBOOK MAN!!

Jay the football jock, Thomas the feral Bogan and Jaron as Cloud Strife beating Kien the Nerd up. BATTLE OF THE CLICHES TIME!!

FUCK Rubee makes a scary-ass Zombie. SHIT.

Would put up pictures of the other 24513346700832661 guests and their awesome possum costumes but I have 300+ pictures and Rubee has like 644, so you're just gonna have to hunt them up on Facebook if you wanna take a look at all the other awesomeness. Single most awesome party I've ever organized in my life. Beats all those barbecues I've done.

Why are people so daft?

I read some very interesting comments on some videos on Youtube today. They were about Zee Avi, Malaysia's newest and probably most talented export. I was just listening to her music on my iTunes when I decided to Youtube some videos of her live shows in the US.

So I stumbled upon this video of her performing live on the Last Call with Carson Daly show.

Most of the comments were positive, comprising of international Tubers asking "Who is this girl?" "I don't know this girl, but she's good!" and others, very proud Malaysians going "She makes Malaysia proud!" "Malaysia BOLEH!"

Then there are some idiots who are probably still living in some box in a kampung somewhere in ulu Kelantan or Terengganu. They commented not on the song she was performing in the video (which was her famous Bitter Heart) but on another song that was not included on her debut album but in a Christmas compilation released by Brushfire Records last year. The song is entitled No Christmas For Me.

And their comments went on about how she was unfaithful to her religion (she's a Muslim), because she sang a song about Christmas. When other Malaysians rebutted their comments, they insisted we 'listen closely to the lyrics of the song'.

As far as I know, I don't hear her mentioning anything about Christianity or converting into a Christian.

What these ignorant Malaysians fail to comprehend is that the Christmas she sings about, as shown in this verse:

"There won't be eggnog by the cosy fire,

There won't be glasses of mulled wine either,

There won't even be a Christmas tree,

Cos' you're not here to light it up with me."

and this verse:

"I haven't sent him his Christmas card,

Cos' that would really mean we are apart,

The Christmas stockings are as empty as my heart."

...is the consumer capitalist Christmas. This 'Christmas' is commercialized, and has little to do with Christianity and Jesus being nailed to the cross for all our sins (before you all go flaming me about being a defensive Christian, I'M BUDDHIST). Christmas trees, Christmas stockings, Santa, eggnog, is all just commercialization by capitalist corporations who want to make money out of a holiday.

So how is she being unfaithful to her religion by singing about a commercialized concept of how a holiday is supposed to be, in which the true meaning of the holiday can almost be lost by people overwhelmed by Christmas lights and fruitcake and presents?

I left a little comment on one of those videos just as my two-cents. It probably won't make much difference to change the minds of people who have years of uneducated gunk for a brain, but hey, just doing my part to help the stupid.

Am I being unfaithful to my religion if I visit my Muslim friends during Hari Raya, and release a record with Hari Raya songs?

Yeah I bet they'd turn the tables around if a Chinese girl sang Hari Raya songs. "Why shouldn't she be able to sing Hari Raya songs? Just cause she's a Chinese? I thought you Chinese were better than that!"

At least most of us Chinese have gotten used to the globalization within out country. We didn't make a huge fuss when Karen Kong or Daniel Lee sang Malay songs, but Yuna gets so much criticism just because she sings English songs when she's a Malay.

Let her be. Let them be. Who's to say Zee Avi is no longer a Muslim just because she performs English songs and is signed under an American record label? Yuna still wears her tudung (head-scarf) when she sings.

It takes a lot more than just that to move one person's faith. They have faith in their religion, you should have faith in them. As kinsmen, that's the least you can do.

I am not generalizing a race, I am referring to people who refuse to come out of that shitty little box they live in, and are afraid of the monsters lurking outside that box.

Also, they're artists, the least you could do, is respect their work, and leave matters of religion and whatnot to elsewhere (I dunno, go create a thread in the I Don't Give A Fuck forum or something).

Also, with close-minded people like this, the concept of One Malaysia is getting further and further from realization.

On another note, just to emphasize the fact that I'm not being a racist douche, I have been bothered by not just this, but by my stupid mainland Chinese neighbors. One day they're gonna make me blow my top, seriously.

Firstly, just to clarify, they were evicted from one unit, to another by Student Living because after the end of their first lease, they had made the living conditions in the first apartment so unbearable that Jeffrey (who's living there now) is afraid to open his oven, in fear of what unknown creatures inhabit it.

So...

• They've been playing with that stupid remote control car of theirs in the middle of the night. It was fucking noisy, and I remember Yuen being really angry rambling about it on Twitter. Luckily they got in trouble for that and they stopped playing with that stupid thing.
• Their friend has been bringing about a really cute white dog to their unit. I saw them mistreating it, by dragging it out of the car even when it did not want to come out. I know some dogs need some pushing to get them out of anywhere, but this dog looked scared shitless of everything. It was afraid of its own owner's boyfriend, and would hide behind its owner whenever someone approaches. They had trouble getting it to follow them into the unit. Poor dog.
• They don't take out their garbage, and when their bin is full, they put their trash in other people's bins. WTF. Even when I emptied my bin of their trash came garbage Sunday, they did not do the same for their own bins, and their trash had stunk up the whole staircase, under which we put our bins. I left a nasty/courtesy note on their door telling them to empty them, and they finally did.

But what the hell. I have a feeling they're just gonna continue doing things as they please.