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Is Halloween Happy?

November 2, 2011

At this point and time I think it’s just timely to greet everyone around that ever so popular phrase known probably worldwide except in those hinterlands where not a bottle of Coke or Pepsi has reached yet! 

 

But really I’ve never heard or come across anyone greeting me HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  I’m really wondering why!!! Is this a TRICK OR TREAT?

 

In the Philippines, we do not usually greet one another with this phrase at all because in the first place it’s not a common practice to celebrate this event, All Saints/Souls Day, with pompous or fuzzy effects unlike in the western world.  But gradually with all the influencing factors going on we, the Filipinos, were now following suit and in fact even more resourceful and adept at incorporating some of our own invented or developed ways and procedures of observing it.   After of course the usual hubbubs and agonizing episodes in the cemetery, the oldsters together with their tucked in brood, kins and what-nots would spend some time snacking at some fast food chain or at some classic restaurant, as if it’s a treat they so rightfully deserved, then go straight home. But for the younger set full of spasm and active energy that’s the time to regroup and do their thing! Some younger group together with some oldsters with them were putting up Halloween Parties with tickets for sale to join and lots of door prizes in store for those with extremely weird and scary kind of masks or set-ups for the wearer.  But all the same like all parties are there were dancing, eating, drinking, and the funny getting into some kind of thrill like giving all the masked participants (only those who opted to join the game) a number with corresponding numbered chips tucked inside two boxes (shoe boxes actually), for male and female, and eventually at the strike of midnight each participant is required to pick one numbered chip inside the designated boxes and that numbered chip will correspond to the participant holding that number and he/she will become his/her partner through out the duration of the party.  Of course you have the option to dance or get your real partner with you anytime.  It’s a Dance Contest actually, Rock & Roll, Boogie, Cha Cha, Bossanova, etc. etc.  But at every dance WHEN THE GAME BEGUN you’re required and ought to dance with the one you picked from the game to the end of the party.  It’s really fun!   Imagine dancing with someone you do not know at all!  You can ask questions; inquire about almost anything at all with your random partner.  But the thrill is you’re not sure if he/she was telling the truth at all!  And all through out the party you’re not required to put off your mask at any point and time.  Here, sometimes the partner you picked from the game became your real go getter partner who’s willing to go with you even at someplace nice, cozy and quiet!  Only then when they decided to separate away from the crowd that they may take the mask off and divulge themselves. And sometimes eventually they became true partner in life forgetting about their previous partners or whatever.  But sometimes, the random matching doesn’t do any good, when one of the male or female participants is overly jealous and possessive.  Although this kind of event is kind of isolated somehow it finds ways of getting through at extreme cases when both subjects are equally handled or held by overly jealous lovers/partners and eventually resulted into some brawl.  But at occasions like this we have pacifiers or Sergeants- at-Arms well -trained to handle this situations and isolating them or letting them go home just to continue with the party as if nothing has happened at all.

 

I have attended one party like this when I was on my sophomore held at YMCA.  I picked from the box a chip number 13!  Although I’m superstitious about this number as maybe everyone is, I just let go of it and decided to play and dance with the girl holding this number up to the end of the party. In fact we even won a prize for the most romantic partner for the evening.  She’s a good dancer, graceful and romantic like a true lover!  At that point and time when the masks will be discarded or put away which is the most exciting part of the game… we all waited in suspense waiting for the countdown from 10 to 0.  When at last it zeroed in, I was amazed to see my….. COUSIN.  A sure relative of mine I’ve not seen for ages!  Yeah!  What an evening that had started so well and ended well!

 

Okay!  I wonder is there any group or club still doing this kind of party?  I haven’t heard of it for a long time!  Not even with my own kids when they’re at their teens. Maybe when some of the enterprising youth could read this, they will again have some drive and enthusiasm to revive and incorporate new set ups and more fun to it.

 

 Now for a Halloween joke:  Satan was busy entertaining a new arrival to hell.  A real macho man who died from over indulgence on sex.  SATAN:  Okay, you’re now free to choose your own punishment.  I will tour you around the rooms here and just say YES to the one you like best.  1st Room:  A young man is being whipped by a henchman.  MACHO MAN:  NO, I don’t like it here.  2nd Room:  Another young man being castrated by the executioner.  MACHO MAN:  NO!  I don’t like it here either!  3rd Room:  A Grandpa with arms and legs shackled firmly to the wall undergoing a blow job from a very sexy young lady!  MACHO MAN:  YES! YES! YES!  I LIKE IT HERE!!!  SATAN:  Okay! That’s your choice!  HEY WOMAN!  YOUR PUNISHMENT IS OVER, YOU HAVE A REPLACEMENT!!!  BOOOH!!!

 

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