Wow, it has been one busy and fun weekend for me. *grin* TJJ had a Halloween party on the 30th night and I'm one of the organizers. We had it at Estella's apartment. The fun part about the whole thing was not the party itself, but doing the decorations. I met Estella and Jayme after work on Friday and we went grocery and materials shopping for the party. After that, Estella and I went back to her place to get the decorations and cleaning done. We did our own decorations - we drew and cut out silhouettes of bats, witches, mummies, cockroaches, ghouls and pumpkins. We even made spiders to hang from the beams, with cotton silk coming out of it's behind. I called them the constipated spiders. Hee hee... we hung the bats from the beams as well, and stuck the witches, mummies and ghouls on the walls. We stuck the pumpkins at the bottom of the walls and the cockroaches at discreet corners. When we switched off the lights and lit the room with tealights, the effects were delightfully ghoulish! I also dressed up the mop with my last year's dragon costume with my butterfly mask - I stuff neswpapers into a sarong and fashioned a body for my dragon lady and propped her close to the entrance to greet the guests. Muahaha... We finally finished the decorations around 5am and we slept for a few hours before Estella sent me back. Later I woke up and went to her place to finish the rest of the stuff. There were just the two of us, and Ming Ming came to help with the fruits and stuff but she had to leave soon to fetch Roy. Estella and I had to rushed through everything before the first guests arrived. There were just so many things to do, so many dishes to prepare. I made my mash potatoes and it tasted good if I must say so myself. *grin* The invitation was for 7pm and people only started arriving close to 8pm. How could I forget - Malayasian time.
The most dissapointing part of the whole thing was that NONE of our guests dressed up for Halloween as asked in the TJJ postings. - sigh - Only Estella, Jayme and I dressed up. Estella was Jane of the Jungle, Jayme was a Killer Doll, and I was a Samurai Warrior.
I made the alcoholic punch, simple but delicious (Ice 7-Up, Zapple and balls of watermelon) and it was goooood. Hee hee... coz the balls of melon was soaked with vodka and one would have to suck the vodka out together with the drink. =P Yummy...
It was a fun night. We ate, drank, talked, laughed and played games. Even though non of them dressed up, Roy came with a huge bag of goodies! It was like a bottomless bag, when he started pulling out an assortment of Halloween masks! And he shared it with everyone. *Awwww.... * After that it was photo op time! It was so funny, especially when Salina put on the Scary Movie mask with skeletal gloves and began posing. The rest of us roared with laughter. We made Jeffrey put on my Dragon costume and he got cought trying to climb the walls. We then put Kit Chong in a sarong with the butterfly mask and put him astride the mop with Roy! The next victim was Wai Kong, whom we forced into my Kimono, sash and all, AND a beaver hat! He looked so ridiculously funny. The last guy victim was Francis, whom we encouraged to wear Estella's Jane of the JUngle outfit! He obliged and Salina hung bananas around his neck and he actually started acting like a monkey! That was hilarious.
Being the hostess is no easy thing. It was most tiring. By the time the party came to a close at 1.30am, both Estella and I were bushed. After that, we cleaned up and it took up a couple of hours to do that. Thank god Jayme stayed back to helped us. I can't imagine what it'd be like just for the two of us.
So to all of you who came(Estella, Jayme, Wai Kong, Ee Ling, Kit Chong, Roy, Jeffrey, Salina, Joanne, Cherae, Nancy, Mavis, Kayin, & Francis, thank you for a fun Halloween night, at the 2004 TJJ Halloween Party! Too bad the rest of TJJians could not make it. Anyhow, Happy Halloween to all!
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