The First Halloween

The Wife made this. She’s done Halloween pictures before, but this was the first time she actually got a chance to do one in a country where it was legitimately celebrated. In Singapore, Halloween is usually just hunting/drinking season. The foreigners use it as an excuse to get hammered, and the slinky Asian girls dress up in borderline inappropriate sultry costumes so they can bag said drunk foreigner and get that relationship/passport to another country.

So this time we waited until evening drew on and then around 7:30ish or so, we wandered up and down the side-streets of our neighborhood. Plenty of Jack O’ Lanterns lit up, cobwebs scattered around, and, of course, a lot of kids. It was a bit of faux-nostalgia for the Wife since seeing those kids running in their costumes made her remember all the times growing up in Singapore when she wished she could have done the same, and now it’s too late.

Or at least, she thinks it’s too late. I told her if she wanted, we could probably hit up a house or two and plead the “She’s an immigrant this her first Halloween, please ruin her teeth and give her some candy” clause, but she wouldn’t go for it, she was too embarrassed at the thought. Still, it was nice to get out there and see the night play out the way I remembered it. I even saw one kid in a full Spider-Man outfit go whizzing past on his skateboard, and then spectacularly fail to ollie from the road the sidewalk. So much for those arachnid-like reflexes…

In other totally unrelated news, my mania for Rock Band continues as game reviewers with established magazines and websites begin to get their review copies. The guy who runs Kotaku got his kid to pose with the box, emphasizing how huge it is:

And over at WIRED Magazine, they also did the traditional Geek “Unboxing Ceremony” of taking copious photos of the experience, and they have a comparison of the Rock Band box to the Guitar Hero II box for the Xbox 360:

It is a beast of a box. A beast of Rock, but a beast nonetheless. I’m starting to wonder now if something that damn big is going to fit in the overhead luggage compartment of a plane…