Vampires and such

It’s Halloween.

Although we are not in America, we do like to participate in all unique festivals, especially when there is commercial opportunity to sell a thing or two.

Masquerade parties are abundant. I wonder why are there so many girls dressing up as witches and guys dressing up as prostitutes. Secret inner fantasy of oneself maybe?

After the recent success of the movie “Twilight”, I decided to dress up as a vampire.

They are no longer frightening creatures. Why should they be? At least in Hollywood, they always look so sexy, so gorgeous and extremely romantic. They always wear designers’ clothes and live in castles. All of them have sleek kung fu moves. Vampires don’t age or die from the passing of time. Wanna nibble my sensitive neck area? Big welcome ! Once you are bitten by a vampire, you will become one of them. Then I will live forever.

In the Asian world, vampires are anything but glamorous. They are always ghastly looking and pallid. Their clothes are torn and they dwell in forests. They must be exhausting because they need to hop like a kangaroo all the time. Asian vampires demonstrate no emotions except growling. They are considered parasite-like; surviving on the expense of their host. A monk and some magic words are all that is needed to gain control of them.

So what do you think? Will I be dressing up as a western vampire or an Asian one?

last weekend

All it took was a folia idea and I landed in Kuala Lumpur hours later, without luggage, without toothbrush and without any extra underwear. It was 10 pm on a Saturday night. Within 16 hours, we begged for a hotel room, devoured durians, danced at the club “Le Queen”, were followed by a dangerous looking drunken in the street, ate supper, battled a rain storm, tried out a new face mask, slept for 4 hours, shopped for DVD, ate more noodles and then hopped onto a bus for a 6 hours’ journey directed back to Singapore. No, there was no time to brush teeth nor to take a bath.

As good as it is bad

Even as a non connoisseur, I can tell that this is a lousy wine. Why people want to produce wine of second or third grade? Isn’t it a waste of energy and resources? Imagine all the time and effort taken to grow the vine and to crop the grape. Then the fermentation, the making, the bottling, the marketing, the transporting etc. The time from harvest to drinking may take a few months to a few years. For all the hard work, isn’t it better to ensure the result is a good one?

For the same reason, I cannot understand why some restaurants offer lousy food. It is so easy to get feedback from customers regarding the quality of the food. To improve it is easy too. Delicious food attracts more customers and eventually more business and profits. Such a simple logic. But seems like so many people do not understand.

Again for the same reason, I wonder why people want to be bad person. Don’t they know that they will be cursed behind their backs, have less friends and have bad krama? To be a good person is not a difficult thing to do. It takes as much effort to be good as it is to be bad. Nothing more, nothing less. Well, certainly they know. But why they still do it? Maybe some people are born bastards.

Formula One night race

Finally the dust settled after 3 days of Formula One night race. It has been an intense week for the organizer, the participants, the support group, the concert performers (Beyoncè and Black eye pea were here to perform) and the audience.

Last year, 100,000 tickets were sold. Although the sales figure for this year is still unknown, judging from the sightings, visitors are coming from more varied location : European, Austrialians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese etc.

In the end, most Singaporeans are not really concern who the winner of the race is. Many, including me, cannot see the fun or excitement watching cars go round and round the course. People only wants to know if the event has been successful. The government and the hoteliers want to know if their investments will bring good returns next year. The sponsors are concern if there is sufficient exposure to justify the money they fork out. And I, I only want to know if there will be a traffic congestion if I go to Bugis Junction shopping mall, which is near to the racing venue.