31st Oct is the Halloween night, just like the Chinese Hungry Ghost month. I went walking around the neighbourhood, houses putting big orange pumpkins outside the house, big blow-up balloons (shaped of evil smiling pumpkin, white ghost, evil witch etc) or a fake figuring sitting/lying at the doorstep. Kids will go to these houses for Trick-or-Treat.
Coded from wikipedia, the festival of Samhain celebrates the end of lighter half of the year and the beginning of the darker half. The celebration has some elements of a festival of the dead. The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the other world become thin on Samhain, allowing spirits to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home whilst harmful spirits were warded off. They believed that wearing costumes and masks can disguise themselves thus ward off the fierce and savage spirits.
We were invited to go watch horror movies at a friend's house. It's a norm for kids to go around neighbourhood for trick-or-treat, for adults/teenagers wearing costumes at work (normally a costume cost about $25 and nobody will repeat the costume the following year), attending costume parties or scare yourselves watching horror movies at home :p
We watched "SAW" that night and we heard a knock on the door. "Trick or treat!!", the kids shouted. Then i saw a kid with the mask exactly the same as in the movie. Creepy eh...
I guess kids enjoy halloween the most because they can get a huge bag of candies which can last them for a month. Just like Chinese New Year, i enjoyed the most when i was young. Busy counting the money of all the Red Packet "AngPao", collected from family and relatives by the end of Chinese New Year (on the 15th day).
Candies for Trick-or-Treat (finished by the adults, hee..)
The kids at the door, they sang for us and posted for the picture
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