Mine wasn't mind-numbingly exciting as you would think seeing that I was in New York and all. I guess I'm getting too old for the whole "YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!! PARTEEEYYY IN NEW YORK CITY BITCHEZZZ!" Haha. So I decided to dress up a little bit and went out as a hippie after getting the idea from Leng's multiply. It was nothing fancy. I wore my thrift store dress from Vegas, put a scarf on my head and wore my frilly suede boots. I walked around with Omar trick or treating around the houses and commercial establishments in Astoria. It was great that stores join in the fun and gave away free goodies. We got free pizza from the pizza place, cookies and cupcakes from the bakeries and I heard McDonalds was giving away free cheesburgers too. Omar got fortune cookies from the Chinese restaurant! hahaha!
Skullzor says "Peace Out!"They dropped me off at the subway station around 7:30pm and I headed to the Village to check out the Halloween Parade. I think the highlight of my night was riding the subway (specially going home, more on that later) because I rode with an assortment of characters. Going into the city I rode with a fellow hippie chick, devil and she-devil, a bee, (where's) Waldo, catwoman, a witch and another group of cats. Did I mention these were all adults?
I could hear the music blaring from outside. Sixth Ave was teeming with people and police officers were positioned on every corner trying to direct the human traffic. I was supposed to meet my friends at 6th and Waverly but when I got there I saw that they were on the other side of the street but seeing that the parade was going on, it was impossible for me to cross. Good thing one of Baby's friends, Fervic, also got on the wrong side and saw me walking around. He got me a good spot for taking photos but my cheapo lens failed to capture any good night shots. The parade was exactly like the Gay Pride Parade except for the fact that the crowds were in costume too. I can't count how many of them men dressed up as the Joker, there were so many of them I felt like I was in Gotham City.
The way V was dancing made me laugh so hard because I was imagining Hugo Weaving underneath the mask.
Left stormtrooper: Where did you park the star destroyer?Right stormtrooper: It's hovering above Brooklyn's atmosphere.
I have a speeder bike that will take us to transport.
Dude behind Left ST: Dude, that flag is so gay.
Grandma struggling to work the digital camera.
This girl took my photo so I took hers. I saw my image on her LCD and she took a better one of me, though.
As the parade wound down, Fervic got a call from the others to meet up for dinner at Canal St. We rode the subway down to Chinatown and walked several blocks to Wonton Garden.
Baby and JP
I've known this lady since I was 12.She was my first friend when I transferred schools.
ang ganda ng buhok ko dito, haha
Fervic and Bing
Charles and Tere
Ryan and Fervic
halata bang ako lang kumareer ng halloween?
We parted ways going home after dinner and I started my exhausting two hour (it felt longer) trip home. On a normal day, it usually takes me about 30 minutes to commute to/from the city. I needed to take the N or W train to Ditmars so I stood on the designated N area, two platforms down and waited. After about 30 minutes and three Q trains passed by, I started to wonder when my train was coming. Then I saw a sign detailing service changes for the N train starting midnight of Nov. 1. I glanced at my watch and saw it was close to midnight so I went back up to the platform I passed by on the way down and waited with the rest of the costumed crowd. Soon, the 4 train came and everybody gets on it, leaving me alone on the empty platform...at midnight. I sort of freaked out and walked to the ticket counter and asked the guy where the N train stopped. He directed me to go back down from where I originally came from and walk all the way to the back of the platform. I did as he instructed and saw that at the end of where I was standing earlier, I had to go up a flight of stairs, turn and walk through a small tunnel, and go down again. There I saw a buffet of characters who obviously knew about the service changes. My train finally came and it was sardine-packed with an assortment of people dressed in their best halloween garb. I rode beside an irish pirate, a mermaid, Jessica Rabbit, Batman, a slutty nurse, catwoman, a gingerbread man and a black guy with long purplish green tentacles coming out of his jumpsuit. He was insterting his tentacles in jessica rabbit's bag and running them on people's legs (including mine) while the pirate yelled pirate lines in his thick irish accent for everyone's amusement.By the time I got to my stop, it was another long wait for the bus to come. It was a little past 1am and it had gotten windy and cold. Good thing I had leg warmers. I was too tired to post anything when I got home and passed out...but not before taking this photo.
Next holiday...my birthday!
*On another note,
Just saw my image stats on pbase and saw that the photo with the most number of hits was this. Hahaha! Niki ayus ka ah!
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