Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'alls neighborhood
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller...
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was personally one of my all time favorites from the 70's and 80's. On a slightly related note, who can stand listening to your parent's "love" CDs in the car? To me, it's like every one of the artists are crying in an echo-ey room. I just don't get that logic... If you want to tell that special someone you love them, you do it with something upbeat and happy like:
Wow, we're really getting off topic. This was supposed to be all creepy with the "Thriller" lyrics at the top there but that failed. Well, surprise, surprise! Tomorrow's Halloween!
Now there's a high chance that you didn't realize with all the studying you've been doing over the past week or so and the fact that we just don't celebrate Halloween in Malaysia for some reason. I don't know about you but I think Halloween is a magical time of year! It's a time where people get to dress up and go from door to door and ask for candy at the childish chimes of "trick or treat!?". Hmm, I think it's because people here are stingy and because almost all adults here feel that candy is bad for you.
Now, just what is Halloween all about, you ask? ... Well, I honestly can't tell you here. Wikipedia is hopeless at this topic apparently. Well, according to that one Simpsons episode I saw once, Halloween came about after an agreement between witches that used to take children away and eat them on the final night of October. The real change came about when a father offered the witches gingerbread men to spare his children. The witches agreed and have since returned every night on the 31st of October to relieve the townspeople of candy and other sweet-toothed delights.
Games commonly associated with ol' Hallows include apple bobbing and believe it or not, divination. A traditional Scottish form of divining one's future spouse is to carve an apple in one long strip, then toss the peel over one's shoulder. The peel is believed to land in the shape of the first letter of the future spouse's name Unmarried women were told that if they sat in a darkened room and gazed into a mirror on Halloween night, the face of their future husband would appear in the mirror. However, if they were destined to die before marriage, a skull would appear. The custom was widespread enough to be commemorated on greeting card from the late 19th century and early 20th century. (For the love of God, don't try this at home. I've read too many stories where girls use mirrors and apples and midnight to see into the future and it's all very messy in the end.)
Interesting, eh? Well, to compensate for the lack of Halloween joy in Malaysia, the ever hardworking folks here at Seafield.FM will be giving out FREE CANDY (I want to make the words "FREE CANDY" pop by making it huge and bubblegum-ish but I don't know how. So this will just have to do.)!!! Have no fear, we're not a bunch of pedophiles.
This is just it; point black: free sweets. So this is just a reminder for anyone smart enough to remove their noses from their revision books for just a minute and keep and eye or two peeled for any one of the Seafield.FM DJs who will be going around handing out sweets during recess.
So don't miss out! I mean, it's small, we know. But it's the least we can do for our very loyal audience. (I want to make you people who don't listen whenever we do shows feel guilty subliminally but I just don't have to time right now. So... er... Yeah. Shame on you. Whatever.) It's our pleasure to serve and there are no strings attached.
Happy Halloween folks! - Seafield.FM
PS: I think I'll just leave this here:
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