Halloween Trick-or-Treat Adventures

I hate hate hate Halloween season because I am a certified chicken - terrified of horror movies, which is abundant during this season. But Halloween became my favorite only because I love dressing up and dressing up my children, too. So ever since my husband and I had our first child, we started attending Trick or Treats in different places.

Well, it's not very customary (I think for me or the whole Philippines) to do Trick or Treat-ing in my hometown so my husband introduced me to UPCo, where the tradition was long practiced.

I got so fidgety that I impulsively bought wings for my daughter. Haha! Just to be said she is wearing a costume, I paired the pink wings with a blue gown and a yellow headband butterfly antenna. Here's how she look like back in 2011 when we started the trick-or-treating:

The next year, I think I was a bit more restrained and tried to make her more color-coordinated, so, I re-used the pink wings and paired it with pink dress and pink shoes. This time adding "pizzazz" with a wand:

And anticipation of dressing up continues. So this time I got more "creative" or inspired because of watching too many cartoons or animated movies. I didn't get a chance to get a good picture of her, but we tried to copy Agnes of Despicable Me (red scrunchy, yellow shirt, white shoes):

Since the trick-or-treat event is a day before All Saint's Day, which families gather all the time, we had another dress up which is Vanellope von Schweets from Wrect-It Ralph (high bun, blue-green jacket, brown sprinkled skirt, blue-white striped leggings):

I forgot to take a picture of last year's trick-or-treat costume but it was Rapunzel from Tangled (pink sleeveless dress). I even made her a yarn-wig, which she totally digged (pat on the back moment). Because it was princess inspired and she kept on copying Elsa of Frozen (my old baby blue nightgown and white blanket) instead:

And for the latest, since we have an additional family member, they became Teen Titans: daughter's Raven and son's Robin:

Ahhh... This is the year/costumes I am most proud of. I made them myself (pat on the back again, harder!). I had Raven's cape sewn for me because it was too big to be by-hand (because I don't have a machine) but I wasn't happy with finished product. It costed me P200 because the seamstress said it was a "costume" but my daughter wasn't happy because it wasn't the same as Raven. So supermom came to the rescue - I edited the costume: put rings for her finger so she can do the pose, stick glued the hood to a broad headband so it stayed on place, and sewed all the accessories so she can feel the whole vibe. The black tights she's wearing was actually mine when I was in highschool Ha! I was that malnourished (or thin). The accessories were from cardboard so I can have her helping me to color them (because she adores coloring). Then the socks were long and puffy to imitate boots or looks like wearing boots instead of flat shoes. Viola!

Then here is the Robin costume which is a total DIY: Ordinary red shirt I sewed green sleeves and yellow logo in the middle. Logo was from a yellow fabric and designed with black Sharpie. Finishing off with ordinary green shorts. BOOM! Robin without the mask because he keeps on removing it so I gave it to my daughter instead and it worked even better.

So now...I am already conceptualizing the next year's costumes because my son's going to be two and I expect him to be as crazy as his sister, trying to copy exactly the same as on TV/movie. Also, I saw a toy store nearby which sells wigs. Score!!!! P200 for the shortest and goes up as the hair goes longer. But who cares! They have rainbow wigs!!!!

Hooray for costumes! Hooray for Halloween! Hooray for DIY!

NOTE: I chose photos which my children aren't too exposed but the costumes are.

Soccer Twitter Breaker is #ALDubEBTamangPanahon

Sports has been gaining media attention and reaching pinnacle heights in “sensationalization” and now, even the social media with the creation of Twitter. That’s why games like football of the Americans and football of the Europeans had been registering Twitter record-breaking feats, too, not to mention the actual sports achievements.

We can all commit to memory Super Bowl XLIX episode in the US with 25.1 million tweets and the World Cup 2014 Finals between Germany and Brazil with 35.6 million tweets. The latter one was more intense since it was a shameful loss of host country Brazil to powerful Germany, scoring 7 to nil.

Now, Twitter has once again broken with another record but coming from a different arena of sports – the sports of entertainment.

Saturday, October 24, streets were filled with silence and homes were filled with titillating cheers. It was almost like a Pacman fight! But the cheers were almost like “kilig” or filled with love instead of support or encouragement. Instead of “Go Pacman go!” or “Manny laban! Suntok pa! ‘Yun!” it was more “Ang ganda-ganda ni Maine!”, “Pogi mo Alden”, “AlDub you!”, and “AlDub! AlDub! AlDub!” endlessly. Even some stores were closed or turned the T.V. on for public viewing.

And still just like a Pacquiao’s super bout, the true “battle” is in the arena – the Philippine Arena this time, that is. A battalion of “AlDub Nation”, fans club of Alden and Yaya Dub, stormed to the 55,000-seater Philippine Arena and filled it up up to the brim.

The complete cast of Eat Bulaga’s Kalye Serye starred the “Tamang Panahon” charity concert for the benefit of library-constructing project in several schools from Luzon to Visayas to Mindanao. The sold-out benefit concert raised as much as 14 million pesos. This is the Eat Bulaga’s way of giving-back to their fans who had been following them ever since the show started in the 1970s.

The terrific trio lola’s of Yaya Dub, Lola Nidora (Wally Bayola), Tinidora (Jose Manalo) and Tidora (Paolo Ballesteros) brought laughter with their comical acts and the adorable couple apo’s Alden Richards and Maine “Yaya Dub” Mendoza – the on-screen love-team known as AlDub – brought the house down with hoity-toity production.

At the start, Pinoy Henyo Master Joey De Leon, encouraged the audiences in and out of the “arena” to once again enlist a new record-breaking Twitter record. So by the end of the show, De Leon’s “Twitter Report” affirmed his encouragement – they made as much as 39 million tweets in 24 hours.

According to reports, #ALDubEBTamangPanahon exceeded #ALDubEBforLOVE. Hashtag AlDubEBforLOVE registered more than 36 million tweets, a reference to the longest-running noontime show’s 36 years on air. AlDub Nation’s “official statisticians” (Twitter users @ineffable and @pagkalagaan) reported that #ALDubEBTamangPanahon listed a total of 39,522,300 tweets by 12 am Sunday, with 1,646,763 average tweets per hour.

The sport of entertainment would continuously give the audience happiness to relieve the sadness of life and hope that there is still good I everyone’s hearts. “AlDub you!”

Full story on: http://inquirer.net

Someone actual reads!

Whew! I am ecstatic!

I just checked my inbox and poof! there's a notification that someone commented on my article. Awee!

Thank you so much Anonymous! And now I am fired to post my well-kept (as drafts) articles not only because they weren't publish by the website I worked for but also knowing someone out there actually reads me.

Thanks again!

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