Spooks and Sneezes

This week?  A cold...  Yeah, a friggen cold.  Oh well, not really anything I can do about it.  Unfortunately, even though it was just a cough and runny nose, today I thought it would be a good idea to just stay at the dorm and rest.  Due to that poor decision, I missed out on what was apparently an amazing trip to the Miyazaki prefecture.  Crap.

Well, like my cold, not really anything I can do about it.  Anyways, on to something less depressing.  Halloween parties!  First Halloween party of the week was two days ago on the 25th at the English lounge. 

That night we had well over two dozen people show up in costumes, including Yukari and many others.  Some people just wore pumpkin shirts and witch hats...  While some of us exchange students dressed in more elaborate costumes.

For the last four years I have always dressed up as a mad scientist for Halloween.  Only this year I've finally settled on a name of this persona, one Dr. Blitz Von Bonkerous.

I have been breaking out the lab coat every October since 2007.  And each year I do something different.  Starting last year I made a crazy-ass death ray as a prop and this year I've continued that tradition.  Three cardboard tubes, two pumps, two PET bottles, three cheap flashlights, a toy gun, and a lot of duct tape and spray paint was used in the making of my Physically Upsetting Thalamus Zapper or P.U.T.Z. gun.  Not quite as good as last year's Paranormal Turbulent Shitstorm Dish or P.T.S.D. but it'll have to do.

You know how the Japanese make a peace sign when they have their picture taken?  This is the Von Bonkerous take on it.  Just substitute the fingers with syringes!

One thing that boggles my mind is how the Japanese tend to overlook such a festive holiday as Halloween.  It's perfect for the Japanese custom of having a festival or two almost every week.  At least university students are catching on to the costumes and partying side of the holiday.  And at this age it's all that matters!

Japanese pizza is weird...  Yet decent.  First time I've ever had egg on a pizza.

Well, I best be off.  The P.U.T.Z. gun is falling apart...  Needs more duct tape.  I also have two more Halloween parties this weekend.  One at the Abashi Curry House with a former Gakuen student named Yo, and another party being planned by Hyun-Goo and Misa.

ではまた次回！