Tuesday, November 1, 2005

   Beware the Ninja of New Westminster!!!
So, apparently I became famous last night as "the ninja" . . .


(Five hours earlier . . .)

It was about 1pm or so. I really didn't know what I was gonna dress up as, if I was gonna dress up at all. In any case, I had all this ninja-like stuff lying around now (y'know, that "ninja accessory kit", the Naruto headband . . .) . . . I didn't solidify on it, but I ended up wearing my kung-fu pants for the day and a black t-shirt. Went to the aniki's house for a bit to drop off a cheque my mom had written up for him. So I hung out with him for the afternoon, shopping, going to the bank, and then bumming at his place while he played NFL 2006 with his actor-friend. Fun times . . . but yeah, I still had to carve that pumpkin . . . got home as fast as I could . . .

It was about 5pm when I arrived. Those kids were fixin' to be at my door any second . . . I was thinking fast, thinking fast . . . 'cause if you ever saw my pumpkin from last year, you know I HAVE to make these look good. I mean, it's amazing what you can really do with just an old, super-sharp filleting knife . . .

In the long run, I did decide to go anime-style . . . then it kinda exploded from there. Using some Naruto screencaps as a guide, I quickly put together an "angry" face and proceeded to lay into the rather large pumpkin. From there, I just kept going . . . I then asked my younger brother,
"if you wanna help, think of a way to make arms I can stick into this that can hold sais . . ."
End result was that I cut a chunk out from the back, plugged that into its side as an arm, and stuck a sai into it. I didn't have enough room to really do that for the other side, though, so we put a mangled "stump" on the other side . . . here's the end result:


And from the side:


And from the other side:


So basically, the brother got the idea to drip wax over the "stump", and it looks good. After we took the pictures we also dripped wax on the bit on the ground. It was brutally awesome.

Annnd . . . yeah, the carver himself:


(In the first one, I'm holding the infamous filleting knife)

So yeah, I dressed up for the pose . . . . . buuuut, then I decided that I might as well do what I was thinking about doing - go all-out ninja, and give out candy OUTSIDE my house. Originally I was thinking of maybe tossing it from the roof and stuff, but well . . . it just rained, roof was damn slippery . . . yeah, I didn't wanna die. In ANY case, though, I did re-dress myself. Changed my black t-shirt for a light grey one, found some other Chinese shirt in my closet and folded it around and tied it under my pants with a kung-fu belt. Then I took the $5 ninja sword, tied my Indiana Jones whip to it so I could sling it on my back, and my Indiana Jones bag and put that on as well (that costume has kicked so much ass for me). Finished it off with the Naruto headband and the now-famous T-SHIRT NINJA MASK . . . . . and well, I looked like this:



So yeah, I filled the satchel bag with as much candy as it would hold, and proceeded to hide around my house . . . . . it was rocky at first, but eventually I got my method down by hiding behind the bushes next to the stairs leading to the front of my house.
Then, I waited for the last kid to walk past me, snuck up on them, and after they shouted "trick or treat!" I'd tap them on the shoulder or something and say hello. I'd give them candy afterwards.

How evil, huh? It gets better . . . I figured the older kids could take a bit more . . . . . nya ha ha . . .

A group of three girls walked by - they were maybe early to mid teens . . . . . I snuck up behind the last one, put the sword in front of her throat and went "what do you want?!" She freaked out and the rest of them turned around shocked. When they realised I was giving candy, they thought it was bloody good.

Later on, these three guys in skull-type masks (one with a skull morning star) come up the stairs. Now, earlier I heard them at another house and one commented, "nothing scares me . . ." Well, I put it to the test . . . again, waited 'til they walked past . . . then I got right behind one, went "boo."
The shocked gasp and turn around of two was priceless . . . .
One noticed it was a Naruto headband . . . . . so yeah, that was good . . . . . .

So yeah, word of mouth actually travelled about me. After I was done, I'd hear the kids run to their parents going, "it was cool! There was a ninja!" and stuff. As well, the parents who were walking up with the kids would notice me sneaking up on their children . . . they always played along and kept quiet . . . . . but yeah, the parents loved it too. In the end, I remember hearing some kids and parents mentioning various things.
"Go to that house! There's a ninja!"
"I heard all the kids saying there was a ninja around here, and we found him . . ."

Though I didn't know what time it was at the time, I went back into the house at about 8pm after wandering around the front of my house spying for more kids on the street. There was a long lull, and I didn't feel like crouching in the bushes anymore. So, I finished up and that was that - my shoes were muddy by then.


Man, ninjas rock . . . T-shirt ninjas rock . . . . . hell, Halloween rocks ass like nobody's business . . . . . I smell like mud and dirt now, though.
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