Holloween is coming! What are your plans?*_^
By sheenmadness
@sheenmadness (1286)
Philippines
October 22, 2007 7:16pm CST
During holloween we usually celebrate it by visiting our love ones who departed at the cemetery and offer a flowers, candles and prayers for them. It is also kind of a long holiday for us who are working. My plans for this years holloween is to invite my friends and have some fun with them. Costume party perhaps. I am already excited I can't wait to tell them. How about you guys, what are your plans for holloween? Do you celebrate holloween? What do you usually do during this time of the year?:)
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@sheenmadness (1286)
• Philippines
25 Oct 07
Of course you are invited cupid ,everyone is invited! :) It's a lot of fun that we want to share it with you. Come and have party with us buddy! ^_^
@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
23 Oct 07
Going to my boyfriend's house and dressing up as my new superhero for "Who Wants To Be A Superhero?".
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@sheenmadness (1286)
• Philippines
25 Oct 07
Oh that's great! Goodluck rouge and have fun. Happy Holloween! Trick or treat? ^_^
@recycledgoth (9894)
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23 Oct 07
My partner and I are planning to go to a Halloween party with a lot of friends, and we will probably dress up for the occasion.
@sheenmadness (1286)
• Philippines
25 Oct 07
I and my husband is doing the same thing. It is just so much fun that we don't want to miss. Happy Holloween recycledgoth. Enjoy the party! :)
@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
23 Oct 07
hey sheen!!! can i join your party?? ^__^
im not planning on anything for this coming Halloween. just the usual, go to the church, visit our deceased loved ones in the cemetery and see some friends in the cemetery! ^__^ come to think of it, all soul's day is one of the rare times where me and my friends would see each other, and that's in an unexpected place! LOL but last time i wasnt able to go because i got lazy and it was raining! LOL but before, me and my friends would usually see each other at nights, we'll make rounds in the cemetery looking for our other friends and hang out beside the deceased. LOL
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@sheenmadness (1286)
• Philippines
25 Oct 07
Of course secretbear, you are invited and come party with us. It will be my pleasure if you can make it come here. Hahaha... We do the same thing as you with my friends before. LOL! From the church we go to cemetery and visit our love ones, we go straight home and start to have fun. We used to cooked arroz caldo before. Are you familiar with that? Or if not suman and we share it together.
Then we start to do the scary thing. Trick of treat! Ohh I really miss those times. :)
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
23 Oct 07
Well, we don't celebrate Halloween. It is a western festival that we don't have, but we have a similar festival Tomb Sweeping Day on April 5th in memory of our ancestors by giving them lots of paper money used in their world and many other things made of paper, which we have in the real world, for them to use. We also go to the tombs to sweep the tombs and place some flowers before their tomb stone to show our deep love to them.
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@sheenmadness (1286)
• Philippines
25 Oct 07
Ohh I see. That is still quiete a long time to wait from this month. Usually at the month of april's (it varies acctually) we celebrate the Holy thursday and Good friday. Its kind of feast that we catholics believe and practice During this time we do the fasting and to commemorate the sacrifices and suffering made by Jesus our saviour.
@dimaks (786)
• Japan
23 Oct 07
personally, i don't really celebrate this Halloween thing :) nor my family members. i have been thinking on what is the life significance of this Halloween in my life and what can it do to augment my living at the least. i am not also sure of its origin or whatsoever. i just feel that we are giving the sense of creepy impressions to the young ones by exposing them to different gruesome/scary/devilish images through the masks being worn. i dont know, it's just what i think.. my own impressions :)
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@sheenmadness (1286)
• Philippines
25 Oct 07
Actually i don't know also where it originates but i guess the true essence of holloween is to commemorate our love ones who passed away ahead of us. And offer prayers and candles for them. To show that they are not forgotten and they were loved. :) Though this parties just add the fun on the celebration
@nilzerous1 (2434)
• India
23 Oct 07
Holloween has a great resemblance with the way we pay homage to the departed souls at the Mahalaya, the great arrival of Goddess Durga. A country like ours, where age-old rituals are exercised with great care and devotion, people (belonging to Hindu religion) rally along the bank of river Ganges to pay homage to their ancestors by chanting holy prayer while standing on the river bed. Obviously, there are people belonging to different other religions and they also celebrate their own rituals. But you can hardly find any comparison to the way this ritual is observed across our country to pay homages to our ancestors.
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@clashing_titan (557)
• India
23 Oct 07
we dont celebrate it here in india..we dont even have a holiday
though the whole thing sounds intersting
@hmbw_24 (404)
• United States
23 Oct 07
well my mother usually cooks stew and soup and invites all the family. the kids all dress up in their costumes. we used to do hay rides also but not last year or this year. we also go trick or treating. in the past we have been with a group that did a big haunted house as a fund raiser, now that is a blast!
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@ryanphil01 (4182)
• Philippines
23 Oct 07
Usually, on the 31st of October, my grandkids wear costumes of various masks and stuff. They will then go around the village and distribute candies as part of their trick-or-treat activities. On Nov. 1st we go the cemetery to pay respect for our dearly beloved who have passed away, my mom and dad, and my sister. We offer flowers and candles on their tombs and stay at the cemetery the whole day. We go home ariund 8 in the evening and eat our dinner with native delicacies given by my other brothers and sisters.
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@maybebaby (1230)
• Canada
24 Oct 07
I love Halloween, but because I don't have any kids yet it's a bit low key at my house. I'm planning on staying in and handing out candy this year. Hopefully I'll get to watch some good Halloween specails on TV or maybe I'll rent a scary movie or something.
@goodsign (2287)
• Malaysia
23 Oct 07
October 31 that will be, so I have registered my family name to one of the event management here in Malaysia, at Sunway Pyramid Lagoon located 'in-town-city-center' 12 kilometers from my house. It is normal to have on that day; the bornfire, costumes show, horror movie, ghosts house, roller coaster and surfing wave where members/visitors can play and enjoy their real surf board on an artificial aqua-waves in that park.
A very interesting day and great moment memories.
Thanks, Sheenmadness.
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@sheenmadness (1286)
• Philippines
23 Oct 07
wowww... that is so cool! I have never tried riding in a roller coaster. I wish i can but somehow I am a little afraid i might fall down. Hehehe... Goodluck goodsign. Enjoy and Have fun! :)
@islandrose (686)
• Philippines
29 Oct 07
As usual, visit the last home of our late love ones, at least they can feel our presence although they are now out of our world. Prayers are their food for their spirit, so let's pray to God that they may go home to heaven.
This is also the celebration of the living because there's no work, so we're free to socialize.