Halloween in Beijing!

I don’t usually celebrate Halloween and I don’t dress up to themes or as characters.

So when Halloween came around the corner during our BLCU mid semesters in Beijing, we decided we had to definitely dress up and celebrate! The celebrating was nice and easy, just drinking and dancing (as per usual). The costumes were a lot harder than I thought!

When we went for dinner at a Yunnan Restaurant near Club 13, we were taken to the back of the restaurant. Where they hiding us from their other patrons or giving us VIP treatment? It doesn’t matter, the food tasted really good! =) The waiters and patrons just couldn’t take their eyes off the group of us. Not only were we foreigners (and speaking quite loudly in plain English), but we were completely dressed up in strange costumes.

Beijing Insight Smart Guide A fabulous vacation is as easy as ABC with all-new full-color Smart Guides. This new travel series packs a lot of information into an accessible, compact format with a unique A-Z design making it easy to find what you”re looking for. We”ve found local writers and travel experts who know the destination intimately and who recommend their favorite places to eat, drink, shop and stay. Their recommendations are not the usual travel guidebook fare – many of them are new and exciting, quirky and interesting places you will not find in other guidebooks.

Just like the asians back home, a large majority of the people (who happened to be : Korean, Japanese, Chinese) did NOT wear a costume! Ah, what is it about costumes that scares people off?

The club had live Japanese and Korean bands performing on stage. One of the groups sang a few English songs in terrible English… But we couldn’t help but join in the chorus either way =P

Club 13 was pretty packed at one point, they had some pretty good acts and atmosphere but we were a bit disappointed when the party ended at 24:00hrs. We also missed out on the costume competition because we were eating dinner =(

One of the funniest moments I recall from that day was when our Japanese classmate, who told us about the party, dressed up as a mummy! It was so fun and exciting having everyone helping each other prepare and get ready for the event. I was a bit disappointed when the bandages we stitched were taken off though, it took AGES to sew and we had to redo it a few times because of… difficult areas *coff*crotch*coff*

We were expecting to party late into the night so when the party at Club13 ended, we finished off the night at the local Wudaokou club, Propaganda (must blog about this place later!). We might have looked a little odd in costumes but Propaganda alcohol has some nasty side effects, the other patrons probably thought they were hallucinating!