Night Walk a.k.a Halloween comes to RJ

OK I must admit the preparation for Night Walk was kind of screwed updue to lack of foresight on my part and unforeseen circumstances. We almost changed the route as a function that ended only at 11 was occuring and some of the lights that lined the routes weren't off. I went up to the 5th floor locker area with Balps to hang paper dolls and it was most frustrating since progress was slow - the dolls kept dropping plus my poor scotch-taping skills. Made some minor modifications to the plan so we could proceed with making fake blood. Denise and me made an utter mess of the handicapped toilet (good thing its hardly used), spilling floor and red food coloring on the floor. Worse to come, our "blood" was near indistiguishable from bandung! Later on, we figured the color wouldn't matter since the LT 2 toilets would be shrouded in semi-darkness, illuminated only by candles. Both of us went down to smear words and occult signs on the mirrors. A J1 walked in on us to my great annoyance but it was truly an accident :S. Denise went back to our scare point, a classroom strewn with table and chairs while I lit the candles. Meanwhile, Charmaine was applying freaky clown and Oriental ghost makeup on our ghosts. The pictures will tell you just how brilliantly spooky they were for a last minute job! David and Wing chose to join in the fun and donned hideous leather masks.
The Night Walk was planned to have a mix of atmospheric and full frontal scares. There were people leaping out from cubicles, chasing J1s along the route, weird sounds in dark classrooms, a remote car moving by itself, sudden thuds and booms, strange priests giving out lucky amulets. I think the Night Walk had a very good success rate; the girls were screaming continously and even some guys were freaked out! The reactions of J1's ranged from the expected (screaming and running) to the out-of-ordinary (spraying water at spooks) to the mildly violent (jabbing a ghost in the mouth). Zhenggang's reaction was by far the funniest; cowering on the floor whimpering "Go away! Go away!" while hitting the ghost with a slipper. My station didn't get any screams probably since it was more eerie than scary. The waiting period from one person to the next was nigh interminable. Was rather irritated with J1's who turned on the lights or went in with a flashlight. Unless you have night blindness, there's no reason to do so. Denise told me about a J1 guy who lingered in the classroom to see how long she could hold the noise for. She gave up in a bit and when the guy was on the verge of leaving, boomed "GET OUT!" in a sonorous voice, scaring him into a run! Way to Go Dee!
I couldn't stay for all of Night Walk although I would have LOVED to. Had to fence in Nat Trials the day after. Would like to give a Big THANK YOU to all those involved in Night Walk, especially Charmaine, Dee, Darren and the spooks. Cliche as it may sound, Night Walk wouldn't have been possible without all of you guys!



Balpreet as the kinky ghost. Slanted so tilt your head to watch!