Snippets: Fright Night
Azimah Bakar is currently a first year undergraduate doing BEng Systems & Control Engineering at the University of Sheffield. This is her account of Fright Night:
Needless to state the obvious, but I'm going to say it anyway, last sunday was halloween. The biggest halloween party was held in, none other than, Sheffield's city centre. The city was full of people wearing interesting different costumes, ranging from vampires and devils, to tarzans to, to BSP's overalls lookalike, to even bananas. I still don't get how a banana can be a halloween costume though, but hey, what do I know, maybe there's a story behind it. Ok, back to fright night, there were 2 rides that look scary, the pendulum and I can't remember the name of the other one, the rest of the rides were for children. There were 2 spooky houses, and sadly for us, those were for kids as well. Malu jua kami kan masuk kalau for kids saja. Karang kana ucap inda sadar diri. Apart from the rides, there were also performances. Some of the performances were fun, some were weird but most of them were, unfortunately, blocked by the crowd. The performances included a group of girls dancing freestyle (i think. haha i'm not good with dance genres), a fully naked middle aged man immersed in a bathtub full of giuk, a woman dancing with fire, and others which were blocked by the abovementioned crowd. Stalls were erected everywhere, some were for games, some were for souvenirs, others were for food.
All in all, it was a really enjoyable night. Beautiful, bright neons, sometimes even blinding ones, light up the city, with a mixture of aromas of fries and cotton candy and sweat of Sheffield peeps.
(Photos by Nashrul Ahmad)
Needless to state the obvious, but I'm going to say it anyway, last sunday was halloween. The biggest halloween party was held in, none other than, Sheffield's city centre. The city was full of people wearing interesting different costumes, ranging from vampires and devils, to tarzans to, to BSP's overalls lookalike, to even bananas. I still don't get how a banana can be a halloween costume though, but hey, what do I know, maybe there's a story behind it. Ok, back to fright night, there were 2 rides that look scary, the pendulum and I can't remember the name of the other one, the rest of the rides were for children. There were 2 spooky houses, and sadly for us, those were for kids as well. Malu jua kami kan masuk kalau for kids saja. Karang kana ucap inda sadar diri. Apart from the rides, there were also performances. Some of the performances were fun, some were weird but most of them were, unfortunately, blocked by the crowd. The performances included a group of girls dancing freestyle (i think. haha i'm not good with dance genres), a fully naked middle aged man immersed in a bathtub full of giuk, a woman dancing with fire, and others which were blocked by the abovementioned crowd. Stalls were erected everywhere, some were for games, some were for souvenirs, others were for food.
All in all, it was a really enjoyable night. Beautiful, bright neons, sometimes even blinding ones, light up the city, with a mixture of aromas of fries and cotton candy and sweat of Sheffield peeps.
(Photos by Nashrul Ahmad)
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