Maskerade!

We've been having this thing about masks since last week, prior to our Penang Food Trip. See, asides from just food pics or pics of us we'd thought it'd be nice to put more pics in, like prolly a pic of Chief and us or even a pic of Junior and us in iPoh. And to maintain anonymity, that's where the masks come in. Yes...we know we could actually just take photos and then Photoshop them later on, but we sorta thought that it'll be novel to just wear masks and take 'em photos. Much more fun that way, and we can leave the photos untarnished!

So we went hunting about for masks - mind you, not them latex horror masks of Frankenstein or Dracula nor them Ultraman types. We were looking for something simple - a cardboard mask to cover the entire face, and that doesn't scare anyone.

So we went a-searchin'. Our first stop, the party shop at iKano. When that turned up empty we tried Toys 'R Us. That did better, as we found some maskerade masks as well as a children's party section that had masks...unfortunately, the maskerade masks weren't cheap nor in good condition, and as for the children party masks, they were of Barney and friends.

We don't want to get beaten up for wearing Barney masks, okay?

So the hunt continued, to no avail. Thus Penang Food Trip is all on the food. :)

Then just last weekend we had a costume party to prepare for - 3 Birthdays And A Farewell. Well, requirements for that party was a minimum of headgear, but hey, it's a costume party! And we had two options - either go as a martial artist or as L from Death Note.

We opted early on for L. Costume-wise all we needed was a long-sleeve white tee, and for headgear, a mask. The rest was all in the acting, which meant we brought along lollipops as well.

Initially we thought, "Let's make a paper mache mask. Simple only what. Paper, balloon, glue, poster paint, brush." Of course, that didn't happen in the end because there wasn't gonna be enough time. So we went around Bangsar a-huntin' for masks again, as we remembered that there was a party shop somewhere around Telawi.

Wasn't long before we found Balloons & Bouquets and had fun choosing our masks. We picked up a couple of masks for general use as well as this rather spooky mask that had us in laughter. Well, not that we're gonna have plenty of occasions to wear this but hey, you never know when there's an opportunity...

So the party was a blast. There were doubles, of course, but with differences: cuisine chef and pastry chef (disguised as a tai chow cook); pre-op surgeon and post-op psycho surgeon; Audrey Hepburn and Kate Moss; Roman emperor and Greek goddess, safety overalls construction worker and building site construction worker, Japanese sex worker and bunny costume sex worker.

Oh, and two Ls. Interestingly there was also a Kira present at the party, so two Ls were good enough to throw him off our trail... :P

Photo credits: Alex.

See, this is what we've to do when we didn't put on masks. Admittedly we used Paint instead of Photoshop for this one...

Photo credits: Alex and Junior.

We had a spankin' great time, got sloshed slightly, camwhored, and ended up with terribly black feet as we were going about barefooted. :S Great party, Bunny Mafias.

Now, to make full use of the masks in future photos...