SPOOKY creatures of all kinds and manner ‘descended’ upon Queensbay Mall in Penang in celebration of Halloween.
More than 30 children dressed up in costumes such as a dinner table, scary witch, Frankenstein, the Grim Reaper, Japanese geisha, bandit, skeleton man, murderous doctor, zombie and even fairy godmother during the ‘Helluva Halloween’ costume competition at the shopping mall on Saturday.
Each contestant was required to walk across the stage in their scary costumes and act like the character they represent against a backdrop of a giant spider, jack-o’-lanterns and tombstones.
The first prize went to Teh Tze Yi, eight, dressed as a zombie trapped in cage held by a black-cloaked Grim Reaper, the personification of death.
The SJKC Keong Hwa pupil said she spent two weeks with the help of her mother Lee Siew Leng, 33, to prepare the costume using recyclable materials such as polystyrene, PVC pipes, old clothes and cardboards.
“All in all, we spent less than RM10,” said Tze Yi.
Just the day before, she took third prize in a similar competition in another shopping mall in Penang using the same design but with slight modification.
Zombie in a cage: Teh Bin Wan and his wife Lee Siew Leng helping to prepare their daughter Tze Yi for the 'Helluva! Halloween' children's costume competition at Queensbay Mall. She turns out to be the winner The runner-up was 10-year-old Nurazryn Arysha Muhd Zaidi, who dressed up as a decapitated head placed on a dinner table, complete with food and drinks.
The SJKC Chung Hwa pupil also impressed the judges, which comprised a three-man panel, with her linguistic abilities, as she spoke in fluent English and Mandarin.
Using her head: Nurazryn en route to finishing second place in the children's costume competition “I got the idea from the Internet, and I added some modifications later on,” said Nurazryn, who had emerged best-dressed in two other Halloween costume competitions just a week before.
Aaron Ewe, who also disguised himself as a dinner table, repeated his top three finish.
The 10-year-old boy took home the second prize in the same competition last year, dressing up as Ju-on, a popular character from a Japanese horror film.
“I’d like to thank my parents for giving me a hand, especially in the last three days, to prepare the costume.
“I could not have done it without their help,” said the SJKC Union pupil, who was accompanied by his father Lawrence, 37.
For their elaborate efforts, the children were rewarded with RM500, RM300 and RM200 worth of prizes for the first, second and third place respectively.
The grownups were not left out from the fun and excitement of one of the world’s oldest holidays.
In the adults’ category, 18-year-old Tan Shyan Shyang beat the rest of the competition with his impersonation of a zombie, an idea he got from friends and video clips in Youtube.
Animated corpse: Shyan Shyang impersonating a zombie to emerge as the winner in the adult category of the 'Helluva!Halloween' costume competition “Last year I also took part, but did not win anything so it’s really great to win,” said the college student who took home a 32-inch LCD television and vouchers worth about RM1,000.
Phor Tay High School student Yap Wei Wei, 14, ‘scared’ the audience with her grisly act of pulling a ‘baby’ from her womb, complete with umbilical cord, and singing to it.
Wei Wei took home a CD player set and vouchers worth RM800.
Five consolation prizes of RM200 and RM50 were also given out in the adults’ and children’s categories respectively.
During the competition, crowds were also kept going with a Michael Jackson dance impersonation and a fashion show.
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