Tales of Halloween

It was the eve of November, when spirits, ghosts and vampires roamed around Bacolod City, drinking and partying the night away. It was the night where some Negrenses and Bacoleños dressed up in awesome Halloween costumes and partied at various venues while toddlers held a costume party for a cause at a hotel.

My Halloween began at Garden Royale. The place was buzzling with children, who came in their spookiest best. Close to 80 children paraded on stage giving the judges a hard time choosing the winners for they were all awesome in their attires.

The winners were Giaco Lobaton – scariest costume, Adi Antonio – funniest costume, Louie Mapa – cutest costume, and Joshua Sandander as best themed costume being the Disney Villain, Jafar.

Judges were fashion guru John John Ditching, Maryrose Tuazon and RCJ.

The event was organized by a group of friends as a means to raise funds to help the victims of typhoon “Ondoy”. Mushu was the first stop of Bacolod partygoers that night, mostly composed of young executives and students. It was a fun “Pimpin” party as they danced to the music of DJ Val. The event was organized by Manuel Yulo Barandiaran. Next stop was at the new Club Sibeeria, who gave away two Mp3 Players to those wearing cool Halloween costumes. Here partygoers danced to the RNB music played by DJ’s Jao, BB Arm and Romel. Last stop was at North, which had a Halloween fantasy ball. And once, the bar opened for a special occasion, be sure of a real party! DJ’s Rex Tenio and Kid played the well-loved music as everyone danced and partied until dawn!

Also celebrating the Halloween spirit were the members of the Sampaguita Lions Club who held a night of ballroom dancing at Sipangco. Winning the prize for best attire that night was Viol Caram who came as a witch complete with broomstick.

On Halloween Day, the Caram family traveled to Isabela town to visit their dearly departed. The mausoleum is located in the center of the cemetery, the vast land of which was donated by their parents to the municipality.

The Carams trace their roots to the Biblical land of Lebanon and Spain and migrated to the Philippines.

Among their house guests in their Iloilo and Isabela homes were Philippine heroes Jose Rizal, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, and Presidents Quezon, Roxas and Marcos.*