To the friends who observe this holiday, Happy Halloween!

Although it’s not a widely celebrated custom here in sunny Singapore, it seems to me that the awareness of Halloween has risen greatly in recent years, brought on possibly by the growing cultural cosmopolitanism, as well as the recent throwing-open-of-doors to foreign talent.

Of course, there’s also the possibility of all that untapped consumer dollar just waiting to be spent, for want of yet another holiday ~ in the US alone, Halloween holiday spending is expected to reach USD$4.96 billion this year. And if the number of people who turned up for the various Halloween parties at the various nightspots over the weekend were anything to go by, it looks like we’ll be adding a new holiday into our calendar soon.

Now that’s a scary thought.