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In addition to scouring stationary stores to organize my school’s Halloween party, I also had to get my costume ready too.  A couple weeks ago, I had decided to be Gogo Yubari, Lucy Lui’s teenage bodyguard from Kill Bill, vol. 1.  The outfit was simple enough to put together.  I had the shoes, white shirt, and skirt.  I borrowed Melvin’s jacket, bought white knee high socks, and fake hair to make my bangs.
The biggest obstacle was going to be the mace.  I could have carried around a plastic sword, because Gogo also had one in the movie, but a mace is much cooler.
It might be hard to believe, but it probably took me 4 hours to make that.  At first, I looked online for instructions, but didn’t want to make anything that required pvc or welding skills.  I then went with what I know - arts and crafts.  I hollowed out a styrofoam ball, filled it with wet sand (from Koh Samet), sealed it back up with paper clips and electrical tape, decoupaged the ball with silver paper, and finally cut out grey styrofoam spikes.  The chain is also real, so the mace has a good feel to it when you spin it around.  When I got to The Warehouse, some people knew exactly what I was, while others had never seen the movie. All the Halloween pictures can be found here.

Gogo Yubari, an ajummah, and Jessie Spano from "Saved By The Bell"

The downward spiral of caffeine addicts. From this… perky overachiever

to this… half naked, exposing your bush to a bush.

The Hula Girl, and the caveman	I don’t think this is what most men had in mind, when they think of two women getting it on.
	Rory, the 1930’s gangster
Tom B. (Bad Mo-fo) and Hye-mi	Na-kyung and Melvin

Quite a few people were dressed up, but if you looked carefully, it was mostly people from North America, where Halloween is big.
Still, some Koreans dressed up, as well as some Russian girls that
are studying at Kangneung University.
Kiran was an ajummah, which was very well received.
I wasn’t there at the time, but he walked in with a tub of vegetables balanced on his head.
Kiran’s co-worker, Sheena was Jessie Spano, from "Saved by the Bell."
You know, the one that later went on to do that critically acclaimed movie, "Showgirls".
Sheena also had a specific episode of
"Saved by the Bell" that she was trying to convey.
It was called "Jessie’s Song", where Jessie gets hooked on caffeine pills.
If you haven’t seen it, here’s the synopsis:

Jessie joins a singing trio with Kelly, and Lisa but finds that it is difficult to find time for singing and her studies. Jessie starts to take caffeine pills so she can keep up on everything including a particularly difficult Geometry exam. Things start to fall apart for her as she becomes addicted to the pills. Slater finds pills in Jessie’s book bag while looking for a pencil for class. Slater confronts her but it does no good. Zack doesn’t believe Jessie has a problem even though Slater tells him. Zack ultimately discovers Jessie’s addiction and tries to help but at first she won’t listen. Jessie eventually agrees she needs help. During one singing tryout Jessie screams "I’m so excited" as part of her song but the pills have made her so excited that she sounds terrible, and tired. At the shows end, music executives come to the Max to watch the trio sing. Jessie is absent because of her problem, and Screech has to fill in.