countdown to W-Day: day 28

this morning was spent still on finding hostels to stay while in paris.. have sent emails to them, Le Village Hostel and Modern Hotel, regarding our very early arrival in paris, that are we able to check-in, even though their websites said after noon? well, they have replied! actually we are not allowed to check in as the rooms are to be cleaned during a certain period, but we are allowed to place our luggages in their luggage room so we can roam around sans our heavy luggages and come back and check in when the rooms are ready..

i think i would settle for Le Village Hostel, for the availability of a kitchen, and its ambience - according to the website, many poets, artists frequent its vincinity.. i will book the hostel first, then tomorrow, book the flight to rome on ryanair.com, and of course the bus ticket from pershing bus stop to beauvais airport.. thinking of this bus ride would send shiver down my spine, for i have bad memories of it.. nothing with the bus, but rather poor planning.. yet, that is a blog for another time..

with that thing settled, i can now focus on planning the itinerary for the next leg of the trip: italy.. but now, i could get some sleep.. 

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countdown to W-Day: day 30

in less than ten minutes, i will be married in a month's time.. 

yes, i will be entering into another phase of adult's life, it is not a necessary stage where all adults go through, but a stage where two persons , after courtship and couplehood, decide to move on to the next level of being together.. 

to prepare for the big event, we two and many of our friends who are involved in one ways or another had been rather busy with trying to tie up all loose ends.. and yet, still many things are left unfinished, and we are trying our best to finish it as soon as possible to be able to catch some breath before the big day.. i am very touched by their sincerity in offering the much-needed help.. i would save the acknowledgements to after the wedding, or after all things settled and i have time to write them up.. but again, thank you guys! and gals!

with our newly renovated room ready and all furniture arrived and fixed up, i have one less thing to be concerned about.. i just have to find time and place for all the stuff that were taken out of the room prior the renovation.. many would get the boot i reckon, i would rather a less crowded room than it could have been by simply putting all the stuff back in again.. i just couldn't imagine the gross look of the room if it happened, not mentioning my wife-to-be's reaction, nor my mom's, nor the guests'..

things left to complete by the end of this week: 

the final guest list for the wedding ceremony and the lunch buffet;

the transportation plan for that day (always a dread for me to look at it, such complex manoevre);

the event flow for that day (just completed, but from the look of it, much revision are in store)..

hope i have not left anything out, and meanwhile, we still have to shop around, utilising the well-timed great singapore sale to look for offers for bed sheets, new clothes and stuff for the wedding.. the house is also in need for some cleaning and tidying up, which i hope would not be in the scale of spring cleanging, that would be very time-consuming..

my countdown blog would - i hope genuinely - trigger between mandarin and english, which means you can check out my mandarin blog tomorrow for updates on my wedding's preparation no matter if you are concerned, bored, nosy.. just joking, and i discovered i have used participle phrases for two of my paragraphs.. well, it makes no sense to you, i know, just a little observation..

time to hit the bed now!

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