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T minus one

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T minus one and counting.  Only one more day from my big day.  Things are piling up.  I already passed the point I feel nervous or pressured.  I simply could not feel anything.  Tonight, my groomsmen and bridesmaids met and have dinner together.  It is the first time the whole group is gathering in one place.

We had done the church  rehearsal, it’s funny that the guy who conduct our rehearsal seems even more stressful than we are.  He lost his temper over some silly questions, yelled at us and have to walk to the side to clam himself down.  Maybe I simply have the talent to push people over the edge, or maybe he is just nuts. The only thing important in the church is the entry, the exchange of the ring and the exit.  Who cares about the liturgy, no one knows the “correct” way anyways.  If we screwed up and missed some steps, as long as we improvise on the spot, no one will notice.

Traditional Vancouver special style wedding requires lots of work and co-oridination.  I am glad that we have lots of good friend helping us out.  With their help, we are in reasonably good shape.  I stronger suggest those who are about to get marry, consider keeping it simply.  Travel wedding just with the family and a few close friends would be much easier.

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Bachelor Party

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If you are walking down Vancouver downtown at night, seeing a group of guys with one weirdly dressed guy, don’t be afraid.  They are not crazy.  They are just having a bachelor party.  It seems this is the tradition in Vancouver.  Last night I had my bachelor party and I met at least 3 other groups of bachelor parties.  One guy is dressed as WWE whestler with a mark, one guy is in a cow girl outfit, one guy is a princess with a crown.  I dressed as a Hawaii girl.  Sorry guys, the photos are off the record.  I am not going to post any pictures of my bachelor party and I will not write about what have I done.  The secret of bachelor party is for guys only.

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Olympic Opening

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August 8th, 2008 is the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.  Due to the time zone difference, the opening starts at 5a.m. Vancouver time.  I am too lazy to get up in the morning to watch the opening show.  I heard from friends and news that the show is really great through out the day.  So after I got home, I go to youtube to see what have I missed.  I don’t know it is because I have too much expectation from the word of mouths, not watching it live, watching a 2″ video or the combination of the above.  I am not impressed by the opening show at all.

The firework is pretty cool, the LCD scroll is pretty neat, but the rest is quite cheesy.  The show is quite repetitive, every chapter is more or less the same, thousands of people doing some routine act together in synchronize steps.  No dispute that those volunteers spent lots of time to practice for tonight’s show.  I admire their effort but I also laugh at their stupidity.  Routine tasks are best done by robots.  It make no sense for thousands of people wasting time to practice for a show.  It would be more efficient to build a thousand robots to perform the act.  You don’t need any practice, you just have to upload the same software to every robot and you are guarantee to have a perfect synchronize show.

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Worst Karaoke in Vancouver – Fantacity

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Pat want to go to Karaoke with her bridesmaids in downtown before the wedding.  She read from Geogria Striaght that Fantacity in Thurlow and Alberni is one of the “best” place to hang out in the evening.  So we went there to check it out today.  It is the my worst karaoke experience ever.  Here are the seven deadly sins of Fantacity.

1.  It is a Korean Karaoke!  It has some very old Chinese songs and a few English songs.  I just can’t find any the songs I like to sing.

2. They don’t use original MTV for the songs.  I have no idea where they get their karaoke disc with random travel or natural life footage with funny MIDI music.  You just can’t sing without a decent background music.

3.  The AV equipment sucks.  They are still using CRT TV.  Come on, even advertisment in toilet use LCD these days.  The sound system is crap, I keep hearing funny cracks from the speakers.

4. Song entry system form the 80’s.  You have to find the song from a binder, then enter the 6 digit code.  Worst of all, the system has zero buffer.  You can only enter a new song after the current song is finish.

5.  It’s not cheap.  It costs me $50 for 2 hours.

6.  It is stinky.  I can smell the bleach they use to clean the floor.

7.  Zero service.  We were there for two hours, but no one ever come to asked us whether I would like to order anything to drink or to eat.

This karaoke is so bad that it is already added to to my black listed.  It frustrated me so much that I paid them zero tips.  The moral of this story is that never trust any reviews from any free newspaper.

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Visa card

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My credit card is a platinum Visa card that requires annual fee.  Through my Visa card, I get free travel insurance up to 15 days, auto rental insurance and road side assistance.  I never used any of those services, so I have no idea how it works.  I search carefully in my bank’s website, it only list the benefits under the credit card program but does not have any detail information.  I called the customer service of my credit card for more information and all I got is 3 telephone number for further inquiry.  I called the number one by one and got all the information I need for my wedding and honeymoon.  Most important of all, I asked the maximum coverage and how the claims work.  It works pretty much the same ways as the travel insurance you purchase from the bank, which costs $72 for two people.  The annual fee of my credit card is only $79, so the free travel insurance already make my card worth its annual fee.  Maybe I should look into the purchase and security warranty when I have time, see how it works to utilize more benefits from my credit card.  I think the bank deliberately not putting the detail information on its website, so that less people would use those benefits.