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Recap 2008-09-18 The Chedi Club Ubud

18 September - 20 September Honeymoon at The Chedi Club Ubud The limousine from The Chedi Club arrived at 12:30pm when we checked out the villa in our living room. Then we headed to the Ubud, the middle part of Bali, where we've been missing in the last five years. We grabbed from drinks and food from the mini-bar of The Gangsa so we could keep eating and drinking on the way to Ubud! The Chedi Club is at Tanah Gajah, 15mins away from the central of Ubud. It was surrounded by all sides by green rice fields, we were welcomed and greeted by our dedicated butler called Swam. Swam is a smart young guy I guess he is at late-20. He drove the buggy and showed us arround the facility in the resort and our room facility. The Chedi Club started since 2005, it was a private garden owned by the Indoesian architect and then he invited GHM group to invent it to the resort. It has about 20 villas and suites and they are all self-contained units. This is an extension of The Club at Legian concept,

Recap 2008-09-16 The Gangsa Private Villa

16 September - 18 September It was about free activities for G family in the morning as they checked out and head to airport in the afternoon. Uluwatu visit So it set us free for the morning so we hired a car to go Uluwatu and G would like to look at the Bvlgari Resort and the Uluwatu temple. Uluwatu is the new developed area in the southern part of Bali, the cliff side resort alone the edge is spectacular! We spent some time on the cliff side lounge of Bvlgari for a drink and laidback with the sense for a while, that's really good to have sometime looking at the endless ocean and idle our mind. We then moved on to the Uluwatu Temple, the local people stopped us for the entry fee for the temple and the guide, he said he would protect us from the monkey. The price was resonable, and we were advised to take off the sunglassess as the monkey will grab it off and break it! The temple is not really special in compare with the temple in HK Lautau Island, as we cannot go inside so we just

Recap 2008-09-15 post-wedding day 2

We joint John for the breakfast after swim, G was arranging tour for family. John was very happy and telling how exciting was Seminkya nightlife and everywhere fabulous he and Raymond had been explored! G family was sitting on the other side and waiting for the tour. The air soon to be clean up so Alanie and Keith accompanied the family to go sight-seeing in Uluwatu and Tanah Lot for the day. Chiam had already brought Stephanie, Lyn and Elsie to Seminkya for Spa and massage! So we stayed with John in Nusa Dua so we could finally enjoy the sun and sea with 45mins jogging to Grand Hyatt and then swim a little in the beach and quality 15mins sun bathing! Send all friends home in the airport! During John checked out in the lobby we met Irene, Sheran, Yan and Joy so we hired a van to go airport altogether! Sheran and Joy stayed for a few hours as they took HK Express... In the airport departure hall, we waited for Chiam and the girls, Chi and Nat, Winnie, Elaine, Lew and Fok already went in

Recap 2008-09-14 post-wedding day 1

Honeymoon?! Not yet! Hui's family As that's the day my parent and my brother Eric will back to Hong Kong, we have our responsiblity to stay with them. We did have some plan to go sight-seeing but schedule was so tight as my dad is kind of consveratism, rather traditional, very safe, need to make sure arriving at the airport 2 hours before the flight. So we decided to have a leisure buffet breakfast and hanging around the hotel until they checked-out the room. My brother and Sing seized the last minutes to go shopping! Bill from Ritz-Carlton At the time, Made and his staff from Ritz arrived at Westin for our final payment, we invited them to our room and settled the bill, he also present their card and wedding gift to us which is a very nice wooden handicraft!! The invoice from Ritz-Carlton is very clearly breaking down all the beverages we've consumed in the party, their service is very professional, polite and even more than we were expecting! I hereby hightly recommended

Recap 2008-09-13 THE BIG DAY!!!

13 September 2008, Sunny day at Bali! Schedule: 8:00am Morning workout: swimming 9:00am Breakfast with Groomsmen 10:30am Getting Together! 11:00am Get the Bride! 12:30pm Lunch at Westin with everyone 01:30pm Group transport to Ritz Carlton 02:30pm Check-in Ritz Carlton, venue preparation 05:00pm Wedding Ceremony 05:30pm Wedding Cocktail 07:00pm Wedding Dinner and Party Morning workout: swimming It supposed to be morning run but my medial meniscus in my knee hurted recently so changed to morning swim, George was good enourge to really show up in the pool at 8am! John also came to the pool and joint the swim! Chiam said the gym looks nice so he went for a run, my brother and Sing was still sleeping....As Ki wanted to take a few more *bed time* shot with me and G in the morning so I just swam for 30mins to wake myself up! Breakfast with Groomsmen I re-joint Chiam, John and George for the breakfast after taking few shot on the bed! It was a bit rush for me but very nice to sit down with so

Recap 2008-09-12 pre-wedding shot, rehearsal, dinner

Buffet breakfast at about 8am and our families already there! This morning would be pre-wedding shot and make-up trial by Ki and Cha Ling, afternoon would be wedding rehearsal in Ritz Carlton, evening would be sunset dinner with all friends just arrived! After the breakfast Alanie and Keith, Ki and Cha Ling arrived at our room, they are all the playful-minded happy people! G was easy to be influenced so she quickly got back the mood! By the time Cha Ling was seeing the dress of G and trying the make-up, Alanie and Keith brought Ki to walk around the Westin and look for some scene, I was typing G's complaint letter on the blackberry and sending to any room service manager, executive manager....anyone we could shot! A few minutes after pressing the send, my telephone ring and he was the Room Service Manager, acknowledging the receive of the email and understanding our problem, we agreed to talk about it during lunch break as we were busy preparing for the wedding shot, G didn't w

Recap 2008-09-11 Taking off to Bali

Before the alarm clock ring, my dad already called me and said "We are just on the bus A12, how about you?" Of course I replied "Yes we wake up already!" I just washed my eyes and it was 5:40am. G and I both waked up, washed up, frankly I couldn't say we were happy in that morning. Sonic fat-Kin, the van driver, already arrived at our building on time, 6:15am, G wasn't ready yet, so I moved all pieces of luggage to the Van first... I put my wedding dress and shoes altogether with some photography/lighting equipments from our photographer Ki into one luggage, that's solely for wedding; I used an Orca triathlon training bag which big enough for all holiday clothes, that's solely for vocation. My hand-carry bag included the vintage film camera by Ki and freshly made mooncake by Mary as the gift of wedding. G had two luggage for all the clothes and wedding decorative materials, including our guestbooks, pre-wedding photo albums... We also had one box of

Recap 2008-09-10 Final preparation in HK

The day was approaching, we both took 2 days off for the final preparation, G was busy preparing some nice decorative for the wedding cocktail and reception to top-up the overall decoration. I was busy wrapping up all the red/white wine bottles for the flight check-in...we both were very busy and running around for anything like making sure of all currencies and cash and Lai-See enough and also about the family and friends arrangement, group travel itinerary, wedding day schedule final checkup, decorative materials packing, emailing all friends and family for the flight check-in, seat confirmation, reminding the Bali airport pick-up arrangement, time was flying so quick and we were still not able to confirm where to go and where to stay for our honeymoon, it was mid-night already, no plan could be a good plan but we were not backpacking this time so we should have something nicer! Anyway it was too late and we decided to left it after our wedding, we still have time as wedding on 13, b

Music in our wedding

"hey all friends, if you still miss the music in our wedding, here is the rundown of the playlist showing the sequence of the songs and its time! memorable enough! also the album and name! this was not a pre-arranged sequence but shuffle all songs in the pool! cheers, charles"

Bali pictures consolidation

Hey all our dear friends! We just back on Saturday and we are still in honeymoon for a few days in HK and slowly get back to our daily routine! Yeah, already seen so many pictures on the facebook from most of you, Thanks everyone for the great pictures from different angles, we just open the picture and video upload in our facebook group so you can upload some of your selection! http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=66570665174 we will also update our travelogue in our blog and honeymoon pictures by *strictly* selection!! We also wish to collect all of your pictures and consolidate into the single DVD and distribute a copy to everyone as a C&G wedding and Bali picture collection. *you may downsize it to a more computer-friendly scale say 1024x768 if your files are too big... Chiam, please help to collect it from the Sonic frds, thanks! So we hope everything could be done sooner or later and we can meet everyone at our post-wedding BBQ party on 25 October, Sat night, Shek O back

They will sing for our evening!

Laura Fygi, Stan Getz, Robbie Williams....and various artists will sing and play for our evening! Of course we will also have Stephanie Bina! Thanks everyone!

Broadcast to all Bali guests!

email broadcast to all Bali guests! Dear all friends, It's me again! Gigi and I have just sorted out some suggested activites for you, one of them is *compulsory*! 12/9 Fri 6:00pm Sunset seafood dinner at Teba Cafe, Jimbaran Bay Address: Jl. Four Seasons Resort, Pantai Muaya, Jimbaran Bali Tel:+62361 703156 +6281 2391 3766 +6281 2399 6579 Fax. +62361 703156 Email : tebacafe@indo.com *!!compulsory!!* 13/9 Sat Gigi and Charles wedding day, 4:00pm arrival for all guests 14/9 Sun 3:00pm White Water Rafting (organized by Chiam) 7:00pm Post-wedding dinner + party til late (at own cost!!) 15/9 Mon 12:00 noon Lunch at Bulgari Hotel (at own cost!!) 2:00pm transport to airport and goodbye to most of you. These are just the rough idea, you may have your own getaway plan, let us know if you're IN so we'll include you in the arrangement. Anyone interested to try White Water Rafting please reply to my friend Edwin Chiam, he will do some arrangement. It should be something like this: http