The countdown to World Blood Donor day (WBDD) has started.
This week, however, the countdown to the 2012 presidential election seemed to begin for real.
Today marks the 100 day countdown to the opening of the World Expo in Shanghai.
Elsewhere in the park, workers are watering and pruning the plants, in the countdown to the opening.
The countdown to the New Year has begun and you see your work deadlines creeping up on the calendar.
On Wednesday, China marked the one-year countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics which will start 8.08 p.m. local time on the eighth day of the eighth month.
China's newly wed basketball sensation, Yao Ming, said babies would take a back-seat to Olympic preparations as the host country began the one-year countdown to the 2008 Beijing Games.
The ratification of the Maastricht Treaty also started an irrevocable countdown toward implementation of EMU among qualifying countries by 1999.
