LAST weekend I received 2 more swapping postcards from Gloria Keung of Hong Kong and Noraa from Budapest, Hungary.

Ms Gloria wrote me:

"Wak Tiga Lalat,Hello! It is sorry that I send this postcard late... This card showing a nightview of Hong Kong. Hope you like it. :)The harbour on the picture is called "Victoria Harbour". Wish you all the best! :)"

Noraa wrote:

"Please write me a message if this card arrives, so as I know sending was okay. :)Hello! I am No'ra from Hungary and I am really happy for swapping cards.I've chosen you this card because this is my favorite place in the city (Budapest). This is Liberty Bridge and this is the most beautiful bridge here. It was built in 1896 but destroyed in the second World War, so after it needed to rebuild. On the top of it you can see turul bird statues (these birds are important in the origin myth of Hungarian people). I hope you'll like this card!Best wishes: No'ra"

Hi Gloria and Noraa, I like both of your cards. I really like photographs of night scenes like yours. Thank you very much for sending me the beautiful and awesome postcards. I hope my postcards will reach you soon too. Hopefully we will keep in touch in the future again.

Updated. 10/1/16. Noraa told me that she has received my postcards as well! I am so happy to hear that.

FOREWORD. This blog is only for postcard activities. The main photojournal is still available HERE.

YES, I am happy today because when I checked my mailbox and I saw 3 poscards inside!

The first postcard was coming from Ms Alina of Almaty, Kazakhstan. She wrote:

"KZ-22998

Hello!

Warmest greetings

from Kazakhstan!

My name is Alina

and I live in Almaty.

In Almaty there is

a big mountain ice

rink. Recently the 

skating season was 

opened and I love 

to go there with

my friends. The

ice rink is called

Medeo.

With best 

wishes,

Alina"

Thank you Alina. I like your lovely and energetic postcard!

The second and third postcards were coming from Tokyo, Japan for direct swap! Hiroko-san wrote:


Hiroko-san, why I cannot reply message in your postcrossing mailbox? Can you check, please. Domo arigato.

And Ms Lyo also wrote:


私は大阪に研修に行ってきましたし、それが26年前をされている1990年に東京を訪問しました。私は非常に日本を逃しました。私の日本語が悪いので、私は申し訳ありません (Sumimasen, Watashi wa Ōsaka ni kenshū ni ittekimashita shi, sore ga 26-nen mae o sa rete iru 1990-nen ni Tōkyō o hōmon shimashita. Watashi wa hijō ni Nihon o nogashimashita. Watashi no nihongo ga waruinode, watashi wa mōshiwakearimasen)

Arigato gozaimasu for both of you, Hiroko-san to Lyo-san.

The Figured Gate In Tsaritsino Park, Moscow, 2012.

SO this morning my son told me that I have received another postcard far far away from Ms Elena of Moscow, Russia.

RU-4225133
Name - Elena (Nena)
Colour _ green
Season - winter
Book - Memoirs of Hadrian (by M. Yourcenar)
Song - Amour (by Rammstein)
Movie - Wings of Desire (by Wim Wenders)

Happy postcrossing!

Thank you very much Nena, I like your beautiful snow postcard!

Note. Thanks to aQi for the postcard photo captured.

Stunning sunset over the Andaman Sea at Tanjung Rhu, Langkawi, Malaysia.

**First of all, I want to give thanks to Ms Lenny (my blogger friend) who shows me the postcard crossing project. Thank you! :)

ALHAMDULILLAH. After a long holiday weekend, today I received 2 postcards inside my mailbox. The most anticipated postcard I ever received so far after almost 3 months in the Postcrossing project, finally I got a postcard from Malaysia. As my mentor and aspiration postcrosser, I introduce you Ms Lenny of Seremban. "Terimakasih cik kak Lenny kerana memberi tunjuk ajar untuk wak mulakan projek poskad ini. Tanpa cik kak Lenny yang baik hati, siapalah wak yg ini kan? Cik kak Lenny kannns."

"Hahaha feeling hantar ke oversea yer wak" - Lenny of Malaysia

20 sen and 30 sen stamps of Malaysia (2015)

At the same time, I also received postcard from Ms Mariana Lino for my first Direct Swap.

"16/12/2015
Hello, Ola!
Hope you like this
view of Fatima Church
that I visit several
times and
located about
40 kms from
my hometown.
All the best - Mariana."

Note. Link to the sending off the postcard to Ms Mariano can be found HERE.

Ironically both postcards (from Ms Lenny & Mariana) shows the sunset view on the postcard which is very beautiful and mentioned on my postcrossing profile.

Fatima Church, Portugal. The name of the town and parish is a rendition of the Arabic given name Fatima ( فاطمة Fāṭimah), reportedly the name of a Moorish princess who converted to Christianity (and also the name of a daughter of Muhammad). - Wikipedia

Note. On my way back home, I managed to post my 'direct swap' postcard to Ms Charne Van Eck of South Africa:

YESTERDAY I got another postcard from Paula of Czech Republic.

"Hello my name
is Paula (17).
I'm from Czech republic.
I live in Kromeriz.
Good luck. Happy
postcrossing."

TODAY I received my second and third postcards. And ironically, both postcards were coming from Germany.

Thanks to Dorte from Bremen, Northern Germany and Nicola from Ennepetal, Western Germany. Thank you to both of you and happy postcrossing.

Dear Wak!
This postcard comes from Bremen in Northern Germany. It's a 1200 year old city with lots of sites to visit.
Greetings
Dorte

Dear Wak Tiga Lalat,
many greetings from Ennepetal, a small town in Western Germany.
I hope you'll like the postcard I've chosen for you.
It shows what our town looks like here in Germany right now.
It's quite grey and windy and the trees have lost almost all their leaves.
So you can say that it's quite a melancholic season, but I like it anyway.
Wish you all the best and hope that you'll enjoy Postcrossing as much as I do.
- Nicola