Last week, I already asked my good friend to buy a bunch of drawn local postcard at Kinokuniya KLCC (top image). One piece is rm2.20 which is considered expensive to the local poscard standard.
Today, I managed to go to Kota Iskandar JB to buy some postcards (bottom image). Actually on 2 arts are available, so I bought 5 pieces for each art. One piece is RM1 only.
PIXAJOYS - a new online printing company which I tried to print out my photography postcards. As promised, it took only 3 days to deliver to my doorstep. I am so surprised because of its efficiency.
However, after unpackaging it, I am quite upset because of the shiny and glossy of the written side of the postcards. It's hard to write on it I believe!
Other advantage I found out about Pixajoys is that I can choose and select any number of photographs per package, unlike the Gogoprint postcard only one art per package of 100 pcs. In this order, I chose 54 cards per package of RM49, whereas, the gogoprint cost about RM44 for 100pcs. This makes a lot of differences.
A few day ago, after seeing my postcrossing fb friend found Sekinchan postcards, I managed to go to Pantai Redang and bought 2 packets of postcards too.
So after a long week of raya festival, today I am going to send few postcards.
1. Thoralf Kraft, Hermsdorf Germany
2. Sean Lanham, Petaluma, CA, USA
3. David G MacDonald, Naper Ville, IL, USA
4. Kiyoshi Fujino, Chiryu Aichi, Japan
5. Djuneidi L. Djaya, Jakarta, Indon.
6. Ritva Aaltonen, Paimio Finland
7. Amy Wong, Guangding, China
8. Yuriko Sasagawa, Shimizu Shizuoka, Japan
9. Zhang haochen, Shanghai, China
10. Kah See Min, Sandakan, Sabah
11. Cathy Vedder, The Villages, FL, USA
Last weekend, I visited Penang after fetching my son from his college's dorm in Alor Setar. Unexpectedly I saw a bundle of the street arts postcards from Leboh Armenian and Leboh Ah Quee, Georgetown. Hence, I bought 20 postcards for RM10 - it's very the cheap. The old man who setup his souvenier gift mini shop selling not only postcards but also other memorabilia things.
TODAY I prepare 4 more postcards to be sent out. Surprisingly, all of them with postcard IDs, which means no direct swap. There are:
1. Debbie Taggart, Oregon, USA (MY-306869, Vespa)
2. Wong Ling chih, Beijing, China (MY-306874, muar)
3. Anke Atzler, Melle, Germany (MY-307247, Melaka shophouses)
4. Yu Chiau Yu (Katy), Taichung, Taiwan (MY-307246, Melaka church)
Meanwhile, on the other address, I got few more 'direct swap' postcards from Cik Norazlin (Plentong), Bang Bang of the Philippines and Ilkin Teymun of Baku, Azerbaijan. Also a postcrossing ID (NO. 46) postcard coming from Rachel of Taipei, Taiwan. She wrote, "TW-1870701 Hi Wak! I'm Rachel from Taipei, Taiwan. This card was bought when I travel to Macau! I also collect stamps, hope you like the ? on this card? Have you ever been to Macau? The bungee jumping is crazy!!! You should try it!! " Hi Rachel, I never been to Macau but I would like visit someday. Thank you for your temple postcard!
I also received for the first time a GF from South Korea. Thank you to Jiwon. ;p
TODAY I prepared a new batch of postcards to be sent out.
1. Maria Liisa Paksunemi of Kittila, Finland, (MY-304857, vmy The Royal Museum of Seri Menanti)
2. Robert v.d. voort, Eindhoven, Netherlands, (MY-305021, KL Tower)
3. Tony Ambris, Ohio, USA, (MY-305017, monkey drinks coconut juice)
4. Elinor Sadowska, Derby, UK, (swap-bot, wet market Kota Bharu)
5. Burano Xie, Auckland, New Zealand, (swap, Johor Country Club sketch)
6. Hermina Grum, Preserje, Slovenia, (swap, local fruits)
7. Norazlin, Plentong, Malaysia, (swap, Levis Type 1)
8. Mihail Peleah, Istanbul, Turkey, (swap, Panda sketch)
9. Abderrazak Chabane, Biskra, Algeria, (swap, Johor Bahru skyline sketch)
10. Chuan Hua Wen (Saxman), Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, (swap, Orchid Valley sketch)
11. Andrea Galdames Garrido, Concepcion, Chile (swap, royal mausoelum sketch)
12. Lyko Alena, Minsk, Belarus, (swap, local fruits)
13. Julie Didriksen, Oslo, Norway, (swap, istana bukit serene sketch)
14. June Chez Cecile Garros, Foix, France, (MY-305076, Johor Bahru city drawing)
This blog is about postcard swaps, and other small hobbies. You can visit my daily photojournal on >> TIGA LALAT. Always looking forward to your comments!
