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.

Link to my previous order of Gogoprint: MALAYSIA POSTCARDS FOR SALE.

Salam my blog readers.

Yesterday I got the postcard I sent to myself during my short trip to Tanjung Balai Pulau Karimun Indonesia, 2 weeks ago.

It took the postmen to send the pity and lonely postcard to my house in 15 days.

The stamp cost is 15,000 rupiah (RM5.80), which is so expensive comparing to only 50 sen to send international address postcards from Malaysia.

From this experience, I conclude that it's hard to find postcard in Indonesia post office (kantor pos). The stamps (perangko) for the postcard (kartu pos) is explosively expensive!

Anyway, I am glad that I am still received the postcard safely. ;p

Aurora Borealis, from Outi, Finland

TODAY I received one postcard from Outi of Lapland Finland showing Aurora Borealis. It's so beautiful and coincidentally, my brother in law and his family are going to visit Norway this week on a cruise to view the Aurora.

Anyway, I am also preparing 4 new postcards to:

1. Elena of Moscow, Russia (MY-301211, paddy farmer)
2. Ulrike Jonas, Gottingen, Germany (MY-301212, paddy farmer)
3. Dyaz Ayoe Septia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (swap, Muzium Tokoh Johor)
4. Hana Kane, Christchurch, New Zealand (swap, Muzium Tokoh Johor)

Outi's handwriting, from Finland

To Elena & Ulrike Jonas

To Dyaz Ayoe Septia & Hana Kane

aQi infront of Pejabat Pos Masai mailboxes.

Today is Sunday and I dont expect to receive any mail, but fortunately due to Johor non-off day, I got a postcard from Germany! At first I was mistaken that the Postcrossing ID 'DE' stands for Denmark. Ms Sandra wrote:

"DE-4745276

Hello Wak!

Wishing you and your

family a merry 

Christmas and a happy

New Year!

Best wishes and many 

greetings from Germany.

Sandra"

But Sandra, I dont celebrate Christmas but thank you for the wish Happy New Year!

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.

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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.

TODAY I got 2 postcards, from Ms Lauren of Seattle and Mr Mukund of Pune, India. Both postcards have their own special appearance. While Ms Lauren's postcard is in wide size, Mr Mukund's description of the postcard is wrong and not accurate, and I think it supposed to be for other receipient. But I would like to appreciate both of them to send me the postcards.

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Hello Wak! I thought this was a neat postcard & thought you may like it with your interest in photography. This is a newstand at Pikes Place Market in Downtown Seattle. One of my favorite places in the city. Lots of vendors selling their wares & an occasional fish being thrown "=)
I hope you are enjoying Postcrossing. I love getting cards from places I hope to visit some day. We live about 20 miles west of Seattle and enjoying hiking, geocaching, music & movies. Happy postcrossing. Lauren ")

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Note. I dont want to write the message Mr. Mukund typed to me on the postcard since all the information is wrong and not correct. Anyway, thank you for sending me the postcard.

Postcard from India:

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Hello!
My name is Vasil.
I live in Belarus, in
Vitebsk. Vitebsk is a
native town of Marc
Shagall. I work at the
railway. Happy postcrossing!
Vasil 10.11.15

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

Due to long time journey of the snail mail sending the previous postcards as mentioned by other postcrossing users, I decided to create one more account in the postcrossing website. This time I use my mail address in Johor. Hopefully I can get more postcards by this method.

These are postcards of different countries I sent:

To: Angy & Chandra, Russia

To: Uwe Hauenstein, Germany

To: Alisa Zhou, People Republic of China

To: Jessica Tabet, United States of America

To: Barbara Kulka, Poland