TODAY I receive 2 postcards from Rita of Tversted, Denmark and Sam of Singapore. Rita wrote, "Hello Wak, greetings from Rita in Denmark. This card shows the sunset at the beach at Tversted in the North West part of Denmark. I'd hope that you will like it. All the best wishes." Yes Rita, of course I like your sunset postcard!

And Sam of Singapore sent our postcrossing meetup postcard which full of the Singapore postcrossers signatures including mines. Sam didn't write any message though.

TODAY I got 3 more postcards from oversea.

The first postcard was coming from Anastasia of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She wrote: "Halo Waktiga!! Apa kabar? Akuharap kamu baik-baik saja kabar saya baik. Wah, aku ingin bisa fotografi tapi aku tidak punya bakat hahaha. Hobbie saya jalan jalan ke pantai, tanning, watching film dan makan xD. Postcard ini tell about sunset at Borobudur temple. This temple its near from my place. Happy postcrossing. Selamat Tahun Baru :) - Anastasia"

The second postcard is a postcrossing ID DE-4870185 from Mr Thomas of Stuttgart Germany. He wrote: "Hi Wak, Im Thomas and live near Stuttgart and work as a interior decorator. After work I help refugees to integrate in Germany. At the moment I have two underaged afghans. Last week the winter was coming but was really late his season. Tonight we get -20 celcius. I hope my car starts without any problems tomorrow morning. Happy Postcrossing! - Thomas"



The last postcard of the day is a GF card and was delivered by Hermina of Slovenia. She wrote: "Hello Wak! Greetings from Slovenia - the beautiful world of high mountains, national parks, impressive plateaus, picturesque lakes and vineyards, a country boasting fine wines and excellent food. "



Ooops! I almost forgot that yesterday I received 1 postcard from Martin of Slovenia too! He wrote: "Hello Wak! Postojma Cave is the biggest cave in Slovenia. With legnth of more that 10km it's the longest cave opened for tourists on world. Its special is the train, which brings tourists from entrance to Rone, where they walk and then to exit. In cave there also live human-fish. They're specific in the cave. Bye, Martin"

TODAY, I got another two postcards coming from Natsumi (bunnyonaise) of New Zealand and Sara (ssk) of Doha.

Natsumi wrote:

"Hi Wak,

How are you? 

Hope this sunset picture 

with a lighthouse from 

New Zealand is to your 

liking! NZ is full of nature 

and beautiful marine life!

Take care! 

Cheers,

Natsumi (Bunnyonaise)"

While Sara of Doha wrote:

"Dear Mr Wak Tiga Lalat, (marhabah)! 

I hope this card finds you 

well, happy and in good health. 

Thank you for expressing an 

interest in Qatar. My family 

and I hope to visit Malaysia 

soon! I'm jealous of all the 

areas you travelled to especially 

Japan. I have to go there. 

Saudia is right next door so 

I hope you visit one day! 

Wishing you the best, Sara"

TODAY, surprisingly I received 5 postcards on my mailbox. Probably because of the long weekend holiday due to the Hari Wilayah (Federal Day).

The first postcard comes from Tommy of China. This is my 21st postcard from postcrossing ID. He wrote:


Yes Tommy, I visited Beijing 3 years ago and walked on the Great Wall of China! Thank you again for the lovely postcard.

The second postcard comes from Ms Sara of Poland. I know her through her blog: sawatka. She wrote:


The third postcard comes from my own country-lady, Ms Tunteja. I know her accidentally on the postcrossing wall. She is very active postcrosser too. She wrote:




The last two postcard are GF (Greeting From) postcards from Finland and Taiwan. I like them too!

Ms Laura of Finland wrote:


Ms Emily of Taiwan wrote:

TODAY, I received 2 direct swap postcards. One is from Hannah, Germany. The second swap postcard is from Lyo of Tokyo, Japan, for the second time. Her first postcard was updated previously >> HERE.

Ms Hannah (Hanay) wrote me:

"Hello, 

on this postcard you can see our suspension railway that we have in Wuppertal. It was built 1901. I like to travel and hope that I can travel to your country someday too. Have a nice day. "

While Ms Lyo wrote:

"Hello Wak!

Thank you for the beautiful card of Masjid Jamek. At the end of 2015, I have been to Nagasaki. This is Gunkan-jima (= battleship island) which is now Unesco WHS. You can check its history on Wikipedia as "pulau Hashima". :) "

And before that, I sent 2 postcards to Ms Oscana (Oksanchik) of Russia and Martin Steblovnik of Slovenia. I hope they will receive it soon.

Yuri Gagarin - sent by Shmori, Russia.

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

TODAY I received 2 more postcards from Europe. The first one below was from Yvonne of Netherlands, but she sent me a San Marino's sunset. I asked her if she could swap postcards with and send her own Netherlands. Until now, she haven't replied yet.

"Dear Wak Tiga Lalat!

How are you? I'm Yvonne a 23 year old from the Netherlands. Last year I went to San Marino, where I bought this very nice card. I hope you enjoyed it!

Love Yvonne"

The second one above was coming from Shmori (Rita or Маргарита) of Russia. I only guess the name because the sender doesn't write her/his name on the postcard. I hope she/he will realise and inform me later.

"Hello Wak :)

I have not found a postcard with the views of my country. And so I decided to send you a postcard with our national hero is Yuri Gagarin. He was the first person who was in space, and our whole country is very proud of them.

Happy New Year and Happy postcrossing!"

Updated. 9.1.16. Shmori (Rita) messaged me and confirmed that the postcard is belong to her. "Wack Hello ;) Yes, it's a postcard from me. I forgot to sign it. I hope you enjoy this postcard ;) "

A postcard sent by Shmori (Rita) which she forgot to write her name on it.

San Marino postcard sent by Yvonne of  Netherlands.

Yvonne of Netherlands wrote me a postcard.

At the same time, I was preparing 2 outgoing postcards to Anna Koste of Finland [Updated. 27/1/16 received] and Chuang Huawen of Taiwan. I hope they will receive the postcards soon!

Outgoing postcards with postcrossing ID to Finland and Taiwan.

swap from Michelle, USA

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

TODAY I received two more postcards for direct swaps from Michelle Kwong of Tacoma, United States of America and Tle (Hyukiehanie / Khwanruan) of Phuket, Thailand.

Michelle wrote:

"Hello there :)
I'm Michelle and am originally from Hong Kong. Although I live in Tacoma, I always go to Seattle for Chinese food and buble tea ;)
It rains a lot here. But I still like it here a lot.
Happy holidays.
Michelle 2015/12/17"

I then message her:

Hi Michelle, greetings again from Malaysia.
I just received your lovely and sketchy postcard! I wonder a few things about your postcard: is Tacoma near to Seattle? And you posted the postcard from Phoenix Arizona?
Thank you again and happy postcrossing!

The latter postcard from Tle (Hyukiehanie or Khwanruan) of Thailand. She wrote:

"Dear Wak ;)
Hello! How are you? This is card from Thailand. The picture on this card is interesting place in Phuket province. Have you been to Phuket before? By the way, I hope you will like this card ;D
Nice to meet you ;) Happy New Year!
Best wishes, Tle 22/12/15 "

Thank you Tle (Hyukiehanie / Khwanruan), sawadeekrap. I am sorry I cannot figure out what is your actual name. Maybe you could tell me later. It is a nice postcard of Phuket beaches and I like sunset very much. No, I haven't been to Phuket, but I reached and visited Krabi a few years ago. It's a nice beach too.

Thank you for both of you.

Michelle Kwong lovely handwriting ;)

swap from Tle (Hyukiehanie / Khwanruan) of Phuket, Thailand

Dear Tle (Hyukiehanie / Khwanruan), thank you

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.

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: