YESTERDAY morning when I opened my mailbox in Ampang, I saw 2 postcards. The former is coming from Mariette of Dortmund, Germany, wrote:

"DE-4817073

Hi Wak, my name is

Mariette and I live in

Dortmund, Germany.

In December I only 

sent X-mas cards, 

but I wasn't sure if you 

would like one. So I 

chose our fooball

Stadium instead.

It is only 10 min. from 

where I live. Maybe you 

have heard of our team

BORUSSIA DORTMUND?

Best wishes and belated

birthday wishes too.

Mariette"

This is the second postcard I got from Germany in a row. Hi Mariette, thank you for your lovely and thoughtful postcard. Yes, I dont celebrate Christmas and the football stadium is fine with me. ;)





The latter postcard I received from dear cik Huda who was visiting New Zealand last month and driving by herself non-stop for 8 hours! What an iron lady she is! Eventhough the postcard was from New Zealand, but the stamp is from Australia, perhaps from where she posted it. Anyway, I would like to thank you too for remembering our friendship "yang utuh nih". Chewahh!

Cik Huda wrote:

"Assalamualaikum wbt.

Hi Wak =)

Poskad from NZ, Stem from Oz. Hi Hi Hi...

Have a good day ahead.

Thanx for reading hnr318. blogspot.

Rgds,

-NHHAS-

psstt: Best Ooooo NZ =) "

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!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 to all my friends and visitors!
This long weekend I managed to prepare and send 6 postcards to postcrossers all over the world.

1. Miss Louise Lo, Macao (the Malay traditional dances)
2. Marge Nadeja, Ringgold, Georgia, USA (Malaysian fruits) ID: MY-296906. Updated. 30/1/16. Received.
3. Abderrazak Chabane, Biskra, Algeria (the Ubudiah Mosque)
4. Jiwon, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea (trishaw rider)
5. Martha Suchomska, Pila, Poland (trishaw rider) ID: MY-297246
6. Ms Heather, Manawatu, New Zealand (Cameron Highlands)

Unless stated with ID, the rest of the postcards are direct swaps. May the force would be with the post office!

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.

TODAY I received postcard no. 10 with ID: JP-764176 from Yumiko-san of Tokyo, Japan.

"Greeting from Japan. Hello!
I'm Yumiko. And I live in Tokyo.
This is "Tokyo Sky Tree".
It's a downtown symbol in Tokyo.
The highest tower in Japan.
(It has 634 meters.) An
aquarium, a shopping mall and
a planetarium are in the tower.
It's a fun place. Hope you like
this postcard.

14/Dec/2015 from yum12 "

Hi Yumiko-san, konbanwa., ogenki desu ka?
watashiwa Wak desu.
Watashi wa utsukushī Tōkyō tawā no hagaki o okutte kurete arigatō gozaimasu.
Actually, I like your beautiful, clean and neat handwriting! Ganbatte kudasai.

Thank you and happy postcrossing!

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:

Last few days during the Christmas festival, I got postcrossers who are interested to swap postcards with me.

1. Gapongpang, Thailand (fruits)
2. Michelle, Colombia (Kertok)

And I got 1 address with postcrossing ID to Russia (above).
3. Nuralskaya Elena