Korean TV Drama Postcard Collections

Yahoo! I have received the postcards of my favourite Korean TV series from my pen-pals. They are Sinae from Korea to send me the drama postcards of "The Moon that Embraces the Sun" and CuZn from China to send the hit series "My Love from the Star"! 

I was so surprised when I received the drama postcards. I am very happy too as both series are starring with the same actor, he is Kim Soo-hyun. Yes, a very, very popular idol in Asia now after the TV drama " My Love from the Star" as the character of a cool alien professor named Do Min-joon. :P

Well, the actor, Kim Soo-hyun is one of my favourite Korean male actors as his acting skill is good and he looks cute too. He has also won many awards in his career. I got to know this actor from the drama "Giant" in few years back.

Anyway, I like both the drama of the postcards that my pen-pals have sent to me. Thus, I am very grateful for receiving them. Hence, I would like to say Kamsah Hamidah, Xie Xie 谢谢 to Sinae and CuZn respectively. Lastly, a BIG THANK YOU to you all!!!! :) once again, THANK YOU!!! :D

My Love from the Star

The Moon that Embraces the Sun

Thank you for all The Beatles Collection

If you have been followed my post, you must be known that in my previous blog that I have posted Birthday surprise for my lovely niece for the Beatles Collection. Thus I am very grateful for my friends for all over the world for helping me to meet my objective, i.e. a surprise to my niece on her birthday. I would like to give a big THANK YOU for the people below :-

 

1. Catherine -- USA ---> postcard
2. Dieter41 -- Germany ---> postcard
3. Sophia -- Sweden ---> postcards
4. Nyani -- USA ---> magazine
5. Megumi -- Hong Kong ---> postcard
6. Kim -- Canada ---> postcard
7. Bob --- USA ---> postcard
8. Udo --- Germany ---> postcards
9. Vivian --- UK ---> postcards & badges
10. Kate -- Russia ---> postcard
11. Andrea -- Australia ---> posters
12. Scott -- UK ---> birthday card & postcards

 

Once again, I would like to thank all the friends above for the Beatles collection and Gracias, Merci, Xie Xie and THANK YOU!!! :)

Letter of the Month 2014 Project

In the month of February, I have participated in a project called "Letter of the Months"! This is a game for the letters challenge, which means you have to write letters to your friends everyday by using the pen. Not typing but hand-written letters. The more letters you have sent, the more achievements you would received in this project. Of course you would receive surprise letters too.

 

 

This project is started by an author named  Mary Robinette Kowal.

 

 

On September 2011, Mary Robinette Kowal decided it was time for a break. She spent the entire month offline, and asked her friends to communicate with her through letters. The results of this personal challenge were a revelation:

When I write back, I find that I slow down and write differently than I do with an email. Email is all about the now. Letters are different, because whatever I write needs to be something that will be relevant a week later to the person to whom I am writing. In some ways it forces me to think about time more because postal mail is slower. “By the time you get this…” It is relaxing. It is intimate. It is both lasting and ephemeral.

How so? I find that I will often read the letters that I receive twice. Once when I get them and again as I write back. So, that makes it more lasting. It is more ephemeral because I don’t have copies of the letters that I write and I am the only one who has copies of the letters that my correspondents write. So, more ephemeral.

I know a lot of postcrossers share these feelings - this is part of the reason why Postcrossing exists!

Mary's decided to turn February into a Month of Letters, in which she challenges herself and everyone who decides do join to write and send at least a piece of postal mail every day. Here are the rules:

Mail at least one item through the post every day it runs. Write a postcard, a letter, send a picture, or a cutting from a newspaper, or a fabric swatch.
Write back to everyone who writes to you. This can count as one of your mailed items.

We can't help but feeling postcrossers have their work cut out for them in this challenge... :) Nevertheless, we wanted to dare you all to do it! Write postcards, letters or aerogrammes or surprise a friend with an unexpected package. Maybe even pick a Facebook/Twitter friend and send them with an offline "hello!".

 

Are you up to Mary's challenge? Grab your stationery and stamps and start writing! :)

 

 

I have already sent some letters to some of my friends and also received surprise letters. I think this is fun as nowadays all the people are just using email for communicate to each other by typing instead of handwriting. Guess what?! Hand writing reminds me of my school days and I like that kind of feeling.

 

 

Well, if you are interested for Letter of the Months, you may participate now! Have fun!!! :)

V-Mail from USA

This is the first time I have received V-Mail from the USA. It is sent from Joe. I think V-Mail is similar to our aerogramme. Joe has written that this is an American Military V-Mail that soldiers used to write home with during the World War Two. Well, I think V-Mail is a history then.

 

If you would like to know more about V-Mail, you may refer to here. Joe has blogged about it. Anyway, I would like to thank Joe for the mail. Happy Valentine's Day!!! ^.^

 



Interested to Exchange/Swap Chinese New Year Card?!

Hello there! If you have been following my blog, you would know that I have request to exchange/swap the Chinese New Year Card of Yr.2014 in my previous post. Good news that I have received some feedback and some people from the world wide are willing to swap CNY cards or FDCs with me. I am so happy and grateful to them.

 

Well, I will be exchanging the CNY cards with the following people. They are :

 

Canada -- Tanya

Estonia -- Janne

USA -- Post Card Gal

The Netherlands -- Angela

Japan -- Yukie

Australia -- Andrea

 

Well, I wish to have more CNY cards/postcards  exchangers for me. As I think it is very fun! I wish to hear people from other countries than the above. Of course if you are from the same country as above and would like to exchange the CNY cards/postcards with me, you are welcome!

 

So, before the due date, 5 Jan 2014, kindly drop me a line should you are interested to exchange the CNY card/postcard with me! I am waiting!!! ^.^

 

Lastly, Happy New Year! HAPPY 2014!!!!! :)

 

Interested to Exchange/Swap the Chinese New Year Card/Postcard with Me?!

Christmas is coming in less than 10 days, ie. 25/12/2013 and it is too late to exchange the Christmas cards now. However, the Chinese New Year is fall on 31/1/2014.

 

I have a wish for the coming Chinese New Year, that is I wish to exchange/swap the Chinese New Year cards or postcards from people around the world and I think it would be very, very fun. Moreover, I can have the collection of the Chinese New Year cards from the worldwide. It will give me a good memory for the Chinese New Year.

 

Well, should you are interested to exchange/swap the Chinese New Year cards with me, kindly drop me a message. Please send me your message latest by 5 Jan 2014 so I have the sufficient time to mail the CNY cards to you. I am looking forward to hear from you!!! :)

Candy Crush Saga Game

Divine! Delicious! Sweet! Sugar Crush! Familiar with these words?!

 

 

Well, if you are a fan of the game, you should be known these words are from the game "Candy Crush Saga". Yes, it is a very popular game throughout the world now, I think. Well, at least in Malaysia, it is very, very popular.

 

No matter where do you go, if you see the people are sitting down to play the game on their hand phones or IPads, the game sure is "Candy Crush"! :P Haha!!! No doubt, I am one of the fan of the "Candy Crush Saga"game now.

 

Candy Crush Saga is a video game originally for smartphones and Facebook that was released on November 14, 2012. It was developed by King. As of March 2013, "Candy Crush Saga" surpassed FarmVille 2 as the most popular game on Facebook, with 45.6 million average monthly users. It is a variation on their browser game Candy Crush.

 

The game is a variation of "match three" games such as Bejeweled. Each level has a different shaped game board (the maximum game board size is 9 by 9) filled with candies of three to six different colors and sometimes obstacles. The basic move of the game consists of swapping two candies' positions to align sets of three of the same color, whereupon they disappear, causing candies above them to collapse into the space left behind, often resulting in chain reactions. Moves and alignments must be horizontal/vertical. The level's objectives must be met before the player runs out of moves (or time on timed levels); in each case, the player must earn enough points to get the first star (out of three) in the scoring system.

 

Currently, I am kind of "addicted" to the "Candy Crush Saga" game. I am playing the game everyday. Thus, many of my friends would receive requests from me to ask for "life"! Hehe! I hope that they would not mind for it! When it has pass over a level and go to another level, I think it is very fun and excited and it keeps me want to continue to play it.

 

However, I would not spend so much time on the game playing as I would do other things, like readings. Thus, for those who are playing the game, please do not spend too much time on it as you have your others stuff to do, eg. studying, workings, doing homework (for the students)!

 

Anyway, I wish all the fans of "Candy Crush Saga" would go through all the levels fast and enjoy every levels and have fun! :) 

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

Finally the finale of the movie of “Twilight” series has started showing on 22/11/2012. I bet all the fans of “Twilight” series must have been dying for it. No doubt, I am one of the fans for the finale.

The story of the finale is that Bella is enjoying her new life and new powers, after the birth of their daughter, Renesmee. Soon, however, their family bliss is threatened again, by a new menace. Vampire Irina believes a child like Renesmee could challenge the power and existence of the Volturi. As Irina rallies the Volturi to destroy this potential threat, Bella and the Cullens - together with any allies they can assemble - are preparing to fight a crucial, ultimate battle, to protect their family.

OK, let us take some sneak peek of “The Twilight Saga : Breaking Down – Part 2” below.

 

 

Gosh, the actor, Robert Pattinson is so good-looking. I mean he is COOL! :P I like him so much. I also like the actress, Kristen Stewart and also the little actress, Mackenzie Foy. She is so talented.

Well, I am going to catch this movie soon. I know that it is the happy ending of the story as I have read the novel series. I am still looking forward to it. Wish that I would enjoy this finale! J

My 200th postcard from Madrid, Spain

 

Wow! I have received my 200th postcard! It is from Cristina, who is from Madrid, Spain. This is my second postcard from Spain, but first postcard from Madrid.

 

The postcard that Cristina sent to me is the Palacio de Cristal (Crystal Palace) at the Retiro Park of Madrid. According to Cristina, it is a big park where people can have walking, picnic, cycling. It is also available boat rowing in the central big pond. Cristina also mentioned that by sitting on the stairs people can feed the swans and ducks.

 

This Madrid postcard is definitely one of my favourite cards. I would also very appreciate for it since it is my 200th postcard of my collection. Thus, I would like to thank you Cristina for it. Thank you!!! :)

My "The Casual Vacancy"

 

I have just bought the new novel of J.K. Rowling (the author of Harry Potter's series) on Monday. The title is "The Casual Vacancy". I saw the comments that this book is meant for the adult rather than the children. Moreover, there are many bad and good comments about such new novel of the author. I guess that is called life huh?! Goods and bads.

 

Anyway, i would start to read "The Casual Vacancy" by this week. The reason I bought this novel is due to the author. Well, I hope she would not let me down on this story!!! :p

My First 3D Postcard

Yahoo! The Diddlina hippe hologram (3D) postcard for me. This is the first time that I received the 3D / hologram of the postcard. The lovely Diddl 3D postcard is sent from Monique, the Netherlands.

Monique has the collection postcard of the Diddl and willing to exchange with the friends over the world. Thus, I got the postcard by exchanging a postcard with her. I was really happy when I received such postcard due to it is the collection of Diddle and it is very lovely and beautiful too with the hologram.

I shown the postcard to my niece and she likes it too. I wish I would have more collection from the Diddle collection.

Lastly, I would like to say THANK YOU to Monique for swapping a lovely card with me!    

My First collection of Slovakia Postcards

I was surprised to receive 10 postcards (at the same time) from Slovakia about 2 weeks ago. They are sent by Justyna from Slovakia to me. She sent me all 10 cards enclosed in an envelope. According to Justyna, the ones that she sent to me are from her postcard collections

Justyna introduced Slovakia to me that it is a really small country and not so many people have visited there. She hopes that I could visit Slovakia someday which I also wish to do so! J My brother-in-law has travelled there before, I saw some of the pictures that he taken from Slovakia, they are beautiful, and thus I think Slovakia is a beautiful country!

Justyna tells me in her letter that actually she is originally from Poland and she is planning to have the wedding with her boyfriend and she is happy to be there. I feel glad for her too as I want to say Congratulations to her for her coming wedding!

Most of the cards are showing the views of the city, POPRAD, Slovakia. I get to know about Poprad from the postcards.

Thus, I would like to say THANK YOU to Justyna for all the Slovakian postcards! J

 

 

Twilight Series

Finally I have finished reading the “Twilight” series novels (4 books). I borrowed the series of novel from my friends and I have spent few weeks to finish them. Guess what?! I started to read with the last series, “The Breaking Dawn”.  The reason is I was eager to know the ending since I have watched the “Twilight” movies. The finale would be shown in November 2012.

Anyway, after reading the series novel, I have clearer story of “Twilight”. This is due to some scenes have missed or did not show detailed in the movies. From reading the books, I have better understandings.

Like I said, I started to read with the last book, “Breaking Dawn”, and then only I started to read from the beginning of the series.  From “Twilight”, “New Moon” and “Eclipse”. I am happy with the ending as I bet all the fans of “Twilight” series are having the same though as I am! J

Thus, I am looking forward to the movie “Breaking Dawn: Part 2” in this November. I would like to recommend the “Twilight” series (both novels and movies) to the people who are yet to read and/or watch it. For me, it is an interesting story and I am enjoying it very much. I hope you all would like it too! Enjoy reading/watching “Twilight” series!!!

Beautiful Polish Postcard

I have received a beautiful postcard from Justyna, Poland on 8/8/2012. The postcard is shown the picture of town hall of Rzeszow, a city of Poland.  

In the postcard, Justyna tells me that she likes her city, Rzeszow, and she just came back from her vacation from Dulka (a small city near Rzeszow. Overall it is a friendly chat.

I like the postcard and would like to thank Justyna for it! :)

My GB Royal Wedding Postcard from Finland

I received a postcard from Anu, Finland yesterday. It is the postcard of the marriage of HRH Prince William of Wales with Miss Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, 29 April 2011. Anu is a teacher of Finland and she bought this card when she visited London few weeks ago with her husband.

I like this card as it is my 3^rd received postcard of the GB royal wedding. I would like to thank Anu for such card as I would appreciate it very much. Thank you, Anu! J 

My First Postcard of Macau

I received a postcard from Macau yesterday. It is my first postcard from Macau. The postcard is sent by Dianna. She writes in Chinese to me. The postcard shows the night scene of the Nan Wan of Macau and it is very beautiful.

I never travel to Macau before and wish that I would travel there someday. I know there are many delicious food available there too. Anyway, I would like to thank Dianna for exchanging the card with me.