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Birthday cards 2006 – 2008

ilyani — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:45:17 +0000

I have freaking turned 26 today. I don’t want to talk much about it. But being a Postcrosser, there’s always something to make me smile on my birthday!

No, it’s not the cake!! But cards!! :D Yes, the lovely Postcrossers have always cheered me up regardless I hate the fact that I get older on birthdays! :) In this post I would like to thank a heaven to everyone who spent some time writing and sending me your lovely wishes, you have no idea how much it means to me!! :) BIG BIG HUGS!!! (well yeah, I’m featuring cards from past years first, as this is officially the first birthday post for this blog – which only started this year – and in a few days I’ll be posting the cards which I have got for this year’s birthday :)). And actually, I have put several other birthday cards that had already fit in regular posts before, and they are equally special to me as well!!

Hugs to Anu!

Hugs to Mimma!

Hugs to Syairah06!

Hugs to SilentNight89!

Hugs to Wespe!

Hugs to Rwidiani!

Hugs to Ipuenktchen!

Hugs to Kungli!

Hugs to Seetas!

Hugs to Indirama!

Hugs to Anzuume!

Hugs to Ketupat!

Hugs to Padme_chandra!

Hugs to Wilma!

Hugs to Panarea!

Hugs to empty_mailbox!

Hugs to Newrule!

Hugs to rosnah!

Hugs to Taxingwoman!

Hugs to geeanuar!

Hugs to Swan!

OKAY that was a postcards SPAM -______- but I can’t help it coz I did receive alot of birthday cards in past years!! (and of course, a portion of them are thanks to the fact that I put a “tiny advert” about my birthday on my forum signature once, well, hence those expected surprises :P and a few from Birthday tags and RR as well.. so I did not receive all these merely because I am a total celebrity or anything :D though it’s good if I were one lol). And still my dear friends Postcrossers, you are the best!!

Tibet

ilyani — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:16:01 +0000

T for Tibet! I received this very beautiful postcard from Wespe showing part of Tibet region in China.

Oohh see the water.. the mountains.. the alps…. Is this heaven??? :) It’s the Ra’og Lake in the Nyingchi prefecture, which is the largest lake in southeastern Tibet. “Ra’og” is Tibetan for “where the corpses stacked” (HUH??). Well, it’s actually related to a Tibetan legend from long ago, there were two immortal bulls caught in fighting, then both came to death and shaped this lake! Hmm.. beautiful yet spooky!

See more T’s of ABC Wednesday fun here!

Chinese illustrations

ilyani — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:16:04 +0000

Here are some postcards from China with significant Oriental illustrations

From Wespe. This pretty card came as my 23rd birthday card!!!!!!!!!!! XD Wespe was one of the earliest Postcrossers who were thoughtful enough to surprise me with birthday wishes.. I was so lucky!

From Mcdh. This postcard was issued by the State Postal Bureau of PR China, and this card shows a set of traditional dress for the Chinese New Year.

From Moderntime. This is a lovely art, isn’t it? Sorry for this blur scanned image, though. This card came from a set of postcards The Twelve Ladies of Jinling City and apparently this lovely lady named Shi Xiangyun arrived in my hands to be part of my collection! She was a daughter of Shi’s, a big family, who lost her parents during her childhood and grew up by her uncle’s support. She loved poetry so much that she was called a ‘mad poetry lover’. A tragic ending came after her marriage and it was pictured like “the clouds lifted over Gaotang Temple, and the water dried up in the Xiang River.” Hmm… deep.

From Moderntime. I guess this is the only postcard I received came with stamps put at the picture side of postcard!! Awesome!! How can I put this, now it makes the card more vintage (you see, I have come across many vintage postcards having a stamp on the picture side) and also maxi postcards. Anyway, this is from Hong Kong comic Sweet and Gentle dates back in 1970.

From Mcdh. Another postcard issued by the Chinese State Postal Bureau, this illustration with a kid playing kites during springtime.

From Jessica. This colorful card is entitled “Peacock spread the wings”…

Street scene in China

ilyani — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:52:04 +0000

China.. easily associated with people.. and one can be amazed by the number of them :) And these are postcards from China.. where you can see people are always filling the street.

From Ying, with a view at the intersection of Nanjing Road and Xizang Road in Shanghai.

From Wespe. This is Guangzhou Business downtown during the National Day holiday… remarked by the sights of China flags along the street.

Great Wall of China

ilyani — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:12:05 +0000

The Great Wall of China were built since the 5th century BC spanning 6400km from East to West China. My basic knowledge about the Great Wall was like how I know about the Pyramids, Taj Mahal, the Collosseum, the Stonehenge. When I was little and started learning about the world I used to hear all the time about the seven wonders of the world, though I don’t remember if I knew all the sevens. It was so intriguing for me to find out all of those but before the existence of Internet things were not as easy to be found out as they are today. Later I have come to know the wonders were somehow categorized further to Seven Wonders of Ancient World, Seven Wonders of Medeival World, etc.. (hmm making it not seven anymore then?) but nevermind and let’s get back to current time. Now I am a Postcrosser and I even have got some pieces of this wonder of the world right inside my box! :)

This panoramic card of The Great Wall came from Wespe, and he put some neat Malaysia-China joint-issue stamps.

From Tsar. OK so this one is wider areal view, you can get the idea of how they were building huge wall all the way on hilly peaks. Millions of workers were involved in completing this bigass project. And remember there were no those high technology tools and machinery and tractors in the 5th century BC!