Haha, I thought my first entry of Singaporean card would be something of its symbol like the Merlion or those skycrapers.. I almost thought I still had a few Singapore city views in hands, Merlion included. I bought quite a number of postcards when I went there end of 2006, but now I realized that I had sent out ALL the cards and none left to myself! :( Silly me, I should have saved at least one or two. LOL. But in fact I always saw myself repeating mistakes. Once my Maldivian classmate Huda went back during semester vacation and bought me 20 Maldives cards, I went crazy trading them in the forum and tagging. I thought I had kept a few to myself but……. I didn’t!! :( Now I can’t even claim I have a postcard from that country lol. And my aunty bought me some Egypt cards the other year during vacation and almost all were also gone for swaps! Oh, at least I guess I *did* save some Egypt cards for myself. Somehow. It’s just a syndrome that I couldn’t keep unwritten cards, I would easily send them out and thought it would be better to trade them for some written and stamped card from somewhere. Nothing to fuss about actually. But to regret that you have lost all your cards you should have kept… now it’s what I see myself being weird!
Anyways. Here are Singapore cards that I received from Singaporean postcrossers, both showing the Sultan Mosque.
From Red_avatar. This is one of the earliest card I received, dated back in 2005. The Sultan Mosque is located in Kampong Glam district and is one of the oldest mosques in Singapore. Sultan Hussein Shah of Johore built a mosque at this site from 1824 but changes and repairs continued until the construction of the new mosque which completed in 1928.
From Lalwen. It says here “The Sultan Mosque, located in Arab street is the most sacred of the more than 80 Muslims places of worship in Singapore”. And notice that in this card the mosque has gone golden colored! Though I am not sure if it’s because of the sunlight or the mosque really got a new paint. And if so, I don’t know if the first card (white colored building) was earlier or otherwise. Even from these google images, can you judge what color is it actually?
