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Opetellaan Suomea!

It’s time for another linguistic post! What we have now? Finnish! :D I love cards with text of some foreign language written on it.. can be poems, quotes, songs.. but I don’t have any in Malay here (Notice: Malaysia is BORING when it comes to postcards selection..). I’d better move to Finland!

From Mingshu. (Thanks Essi for translation)

“Tips for lonely men
To a singing class,and quick
A guitar or a horn in the hand,
or any kind of fluit
something that beeps even a little
A player boy with red cheeks
is welcomed
even though he just drove all the other men out of the door”

FI-53938  from Jaana.

“Nightless night colours the surface of the lake
Night and morning go side by side
Don`t let the moment slip away,
treasure it,carefully save it in your mind”

From Wilma.

“You don’t always have to be excellent,
if you just have a little bit of luck”

From Ultzi.

“To a bokworm
your walls don’t seem to need wallpaper
You could cover them with books.
Though noticed I have,
you could turn your mailing address to the library.
But I would, if I was a writer
weite a bestseller of our friendship.”

From Mingshu.

“The most important thing in life is not where we are but where we are heading.”

From Kuaka.

“Good moments are even better when you share them.”

FI-14619 from Niko.

“Summer without be summer without strawberries,
without wisps of clouds and daisies.”

From St-Angel.

“Water seeks strand, bird seeks branch, human seeks friend” :)

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Sheep in New Zealand!

S for sheep! Did you know that New Zealand is home to 4 millions of people and 40 millions of sheep? Come and meet one of them here:

From Groovynannies. The first sheep were landed in New Zealand by Captain Cook in 1773. Since then sheep are farmed largely in this country for theair meat and wool and New Zealand now contributes 25% of world total strong wool production.

From Buttercup65. Now I envy these sheep coz they live in such a heavenly beautiful place as this!! See the mountain! And speaking of heavenly, they say sheep DO go to heaven, meanwhile goats go to hell! I am not sure what the poor goats have done wrong!

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See more of the S entries for ABC Wednesday here!

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Kiwi!

After Koalas in Australia, here now we have Kiwi from New Zeland!! :D Kiwis are domestic birds of New Zealand, and they can’t fly!! Kiwis are the smallest in the group of flightless birds, yet they lay the largest eggs in relation to their body size.

From Krissiebaby. This card is a perfect New Zealand card! Kiwi with NZ flag!

NZ-1166 from Noelene. This is a Little Spotted Kiwi (yes, it’s a species name, also known as Apteryx owenii) in its native haitat. This Kiwi is seldom seen in the daylight, as it likes to find for food at night in the forest!

From FunkyMunky. This is a Brown Kiwi.. I can’t really tell the difference between this and above Kiwi though. But this one has longer fur, doesn’t it?

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