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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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PFF – Traumstraßen in Deutschland

For the Postcard Friendship Friday, I have to feature this very interesting postcard today! It’s a sort of map in a part of Germany, only a little unusual coz it shows the Fairy Tales Route! :)

From Padme_Chandra. Now can you recognize these fairy tales? They all belong to these places along this route! How exciting!! I have always loved the Bremen Musicians, the Hamelin Pied Piper, Hensel & Gretel ever since I can remember. And…. is that the Sleeping Beauty?? :D And there’s the Little Red Riding Hood and the fox!! I am not sure if I can remember the rest though.. do you? (they look rather familiar, but now I am clueless when I’m trying hard to remember! -____-)

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Okay this is where the route is physically located in Germany. How amazing to know this is home to alot of famous fairytales that are well-known to children around the world (including Malaysia, yes). Though to be honest, I wasn’t really aware that they were from Germany! :P

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See more of the PFF party at Marie’s!! :D

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Postcard Friendship Friday in Holland!

Once upon a time in Holland, there lived a girl named Little.

Young Little and her mom and brother lived in a village where there was a huge windmill. Like everyone else in Holland at that time, they wore wooden shoes.. but they looked very comfortable.

One day, Little and her friends went to watch the sails at the sea. They had a great time there. But once she realized that everyone but her seemed to have a boyfriend. Little felt so lonely.

Little’s friends along with the boys went to pick blue tulips in the field and left her alone. Not that blue tulips really existed, but everything seemed to be blue at that time anyway. Little was very sad, but not for long…

Coz later, she got a boyfriend too, yay! And he’s even cuter! Little also got to dress in a beautiful colorful costume which has real stitching on this postcard! Cool, isn’t it? They continued picking colorful tulips and lived happily ever after.  Little and Littleboy wish everyone a Happy Postcard Friendship Friday!

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P.S. The above Dutch postcards were sent by my lovely buddies Littlebloempje, Lauraarual, Eowyn and Vessie.. thanks a bunch and somehow Imajica managed to come up with this weird short story :P

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