so after those two cards..

I receive sooo many cards! Not as much as a thousand cards but I.. barely got any letter before, haha. Oh how I love to take a look at those cards and imagining, "Well this card was once in Poland, this was once in New Zealand, oh how lucky they are :(". If I'm as thin and small as them I would probably send myself haha. So.. here is the three cards I received after those two I've posted in this blog..

Play School Dress, Doll's Dress made by Television New Zealand

So that one is from NZ. The funny thing is, they take photograph of a doll's dress, they put this dress into a museum called 'Te Papa Tongarewa' and they made it a postcard! Here in Indonesia, we do have soo many types of clothes like this one, usually called 'batik' but I don't think they will appreciate a batik worn by a doll character in a TV, and neither of them will make it as a postcard. The next funny thing is, she put the stamp everywhere! I could easily tear 3 stamps of 5 cents and probably using it again if I'm going to NZ because it has no post-stamp/seal on it. LOL

The Dream of My Childhood - Sydney Harbour Bridge

A postcrosser named Penny sent me this. She sent it with a koala stamp on it, but unfortunately the stamp is already torn a little when it reached my house. Well, in this card she said she lives amongst the kangaroos, and she also love UK. How grateful her life is! I'm pretty sure she have been to the Opera House too! I've sent a reply postcard from her, asking whether she doesn't becomes a victim in big flood that hit Australia. And sure I hope she didn't :)

and this one.. is a Christmas Card

But then.. I don't celebrate christmas, honey! But allright, I learn some Polish word from here, like 'Wesolych Swiat' for 'Merry Christmas' and some other words in the backside of the card, describing white christmas (since the one sent me this card only wrote "Greetings from Poland" and add a signature).

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A day after I received those three, I received another three postcards! Two is the postcards I should register and one is a reply card from Awi, the one received my postcard in 'the end of 2010', he said :) So this one is from Awi:

He knew I like landscapes (or so I thought? :p) So he sent me this view of sea of cloud in Taiwan named Tsai-Jung Pin. He sent it along with these cute stamps: 

If only Indonesia have these kind of stamps :3

And this one is from.. China! Showing me Yangtze River, one of the longest river in Asia. Hello, China!

Yangtze River, China

 And finally, my first postcard from Europe.. Tadaaa.. Latvia! 

Paintings of Old Riga, Capital City of Latvia

Well so I imagined a castle.. of dracula. Haha kidding, but that sure is a good piece of art! I love a classic views of town and I would be very pleased if I found a view like this to be photographed. Well so the one send me this named Ineta, it's actually not a postcard.. Back in Indonesia, it looks more like a Happy Eid Mubarak Card, cause it's actually looks like this:

so she wrote the message inside this card, got it?

and here is one stamp i adore from Latvia:

no strong reason, just admit that it's cute, eh?

And the funny thing is (sorry about it, Ineta), I could say that this picture below shows her best writing:

showing my name, with my address. you wont know where it's at anyway haha

And so she wrote her address in the back of the envelope (Yeah, she sent me a postcard inside an envelope! It counts as a letter! My first letter received from the overseas is from Latvia!) but I can barely read it :(( So I asked to her, "Hey is that true that you address is on the street of ... and ..." because I want to send her a reply card. So sorry Ineta, but though, those writings sure looks so European and I envy you! Haha

hey puss, whatcha doin here?

So those are the cards I received, with my honest comments about it and I sure have another postcards (which I bought lately in Sarinah and some which I received *yay*) that I haven't posted here.. So you'll be longing to read my other posts, will you?

voila my postcards!

I had cards which I call "Indonesian" because it has the name Indonesia (or sometimes Bali) as a border of the postcard, and some which I call "Jogja" because I bought it there.. Let's take a look at those:

These are the Indonesians. You see they had a custom design template with two choices of name: Indonesia and Bali. Haha Bali is not the name of our country but we should admit that Bali's name is sometimes more known than Indonesia itself. Some of my friends call these series 'the tourism series' (which was a right term to explain these series, because it's intended to give a connaissance to the tourist. 

The second is the Jogja series:

A creative guy named Agus Leonardus made those awesome card. He got the idea from old advertising in Indonesia (that's why he mentioned a lot "originally in black and white"). So I have a story about those Jogja postcards because it's not me who bought that.

Jogja is a city located in the southeast Java. I live in Depok, the banlieu of Jakarta, capital of Indonesia.

When I heard my friends wanted to go to Jogja, I'm asking for these postcards because I ever saw them when I was going there 6 months ago. I've been a member of postcrossing.com for just 2 months but I knew that site years ago (if I'm not mistaken) from a bestfriend named Puty. And 6 months ago I haven't been a member in that site, and I thought it would be great if someday I join that site and sending those postcards. But since I'm not a member yet, why should I brought it at that time? Later, I regret my choice to not buying those because in Jakarta, I had trouble finding a store selling postcards. What a pity.

Basically I love all those postcards but I'm not sure about sending it into my destinations. Well, those cards have some dutch words in it because Indonesian was colonized by the Netherlands and no wonder the ad's in dutch language too. And.. some members there in postcrossing want to receive a postcard from my country. Plus some other requests which  finally refers to those Indonesian postcards. Haha. So.. I'd sent one of these Jogja card to someone in the Netherlands.. hope he'd like it :)

Still speaking about Jogja cards, I have some others left which I prefer the most than the others. Those are:

Dakkochan (I usually write it 'Dakocan) is a song based on the doll Dakko-chan from Japan. That song explain that the doll Dakocan had a black skin, but the price is so expensive. Well, so I found the ad in this postcard, and why it becomes my favorite? Because it's cute. No particular reason haha.

Nah, this one is just plain silly. You know, when old languages being shown again, it looks like a joke. There it said 'band speda' now it should be 'ban sepeda'. Nowadays, a band is a band.. a group of people making musics and songs, and it should be a 'ban' which means: tire. And another text in that card is also silly. Hard to be explained in english LOL

This one is cute. I wonder who is that guy in the ad, because it can't be the real Edison, eh?

And this one.. I like the pic and the coloring. It's simple but lovely.

Well.. actually I still have another Indonesian series, but not with that white-border-template and since these two series got more 'attention' from me, the rest left unspoken. Haha I'm just lazy about uploading it right now.. Next time I'll talk about it, then.

So.. to my next destinations, you'll probably got these postcards. Want one? 

tadaa, second blog!

Err.. First let me explain why I made this second blog. I'm a new member of postcrossing.com and today I'd just got my first card. The exciting part is, I got two cards: first one from someone who should've send me a postcard, and one from someone whom I sent a card before. Still don't get what I mean? Read how postcrossing works here.

So the first card looks like this :

chinese new year, rabbit year :)

It's from someone called Yukiko in Japan. I read from the stamps that she lives in a city called Kagoshima (Even though she don't, she posted that postcard there :p). I was soooo excited receiving my first postcard, then I read it again and again.. haha. And the pic's just too cute! Too cute! Aww how nice is she :)

And the second (though I received it in the same day) is this cutie seal:

Harbor Seal

Awww that's from Mrs. Christina in San Diego. I sent a postcard to her and then she replied it. First I thought that she's so arrogant, receiving a card with so many questions on it (well, that was my first sent postcard, can you imagine how excited and tacky I was?) and she responded nothing. But then this cute seal came to my room and the hatred was gone LOL. cutie cutie cutiiiie :3

Well, I still got many postcards to be sent right now.. I'm waiting for the next 5 potcards (now it's travelling) to come to my destination.. Those 5 postcards will arrive in USA, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Spain. After one of them registered, I could request a new address to sent a postcard. Oh I love how this postcrossing system works!

Well, that's it for today.. Next time, I'll post pics of my received postcards here (if I'm not as lazy as usual haha) though I had a postcard wall there in my page in postcrossing.com. I probably will also post some of my postcards that haven't been sent to anybody. So, enjoy!