Interesting Corner of Me

Monday, 13 July 2015

2015-06 Favorite Postcards Received

Started from this month, I had stated in my Postcrossing profile that hope the sender can share his/her favorite song with me. In this month, I also received a response regarding favorite song from Florida. Her favorite song is “The Story” by Sara Ramirez. This song had sung by many people and her like Sara because Sara is hot. “The Story” is a song released as a single by America folk rock singer Brandi Carlile, written by Phil Hanseroth and it was featured in Grey’s Anatomy.

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If you ever watch “Triumph in the Skies” which was a Hong Kong Drama, sure you will recognize all these cute people on this postcard.

This is handmade postcard. I just wonder that is my postcard is a part of big postcard. Hmm…I like how Nila introduce herself in a creative way.

All these light towers are in Peng Hu, Taiwan which drawn by Xiao Guan. Peng Hu has many islands so light tower plays an important role at there.

This was my first time to receive the postcard from Iran which not from Postcrossing but from a traveler.

All these Portugal food on postcard looks delicious. Do I have the opportunity to try all of them? Haha..

“Smile is a power” which is a sentence can be seen on the postcard. It is so meaningful.

I like Russian Doll so when I received this postcard, I feel so happy :D

Russian Doll again! This Russian Doll’s cloth is forest theme.

Pandas World Tour had been held in Taiwan. My postcard friend had sent me this postcard after received my postcard which was Pandas World Tour Malaysia.

This postcard’s picture was taken by Sonya when she went to village of Leprosy. This picture looks simple and beautiful.

On 18^th June 2015, Hong Kong Post had released Honghe Hani Rice Terraces’ stamp. My postcard friend sent her printed postcard with Honghe Hani Rice Terraces’ stamp mark and stamp.

Friday, 10 July 2015

Chain Postcard

Do you ever play chain postcard?

Chain Postcard involves more than 2 persons to play it. The different with the the normal postcard is your postcard will return back to you. It also has the risk of losing which same with normal postcard.

In May 2015, I had joined to play Chain Postcard which involved 3 countries. It was my first time to play of it. Our Chain Postcard as below:-

CoCo Pig (Hong Kong) >> Wendy Wang (Taiwan) >> Me (Malaysia)

It means that CoCo Pig will send her postcard to Wendy, then Wendy will send the postcard to me and I will send the postcard back to CoCo Pig. It looks like a circle and the circle also same applied to Wendy and me.

In this Chain Postcard, I just need to write and send the postcard to CoCo Pig so I will have her address. CoCo Pig will monitor the Chain Postcard to ensure all go smooth. Our Chain Postcard has a theme which is written a quote that you like.

First, I need to prepare a postcard to write my favorite quote with CoCo Pig’s address. Do leave some space on the postcard for your friends to write the quote and address.

CoCo Pig had kept tracked with the postcard which sent by us by recording on a paper. On 14^th May, Wendy had sent out her postcard while CoCo Pig and I sent out our postcard on 15^th May.

The journey of the postcard had started.

25^th May 2015

I had received Wendy’s postcard. Wendy was using the blank postcard, one side of postcard write address while the other side writes favorite quote.

After received the postcard, it was my turn to write my favorite quote on Wendy’s postcard. I had seen Wendy draw some boarder on a postcard so I also draw a simple boarder.

After wrote a favorite quote, I had paste the stamp on my address to cover it so that the postman will not confuse the address of received. After pasting the stamp, I write the address of CoCo Pig and send out.

3^rd June 2015

I had received CoCo Pig’s postcard which sent from Wendy. The picture of the postcard has a kid is feeding the giraffe.

On the postcard has 2 favorite quotes by CoCo Pig and Wendy.

I spotted that on postcard has 2 addresses (address of Wendy and I) so I use sticker to cover the address of Wendy and use stamp to cover my address. Same as before that I had written my favorite quote and CoCo Pig’s address on a postcard and send the postcard to CoCo Pig.

15^th June 2015

My postcard finally back from traveling. Haha.. The Chain Postcard was successful. On my postcard have 3 favorite quotes include my favorite quote. Besides that, on my postcard also have 3 countries’ stamps.

Thursday, 9 July 2015

Online Book Fair 2015

In Facebook, I saw someone share a news regarding Online Book Fair which organized by Cite Book Garden. After I was clicked into the link provided, I saw that this book fair offers great deal such as free shipping (no minimum purchases), up to 70% discount and many more. Someone told me that Cite Book Garden having promotion might be because of Popular Book Fair which also held on July.

I have many books which I did not finish read yet so I just brought one book which published in Malaysia because usually Malaysia book did not offer discount but now has up to 15% discount.

Usually for free shipping, Cite Book Garden will use Register Post to mail the book but this times, it use Pos Laju to post out the book so within 2 days I had received my book. I was so surprised when I saw the book mail by Pos Laju.

槟城老行业/Traditional Trades of Penang

This book was written in 2 languages which are Chinese and English with lots of pictures. Nowadays the traditional trades seem to be less and less because young generation seems less interested in this kind of job. This book had introduced 54 types of traditional trades which included paper making, mahjong tile making, clog making, calligraphy, spice milling and many more.

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Wordless Wednesday: 12 Days of Christmas

'Wordless Wednesday: Postcard' is recording all the postcards that I had bought from time to time for exchange purpose.

This postcards project is inspired by the hidden message within the lyrics of a catchy carolling song ~ THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS.

A partridge in a pear tree symbolizes Jesus Christ, The Son of God

Two turtle doves symbolizes the old and new testaments bible

Three french hens symbolizes faith, hope, love, the three doctrines

Four calling birds symbolizes the first 4 gospel of the new testament or the 4 gospel authors of the new testament

Five golden rings symbolizes the book of moses, the moses pentateuch, which normally being referred to as the first 5 books of the bible. Marking how God pours his Grace upon us.

Six geese a-laying signifying the 6 days of God creating heaven and earth

Seven swans a-swimming means the seven sacraments that Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Confession, Anointed oil, Holy orders and Marriage

Eight maids a-milking symbolizes the eight beatitudes of Jesus in Matthew 5:1-12

Nine ladies dancing symbolizes the nine fruits of the spirits as describe in Galatians 5:22-23 which is love. joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control

Ten lords a-leaping symbolizes the ten commandments

Eleven pipers piping symbolizes eleven faithful apostles

12 drummers drumming symbolizes the apostles creed which we also refer to as 12 articles

Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Books: Echo

Echo is a Malaysia author who write the book from single life to marital life and parental life. In last year, I had bought 6 books from her and finally I had finished read all the books. In this post, I just write some meaningful words which I like from the book.

告别单身

This book about Echo said good bye to her single life and start with her marriage stories.

原始人时代，男原始人在外走着走着，看见一个漂亮的女原始人，心一动，爱上了她，续而就心一横，把手上的木棍一挥，往女原始人头上挥去。“碰”的一声，女原始人应声倒地，男原始人就将之背回山洞，干了一些事，之后，这对原始人男女就在一起了。这就是原始人的婚姻，而传说“婚”字就是这样来的 ----- 13 页

最美好的时光

This book about the moment Echo spends with her sons.

然而，下惯重药，孩子的“抗药性”就会越来越强，你的声量越来越大声，最后，你喊破喉咙，孩子都不怕也不听了-----50页

最后我告诉她，孩子很简单，只要让他吃得饱，玩得够，睡得好，就很好顾了----107页

要让孩子走上正道，不一定要用打的，只要有耐心，坚持和方法。

耐心，就是一直提醒，同样的错，孩子一犯再犯，我们就提醒了再提醒，直到孩子的行为完全符合我们的要求为止。专家说，孩子需要一百次来记得一个教诲。

坚持是，不能放松，每次做错都要教导，同样的错不能这次教导下次放过。孩子会知道你的坚持的------185页

左雍右为

Creative autograph by Echo's sons

This book is about the stories of her sons. At the end of a book, Echo had written letters to her sons, it was quite touching when read of it.

妈妈很爱你，很舍不得你要受这样的苦，可是为为，请听妈妈说：爱别离苦本来就是人生的面目之一，我们的人生本来就应该一直往前走，很多事物就像我们坐在车子里景物往后退一样，是我们捉不住的，是不管我们如何努力都捉不住的，除非我们把岁月的车子停下来，除非我们把岁月的车子往后倒退-----137页

候医生去问一个资深老师怎么办，这个老师说：“小孩之所以是小孩，就是因为他们有犯错得特权力：反过来，做父母的也有不断地告诉孩子什么是对错的权力与责任。有时候，这要花很久的时间，做父母的不能太心急，孩子慢慢会长大，一旦时候到了，他想起父母亲曾经告诉他那样的话，于是他就改变了-----150页

女人与小孩

The format of this book is different from previous books because it is letter writing between two authors. They are talking about their parental life in Malaysia or Italy. You can see the different of the life of children in these two countries.

世界是一样的，但大人和小孩看出去的风景就是不一样，大人脑里太多框框，孩子们的脑袋还新，他们的天马行空除了能让我们发笑也让我们沉思，我享受跟孩子相处的分秒，因为我知道很快的，也许再多七年或九年，他们就不再属于我的了-----34页

正当我整理好了厨房，往火炉里添柴生火，忙得不可开交的时候，传来女儿的声音。她说：[妈妈，你很美丽。]我听后，觉得女儿的这个马屁，拍得太没有技巧了。因为她在说这句话的时候，起码得站到我的面前来。我于是说：[你没有看到我，怎么知道我现在很美丽？]

[你很美丽，因为你是我的妈妈。] 女儿的回答，又从屋里的另一个角落里传来-----105页

街头eC9俏小孩

This book has funny stories of Echo’s sons and how Echo educated her sons.

等下要出去开会，阿雍吵着要吃意大利面。我跟他说：[阿雍，煤气那天已经用完了，所以妈妈不能煮意大利面给你吃。]

我想说我这样说了，就没有我的事情了。

哪知道阿雍听了就走路去村里的杂货店，跟老板讲我们家要一桶煤气。

现在煤气送来了。

唉-----107 页

如果你家幼儿丢东西，你就让他丢个够吧，他正在训练他手的小肌肉和眼手的协调能力，这是孩子成长非常重要的里程碑，当父母第一次发现孩子丢东西时，应该为孩子拍手啊，怎么打他？-----136页

我在孩子问我“为什么其他人都有平板电脑而我没有？”时这么告诉他们：[我们为什么要跟别人一样呢？我们无需要跟别人比较，如果真要比较的话，你也可以这样比较：“别人的妈妈没有常常陪他看绘本，我的妈妈每天睡前都跟我念绘本”；“别人的妈妈没有常常带他去大自然，妈妈常常带我到大自然去”。]-----141 页

从C9 到暴民

This book is about the life of Echo from a child to a mom who cares about current news in Malaysia.

所以我一直提醒自己，没有坏小孩，只有我不了解的小孩，试着一更柔软的身段去了解他们，错了就教导，避免冤枉他们-----109 页

首先我们要对他的情绪表示理解，如：“妈妈知道你因为XX，而觉得生气。”表示理解他的愤怒之后，并告诉他，生气是OK 的。

之后再告诉他你对这事情的感受和解决的方法：“但你这样说/做，让妈妈很难过，其实你可以XXXX（建议他如何面对自己的生气情绪），这样妈妈就知道你的感受了。”-----111页

Monday, 6 July 2015

Postcard Project: Cards for Hospitalized Kids

Doctors provide medicine and we provide hope, joy and magic.

I love this sentence as above because although we are not doctors who can help the persons in pain, we still can bring some fun and hope to them.

Cards for Hospitalized Kids (CFHK) is an internationally recognized charitable organization that spreads hope, joy and magic to hospitalized kids across America through uplifting, handmade cards. Anyone can get involved with us, from anywhere. Individuals and groups across the United States, and world, donate time and creativity to make handmade cards and send them to us for distribution in hospitals and Ronald McDonald Houses across the nation - Cards for Hospitalized Kids

In June 2015, I had sent 10 postcards which include one postcard from my sister to CFKH so that they will help me to distribute the cards to children in hospital. My handcraft is not good so I just paste some washi tape and stickers on blank postcard to create a cheerful postcard. Hope the children will like them.

When making card, there have some general guideline which you should be aware. I just pointed some points as below:-

To read full instructions for making general cards, click “Making General Cards”.

You can use any craft supplies such as stickers, stamps and many more as long as it is not excessive to the point of falling/rubbing off (this can create health concerns for some kids).

Suggestion: Rubbing your finger across the glitter, stamp link etc. to ensure that none or little comes off.

Do not address the card to a specific person because we do not yet know the child’s name.

Suggestion: write Hey there, Hey you, To: a very special person

Did not write get well, feel better or other illness related comments because some patients suffer from medical conditions that are chronic, life-long, progressive and/or terminal.

Suggestion: write message such as stay strong, you are awesome, be brave etc.