And Haris was there!!! :D
Haris and fellow Postcrossers on Suomenlinna ferry
Photo by Delenna. Check out Haris’ travelog and photos in Helsinki!
International Postcrossing Meeting 2009 @ Helsinki!
4 September 2009 at 8:44 pm (Postcrossing, ToyVoyagers)
Aku sudah mempunyai scanner baru
3 February 2009 at 7:07 pm (General, Postcrossing)
Wuhu. HP 3-in-1 macam lama juga tetapi model baru.
Dan lebih murah! RM192. Hmm.. macam tak percaya.
Nampaknya aku terpaksa menghabiskan masaku untuk scan poskad.
Lalalalala..
Hari ini pergi ke bazar untuk membeli sesuatu untuk di hantar dalam surprise swap. Aku tidak puas hati dengan surprise swap ini. Sebab aku baru sahaja mendapat bungkusan dari Bulgaria (lagi..) dan souvenir yang sama sekali bukan yang aku inginkan. Haih.
Aku rasa rugi sahaja untuk aku menghantar souvenir Kelantan yang bagus ini sebagai pulangan apa yang aku telah terima.
Tetapi ini lah adat swap. Ada yang puas hati ada yang tidak.
Tapi masih bernasib baik jika dapat swap nya. Pernah juga dulu bungkusan nya tidak kunjung tiba.
Guess what I have been up to?
28 January 2009 at 2:06 pm (Blogging, Postcrossing)
Okay, don’t judge me please, but finally I didn’t delete imajication.wordpress.com. But have successfully transformed it into a postcards blog yay :D *happy sigh* Perhaps this is an obvious proof that I really have nothing else to do at the moment. Anyways. Go and have a look there! And leave comment!
Disaster!
24 January 2009 at 11:48 pm (Postcrossing, Whatever)
I am the only Postcrosser in my family! Is it a good news? No! They don’t like my hobby! They’re not supportive at all! When I was living in hostel or my room in KL before, every time I came home I always had really hard time finding every potential spot of where they kept/threw/left my postcards to! My postcards were everywhere – in the living room, inside drawer (any drawer it could be!), on any table, sometimes in the kitchen too. Sigh.
And! I was away for 1.5 months to Saudi Arabia. When I first reached home I found 2 places where my postcards were grouped in, thankfully. I thought that’s all the postcards which had arrived during my absence. BUT today – after 3 weeks(!) – somehow I found like 12 cards more inside a tiny box I didnt expect that my postcards would be kept in there! :( I just feel bad to those senders who think I have not yet received the cards or just don’t bother to notify. Gosh, and especially official cards! =_= I am sorry for not having searched them hardly.
End of rants.
Imajica’s Postcrossing Class Analysis
12 September 2008 at 4:44 pm (Postcrossing, Work)
I’ve been waiting for enough free time to do this thing. In case you didn’t know, I was teaching for one week in my mum’s school sometime in February this year and have successfully introduced my students to Postcrossing. It’s been like 7 months now so I guess it’s time for me to track down my students to see if they still keep on Postcrossing after I left the school or otherwise.
By the way, some of them (whom I can tell are active) have been emailing me several times to say hello and ask for free postcards :D Hehe. Cute students, aren’t they? And though I am busy I once had time to send some envelopes for the first bacth who requested. And now there laying a few envelopes to be mailed I don’t know when. Sigh, a busy teacher, I am.
Okay, now that Postcrossing has got the option to search user by region again therefore it helps me alot to track down my students. Let’s see in Kelantan, people who registered 7 months ago (203 and 204 days ago to be exact) were most probably my students. Let’s assume here all users registered in these particular days, 14 years old (or unless mentioned other ages), are my students. So I found 42 records, listed as in table below.
Hmmm, hmmmmm, and hmmmmmmm.
Though I am impressed that a few students have really inherited my craze on Postcrossing with their more than 15 cards sent/received, I am not really happy to know that apparently quite many of them left this activity by the very day they registered. Not much interested? Maybe. In fact, I kind of see these Postcrossing students into several practicing groups:
1) Students who are still active (based on last seen date) and keep sending postcards whenever they have chance to do so, and they do receive and register postcards.
2) Students who still log in regularly but only sent one or two postcards probably from the register day when I gave them free cards to send. And receive equally few cards. This group perhaps don’t know where to buy postcards again afterwards and to mail them themselves. Or do they really think they’ll still be receiving postcards even they stop sending??
3) Students who sent one or two cards that I gave them, they understand the responsibility to register a postcard. Therefore they did receive one or two postcards in return, registered them, but never seemed to log in again since.
4) Students who registered that day, sent one or two postcards that I gave them, but it seems it was also the last day they ever logged in the website :( They probably received one or two cards but don’t register them. Haih. I knew this case had chance to happen, but still..
5) Students who registered that day, but they already told me they didn’t want to send cards (not much interested, maybe) and some were put in inactive mode. They didn’t send any postcards so I guess they don’t receive postcard too. At least nobody’s postcards left unregistered in this case.
6) Or some in group (4) may also be those who sent one postcard but it got lost and never registered (?).
7) And!! This one is happy news finally. I was chatting with one student a few weeks ago, and she said she’s got 4 accounts and active!! LOL. This is way more advanced than the teacher herself. Maybe I should introduce them to the forum.
Imajica meets Postcrossing founders!
6 September 2008 at 11:42 pm (Friends, Photos, Postcrossing)
Disclaimer: This post contains unextreme bragging elements. But don’t be too jealous okay! ;) Muahahaha.
Paulo, Ana, Imajica
At Old Town cafe, KL
Finally I met my celebrities! :D
Who would have thought Imajica could be so lucky? After failing to meet them last time they were here, I was so surprised by the news that Paulo and Ana were coming down to KL again, and this time quite a perfect timing as it’s Saturday and I was (finally) available for a meetup this evening. Charlie Dale and Asianpunk were there as well having dinner at OldTown cafe near KLCC. Yay and I’ve got a bunch of postcards exclusively autographed by them here I can possibly sell on eBay :P Just kidding! Let me know if you’d like one :)
Two things to be excited about today!
14 July 2008 at 3:02 pm (General, Postcrossing)
Finally! After investigation on the confusing Google map which is still not showing KL-Putrajaya expressway which has been in operation since years.. (hey, Google updates the map every 10 years or what?), today I have found my way to this very cool place I have been meaning to go since I moved here, which I believe I’ll be visiting every weekend! I can’t wait no more I have to go there and see this evening after work! And the membership fee is RM31!
AND!! Though I can’t access the forum today, imajica, shamelessly (this is one of the clue words on 8tv contest and I can’t help giggling that I’m using it), wants to announce her best wishes for Postcrossing 3rd Anniversary :) 3 years! Can you believe it?? I don’t want to be reminded again by this fact, that in my room at home, there’s a huge box containing 1600 postcards I have received throughout 33 months I have become a Postcrosser. However thanks to my inactivity a few times for exams, internet unavailability, etc.. that number can somehow still be kept in control from increasing rapidly. Hehehe.
Surprise! Surprise!
18 June 2008 at 3:44 pm (Family, Life, Postcrossing)
Some unbelievable, unexpected news and surprises for past few days:
1) Ilyani managed to survive on her own first salary for roughly 2 weeks! Agh, and finally I have come to realize that my money is gone and I still need my parents’ help :~)
2) On Sunday Mama arrived in KL, with intention to accompany my uncles’ parents from hometown flying over to here to visit their son in hospital. Apparently Ipah turned up also, with one intention to accompany Mama, and another intention to check her status of entrance to UIA PJ. We spent some time in Semenyih, and they came to overnight in my place. On Monday I worked until afternoon and asked for unpaid half day leave, and picked Mama & Ipah to UIA PJ, and to buy bus ticket home for them. Later we went to shopping at Midvalley and I sent them to bus terminal. They’ll be coming again next week though, haha, as Ipah is registering to do Dentistry studies in UIA PJ on coming Sunday. Haih.
3) Because I am broke, Mama got to belanja me a full tank of fuel, and let me tell you, it’s RM80 now for Kelisa! Sigh, and last night the CEO of Petronas was on air in 4 TV stations but only giving excuses that they cannot do anything with the fuel price hike.
4) Kelisa’s roof top got leaked for 2 times now, and each was during heavy rain! Can you believe it? I don’t know what’s going wrong, BUT this is a CAR made after year 2000 and not some village cottage with roof made of cononut leaves! Why still got leaked? I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw flood inside my car, but after some googling I have come to know that things like this isn’t too impossible when it comes to Malaysian car! See this and this. Ugh, and they say Perodua is no 2 Malaysian top brands ranking. There’s some helpful forums they were talking about this, and I guess I have to check the rubber seal on front top. Or actually, I have to go to some workshop to get someone check for me.
5) I cleaned the fridge! Hahaha, I can’t believe myself that I really did this. But when Mama visited she was eager to do something with the fridge that I guess had never been cleaned since purchase and got frost as huge as Antarctic iceberg. None of my housemates who have been staying in this apartment for years bothered to clean the fridge, then why should I?? Hmph, but since Mama already volunteered and helped cleaning a bit, I just had no choice but to finish cleaning it until all the frost is gone and throwing out those trapped foods that have been in the fridge since YEARS! Let me tell you, there’s even some got expiry date of 2006!!!
6) I got my first birthday card from Indirama! Aww, this is too good to believe, given that I haven’t ben active on the forum so I don’t expect any card from Postcrossers this year. But hey, last year I got 30+ birthday cards and gifts from all over the world! Again I didn’t expect anyone from the forum to use my new apartment address. Too bad my camera is broken otherwise I have to show the lovely card here, and she also included a Moomin+Little My mobile phone strap, so cute! But my cheap Nokia got no hole for any strap leh, umm maybe this is a sign that I have to buy new mobile phone soon!
7) Though it’s on my birthday and I am actually too embarassed to meet Ana because she knows my stupid life stories through this blog, I’ll meet my Paulo & Ana in KL Sentral on Friday night! They’ll be heading back to Shanghai a few hours after coming back from Redang Island, so we’ll have some time to have a dinner and talk. At least that’s what Ana and I have discussed for past few days. I hope everything will be OK. And I hope they’re having a great time now in Redang island!
8) It’s confirmed: UIA convocation day for Engineering graduates will be on Monday, 25th August 2008! CANT! WAIT! FOR! IT!!!
Oh yes, it’s been one month!
5 June 2008 at 3:21 pm (Postcrossing, Work)
Today June the fifth, completes my one month in IRIS. Today June the fifth, my salary balance is 15%. Gyaaa..
Today’s lunch we had Nando’s at The Mines to celebrate our senior Wennie’s farewell party.
Today I got 3 official postcards registered in USA, Canada and Portugal! I can’t remember if I ever received more than one official card in a same day before, so this is a record :-) However, I can’t request more addresses as I simply can’t access Postcrossing site. And last week I have received my first postcard mailed to my new apartment address.
I am thinking of going home. I want to bring my PC to here. I’m planning to subscribe for wireless broadband (Celcom or Maxis?? Or Izzi?) at least it can save me from going out every weekend.
But my money is running out :-(
A few things
24 May 2008 at 6:36 pm (Family, Life, Postcrossing, Whatever)
1) Mama’s sms
Last night I got the funniest sms from Mama. Or rather, I know it’s either Ipah or Ti who wrote it (Mama’s hopeless at sms-ing, she’d just call). And the translation should sound a bit like this:
“Mama got Liyana’s wedding invitation. Mama is praying that you’ll find your soulmate whom I’d like. As soon as Mama comes back from hajj Mama wants to have your wedding ceremony. That’s Mama’s dream.”
Heh. And I just replied, “Who’s Liyana??”
“Che Lah’s niece”
“Then how that got anything to do with me??”
“Stupid.”
Hahahaha. Whatever. I still can’t understand, really. Why talking about my marriage in a sudden? I know Mama has been worried. I already told her about the last breakup but I didn’t tell her about the reunite, so I guess I don’t need to tell her about another breakup. Anyway this time is for good, I promise! :~)
2) MPH shopping!
Yesterday I somehow received the email reply from MPH for my enquiry about Croatian dictionary I had asked the other day, and she said there should be a few stocks in Midvalley MPH branch, along with the ISDN number, title and price. Hmm. Should buy or not? Well it’s CROATIAN language that I’m learning now, so it has nothing to do with anyone, no? Like Zerina said I never know when the language can be useful to me. And I can still visit Croatia anyhow, and meet Sandra. OMG I dunno how to tell her in my next letter.
So I went to Midvalley today with intention to survey price of a washing machine (yes, I’m needing one now), and to MPH. And I bought the dictionary! I also wanted to buy a book to give myself a good laugh. There’s so many to choose in woman fictions (silly fictions work for me), so I ended up wandering inside the store just looking. I bought a 2008 diary too (and it’s May now :P) cuz in January I was practically doing nothing at home so I didnt need an organizer. When the job started things were too hectic I didn’t have time to find one. And at Religious section rack I stumbled upon this book “Don’t be Sad” by Aaid Abdullah al-Qarni and I was like, OMG, how come the book knows what I feel?? And it’s religious kind of self help (?), while I am hardly a fan of such book, I decided to buy one. This could be my soul remedy, who knows? Later I went to indulge my eyes at Sony Center. Jusco is having crazy SALES now, I must avoid them! And come back with more money, haha! And the Midvalley visit was nicely ended with this yummy ice mango at the Food court.
Going shopping alone and driving alone isn’t too bad though. Not that I never did those before okay? Only I should do the tyre pumping by my own from now. By the way, I’ve been trying out different roadways to KL and other places from here, so I can get familiar some more. It works better if YOU are driving rather than having someone to drive for you, no? :-)
3) Postcrossing survival kit
Since the work PC blocks Postcrossing site and forum (why??), and I didn’t bring my PC to the apartment, the only way I can do is to tag and request address (it’s 10 addresses I can request now!! Ugh!) when I am back home. Got to print out the addresses, shop for some stamps, and postcards, and those are my Postcrossing Survival Kit to bring to KL! I can write and send postcards whenever I have time then, and post from here. But until today, I STILL DON’T KNOW WHERE THE POST OFFICE IS IN THIS AREA!! The Wikimap doesn’t help. I heard there’s a PO in Sg Besi but still can’t find it. I should ask help from fellow Postcrossers. Oh and I can only surf the forum when I have time to visit the internet cafe. Sigh.
4) Washing machine
I need to buy a washing machine. I cannot go and wash clothes in aunty’s house cuz it’s school holiday now and they balik kampung. And I didn’t find any luck so far in finding self service laundry here. I have been surveying washing machines in Midvalley’s Carrefour and a shop in Cheras (just to see price, I can go to nearby stores for real purchase). Someone said he bought a second hand one in Courts Mammoth Cheras, maybe I should go and see there as well.
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