Aug
18
2013
Aug
17
2013
Postcrossing #17
A postcard from Mexico. It takes 43 days to travel to Hong Kong. Ar ha, seems the postcard is not quite special, so I skipped scanning the postcard and put it here. The stamp is quite special though. The stamp is released in Mexico and Indonesia, in order to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Indonesia-Mexico diplomatic relations. The document establishing the two countries’ relationship was signed in Washington DC on 6 April 1953. Both the Indonesian and Mexican stamp are printed with animals symbolizing the respective countries. This one shows a Mexican Jaguar (美洲豹). And the Indonesian one shows a Clouded Leopard(雲豹).
Aug
17
2013
Protected: 17 Aug 2013
Aug
15
2013
postcrossing #16
A postcard from kaliningrad, a place near Poland, in Russia. The stamp is the definitive stamps issued in 2009. And all the stamps are about Kremlins(克里姆林), meaning those complex castles found inside historic Russian cities. And the most famous one is from Moscow, therefore people often use this name to refer that one. The “1.00” one refers to Astrakhan Kremlin. The “6.00” one refers to Pskov Kremlin.
Aug
15
2013
postcrossing #15
A postcard from Germany! Let’s talk about the stamp first. The stamp was released in 14 June 2012. And it is the 150th Anniversary of the German Choral Association. The German Choral Association, with 700,000 active and supporting members in more than 20,000 clubs and choirs is the world’s largest organization of music amateur. And the postcard features a comic from E. O. Plauen. The name of the comic series is called “Vater und Sohn” (Father and Son), featuring some short and funny stories between father and the son. On the back of the postcard, it prints the whole story.
I guess the story is saying, they have made a cake but they forget to put those raisins on the cake, so they use guns to shoot the cake, with raisins as bullets.
Aug
10
2013
postcrossing #14
A postcard from the Netherlands! It takes 6 days to come to Hong Kong! Thanks Maureen! 🙂
Aug
09
2013
Postcrossing #13
A postcard from India! This postcard shows a scene from the state of Goa, which is a popular destination among tourists for its scenic stretches of beaches. According to wiki, I guess that is why the state’s GDP is 2.5 times than the whole country one.
The right one is a stamp of C.V. Raman. He is a famous physicist from India. According to wiki, he got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect. And the stamp comes from a set of definitive stamps called Builders of Modern India.
The left one seems is describing a scene from Gita Govinda(Song of Govinda) , which is a work composed by the 12th-century poet, Jayadeva. Seems this piece of work has great influence on Hinduism (印度教).
Aug
07
2013
Postcrossing #12
A postcard from Germany! This building is called St Bartholomew’s Church. This Catholic church is built at the side of King’s Lake, which is in a province called Bavaria in the southern part of Germany. The shape of the church is really special!
Ok Here comes three stamps. The two stamps of flowers are tulips (鬱金香) and marigold(萬壽菊). They are the definitive stamps released in 2005. The last one is a lighthouse. The series of lighthouse stamp is released in 2013.
Aug
05
2013
Postcrossing Special No.1
Thanks Natalie from Kiev in Ukraine! She sent this postcard in response for my postcard! 🙂 This illustration is by Gopehinska, who is a famous painter in Ukraine. The caption on the card means “Angel Gosha”, Gosha is the short form of name George.
The stamps are released in 2012, from a series of flowers and trees. The 5 ‘dollar’ one is Alnus incana – a wide range across the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere. The 30K one is Fraxinus excelsior (歐洲白蠟樹).
Aug
05
2013
Postcrossing #11
A postcard from Hamilton, a small town, but an hour time to reach the Washington DC, in Virginia in the United States of America. The postcard features a beautiful and famous painting – Cliff Walk at Pourville, from French Claude Monet. This painting now resides at the Art Institute of Chicago. This piece is one of the rare paintings in which Monet includes human beings. The stamps are so lovely! They are three lighthouses in USA, from left to right : New London Harbour, Connecticut; Fortland Head, Maine; Portsmouth Harbour, New Hampshire. And they are all from the series – New England coastal lighthouses. Take a look at the official website to learn more those lighthouse. Thanks Angi from the United States of America!