馬年快樂！:D Happy Year of the Horse! :D

I know I haven’t updated my blog for ages. I’ve been very busy with something these days and I hope my effort won’t be in vain. :)

I would love to wish everyone a lovely Year of the Horse full of joy, good fortune and most importantly, good health! 馬 (horse) 年 (year) 快樂 (happy)！

(Among those I’ve seen, I like this horse picture most!)

Been listening to ErPeche every single day:

More on: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1tx51MHN0OuHqmPD3e2N8g

The guitar at the beginning…. <3

Keep calm & carry on :D

It’s already January 2014 but I’m still posting postcards I received in August 2013. :P Seriously lagging behind…>_< but I’ll keep calm and carry on. :P

Received in mid August 2013 via Postcrossing private swap – my 5th keep calm card. Thanks Dominique! :)

The Origin of Keep Calm & Carry On:

Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the British government in 1939 several months before the beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities.

The poster was initially produced by the Ministry of Information, at the beginning of the Second World War. It was intended to be distributed in order to strengthen morale in the event of a wartime disaster, such as mass bombing of major cities using high explosives and poison gas, which was widely expected within hours of an outbreak of war. Over 2,500,000 copies were printed, although the poster was distributed only in limited numbers, and never saw public display.

The poster was third in a series of three. The previous two posters from the series, “Freedom Is In Peril. Defend It With All Your Might” and “Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory” were issued and used across Britain for motivational purposes, as the Ministry of Information assumed that the events of the first weeks of the war would demoralise the population.

(Thanks Wikipedia, as usual! :P)

Lovely Belgian stamps:

Lovely triangular postmark:

My birthday month :D

January is my birthday month. ^O^ I received a birthday postcard from the Hong Kong Post on the last day of 2013. :D

The card shows the Hong Kong Post car and the HK postman’s uniform nowadays. :)

Thanks for the efficient and reliable postal service you bring to us, my dear Hong Kong Post. :D

Happy New Year 2014! :D (Full of smiles and mails)

Here comes my first post for 2014! :D Happy New Year to you! (Thanks for visiting my blog, by the way :D)

2013 has been a year full of smiles, tears and mails (mostly postcards from Postcrossing! xD) for me. Hopefully 2014 will be full of even more mails and surprises!

This new year is romantic for the Chinese because the numbers 1314 sound like “forever” in Mandarin and Cantonese. :)

2014, please bring more lovely mails to me! :D

 

Snail mail never dies. xD

In 2013, I used one of the keys to open my first P.O.Box for words from all over the world. In 2014, the same P.O. Box thirsts for more mails. :D

 

Thanks for making my mailbox happy! :D