This is weird.. I received THREE official cards from Postcrossing today. THREE! By the way, an “official card” refers to a card sent via the Postcrossing website where a postcrosser requests for an address and a random address will be sent to his/her email. Apart from the official cards, the “other kind” of cards refer to those acquired by tagging and at the same time tagged by other postcrossers in the forum.
The first card (they are not in any particular order though) was from Annrira, if I read her signature correctly ;) She said she was very excited to send a card to a country which is “really exotic” and “so far away”. Annrira explains that the card shows Rauma, a city in which she lives in and study at.
The second card was from Kiia, who says that the card shows the hay-making process since it is now the “hay-making time”. I thank her for the card and I think I sounded ignorant because I told her I didn’t know of the existence of such “a time”. And I thought hay could be made anytime.. Opps..
And the third card was from Jonna. Jonna also apologized for not sending me a turtle card but she sent me a flower card instead. A card that shows a Finnish sinivuokko (Hepatica nobilis). I googled the scientific name and found its common name – liverwort or liverleaf (more information here). Apparently, there’s a type of branching corals whose scientific name is Acropora nobilis <– not relevant here, just thought you might want to know, because J is studying its reproduction strategies..
The cards may come from three different individuals but there is ONE thing in common though.. They’re ALL from Finland!! That’s the problem when you have so many Finnish postcrossers!! AARGH.. When will I receive official cards from people OUTSIDE Finland?!
Yea, I know, I did not leave you a note to say that I was abandoning my blog not going to be blogging for a couple of days, my bad.. Anyway, I had just returned from a short holiday back home during which the only time I logged into the Internet was for the few-blogathon-hours.
Well, the Blogathon has come and gone. And though I had sooo much fun despite cracking my brains for fresh blogging materials, I also have to admit that I was quite disappointed to learn about the total pledged amount. I could have seen it coming, but I refused to believe. I refused to believe that it was so difficult to raise funds for an organization that deserved it sooo much. I refused to believe that the general public would turn a blind eye to such efforts *sigh*
Anyway, in four hours, I managed to cough up 10 posts. But if you have some spare time, I would like to invite you to browse through the entire Blogathon 2006 archive :)
Pelf, the second Blogathoner
Setting errors?
My maiden Blogathon
Being a hydrophobic
Cry babies
Afraid of the dentist
The braces
The books I read
Pelf’s final hour in Blogathon 2006
Of my aunt and Eden
I blogged about “myself” instead of about terrapins because I wasn’t sure whether people who stayed up late would like to read about the four-legged-and-almost-becoming-extinct animals :) And to those who have dropped by to say “Hello”, thank you very much, you guys were my motivators :)
And, a big THANK YOU to those who have pledged (and it is NOW the time to deliver) for Eden. I am sure your donations will go a loooong way. By the way, I have just received an email from Madelene which says that they will be bringing 55 disabled persons on a 3D2N trip to Genting Highlands and KL on 28 – 30 September, how cool is that?! :) Needless to say, both Madelene and Bertie of Eden would require a lot of help from the public to make the trip possible. If you think you can be of help during any stage (from the organizing to the actual trip), I suggest you email or call them, OK? More details here.
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