pelf-ism is contagious

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?!

… and how COOL is that?!

I received my first official card from Sandra and hopped over to her blog and combed through her archives - I didn’t mean to spy on her but she’s got a very beautiful and extensive collection of cards!! *smiles* Then I came upon this particular post where she blogged about the message in the bottle that she received from somebody who had been swapping cards with her.

So I dropped her a comment.

And when Karen saw the comment, she said “she happened to have another bottle left, hence she decided to surprise me with it”..

Yes, Karen, I am very very surprised..! I have never thought of receiving something soooo special - let alone from a stranger!! I am simply speechless, and I just can’t thank you enough..

Karen, if you are reading this, please drop me a note, I would like to send you something in return (please allow me to) *smiles* You really made my day

Addendum: The following shows the relative size of the “bottle”

I really, really must give this particular postcard a mention, yes I know I mentioned ALL my postcards, so..? Anyway, the funniest thing about this Melbourne night view card is that nothing is written on the back, except for my name and address..

There is no “Hello..”, no “Greetings from Melbourne” kind of err, greetings, nothing. And it is not signed either. I do not know who sent it, though I can safely guess that it is a result of one of the tags because I remember requesting for cards depicting a city’s night view..

Now, if YOU sent me this, and happen to come by, please identify yourself yea? Thanks, and I appreciate it, and by the way, the card is beautiful..