Another maximum card, Hurraayyy!!!

I think from now i begin addicted with maximum card, haha.

Btw I got it earlier this year, Sorry for late posting! I still try to make all the list :).

On January, 2nd 2014 the ministry of communication and informations of the Republic of Belarus issued the stamp " Happy Postcrossing". Because Belarus is among the top 10 in the number registered users and sent postcards in web Postcrossing Project. belarus joined in 2008 and yeah had so many members :). The stamp itself designed by Inga Turlo and printed only for 120.000 stamps ( so lucky me to have one :D). Detail  stamp is full color,  paper chalk surfaced, gummed, perforation 14 1/4 : 14 , size 28 x 30 mm. Letter N for the nominal is equal to the surface rate of postcard abroad.

Thank you so much Vera!!!. I'm grateful to have this special postcard from your country :D

Serena thank you again for this maximum card!! I really love it, you're very generous :D.

I'm big fan of Jane Austen ( and we both alike, cos prefer Persuasion haha). I just can't resist  Captain Wentworth's charm, hehehe.

Okay.. okay, back to the postcard. this postcard made by Royal Mail in 21 February 2013 to celebrated 200 years of Jane Austen's book. And the stamp designed by Webb & Webb Design Limited featuring illustration by Angela Barrett, printed by Pureprint group. In this series also made other stamps/ postcard from other books by Austen, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Sense & Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey.

I just hope if I can't get all of it maybe someone would send me the Persuasion one, please?? hehe.

Higher Bokhampton is the bithplace for Thomas Hardy, novelist from UK ( one of my favorite, haha). He born here on 2 June 1840 and died 11 January 1928. In this home he wrote Under The Greeenwood Tree ( 1872) and Far from The Madding Crowd (1874), another from his novel that maybe very famous are Tess of d' Urbervilles, The Poor Man and The Lady, Desperate Remedies, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Return of The Native etc. But for me my favorite are Two on a Tower and The Mayor of Casterbridge. I really adore his written, some romance with tragical ending, hehe. That's really my thing :D.

By the way the cottage located in Dorset county and the home right now become tourist spot and everyday open from 11.00 - 17.00. Wish one day I can visit there :).

Thank you so much for this lovely postcard, serena!! :D

Loket castle is 12th century gothic style castle located about 12 km from Karlovy Vary in Czech Republic. It's surrounded by Onre river in 3 sides. The castle administered by Loket castle foundation in 1993 and nowadays become national museums. The castle is one of the oldest and most valuable in Czech. every year Czech national opera held an opera festival in an outdoor amphiteather with the castle at the background.

I think in Indonesia we do the same thing with Prambanan temple as a background for Ramayana ballet, hehe.

Thank you for this postcard Murght!

Krakow is the second largest city in Poland. It has 327 square kilometers area and 758. 334 inhabitants in 2012. it was the capital of Poland from 1038 to 1569 and been of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life. 

In the picture we can see Wawel castle, Pawilon Wyspianski, ans old town that being listed in UNESCO World Heritage sites from 1978.

Such a lovely postcard Carolina, thank you!

My favorite theme again :D.

Cartwheel also known as ESD 350- 40 is a lenticular galaxy and ring galaxy about 500 million light years in the constellation Sculptor, estimated 150.000 light years across, has a mass 2.9–4.8 × 10⁹ solar masses, and rotates at 217 km/s. The galaxy discovered in 1941 by Fritz Zwiky.

Thank you so much for this amazing postcard Tammy!!

I really love it and also the stamps with Mercury project picture.. :D

Timber framing are method of building with heavy timbers rather than lumber,. Half timbered is a lattice of panels filled with a non loadbearing material infill of brick noggin or wattle andaud ( or similar methods), the frame is often exposed on the outside of the building. Usually the German fachwerkhaus has a foundation of stone or sometimes brick up to several feet and then the timber frame work  supports an irregular wodden sill. The benefits of the construction are : rapidly erected, lend itself well to prefabrication, lends well to be pre- fitting the frame, the frame can be encased, it can be tailored to suits customer, it can use recycled etc. But this also have disadvantage such us, slanting, poor prevention of cappilary movement of water, eaves that are too narrow or non- existent, too much exterior detailing that does not allow adequate rainwater run- off, noise from footsteps, wood burn etc.

So with all the list above, maybe it's not good to build that kind of home in indonesia, hehe. 

Many thank you Jutta for this postcard!!!

I think it kind of bird? yeah? hehe. It made from wooden and painted in colorfull so children would love to play with it. I thin in Indonesia, we also have this kind of toy but I can't remember the name, hehe.

By the way thanks Aksinia :)

Calendula or Marigold, very beautiful flower :). it's from Asteraceae family, same with daisy family ( yeah yeah I still enjoy the Biology class, haha). Calendula is from Latin language Calen dae meaning Little clock, Little calender. It can be planted in Southwestern Asia, Western Europe, and Mediterranean. I just know that Marigold is refers to virgin Mary, haha.

The flower used for cosmetics, culinary ( for soup and make color in chesse/ butter, also for tea of course) and for medicinal use ( stop bleeding, prevent infection, antiseptic, and detoxify liver and gall bladder).

Romans and Greeks used the golden Calendula in the rituals and ceremony. In India the flower used to decorate Hindu statues.

 

Dank je wel Sissy!

 

 

Cuyahoga  located in Ohio state between Akron and Clevelend city. Have area about  13. 287 acres this parks established in October, 11 2000.

Cuyahoga in Mohawk ( American Indian) means crooked river  and the word for haven of beauty, a source of inspiration and a place for recreation.

Many visitors came to hiking or bycycling cos it has one of the best track. There are waterfalls, rolling hills, caves, and winding river scenery to attract the visitors. Nice one to picnic there :).

Thank you so much for the winter sight of the park Cara!! I really love it !!

Hehe.. finally last November I got the postcard from my neighbourhood country from Official. 

It's show fishing village that located in East Coast of  Peninsular Malaysia. The east coast itself in Malaysia known for West Malaysia. Okay I am starting to get confused with directions, haha

I like the reflection in the picture. Thank you Anke, Terima Kasih for sending this card :)

Built in 1953 by architect Boris Rubanenko and A. T Golubovskin and A.R Korabelnikovin. with decoration call Stalinis Ciassicist, it have small castle tower from Worl War II. And the building itself located in the central of Minsk. So I can imagine the railway would be crowded and busy all day to serve route in East Europe.

Thanks for the picture of the night view Anastasia, I really looove it!!

Dziakuj!!

On my wishlist i write that I like autumn or winter, that's maybe because I never feel it in Indonesia, hehe. 

It's the scenery near Lake Constance when in South Germany go through the autumn last year. I like the picture  at autumn, while the leaves change color to orange :). the cycle always amaze me and I like to watch it, never get bored !!

Thank you so much Sherryl :)

Torremolinos is a municipality on the Costa del Sol of the Mediterranean in the province of Malaga in Andalusia. In that picture we can see the Tower of the mills ( Torre de Los Molino) that built by the nasrid from 1300. In the 18th century the town was attacked by an Anglo- Duth and almost entirely destroyed.

The mills and the city were rebuilt in the early 20th century but the mill industry closed in the 1920s. And then the city become tourist area especially with the British visitors :).

Thank you for the information about this card Cristina!! Gracias Muchos :D

Salamanca Market is street market in Hobart, Tasmania. It held every Saturdays between 8.30 am till 3.00 pm. In the beginning of 1972 this market only had 12 stalls but nowadays it have 300 stalls.

You can buy fresh product, local art, and crafts here. And so many tourists come here to buy that products :). It's very interesting concept for traditional market, and I wish someday Indonesia have this kind of market, hehe.

Thank you so much for this great postcard Mr. Graham. How I love the maximum card :D

That's very nice aerial view of Hongkong and Kowloon at night. So many modern building that took it on the picture, hehe by the way this is maybe took from Victoria Harbour ;).

Large scale- development of Kowloon began in the early 20th century, but because of the path of plane from Kai Tak airport, the building in Kowloon had lower than in Hongkong.

Thank you so much Wing Yan!

The white sand dunes of Bao Trang ( white lake) is the second attraction in Muine after the beach. Many Russians come there every year, including the one that sent me this :).

The dunes range from gold to pure white and red dunes. The lake have three parts Bau Ong ( Gentleman lake), Bau Ba ( Lady lake), and the largest Bau Xoai ( Mango lake). A small of pine trees could be the best spot for a picnicor afternoon nap. The visitors often swim at Bau Ba, but they must be careful cos the reeds could be the enemy and make them drowning.

Thought you were very enjoy the holiday in Vietnam, Viyana :), thanks for the card!!

Lausanne is a city in Switzerland and capital of Vaud Canton. In 2013 has population of 132.626 and being the fifth largest city in Switzerland.

The famous one in this area is lake Geneva ( as you can see in the picture). The shore is called La Côte because it's flatter. You can see home near the lake. And every year the lake also held the yacht racing.

Very beautiful Lake, Thank you so much!

Apeldoorn is municipality and city in the province of Gelderland, Netherland. The total area only 341, 13 km² and the population in 2012 157.057. Very small and nice city, hmm. But like all the city in Europe  this city also have interesting history. Had Het Loo Palace, Paper Mills and the famous Apenheul Zoo ( house of apes and monkeys).

Thank you for the nice card Kitty!!

Such very great park to celebrate your wedding ;) !!

Its declared to Unesco World Heritage Site in 1996.

Built from 1248- 1880 and had 144, 5 metres long; 86, 5 metres wide and the towers approxiately 157 metres  ( became the tallest building from 1880- 1884). It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and one of Germany's most visited landmark, even in one day average 20.000 people visit this place, wooow... 

I am glad to have this postcard with night view picture accross the Rhein river, Thank you so much Mechtild, It's really great card !! I really love it :D !!

I am really glad to have this postcard :).

So Heron Island is in the southern of Great Barrier Reef and located in Queensland state, Australia. The islan is about 800 metres long and 300 metres widths, supported around 900 species of fish and 72% coral species. Wooow.. That's really awesome, hehe.

The island itself discovered on 12 January 1843 by the Corvette HMS Fly. The expedition commanded by Captain Francis Blackwood. After 20th century the island became inhabited when turtle Cannery was established. On 11 September 1943 the entire island was declared a National Park.

Thank you so uch for the amazing postcard Sharon :D!!

The sanctuary of the Madonna in San Luca, bologna, Italy. Hufff Very long name haha.  The church built in 1194 till 1765 and architected by Carlo Francesco Dotti, Donato Fasano, Giovanni Antonio, Ferri, Giovanni Giacomo Dotti, and Angelo Venturoli. Located on the top of the colle della Guardia, in south- west of the city and have 666 arches. Very amazing  architecture and the sender, Marco told me that this building is the first we will see when arrive in Bologna, haha. Yeaah.. I agree with him, cos we can missed this beautiful building, right? 

Thank you so much Marco!! grazie mille!! :D 

It's very nice postcard. Because I always like autumn/ winter, hehe, and this frosty winter from Poland  just so perfect. I don't know why I like this season, maybe because in Indonesia I can't feel it hehe that's why I rather envy with country that have 4 season :p.

So thank you so much for the wonderful card Beava!!

Dziękuję bardzo!!

The St. Isaac  is the largest Russian orthodox Cathedral in  Saint Petersburg, Russia. It's dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great. built in 1818 till 1858 with Augustei Montferrand as architect.

The main dome ( that's very awesome) rises 101,5 metres and is plated with pure gold. decorated with 12 statues of angeks by Josef Hermann. During world war II  the dome was painted over in gray to avoid from enemy aircraft. In 1931 the cathedral turned into museum of the History of religion and Atheism. With the fall of communism, the main body of the cathedral is used for services on feast days only.

Thank you so much for amazing postcard Alyona :). Большое спасибо!

It's the largest lake in Nantau County, Taiwan, And surrounded by tiny islands called lalu. The shaped in western part is like new moon, and the eastern part is like sun, so it's called Sun Moon ;).

According to legend, Thao tribe that live in  there area discoverd the lake while hunting white deer. The deer led them to the lake, and nowadays we can find the deer as marble statue on Lalu Island.

The lake itself has 7, 93 kilometres square and 27 deep. So many trails for hiking to those area. Sounds very tempting place to go, haha.

Thank you so much Fei! 

It's Amsterdam card that sent from Ukraine, hehe. Ania, the sender just went to Amsterdam last year and very love with this city, so she also sent me this card, hehe.

You can see the Leliegracht canal in the postcard, It's located in Amsterdam's western canal belt. When I see the internet it called one of the beautiful canal in there,  with the bridge and  people that cycling. yeah now we know that Amsterdam also one of charming city in the world, right? :)

Thank you so much Ania! I hope you can come back to Netherlands again :D

It's built by George Boldt in 1900 in Heart island, New York. Located across the scenic St. Lawrence River at night, the view in the postcard was breath taking.

Today as one of the famous tourist spot in New York, the castle is accessible by ferry, private boat, or tpur boat. The castle have six stories and become one of the largest private homes. The other buildings on the island are the power house and the Aister tower, both also open to public.

Very nice postcard, Thank you so much Julie!! give my hugs to your horse :). And yeah we absuolutely can fangirling to Fall Out Boy, ha ha ... ^^

I am one of the kind person that always eat mushroom as food booster ;). 

Okay back to the card, haha. you can see that the mushroom is Amanita muscaria ( hmm beautiful name). It's also called fly agaric or fly Amanita. Usually it's red with white spotted color. To cook it, you can boil it to reduce the poison in it ( yepz do not be fooled by its name and color :p). It have hallucinogen effect when eaten overdose. But nowadays with modern treatment the effect can be minimalized :).

It's very interesting to search information about this mushroom since I love biology. I feel like I'm doing my homework again about taksonomy, haha.

Thank you so much Leonie! it's incredible postcard! Dank je wel!

I favorited this card on my profile, and one day Paula sent me this card. Woow... I am really happy when I got this card, And thank you Paula cos you really read my profile, haha.

I think the kitten really cute, and sice I always like cat amd books this card always be one of my favorite :D. 

Paula sent it with angry bird stamp too, Wow She just too kind to me hehe. But I am not gamer, the Angry bird game really make me frustrating lol. 

Kiitos Paljon, Paula! 

Greetings from Zwolle!!!

Zwolle is capital city in province of Overijsell in Netherlands. You know waht? the population only 125.000, I really surprised with this fact, haha.

And the postcard from Bert above ( Thank yo so much Bert, I like it :D), you can see , multiview from the city, the canal, Thorbeckegracht, Zwolle city center and other city landscape.

I think Netherland is one of country in Europe that very nice to live, small city very green, no pollution likr in here, haha.

I like the picture, heel hartelijk bedankt Bert!

According to the sender, the chinese means " To be treated sweet natured, just know how small I am ". And I agree with that. We are very little and still lots of things out there that we don't know, so yes always be kind to others and nature :). Because I believe everything we do will find ways to come around.

Hmmm yeaah I always like China philosophy :p

Thank you Hung Tzu!! Xie Xie :D

Kyiv or Kiev is capital and the largest city in Ukraine. The city's name is said from the Kyi, legendary founder of the city. One of the oldest city in east Europe, it's have lots of historic building.

The famous building such as Saint Andrew's church, Maidan Nezaleznosti, Holy Dormition Cathedral, St, Sophia Cathedral, golden Gate/ Zoloti Vorota and many other cathedrals. 

And it's very nice night view postcard sent by Alisya :). спасибі !!

My first map card from Official postcrossing :). Many thank you Andrew!!

It's historical map of  Iowa in the midwestern of USA. Sometimes it called American hawkeye state. The capital and largets city is Des Moines. And the state had motto " Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain". Total area is 145.743 kilometres square and the population estimated for 3.090.416 on 2013. the state animal is eastern goldfinch and the flower state is wild rose.

It also famous because of the security and one of the safest in USA. It have lots of historical building such as Old Capitol building, Herbert Hoover National histories site, and yepz Drake University is in the state.

Very interesting state. Thank you again Andrew :D

One of my favorite theme of postcard is architecture building. So Irina from russia sent me this postcard :).

It;s Neva gate from Saint Peter  and Paul Fortress. the fortress founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's design from 1706 - 1740. In the beginnings it's used for a prison but today the building adapted as the central and important part of the state museum of Saint Petersburgh History.

The fortress also contains for Peter and Paul cathredal, which has 122,5 metres bell tower and become burial place of all Russian Tsars except peter II and Ivan VI.

It such a beautiful museum for me since I always enjoy visiy museum, hehe.

спасибо Irina :)

The adorable movie poster

Oh my God!!! The movie was greaaatt!!!

It's worth the wait, hehe cos in Indonesia the release date very very confusing :p. But finally two days a go I watched this movie and yeaahh what can I say. The movie was perfect, Maybe my first movie that I give rate perfect 10, haha. And absolutely the best movie that made based on novel so far... John Green I really adore you :D.

That's friends really for

 So the story is about Hazel Grace ( Shailene Woodley) that had thyroid cancer. She also joined with support group name the Literal Heart of Jesus. One day she met Isaac ( Nat Wolff) who had tumor in his eyes and his frien, Augustus Waters ( Ansel Elgort) who had right prosthetic leg cos he has been in remission from osteosarcoma. They begin the friendship after Hazel not agree with Gus's opinion. Err.. maybe more than friend ( like Augustus said ;p).

Hazel really like "An Imperial Affliction" book wrote by Peter Van Houten. and one day Augustus also read that book, but feel dissapointed with the ending. They begin curios with the follow up of the stories.  Then Gus try to email the author and being replied by his assistant that they all be welcome in Netherlands if want to know the ending of the book.

I think he supposed to be Dutch Tulip men, eh?

Dinner at Oranjee

With his last wish Gus use it to go to Netherlands with Hazel and her mom.  But the story not as simple as that, they dissapointed and angry with Peter and finally enjoy their own holiday with Peter's assistant. 

They're sweetest

 Unfortunately one of them got the attack of cancer again :'(. You must watc it yourself... I want give spoiler :P.

Ansel and Shailene

 I read the book last year and being fall in love with it ( and with the author too, I read all John Green's book). The book really got me, I laughed with the humour, and Cried with the ending ( of course i give the book 5 stars). And when I heard the movie started to filming and Ansel got the cast as Augustus I'm extremely happy ( yeah,, yeah.. I also like him as Caleb in Divergent). 

Whatever happened Love is strong enough ;)

And the plot of movie was good like all in my imagination.  I enjoy it so much. You know, I fall in love with the poster. I bought the book with the movie cover too and the OST. Btw Ed Sheeran is another great choice to collaboration in this project, hehe. All  the Joke ( Okay?. Okay), the cinematography.. all of it hahaha.

And Life must go on...

And I'm happy to hear that Papertown and Looking For Alaska also would appear in the big screen * cross finger, guys*
Definitely 10/ 10 stars for this movie. If  I can I would  give all the stars in constellation for this movie, haha.

The ending very heartbreaking, but you all know that PAIN DEMAND TO BE FEEL!!!

P.S don't forget bring lots tissue and shouder to cry on ;p

The confusing Invitation :p

uwooo... My last agenda this month, hehe.

Because I always like museums, so hehe though I didn't get invitation I can enter the event :P. 

So it's launching for collaboration stamps between Indonesia- Malaysia with theme of Museums. In Indonesia the 15 % museums is in Yogyakarta, that's why it held in this lovely city :). And Melaka also have the most museums in Malaysia. The stamps would present 5 museums from each coutries.

Attended by Sri  Paduka Paku Alam IX,  as vice governor of Yogyakarta , and also YB. Datouk Wira Hj. Md.Yunus bin Husin (Chief Minister EXCO Teaching, High dakwah, Science and Technology, Green Technology and Innovation, Malaysia Melaka State). Also lots of Malaysian and Indonesian representation
Diyana Lean Abdullah -Pos Malaysia, Datok Khamis - Perbadanan Muzium Melaka, Walikota Melaka Bersejarah, Ibu Yuni Satia Rahayu - Wakil Bupati Sleman, KRT Thomas Haryonagoro - Ketua Badan Musyawarah Musea DIY, GBPH Yudhoningrat - Kepala Dinas Kebudayaan DIY dan Bp. Setyo Riyanto - Direktur Pos Indonesia. Very formal ceremony :P. 

Only print in 10000, and I still didn't get it, haha. Just wish I'm not late to have for my collection. #crossfinger

YB. Datouk Wira Hj. Md.Yunus bin Husin

Sri  Paduka Paku Alam IX

Sri Paduka Paku Alam IX ( Indonesia) and Diyana Lean Abdullah (Malaysia)

See who we met in the event :D, Mr Tata Sugiarta Indonesian postal philatelic manager

Postcrossing friends ;)