During my recent trip to Indonesia, I posted an FB update asking if anyone wants to receive a postcard from me. A few dozen messaged me their postal address, as much as I wanted to accommodate everyone, my budget restriction only allows me to send a few plus some to friends whom I already planned of sending one. The result was a total of 18 postcards showing scenes around Borobudur, stamped and sent via airmail. While walking around Yogyakarta I found a cozy small cafe where I sat down and wrote on it one by one, thereby using my hand again to write after years of using the pen to only sign my name on documents. There I was, again writing long sentences with my penmanship smearing all over the card, hoping it would reach the recipients in no time.
![Aya Aya](https://lh3.ggpht.com/-NVIaOMVCps0/UqFS5y1irXI/AAAAAAAAJUo/3asRqMaMwl0/Aya_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800) |
This one is for Aya, she got this after arriving from her coverage of the Yolanda aftermath in Tacloban |
That's why I was glad when a couple of weeks later, a few of them started tagging me with the picture of their postcard that I sent from Indonesia. Yey, postal system still works in this day and age of electronic mails, a snail-postcard still finds it way across oceans and continents.
![wawa wawa](https://lh6.ggpht.com/-XNYdImVSqH8/UqFS_DQcp8I/AAAAAAAAJU4/d09kp1eip-E/wawa_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800) |
Wawa lives in Taipei, I've known her online since 500 B.C., I will definitely go and meet her in person soon. |
I hope the other reaches its destinations soon. I plan to send a few more on my next trip which is going to be in Hanoi, Vietnam. I have also gotten my share of postcards from traveler friends, some of it coming from France, Romania, Czech Republic, England, Singapore, USA, Canada, Australia, Mexico. So I know that getting one provides a positive vibe that reminds me of the vast possibilities of seeing other parts of our world.
![dazl dazl](https://lh6.ggpht.com/-jML_ZpmZyIA/UqFTGiqiA9I/AAAAAAAAJVI/JemJ60SmibE/dazl_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800) |
Dazzle is a personal friend, a dotting mother who also have an itchy feet. |
![Onio Onio](https://lh3.ggpht.com/-tdHH7kOBCI4/UqFTLTJ8DxI/AAAAAAAAJVY/TFpm8pRTNN4/Onio_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800) |
Onio was a former colleague, he asked me to send her girls a postcard so they will know how people send mails in the old days. |
![Ada Ada](https://lh5.ggpht.com/-Bbvf9wzWj5c/UqFTQBIf93I/AAAAAAAAJVo/cZj7KU-hOXw/Ada_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800) |
Ada is another close friend who recently tied the know and is now living in America |
![Ron Ron](https://lh6.ggpht.com/-hN_oOoX9Oys/UqFTUPagY6I/AAAAAAAAJV4/edxMvW6DdN4/Ron_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800) |
Ron is another friend, who moonlights as a cop and a Miley Cyrus impersonator. He is based in Singapore |
![lauren lauren](https://lh4.ggpht.com/-2INBV3pU9Y4/UqFTbDfOECI/AAAAAAAAJWI/rZjG2RJwA6s/lauren_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800) |
Lauren, bestfriend - girlfriend then back to bestfriend. I sent her and her teddy bear Tutu a postcard from Myanmar last March | |
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So anybody who wants to receive a postcard from Hanoi or wherever I might end up in the next few years until someone clamped down on me and force me to settle down at gunpoint, just let me know about it.