Sunset cards from Germany, Norway, Taiwan & USA!

These are the last four sunset cards I haven't yet shown (= I don't remember showing). 


1. Norway, 2. Taiwan, 3. USA, 4. (sent from) Germany

Elephant postcards from Thailand!

Royal family postcards from Sweden!

Movie Project

This movie project of mine started when I got the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die on my hands. Watching 1001 movies is a big project for anyone but I accepted the challenge with a belief that eventually I have crossed every single movie in that book. So far I'm doing pretty good: I've seen almost 1/10 of the movies, altogether 97 movies. Most of them I had seen before getting the book but I have also crossed approximately 10 new movies from the list during these past few months. With this pace it should take 23 years to watch rest of the movies!

Luckily, one TV channel in Finland shows these very old silent movies every Sunday so that is how I have seen Strike (1925) and Battleship Potemkin (1925). They are both directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein, a great Russian movie director in the silent film period. Those two films were very similar to each other, both showing an unidentified group of people that starts to resist those who mistreat them. These two movies are something very different from what I have gotten used to when watching movies. Therefore I don't think that I can really appreciate them as much as they should be appreciated. But they are both interesting movies that create a whole new movie experience for you ;)

Another movie that I'd like to mention is The Green Mile (1999). I really fell in love with this movie. If you don't mind crying like a baby by the end of the movie, this movie could be for you. 

Postcards from Belarus, Estonia, Germany & Greece!

1. Estonia, 2. Greece, 3. Belarus, 4. Germany

Night view postcards from China, France, Portugal & Russia!

1. Portugal, 2. France, 3. Russia, 4. China

Animal postcards from Finland, France, Germany & Spain!

1. Spain, 2. Germany, 3. France, 4. Finland

10 Inspiring Quotes

Here are 10 of my favourite quotes. Actually, they are not all very inspiring (like the title suggests) but at least they give you something to think about ;)

"If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough." - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

"Be kind whenever possible, it is always possible." - Dalai Lama 

"What we think, we become." - Buddha

"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work." - Mark Twain 

"War is what happens when language fails." - Margaret Eleanor Atwood

"Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet." - Will Rogers

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw 

"There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those who have a rope around their neck and those who have the job of cutting." - Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (sorry, couldn't resist!)

"Mamma said stupid is as stupid does!" - Forrest Gump

"Well, opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one." - Harry Callahan in The Dead Pool

City postcards from Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Portugal & Sweden!

Black & white postcards from France, Germany, Taiwan & USA!

1. France, 2. Germany, 3. Taiwan, 4. USA

1,000 views!

After nearly four months of blogging, my blog has already been viewed 1,000 times. The magic number was reached somewhere between yesterday evening and this morning. A big thank you to all my readers, to those who are obligated to visit this blog, and to those who have found my blog in some other way. Thank you, thank you, thank you! :)

Art postcards from Netherlands, UK & USA!

1. Netherlands, 2&3. US, 4. UK

Multiview postcards from Ausralia, Denmark, Lithuania & USA!

"Stolen" postcards from Hungary, India, Italy & Malta!

None of these cards have my name on the address lines, in other words, they don't really belong to me. But still I own them now. Here are the cards and the story's behind them:

These two cards from Malta and Rome are from my brother's childhood friend. When I started collecting postcards half a decade ago, I found my family's small postcard collections and these two among them. After asking for a permission (not from my brother though), these postcards became part of my collections :) 

These two cards have little different backgrounds. The card from India, which has appeared in this blog before, is from my mother's workplace. The card was sent by some colleague. When I noticed this card on her workplace, pinned on a notice board alone, without any other cards around, I decided to adopt it (with a permission). Besides, I wanted another card from India...

The card from Budapest has a whole different story. This card was found in a library by my brother-in-law. It was apparently used as a bookmark. It was a blank card: no address, no message, no stamp. He urged me to take it and I did. No permission asked this time :D 

PS. If the real owners of these cards are reading this and want their cards back, just ask and I will return them ;)

Unusually shaped postcards from Hungary, Luxembourg, Spain & the Netherlands!

Krtek postcards from Czech Republic, Germany & the Netherlands!

Isn't he cute? These all three Krtek cards I have (please send me more!). The first one is from Czech Republic, the second one is from Germany and the third one is from the Netherlands.