Aww.. You're so sweet yoshi!

Received a very warm snail mail from a my dear Japanese pal - Yoshi in January and it was very heart-warming indeed. The feeling of still being remembered, being missed and just simply to hear what a friend has to tell you - no matter what it is - the feeling is really heart-warming... just indescribable.

The envelope and stamps are really nice.. Australian Post has come up with artistic envelope covers, stamps and this is yet another great combination of vibrant colours and wordings telling about Australian Christmas.

You know, actually I really like snail mails, coz it really shows the effort and heart that one puts in, and also I just like the feeling of holding something physical in my hand, one that I can keep and look back maybe few years later and still have the warm feeling..

Unfortunately, people no longer write snail mail nowadays, even personally written 'Hi How are you' e-mails are getting rarer and rarer. I know I'm one of them, but I'm really beginning to feel that there's too many things to do with too little time. Yoshi has left Australia in the beginning of March though, and she deliberately IM-ed me just to ask have I received her letter, for fear that it might already lost-in-transit
due to my inability to reply her in any way at all. My bad really. I've really wanted to write her a long and nice one but... somehow... one way or another it didn't seem to come along.

As Yoshi is returning to Japan (after many years in Australia) I've asked her to give me her mailing address in Japan so I could still write her the snail mail I promised her. Just really hope I could send her my reply before this month end :)