Theme Day - November
I was rather weak in my Chinese writing at that time when I was only 15 years old. And one school teacher told me this:
"Having a pen-pal is an effective way to improve Chinese writing''
To speak (I mean conversational Chinese) is not a problem, at least to me, BUT not for writing Chinese :( So I decided to... continue click here to this true story, my real life story about how the MAILBOX relates to me. Whenever I walk past mailboxes, this particular kind of mailbox design always captured my attention. And whenever I was in Hong Kong too (There's still plentiful there, but not so in Singapore.)Hence now in Singapore, it is something that is about to disappear soon...
I managed to find this traditional mailbox at Vivocity food republic.
p.s. I have previously wrote a post about how Singapore is striving to become a digital nation, you may click here if you wanna read about it;) as it'll soon be a reality that we are going to have email boxes replacing such snail mailboxes
This is my story and something that is about to disappear soon, check out the other 62 !! fellow Daily Photobloggers who are participating in the 1st November theme:
Porto -Seattle WA USA (Kim) -London, UK -Greenville, SC -Albuquerque, NM (USA) -St Paul Kate -ShangHai, China -Phoenix, Az -Twin Cities, MN -Sequim, WA -Stayton, OR, USA -Bandung (Indonesia) -Dallas, USA -Stavanger (Norway) -Singapore (zannnie) -Budapest (Hungary) -Paris (France) -Tuzla (BiH) -Melbourne, (Aust.) -Auckland, New Zealand Singapore (Raymond) -Dubai UAE (DXBluey) -Vantaa, Finland -Oshawa, Ontario, Canada -St. Paul MN Carol -Singapore (Keropok) -Delta Colorado, USA -Rotterdam (Netherlands -Queens, NY (USA) -Tenerife (Spain) -Santiago (Chile) -Nelson, New Zealand -( Japan ) -Hyde (UK) Sydney (Sally) -Manila, Philippines -Aliso Viejo, CA (USA) -Nottingham UK -Brussels, Belgium -Sharon, CT (USA) -Sydney Australia (Nathalie) -Edinburgh, Scotland -Evry, France -San Diego, CA (USA) -Santa Clara, CA (USA) -Saarbrücken, Germany -Joplin, MO (USA) -Indianapolis,IN (USA) -Trujillo (Peru) - Barcelona (Spain) -Berlin (Germany) - Vancouver, BC (Canada) -Trier (Germany) - Houston, TX (USA) - Joensuu,(Finland) - Jakarta, Indonesia - Van Buren (AR USA)- Macky (Kyoto, Japan)- Macky (Tokyo, Japan) - Wilf (Réal, France) - Kala (Honolulu, Hawai'i) -
Comments
nice post Zannnie =)
Beautiful history and good idea. cheer
-Kim
:))
so when you said your chinese writing... it reminds me my english and english studying...
:))
i need write some mails in english ...it must be very useful for me.
nice shot for theme day!
...Jing
it's a very old style letter box
kaa,
i found this box at a food court called ''FOOD REPUBLIC'' at vivocity which i mentioned in one of the post before.Glad you like the story, it's true story..:) Thanks!
john,
Thank you...
sally,
the rest of the people without computers will go to public libraries or make payment etc at the actual department by going there physically
jazzy,
i dun mind the emails...but sometimes receiving a letter from the mailbox is quite a different experience;)
ham,
i guess first you can get in touch with Jing, she indicated in this post here that she's looking for someone to practice english and while you can learn Chinese and visit China (Shanghai)...;)
Olivier,
Thank you and yours was a very creative idea too!:D
Eric,
ohh, such an honour...and glad you like this Theme Day post. It's officially my first Theme Day as I didn't manage to sign up for the previous
Felicia,
I would think this change of emailboxes replacing such mailboxes to happened quite soon. Sad to say...unless we go a Museum or heritage board preserved spots to find such designs
lavender lady,
yes, it's a different touch. You can imagine even just receiving a post card with short message is a different experience:)
Thank you very very much, KIM!
Your words are really kind about Singapore...
zsolt72,
it looked cute? ;) heh heh, maybe you meant it looked small:) mini cute
kate,
yeah,it has a nostalgic touch to it
jenny,
glad you find the story behind this box interesting!
keropok man,
no, we lost touch...
Jing,
Ham (fromLondon dp) is hoping to learn chinese to travel in china, maybe you can write to him and exchange some fundamental chinese for his travel:)
Thank you all of you...Thank you!