The tradition of sending postcard – nengajyou (年賀状)in Japan is quite old, dating back in Heian period. In this digital area, instead of sending the physical greeting cards, most people tend to send sms or mms..
But that’s not the case in Japan.. December is the busy month to clean up the house, and also prepare up to hundred postcards i guess..
The postcards are sold in the convenient store, but most Japanese don’t like to use the mass-design postcards. They design theirs, generally beautify them with the family’s pictures or the panorama shots around their house or the shots they took during their trips that year.
Some of you got the postcards from me.. but I apologize if I missed sending to you.. I did it manually to give personal touch, and it was so hectic that I sent them separatedly, however there’re some errors from my side. Some postcards sent from Shanghai after the conference, and the others were sent from Japan around 5 times delivery.
In the Shanghai airport, I rushed to find the postcards, writing the names but when I was about to send, I found out that I ran out of money! lol.. so eventhough they were already written, they had to come back to Tokyo with me and finally sent by Japanese postage. Did you notice that?
*poke the recipients*, I hope you didn’t. LOL..
And I felt that I missed writing the country name, so it went back to me, and there’re also postcards without my address, I guess. (because Naki didn’t get my postcard last year). So maybe either it ended up in the post office belongs to nobody or it was the mistake in Indonesia postal. haha.. *human error*
By the way, there’s お年玉付郵便葉書 – otoshidama tduke yuubin hagaki (postcard with new year present). So if you see there’s serial numbers on the back side of the postcard..
And there’s kinda lottery for that.. The winners are based on the 6,5, 4, and 2 last numbers..
It goes like this..
For example the 1st prize (the one who got the postcard with the serial number of 975424, and one present can be chosen out of these five :
– Sharp AQUOS Digital Hi-Vision 32 inch LCD TV with built-in Blu-ray Disc recorder
– Overseas or Domestic trip
– Toshiba Netbook + Casio Digital Camera + Canon Inkjet printer
– Canon Digital Video Cam
– Office goods sets
2nd prize nintendo + Wii and so on and so forth..
I’ve checked mine and I didn’t win.. how about yours? ^^
Please checked this site
If yours are one of the mentioned numbers.. You can send it back to Japan, haha.. The gift exchange period was started and will last on July 26.
Neat! I didn’t know about the お年玉付郵便葉書 haha. Thanks for the info 🙂
Hi greattechersato, thanks for dropping by. ^^
Hmmm I shall check mine 😀 I put it in the office heheh…
Haha..
waa unik postcardna ^_^
hohoh i didn’t get mine too…let’s give the luck to others hohohoho
Haha, u did check? yes, let’s spread the luck for others. ^^
jadi postcard yang lu kasih itu bisa ada chance untuk menang wil?
ngeceknya gimana itu tulisannya jepun semua gitu… gak ngerti. hehe.
liat di site nya http://www.post.japanpost.jp/whats_new/2010/0124_01.html
cocok ga angka yang ada di sebelah kanan postcard dengan pengumumannya.. cek kolom kanan : 6 angka terakhir..
ada juga yang 4 angka terakhir, 2 angka terakhir.. hehehe..
postcard gua yang dari airport shanghai tapi kirimnya dari japan hahaha.. i didn’t notice before 😛
dan gak ada nomornya gua punya, cuma yang dari japan aja ada undiannya kan 🙂
hihihi, iya Viol.. ada beberapa yang lain juga dikirim dari Shanghai.. hehe..
hmmm… masalahnya yang bikin males disini postcard ga ada yg lucu, ujung2 na ke mall beli postcard import jipun atau korewa juga yang lucu wakakakakak.. kan sama aja boonk klo g ngirim na ke jipun atau korewa juga, ada sih yang bagus2 di bali sono wakakakaka.. cuma kok jauh banget yah ?! di jakarta emang ga ada ?! *mungkin g yg ga tau tempat na kale yah*
haha.. ada nya christmas card, CNY card gitu, bukan postcard kali ya Pit.. 🙂
hehe, kartu natalnya tapi bagus2 khan ya.. dl pas zaman SD, SMP sih.. kayanya skrg dah ga zamannya kirim kartu natal lagi toh.. hehehe..
Thank you Will!! .. i guess my postcard is all the way from Shanghai.. ‘coz there’s “Airmail” stamp… desho??
haha.. anyway it doesn’t matter… what matters is the Will.. ^_-
Haha, yes Lai, yours is all the way fr Shanghai, I bought it in the airport.. 🙂
iya taon kemaren itu nyasar kemana yah postcardnya ? I wonder 😀
wahh blum cek nih wil , nanti malem gw cek ahh …. 🙂
Iya, ga tahu nyasar atau gimana.. soalnya yang kemaren kirim ke Indo ada satu yang balek krn gua ga tulis negara.. tapi takutnya ada postcard yang ga gua tulis alamat gua.. jadi ga bisa dikirim balek.. maybe?
wahh baru tau :))
udah telat blom ya klo g cek sekarang. haha 😛
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