I think I sorted them by occasion type:
1) X'mas cards
2) CNY cards
3) Birthday cards
4) Love Letters (hahaha!)
5) Others
And I further sort them by chronological order, so I had cards like from way back in 1990. That was the era of no-emails-mobilephones-sms-blogs-onlinephotos-facebook-msn. That was the era of good old fashion letters-homephones-cards-face2facetalking. I still recall that whenever there's a gathering, everybody is more or less on time as there were no other contact means if you are late. No mobile phones or sms to say:" you guys go ahead to the restaurant/ club/ house/ movie first and I'll buzz one of you when I get there."
An example of what kind of card I used to get in the good o' times:
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TAAAAA-DAH!!!!!!!
NICE OR NOT???? It's handmade by Bernie if I am not wrong (my 17th or 18th birthday??). Back then, we take turns making cards each time someone in our group has a birthday coming up. And we celebrate like crazy!! Used to like those sabo-ing type and cut cake ritual. Come to think of it now, it's kinda cute how we used to behave. I always 'force' Karen to decorate my file for me in college. *A-hem!!* *cough cough* I remembered she drew this very abstract woman in tracing paper and overlay it on nice purple paper to wrap around my file. The next year she drew baby polar bear instead. How did she know I like polar bears back then? Ok Ok back to the story of this card again. NEVER JUDGE A CARD BY ITS COVER!! Looks simple on the outside but it's really a very nice card inside - sweet, thoughtful, very gu-niang, very girl girl and can I say my friends are very talented lo!!!
There are about 4 pages of content inside. Come Come, let me show you!!!!!!
See what I mean??? Super girlie right?? I heart!!!! I heart the sophisticated looking woman in her posh dress and did you check out her high heels?? I also heart her hair, so retro!!! When I first saw this card, I used to think would I blossom into her?? hee hee hee.
But most of all, I heart each and every sentence of birthday wishes written by every classmate. Some wrote in mandarin, most in english, some wrote in black ink and some wrote in blue and decorate with red!! How nice and heartwarming!!! Imagine how happy I was when I got this card. No need for any other gifts cos this is the sincerest form of blessing!! And I know they secretly passed to one another to write during lectures lo!!! So sweet hor.
There's also one page of poem in that really perfect handwriting of Bernie's! LOOK!!!!!!
I glow and glow and GLOWWWWW and glow like a firefly on 26th July that year lo!
Then there's this one last page on the card which I am not going to show you any picture but to type it out for you to see. Here it goes:
- Timotei loves U always
- Weijie loves U even more
- Kelvin loves U more than words can say
- Kah Joo loves U, Steven (which is Kah Joo's angmoh mia btw) loves U EVEN MORE!
- Songxi loves U more than Kah Joo, Steven, Kelvin, Weijie, Timotei,... & FOREVER MORE!
BUT
Xiuzhen, Huifen, Pengene, Steph, Ade, Karen, Qian-jie, Joylyn, Doreen, nicole, Hui-Ge, Guangyang, Andy, Zhenliang, Kok Swee, Simin, Desmond, JULIAN loves U even more!!!!
WHAT A LOVABLE BUNCH OF FRIENDS I HAVE!!! I also love you all more than 13 years ago!!!
