tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12650617627858624752024-09-01T19:22:09.728-07:00A Teacher's Musings...after school hoursmaria carmen mirandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10420301368565380863noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265061762785862475.post-13462089321449621932012-01-30T01:42:00.000-08:002012-02-01T06:54:25.943-08:00The extinction of letter writing and the snail mail... not yet please!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d;">A couple of weeks ago I received a Christmas card from a dear friend... sent by regular mail (snail mail as they call it)... yes, you read it right, sent via regular mail...Of course, I was so happy! I never thought that I would be able to receive that, after all, everything we have today is always instant, just one click, just one touch...sent and received in real time.</span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> I right away texted my friend and told him I was so touched, that after a few years I was again reading and seeing his handwriting..his nice handwriting by the way...which made me realize how many people are still doing this? Writing and sending mail regularly. I myself is guilty of not doing this anymore... will my pupils be as ecstatic as I was when they received a letter sent through mail? How many of them have love to read a message sent through handwriting? Will letter writing and and sending mail will just be a thing of the past? I hope I will not be able to witness that in my lifetime - the extinction of letter writing and sending mail.</span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> I do agree by the way that it is really as slow as snail when receiving mails nowadays ...my friend sent it before Christmas of 2011 and I received it 2nd week of January 2012. He even commented that it's quite late, I told him maybe our house is too far away from civilization and that they (the Post office) had a hard time locating my address. Well, with few workers around a post office, and fewer postmasters, receiving mails nowadays is not as fast as before.</span></b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> With this, I plan to write letters and send cards through regular mail this year 2012, before this art becomes extinct. Come join me! =)</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">P.S. The pictures are of the actual card that I received through snail mail. The stamps will be the first for my new collection of stamps.</span>maria carmen mirandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10420301368565380863noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265061762785862475.post-62369296193167583032012-01-28T20:28:00.000-08:002012-01-28T20:28:24.883-08:00After 48 years....<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally!!!! after 48 years of trying (and procastinating) I now have my blog account. I wish I will will be able to make this last (more than 48 years!), hehehehhe. Now that I'm already typing this entry, I don't know what to say...when there were a lot that I want to earlier. hahay.... </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just learned that my birthday this year (feb. 27) was declared a special holiday by Pres. Aquino </span>(<a href="http://traveltalesinc.com/uncategorized/the-2012-list-of-holidays-of-the-philippines/">http://traveltalesinc.com/uncategorized/the-2012-list-of-holidays-of-the-philippines/</a>,) <span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">well, what a relief! There's no pressure, you know what I mean, ;) . </span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first blog entry and definitely not the last.... Blog on!</span>maria carmen mirandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10420301368565380863noreply@blogger.com0