Malaysia has taken a step forward by featuring Malaysia's most famous cartoonist, Lat, in their latest stamp. I must say I am a big fan of Lat and I am quite excited to see his stuff on the newest issue.
This is probably the first Malaysian stamp that made me go, "WOW!".
For the first time, Pos Malaysia produced a unique shaped miniature sheet - in the shape of a butterfly. It's also modifiable. You can peel off some parts of the stamp.
Well, it's almost Christmas and many activities are going on lately. Unfortunately, I don't have anything to blog other than stamps.
The Royal Mail recently launched a special stamps issue to commemorate the centenary of the birth of James Bond creator, Ian Fleming, as well as the 50th anniversary of the publication of Dr No, the first Bond novel to be filmed. The books illustrated in the stamps are Casino Royale, Dr No, Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, For Your Eyes Only and From Russia with Love.
Although these stamps are available for purchase now, these stamps would only be dispatched on January 2008. I bought mine already, together with Christmas stamps! :D
Recently, the Australian magazine New Idea! teamed up with the Australian Post to create a stamp to commemorate the late Steve Irwin, a famous Australian wildlife expert and television personality.
From News.com.au
The late Crocodile Hunter has been immortalised on a new commemorative stamp, brought out just in time to celebrate Steve Irwin Day.
The stamp features a New Idea magazine commemorative cover of Irwin, his two children Bindi and Bob - and a large snake - which was originally published shortly after his death last September.
The stamp is the second joint venture between Australia Post and New Idea, after the two previously collaborated on a souvenir stamp featuring Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Asked by the magazine to nominate a second celebrity for another set of stamps, the public overwhelmingly voted for the late world-famous but home-grown wildlife warrior.
“We were overwhelmed with the response to the public poll and happy to be able to support New Idea in this initiative,” Australia Post's Michael Zsolt said.
“This is the first time that an Australian magazine cover has been made available to the general public on an Australia Post stamp product.”
The Brangelina stamp was not available for public sale, unlike the Irwin one which can be purchased in 10 x 50 cent stamp sheets from Australia Post outlets or directly from New Idea.
It is available for sale from today, just in time for the inaugural Steve Irwin Day on November 14.
Proceeds from the stamps will go to Irwin's conservation charity, Wildlife Warriors.
As you can see, the actual stamp is the stamp with a Kangaroo. The pictures of Steve Irwin and his family are merely supplements to the actual stamp.
p/s In AllMalaysia.info - Stamps to mark golden jubilee namely the part where they said, "The third stamp will remain a surprise until it is made available to the public". I think the third stamp is the stamp above. If you don't know the background of the above stamp, it was the first stamp issued under the name of Malaysia in 1963.
I have a stamps catalogue of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. I'm a g33k :P
In conjunction with the release of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows™, the seventh and final Harry Potter book, Royal Mail has issued a stamps which featured covers of the seven books.
United Kingdom is not the only country that has issued stamps depicting Harry Potter and the relevant characters. A search on Ebay reveals that the following countries have issued such stamps:
(1) Commemorative stamps
(2) Definitive stamps
(3) Special stamps
Malaysia's Commorative stamp commorating the SEA Games.
Commemorative stamps are stamps designed to commemorate a particular event
Malaysia's latest definite stamp.
Definitive stamps are stamps mainly for the everyday payment of postage. They often have less appealing designs than commemoratives. These are your usual Malaysian palm oil stamps. I usually throw them into the rubbish bins. And those plans to buy stamps for me, please, please, don't buy me definitive stamps. They belong to the rubbish bin (although some experts may differ).
One of Malaysia's national cars - Gen 2
Special stamps in Malaysia are stamps issued to represent uniqueness of a the country.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commision has set up a guideline for the issuance of stamps in Malaysia. The said guideline can be downloaded here (In Malay language only)
It's quite an interesting piece to read. It is noted that for Special Stamps, any prominent figures (except for the Sultan and Agong) therein must be, among others, Malaysian and is dead. If I'm not mistaken, USA has the same rule as well.
The late P. Ramlee, Malaysia's most well known actor.
Recently, Malaysia issued stamps commemorating the Visit Malaysia Year 2007.
Malaysian women and food. YUMMY!!
During the launch of the stamps, 2 of my colleagues followed me to the launch. They were pretty amazed with the design. One of them said,
"Wow, I didn't know Malaysia has such nice stamps!".
Me: :D
Then she added,
"You damn weird la, collect stamps. I'm going to tell my boss"
O__O||||
[Credits: all pictures above are obtained from the website of http://www.pos.com.my]
Those who knows me for long, would know that my dinner is usually sweet and sour pork. My favourite! Those who reads this website often know I love stamps.
Now God has combined both of my favourite things into one thing, A SWEET AND SOUR PORK STAMP!!
ZOMG!!!!
Stamps released in China to celebrate the Year of the Pig taste of sweet and sour pork.
The stamps on sale in China to celebrate the country's New Year. The stamps taste of sweet and sour pork /Wenn
When you scratch the front of the stamps, it smells of the popular chinese dish and when the back of the stamp is licked it tastes of the dish too.
The stamps are on sale in China ahead of their New Year on February 18, reports Metro.
Royal Mail launched Britain's first scratch 'n' sniff stamp in 2001 - they gave off eucalyptus aromas.
Yesterday,
All my troubles seemed so far away,
Now it looks as though they're here to stay,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
aaa.. My favourite Beatles track.
On 9 January 2007, the UK Royal Mail will be launching stamps with the covers of the now defunct 1960s Beatles band .
The Beatles are to appear on a set of stamps featuring images of their most famous album covers.
The collection of six stamps includes covers of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road, Revolver, Let It Be and With The Beatles.
The stamps will go on sale in January 2007 as a tribute to the band.
A Royal Mail spokesman said: "The Beatles special stamps promise to be a big hit with fans the world over when they go on sale."
He continued: "Royal Mail is featuring some 1st Class Beatles album covers to commemorate the UK band that stands for all that's great in popular culture."
Sarah of sarahian.blogspot.com bought me the DC Comics Super Heroes stamps while she was in the USA.
THANKS ALOT !
Ten comic book heroes are saluted on the "DC Comics Super Heroes" stamps. Half of the pane of 20 are portraits of the characters; the other half shows individual comic book covers devoted to their exploits. The characters include Aquaman, Batman, The Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Plastic Man, Supergirl, Superman and Wonder Woman.
I doubt Malaysia would have such stamps in the near future as we do not have many super heroes. The only super hero I could think of is Cicak man.
Note: Please note that the above stamp is not to be distributed or sold or used for postal purposes. It is merely for illustration purposes.
Under Section 33 of the Malaysian Postal Services Act 1991 ("the Act"), any person who-
(a) makes or knowingly utters, deals in, hawks, distributes, or sells any fictitious stamp or knowingly uses for postal purposes any fictitious stamp;
(b) has in his possession without lawful excuse any fictitious stamp;
(c) makes, or without lawful excuse has in his possession, any dye, plate, instrument or materials for making any fictitious stamp; or
(d) makes, issues or sends by post any stamped or embossed envelope, wrapper, card, form or paper in imitation of one issued under the authority of the licensee,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both.
Under Section 2 of the Act, "fictitious stamp" means any facsimile or imitation or representation, whether on paper or otherwise, of any postage stamp purporting to denote any rate of postage including any stamp purporting to denote a rate of postage of any other country;
As you all know, Germany World Cup 2006 is coming to an end. Host country, Germany is out and now we're left with France and Italy. Both are not my favourite teams. My favourite teams, Brazil, Germany, England and Japan/Korea are all long gone. I don't think I will stay up till 2AM on Monday just to watch the finals. Mad ah no need to work ah?
Anyway, I received a letter from an associate in Indonesia. On their envelope. it has stamps commemorating the Germany World Cup 2006! Since when Indonesia has something to do with the world cup?
So I did further search on the net to see what other countries issued stamps commemorating the Germany World Cup 2006.
Due to King Bhumibol's 60th Anniversary to the throne, the Thailand postal has issued a stamp commemorating the event. I've tried getting hold of it but unfortunately my colleague and my Dad couldn't get it for me. Bah.
2 weeks back, my Dad was in Thailand for a week. He told me that his Thai colleagues were all donning yellow tshirts that said "We Love our King" to celebrate King Bhumibol's 60th Anniversary to the throne.
I received a postcard from Australia. Sender is unknown.
Thank you for the postcard! I've no idea where you got my address from but I guess you bought shuffling CDs from me. However, it's a little bit worrying to know that some readers here have my address.
Anyway, thank you for your support! Really appreciate it!
I saw this advertisement from Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore's Stamp Catalogue.
Wtf... this is the first time I see people putting photos of themselves on an unrelated advertisement.
So anyway,I paid them a visit today.
It was held at the 2nd Floor of Heritage Hotel, Kuala Lumpur Railway Station. One should pay a visit there as its interior is of Victorian/Edwardian design.
Their elevator kicks asses as well. You have to open the door yourself and close it yourself! It’s like living in the early 1900s :D
The fair was held in a medium sized room with stamps, coins and notes sprawled all over the place. The price is reasonable as well. Further, their service was excellent!
As for the variety of stamps, they have stamps all over the world and era. I even saw a Penny Red selling for RM12! They also have an excellent collection of Japanese Occupation of Malaysia Stamps!
RM5600!!!! I gotta sell my ass for this!!
Japanese Occupation stamps. It's written 'Savings, the Japanese Government Malai (Malaysia)'
Coins & Notes. They even have Saddam Hussein's notes.
The fair is held every month first Saturday and Sunday, 9am to 6pm daily. To all stamp lovers, pls pay a visit tomorrow!
Pos Malaysia Berhad’s has issued new stamps to commemorate the 600th anniversary of Malaysia-China relationship.
The stamps and First Day Cover pay tribute to Admiral Zheng He, the greatest navigator during the China’s Ming Dynasty who paved the way for the establishment of the enduring relationship between Malacca, and subsequently Malaysia, and China as well as bringing to light the influences that came along with Admiral Zheng He’s voyages that had since become parts and parcels of the present Malacca community.
I went for the launch @ the Philatelic Department of Pos Besar. There were loads of people. People in Malaysia actually queue up to buy stamps!!
This stall opens every time Pos Besar opens its doors for Stamp Collectors to purchase its new stamps. Unlike some stamps collectors I know, this nice lady offers stamps at reasonable price.
Being a young collector, many stamp traders tries to take advantage of me by selling me stamps at exorbitant prices. These unscrupulous traders should be shot, hung and served as breakfast.
People fixing their stamps on envelopes.
Postal authorities from China's mainland, Hong Kong and Macao has also jointly issue commemorative stamps marking the 600th anniversary of the ancient Chinese navigator and diplomat Zheng He's seven voyages to the Western Seas.
Good news to owners of the Malaysian made car Gen.2!
Pos Malaysia Berhad, in collaboration with PROTON Holdings Berhad, is issuing special stamps and First Day Covers featuring PROTON Gen.2 to the public on Monday, 7th March 2005.
The special stamps and First Day Covers will be launched by YAB Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, PROTON’s Advisor at the Perdana Leadership Foundation Auditorium, Putrajaya on 21st March 2005, Monday.
To those who wants to purchase it on the 7th of March, head down to the Philately department at Pejabat Pos Besar, next to Dayabumi. A stamp fair will be held there.
To all lovely couples out there, enjoy being slaughted by opportunist. However, a homecook meal or homemade gift would definately make V day even more special.
To all single people out there, don't feel bad if you dont have a date. Your time will come. Think of all those poor guys who have to pay few hundred dollars for a crummy meal.
V day must also be celebrated with music. Music will light up the atmosphere and make you remember the V day you had when that particular music is played again.
To those suffering from a heartbreak, listen to 4PM - Sukiyaki, it would make you feel like jumping off a building.
The song Sukiyaki was originally sang by a Japanese singer by the name Kyu Sakamoto.
He was born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture. His most popular song, "Ue o muite aruko" (I Look Up When I Walk; Sukiyaki in the West)was a hit in Japan and topped the Billboard pop charts in the United States in 1963 where it was called "Sukiyaki." Western DJs needed a song title that was at once easily pronounceable and associated with Japan. So, "Sukiyaki" was it, even though the word is not mentioned in the song.
In 1985, Sakamoto was killed in the crash of Japan Airlines flight 123.
In 16 March 1999, Japan Post issued a stamp commemorating the song 'Ue o muite arukou'.
Happy Chinese New Year to all my Chinese visitors, except the gender confused reader daniel aka winnie. hehe
Since 1996, Christmas Island issue animals of the Chinese zodiac every year. This year would be the Rooster year.
In Chinese tradition, the rooster is admired as courageous and beneficent, and symbolises reliability, never failing to announce the arrival of a new day. Rooster years were 1909, 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993 and 2005.
Those born in the year of the Rooster are usually good looking and well-dressed. Appearance and status are important to them. Roosters are clever and conscientious in fulfilling their duties. They are talented in organisational work and manage money well. Although good at tackling problems and completing assignments, they are unlikely to be innovators.
Whilst generally kind, rooster people can be critical, frank and insensitive, and may refuse to admit they are wrong. Roosters make excellent actors. In a happy mood they are likely to be the centre of attention. While male roosters tend to be boastful, females are more modest, patient and kind, and do well in any social work.
Sometimes soaking isn't the solution. Sometimes it's best to let humidity work on the glue before you try to remove a hinge remnant or separate a mint stamp stuck to another stamp or an album page. The same trick works for getting stamps off envelopes whose inks you know will discolor the stamp when placed in water.
If you live in a hot, humid area you could experiment with exposing your stamps to the elements, but for most of us the answer is a sweat box. It's simply an airtight container with a couple of sponges and a cradle to keep the stamps from coming into direct contact with the sponges.
The basic idea is to raise the humidity in the sweat box so that it dampens the stamp's gum just enough to loosen the stamp from whatever it's stuck on without saturating the stamp or the paper, or diluting the gum.
The basic parts of the sweat box are
1. A small air tight container. (picture #1) A small, clear plastic disposable air-tight food container works well. The smaller the container, the quicker the humidy rises. If it's clear you can check on the stamp's progress without opening the container, which would then also drop the humidity.
2. A clean, never-used sponge or two to hold the water moisture. (picture #5) Two clean kitchen sponges are fine. You can try this out with what you have in the kitchen, but if you want to keep your sweat box working, you'll want to replace them with never-used sponges.
3. A screen on which the stamp on piece rests. I used a plastic basket that stores sell strawberries in. (picture #1) I then trimmed the sides down low enough to fit between the two sponges.
4. Spacers (picture #4) These raise the screen above the bottom sponge and must be non-porous, plastic, metal or cork. I used two bottle caps, but now use two pieces from a backgammon set.
To put together a your own homemade sweat box read the following and refer to the pictures.
1. Soak the bottom sponge in water. Wring it out so that it is still heavy and wet with water but not dripping and place it on the bottom of your box.
2. Affix the top sponge to the center of your box's top lid with two push pins as shown in picture #2.
3. Soak the top sponge in water and wring it out so that it is still heavy and wet with water but not dripping.
4. Now trim your screen so that it will fit between the upper and lower sponge. See picture #3.
5. Place your two spacers on top of the bottom sponge and rest your screen on top of it. See picture #4
6. When finished and set up, it looks something like this. See picture #5. In a while, depending on the sponge water, the size of the box, ambient temperature, humidity and sunlight on the box, water droplets will form on the sides of the box.
7. I cut a wine cork into ½" thicknesses and used them to cover the sharp ends of the push pins holding the top sponge in place on the cover.
The object of the sweat box is to have the humidity in the box seep through the paper and loosen the stamp's gum, but remember paper and gum interact in different ways depending on the age of the paper, the age and condition of the gum and the humidity.
Self-adhesive stamps can be sweated off, but what happens with a SA stamp is that the binder layer dissolves separating the top paper layer from the bottom adhesive layer so that you can't save the stamp with its adhesive.
And if you think stronger measures are necessary, just give the sweat box more time to work. Remember "STEAM is EXTREME."
With a little experience and patience most glues finally break down under the humidity. Expect a gummed stamp to take 30 minutes to loosen from paper, and gummed mint stamps a bit longer to release from each other.
However, I doubt the authenticity of these stamps. These stamps might fall into the category of "Cinderella Stamp".
Cinderella Stamp is any stamp that may look like a regular postage stamp, but which is not valid for use as postage. Stamp-like objects categorized by philatelists as Cinderella Stamps include such things as Christmas Seals, Easter Seals, and Fantasy Stamps from non-existent countries, but there are many other types of Cinderellas. In other words, "Cinderellas" is the nickname given to all non-postage stamps that are not listed in Scott's catalog, and that most traditional stamp collectors tend to scorn or shun. However, there is a growing number of specialized collectors who find these philatelic items fascinating.
Last week, eraine and I went for the Stamp Exhibition at Sub3ng Parade Shopping Centre.
I drooled from the beginning until the end. I spent a sinful RM50 on them!!
Two young newspaper reporters approached us for a photo. One of the reporters tried interviewing us in Mandarin.
Girl: *said something in Mandarin to eraine* eraine conveniently said, "wo bu hui chiang hu yu". That means, "I cant speak Mandarin"
Obviously shocked, the girl had no choice but to interview me. She asked me what kind of stamps I bought. I could not think of the proper words for it (my Mandarin is bad). Hence, I said, "sher mok tou mai!!" (I buy whatever there is!!).
They then made us pose with the newly launched stamps on our hands. If you see us on Sin Chew Jit Poh, those weren't our stamps!!
I think the obvious reason why the reporters approached is that we were the 'young' patrons there. Other patrols were either too old or too young (primary school kids).
I overhead a conversation by 2 men.
Men 1: Why are only primary school kids here? What happen to the secondary school kids? Men 2: I think those kids are in the cinema or doing something "cool"
How true, eraine and I were the only young adults there.
But the sight of them lined up neatly on my stamp book and the colours of it, is just too orgasmic!!
I have been on a stamps shopping spree lately. Stamp collecting has always been one of children’s favourite hobbies. However, most people lose interest in it when they grew older. I on the other hand, restarted my passion when I was in England.
Some people might find this hobby childish but it is a worldly recognised hobby, post offices around the world has a department dedicated to philately! Well at least this is a legitimate hobby. A friend of mine collects different kind of ecstasy pills he could get. I wonder if he is still around, hope he is not on the death row.
I saw the news on the oldest postcard in the world, it was first used in 1840 and it is now worth 20,000 pounds!
If you have any unwanted stamps collection and wishes to dispose them off, please give it to me!! I’ll trade it with eumm.. my collection of Melbourne Shuffle videos. Anyone?
New stamps that i bought.
Lord of the Rings stamps from New Zealand..OOOOOOoOOooohhhhhh
Queen Elizabeth II's coronation OOOOOOhhHHHhHHHhhhhh orgasmicc...
? The antique stamps I bought from eBay arrived today. The seller, Neil seems to be a very nice person. He inserted a small note with a caricature of a cat saying ?Smile at everyone today? and he wrote, ?Hope you like them, Neil. The stamps are inside the cardboard, it may look crude but I find it the lightest and strongest way of keeping the stamps flat!! Thank you for buying NEIL's stamps. I hope we can deal again in the near future. I will post feedback. Hey, that put a smile in my face.
I spent 4 hours in the library trying to study. However, it wasn?t productive at all, I wasted half of my time daydreaming. Man, I wish my Law subjects are much more interesting. I?m not complaining that law sucked but it really needs a tuning. My lecturers should just write their notes in a simpler form. Sometimes I would take a long time trying to figure out what a sentence is trying to say. - 10:30PM
