Subscribe RSS FeedI was lucky to have exchanged postcards with a Postcrosser from Bangladesh a few times before, during the year I was spending time sending private messages on the main site hoping to do swap with users from country you couldn’t find on the forum. And I am already thankful with these 3 postcards I have received from Faisal before he seemed to be busy to reply me for the 4th time :P
Sent by Fij
This is actually the last card, but nevermind I put first, as it shows an interesting rikshaw here.. though it’s nothing unusual to a Kelantanese like me who lives in a state where trishaws are still in existence (apart of Malacca and Penang, and maybe Terengganu as well).. but I noticed Bangladeshi rikshaw has the bike in the front side. In Kelantan it’s on the right side, and in Penang you can see it on the back side :) hehe. Now I remember I also got a trishaw card from Indonesia, which maybe I’ll feature next time, so we can judge the position of its bike.
Sent by Fij
This is a farmer cutting the jute plants. At least I haven’t seen jute plants before. Jute is a long, soft, vegetable fiber that they make strong threads with. Bangladesh is world’s second largest jute producer after India.
Sent by Fij
When I saw this card I recalled a Malay movie from the 50s or 60s with a village scene where farmers, women and men, were walking in a queue like this early in the morning going to the rice field… and singing along “mari kita ke ladang..” (let’s go to the field) :) It gives an exceptionally wonderful mood, with the idea of people used to be so happy to go to work. Do you think you’re that happy to go to work now? :)
