My Stamp !

Philately a common word you will find under the section Hobbies. Well I used to collect stamps when I was little, trading stamps from Srilanka for stamps of Vietnam and even coins for stamps. I liked the triangular and 3D stamps of Yemen :). I think they are called lenticular stamps.

I still remember a simple conversation with a colleague in Australia on the joys of Philately and a few weeks later she sent me an envelope which had a whooping 227 Australian and Papua New Guinean stamps. God bless her soul!

I wanted to surprise my wife with her own personalized stamps for her birthday,it turns out the “entry form” needed her signature and so I had to be satisfied with giving one of my own passport photos. The whole process took just a couple of minutes + Rs 300/- ( it did include running around the GPO to find a Xerox vendor- for a Photocopy of my ID).Soon I had 12 of my own personalized stamps !  

Hah , who said you have to be famous to have your photo on a stamp.

The other thing I did was become a member of the Bangalore Philately Club, looking forward to my first stamps :). Maybe I’ll even get a few scented stamps , I think they released three different fragrances — sandal, rose and jasmine.