Welcome the Year of the Water Snake!

Here's my Chinese New Year's wish to all my family, friends and visitors to this blogsite.. May you have prosperity, happiness, and good health always.. Kung Hei Fat Choi!

2012 Philippines First Day Cover Album Pages (January - Aprl)

I am glad that it's a holiday today being Labor Day. This enabled me to have the time I needed  to make the album pages for my 2012 Official First Day Covers from January to April released by the Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost).

The fdc pages are printed in A4 high gloss waterproof photo paper and printed using a desktop printer. After mounting the fdcs, I then inserted the pages on a clear book album.

This personalized album beautifully features the artistic cachets of the covers as well as the stamps, souvenir sheets and first day of issue cancellations.

The January to April official fdc issues highlight the following: 60th Year of the Lyceum University of the Philippines, the Centennial of The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Philippines, 50th Anniversary of the Diocese of Malolos, 75th Anniversary of Davao City, the Centennial of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University, 100th Anniversary of the St. Agnes Academy of Legazpi City, Philippine Folklore Heroes and Heroines Featuring Maria Makiling, 50th Year of the Asia Pacific Postal Union, and the 20th Anniversary of the Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost).     

   

Happy New Year!

Good bye 2011 and hello 2012! I open my first blog for the year with a prayer to the Almighty for all the wonderful blessings that have come my way and to my family.

Thanks also to everyone who take time to read my articles and send in positive comments. You guys rock!

One more reason that makes every new year significant to me is that this is the day my dad and my brother Bob were born.

This 2012, Chinese astrology calls this the Year of the Dragon. The dragon year is always considered special and significant by the Chinese owing to the fact that this is the only animal in the zodiac year that is fictitious. The Chinese dragon is a combination of a tiger, snake, eagle and a fish. It is a symbol of power, rule and superiority.

Featured in today's blog is a souvenir sheet of the 2012 Year of the Dragon, Chinese New Year stamp issue released by the Philippine Postal Corporation on December 5, 2011 to usher in the new year. Also included in the issue are stamps valued at Php 7.00 and Php 30.00.