I’m holding five Starbucks mugs on two hands and my credit card is not freakin’ working. ”Can you try again?” I asked politely as I start to lose hope of bringing these souvenirs back home. ”It doesn’t work. Next!” We were at Beijing Road, the shopping district in Guangzhou and it was a Sunday. And apparently, Sundays here mean that the forex shops are closed. And I have zero Yuan on my wallet. And my credit card just wasn’t working. And this cannot be happening.

Lights blazed from the horizon. Pulsating. Alive. Vibrant. It washed the waters of the channel below in neon and pierced the low soft clouds hovering just above the tallest skyscrapers. I was standing on the top deck of a cruise ship as it slowly pushed its massive hull across the waters of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor. I took a sip of a Blue Girl beer straight from its bottle and stared at the shimmering skyline.

I was totally mesmerized.

I don’t know whether I should thank Aleah of Solitary Wanderer who tagged me at the 7 Super Shots game or detest her (just joking Aleah hehe). The challenge seemed easy enough at first glance; select seven of your best photos that would fit the seven themes of the game.

Well… Upon second thought, this is not really easy stuff after all. Considering I have 75,159 photos sitting on my hard drive (more than half of which I have really not yet processed), easy just got thrown out the window. It would be, as the cliché goes, like picking seven needles in a haystack.

But I want to do this, so off the top of my head here are my needles.

Travelling 794 kilometer per hour, aboard a KLM plane bound for the Netherlands, between Tientsin and Chendou in China. 10 hours left ‘til Amsterdam and tired of writing, I opened my window and there they were, majestic snowcapped mountain peaks floating above an ocean of soft white clouds. I have only seen these in movies and travel documentaries; I cannot believe I am actually witnessing this.

Postcards is a new segment I’m doing in Lakad Pilipinas. I finally bit the bullet and bought myself a netbook for my travels. But I really don’t feel like doing full articles when I’m travelling since it takes too much time and I’d rather be exploring outside than be inside the hotel room, faced with a little LCD screen. So this is what I came up with, one photo posts with a few words for company. I’m hoping it’s enough to fill in the gaps when I’m out travelling and give flavor to my readers of my current whereabouts.