{"id":4845,"date":"2012-07-23T10:42:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T02:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2012-07-23T10:43:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T02:43:24","slug":"message-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/message-in-a-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Message in a Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I got a Gardens by the Bay stamp and sent a letter to myself so I could get the post mark. Yes, the stamp is pretty limited and you can see it takes half the length of the envelope.<\/p>\n

Since I was sending said letter to myself, I figured it should open it in 2015.<\/p>\n

And then I checked my own previous message to myself that I sent in 2002 since I forgot when I was supposed to open it.<\/p>\n

16 May 2012.<\/p>\n

Well ok.<\/p>\n

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I added a plus 2 since it didn’t seem like 2010 was that far off. No, I didn’t send this to myself via the mail. I just placed the items in a plastic bottle since that doesn’t biodegrade or decompose. At least not for another thousand or whatever years?<\/p>\n

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Goodies! Well, one Staedtler stick pen which you can’t get any more, a passport photo I used for my polytechnic ez-link, a letter and a secondary school results thing. The bottle smelled nice too since the ink was one of those scented inks that I wrote with. It was the trend back then that pens smelled like fake perfume or something.<\/p>\n

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I wonder if you can actually find this pen somewhere. It writes well and even back then, it was hard to find in stationery stores.<\/p>\n

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Remarks on my secondary school leaving transcript thing. In case you can’t read it even after clicking the picture to expand, it says:<\/p>\n

SARAH IS A CHEERFUL AND FRIENDLY GIRL WHO HAS A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOUR. SHE WILL DO WELL TO PURSUE HER NATURAL FLAIR FOR CREATIVE EXPRESSION.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uh huh. Considering that was written in 2001, well. I will considered that as PURSUED<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Or still pursuing since it’s always a thing to continue on.<\/p>\n

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And the letter I wrote to myself started with:<\/p>\n

Hi me! It’s me! You! Heh, right. You of the past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently I was going to a Magic: the Gathering prerelease tournament after stuffing the letter into the bottle and I had questions like “Did Buffy end up with Angel in the end?”. Oh Past!Sarah, I can assure you that Buffy the Vampire Slayer has gotten so much more complicated than that. It has spawned off season 8 in comic form and so much has happened.<\/p>\n

Of course there were other questions too but mostly, Past!Sarah says to keep on doing what I do!<\/p>\n

Past!Sarah, you’re so nifty. Yes. I will keep on doing what I do. She wanted to be a cartoonist back then but heck that, Present!Sarah and Future!Sarah has something else in store for you… Ok, this is getting confusing in a way.<\/p>\n

I have two more bottles to run through in 2016 onwards and the letter I sent to myself this year left.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, do you lot make time capsules or letters to self?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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