Mamun

I am Mamun from the beautiful city of Bengaluru. I am a mom to a 5-month toddler and a banker. I am married to my 6 years old penfriend.

I love writing postcards and letters. Besides, I love spending my time reading, traveling. I occasionally make cards for my dear friends and paint. I am a big foodie and love to try new dishes. I also love to experiment in the kitchen.

Postcards and letters are beautiful mediums to connect with people. I like to write long letters and try to decorate them. I am yet to be a pro in craft skills. I am still in the beginner stage. Yet I try to make the other person happy while opening my envelope:)

Postcard is a strong medium to learn and explore the world. I would love to receive postcards beneficial for my boy's upbringing and education.

My favorite themes:

--Traditional toys and games,

--Illustrations & Art

--Marketplace

--Culture, and festivals,

--Children

--Mountains

--History

--Folklore

--Educational

--Music

I love my postcards written, decorated, and stamped.

I am a book lover. I love children's novels a lot besides the classics. Also, my favorites are Medical thrillers, Adventure travel stories, biographies, and history, autobiographies, short stories.

My Favourite Authors and their books:

-Charles Dickens (David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop)

-Robin Cook (Foreign Body, Critical, Death Benefit)

-Guy de Maupassant (Short Stories-A Piece of String, The Necklace, Two friends, The Port)

-Khaled Hosseini (The Kite runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns,And the Mountains echoed)

-Johanna Spyri (Heidi)

-Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer)

-Haruki Murakami (Norweigan Wood)

-Rahul Singh, Shiv Aroor (India's Most Fearless)

-Mrinal Talukdar (1962, Assam After Independence)

-Dr. Mamoni Raisom Goswami (Magnolia & other stories)

-Jules Verne (Around the world in Eighty Days, Twenty thousand leagues under the sea)

-Robert Louis Stevenson (Kidnapped)

-H.G.Wells (The Invisible Man)

-Ruskin Bond (The Room on the roof, The blue umbrella, The Night train at deoli)

I am a big fan of Tintin and Suppandi. Also I like to read monthly children magazines

Favorite places I traveled:

--Shillong, Cherapunji, Dawki (Meghalaya)

--Tawang, Dirang, Namsai (Arunachal Pradesh)

--Dehradun, Mussoorie (Uttarakhand)

---Mysore (Karnataka)

---Amritsar, Attari Border (Punjab)

--- Agra (Uttar Pradesh)

My travel list for the next 2 years includes Kerala, Coorg, Himachal pradesh, Ladakh, Leh, Bhutan, Sikkim, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland (The Hornbill festival).

Foods and Cuisines:

I am a big foodie. I love trying new dishes. Street food is one of my favorites. I like Tibetan cuisines, Chinese cuisines, Continental cuisines, Assamese cuisines, South Indian cuisines, and Punjabi cuisines. I also like different kinds of drinks local to a region just like in Punjab it is Lassi. In South India it is Buttermilk.

Art and Crafts:

I am still in the beginner stage of art and crafts. I occasionally make cards for my friends. I like paper embroidery but still struggle with the needle and thread I am yet to be perfect in my skills. I wait forward for the ideas, suggestions of my dear friends in Swapbot to improve my skills.

Movies, shows and series:

I like to watch cartoons, adventure movies, short films, animated movies, comedies, Netflix series.

Favorites:

--Wall E

---Up

--Minions

--The Adventures of Tintin

--Panchayat (Web series)

--Cherynobyl (Web Series)

--Small Wonder

--Mind your language

--Daai (Short film)

--Shinchan

--Cubicles (Web series)

Favorite music and singers:

I like instrumental music and folk music more. I love songs of my native language and English.

---Nilotpal Bora

---Zubeen

---Papon

---Yanni

---Andre Rieu

---Ambi Subramanium

---Mahesh Ragavan

---Ragini and Nandini Shankar

---Nickelback

--Celine Dion

--Adele

--Sia

--Shakira

Language learning is another thing I love to do. I am learning French and Chinese. I am still at the beginner stage. But I will love to write to any person who knows French. I want to improve my writing and speaking skills

Besides, I like stationeries, stickers, washi tapes, bookmarks, ink pens, embroidery patterns, nail art designs. Of late I am in love with nail art designs and want to learn to do it.

Book recommendations are always welcome.