Hello.
I've got a long name that I really love, but people call me Cza for convenience. I am a creative in mind and heart who values happiness and love above anything else in the world. Learning life's lessons and desiring to transmit them to others in the future. Avid pen collector. Joy seeker. Building values and friendships that would last.
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My obtaining of an unassuming Sheaffer ballpoint has warranted an equally simplistic review.
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Stainless steel Parker Jotter. Presumably a 1996 or a 2004 model. Food for the luxury-loving creature in me. :)
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Purchased just last week (entirely at random); didn’t realize that I may have just gotten my hands on a nearly-vintage piece! I treasure it so much, regardless!
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My Pilot 78G (red) vs. a photo on the Internet of a genuine Pilot fountain pen from the 1970s.
Who wouldn’t be a proud newbie pen collector. =))
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Check out what I got!
Inspired by this post, I managed to persuade my dad to take me to Binondo while my mom was having her glasses made so I could check out the rare Pilot pens which my friend @writergirl confirmed were being sold there (thanks, Nox!). :D This pen immediately caught my eye, seeing as it was the exact same model the owner of the first linked blog had managed to purchase. :D After haggling for a discount (which took 60 bucks off the pen’s original price, partly due to an error on the saleslady’s part) I had the pen wrapped, along with a Pilot Birdie fountain pen which I currently use to practice cursive (and have very much fallen in love with). :) I am now the happiest I have ever been in my entire pen-collecting history (which, in the span of half a year, has given birth to three Parker IM’s —one of which remains nowhere to be seen, and has possibly been mistakenly given away to charity upon having been left in my locker past the deadline of item retrieval — a Pilot Acroball, three Parker Jotters, one discontinued Parker pen of unidentifiable model, three G2ex’s — of which one has been given to my mom in an subliminal effort to soften her on my splurging on pens — two Zebra Sarasas from Singapore, one Tapliclip, a nonfunctional Zebra Surari, and a Pilot B2P, among several other pens of lesser value).
This kid is truly a stationery freak — no wonder I tend to appreciate trips to the bookstore more than any other place, especially if I’m headed for the mall anyway.
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Practicing penmanship with my Pilot Birdie fountain pen which I got just last weekend during a trip to Cosmos Bazar in Binondo, which I’d found out earlier through research to be the sole distributor of Pilot pens in the Philippines. :D It’s been a while since I’d last engrossed myself in this, seeing as the last time I remember doing so was back in my eleventh year of life, the age at which I took up Speedballing. The passion didn’t last for long, however, due to lack of time and the diversion of my attention to other aspects of life such as projects, friends, and fifth grade insanity, so the guidebook I had used (which belonged to my dad before I had persuaded him to hand it down to me so I could work on my own lettering) was immediately stowed away and did not see a reader for years. Six years on, I find myself once again rekindling a childhood expertise, and here I am attempting to master the art for real in satisfaction of an ever-present want (being the old soul that I am, soon to be full-fledged pen collector and eventually, should money and time permit it, Master of Vintage). :D
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New pens from SG! :D Up-down: Pilot V-Sign, Pilot B2P, Zebra Sarasa (metallic FTW), Zebra Sarasa again, Zebra Surari (not working properly boo), Zebra Tapliclip. Yay for me finding a lot of Zebras that aren’t just the ordinary type.
Next up: Z-Grips and steel-body Pilots! :D
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Believe it or not, this is a Parker pen. :D
My mom gave it to me around 2001, when I was seven years old. Back then I didn’t understand its value, so I had it stored away after it ran out of ink. I believe my dad told me then that there were refills available, but for some reason he didn’t buy me any so I probably assumed he was fine with me tossing the pen, and besides I wasn’t too keen on its design anyway as I preferred My-Gels above any kind of pen (and back then cost didn’t matter to me, it just so happened that My-Gels were cheap and sold for only around 19.75, not far from how much they presently fetch)
Only recently had I discovered it below piles and piles of unused school and office supplies stashed away in a cabinet at home (or rather, my dad found it for me). I very much remember him saying, “Hey look, a Parker — aren’t you fond of these?” and my face instantly lit up; all I wanted to do at the time was mouth, OMG, how did you know? In the first place, I had never shown him any of my Parkers, though I’d been obsessing over them since a friend gave me one for Christmas in 2009 thus leading me to take notice of the preexisting family collection and wish I had pens of my own, preferrably newer models. Come 2010 I had sufficient funds in my ATM to begin buying some of my own. So far, I have purchased three of the Parker IM and Jewel type, though I have no idea as to where my metallic red one had gone to after I’d hidden it in my locker at school and supposedly taken it home during our last official week of school as my graduation gift for myself.
Here are various close-up views of my “newest” Parker:
Oh, isn’t she a beauty? You don’t see Parker pens of this type being sold anymore in the stores.
It has text engravings on the side of a certain event sponsored by my mom’s office, this being a souvenir handed to participants.
See, it’s a genuine! :D
Since this was such an adorable find, it just had to be blogged about. <3
