hobonichi release day 2020

I am not so excited for Hobonichi release day this year. I couldn't find any interesting cover. Still, I bought things on the release day on September 1st.

I tried to keep everything below $100 to avoid unnecessary tax in my country. So, prefer to buy things in (small) batches. Normally, I will use this moment to buy predictable sold-out items or cover. Since I don't feel like buying expensive things --I'm kinda broke at this moment-- so I just bought the essentials. 

Here are the things I bought.

- A Hobonichi Card Case to store some important cards or loose notes (432 yen)

 

- My Hobonichi Stencil (the Speech Bubbles) is broken, so I bought this one (370 yen) for replacement.

- This Multi 8 Set is a mechanical pencil with multicolour pencil leads. It's quite expensive (3,240 yen) so I hope it's worthed.

- A must-have plastic Cover on Cover for A6 size. Well, I bought two.. just in case. (216 yen each)

- Plastic sleeve Hobonichi Folder Set by Naoko Horiguchi is in A5 size. I like the graphic design and I can use it for keeping loose sheet of paper. Will pair it with my A5 ring binder. (464 yen)

- The color of Hobonichi Pencil Board (warm gray-pink) is sooo me. I bought for the A6 size (216 yen)

- The usual Planner Book 2020 in English A6 size (2,700 yen)

Planner options are more interesting. Beside the Original Techo A6 (in Japanese), English A6, and Cousin A5, they now have undated techo as well. Inside, there's monthly section and plain grid pages instead of day-per-page. You need to wait until November 1st to buy this undated techo. 

For those who'd like to try bullet journaling in tomoe river paper, they also have Plain Notebook. I was thinking to buy this plain notebook.. but I was hesitating. I think it's kinda pricey (972 yen) for a plain grid notebook. 

Lastly, is the Five-year Techo. It's suitable for thoose who want to note down only the essentials for each day and see the timeline for 5 years span. For the time being, I don't think it's the right planner for me. But to mark the nice figures of 5 year (2020-2025), it might be interesting to have one.

blank hobonichi weeks

This year, I tried to swapped my pocket weekly moleskine with hobonichi weeks. The reason I did this was based on those left untouched blank pages on my moleskines. The planner seemed to be abandoned after the first couple of months. So I thought I might be more  motivated when using the weeks since it would be kinda new experience. Apparently, that's not what happened.

As you can see here (above), it's also blank. And it's March. It means, I only filled the pages until February. I just don't get it. I actually like the layout, which is similar to weekly moleskine, dated page on the left, blank page on the right. It's even better, it comes in grids while moleskine is ruled (lined) pages. The paper is Tomoe River, just like the techo, very friendly to fountain pens. But whyyyyy... ??!! Perhaps it's about the size. The dimension was a bit intimidating for me to write something on it. Or perhaps I couldn't find the right pen to fill those pages. I just don't know.

So I guess I will not buy this weeks again. Sorry. I will just keep buying the A6 english planner every year. So far it's the right one for me. And I might go back to the pocket size weekly moleskine again.

colleague's planner - nida

This is one of the happiness of working in education environment. You'll find friends and colleagues who fancy planners and stationery. Most of educators have good planning system, whether for lesson plan, research project, professional target, or simply personal thing ​and household thingy.

I went to my faculty's research centre this afternoon, and met my colleague, Nida, whose planner(s) took my attention.

The purple one is a simple pocket notebook from Maruman Septcouleur series (Japan mainsite). Inside her note, she made somekinda weekly layout, like the bullet journal thing. I was commenting about the brand, about the smooth paper, the colour, about the series, etc. However, her preference toward the notebook was merely because the colour. Purple. :)

She has also prepared for next year. The grey planner is the pocket Daichi weekly planner. I used to buy this (almost) every year. But I got dissapointed because they remove the lines since last year edition. I'd love to have lined pages.. even better in grids. Anyway, to Nida, this planner would help her a lot.

For her writing equipment, she mostly uses Rotring 0.3 and some sharpies.

It's always a pleasure see about what others have for planning. Thank you, Nida !

stationery in aeon

Last month I blew up my credit card for hobonichi madness. I bought things that happened to be beyond my budget. But well, it's hobonichi and it's hard to say no. 

So I promised myself not to spend anything on stationery for this month.

But I relapsed. 

I went to Aeon on BSD last weekend. As it was my first time to go there, I didn't know what to expect. Then I saw this. 

Aaaaaaa....... I just couldn't resist. So I grabbed some.

And some of these...

And finally, these are things I bought. A small tote bag (cute cats), some washis, a pocket notebook (another cute cat on the cover), sticky mini page marker, sticky to do  list, a pocket cash log book, several other post it notes for dietary or expenses (have no idea, cos it's in Japanese.. I bought them cos they look cute), some sticky notes in the shape of sumo wrestler, and some deco rush.

Looks not much, but in total, they cost me big time. Oh well.. 

taiwanese schedule book

It's not 2018 yet, but I already have 3 planners.

Yep.

As you might have read on my previous post, I bought 2 hobonichis. An A6 english planner and a weekly planner. But I haven't told you about one cute planner I got from my colleague. She recently on duty to Taiwan, and she bought me some postcards, mint (postal) stamps and a plannnneerrrr !! Yea, she knows me so well ;) Best souvenir everrrrr !!

So, here's how the planner look like.

 

It's dubbed as schedule book, just like normal weekly planner. There's monthly grid (one month in two-page spread), then the weekly on the next sheets (one week on the right hand side, and the (supposed to be) blank page on the left hand side. Usually, you'll find the weekly side on the left -- such as on moleskine and hobonichi.

Anyway, the blank page on the left hand side is not totally blank. It's decorated with cute 'watercoloured illustrations'. Well yeah, I think this planner is more less for happy / fun stuff. For instance to note down when you meet up with the girls, movie night, a date with him, when you're in love, weekend gateway, perhaps mood tracker.. those kinda stuff. 

One more thing. This planner starts from September 2017 to December 2018 (18 months).. so I can use it right away. Yippeeyyy..!!

logbook

I decided to have a small notepad to be carried anywhere I go. Found this unused palm-sized notepad on my sis' room, and she said I could snatch it. Et voila, it becomes a logbook.

I take notes about everything I do every day. Meals I eat, money I spend (also note whether I use credit or debit card and what bank or paid in cash), things I see, name of person, things to do, email or phone number needs to be contacted, reminder, homeworks, chores, etc. 

I believe it helps me to remember what I did or what I had on particular day. I'm not sure if you can call it a bujo (bullet journal).. I don't have a system at all for this book. It works like a brain dump. I just note anything that cross my mind. However, this logbook may not suitable for journaling (diary).. it's not meant to be THAT personal, if you know what I mean.

So far it kinda works for me. 

toko buku sekawan

Heya there.. If you've been spying on my blog, you should've known that I liiiike to visit local bookshop or small stationery store. This time, I went to "Pusat Buku Sekawan" in Solo City (Surakarta), Central Java. 

Sewaktu saya kecil, saya mengenal namanya sebagai Toko Buku Sekawan. Yap, saya pernah diajak ke toko buku ini oleh sepupu dan orang tua saya saat sedang berkunjung ke kota Solo. Sebelum toko buku besar dengan nama terkenal masuk ke kota ini, sepertinya toko buku Sekawan adalah salah satu yang terbesar (dan terlengkap?). For sure it was pretty impressive for me.

Sayangnya pekan lalu saya agak terburu-buru saat ke Solo, sehingga saat di toko buku itu pun tak lebih dari 10 menit. Tetep ajaaa.. sempetin beli alat tulis yang menarik. So, these are what I've got.

I don't see these kind of books quite often in big bookstore. The left one is stenography book for shorthand exercise. Buku yang bersampul warna kuning itu bagian dalamnya semacam buku garis tiga (untuk belajar menulis sambung), tetapi berbeda. Buku ini lebih rapat garis-garisnya, dan digunakan untuk belajar menulis cepat (steno / shorthand). Saat ini, stenografi sudah jarang dipelajari, sehingga buku semacam ini saya asumsikan sudah cukup jarang ditemukan. Besides, the cover is pretty vintage.

The right one is books for music notation. Buku untuk menulis notasi nada ini pun menurut saya cukup unik, meskipun pasti bisa juga ditemukan di toko buku besar. But this one has also unique cover. The font makes a sudden throwback into the 80's or even 70's. 

There are also some other interesting objects, such as buku tulis cap Kera. But I didn't manage to find it as I was in a hurry. My sis said she bought some on the other day. Meskipun banyak produk alat tulis yang unik, sebagian besar produk-produk yang dijual sebenarnya produk masa kini. Toko ini menjual buku-buku pelajaran juga, selain stationery. Sayangnya saya tidak sempat melihat-lihat ke beberapa lantai lain. Perhaps I felt directed into notebook area when I saw a lifesize standing cardboard of Rio Haryanto for Kiky books ;) Agak nyesel nggak sempet selfie sama Rio..

Kalau lagi jalan-jalan ke Solo, monggo mampir ke Pusat Buku Sekawan di Jl. R.A. Kartini no.4, Timuran, Solo. I will try to visit this place again next time. See ya.