My Journal, My Non-Living Best Friend

I've always tried to keep an updated Journal since I was a small kid. Sometimes I'll fill a notebook, but mostly, the pages are left empty after the first few get doodles of ink. Lately, after I moved back to the pen and paper scheme, I entertained the idea of keeping a journal/diary. And I took it seriously. Today, 19 days after I started writing, The Archer's Chronicles is 20 pages rich of scribbles, doodles, drawings, and stickers. For the last...

Read More

My 49th

Here is the 49th addition to my shotglass collection. It's a University of Michigan souvenir shotglass manufactured by Libbey, shown by the embossed L script found on the outer bottom of the glass. It is my collection's 49th shotglass, first university souvenir, second Libbey glass (the first is the St. Louis Cardinals shotglass), and seventh to come all the way from the US of A.Another one is coming up early this we...

Read More

What Notebookism Says About the Archer

In the chaos of my Friday life... In the confusion of a hectic calendar... A kind soul uttered words that made my head spin and my heart skip a beat. Not in a romantic way, though.This is what Sir Armard B. Frasco* said about this blog:Kudos on your wonderful blog - a real paper/pen connoisseur's voyeuristic find.Maraming salamat po, Sir Armand!* Mr. Frasco is the Founder of Notebookism, a website showcasing notebook and notebook-related stori...

Read More

Journal Happy

My Journal has got a name now! I'm calling it “The Archer’s Chronicles”, and then I designed a logo for it. Nice. Photos to be posted later. Ehe...

Read More

My 48th

This is my 48th shotglass and it's cool that it's from a local alcohol advertising campaign. I consider it a treasure because it's a gift from someone I least expected to be giving me a gift after all we've been through. My shotglass collection has surprisingly grown in the past several months, and I have created a gallery at Photobucket.com to make public viewing a bit easier. It also makes it possible for me to view them from time to time, rather...

Read More

Weekend Loot (Last Part)

This is it. The promised post for what I called 'massive weekend looting' in my two earlier entries. I call it that because I bought so much pens I'm wondering now how I'm going to use them. Besides, I have never in my life bought as many pens as the ones I bought last weekend. Add to that the Stradmore notepad and small reporter notebook I bought, plus the green shotglasses from Korea, and all the stuff EJ brought me from the US, Canada and China....

Read More

Weekend Loot (Part 2)

Pens Galore! These are gel pens from MonAmi called "Love Pets". Comes in colors: Black. Blue. Sky. Green. Wine. Rose. Pink. Orange. And as promised, more details on entries to co...

Read More

Weekend Loot (Part 1)

Two shotglasses from Korea. Part of massive weekend looting that includes pens, notebooks, notepads and jelly cellphone housing. More details on entries to co...

Read More

Back to Basics

People are probably confused why they now see me use an old Nokia 1100 and an even older Nokia 3100. I’m tempted to ask, what’s wrong with these phones, anyway? Friends are surprised to see me enjoy these two phones nowadays because they used to see me with high-tech phones and gadgets.Barely a year ago, I carry in my backpack a small purse that contains, more or less, the following: a Nokia N70 (a craze at that time), a Sony Ericsson K608i, an HP1940...

Read More

What's in My Bag

In August, Lifehacker.com asked its readers to send in photos of their 'Go Bags'. A photo submitted must show all the contents of a 'Go Bag', and a full text description. Lifehacker was so swamped with submissions that they had to do Parts 2 and 3.When I submitted my entry, they were well into the 2nd part. But Part 3 came and my bag still wasn't selected. Oh, well. So here it is. My own 'Go Bag'. (Note: below the photo is a full description of my...

Read More