my third terrible cheap notebook
continuation of: my terrible cheap notebook
time flies ridiculously quickly. heck, I'd only just realised this blog's been around for almost three years now.
while many things have changed in these three years, many things also have remained unchanged. well, for one, I'm still useless. but, I also still carry around my terrible notebook.
it's not exactly the same notebook. the old one got wet and torn up, so I had to get a new one (though, the cover is still intact, and I still have it). that new one was even worse, so I got another one after that.
where the old one had this neon orange cover, the new one has this stiffer, leather-textured (barely) brown plastic cover. not as eye-catching as the old one, and the stamped on 'Personal Note Book PMD 156-80' doesn't look good either, but it does feel much more rigid (though that might just be the book inside, and not the cover itself)
that.. that's the only difference. the paper inside is from the same manufacturer (whoever that is), evident by the presence of 'important phone numbers for Jakarta and Surabaya' pages. I don't know about you, but a 'phonogram' number doesn't exactly instill a sense of urgency in me, not in this day and age.
this one's almost full. I think I bought it early last year. it's seen far more use than my previous notebooks, probably because I found my old Zebra F-310 Compact (probably five years old now), which somehow slides perfectly into the book's spine.
the pages are filled with scrawling black ballpoint strokes (this is the only place I use a ballpoint, I either use my fountain pen or my Pigma Micron for everything else). some with drawings, but mostly writing. funny thing, it takes me a little longer than I'd like to understand my own handwriting, especially if it's been a while since I put the ink on the paper (although I usually can remember the general time or place I wrote it), but that's okay. it serves its purpose well, as a sort of buffer for my head to remember things a little longer. it's like adding a swap partition to myself, so to speak.
I also enjoy that I don't have to deal with note apps. I've used my fair share of note-taking apps. They're all quite nice, but the thing is: my phone is extremely annoying. That's a lot of fiddling around just to remember 'I put the cheese in the freezer'. Going paperless is an admirable goal, but the truth is that computers are fussy, many times.
yes, I think that's enough of that. It's a notebook, Ivy, why are you writing about a notebook?
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