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Raspberry FInsbury Filofax: Initial Review

2:58 PM


A few months ago, I noticed my Filofax Metropol was beginning to show wear and tear. The corners are starting to peel and there were quite a few scratches on both sides. I love the Filofax brand have been using them for quite a few years, but the craftsmanship of the Metropol was a bit shoddy even though I know it’s made out of vinyl.

With that in mind, I went ahead and purchased the Finsbury in the raspberry colour even though I’m not a great fan of pinks. It was on sale and the organiser came with a free mini Filofax pen in the same colour.


 As I was inspecting my new organiser and could hardly contain my excitement in transferring my pages, I found that the leather is still quite hard and does not open as easily as the Metropol. I figured that since it’s pretty new that it would take some time for it to get flexible. After all, it’s made out of soft leather. 

I also found that the right pen loop is quite small and I’m disappointed that I won’t be able to use my Pentel Energel pens. I’m not keen about using the pen that the organiser came with since I love using the needle tip pens. I’d have to stick to my Marvy Le Pen for it to fit in the pen loop. Not quite a fan of felt tip pens when writing in my organiser as the ink tends to bleed to the other side of the page.

 In comparing both the Metropol and the Finsbury, I found that I’m able to stuff more “crap” in my Metropol than with the Finsbury. It will be quite a challenge to minimise the things that I put in there.I’ve taken photographs of both organisers with minimal inserts inside. See the difference.I’m also disappointed that the rings don’t fully align on the Finsbury, but that’s easily remedied. I googled how to fix binder rings and altough I don’t want to pound on my new organiser, the instructions did help. The instructions can be found here: http://www.ehow.com/how_2253025_repair-broken-binder-ring.html 





Food

Tin Fish Restaurant, San Diego

7:24 AM


A couple of weeks ago, M and I were in San Diego for a mini holiday. Well, I was on a mini holiday whilst M attended a conference.

On our first night there, we ate at the Tin Fish Restaurant located in the Gas Lamp district of San Diego. It was a block away from the hotel, so we trekked on down to have some dinner. It was unusually cold in Souther California to the point that I was wearing a jumper, scarf, jacket and knee high boots. Cold weather calls for some clam chowder. M ordered some and I had a sip despite my intolerance for anything that’s dairy.

M and I love to share our food. We’ve been doing this for a couple of years now. Instead of each ordering an entree, we “discuss” the menu choices and make a decision of what we would like to eat. We’ve already visited the Tin Fish a few years ago, so we knew what we were getting.

The menu prices were decent (considerig their location) and the service was fast. The seating varies. There’s the bar, the outdoor seating, and indoor seating. Since it’s cold out and there’s no one sitting outside, we decided to eat indoors.

We ordered Fish, Oyster, and Chips, a bowl of clam chowder and ceviche.

The clam chowder was creamy, flavourful and delicious, though I only had a couple of spoonfuls. Although the clam chowder was excellent, the fish and chips were disappointing. It was fried a little too long that the batter on the fish was slightly hard. When I took a bite, I can almost taste the beginnings of burnt batter. The ceviche was also delicious, but they gave way too many tortilla chips for little a container of the dish.
I would recommend trying it out if you don’t want to wait in line or spend too much on either lunch or dinner. Let’s just say that this is good eats that will fit anyone’s budget.


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New Stickers

6:58 AM

I always had a love affair with stationery items. This love affair produced an abundance of it. Whilst living in the San Francisco-Bay Area a few years ago, I’ve accumulated quite a large stash of cute paper products that ranged from Sanrio, San-X, etc. I brought them all with me when I moved to Sacramento.


My stash hasn’t quite diminished at all. With my drawers running out of room, I made a resolution to use it all up before buying more which prompted to the custom note inserts in my Filofax.

Sadly, that resolution came to an ends a couple of months ago.

I just couldn’t help myself when I walked into a Sanrio shop. I ended up purchasing a Little Twin Stars paper tape, two sticker sets, and two stamps. The downward spiral continued.



I was a Target shopping for Christmas presents when I found a 50-count Harajuku Mini sticker set. As always, I head over the stationery/office department and found the most amazing end cap display — Paperchase. They had binders, sticky notes, journals, candles and stickers. I would have bought the journal and the binder, but I had no need for just because I already have quite a few. I did pick up the stickers. 

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