Deli Stationery is one of my favourite brands from China. I have reviewed a lot of their products that I generally buy from Mellows, F09 Shop in China Mall, Amalgam, Production Road, Johannesburg, South Africa. I think it's the cheapest there but you can also buy a lot of their products from Value Co Stores. The nearest one I could find is in Fourways Mall but I have never visited them yet. They also have a lot of Instagram contests on behalf of Deli Stationers.
Coming back to these Deli Think Roller Pens that come in this 8-pack variant of different coloured inks. There is regular versions of Blue, Red, Green and Black along with Pink, Turquoise, Purple and Orange as extra variants. The nib tip is 0.5mm and the flow is consistent and good. They are perfect if you can't afford the expensive roller pens from other brands. This set of 8 is around ZAR 60 at the China Mall. I really loved the extra colours as they are really brilliant and I like the ones that gets popped on the paper so that your eyes catches the same.
I bought these Deli Delight 0.5mm Gel Pens in different colours to get various ink colours in Red, Blue, Dark blue, Light Blue, Brown, Pink, Orange, Yellow, and Purple. There must also be Green and black colours, which I didn't see or missed buying from the shelves. These pens are only priced at ZAR 6 each and if you buy 10 of the same colour the price charged will be ZAR 4 each. The same is available from Mellow, F09, F block, China Mall, Amalgam, Johannesburg 2092.
These pens I gave these to my daughter for her arts and crafts and so far for a year or so she has not complained and neither she has finished them. I see them in her wooden pen stand. On my recent trip to the Mellows store, I saw a new version of these kinds of pens in a single pack of 10 different colours. I didn't buy them as I thought I wouldn't have time to review them as I have so many items pending making videos.
This pen is nice in the metallic body design and comes with a converter built in. The suction of the converter is not that strong but the nib is really extra fine. I said in the video it to be similar to Fine in Lamy nibs but it is really between EF and F of Lamy nibs. You can really write in small font with this fountain pen.
This Deli Fountain Pen is available in 3 body colours Silver, Black and Rose gold. This is a great writing instrument from Deli with proper ink flow. Paired with Diamine Ancient Copper I have filled this pen with during my trials of the same. I bought these for only ZAR 32 (around USD 2) each from Mellow Stationery Shop in F09, F block, China Mall Amalgam Road, Johannesburg.
I bought this Deli Orbit Smart Scale from Mellow, F09, China Mall for around ZAR 20 (USD 1). Check it out.
This is a big scale in a small package. Comes with a protractor function built in as well. The plastic is also nice and the scale has slots at angles where they remain unless moved manually. There is also a lock mechanism on the scale to keep it small. It also helps for any opening of the scale by mistake.
I really loved the transparent black colour body of this scale. I love Deli Stationery products very much. Check out the video.
Week 23 is now in full swing as there are some of the new smartphone launch events as well as some of the new gadgets to get introduced to. I feel thankful and grateful to the brands which value me but don't like if they don't give me importance like I give them by creating content using their products or about their products.
1. Launch Event - I was invited to the launch event for Vivo V27 5G and Vivo V27e Smartphones. This time they have chosen some of the influencers who already had the phone available to them. Last year I did a lot of YouTube Shorts for Vivo from their launch event but despite that, I was not the chosen one. I received the phone the same week it was launched for two weeks but was not allowed to take the same to Zambia. It was an opportunity missed by the brand for sure. They also had a creative manager whom I tried contacting and he knew me as well to my surprise but he was not interested so I left the conversation and took the goodies bag and came back home immediately after. Thereafter I even rejected the interview requests as they didn't fetch more than 20-30 views in the whole year since the last year's launch event.
I also received the Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 which I won during the NDA event for the Galaxy S23 smartphone. It took a while but I felt great to be receiving any gadgets I can make Youtube videos on. I also returned the Samsung Galaxy A54 that I received to review.
I also had a meeting with the Deli Stationery country manager at their office in Johannesburg CBD. They gave me some of their products that I made videos on my channel but I think they didn't like my content and I have not received any further comms from them to date.
2. Thank You - I started from 13000 onwards and reached 45000 counts by the end of the week. This is the best exercise I can do on a daily basis. It frees me from all the negativity and thoughts that really are not the best for me.
3. Entertainment - I watched the Fast X movie and it's a one-time watch. I now have forgotten the story of the same as well. I think the series needs to now take a break but there are so many ensemble cast that they can continue forever till they live or even after that using the AI tools and green screen.
4. YouTube - I have stopped doing 5 Shorts on a daily basis since the start of June 2023 and the growth has not slowed down for sure. I have reached 2080 subscribers on my channel. I have taken a break as I was getting mentally stressed due to the same. It takes a lot of time to make and work on creating content all the time.
5. Stationery Videos - I have been posting a lot of stationery items from pens to other fancy products and more are going to be posted in the coming months as well. Let me know if you are interested in watching this type of content. I am really thankful to all the brands that exist and create a lot of videos on the same. I am not creating to get views as I don't do trending videos at all. I don't even get views on these types of videos which is not going to get me even some cents from Youtube adverts but I love creating the passion I have for the stationery items since childhood. I have spent a lot of money all my life on these items which I could have spent enjoying with friends or eating things I wanted to.
Sometimes I think of quitting all this but then you need to have a thick skin and can't leave a dream because some people are not aligned with your future goals. The Life's Way was not created for someone but it was my dream passion project and despite all the good and the bad times it will continue. I have lived my life with a lot of internal and external struggles and have accepted that this is part of the same coin. You have to continue living the life and my life has been the Life of Pi as I was born on 22/7 i.e. 22nd July and Pi as a number has infinite potential and never ending or fully divisible and so is my life.
Subscribe to my YOUTUBE Channel for historical tech, new gadgets, stationery, product reviews and mystery unboxings. #TheLifesWay Link to all social media platforms - https://t.co/gUHjo8DQ7h Your Lifestyle and Technology Blog for the Last 10.5 Years!
This is going to be the final week of the month of May-23 and so far I have been great in being consistent to post 5 YouTube shorts every day for this month. I got 209 new YouTube subscribers because of this effort with more than 150+ shorts on my channel. Some performed and some didn't but at least they can pick up sometime in future as well. That's the only hope I am living on that someday one of my videos will go viral and I will get the Silver Play Button from YouTube on my wall.
1. Entertainment - It was the week of the TATA IPL 2023 Finals between Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans. It was an entertaining match till the last ball and it was great to see Dhoni lift the cup once more to match Mumbai Indians 5 times being the winner of this tournament.
I also watched a nice simple movie Kacchey Limbu which is about a gully cricket team being formed and how the team gets to the finals finding their lifepath along the way. Radhika Madan stars in the movie along with Ayush Mehra and Rajat Barmecha.
Then I was eagerly waiting for the ASUR Season 2 and watched all the episodes on the 1st of June. The ending is again kept for the possibility of another season but this season also tells the story of the antagonist in detail. It's a one-time watch but as seen the first season brought a lot of thrill which I can't say about the second one at all.
2. USA Dreams - My brother and sister-in-law got their US Passports after spending all their life on different continents. It was really great news and I totally loved that they got what they wanted but after a lot of sacrifice, struggle and effort along with the money spent on the same.
3. YouTube Shorts - I completed 155+ short videos for this month and crossed 2050 subscribers on my channel. Thanks to YouTube Shorts for taking me past 200+ subscribers in a single month of May 2023. The last time I crossed 200 subscribers was in the month of May 2022 when I did 207 in a single month. This time it was 209 subscribers in a single month. Thanks a lot to everyone who likes my kind of videos and shorts.
4. Thank You - I started from 1500 onwards and reached 3000 when the counter again reset to zero. I started again and reached 15000 and then again the counter reset to zero. I again started and completed the week at 13000 counts. This to-and-fro mechanism on the counter is not good as I really want to finish the 100000 in a single go. The continuity is really good and you should also adopt this habit of being thankful all the time.
5. Travel - I have a travel that's on my mind and I have already booked the tickets to Zambia at the end of the month. I really love watching the new spots and then sharing the same on Google Maps and recently I crossed 65 Million photo views on my profile with more than 17000 photos and videos shared for the general public across the world interested in visiting South Africa.
There are a lot of things I do without any real benefits to me like sharing photos of various locations around the world. I am really grateful to the universe for everything that is being granted to me by the Lord Almighty Shiva. I now am living my own life without any external pressure and I need to think that I don't want all the things or gadgets of the world. I have limited time left on planet earth and I can only take so much as I need to take care of the stuff I own as well. Let's live stress-free, worry-free with the resources we already own and try to make the best use of the same and enjoy them as well. The things I don't enjoy using will be then gifted to my near and dear ones if they want to own them.
Subscribe to my YOUTUBE Channel for historical tech, new gadgets, stationery, product reviews and mystery unboxings. #TheLifesWay Link to all social media platforms - https://t.co/gUHjo8DQ7h Your Lifestyle and Technology Blog for the Last 10.5 Years!
.png "Stationery Review 30: Deli Orbit Smart Scale (ZAR 20 or USD 1)")
.png "New Year Resolutions - Week 23 Achievements & Failures in 2023 #TheLifesWay")
.png "New Year Resolutions - Week 22 Achievements & Failures in 2023 #TheLifesWay")