I am not so sure of the price of the pen and how long this has been lying here in my pen stack in India. I just thought of showing this one as I don't have this one with me in South Africa. The price is between INR 100 to INR 150 on the Amazon India website. Check it out!
This gel pen writes really nicely, and I fell in love with it. I will just keep it with me throughout my travels and as and when I want to jot down information on the paper.
Thanks to Sandton Stationery & Print for Pilot Juice gel pens to test them out. I got them in two colours here, which are Grape and Light Blue. There is a 24 pen pack that's also available at the store. A retractable pen with newly developed "Juice" ink for a juicy, smooth writing experience! 24 bright colours with remarkable durability in water and light! A durable lift-clip which can hold tight thanks to the coil spring equipped inside. I got these 2 from the Sandton Stationery & Print shop to do the video. Let me know if you want the 24 colours video, and we can request Pilot Pens South Africa and Sandton Stationery & Print for the pack.
These are all the colours of the Pilot Juice gel pen pack that's available at Sandton Stationery & Print.
Pilot Vpen is a disposable fountain pen that comes in various colours of ink. The pen is filled with ink in its barrel and has a huge ink capacity. This one lasts longer than any other fountain pen, as the ink capacity is definitely between 3.5 to 5ml at least. These pens are available at Sandton Stationery & Print Shop in Sandton City Mall. These are priced at around ZAR 80, and you can get them for around ZAR 65. Check them out! These were provided to us by Sandton Stationery & Print for this video so many thanks to them for the same.
The Pilot sells these pens as disposable fountain pens, but if you have the tools and the inks, then you can experiment by taking out the feed mechanism and filling the ink tank again. It's really easy, but you need the pliers, etc, along with something soft to not destroy the mechanism. I have done it before and will showcase to you as well on these pens soon enough.
I got these Pilot G-2 Gel Pens in a 33-colour pack as a gift from Sandton Stationery & Print Shop in Sandton City. I was thinking of getting it on the occasion of Diwali 2024, but received it on Holi 2025. Anyways, I am so grateful to the owners for arranging this awesome gift pack for me. Thanks a lot, and looking forward to doing many more for Pilot Pens South Africa. Check it out!
I really loved the metallic colours in this pack. You can check these pens for sure, as this can enable you to write your thoughts in their natural colours, which come to your mind. This is a perfect package packed by Pilot Pens South Africa to bring it to all the arts and crafts students to get their hearts out on the paper.
I bought these Pilot FriXion Light highlighters that can be erased as well from Hobby-X, as my daughter chose them for herself. These were sold for about ZAR 30 each. The same can also be bought from your local stationery shop and also available at Sandton Stationery & Print in Sandton City, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The main features of these highlighters are -
Unique highlighters with chisel-tipped fluorescent inked highlighters
Highlight and dehighlight
Frixion ink is erased with the grey tail plug using rubber action
Thanks to Applebee Pens for the Pilot Supergrip-G RT Retractable Medium Ballpoint pens. Check out this review if you are interested in buying these ballpoint pens.
These are super good quality ballpoint pens from the Pilot Writing Instruments. These are available at all the shops in South Africa and especially near me you can get them from Sandton Stationery & Print shop offering a 25% discount on the same as well.
I have been trying to buy this Pilot Range of Fountain Pens for several months now. I even ordered one from Amazon.in for the Jungle Range which has Python, Crocodile, White Tiger etc in the centre part of the design of the body. I went to Sandton City on the weekend and just thought of checking the price of the Pilot Fountain Pens available at the store. They told me that the normal price is R380 and now it's available at only R200. I immediately thought of buying one but the confusion was in the various body colours it's available in. I totally loved all the colours and finally decided on the Red/Rust one as it matched my business card design.
Pilot MR Range of Fountain Pens is the cheapest at Sandton Stationery & Print shop in Sandton City, Johannesburg, South Africa where you can buy all the colours for ZAR 200 each. I have done so and it's a really great fountain pen. The pen writes smoothly and comes with a silicon-type converter or an ink cartridge. They even replaced my silicon converter after it got twisted due to some reason unknown to me. At this price, this is a perfect gift for your teenage kids I also gifted one to my daughter and want to gift it to others as well who love writing with the fountain pens.
This is the perfect pen to start your fountain pen journey just like I did in my adult life after a gap of many years.
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Week 9 was all about watching movies and web series.
1. Entertainment - I started by watching the Selfiee movie starring Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi. It's a one-time watch but you can also avoid watching the same too. Shehzada movie staring Karthik Aryaan, Kriti Sanon and Sunny Hinduja. It's also a one-time watch but nothing great the only good point was the see the Caudan Waterfront in Mauritius featured in this movie's action sequence. I also watched The Whale movie which was very difficult to sit through as it was emotionally tense. Congratulations to Brendan Fraser for winning the Oscar for his acting in this movie. I totally loved the Physics Wallah web series on the life of Alakh Pandey. This one is really worth looking at one time for sure. I also attended the premiere show of Creed III this was the first one of the series of movies I watched. I am sure these kinds of movies are made for gym-going people who are fans of the Rocky series.
2. Launch Events - I attended the introduction to the new audio setups for Bowers & Wilkins. The setup on those at Homemation is really great and you can own one if you want to spend some money on your audio around the house via smart setup.
3. Thank You - I started it again and started it at the start of the week and reached from zero to 19000 mark. The overall now is 175500 for the year.
I didn't do anything else more than that and posted some of the long-form videos on my Youtube channel. Do you want to know how much I have earned so far from Youtube and how less is the minimum or the maximum payment I get from my Youtube advertisements?
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I bought a lot of fountain pens last year from several brands like Lamy, Pilot, Amazon Basics and Parker as well though I have been using Parker Vector Fountain pens for more than 20 years. I have had three in different body colours.
The Parker pens I had came with plastic piston ink converters along with some cartridges as well. I have always thought that the cartridges were as expensive as compared to the converters. But slowly and steadily all kinds of converters develop some kind of leakages etc and are no longer fit for use as it happened recently in one of my Vector Foutain Pens from Parker Pens. But it's understandable as I was using the said pen for the last 15 years so the quality has lasted a long time. Immediately I switched to the Parker Cartridges I have available with me.
My Pilot Metropolitan Fountain Pen I bought last year from a Stationery & Print shop in Sandton city came with a squeeze converter. I am sure most of the Pilot fountain pens come with the squeeze converter or the cartridge. When I bought it despite my gut feeling, I bought it with the squeeze convertor option though the cartridge option was also available at the store. I have had a long history during school time with squeeze converters as it has wasted my valuable time sorting them out instead of studying.
Since the time I bought the Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen, I have been delighted by my purchase and went on to buy some more branded fountain pens as well. Some days back, when the ink finished in the Pilot Fountain Pen, I saw that the rubber has contracted and joined at some places. I have never put the pen in sunlight and it's always under the desk where no light reaches. I have had the misfortune as the rubber expended or contracted and started touching the barrel of the pen. It led to the whole socket coming out of the tip of the fountain pen.
I tried to wash it and blow it up with air but it didn't bring the rubber back into its original state. I also tried to refill it but it also didn't work as now it was taking much less ink like 5-6 drops. I immediately went into some kind of experiment mode as I didn't have Pilot cartridges available with me and I have to use this pen daily for my journaling.
There were some options available to me -
The easiest option was to replace the squeeze convertor with the Pilot pen original fountain pen cartridges. I didn't want to buy the cartridges from the South African stores as it's costly here (ZAR 50) for 5 compared to ZAR 20 in India. Also, I will have to go to the store and get them from there. The pen cost me only around ZAR 200 and now I can not spend ZAR 50 for just 5 cartridges.
Second, is to use the empty cartridges of the Pilot Hi-Tecpoint 0.7 Cartridge System which fits easily into the fountain pen as well. This is a unique design for all fountain pens. If you are using any of the refillable rollerball pens from Pilot, that is definitely a fit for the fountain pens as well. I bought one in India and my daughter was using the same here. She finished the same and it was there in one of the giveaway charity bags I saw it there and immediately it was a brainer to use it. But then fountain pen ink will waste this pen as it can be refilled with its own cartridges and ink that's not available in South Africa.
Lastly, is to use the Parker pen cartridge using some jugaad that I did to make a cartridge that fits the Pilot pens perfectly well without any leakage. I did deploy this arrangement because this was the easiest one and can be done at the same time. I have empty cartridges available to me because Parker Fountain Pens come with a casing to keep 3 cartridges in a travel case that came free with the Parker Vector pens. I have had 2 of these cases for a long long time and somehow remained there till this time ready for the jugaad to happen.
The whole process is explained in the video I shot and available on my YT channel. The steps are simple take a knife or cutter to cut the blue portion out and then from the cartridge take the blue portion leftover ring out. Fill the ink with a syringe (1ml) that's available in the market for ZAR 2 only at Dischem. Push the cartridge into the fountain pen body and your pen is ready to write again as much as you want.
Let me know if you like these kinds of temporary arrangements leading to saving money as a whole. I have used these kinds of jugaads all my life so many things in life.
Thanks, Aashish
Cheers!!!
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Week 46 is just 6 weeks left from the end of 2022 in which I have to plan for the December holidays as well as some other things in life that need to be completed.
1. Daily Walking - I did around 21km to reach 870 kilometres but the target is still 130 kilometres far and I am sure this month I will break all my walking targets with renewed energy towards the completion of my goal. I told you earlier as well that with the right intention, any goal is achievable.
2. Entertainment - I focused on a lot of entertainment as I watched Sooraj Barjatya's Uunchai movie that stars Amitabh Bachchan, Danny Denzongpa, Boman Irani and Anupam Kher along with Neena Gupta, Sarika and Parineeti Chopra. I really loved their journey to the base camp of Everest which is also my dream journey one day in future. If you have still not watched the movie do watch it as it's now available on the Zee5 Streaming platform. The music of the movie is great and the friendship story has a very emotional touch with the right kind of comedy and drama. The first half is really great. I also started watching Mukhbir - The Story of a Spy and totally loved it too. The same is also available on the Zee5 streaming platform for your viewing pleasure. It's an action thriller about an Indian spy in Pakistan to gather crucial intelligence and saves his country from the attacks during the wars between India and Pakistan.
3. YouTube Videos - I continued to post a lot of videos during this period as well and did some 14 long-form and short videos. The one thing I bought was this Lamy Ink in Turquoise colour that is very much closer to my heart -
I also did some videos for the Pilot Pens and Pencils - Let me know if you love stationery products like myself!
4. Product Reviews - I completed the review for the Denon Earphones and you can check them here. It's really nice and you can spend ZAR 2.7K to buy them from Homemation online and retail stores. They went back to the company after the review period but the ANC and other features are really nice on this one.
5. getAbstract - Do you have 15 minutes to enhance your knowledge like never before? If you are a frequent traveller and can't invest time in completing the whole book reading then you can stay in touch with all the latest releases across your niche and interest by reading the summaries of the books. You can also listen to the same too if doing some jogging or exercise. You can grasp the main learning points from the books in the shortest time possible. If you love Quotes and want to tell someone those are specially bookmarked by the website. You can learn more about the authors as well. It can also download (Mobi format) for offline reading on your kindle free of cost or you can send it using the kindle email but Amazon will charge a small fee. The library now includes videos and podcasts from all the famous non-fiction authors. So what are you waiting for? If you subscribe using the link, you will get a massive 30% discount on any of your membership plans!
I am definitely enjoying this service myself as now every morning, I can finish the summary of a book and then can make an informed decision if I have to read the full book at any point in future or if the summary is enough to learn from the book. This subscription definitely helps to build your second brain if you have heard about this concept from Tiago Forte.
This year I have invested in a lot of learning platforms and in 2023 for sure I will schedule myself to get the most benefit out of all of them and will share with you guys too!
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