As a writer… pens, pencils, markers, correction tapes, and sticky notes are those little things that I must have. Although, I can draft my thoughts in my netbook, but still nothing could replace the usefulness of these stuffs. I still get excited scribbling my thoughts on my journal using pens with different colors…
Aside from my passion to write… I have other likes too, and one of which is that I love to collect pens… I am fascinated with gel pens and fancy pens including 
unique sticky notes, fancy notebooks, markers, and mechanical pencils. I just find joy in collecting these things.
But you know what? Some of my stuffs are given to me. Seriously, I got it for free. How? Oh well… I have a few good friends who are medical representatives… sometimes they got “promats”, this means promotional materials. This is a marketing strategy to advertise their products. These pharmaceutical companies buy in bulks the promotional products from manufacturers of pens, markers, organizers, and other stuffs. Then these manufacturers personalize their products so that the name of the medicine and the name of the pharmaceutical company are printed on the “promats”. I am always ecstatic when friends give me their “giveaway” because aside from it is free the material has a good quality. And I think that that marketing strategy really works because I end up buying their products too when I need it.
