Czip Twitters!
Have you ever wanted to peep behind the counter of a books and stationery store? Well here's your chance; for instant in-store happenings, up-to-dates on your favourites, the odd but interesting observations and celebrity watch?!...=) That's why we've just added twitter to give you all that and a whole lot more bla, bla, bla-s! So, follow us on our very own Czip Twitter!
Oh, and a special welcome to first timers via  WELCOME! =) Labels: 2008, Events
Earth Hour 2008: Switched off!
After witnessing the Sydney event last year, and learning that it has gone global; we are proud to be jumping on the bandwagon: Earth Hour: March 29, 2008 8 - 9 PM
- Cities around the world will join together in literally turning off the lights for one hour to offer leadership and symbolize their commitment to finding climate change solutions.
- Lights will be turned off at iconic buildings and national landmarks from 8 - 9 pm
- Local businesses and restaurants will also be asked to turn off their lights.
- People at home can take advantage of the hour by replacing their standard light bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs. So for just one hour tonight, CzipLee Bangsar will be a lot 'darker'. Not total darkness, just enough! For more on EH2008, check here. Its not too late to sign up! CzipLee. Trying to make that little difference! Labels: 2008, Events
Something new from Smidapaper!
This Sunday, our friends at Smidapaper open doors to their new store at Island Plaza, Penang. So if you are looking for something to do this weekend and if you are in the Pearl of the Orient, pop by smidapaper's island store and rediscover scrapbooking! Check out what Smidapaper offers. Part of their selection of scrapbook materials are available at CzipLee Bangsar! Congratulations to the Smidapaper gang! =)
Labels: 2008, crafts, Events, smidapaper
All about LOVE!
It has been a wonderful month off from the store, celebrating Christmas, the New Year then now, Chinese New Year. From the turkeys to the presents. To the lovely homemade repertoire from aunts and grandmas alike, to the mouthwatering baked goods (personal favourite: Kuih Karpet aka Love Letters) that seems to be a regular fixture in every household, it has truly been a wonderful occasion for all! Not forgetting the many "Ang Pows" (red packets) collected and winnings from the gambling table for the lucky few, this Chinese New Year certainly makes for a great transition to one of my all time favourites: Valentine's Day!
Last year, I showed some Crashing potential. This year, The Remix: 
I have been scouring both stores for some Valentine's Day gift ideas. Here's what I found at CzipLee:
1. Love-stories:
From the flush of first love in Turgenev's First Love, part of the highly regarded 'Great Loves' series from Penguin, to those Vintage Classics with books that change the world, with books from the "it's a girl thing" people at LBD and to the evergreen and well loved Jane Austen.
Fall in love with a book this Valentine's...=)   
2. Love-inks:
A Pilot Ageless futuristic pen in RED of course:
Inspired by the love stories, armed with a love pen and all you need now is a notebook for your:
3. Love-notes!
Last year's top selling Valentine's Day product. More stocks are now available: 
The Clairefontaine Passionnement by Sacha Goldberger range is as funny and as fresh as a bubbling love! It is a range that cleverly combines words and graphic arts!
If you do not know what a Moleskine RED diary yet, you don't know what you are missing out! =) CzipLee has LIMITED STOCKS of the Moleskine Twin Set - Limited Edition - the only RED range left. Go on spoil yourself or your object of affection this Valentine's: 
Or if not, get the RED Moleskine Van Gogh Museum series (as featured in Zero Degrees Feb issue) A vibrant hard cover notebook lined with shantung silk, but still boasting the time-tested durability that ensures musings are kept safe from the elements.
4. Love-journeys To fuel your travel bug this year, see Asia in 2008 with the ultimate Asian travel companion:
The hugely popular glossy scarlet LUXE Asian Grand Tour Box puts you on the expressway to fabulous with Asia’s top 12 cities and all the treats they contain: Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Bali, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore, Tokyo and Cambodia & Laos.
LUXE guides come with handy online updates, so not only do you get all the latest hot info, but when you buy the LUXE Asian Grand Tour Box, you get twelve guides for the price of eleven, how’s that for holiday spirit? Dust off your passport and start packing…
LUXE. Twelve into one does go.
5. Love-keeps
And to top it all off, keepsake the warm memories with my favourite themed scrapbook range, the Making Memories "Love Story" collection:
Ahhhh...Love....=) technorati tags: all about love Valentine's Day gift ideas book pen notebook scrapbook travel guides Love Labels: 2008, crafts, CzipKid, Events, In Store with CzipKid, Moleskine, Penguin Books, Pilot Pen, smidapaper, Valentine's Day, Vintage Classics
This Chinese New Year.
CzipLee will be closed from 6-10 February 2008 to celebrate Chinese New Year. Business will resume on 11 February 2008 (Monday)
Labels: 2008, Events
We Interupt This Program For Something...LOST!
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Selamat Hari Raya!
This weekend, our Muslim friends celebrate the festival of Aidilfitri, more popularly known as Hari Raya Puasa, or simply Hari Raya (Day of Celebration) in Malaysia. This is to mark the culmination of Ramadhan, the holy month of fasting. It is a joyous occasion for Muslims, as it signifies a personal triumph, a victory of self-restraint and abstinence, symbolising purification and renewal. With that... 
CzipLee will be closed for the Raya weekend from
13 October - 15 October, 2007
Business will resume as usual on
16 October, 2007
Selamat Hari Raya!
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Saturday Nights @ CzipLee
For the past Saturday nights, we at CzipLee and the patrons of Bangsar have been treated to a very special after hours performance by this very talented group of artists. They are from the Bantus Capoeira Malaysia! They are not just any normal artists, they are CAPOEIRA artists!
Capoeira is a Brazilian fight-dance, game, and martial art created by enslaved Africans during the 19th Century [1] Participants form a roda (circle) and take turns playing instruments, singing, and sparring in pairs in the centre of the circle. The game is marked by fluid acrobatic play, feints, subterfuge, and extensive use of groundwork, as well as sweeps, kicks, and headbutts. Less frequently, elbow-strikes, slaps, punches, and body-throws are used. Technique and strategy are the key elements to playing a good game. Capoeira has three main styles, known as "regional", "Angola", and the less-well defined "contemporanea". (Source: WIKI of course!) Check out some photos: 
       
So don't miss out on Bantus Malaysia's Public Roda! Come by while they are still in the neighbourhood. For more information, you can contact them:
Academia Bantus 23-C, Jalan SS22/23, Damansara Jaya,Petaling Jaya 47400 Selangor, Malaysia
Training enquiries:
+(6)03 7710 7908 HQ
+(6)012 288 7908 Quek +(6)012 299 3600 NgeowPerformance enquiries:
+(6)012 288 7908 Quek "I've got major news for you. The world can be as big as you want it to be, or as small as your tiny little hood." -quote from Only the Strong (1993)- The COOLEST and only Capoiera movie that we know! =)Come on, sing it... Beira mar yo yo, Beira mar ya ya
Coro:Beira mar yo yo,Beira mar ya ya
Beira mar, beira mar
Coro:E de yo yo
Beira mar, beira mar
Coro:E de ya ya...
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Peek Into CzipLee's Pre-order...
Think Green!
 This Saturday, Malaysia celebrates World Environment Day 2007 with a host of events at FRIM. Here's the list:
Meet the new version of me: You can call me CzipF-O-EKid! =) 
1. Live simply
Every product we use, whether it’s a paper cup, dress or car, leaves an ecological footprint. Think about living with less, so as to tread lighter on Earth.
2. Think before you throw
Before discarding something, first consider how it can be reused.
3. Say no to flyers
Decline or return promotional pamphlets distributed at public places if you’re not interested in what’s on offer. Refuse junk mail if you don’t want to read it.
4. Go paper-less
Send e-cards and emails rather than letters, memos and cards. The pulp and paper industry is the world's fifth largest industrial consumer of energy and uses more water to produce a tonne of product than any other business.
5. Buy in bulk
Avoid products packed individually or for single use, such as beverage sachets or biscuits in small packs. Those foils are not recycled, and so add to waste heaps.
6. Go for fresh
Why buy fruit juices in cartons and create waste? Recycling aseptic packaging, which is made of 75% paper, 20% polyethylene and 5% aluminium foil, uses up lots of water and energy. Furthermore, current collection for recycling is poor. Juice fresh fruits instead. It will be free of sweeteners, colourings, preservatives – and trash.
7. Say 'No' to plastic bags
They do not degrade, mar the landscape and clog up rivers and seas. Plastics are derived from petroleum, so producing them emits greenhouse gases, too. Decline a plastic bag if your purchase is small and easy to carry. Try not to accumulate any new plastic bags for a week; you will see that it is not that difficult.
8. Bring a bag
Keep cloth bags in your car so they are always at hand should you decide to go shopping or marketing.
9. Use them again
Those plastic bags used to pack vegetables in supermarkets can be reused. Don't try to remove the price sticker as this will tear the flimsy bags. Turn them inside out instead.
10. Don't add to waste heaps
Separate paper, plastics, metals, glass and aseptic carton for recycling. If you cannot drop them off at recycling centres, leave them outside for the garbage collector. Recycling saves the landscape from dumps, reduces usage of energy and raw materials, and prevents emissions of methane.
For more recycling ideas or how you can support or work for the environment, simply put just:
 So do your part today, when you come into CzipLee Books & Stationery - if you can make do without the plastic bags, just say NO! We are doing our bit to reduce the plastics!"You look at that river gently flowing by. You notice the leaves rustling with
the wind. You hear the birds; you hear the tree frogs. In the distance you hear
a cow. You feel the grass. The mud gives a little bit on the river bank. It's
quiet; it's peaceful. And all of a sudden, it's a gear shift inside you. And
it's like taking a deep breath and going, "Oh yeah, I forgot about this." -Al Gore in the opening monologue of An Inconvenient Truth- technorati tags: Think Green Green Every Day Malaysia World Environment Day 2007 Green Fest FRIM CzipKid Friends of the Earth FOE The Star newspaper Malaysia recycle environment plastic bags paper waste CzipLee Books Stationery Bangsar Kajang CzipLee An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore Labels: CzipKid, CzipLee, Events
And so, here we go again...
Ok, we have really been busy. Well that is probably the easiest(and lousiest) excuse we could think of most of the time...but its somewhat true!
Let's see...we have been busy with:
1. Moleskine Voyage - if you don't know about it, go read here. Oh did we mention that you can drop your completed travel book to us at CzipLee by the 30th of June 2007 (the official deadline) just remember the 3 things you'll need for the competition:
(1) Come by CzipLee Books & Stationery Bangsar to purchase your very own Moleskine of any size and type!
(2) Go to Voyage to register yourself and read up on the official stuff
(3) Get cracking already! (It can be any old travels too!)
Of course, don't forget to get them to us by the forementioned deadline and we will do the rest for you! Also, the 18 Months Diary is now available too! 
2. Harry Potter 7 fever. Meet CzipKid Potter:
Its heating up!
Every other good bookstore is throwing some kind of preorder special but we reckon we have got one of, if not the better deal in town - customers have said that we have the best but we will let you decide. Our deal:
(1) Deposit or we call it booking fee of only RM 10!
(2) Pre Order price: RM 88.88 (Normal Retail Price: RM 109.90) Save at least 20%!
(3) Mysterious gift - so mysterious that even we don't really know what it is yet!
(4) Guaranteed book on the 21st of July 2007 - from 7:01 am (Tune in to our countdown clock!) and stay tune for more HP stuff! In the meantime, check out the link below for all things Harry Potter:
3. In-store upgrades in Bangsar.
We have got a very custom-made space for  and  . With more art materials (namely paints) and brands plus a wider selection of scrapbooking materials. Our greeting cards got new shelves too which has allowed us to put even more cards in and we are still constantly changing things around to bring in even more things! Swing by to check us out!
4. Scrapbooking classes by
We held our second Basic Scrapbooking I class last Saturday with the promise to work out even more classes for our budding Scrapbookers! See photos from our first class in our flickr set!
5. New window display: (we'll let these photos paint a few words for you)
 
'nuff said!
Well so ok, we have not been that busy after all, huh? =)
Here is a promise to do better with our blog and website(we have done minor updates - just bits and pieces stuff but big ones coming!). So to make up for all that, we give you one of the many projects underway for www.cziplee.com. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we introduce to you...
Happy days!
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