A StarMag Feature in The Star on MOLESKINE!
So we were featured in The Star newspaper yesterday. And its Moleskine-related. We won't go on about it, you can read all about them yourself here and here: Or if you want to read the e-paper version, here. But just one clarification. There WILL BE 19 different types of Moleskines to choose from next year. This is in relation to the Diaries not notebooks! Just thought we get that out of the way. In appreciation to all your support to Moleskine@CzipLee, this one's for you: 
 So now, what are you waiting for! Hurry in! =)
For more on Moleskine, visit Plus. Labels: 2008, CzipLee Plus, Moleskine
7 stages of Moleskine
 Stage 1: Moleskine Pre-ownership The people who you look up to have one with them at all times. You cannot understand it. But you can't deny it looks cool. You look for alternatives. There are none. If only you had a good enough reason to buy one. Like: I'm a ____________ (writer, artist, musician, designer, thinker, etc. ) and all ____________ have one. Stage 2: Moleskine Selection Hard cover or soft cover? Reporter or classic? Large or small? Dairy, which one? Cahiers? Sketchbook with thicker paper? Watercolour Notebook with even thicker paper? Choosing the right moleskine for you is a difficult process. But with time and careful practice, you will find 'the one' Stage 3: Moleskine Community You're now part of something bigger than yourself. A culture. A club. Your thoughts are suddenly more valuable, so are the things you say. Even your blogging has improved. When you see another moleskine owner, you give each other a nod of approval. Good thing she doesn't know that you haven't written a word yet. Stage 4: Starting a Moleskine You peel off the thin plastic protection film. The crackling sound fills you with excitement. You feel the oilskin cover for the first time. You snap open the elastic band a flip through the pages. your future flashes before your eyes. Your dreams waiting to burst out onto the blank pages. You bookmark an empty page, and snap the moleskine shut again. And you wait for the right moment to start. Stage 5: Moleskine History In the pocket of your new moleskine is a small leaflet that brings you into the world o moleskine and shares it's legendary story from it's Italian roots, the the plain notebook you now hole in your hands. You are the next part of that history. Stage 6: Moleskine Inspiration The pages are too perfect. It's difficult to start. "what shall I write or draw" at first there is no answer. And then, inspiration strikes. It happens more quickly for some, and slowly for others. But once inspiration strikes. You start taking notes..and you never look back. Stage 7: Moleskine Legacy. Finishing a moleskine feels you with a sense of satisfaction but it also makes you feel vulnerable, naked. Suddenly your ideas don't have a home. The good thing is, that wherever you are, you know you can pick up a moleskine, a notebook of the exact same quality and size from any good book or stationary store. Once you become part of the moleskine story, it's hard to imagine using any other notebook. Labels: 2008, Moleskine
March brings you: 101's, softies, travel notes, beautiful bags & birthday wishes!
Dear friends,Hope this letter finds you well. As we had mentioned before , January and February are usually months of adjustments to the new year. You have your holidays-the new year, Chinese New Year, the Valentine's day special and basically-it feels like it's not really full swing. Come March 2008 (which is now), things are getting "hot" in here. What's great is that CzipLee is proud to bring you some really good stuff that you might consider spending some time to browse through, or to lighten that heavy pocket!
101First off, we have got some 101's happening in our blog itself. We introduced Kajang 101 last month and this month: Bangsar 101 which basically introduces the two bases of the CzipLee business. If you have always wanted to learn more about where to eat, shop, what to do-what people are like in these neighbourhoods-this is a good place to check out the crowd, without having to physically get there yourself!
Soft MoleskinesIf you are into all things flexible, whether it's the pretzels you can contort your body into during yoga, or just flexible working hours - get ready for what Moleskine has come up with: Moleskines Soft Cover Notebooks or in short, Softies! These soft sturdy notebooks can adapt to the movement of the body and fit comfortably in pockets. It is also thread-bound on that ever reliable acid free paper, with expandable pockets and elasic closure. A purrrrfect notebook that can jive to your every move and need, literally!
Apart from the Softies, Moleskine has also come up with more new Cities for its Moleskine City line-up that will certainly get your globe trekking instincts to kick in. Be your own writer, producer and editor with the City NoteBooks that will detail every moment of your travel for the new destinations: Florence, Venice, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal and Seattle.Besides being useful for jotting down your own notes of the best places to eat, drink and be merry - the City NoteBooks also come complete with maps showing the layout of the city alongside with the very useful metro system and list of stations.
Look out for a special feature on Moleskine this month!
G & J Bags
Something else to look forward also to a whole new range of practical accessories that CzipLee is introducing. Always ever ready to spot and to work with independent and budding entrepeneurs, CzipLee is proud to bring you the gin & jacqie (g&j) range of very functional bags. Whether it's a gym tote that you require, or the huge bag you require for the baby (babies), or even a laptop bag, or the professional range - g&j has a diverse offering of bags, with affordable price tags to complete the package with. Be sure to check out part of the g&j range (e.g. laptop covers, passport holders, weave me pencil case, bag organisers, pouches and many more) in CzipLee Bangsar. Once you own one, you'll come back and refer your friends for more! There will be more gin & jacqie in our upcoming posts too! Stay tune!
March also brings a very special Birthday shoutout to our friends at Smidapaper! Happy 2nd Birthday to the Smidapaper gang! It has been fun working with you guys and we look forward to more Smidapaper in time to come! Check out what Smidapaper offers. Part of their selection of scrapbook materials are available at CzipLee Bangsar for sale. If you are a first timer on this, don't worry! Just ask us and we will be more than happy to guide you through what to use to create that perfect scrapbook, or photoframe or the memory box for your loved ones.
From 101's to softies, travel journals to even bags! CzipLee would like to keep on giving you the best we can get and meeting your needs in every way possible.
Do keep coming back to check for more new instore happenings!Much love, Your friends@  Labels: 2008, ginjacqie, Kajang, Letters, Moleskine, 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
#8: Christmas Gift Ideas: Something for the whole year!
One of those things that will keep you company for the whole year is none other than a diary. Not just any ordinary diary but the perfect one! So we invite you to make that choice with our diary selections this year:
Our most popular diaries to date are those from Moleskine (of course!). Mind you that they are selling off really quick. What more, this year you get to pick: 
Then, we have the usual Grandluxe varieties: 
And not forgetting one for the kids: The Very Helpful Eric Carle Diary
We had some calendars, but sold them out within a week or so!!
What we do have left is this cute one by well, Eric Carle again:
The Very Busy 2008 Calendar
You don't really need a reason to get your loved ones, friends, colleagues or kids something that lasts them the whole year! If not, its Christmas, remember! =)![gifts[1]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2013/2105092184_03c6ef3c25_t.jpg) 
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#5:Christmas Gift Ideas:Fuel that travel bug!
Apart from Christmas, the end of the year usually means a long and deserved break. Most of us will have that siren going up that not only is it the dawn of a new year but it it the dawn of a long vacation (that 5 days between 25 Dec and 1 Jan).So to help you get that perfect going away/travel kind of Christmas gift for your travelling friends, look no further than these:
LUXE City Guides-100% Fabulous!
Bali : Bangkok : Beijing : Cambodia & Laos : Chiang Mai : Dubai : Hanoi : Ho Chi Minh City : Istanbul : Hong Kong : Madrid : Melbourne : New York : Paris : Phuket : Rome : Seoul : Shanghai : Singapore : Sri Lanka : Sydney : Tokyo :
To make life even easier, you can get the Box Sets:
 
And of course, the Moleskine City Notebooks: 
  
Or you can get our best-selling travel book, so far (for this season):
1000 Ultimate Travel Experiences
The very best things to see or do, and not before you die, but now!
Happy holidays and travelling! 
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#2:A Christmas gift selection for a writer...
A brand new look!
We have been holding back putting this up for a while now. Let's just say that we wanted to get everything in place first. So now that we are happy with the almost perfect look, we present to you Moleskine@CzipLee's new look: 
3 shelves full with dedicated columns to types and brands:
Moleskine City Notebooks & Clairefontaine's Passionement by Sacha Goldberger: 
The Moleskine Diary 2008. 
The ever present Moleskine series in full: 
And close-ups of dedicated glass drawers for samples or exhibiting purposes:
Oh those metal hearts:
The Red and Blacks: 
The Classics (with that little famous Moleskine page as a background!) 
Thanks to our friends at Moleskine Asia and to you, our Moleskine friends for the support! Visit Moleskine's new home @CzipLee today! =) Or for the full Moleskine range that we carry: 
Also check out our ongoing Christmas series:
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Moleskine Travel Competition Winners!
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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The Psychedelics a.k.a. Moleskine Van Gogh
The legend grows as we present to you the highly anticipated...
We've got the SketchBook, Ruled NoteBook, Address Book and the ever popular Memo Pockets - available in Purple, Poppy, Orange, Blue, Bright Green and Sunflower colours!
Coincidently, while we finally received the Van Goghs or as we term them the 'Psychedelics', there was a report on another mysterious drop-off...this time the big mystery is whether it has anything to do with our own mysterious drop-off! =)
Enjoy these snapshots of the Moleskine Van Gogh series and well the full collection of Moleskine, only available @ CzipLee Books & Stationery Bangsar!
Well, if you think that's all for Moleskine, guess again! Wait till you see what the new year brings!
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Labels: Moleskine, stationery
Give everyone a notebook for Christmas
A moleskine notebook that is.  It is called the Legendary Notebook, it's been used by the greats. And they make you feel smart and talented! (my opininon, not moleskine's) Discover Moleskine here.Labels: Christmas, Events, Moleskine, stationery
Oh... the stuff of legends!
Make sure you take some time to check out the rest of this blog and our website too! Visit us again for more Moleskine happenings soon! This is CzipKid:
 you can read all about him from here! Anyway, this is what you are here for: =) 19 October 2006 - There was a mysterious drop-off at CzipLee Books & Stationery Bangsar, this afternoon shortly after lunch. Four cartons labeled with the very familiar Cathay Pacific air-freight stickers alongside two over-sized boxes, were neatly stacked at a corner. Hmmm...could it be a wrong delivery? Or a surprise gift from an overzealous CzipLee fan from Hong Kong?
Just to share, they looked like this:
 
Well, with our name clearly printed on the boxes, doubt the delivery man made a mistake. So here goes! We opened the two over-sized ones first and we got this:   
We went like 'Huh?!' Then we moved on to and to our delight and excitement, we realise that "IT" has finally arrived!
Drumroll please... The LEGENDARY NOTEBOOKS - MOLESKINEs!
   
 
 
Moleskine, the legendary notebook of Hemingway, Picasso, Chatwin and many more is now available in our very own legend-in-the-making: CzipLee Books & Stationery!
Meeting your needs is what we do best!
"Oh Moleskine, our friendship is going to be the stuff of legends."
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