I woke up at 5 am; for my body it has become automatic. I turned off the aircon and turned on the ceiling light in my daughters’ bedroom and told them to get up. I asked them if they want bacon, cheese and bread or bacon and rice for breakfast.

“Mommy, we don’t have school. It’s ____(name of the local festival)____ today,” Twin I said.

🤦🏻‍♀️

Gee… Now I’m fully awake and can’t go back to sleep. Precious sleep. 😴

Yesterday life was peaceful because it’s the mid-autumn festival so the whole of East Asia is off: mainland China, Japan, and Korea. I was the only one holding the fort because my Australian colleague had to sign off early, I think, to celebrate as well since she’s ethnic Chinese. Good thing only one story popped up, from the Philippines. Another one from Australia popped up late but a freelancer editor got it.

I was supposed to tick off my to–do list but Monday… My brain refused to do anything else. I was jotting down stuff while in a call (a regular one with editorial x commercial teams) when my Kakuno EF acted weirdly. Writing with it was rough.

I checked and it turns out the ink was already gone. Then I rapidly descended into the rabbit hole of fountain pens again.

I had tried to refill a clean, empty cartridge with the syringe on the right a few weeks ago. I ordered this from Lazada, thinking the blunt and larger needle was better. However, it turned out to be messy. It’s hard to draw ink, and when I push the ink out of the syringe, it produced bubbles.

So yesterday I tried the insulin syringe that I bought from Mercury for only PHP 13. I was a bit skeptical but I did it anyway. Well, well, well… It was so smooth that I was surprised that drawing ink was painless. Injecting the ink into the clean catridge was quick and it didn’t produce bubbles.

For only PHP 13. 😁

The PHP 50 syringe from Lazada was fiddly to use. I read that the ink catridge converter was much challenging to use so it was better to use the empty Namiki cartridges and fill them up with a syringe.

So there goes my productivity. 😝

I played with my outside kitties last night before taking a shower and going to bed. They are the sweetest little things. I will have them spayed next week and then later give them vaccines.

Kimchi is still growling at them whenever they try to enter my front door.

Let’s see if the two groups can adjust with each other. I really want to keep Socks and Gorilla out of the elements.