Minikaniko ni Moniko ang makina ng minika ni Monika

Oh wow, typing that title was a delight for my fingers. Try it! :) How did you spend your weekend? I spent mine visiting churches with my family and a few visitors. Yeah, churches. It's the Holy Week here and we had a really long weekend (Thursday - Sunday). I really missed being with my family at Los Banos, I even cried (just a tinny tiny bit) the night before going back to Manila. Yeah, yeah, I'm a crybaby. :)

Oh, by the way, Happy Easter everyone! :) Did you get to hunt eggs or did you snatch them away from those cute Easter bunnies? Well, if you didn't get an egg or a bunny, our featured pen for today is just as cute as Easter eggs and bunnies!

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Some pen info:
  • Pen name: Toothpaste Pen 
  • Ink color: Blue only.
  • Where to buy: Pencil Case kiosk at Edsa Shangri-La
  • Price: PhP 49
What I liked about this pen:
  • The way you take the pen cap off. The pen is packaged as a toothpaste tube and boy, you wouldn't doubt that this is a real toothpaste tube! To take the pen cap off, you unscrew the tube cover - like a real toothpaste tube cap!
  • Uber cute Hello Kitty body casing.
What I don't like about this pen:
  • It's not refillable.
  • It only comes in blue ink. Now, I don't have anything against blue (it's actually my favorite color), but I like black ink more than blue ink.
  • It's expensive for a simple, non-refillable, rollerball pen.
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Ok, about the "Minikaniko ni Moniko ang makina ng minika ni Monika", the line that I used for test writing. This is another Tagalog tongue twister. For non-Tagalog speakers, it's "Moniko is fixing the engine of Monika's Minika (a small model Honda from the 1970's)" in English. You pronounce it this way:
minikaniko: me-knee-kah-knee-koh
ni: knee
moniko: Moh-knee-koh
ang: ahng
makina: mah-kee-nah
ng: nang
minika: me-knee-kah
ni: knee
monika: moh-knee-kah
Got it? :)