Stationeries

DISCLAIMER - These are my childhood memories, some of the things which I liked, adored and some of the things which I did as a child. I know, when I recall those days, I feel, its absolutely ridiculous and even I feel absolutely embarassed as I am posting some of the thoughts over here. Yet I have made some courage to write over here, just to keep myself entertained, at same time, holding back these memories for many more years to come. Some of the memories dates back to mid and latter part of 1980's, when I was still writing in a four lines book, trying to improve my handwriting :). Yet I can recollect them, yes by God's grace.

As a child, I loved so many things. I cannot name them and I cannot remember many of them. Infact one thing which I can still remember is I love stationeries. [I somehow felt the smell of a brand new eraser to be very attractive.]. How do I remember it? 

Answer is very simple. I still love stationeries. Everytime I went to the stationery, my eyes lit up. I wanted to buy so many things in a stationery shop. Initially, as a kid, love to buy pencils, erasers, stickers, labels of cricketers, cars. Yes I think everyone can recollect we used to have two books, One calle CW and the other called HW. [ Classwork and Homework]. We used to have labels on top of them identifying to whom it belongs to. I am referring to those labels over here.

After few years, when I was introduced to a fountain pen, I started liking Hero pen. I loved to write with a Hero pen. Everytime I went to a stationery shop, just wanted to buy a Hero pen. But yes. I could not.
Also I would like to share an occasion where I used to get stationeries for free. As kids, we all used to celebrate our birthday. So whenever there was a birthday, there used to a free distributiion of pencils, sharpners and erasers to all the kids of the class, by the birthday boy. And yes it was one of the most joyous moments I can ever recollect.

Though at the places where I have worked, over the years, we generally are provided free stationeries, the joy does not match up to the joy what we felt when we got free stationeries on someone's birthday. Not sure why.

Cheers,
Sandeep

PS:: Recently I had purchased a 400 page long unruled notebook, in India, to write something. Could not bring it over here. Also saw a drawing book @ Mustafa. I somehow feel like buying it..