Category: Lifestyle, Moleskine Firsts

Butch Dalisay Retires His First Moleskine and Gets Nostalgic

Posted by nyles | July 08, 2009, 05:42 AM
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Butch Dalisay's First MoleskineButch Dalisay, aka Penman of the national daily Philippine Star, tells us how it took him three years to fill up his first moleskine notebook. A confessed gadget freak, Butch didn’t immediately find the moleskine appealing. Guess what got him? The notebook’s “snob appeal,” without really expecting much in the way of substance. Here’s how he got hooked:

I’d picked up this notebook in the US after seeing it for the first time in a bookshop in Rome. As a certified gadget freak who never leaves the house without a laptop and a smartphone, I didn’t think I needed a physical, old-fashioned notebook, but it was finally the Moleskine’s snob appeal that got to me. It had been used, its ads proclaimed, by writers like Ernest Hemingway. And since I also collect vintage fountain pens, I thought that the combination of pen and notebook was very stylish in a retro way—as indeed it was.

But little did I expect that style would be resoundingly trumped by substance. I came to depend on the Moleskine much more than I expected—because it fit in my shirt pocket, could open flat on the table (another of its claims to fame), and never needed to boot up or to be recharged. Its creamy paper absorbed ink without feathering; it had a sewn-in bookmark, and best of all a small pocket in the back for business and phone cards, receipts, and ID pictures.

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