A colleague asked me about fountain pens today, and as she has young children who have yet to learn handwriting, she was interested in fountain pens for kids. If you’re keen too:
There’re other children’s pens too, but the Lamy abc and the Pelikano Jr are available in Singapore, while the Faber-Castell one just looks cute 🙂
The Pelikano Jr is much cheaper than the abc, but I like the look and feel of the abc. I’d have one too, if not for the fact that it’s too small for me (but just right for the Other Half 🙂 )
All pens come with ink cartridges, so you don’t have to fill from ink bottles.
(I suspect this will be one of the last I mooch. Many books I want aren’t available through the site. And of the ones that are, their owners often aren’t willing to ship them outside their countries. (Bookmooch members have set up a Bookmooch Angel Network to try and get around this, which is nice of them but still a clunky solution.) Simply, I’m unwilling to spend money on expensive postage to get points I can’t use.
Besides, there is no lack of good books in this country.)
In 1656 the Campanus brothers had built a night clock for Pope Alexander XII. In a total innovation, they replaced the then conventional hands with hour figures on rotating discs, which performed a semicircular arc across the clock face […] The concept is that the moving hour display keeps an almost metaphorical count of the passing minutes rising and setting along the hourly arc.
(From The Watchismo Times. The link takes you to more wandering hour clocks and watches)
(UPDATE 9/7/07: t-shirts at graniph Singapore priced much closer to the ones in Japan. $35 for one, $60 for 2. )
Maybe their T-shirts won’t cost so much now, but my guess is that it’s a franchise-like arrangement. Sidewalk 10 sent the mailer out, and they’ve been bringing in Graniph tees for a while now at a significant mark-up.
Anyway, great to browse. #02-20 Bugis Junction, open 11am to 9.30pm.
Throat tingly, hands a little clammy, and running a slight fever.
I like the little metal tubes that Dequadin lozenges come in — the swing factor in deciding which brand to choose out of the whole battery of cough lozenges on the pharmacy shelves. Miss the old design though.
I came across a paperback copy of A Clockwork Orange by chance in my brother’s room, when I was much younger. And yes — it had David Pelham’s jolting cover art. I recall being very disturbed by that blank face with the sprocket eye against an alarming orange background and since then I’ve associated Burgess’s work most closely with that cover. All other covers for the book — in fact most other book covers — pale in comparison if you ask me (and apparently the book designer for the UK version of1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die agrees). But I do like the beguiling innocence of the glass of milk on the Penguin Modern Classics version:
writing without rhythm 