Pen Collection

Decided also to take some pictures of my fountain pens and put them up.

I only started using fountain pens about 2 years ago. I had seen the Lamy Al Star fountain pens being sold in Prints and wanted to buy one for some time. But the cost was something of a hindrance. I mean I usually use free pens from drug reps and I usually ask for the gel ones which are nicer to write. I just wasn't willing to spend like $50 on a pen. Anyway, I eventually bought one. The metallic blue Lamy Al Star in medium nib and loved it immediately.

But it was only when a doctor classmate of mine brought his baby to see me at the polyclinic one day that my interest in fountain pens picked up. He's a fountain pen guy too and recognized my Lamy immediately. We had a short chat and he took out his Pilot Vanishing Point. I think it was blue carbonesque. I tried it and it was so nice to write!

A few months later, I decided to spend the money and I bought a boring silver Vanishing Point. I had some problems with it at the start. It wouldn't work nicely with any of the inks I had. At that time I only had Lamy and Pelikan. I went on to buy Parker quink and Shaeffer as well. But they wouldn't flow properly in my pen. I eventually spent the money on a bottle of Namiki ink which worked.

Well, I've just recently acquired another Vanishing Point this time the Blue Carbonesque one. I got a fine nib one and I must say that its a bit "rougher" than the medium. I mean the medium writes like butter, but the fine is a bit "scratchy". I wish they had something in between. I'm using the cartridge provided for now. But recently, I bought Noodler's blue black in and filled it into my silver Vanishing Point and its flowing well. So obviously I'm very happy. It wasn't cheap though...

And oh, I was at Raffles City yesterday and went to this Japanese like stationary shop in the basement. Another doctor had told me through our forum that she bought the Pilot Petit1 pens there. I bought a set of red, blue and black. They only had green for individual ones.

Take a look at the pics!

Pilot Vanishing Point Blue Carbonesque







Pic of my 2 Vanishing Points - Silver and Blue Carbonesque together with my metallic blue Lamy Al Star.


The Pilot Petit1 fountain Pens. They're cute!




Will try to put up some pics of the way they write soon.

Well wanted to add some photos that I missed out the other day.


Interesting lamp with cute lampshade.


Sculpture which we imported.


Haha, my small set of Lord of the Rings miniatures from gamesworkshop. Painted these myself. Yes I know, the Ring Wraiths are super easy and you experts out there can tell I really messed it up. But hey, I still like them!

New Home Pics

Decided to put up some pics of our new home. Some of the photos are taken with my sony ericsson k750i phone, so the quality isn't that great. If you see a christmas tree in some of the shots, its because most of these were taken in December 2006 just after we moved in.

Hope you enjoy the photos. We certainly do!

Pics of our living room. Small but cosy.



We got the little chair from Barang Barang and our sofa was from the Life Shop. It used to be in Raffles City but has now moved to Balestier. The umbrella light was bought from Harvey Norman in Millenia. Its looks like a photographer's light which my dad used to have. Yes he was a professional photographer before, but as you can tell, I haven't inherited any of his good skills. I just use a handphone camera and a simple canon powershot point and shoot camera.

The little cabinet is a restored piece which we got from the Loft at Centrepoint.


Haha sausage dog which we bought from Bangkok. But I think its made in Chiang Mai. Wallpaper of course from where else but Goodrich.

Pic of our dining table which we bought from the Life Shop. The flower arrangement was done at the Concourse at one of those flower shops. But they have all moved now to Tekka Mall. The glass vase was bought from Robinsons. I think the brand is Pollyanna.

This is a chandelier which we got from Robinsons during its 20% discount. Plus 5% from Robinsons card. It was a nightmare when it arrived, which was about 1 year before we put it up. Many of the crystal pieces were broken. But the guy at Robinsons who served us was very good. Teck Boon if I'm not wrong. He replaced the broken pieces immediately. The chandelier was eventually put up by our electrician who was recommended by our ID from Dyel Design (Yes Hello Diana!)




Pic of the cosy area. Looks quite grainy cos it was taken with my camera phone.

Some amateur editing done.

This one was taken with the Canon Powershot

Also in our cosy area. Thats a display plate/tray which we bought from France called "Liu". The flowers we got during Chinese New Year from China Town. Arranged by Lynn!





Pic of Lynn's dresser. Stuff also from Robinsons. Table and mirro from Kare.

We changed the door into Lynn's room to a clear glass door and added the string curtains. The padded thing you see in the background is actually the doors of the cupboard which we also changed to make it sliding. Hers is the nicest room in the house, but its difficult to get a good photo of everything, cos on the opposite side of the padded wardrobe, we've got another wardrobe which has very nice laminate. You've really got to step in to feel it.



AH! My favourite light called Peony which we bought from this Balestier shop called Lumiere. We bought most of our lights from them except the master bedroom chandelier.


Interesting clock in Lynn's room.


Some more of those display plates. These are Victor and Dian.


Pic of our bed in the master bedroom. Sheets from China Town.


Yes the chandelier in our master bedroom. We had a lot of trouble looking for this. Le me explain....We basically bought our home in June 2006, but didn't start renovating until about 1 year later. In the interim, we had been very busy but did squeeze in time to look at stuff. This particular style of light was common in 2006, but when we needed it in 2007, none of the shops had it. We walked up and down Balestier a few time and even went to other parts of Singapore. We eventually found it in the 2nd floor of this shop at Balestier and ordered it straight away.



Painting in our master bedroom - Hylars and the Nymphs


This is the painting in our walkway on entering the home. Nice castle! All framing and stretching done at this Latib guy opposite Tay Lian Teck.



Another painting which I liked. We've got a few more but the pictures didn't look that good.


More of those display plates from France. We bought quite a few of these. They don't look that great on my photos, but are really very very nice. We've got more designs.









Yes more display plates but not from France. Don't you think they are beautiful?






Haha, couldn't resist. Had to take some lousy photos of my pens. Just 4 of them here. They are not the super expensive kind, but I like all of them. I can't seem to find my blue Decimo. But in the pics are my Pilot Vanishing Points ( Blue Carbonesque and Silver Rhodium), Lamy Al Star ( Metallic Blue) and Lamy Safari ( Black Matt). All are medium nib except for my new blue carbonesque VP which is in fine nib. I have a silver Lamy Studio that I gave to my sister, but I am also hoping to buy the Lamy 2000 some time soon too.

For those of you who don't know, the Pilot Vanishing Point is in my humble opinion one of the best fountain pens around. Its got a 14k gold nib and writes like butter. Plus I really like it cos its retractable! No cap! Its a capless fountain pen. Have you ever heard of that???