I don’t always post about pen meets even if we hold them every month, but this time I managed to have a bit of time to go around and peek at what people are doing, and take lots of photos. The meet was held on Saturday, 17 October, at the Tea Party Cafe, which seems to have become our usual pen meeting place. It was sponsored by Fook Hing Trading Co., who contributed both refreshments and sponsored items for a lucky draw and an ink testing station. I went there a few minutes early with my fellow admins to set up the place and prepare these ink swabs for the ink testing station. Fook Hing Trading Co. has sponsored the entire set of Rohrer & Klingner inks (18 in total) for members to dip and test, or even to take a small sample of, if they really loved the ink. R&K produces a bunch of really nice, saturated inks which are all very vibrant in colour! Most of the members, however, grouped themselves together to talk about their latest pens, their grail pens, and try out everyone’s pens. The seats filled up really quickly as usual, but members also moved […]
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Pilot Pen Singapore hosted a fountain pen meet for Singapore Fountain Pen Lovers (SFPL) yesterday at Milagro Spanish Restaurant, Orchard Central. Due to the overwhelming turnout, we admins of the Facebook group had to do some attendance control before the event so that the venue wouldn’t be bursting at the seams! The total turnout was 73 pax or so. The event started off with a speech by Mr Benjamin Teh, General Manager of Pilot Pen Singapore. During the speech, he addressed some of the questions that SFPL members have asked on the Facebook group regarding Pilot products. At a corner of the restaurant, Pilot showcased a few new products that were launched recently. One was the beautiful Pilot 2015 Limited Edition Capless fountain pen, the “Twilight Blue”. The pen features a nice gradient from blue to purple throughout the body, and has an 18K rhodium-plated nib to match. In addition, another of the products launched was the 15mL Iroshizuku 3-in-a-box ink set, or what they call the “Mini Iroshizuku Inks”. All 24 colours were showcased at the meet as well. Another highlight of the day was the “special feature table” at which we could try out 3 different nibs belonging to the Pilot […]
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Time flies and we have had another pen meet yesterday. Even during the pen meet, time flew and in the blink of an eye, it was time to go home. Good times pass really quickly but memories are well-kept in photographs: We had Fook Hing Trading Co sponsor our event, and they provided us with Franklin Christoph products. What wonderful products they are! So far, I have been impressed with Franklin Christoph products especially the Penvelope 6 that I’ve made my first video review of. We held a lucky draw and the prizes were as follows: 1st Prize Model 66 Pearl Red with Masuyama Customized 18k Needlepoint Nib 2nd Prize Model 66 Pearl Red with HPSteel 1.9 Christoph Nib 3rd Prize Penvelope 6 Saddleboot Pen Case 4th Prize Classic 3 Saddleboot Pen Case 5th Prize Classic 2 Saddleboot Pen Case 6th Prize Classic 1 Saddleboot Pen Case They also sponsored Franklin Christoph inks, and the members had a blast testing them out at the ink testing station. The 8 inks sponsored were Blue 72, Brown 732, Classic Black, Dark Chocolate, Emerald 357, Midnight Emerald, Noir et Bleu and Red 187. Personally I love the Noir et Bleu the best, as despite being […]
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I’ve been rather busy and still ill, so I’m going to just put up a short post! The Singapore Fountain Pen Lovers have just had a pen meet on Saturday, May 30, 2015. The turnout had been excellent, and there has been a lucky draw as well! Everyone was eyeing the prizes as they are Montblanc products sponsored by Fook Hing Trading Co. The meet was held at the Tea Party Cafe again, which seems to be our usual haunt for official pen meets. It’s a spacious cafe with a nice concept, and serves good food! Despite the abundance of space in the cafe, it was almost literally overflowing with fountain pen enthusiasts. There was an ink testing station set up at a corner of the cafe, where we could go and have a look at the 8 Montblanc fountain pen inks in beautiful slipper glass bottles. As admin, I helped to prepare ink swab samples for ease of colour referencing. I also brought two glass pens for the members to dip into the bottles of inks to test out the colours. It was so crowded that, being the introvert that I am, I didn’t know really who to talk […]
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Time flies and on February 28, 2015, the Singapore Fountain Pen Lovers (SFPL) Facebook group was due for yet another pen meet, for the month of February. This time, it was held at the Tea Party Cafe which has been volunteered by one of our members, and what a nice cafe it was! We had a turnout of about 50+ and although the turnout number is around the same for the last 2 months, I am still pretty amazed, as our pen meets used to only have 20 odd at the maximum. This pen meet was sponsored by Wahl-Eversharp, an American company well known for the Doric and the Skyline pens, and Fook Hing Trading Co. Wahl-Eversharp has lately been revived after sitting in a quiet corner for almost 50 years, so, while I have not really tried their pens before (except for a little golden Wahl ringtop vintage pen that I like), I hope they are making a bunch of nice fountain pens! The prizes sponsored by Wahl-Eversharp were: 1st Prize: SKYLINE Classic Collection – Black Resin with Gold Plated Cap/Trim Fountain Pen 14kt Semi-Flex Fine Stub Nib – Customised by Pendleton Brown 2nd Prize: SKYLINE Classic Collection – Navy Blue Resin with Gold […]
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Time flies and it was time for yet another pen meet, this time the first one of the year Twenty Fifteen! We the Singapore Fountain Pens Lovers Facebook group administrators got together to organize this pen meet, and I grabbed the chance to do some filming on site. The pen meet was located at a very beautiful condominium, so it seemed to make everyone really happy! I’ll show you the pictures from now, and do watch out for the video at the end of the post! The room was meant for 15-20 people, but 30+ people turned up! Some of them had to stand around, which I feel bad about. The admins wanted to split half the group to a nearby shopping mall to look for space to hang around to talk pens, but everyone seemed to prefer cosy and noisy. Soumya was sharing about the pens he had brought over, and I badly wanted to include his part into the SFPL Pen Meet video, but the video got really long. So I will be posting up a separate video with Soumya’s part another day! Hope you don’t mind this, Soumya! This is something I’ve been wanting to do: to have […]
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SFPL stands for the “Singapore Fountain Pen Lovers”, and we are really a bunch of fun and cool fountain pen enthusiasts indeed! If you had been following my Twitter account, you may have noticed that I posted a tweet about the pen meet that was going to happen on 7 December 2014. Well, the meet turned out awesome, and we had so many more people than expected! Here are some photos for your viewing pleasure: When we had to confirm the booking of the room, responses had been slow, and we booked a room that could fit about 40 people. In the end, about 60 or so people actually turned up! Yes, many of them had no chairs, and I feel apologetic as the room was indeed a little cramped and just full of people everywhere. Everyone seemed really happy and engrossed in talking about their pens, inks and accessories. The room was bursting, not only with people, but also with all the chatter and energy! Despite the gloomy weather and rain outside, everyone seemed cheerful. Now for the items. We had Renover Life Notebooks as the door gifts in 3 different colours and styles (grid, ruled, and blank). The […]
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For those who don’t know SFPL, it’s an acronym for “Singapore Fountain Pen Lovers” and it is the Facebook group of fountain pen enthusiasts in Singapore. Clearly, I am part of it and even an administrator there, and recently I had done up some hyperactive chat sessions tagged #PenTalkFriday to get the group a little more involved (although it’s not like people aren’t already posting and commenting a lot around there already!). Soothing inks In my first #PenTalkFriday session, I asked members to share which inks (brand and colours) they found the most soothing. We received a swarm of answers in just a few minutes and the conversation continued even till the wee hours of Friday night! My personal favourite soothing ink colour is the Pelikan 4001 Blue, but then again I haven’t tried enough inks to make the best judgement! On the chat thread, it seemed like many found some colours in the Iroshizuku, J. Herbin, and Noodler’s ranges of inks most soothing. I have never tried a single Iroshizuku, have only 1 bottle of J. Herbin, and 1 bottle of Noodler’s. That’s a pretty sad thing for a fountain pen user who is in love with colours. Anyone […]
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One evening after getting back home and feeling bored, I visited the Singapore Fountain Pen Lovers Facebook group and found a bunch of folks as bored as I was! A thread full of brand wordplay! I love wordplay so I joined in the fun too. Note 1: This post is not meant to ridicule anything, just having fun, alright? FUN. Not suitable for those who don’t have a sense of humour. Note 2: Some of the language inside, especially sentence structure and grammar, are colloquial. After all, it IS a group for Singaporeans. To protect the privacy of the members, I have blurred out their display pictures and covered up their names. Well. There you have it. A bunch of fountain pen lovers having too much free time on their hands… MaybellineI am the founder of this website. Chemist by day, slacker by night, fanatic of stationery all the time. I write with my left hand, but can also do the same with my right hand – it just won’t look very pretty. onfountainpens.com
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Finally, I’m blogging about a really cool day – the day of a really cool fountain pen meet in Singapore! It was held yesterday at the McDonalds’ at King Albert Park. We had about 20 people turning up and it was considered a good number already, considering that the number of -enthusiastic- and -active- fountain pen enthusiasts in our tiny island city is pretty small! There are also many people who really wanted to come but could not make it, due to their job or personal commitments. So imagine if everyone was able to make it, it would have been really spectacular! Thanks to Danny from Fook Hing (one of our favourite local pen stores), we managed to get sponsored items as “door gifts” from Sailor Japan: bottles of Sailor Jentle inks! It was definitely a great bonus for us. The inks were given out at random but I already heard some of them talking about exchanging samples already. Those who went had different purposes. Some were there to try out pens which they have always wanted to buy. Some even went to buy pens from one another. A couple of them were newcomers, first time to a pen meet […]
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