And once more I am twiddling my thumbs and freezing in an airport. My Cebu Pacific flight home isn’t here yet. We were supposed to board thirty minutes ago. Why am I not surprised? At least this airport has free wi-fi.
Month: January 2008
So this is what I was up to, really, in HK. I wanted to see a Nakaya table! Other people fly to Tokyo to see Madonna. This is not a strange thing. I registered as a buyer and waited until the fair opened at 9:30. When I reached the Platinum Pen Co. table, I gawked …
The Cebu Pacific flight to Hong Kong was two hours delayed. Each announcement of further waiting elicited cries of dismay from the passengers, followed by a flurry of texting, I assume to people waiting for them on the other side of the flight. Those connecting to other destinations approached the counter but left with frowns. …
My stomach is grateful for ramen, and my legs aren’t complaining anymore. I stood in line over an hour at the Cebu Pacific check-in counter! I asked for an aisle seat, and I’m looking forward to dropping into unconsciousness as soon as I’m in it. For P165, I bought an hour’s worth of wi-fi access. …
I have to be at the airport early to pay travel tax, because I bought my ticket online. I’m taking a Cebu Pacific international flight for the first time, and I have no idea what the queues at their check-in counters are like. I don’t mind the long wait before departure, anyway; I stay at …
I found these in two sizes in Powerbooks. The Derwent Sketch notebooks seem to have been a holiday gift favorite, as the branches I visited (Shangri-la Mall and near Greenbelt 4) had only one or two left. The smaller size is a Moleskinealike, with a rough suede-alike cover. The paper is thick white card stock. …
Work, please pause a moment so I can run away to Eifelheim, indulge in Devices and Desires, and dawdle in Darwinia.
Thanks to Andy, I have a purse perfume pen. As one who adores both fragrances and fountain pens, I’m glad its new home is with me. There are modern versions with felt tips, and casual googling reveals that both Bratz and Clinique market perfume pens, but nothing like this. At first glance it looks like …
The Omas Arco Milord is my happy new year pen, ordered online last year as a Sundance Kid dive into Italian celluloid. Celluloid is a turn-of-the-century plastic that was used in pens, jewelry, even dolls – and, in thin strips, as film for the movies. Today it’s mostly used in guitar picks. Acrylic is the …
This was a quick exercise using three different nibs on Moleskine reporter notebook paper: a Bexley fine (bright green ink), a crisp italic from Mr. Binder (spring green ink), and a vintage Parker Lucky Curve nib (burgundy ink). The Bexley fine works out better than the other two, which have a touch more tooth (in …