Kikan
February 14th, 2014, 07:23 PM
Hello, my name is Kikan ^.^''
Long time lurker in fountain pen forums, but first time poster.
I guess I should... uhmm.. start by telling you a little bit about myself ^ .^
I live in a small country in the Arabian Gulf by the name of Kuwait. It's very hot and sunny for most of the year it could get as hot as 50-55 degrees Celsius X.x... I work in education... I know I know not the most exciting job out there... but I love it ^_^
I have a couple of hobbies... I like cycling to random places for fun.. and often times I find myself locked up in my room reading...and shortly afterwords followed by a session of frenzy writing with my pens.. it's calm some times.. in fact very calm during the night... that I can almost hear myself think.. which would be the perfect time for a nice hot cup of tea ^-^...
I don't have a huge fountain pen collection... yet xD hopefully that won't change... too much xD
I started my fountain pen...uhh... let's call it a *hobby* when I first started in college... my handwriting was.. so terrible I couldn't even read it myself xD... so a few months later.. I decided I wanted to improve my handwriting as best as I can... so like any new goal or hobby that someone may choose to pursue I did what everyone might find to be a familiar sight..
I walked into a stationary store... looked at notebooks and couple of pilot gel pens and liquid ink pens... I got some paper and pens to start on my goal of improving my penmanship.. *That was the I need to get the supplies to start my new hobby chapter ^__^*
I looked at videos on YouTube to learn from other people...and got an e-book by the name of... I think it was called *The Palmer Method* which included drill exercises and techniques about how to write and hold the pen in the proper way.. everything was going so well I was happy.. but I often wondered about all these fountain pens that were illustrated in the book.. and thought.. is it... worth it ?
I kept that thought in my mind and kept on writing.. for many many months and I was always happy when I saw even the slightest sight of improvement ^_^.
In fact I felt so happy that I didn't want to let the pen down from my hand... I started copying books and writing notes as a method for improving my hand writing... and ironically my grades improved far more than my penmanship xD.. I can't complain there... ^ .^
But eventually... I walked into a new stationary store by the name of Office Depot.. and maybe you have seen this sometimes in these kinds of stores they have a glass display of what I call... *fancy pens or expensive pens* and I always gloss over them while I buy more notebooks to write on.. and I kept wondering... are they... worth it...
And that was the day that I came back home.. with a fountain pen ^_^... it was a Parker Frontier which used cartridges.. had a greenish / purplish kind of color to it which I loved very much..
9932
And This was the beginning of it all <3
Thank you for reading...
Long time lurker in fountain pen forums, but first time poster.
I guess I should... uhmm.. start by telling you a little bit about myself ^ .^
I live in a small country in the Arabian Gulf by the name of Kuwait. It's very hot and sunny for most of the year it could get as hot as 50-55 degrees Celsius X.x... I work in education... I know I know not the most exciting job out there... but I love it ^_^
I have a couple of hobbies... I like cycling to random places for fun.. and often times I find myself locked up in my room reading...and shortly afterwords followed by a session of frenzy writing with my pens.. it's calm some times.. in fact very calm during the night... that I can almost hear myself think.. which would be the perfect time for a nice hot cup of tea ^-^...
I don't have a huge fountain pen collection... yet xD hopefully that won't change... too much xD
I started my fountain pen...uhh... let's call it a *hobby* when I first started in college... my handwriting was.. so terrible I couldn't even read it myself xD... so a few months later.. I decided I wanted to improve my handwriting as best as I can... so like any new goal or hobby that someone may choose to pursue I did what everyone might find to be a familiar sight..
I walked into a stationary store... looked at notebooks and couple of pilot gel pens and liquid ink pens... I got some paper and pens to start on my goal of improving my penmanship.. *That was the I need to get the supplies to start my new hobby chapter ^__^*
I looked at videos on YouTube to learn from other people...and got an e-book by the name of... I think it was called *The Palmer Method* which included drill exercises and techniques about how to write and hold the pen in the proper way.. everything was going so well I was happy.. but I often wondered about all these fountain pens that were illustrated in the book.. and thought.. is it... worth it ?
I kept that thought in my mind and kept on writing.. for many many months and I was always happy when I saw even the slightest sight of improvement ^_^.
In fact I felt so happy that I didn't want to let the pen down from my hand... I started copying books and writing notes as a method for improving my hand writing... and ironically my grades improved far more than my penmanship xD.. I can't complain there... ^ .^
But eventually... I walked into a new stationary store by the name of Office Depot.. and maybe you have seen this sometimes in these kinds of stores they have a glass display of what I call... *fancy pens or expensive pens* and I always gloss over them while I buy more notebooks to write on.. and I kept wondering... are they... worth it...
And that was the day that I came back home.. with a fountain pen ^_^... it was a Parker Frontier which used cartridges.. had a greenish / purplish kind of color to it which I loved very much..
9932
And This was the beginning of it all <3
Thank you for reading...