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The Art of Writing
By peace | May 15, 2008
Strangely, I discovered this piece of news by chance, and was so surprised that this was the Pen I love, MY FAVOURITE PEN! It was a free gift one day when I bought lots of stationery from one of the Pasar Malam stall at Woodgrove. I had misplaced it and could not find it for a long time. When I found it not long ago, it was already spoiled and it could not be use anymore…
Of course my pen is not Mont Blanc, it was just an imitation. On 27th April 2008, I went to Causeway Point as there was 20% Metro sale. I needed a watch and I went to Vincent Watch. I saw these Mont Blanc pens, they were very expensive.
This piece of advertisement really aroused me. I really like it very much and I kept it with me. It was from The Edge Singapore 4th April 2005 issue. It says: Art is about giving. Da Vinci gave us the Mona Lisa. Beethoven gave us Symphony Number Five. George Orwell gave us 1984. We never asked for their contributions, but they gave nonetheless. Similarly, nobody asked for the world’s finest pens, but Mont Blanc has been crafting them for almost a century. Because of their belief in the Art of Writing.
Surprisingly, I dreamed of Dick Lee today, and it was Lee Foundation which came to my mind. I don’t even know what is this Lee Foundation all about.
Montblanc Art Packaging: Regardless of packaging, it is the pen which I like. But it is a fountain pen. I remembered when I was young, we had fountain pens at home. It is troublesome to use — refilling the ink and the tip of the pen is easily spoiled.
It is said that one in six children are illiterate due to poverty, overcrowded classrooms or a lack of schooling facilities. Indeed, that was how my parents are deprived of education. Their parents were too poor to send them to school. And their belief is that girls would ultimately be married and they do not need to be so educated. My father received little, very little education, have not even completed Primary Six, and have to work. As the eldest in the family, he had to work and not treated well by his own parents (who favoured only the younger kids).
Dick Lee said,”Don’t ask me why I like to write!” To be able to write is fortune. God make everyone of us with a pair of hands so that we can make full use of them. To be able to write, you must first be able to hold a pen in your hand. To be able to hold a pen and write profusely, to write your mind, express your mind and even paint your mind with ink, that is the ultimate art, a real talent. There is no right and no wrong, but only the own creator of the art knows the answer; and it takes a like-minded person to appreciate and understand what it is all about.
In this era where everything is computer, everything is so high tech, handwriting is so considered oblivion already. Schools are not teaching students about good handwriting, and schools are going into ‘no textbooks’, all using the digital notebooks.
Some people are born with beautiful hands and legs and yet they do not want to learn, to study. My mother, who only knows how to write numbers, and her own name, wanted so much to learn. If she ever goes to school, she is a very intelligent person. She is so hardworking, so generous and a ’sweet-tongue’, who knows how to make people happy. I am not like that. I am opposite of her. My big brother has a ’sweet-tongue’ also. He is a generous person and always so thoughtful for people. As a boss, he is always so lenient to his employee.
So this is a world full of ironies, full of contradictions, full of mysteries. For loving puzzles, for fixing puzzles, I am fixing the unseen realistic puzzles of spiritual paradise, the kingdom of God. And it does have to do with the Pen that writes, and the human heart that control the hand, the mind that coordinate with the hand and the heart. It is human nature vs human greed and human conscious and conscience at work. Does the person who hold the most expensive pen in the world means the most educated person in this world? Does it mean that the person who produced the most expensive pen in the world is the most intelligent person in this world? Art, it is really something so profound, and so abstract. Does it end with Education?
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May 15th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
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