More than 80 Year Oil Steel Pot

Hi.

I would like to share with you an old hand made steel pot from India.

This was purchased by my grandmother for her daughter. Exact date I’m unaware. 

I have now inheritance it and used it the other day to boil some eggs. Works flawlessly. 

They sure don’t make quality stuff like this anymore. I have changed many Tefal non - stick pans due to wear and tear. I know stainless steel cannot be compared to non - stick. It is not the same. Apple must be compared to apple. But it would be nice if non - stick pans last, considering their price. 

The individually hand hammered marks are still visible but faded due to age and use

Visible clear the dents all over the pot. Must have dropped countless times. The mouth has also warped due to extreme use and heat, over the years

My grandmother made it a point to have her daughter’ s (my aunts) name engraved. You can see from the unevenness of the engraving, it was done by hand

I am so delighted and thrilled to have inherited and using my grandmother’ s pot. I will always remember her

Art of Tree

Our living hall was featured on Art of Tree FB page on 1June 2022. It made our day. 

The Bitter Realty

These pictures are from the net. 

Like it or not there’s truth to it. 

Have a great day you all. 

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Our Garden is slowly taking shape

When we are back home, most of our time is spend in the family hall and the gardens. 

The garden is a living thing. Growing and evolving. 

Some of the Bunga Raya we have in our garden. 99% of our plants are potted. The reason being is due to our small sized garden. Hence, if they are planted on the ground then their growth will be difficult to control

These are some of the fragrant flowers we have. Up to now we have 4 species. This is the melur

Do not know the name of this species but the flower emits a vanilla and cinnamon smell. It is white when new and over time turns yellow before dying 

This is the ever famous Kesidang. Even pandan leaves smell cannot challenge these small flowers. When they are in full bloom, it emits a wonderful pandan smell when you are near the plant

We have 2 species of pock Bunga burung. The hummingbird does them. They are always here taking nectar from the flowers. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to snap their picture

Birds nest in our pucuk manis tree

A moth blending in and making itself at home

Kaweco Liliput Fireblue

Kaweco Liliput Fireblue is one of those mesmerising pens for 2 reasons, it’s gorgeous anodise titanium look and small size.

I have been eyeing this fountain pen for quite some time but never pursued it seriously due to its cost.

My Traveler’s notebook pen holder was providing troublesome as I could not find a suitable pen in my possession that could fit the holder conveniently. I had a few that I could forcefully, force in but I did not want to go through such inconvenience.

However, a recent outing and seeing it for myself, the pen fits snugly into the Traveler’s notebook snugly and knowing that it was the last unit at the shop, convinced me otherwise.   

I had to purchase the clip as a roll stopper and also to clip it to the Traveler’s notebook as there was wiggling room in the pen holder. The Kaweco Supra Fireblue fits perfectly. No pen clip needed but the shop was out of the Supra Fireblue version. 

Michael Gutberlet, the CEO and owner of Kaweco was inspired by a customer who wanted some blue steel like some furnish he had. Michale said that they do not have it but will figure it out. Michael did lots of R&D in the seller of his own home burning and testing products. Finally with a special grasp and training, he achieved the expected results but was turned down by the customer as this was not what he wanted. The customer eventually bought one, after many years.

Here is the Liliput Fireblue in all its glory.

Comparison with a Fisher Space Pen

The Fisher was not ideal for me on the Traveler’s Notebook as its girth was a little too small

Comparison with other pens / pencil

Even with my small hands, uncapped is unusable unless you intend to write a line or two

The pen is sturdy like any Kaweco so fret not by its size.

A workhorse as I have tested for far and suitable edc. 

If the price is not off putting, it is indeed a piece of art. The steel barrel is hand torch by Michael himself to get the desired effect. I do not know if he still torches it himself or has trained someone to undertake the task. 

The pen colour may vary as this is hand torched. So no two pens may look alike. Sample picture below from the internet.

I hope that that this blog does provide some help if you are in a conundrum over the liliput. 

  

How to revive a marker pen with dried ink

This activity was done today, 1 June 2022. 

My daughter previously bought some marker pens on 70% discount from an art shop at Pavilion.  The caveat was that buy at your own risk as there was possibility that some of the markers may not be working, i.e. being old stock, it may have dried up.

We purchased it anyway and a few markers were indeed not working.

I remember seeing a YouTube video by JetPens that you could revive dried ink from the nib of fountain pens that has been stored too long with ink inside by dipping it in water and though let's use the same concept and give the markers a try.

So that's what we did. We soaked 3 of the dried up markers for about 3 to 5 minutes. Two coolers worked remarkably, the yellow and blue.

Unfortunately, the red, even after soaking for more than 8 hours still did not work.

We will keep soaking it overnight to see what happens. 

Writing sample of the 2 working inks after soaking in water