{"id":3993,"date":"2017-05-19T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T06:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2017-05-22T22:21:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T14:21:15","slug":"fountain-pens-and-studying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2017\/05\/fountain-pens-and-studying\/","title":{"rendered":"Fountain Pens and studying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got into using Fountain Pens. This continued\u00a0even after a lost bunch of them at work. On another front, I have been dragging my feet on studying for my Project Management Professional certification. It was really a bore to watch videos and take notes, rinse and repeat for the 40+ modules.<\/p>\n<p>I filled out the study notebook and needed a replacement. \u00a0Penelope Trunk once wrote<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you don\u2019t like writing lists, buy a new pen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Taking that message to heart, \u00a0I got a replacement notebook that is fountain pen friendly. \u00a0Nothing expensive, just some books and loose sheets from Daiso.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what happened? Writing out notes isn&#8217;t a bore anymore! Using my EDC fountain pen, Loom F, it is a joy to watch as the nib sailed across the page. Letters are formed by the twirling silver nib. I managed to get down to creating lists for the inputs and outputs of each process, all in record speed!<\/p>\n<p>As a keyboard warrior, using the fountain pen, I found that I get lesser finger and arm strain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.penelopetrunk.com\/2007\/05\/09\/if-you-dont-like-writing-lists-buy-a-new-pen\/\">Penelope Trunk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got into using Fountain Pens. This continued\u00a0even after a lost bunch of them at work. On another front, I have been dragging my feet on studying for my Project Management Professional certification. It was really a bore to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[408],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-improvement","tag-fountain-pens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}