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pen hecked: a tribute

September 29, 2005

                                    

This is a PILOT - S Better Retractable/Refillable JS - GP Fine Point.  It’s a cheap ballpoint pen.  Actually, I have no idea how much it is now, because I have had this particular pen for almost 9 years.  Those of you who’ve had pens and lost them not minutes after purchase know how impressive it is to have a 9  - year old pen.  Most of you have even tried the “that sticker with my name on it means it’s mine” technique and know how useless that is after a few “pahiram ballpen“s.  Nobody gives a Sheaffer that the pen has an owner.  And I know that the sticker is not the reason for my pen’s longevity; I’ve had to change stickers as often as I’ve had to re - fill the pen itself.

This ballpen has been around the (writer’s) block and back.  And forth.  I’ve brought it with me to shoots in Vigan, Tagaytay, Malacanang.  It’s been to a furniture factory, several squatters’ areas, and the Senate.  I write stories, sign checks, take down notes, doodle, make journal entries and edit scripts with it.  It’s been to America, Malaysia and Hong Kong.  One day it will go to Italy and Great Britain, France, Africa and Jamaica.  And it’s made several trips around my thumb; you know, that twirling trick with the ballpen that has become part of one’s college education.

I guess it would be far more chi - chi to say I have a Montblanc or a Parker (no matter how old it is), but I don’t think that’s half as impressive as having for nine years a ballpen that has a reputation for being walain.  I still don’t know why I haven’t lost this pen, though there have been a few close calls.  I once worked on a Senator’s TV show, and she would come to work with her expensive little bag, and there would be, oh, 5, 6 pens in it (madalas Parkers, and I’ve seen a Montblanc, too), none of which she owns.  Most people (me included) use a computer for everything, and PDAs are all the rage, but I find that I need to physically write everything down, still and too.  With this pen.  Nine years old.  It knows too much about me.  I can never lose it. 

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