Worthy of a Moleskine
When I first heard about Moleskines I immediately fell in love with them. Just the idea of carrying around these notebooks – the type used by van Gogh, Picasso and Hemingway, no less! – felt awe-inspiring.
They are available in Kuala Lumpur, and the prices are perhaps more awe-inspiring than the notebooks themselves. The smallest and thinnest costs RM25 for two (promotion price). Looking at what I scribble in my throwaway, sub-ringgit notebooks – random to-do items, shopping lists, phone numbers – it’s very obvious that Moleskines are not for me. They’re for poets, writers, and painters, not for ordinary people with everyday lives.
My wife, however, can paint. So yesterday we drove down to Czip Lee Bangsar and she got herself some art supplies plus a Moleskine Folio Watercolour Album A4. She has already filled two pages with her watercolours. Let me say this: she is worthy of a Moleskine.
I almost bought the RM25 set-of-two but put it back at the last minute. But I did get myself an RM9 Faber-Castell PITT artist pen. I’m using it to scribble random to-do items, shopping lists, phone numbers, etc. It’s so nice.
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