[Goanet] Fountain Pens

2008-06-04 Thread Cecil Pinto
Dear Savio, Thanks for your response. I would like to make some comments. Savio Figueiredo wrote: Sometime back I was in shop buying cheap ballpens ( Das ka 10 for Rs.10) for my Cyber Cafe for the use of customers ( as pens are often not returned back); a lady stopped me and after

[Goanet] Fountain pens were compulsory for Board exams?

2008-06-02 Thread Cecil Pinto
I answered my SSC exam in 1982 through St. Thomas School in Aldona. At that time I remember that one was allowed to use a ballpen to answer, and most students did. But until a few years before that it was (thought to be) compulsory to use fountain pens to answer Board exams. Now I don't know if

Re: [Goanet] Fountain pens were compulsory for Board exams?

2008-06-02 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या
I think teachers in Goa then (largely) held a belief that using a 'fountain' pen, or a nib pen, improved one's handwriting. I still prefer to use an ink pen. Have been through Selzas and other brands, and the currently popular one (among the very few that use them anyway) is Reynolds. You can get