Personal Muses

I bought this beautiful Royal Copenhagen porcelain plate from a flea market at Clark’s Quay almost 10 years ago. On it, the artist’s impression reads “Mors Dag, 1972″.
So I thought Mors Dag is the name of the artist who painted the plate in 1972.

I was just wondering how much it is worth today as a collectible item. So I started searching the internet for information.  I had a good laugh when I found out that Mors Dag is not a person.  Haha, “Mors Dag” is “Mother’s Day” in Danish and Swedish.

In Singapore, we celebrate Mother’s Day on the 2nd Sunday of May as in Denmark, US and Japan.  Sweden honors all mothers on the 4th Sunday of May as in UK. 

~ Happy Mother’s Day! ~

Have you read about the pen guy who has a Mercedes Pens Art Car? He glued over 6,000 pens on his car.  Incredible feat!  Among things that he had created are his hard hat and mailbox decorated with pens.  Google for the pen guy from California,  Costas Schuler and his projects and you will find his amazing hobby of sticking pens all over.  He gets a lot of support and pen donations for his hobby and held talks and event appearances for gluing pens on car.  

In two weeks’ time, my daughter will be leaving for Sweden.  Now, preparation for the trip is hotting up.  I did a lot of shopping together with her, getting enough warm clothing for her to brave the cold winter that may extend till March this year.  Earlier we saw some travelpro luggage on the net and considered getting a suitable bag for her long traveling schedule.

However, we managed to borrow some items from her cousins, and that included a large luggage bag to pack all her stuff.  The luggage seem to be bursting at the seams, and we are just trying to figure out how to squeeze everything inside!    

The place to shop for lightings is at Balestier Road, that is, if you live in Singapore long enough, you will be familiar with the scene at this specialty row.  These shops import lightings from all over the world.  The cheaper models probably come from Taiwan and other sources from the nearby Asian Pacific region.

But interior designers order direct from the US, UK and Europe by the container loads for major development projects.  The lightings selected for “showflats” are quite impressive.  I have seen some like those from Hinkley Lighting.

I was just doing some research on the history of Mizuno golf and was very surprised to discover the rich history in the making of the golf club.  Very good video clips are available on Youtube showing the making of golf clubs and the high quality controls at the Mizuno factories. 

Mizuno made history.  The first Japanese-made golf clubs were put on sale was in 1933.  Mizuno first started selling sporting goods 100 years back in history. Wow!