World Pencil Day

World Pencil Day is not today, exactly. It was yesterday. I just read in some magazine that it was world pencil day, and since magazines are infamous for making up stuff, I didn't believe it 100%. But since the magazine gave a date as well (1985 or something like that), it might be correct.

Then I thought about the coincidence of it. World pencil day in the middle of my AS exam and one day before SPM. Coincident right?

I wonder how they invent the pencil. Maybe it's just that they've been wtiting with carbon all the while but hate the fact that it stains the hands, so they covered it in wood. I wonder too which came first, pencils or pens. Then I remembered those quil thingies that are probably considered as pens so maybe pens came first.

So if it's World Pencil Day, does it mean we get to celebrate pencil skirts too? You know, since it is named after the pencil... Then we should be wearing pencil skirts on that day. One small glitch: I don't own one. So I can't show that I celebrate World Pencil Day. Since being in college and using pens, AND not wearing pencil skirts, does that mean I'm actually dishonouring World Pencil Day? Man, I should really get that skirt. Just so I won't feel guilty anymore.

Talking about pencil skirts, are we celebrating the phrase "pencil thin" too? So if we see anything (or anyone) really thin, should we say "It's(or she's/he's) pencil thin!" even though I've never used that phrase before because it's so wrong(seriously, everything is always either thicker or thinner then pencil so saying 'pencil thin' is so inappropriate), just because it's World Pencil Day?

Wait, how do I honour World Pencil Day? Help! It's seriously no use knowing that a day is 'World Pencil Day' if I don't even know how to project my appreciation of pencils in the first place. I mean, does mechanical pencils work? Because it technically uses carbon too... which makes a pencil... a pencil. I'm lost here!


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