Monthly Archives: January 2023

Meisterstück 149 Curved Nib

Happy handwriting day. Today I’d like to share another special pen: another Meisterstück Calligraphy 149 pen from Montblanc, but now with a specially-designed curved nib. Its hand-crafted nib is not a flex nib, but an innovative curved nib allowing the user to draw a variety of writing styles and line widths, depending on the angle and the orientation at which the pen is held.

Using this pen, we can draw wide horizontal lines, thin vertical lines, and even fine lines. For the last style, we need to turn the nib upside down.

The nib is unlike any bent or fude nib, but I was tempted to use it to write some kanji and katakana character, and I found the result is better than many other pen I previously have. I would not display the result here, since I’m not a real master in writing kanji character.

Meisterstück 149 Curved Nib

Happy handwriting day. Today I’d like to share another special pen: another Meisterstück Calligraphy 149 pen from Montblanc, but now with a specially-designed curved nib. Its hand-crafted nib is not a flex nib, but an innovative curved nib allowing the user to draw a variety of writing styles and line widths, depending on the angle and the orientation at which the pen is held.

Using this pen, we can draw wide horizontal lines, thin vertical lines, and even fine lines. For the last style, we need to turn the nib upside down.

The nib is unlike any bent or fude nib, but I was tempted to use it to write some kanji and katakana character, and I found the result is better than many other pen I previously have. I would not display the result here, since I’m not a real master in writing kanji character.

Kopi, Serangan Jantung, Stroke

Sebenarnya, telah cukup banyak penelitian yang dilakukan berkaitan dengan efek konsumsi kopi dan kafein terhadap risiko serangan jantung dan stroke. Hasil dari berbagai penelitian itu cukup bervariasi: ada penelitian yang menunjukkan bahwa konsumsi kopi atau kafein yang tinggi dapat meningkatkan risiko penyakit kardiovaskular, sementara penelitian lain menunjukkan tidak ada hubungan yang signifikan, atau bahkan terdapat efek positif bagi kesehatan.

Beberapa hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa asupan kafein yang tinggi dapat meningkatkan tekanan darah dan denyut jantung, yang dapat berkontribusi pada peningkatan risiko serangan jantung dan stroke. Namun, penelitian lain telah menunjukkan bahwa konsumsi kopi tingkat menengah (yaitu sekitar 3-4 cangkir per hari) dapat memberikan efek perlindungan terhadap penyakit jantung dan stroke, yang mungkin diakibatnya adanya antioksidan dan senyawa anti peradangan dalam kopi.

Secara umum, meskipun bukti tidak sepenuhnya jelas, konsumsi kopi skala menengah saja dianggap aman untuk kebanyakan orang, dan bahkan dapat memiliki beberapa manfaat kesehatan. Namun, mereka yang memiliki gejala gangguan jantung atau tekanan darah tinggi harus sangat berhati-hati dengan asupan kafein mereka.