Fading Marlboro

Today is the first day , my team started the follow the sun shift.
No more night shift, only 12 hrs work from 7am to 7pm. It was hectic at first , with new process and job scope, I turn my trouble to coffee and a box of Marlboro soft pack.

This reminds me of my lookalike zippo lighter ( mind u.. it is not a zippo or a rippo) that I call the Fading Marlboro. It look old and and worn, the paint of a Marlboro logo is already faded after worn of use for more than 4 years. I think I bought it in early 2003, at Seremban's R&R near the PLUS

Highway. I use it as a replacement so that I wont worn out my First Love ..... refer to my previous post.

Any way here is the picture of the lighter.

My First Love

I got my first zippo in November 2002. It was a Zippo Slim Venetian - High Polish Chrome that I bought in Johor Baharu. Disappointed not being able to buy the fern leaf zippo in Auckland, I choose to buy one in JB. It is the most cherished zippo from my collection.

It has been my best friend ever since. Best friend a smoker can have .....

I never thought by buying it, I would start an interest in collecting metal lighters especially zippo lighter

The bronze painted ligther from Kiwi

At long last, I finally started it. This will be my first post of my metal lighter collection site. And to commemorate of the first post, I give you my first metal lighter I bought when I was in Auckland. A simple lighter, bronze colored ( not good of a quality, I guess they just sprayed it with bronze paint....).

The front of the lighter is a map of New Zealand. I bought it in 2002 for NZ$2.00 . Initially, I wanted to buy a zippo lighter with an engrave fern leaf at the front of the lighter, but I was only carrying like a NZ$40 per day quota for all my expenses. So unfortunately I had to pass the NZ$70.00 zippo.

Well what to do.....