Packing ‘Light’

Anyone who knows me or has been on a trip with me knows that I don’t exactly pack light all the time.

My recent trip to Singapore to catch Lady Gaga in concert warranted a trolley bag, much to my mum’s shock. “What are you packing in there, BABIES?”, she asked. My gracious host and good friend Foo poked around my bag, wondering what sort of things I packed. I think he was marvelling at the fact that I really needed everything in there for a night’s stay! I can’t help it, really. All my toiletries can’t fit into a backpack! Enough jokes about me packing to survive a nuclear holocaust, because I can survive that catastrophe and still look FIERCE!

So here’s my list of stuff I have to pack for this coming Teacher Training :

For obvious reasons :

-9 pairs of yoga shorts

- 10 pairs of yoga tops

- 4 pairs of pants for posture clinics

- 2 pair of long snuggly long pants for movie torture Bollywood nights

- 4 sweaters

- 1 thermal [or should I make that 2?!] <-see, packing ‘light’ indeed

- scarf

- Kathmandu down jacket [I have a 23 hour stopover in Korea, absolutely no choice for this!]

- 3 pairs of socks [or should I make it 5?!]

- 1 pair of ridiculous toe socks for snugglies

- 1 pair of jandals to walk to and fro class

- 1 pair of Ecco suede boots [Korea!]

- 1 pair of Ecco walking shoes [I HEART Ecco!]

- About a bajillion pairs of underwear

Wow, the list just gets nonsensical as it goes on.

Toiletries

- Face wash

- Toner

- Day lotion with SPF

- Bio-oil as my night moisturiser and anti stretchmark / scar cream [I have lots of them, stretchmarks and scars!]

- Moisturiser

- Shampoo [using body wash from Hilton, hah!]

- About a trillion pads and tampons

- Nail clippers [!!! VERY IMPORTANT!]

- Scrub

- Lady razor [I don't want to wake my flatmate up with the deathly whirring of this contraption]

- Cotton squares

Supplements

- Multi-vitamins with minerals

- Electrolyte recovery [buying more pedialyte and emergen-cy there!]

- Vitamin C?

Make Up

- MAC Blusher

- Eyeliner [liquid]

- Mascara

- 1 lipgloss out of the 4078 I own

* All for AFTER TT, obviously!

Now to decide what dress to pack… and what shoes / pretty bag to go with it…

And I AM SET!

M*