Anyways, I've taken to packing already. I know what you're thinking: still got 9 days what, pack so soon for what? But I have never been and never liked being a last minute person, and besides, it's only when you start packing that you start realizing the things that you need but don't have, so I'll have time to stock up on whatever last minute items I need. Also, cos I'm a little paranoid-type so I'll pack and unpack and pack everything a couple of times, arrange and rearranging things until I'm happy in case I forget something. Sometimes, I'd wake up in the middle of night suddenly, going 'Omg toothpaste!' and realize that I had indeed forgotten to pack toothpaste. My subconscious mind is pretty genius.
I've broken down packing into a few phases I guess. Today's phases is boxes. Particularly, the stationery box because it's prolly the easiest and funnest and I won't be using any of the stuff within the week so I can chuck it all into the huge luggage bag Pearly has so kindly loaned me and focus on other more important items.
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| Leave me in a stationery shop and I can be pretty happy. |
I had a drawer full of stationery items like pretty paper, origami paper, crayons, colour pencils and pinking shears and what not. I love stationery btw. In this particular box above were all the odds and ends that were surely to go missing in that huge drawer and cause me a lot of frustration when I can't find them in time of need.
As you can see, the top left corner are these cute little alphabet stamps Pearly got me from the UK. Next to it is a spool of embroidery thread I bought when I needed to hang up the paper cranes, and next to that is a bottle of red glitter. I love this bottle because if you unscrew the cover, the top of the bottle looks like a pepper pot top, enabling proper distribution of glitter over a large surface area.
In the box, there's also a super powerful blade, a coil of white ribbon, cute paper clips and those coloured book-marker things. I love those haha.
Anyways, I had to fit my whole stationery drawer and all the essential stuff into a box like this:
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| The box was part of a birthday present many years ago from my third uncle and aunt on my dad's side. It had a pretty top and a tiny bottle of perfume. Don't ask me how I can remember that. |
So I had to do some serious editing. Anyways, I shortlisted everything and finally came up with a box like this:
Only the essentials. No pretty paper, but practical useful stationery. And bookmarks too of course haha. I rescued these from the shelf last minute.
So my stationery box, Box #1 for this week, now consists of these:
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| I apologize for the bad lighting. It was a dull morning and this was taken with my Samsung Galaxy W. |
That's two boxes of reinforcement rings (one transparent, one white), a crazy assortment of paper clips, post-its because I like them, those mechanical pencil lead refills because every Malaysian kid MUST have those, my super powerful blade and more of those coloured book-markers. Funny thing about the book-markers - I bought my first set (?) years ago and have yet to finish them but I kept losing that so I got tired of looking around for them and bought a new set. Then I found the old set back. And then a friend of mine did some house-cleaning and found a new unused set and since he didn't really use them, he gave them to me because he knew how crazy I got over colourful things.
My next box would most likely be the first-aid kit (how fun. Or interesting). I'm using my last week here to meet up with some essential people before leaving. It's funny how when I'm here, there were so many things which weren't necessary or urgent but now that I'm going to live away, they suddenly become super important. And also how when I'm here, I always take meeting these people for granted, but now I suddenly want to meet all of them before I go. Although I'll only be gone for 5 months. I'm so sappy.
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