Hi everybody, it's Letitia. So typical me, I'm packing super last minute. Knowing me,
I'm gonna be packing up until the night before and I'm hoping that filming this
video will force me to pack at least majority of what I need. But I have some
cool tips and tricks for packing efficiently if you want to follow me
along on my Asia adventures I'm going to Taiwan and Hong Kong. I'll be posting
everything on Instagram @letitiakiu as we go along on the trip. So yes let's get started on packing.
So in terms of clothing, that's the hardest thing for me to pack lightly.
Ideally I would pick out outfits for the next two weeks I would wear one outfit
twice or at least have some things that I could double up. I want a little bit of
color but not too much, and stuff that's very lightweight. So I have this Uniqlo
t-shirt that I got recently, and while I really like it it's very heavy weight
it's a very thick t-shirt and honestly, you're just asking for pit stains. So I
think I'm gonna refrain from heavy t-shirts. The mugginess of Hong Kong is
like legit. So I have nothing too tight, a basic black t-shirt is immune to
pit stains. This blouse that I'm gonna tie up it's a silk blouse that I thrifted.
Then there comes my jumpsuits. All of my jumpsuits are coming with me. These
jumpsuits might be worn like two or three times. You're gonna see me in them
all the time. Essentially stuff that I can wear without a bra really. For pants
I think I'll bring mostly wear shorts. I'm not keen on wearing miniskirts just because
of all the moving around that I'm going to do. Oh but the pants that I'll
definitely bring are the Uniqlo ones that I got. So guys I have good news
I'm on my period right now which means that when I'm on my vacation I probably
won't be on my period, but with my fucked up cycle I could be, maybe towards
the latter end of the trip. But for now I can wear white pants with comfort. Yes to this right?
Body suits. I don't know if bodysuits is a bad idea,
because bodysuits don't travel very well. You know when you have to pee... when I was
a kid I went to China and then we tried squatty potty's for the first time it
wasn't just a squatty potty in the city it was squatty potty outside in the
countryside so it was like an outdoor squatty potty and they're great it's
fine. You're used to sitting on a toilet you just kind of have to understand the
mechanisms of squatty potty and what you have to carry in your arms and if you
have a bodysuit that means that you'd have to take off your pants, take off
your shoes, hold your pants, unbutton your body suit and then go. And that
doesn't sound like a good idea..yeah that sounds like complicated.
I'll do this. These shorts that I DIYed recently. Shoes I'm also having a hard time with,
I'm not really sure how many shoes I should bring I wonder if I still have my
arch supports. Yay still have my arch supports good good good.
Arch supports are essential. I have these ones. These will be good for like special
occasion and look how tall the heel is, that's it! I also have these ones.
So two light pairs, one colored pair and one dark pair. All pretty much
flat. I think that's good. I really hope that's good. I'm tempted to bring another
pair of sneakers but I really need to stop there. For camera gear, I'm actually
going to stay really compact. My favorite thing is this. This is a tripod
but it's also a selfie stick it goes long yeah so if I need to be stationary
I just pop it up like that. So the camera would be like this and I just hold it
like this. So this is how close you would be to me if I were to hold the camera
arm's length and I don't think I could keep that up because I'm not that fit.
For sunglasses I'm going to bring two pairs. I'll bring my two recent favorites and
they're both from AliExpress actually. Ray-ban knockoffs right simple
easy to go with. I don't have designer sunglasses anyways but I wouldn't want
to bring designer sunglasses because at the rate that I break and lose
sunglasses it's just not healthy. And also these really fun ones. These will
just be I don't even know how I would see the world like..I saw the
glasses all over Instagram and I'm like oh my gosh they're so cool and then I
put them on and I completely forgot that - I don't really think I could see the
world very much except literally through rose-colored glasses. Yeah. When I first
put these on Stefan was like oh my gosh you look like that person from that what
movie was that? Oh, from Monsters Inc.
For any low-light filming or photography I'm actually going to bring a ring light
yeah and this will be really convenient because it clips onto my phone and
honestly I feel like I'm just gonna fit in in Asia. So coming home I realize
these shoes are kind of painful. These ones. The thing that I'm most worried about
before I leave is not packing, not forgetting things, is my plants. To leave
Stefan with my plants..I'm so worried that I'm gonna come home and they're all
gonna be dead. There's lots of different types of people
there's the rollers, there's the folders, there's the tossers. I tend to be a
folder on the way to the trip and then on the way back home I'm a tosser. From
my haul with Zaful I actually kept all the Ziploc bags that they had the
clothing in the things that wrinkle easily and this is a trick that I
learned in retail, if you put it in a ziploc bag it kind of keeps the
structure of your top and it prevents the weight of other things to crush it.
Delicates go in the bag and also if you have extra bags - this is something that I
never see in people's packing videos you need extra bags because where
are you gonna put your dirty clothes? You're not gonna throw it in with your
suitcase with your clean clothes that's just gross. So always keep extra bags handy.
This is my makeup bag, so aside from the essentials like toothbrush and
toothpaste if you guys want to find out more about what I'm putting in my makeup
bag as well as my makeup carry-on bag which are two very different things one
is more for skincare one is more makeup be sure to check that video.
Jewellery goes into the suitcase usually I keep my jewelry in a case like this.
Since I'm an earrings kind of girl I don't really mind having them jumbled up,
but if I were to have necklaces I know that that would be very troublesome to
carry. So the goal is to keep half the suitcase empty and also to keep maybe my
carry-on case as empty as possible. For shoes I mean the shoes that I have are
not clunky but anything that's the heaviest you want to put at the bottom
of your suitcase so where the wheels are. But I also find it so gross do you ever
watch movies and then see people jump onto their bed with
their shoes on like that just completely escapes me. I don't understand why people
do that, if it's just a movie thing? I put my shoes into tote bags or plastic bags
and then I wrap them up. Immediate things that I'm putting in my carry-on includes
my camera extra batteries, my laptop is gonna be with me, my carry-on makeup bag
will be with me. I'm not going to have any books but I'm going to be
downloading all the podcasts that I want recently my friend recommended a podcast
called hidden brain which looks into the psychology behind human behavior and
what kind of things motivates us to do and act the way we do and it's I'm
addicted I have so much to catch up on so I'm gonna be listening to podcasts.
For sure snacks you know I can't live without snacks. Ok that's it that's
everything. I'm packed, and I think I'm ready to go. I'm excited to bring you
guys along with me to my Asia trip I hope you guys can stick around and find
me on social. I'll still be uploading while I'm gone so in case you were
worried about missing me huhu ~ I'll still be here but yeah I'll see you guys when
I get back bye!