See also “PEK ⇔ SG “Don’t forget”

Pack your phone earlier if possible. If you assume it’s impossible to forget your phone, you will realize the impossible does happen quite often 😉

— Difficult to wrap up in advance.. half ranked by importance

• phoneS+cables+5 SIMs
• local coins, keys .. leave at home
• shoes — heavy shoes in backpack, slippers on foot
• local cards: MRT, mlp badge, NTUC, ccard
• laptop  + cable + SD card
• [! = people do forget this]

— night/morning before

• minor distraction: shut down laptop to preserve battery
• reading material pack-up
• ensure no luggage is too heavy or too empty
• banking tokens .. DBS
• all stroed value cards .. movie cards
• pouch, cash pouch, wallet
• passport
• online check-in? Not so important. Still need to print boarding pass at airport.
• LG2 picking blog printout in the final 24 hour… Low ROTI
• medication
• yoga block
• roaming .. cmlink self-service

— zsms, self acceptance .. I notice a fixation on the minor items. I feel this is typical of  OCD symptoms — “If self2 refuses/forbids my repeated checking, then self1 anxiety grows.”

Tip: deal with those bposts only on last day. Be confident.

Tip: Keep a steadfast focus on the really important items

• passport,
• physical cash safety
• smartphones ..
• having enough ePay cards
• — LG2 items, half-ranked
• pills .. can buy
• [b] charging accessories .. can buy
• keep all my devices fully charged on the last day
• [b] warm clothing
• [b] reading materials
• [b] stationaries .. can buy
• [b=blackhole items that suck up infinite amount of sys2 resources]

I refuse to surrender to the perfectionist self2. Those minor items will breed imperfections, and I will embrace imperfections, as I embrace the imperfect self1.