クラゲランプの必要はない？なぜなの？

Packing carefully / stuffing haphazardly.

Today I pack. A wise man once said "to become clever you must gain something everyday, but to become wise you instead must lose something". Now, throughout my previous travelling excursions I have lost and forgotten so much I must now be the wisest wizened monk around and, as such, should seek my own advice.....

Samfucius

Samfucius say: Monkey who hurriedly packs banana, will later have no mango.

So, heeding this, instead of stuffing everything within a 1m radius into a bag, cursing the moment I realise I left my emergency mango on the bedside table... I instead aim to get everything in order with time to spare, so that in the inevitable event that I have again forgotten an important exotic fruit, I have ample time to go and get it.

What to take? or not to take....

Now that is the question. Move on Hamlet we have bigger concerns now, primarily my jellyfish lamp. My parents have deemed it "unnecessary" but I cannot imagine a reality where a bobbley floaty mood lamp would not make Japan a better place. 

Jellies :)

I've separated the rest of my packing into categories: Clothes, study, apothecary, electronics and "crap". Now, I use the term "crap" but what I really mean is "my tasteful and interesting trinkets". This includes but it not limited to; cat shaped soft toys (Pamilo), goggly eye window sucker things, Pokemon figurines and a catapult pencil. The lamp obviously too falls into "crap" and sadly I have to report after much consideration I have been forced by its need to be filled with water, to leave it at home.

So, I have started shoving everything I own into the 2 bags I am taking to Japan, steadily whittling down the amounts of things I actually need and trying to stuff what seems like an entire library into a rucksack. My sister and her boyfriend made a gallant effort to aid me in this via a check-list and a lot of squishing. Tasha's uncharacteristically furrowed eyebrows of intensity and general willingness to help, make me feel she cant wait to move back into my room.

"I'm bored Sam, why do I have to do this?"

The rest of my packing went as smoothly as shouting at clothes-tetris can go, and I am pleased to report I have managed to squish an adequate amount of "crap" into my 46kg luggage allowance. ^_^

Tardis luggage.

I'm now packed up and ready to go, with 1 week to spare, I guess i'll just sit next to my bags with an eager face for 7 days. Watch out Japan.

The catapult pencil wont be classed as a weapon will it..........