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Q: What did you HAVE TO bring to China?
I don't mean clothes and passports, I mean the unusual necessities you just couldn't live without. For me it was a cd called 'Friday Night in San Francisco' featuring the music of Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin, a picture of my family, a book called 'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibrhan, some Marmite, a lighter bought in Greece, a fake thumb used for magic tricks, a multi-plug socket, universal wireless, hair-net, dildo, some motzerella cheese, and a 'Create Your Own Classroom' handbook by Hodder and Staunton. Everything else I picked up when I got here.
So what of you?
My Wife
she gets the sh@ts if I go without her
Shining_brow:
But, Phil, if you came without her, you wouldn't actually suffer those sh@ts ;p
It's going to sound ridiculous but last time I went home (over the holidays), I brought a suitcase entirely filled with food back. Nothing that I couldn't get here necessarily, but a lot of things are infinitely cheaper back home. An Italian friend of mine does the same thing - entire suitcase full of prosciutto and Parmesan.
I bring my Sansa Fuze with a 16gb microSD full of music, about 15 books, real jeans, socks and underwear, diplomas, tools and various electronics. Oh, and the laptop.
I should start bringing food.
Besides loading up on western drugs (Advil Tylenol Cold pills Pepto etc)...An Hitachi Magic Wand...good times.
Medicines (ie, strong painkillers), my 500GB of music etc, 120gb iPod, and mostly for friends, Timtams*!
*if you have to ask, your life is truly sad.... 
Noise cancelling headphones. Makes the long ass plane ride much more bearable, and of course has their uses whilst in China as well.
I brought 2 cameras, good champagne. I should have brought my winter coat which I left at home. Guilin is same latitude as Miami right? Palm trees, trees have leafs all year, really dumb stupid me, took 2 weeks to find a coat big enough to fit me. How can it be that cold and not snow? Cold rain is just miserable, I'll take snow any day.
My laptop,..couldn't live without it! and "Imodium A-D" Anti-Diarrheal pills..
mArtiAn:
I bet that Imodium's finished already, i've not had a solid bowel movement in 8 years.
den:
I make sure to bring plenty on each trip.. I'm sure you're not alone!
