Items to bring - Check List

The following are the check list for items you should bring in your luggage.

1)Documents ( very important!)

• Passport (original copy in your hand carry, photocopied copy in your check in luggage for spare.)
• Unconditional Offer Letter provide by your university
• Valid Malaysia driving license (in case you plan to rent a car and drive for trip with friends)
• Malaysia IC, International Student Identity Card-ISIC ( for identity verification to enter some entertainment places and ISIC can give you some privilege like discounts in airport restaurants and some other places.)
• Birth Cert photocopied (in case you lost your passport)
• Passport size photos
• Bank Draft for own living expenses and university tuition fees. (take a photograph or copy down the serial number of the bank draft and send it to your own e-mail or relatives, in case you lost your bank draft, you will need the serial number for report.)
• ----is good to photocopied all the credit cards, bank cards and other important cards you bring along and keep one copied with you. in case you lost your cards, the photocopies might help you in providing the cards details to bank. At the same times, jot down all the Emergency Help Hotline for the credit cards Bank you are using. They will have UK Help Center phone numbers. check with your banks.

2) Digital Devices

• Laptop (jot down your laptop serial number for emergency, eg: stolen/lost)
• Camera
• External Harddisc
• 2 pin plug adapter for Europe travel use as Europe using 2 pin port.UK is using 3pin plug, exactly the same with Malaysia (2 pin plug adapter can be found in Marks & Spencer and other shops in UK too, just go to the travel goods department, but Malaysia selling cheaper.)
• ----do not have to bring extension plug because most the rooms have minimum 4wall plugs.
• ---- for computer software, please uninstall your pirated software before enter the UK border. As there are chances that the custum officer will randomly pick and check on the software licensing. keep the installer in your external harddisc and make it hidden.

3) Stationaries (expensive in UK)

• Pens
• A4 Papers
• ----and any others stationaries you normally use for studies. Bring according to your normal one semester usage.

4) Clothing

• Jacket (although it is summer, but it doesn't looks like summer actually. the weather is around 18c-22c during day time, 13c-17c during night time and UK have very strong wind.)
• Pyjamas
• Leisure wear like jeans, shorts and tshirts
• Formal wear for presentation
• Undergarments
• shoes (sports and formal)
• ---- do not bring too much clothes! because normally people will buy here, seriously dnt bring too much. else you gonna cry when you pack your luggage before going back.)

5) Health

• Medicine (flu, cough, headache, gastric and etc)
• Chinese Oil
• Supplements
• yoko-yoko, Salonpas, Plaster
• Travel sickness medicine ( for those who have Motion Sickness, which mean will faint in moving vehicles.)

6) Personal Care

• Hair Gel
• toothpaste and toothbrush (not cheap in UK)
• hand cream & lotion (weather is dry in UK, seriously.)
• nail cutter (not cheap in UK)
• Hair Dryer
• Bath Towel
• Clothes hanger (bring some, you can request to have the hangers when you buy clothes from Primark.)
• small tissue packs ( dnt have to bring too many packs because most of the toilets have toilet papers, bring some for own use, its quite expensive buying in UK.)
• Cotton wool and cotton buds (not cheap)
• Umbrella ( a MUST! UK rain quite frequently, and please buy a better quality umbrella, because the wind here is CRAZY!)
• ---- personal care above and shampoos those toiletries are not expensive in the UK (except toothpaste toothbrush and nail cutter), so you can buy them over here so that it wont use up your luggage weight allowances. Just prepare a set of travel pack of them so that you can use it before you manage to go out for groceries and toiletries shopping.

7) Food

• Herbal soup packets
• Curry paste
• Instant Noodle
• Chicken Cube
• Milo (if you are Milo lover, please bring because its very rare and expensive over here, not Milo lover, you can substitute with chocolate powder in the UK.)
• ---- do not bring cookies or biscuits, you have even more choices here.
• ----do not bring cutlery like frying pan, cups and etc. Hostel provide one set for each students. bring chopsticks, if you don't feel like eat instant noodles with fox. =]
• ----you can bring your favorite cooking materials except seafood and raw food. But most of the Chinese food spices and materials you can get it here from Oriental Groceries Shops. but the price might be higher than Malaysia.