What’s in my bag: Kayly Loh’s the gadget girl you’d want to travel with
Kayly Loh tells Toggle what are her travel necessities when she goes overseas to ‘Jalan Jalan’
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(Continued on next page: What are Kayly's essential gadgets?)
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Kayly's shades and speakers (left) and her handy tripod (right).
#1 Cute pouch
“This thing is very cute and assuming, right? It’s where I put all my currencies. I don’t bring my wallet when I travel, so I just bring this pouch and stash it inside [my bag]. And why I put money in such an unassuming pouch? ‘Cos people will think it’s for sanitary pads so they usually won’t steal this. It’s so puffy and it looks like something that guys wouldn’t want to touch. So this is my travel wallet.”
#2 Tech gadgets (Kindle, iPad, laptop)
“My necessities include my Kindle – I don’t read fiction books. [I’m currently] reading Tony Robbin’s book – ‘7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom’. My entire list [of books] are all self-help books (laughs). I’m very boring like that [but] I don’t usually read anything about finance and this is the first book because somebody introduced it to me. The rest are business-based or personal growth-related…
My iPad is a very, very old iPad. Why do I need it? Because I’m a person who cannot sit still. I love travelling but I hate being in the airplane – just sitting there and doing nothing really kills me, so I must be loaded with things to do. Games, books, movies – I just have to be occupied. I usually cannot sleep on flights that’s why I need this. Then I have my laptop—of course, right?—I need it ‘cos I want to do my work on the plane. I just cannot have a spare minute on the plane. I have to do something. So if this battery runs out, this battery runs out, I still have this. If there’s really nothing to do, I’ll watch in-flight entertainment movies.”
#3 Bluetooth headpiece
“I love this thing. It’s my shades, but it’s not just any other shades. It actually is a speaker (laughs). Backstory: my ear tunnel is quite small and I cannot use normal earphones. Whenever I use them it gets very painful ‘cos I have to jab it in, so I can only use headphones but they are extremely bulky. Until I saw this thing on Kickstarter, and backed it! So how it works is I just have to pair it via Bluetooth to any device I have, put it on and the sound comes out from the back and only I can hear it. Mostly I’d use it when I want to sleep or for long train rides… I usually charge it once in a few days when I travel.”
