The past few weeks, everyone in Hong Kong has been complaining about how weirdly warm this winter has been. I read that this was because of El Niño. El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a climate phenomenon that exhibits irregular periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean. It affects […]
Mania the Abba Tribute & AIA Carnival
Beulah invited Ashley and me to watch Mania: the Abba Tribute Concert last Saturday. Originally from London’s West End, they did a few shows at the big top for the AIA Carnival. This tribute takes you back in time by recreating one of the world’s finest pop groups in a live stage performance. This highly […]
Love Stories are a Topic for the Young
Recently, my friend May shared a reel made by Justine Luzares that made her feel kilig (giddy). Her sharing about feeling kilig made me realize something. When you make new friends as an older person, you don’t really talk about love lives anymore. This isn’t the first time I realized this, actually. I had this […]
Is it Bad That I Look Young?
“My boyfriend can’t believe that you’re over 40,” my friend told me recently. Apparently he could believe it about our other friend, but not me. This isn’t surprising to me. I’ve been getting the exact same reaction from many people who met me for the first time. My reaction was always to be flattered. I […]
Ashley’s Birthday @ Upper House & Salisterra
We had dinner to celebrate Ashley’s birthday at Upper House, a restaurant at Pacific Place in Admiralty. It was difficult to figure out where it was! Ashley had to walk outside the restaurant and fetch me near the lift. 😅 May and Beulah arrived soon after, and we all had steak. Ashley was excited to […]
New Year’s Day @ Mong Kok
On New Year’s Day, I met up with my friends Beulah, May, and Mico for brunch at a Japanese restaurant called Shinko in Mong Kok. Beulah’s boyfriend Pax and his sister Pamela were here for the holidays, so they joined us. There was a funny moment when both Mico and Pax (who is based in […]
New Year’s Eve 2024 Junk Boat Party
I welcomed 2024 on a junk boat to watch Hong Kong’s first proper new year fireworks since Covid happened. We just paid for the boat rental (350 hkd each) and brought our own food and drinks, so it was way cheaper than others (apparently in Klook they sold for as much as 1000 hkd), which […]
2023 Highlights
2023 was the year of revenge travel and reunions for me! I did a lot of stuff inside Hong Kong, too, including events I held as an official Girl Gone International host.
Noche Buena Hotpot @ Coucou
For Christmas eve, my friend Beulah invited me to hotpot noche buena at Coucou with her boyfriend Pax and his sister Pamela, who were both on vacation here. We enjoyed the food and the conversation. We then to Beulah’s flat for Christmas salubong. We drank wine with gold flakes, played a couple rounds of Exploding […]
Kes in HK: Pacific Place
My friend Kes was on vacation in Hong Kong with her family and in-laws, but she found time to meet up with me on Christmas eve afternoon. We went to Pacific Place because she wanted to check out Goyard, and it worked for me because it’s walking distance from my place. After shopping and taking […]