Happy Lunar New Year! I didn’t get to see any dragon dances or fireworks, though I did hear them from my flat. They went on for 23 minutes. I did capture the beautiful decorations on Lee Tung Avenue, though. They look so much more beautiful at night. I am so happy about how the photo […] The post Chinese New Year 2024 appeared first on A Deecoded Life ..read more

My friend May randomly discovered a really affordable hair salon all the way at Yuen Long called JT Hair Salon. She likes their service and price, so when she said she was going back to get her hair colour redone, I asked to join her. We did it the Sunday just before Chinese New Year, […] The post New Year, New Hair Colour @ JT Hair Salon appeared first on A Deecoded Life ..read more

Kes and her family were in Hong Kong to watch Messi play football over the weekend, so we had lunch on Saturday before they watched him. They were not able to buy tickets to the actual game, but just to the practice. They wanted to meet up at Causeway Bay, so I asked some friends […] The post Kes in HK: Lua appeared first on A Deecoded Life ..read more

My friend Ashley was craving for samgyupsal, so she, May, Precious and I had dinner at Myung Ga Korean Restaurant at the 27th floor of iSquare in Tsim Sha Tsui on Friday night. I thought I would get lost when trying to find it, but the mall was directly outside the MTR exit R. We […] The post Myung Ga Korean Restaurant and Eyebar appeared first on A Deecoded Life ..read more

When I was a student, one of the highlights of my life was shopping for school supplies at a shop called Golden Bell before every start of a school term. Maybe that’s why until now, I get weirdly happy whenever I find myself in a stationery supply store or bookstore. That’s where I found myself […] The post End of a Pen Era? appeared first on A Deecoded Life ..read more

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 […] The post Weirdly Warm Winter appeared first on A Deecoded Life ..read more

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 […] The post Love Stories are a Topic for the Young appeared first on A Deecoded Life ..read more

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 […] The post Ashley’s Birthday @ Upper House & Salisterra appeared first on A Deecoded Life ..read more

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 […] The post New Year’s Day @ Mong Kok appeared first on A Deecoded Life ..read more

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 […] The post Noche Buena Hotpot @ Coucou appeared first on A Deecoded Life ..read more