In less than 24 hours, you and I will say goodbye to this 2016. 2016 had been an amazing year for me. I have experienced many new life-events throughout this year; from the most expected to the unexpected ones, from the relaxing to the thrilling ones. I am so grateful for every bit of these 365 days. I started this year by selling...

Continue Reading

Hi guys! It's been a while! Sorry for the long hiatus as I was having my final exam back then. I finally finished all my exams and it means my term in Hong Kong is officially over... To celebrate my (kind of) hard-work throughout the semester and exams, I went to Macau with some friends🇲🇴 I was so excited to go there again,...

Continue Reading

I'm a big fan of something crispy and chewy. I love the crispy potato chips and the chewy mochi. However, when I'm craving for something crispy and chewy at the same time, it will be too much for me to eat the potato chips and mochi together. Then, what should I do? The answer is: go for EGG WAFFLE! Hong Kong people call this...

Continue Reading

If you're going to study abroad for full-time study or just for an exchange program, perhaps convenience for students in that country would be one of the factors that you take into consideration in choosing your destination university or country. In my opinion, convenience for students is necessary to support student's daily activities, whether for studying purpose or for leisure. Today I'll be...

Continue Reading

People said, when you did something for the first time, there will always be the second one. So, as I had my first hiking in Hong Kong, of course I will have the second hike😉Again, the hike  I joined was organized by HKBU's International Office. I intentionally only join the hiking activities which are organized by school. The first reason is because I realized...

Continue Reading

Hi guys! The real Autumn (or Winter?) has finally come to Hong Kong! The weather started to be very nice lately.  It's getting colder (especially in the morning) and windy that I need to put on my scarf. Daily temperature ranges from 22-27 degrees (FYI it's 17-19 today!) and it is not too humid anymore. I really love this temperature because I don't...

Continue Reading

I thought it was only yesterday when I wave my hands to my parents and friends who send me to the airport for my flight to Hong Kong. However, it is not. It's been 2 months since the day I landed in Hong Kong for the first time after 6 years, met hundreds new people from many different parts of the world and...

Continue Reading

Hi guys! Some of you might have known that my mom and brother came to visit me in Hong Kong recently🙌🏻 It was a really pleasant week to have them in town and tbh I was quite sad when they left on the last day😢 During their stay, I managed to bring them to places that I also want to go. I purposely...

Continue Reading

Hi guys! Today I list you guys 5 must BRING items when you're visiting Hong Kong. Some items can be brought from home, some others can be purchased once you arrived in Hong Kong. Whether you're going for holiday or study, this list of things will work for you! 1. Octopus card Octopus card is a contactless smart card for payment. If you've...

Continue Reading

It's a common understanding that Hong Kong people are CRAZY for Apple's products. To satisfy the market, there are 5 Apple stores in 5 different districts in Hong Kong. At first, when I heard that HK got 5 Apple stores, I was like "meh" 😶, my hometown in Indonesia also has many stores that exclusively sell Apple's products. What's so special with 5...

Continue Reading

Believe it or not, it's been a month since I arrived in Hong Kong. Time flies so fast! After this first month, I started to settle down and adapt more to this 'new' surrounding. I know that the situation of Hong Kong is not much different from Indonesia if you're talking about the weather, food and stuff, but there are still many other...

Continue Reading

In Hong Kong, I'm studying in Hong Kong Baptist University (gotta write another post about this cool university!). During our study here, all the affairs related to international students (the exchange students) will be managed after by an office called international office. They were the one who arrange our arrival pick up, orientation programme and also outing activities for us to explore Hong...

Continue Reading

Hello guys! Welcome to the second part of my Mid-Autumn Festival post (if you missed the first post, click here!). This post contains tons of beautiful picture taken by me, so be ready to indulge your vision!  Mid-Autumn Festival card given by my floor-mate in dorm. Lovely! The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on 15 September 2016. However, there are list of activities and...

Continue Reading

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, guys! 中秋节快乐! Mid-Autumn Festival is one of those festive events that being celebrated extensively by people in Hong Kong. I'm so lucky I'm able to experience this festive event in Hong Kong and in this post I'm gonna share with you the euphoria that I experienced here :) As the post is quite long... with some words and pictures, I'll...

Continue Reading

My flight to Hong Kong from Surabaya, Indonesia, should've been on 29 August 2016. However as I need to finish and submit my internship report, and as the progress of clothes packing was nil, my mom and I decided to change the date in the last minute. We postponed it to 30 August. I woke up on 30 August morning and got prepare...

Continue Reading

Hello guys, greetings to you all :) Welcome to my very first blog post in this blog (I'm literally excited to type this!) I'm Helene from Indonesia. You may be wondering what does my domain name about: le noir hair girl. Well, let me break it down for you. Le noir means black in French. Hair means.. hair in English and yeah, I believe you...

Continue Reading