Carrot Tops

My Reading List 2018: let’s see how many I can achieve

For books I have read already, please visit here. For How to read more books?, please visit here. Discourses and Selected Writings: Epictetus The art of living On the shortness

Jingju at Swansea

This time, I was invited to perform at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. This was the first time I visited Wales, and the furtherest I have travelled for performance. Swansea is a nice little seas...

Affirmation Statement

From this moment on I commit 100% to my personal development and every aspect of my life. I know all the obstacles and difficulties are only temporary, in fact they are essential for me ...

Taste of Anatolia: good food doesn’t need to look perfect

Hawksmoor at Shoreditch is having a soft launch until end of March. But because we were too slow, all the places were booked out. Sad face. Never mind, but we decided to eat out today anyway...

Cotton X Bud: a love story

Before I met you, I often spent a long time staring into empty space, pondering what life is all about. Life to me was just life: ordinary, boring and repetitive. Everyday was the same: eati...

Maidstone 2017: the last Kunqu performance…

Performing Chinese opera has become our annual ritual. It is the only time of the year, we get asked by people to deliver a show. We used to do some in the summer too, yet as the funding for...

Camera Story

           I was fascinated by cameras from quite a young age. Back then, when I was still in China, owning a camera was very special. You had to be the trend setter and had a bit of m

Backpacking through Europe Part 10: Salzburg

We left Germany, all merry and jolly and belly full of sausages. Now on our trail to Vienna, but before this major stop, let's stop over at Salzburg for lunch. Salzburg is the birth place...

New Chapter, new question: Can style be learned?

Over the holiday season, I got to relax a little and caught up with some missed sleep. So as a consequence, my brain started working properly again and started asking questions. I watched se...