When the universe is in bloom, there are dreams I whisper to you. Soft as a secret and sweet as a player, in a language only we would know. How have you been all these years?(By Annabel, April 2025) Little Updates: How have you been? I am thinking of you. I am well. This quarter,… Continue reading Those Moments…
Unstory: Like Wind
Life happens in fragments, not stories. It’s only when we decide that certain fragments should link together in a certain way and with certain transitions, a story is made. In that sense, we are the playwrights of our own stories in which we gather the materials (life’s fragments), we decide the progressions (the order of… Continue reading Unstory: Like Wind
A Little Love (from my students)
Little things make me happy.A little grin,A little spring,A little surprise,A little sunshine,A little pink and a little red,A gentle morning comes and goes, A Saturday sitting right beside,the silent symphony in your eyes,the ardent flame burns in my heart.the list goes on and on...A little something is everything I love. (by Annabel, Feb 2025)… Continue reading A Little Love (from my students)
My Ten Years
A morning light, A gentle breath,An unexpected sigh,A moment has drifted.These simple words,this time and place,this quietude when I think of you.It's in the dark,It's in the rain,It's in the silence after pain.A golden ray, A rain drop,A moment peace,A second chance?(Untitled, By @Annabel 2025) It's been a long time since I last posted something,… Continue reading My Ten Years
The Next Portal
So you want to start over? Good!There is another universe somewhere, around the corner, where the roses grow as tall as you and their thorns are as sharp as your kitchen knives. Open the back door, take a right, and follow the lead of the thorny roses. Keep going through the thickets of alternate educations,… Continue reading The Next Portal
Beyond Solitude: A Journey Lived
I need my solitude. Without it, I'm groundless.A worldly dream once took it away. We talk of presence and sharing as inspiration, but sometimes that very sophistication we are told to desire is the bringer of disaster. An incurable tumor fermented in the heart. At first, I just wanted to dance, and now I can… Continue reading Beyond Solitude: A Journey Lived
Remember Us
When yesterday speaks, I quietly sit beside you,There's spectacles in your eyes that shine the darkest sky:velvet dreams, relentless passions, and vivacious tempers,and the shapes, space, and shadows you bring into my life. It all casts upon me, a violent-sweet memory. The girl you know yesterday has flown away,radiant in nature's first green and last… Continue reading Remember Us
Spring News
Look, your eyes are full of stars,Feel, your heart longs for butterflies, The spring meadow is ripe in her verdant youth,while little daisies lure you in my new-found faith:Beauty, the spring is,Love, that you are. Spring has sprung and is knocking at our doors. What a wonderful news! The time has come for us to… Continue reading Spring News
Today, I AM With Lights
"The body is much smarter and the mind", my one dance master once remarked. I was skeptical at first, but not anymore. With more than two decades experience in dance and embodied practice, I know, without a doubt, that our bodies are sacred, magical, and magnificent in every way. Today, I am sharing my one… Continue reading Today, I AM With Lights
February Delights
Slowly and surely, we are moving towards the end of February. That means another welcoming fresh Spring is on her way to embrace us, with her magic breaths and secret dreams hiding in Iris and tulips. The days will be merrier, and merrier.... Today, I would like to first share a lovely "class advertisement" for… Continue reading February Delights
All I Wish for You (Christmas Birthday Poem to Myself)
When mountain peaks lose edges and rivers no longer flow;When time stops, days and nights melt into one tomorrow; When winter leaves quietly grow red bells and white snows;Every December, I dress in fresh roses and I celebrate you,Your tender smile is my greatest triumph in this life anew. When the Sun no longer rises and… Continue reading All I Wish for You (Christmas Birthday Poem to Myself)
December Again
Every story begins with a silent spark,Every season ends with an afterlife glow,I loved the spring roses, the summer fountain, and the autumn dews,I admired your youth beauty, your tender eyes in bewitching sonnets.To live in this story is to live in a bottomless ocean, free yet breathless;And to love you is to love a… Continue reading December Again
Grow Time
I watch yesterday walked further away since I left, along with friends I once walked side by side with. After whispers of fond adieu, I hurried to the shore, boarded on glittering dreams only bloom from afar. Ever since I have grown up, I can only keep running, Finding the new and leaving the old… Continue reading Grow Time
Once in a Red Moon
Once in a red moon, I meet you there. And when you come, You are quiet like the night garden, And tender like the white tulip glow. But the stars in your eyes bright as lions, they lead my breaths astray from earth air, then I am free! I am another breathless moon. Once in… Continue reading Once in a Red Moon
Beautiful
But there must have been a better way: You can show her that she is beautiful. Your eyes quiet as twilight adoring only her moon, Your hands like winds lifting her up from deep sea, Your presence like mountains grounding her stars. Still, She'll rid your sweet words, chivalrous tricks, then show her your devotions… Continue reading Beautiful
A Lucky Jasmine
I heard the rain dripping on lime spring meadow, I heard the school bells ringing in a familiar tune, but I couldn’t hear your voice calling my name still, Why didn’t I realise meeting you was the best thing in my life? Maybe I was busy dreaming and weeping, busy chasing the shooting stars from… Continue reading A Lucky Jasmine
The Modern Etiquette 