This week, I turned 30! Exactly a year ago, after long walks on my own along the Seine in Paris during the summer, I set three different goals for myself before turning 30 (which ended up being four). One of them was to find the courage to quit the Paris Opera Ballet. Now, I feel... Continue Reading →
After my first ballet-free summer in twenty-two years, I have just finished my very first week of work without ballet, running my wealth management firm, Wing Patrimoine. To be honest, I felt a little pressure during the summer, thinking about all the work and the clients waiting for me, and about all the projects I... Continue Reading →
In the past fifteen years, by the end of August, I would already be back in Paris, or preparing for my new season, or the season would have started already and I would have been back in the studios for ballet classes, and perhaps my first rehearsals. But this time, I don't have to go... Continue Reading →
I’m writing this at the departure gate for Paris, at Hong Kong International Airport, after a little under two weeks back home. I flew in to celebrate the 65th anniversary of my ballet school—the Jean M. Wong School of Ballet—a place that shaped not only my ballet technique but much of who I am on... Continue Reading →
A ballet career is intense and deeply demanding. While caught up in the whirlwind of rehearsals and performances at the Opera, we often operate in a kind of survival mode — with little mental space to think, and even less energy to move forward on anything outside of the stage. The unexpected downtime from my... Continue Reading →
After 18 performances of Sylvia and around 20 tax declarations completed for my clients, this trip to Strasbourg with my family feels especially rewarding. The last time I visited Strasbourg was 14 years ago, with my host family. I still remember discovering the city for the first time—its charming half-timbered houses surrounded by golden autumn... Continue Reading →
Life in a theatre is always changing. I thought I had finished all my Bluebird performances, but one day during a rehearsal of Sylvia at the Opéra Garnier, I saw a member of the direction walking straight towards me in the Petipa studio, looking a little panicked. They told me: “You have to go to the Lifar studio... Continue Reading →
Back in Paris, my last trip in Barcelonnette really motivated me to start my driving lessons. It turns out to be a perfect time to learn driving here. Paris is eerily quiet, with very few cars and only a few people on the streets (the Parisians have all left the French capital for holiday). The... Continue Reading →
Since living in Paris, I have been told, by different people, how much they hate the stressful and busy Parisian life, which I did not understand at first. Having lived in Hong Kong until 14 years old, Paris is no where near Hong Kong in terms of stress and business. However, this summer, because going... Continue Reading →
This weekend's weather in Paris is still unusually pleasant. I am entering my 10th year in France and in the past 9 years, I have never had a 28-degrees and very sunny weather in September. Normally by the end of August, we would already feel that summer is leaving and the weather slowly gets windier... Continue Reading →
Tale of Chun 