Things We Do

Remember YBC from 2 years ago, where Aina got her first ballet-related trophy? This year, Aina is back doing Cheng Ballet’s YBC, as a performer. Last year, she was there…

So, this is the update from the the first Talisman post. It was exactly three months after the very first practice, and I thought it was a perfect time to…

After more than one year of practicing and competing with Silver Fairy variation, Aina finally moved on and learned a new variation: Talisman! She was very happy to get this variation to…

I personally think, The Nutcracker this year was the best end-of-year show by the Cheng Ballet Academy that I have ever watched. The production was pretty crazy: the never-ending snow-cutting…

After I finished all the dolls I had to make, I brought it to meet with the rest of the dolls made by Naomi-san and Atsuko-san. We made in total…

Last week, I was asked to help out making small wooden dolls for Cheng Ballet Academy‘s Nutcracker performance decoration. Of course I accepted the challange… I loooove doing things like…

After I finished Aina’s first crocheted pointe shoe bag, I made a few other bags and pouches before starting to take orders, like the Hana’s and Miko’s bag. I made…

Last night, Luki took me to my first ever acroyoga class, at Yoga Haven with Lalitha and Mark. I’ve done some flying thing with Mia before, but it was mostly for…

Tokyo was under a typhoon-scare today. Yesterday, the weather forecast said that there would be heavy thunderstorms all day… We were kinda worried that we may have to cancel our…

On the second day of our stay in Tokyo, the plan was to have Aina join one of Kumi sensei’s morning ballet classes. Kumi sensei is a family friend. Ari…

This morning, we were much less stressed out than the first competition. We were more relaxed and less high strung. My make up for her went much better than last…

Today was the first competition day: the Japan Ballet Competition 2017, in Fukuoka. We planned to leave the hotel at 9:30am, so we had to get up a bit earlier…