1. The pain of last night continues!!! Woke up only to discover that last night I had apparently lost my favourite lip gloss! Must…have… lip…gloss! I’m an addict…ㅋㅋㅋ.
2. Had lunch at TGIF where I’m always amused at how the waitresses make me feel like a local celebrity…ㅋㅋㅋ.
3. My newest addiction (besides lipgloss… which has been a long time addiction for me) are rice ball donuts. It’s a deep fried ball of rice that’s soft and filled with red bean paste. Yummy!
4. Despite my unlikely ness towards Itaewon, I found myself venturing out there again today to go see a jacket I spotted last night.
5. Itaewon is always an “interesting” place to visit. I only come here twice a year max and so today was my second and last visit for the year. Itaewon is definitely not real Korea though but instead is a totally Americanized city filled with your local rap star wannabe’s, houchie mamas, and random geeky Western men coupling off with beautiful Korean women.
6. Opted out for the original jacket I saw and instead, fell in love with this fox-fur, lamb-skin leather jacket. It was beautiful but way too pricy for me.
7. Between the storekeeper bombarding me with flattery and Ryan bargaining for a discount, I didn’t know what was going on. I stood there, smiled, gave it my best effort at using my Korean shopping dialogue and added the occasional comment here and there. Ended up buying the jacket for 2/3rds the original price. Cool!
8. Despite now feeling desperately poor (ㅋㅋㅋ) I felt so incredibly beautiful in my new coat, which I should mention here, was the envy of many passer-byers.ㅋㅋㅋ
8. Got convinced (partly nagged, actually) to go for supper with Shin Woo, his fiancée, Woon Gyu, and Ryan. Dinner consisted of deep-fried fish, sushi, and sautéed fish… it was too fishy for me and so they offered me chicken salad… that had fish in it. I ate one fish head and that was enough for me!
9. Well, what do you know?! Ryan and I took the bus back to Cheonan and this time we took it together (as oppose to last time… we won’t go there!!!)
10. Ryan’s turned into quite the studious student. I feel asleep on the couch and woke up around 3am to find him still studying English. Impressive. I hope my Korean will be as good as his English one day!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do you want to touch it?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
-- Woody Allen
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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