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.

Friday, December 01, 2006

Highlights of my Day... Friday, December 1

1. Woke up with only 7 minutes to wash my face, get dressed, gather my school stuff, brush my teeth, run out the door, and buy choco pies at the local store before Mr. PE Teacher picks me up! Well… I did it all in ten minutes and so I was quite impressed with myself!
2. Bryan in my elementary grade 5 class really pushed my buttons today. He reminds me of my brother Bobby-B; very intelligent but highly underestimated due to the front he puts up. I try super hard to give this little guy slack but he acts like such a punk sometimes. I understand that both his parents left him and so he’s a lost boy, but, he really needs to control himself. By the end of free time today, he had caused 5 girls to cry.
3. Am convinced God has placed those grade 5 girls in that class to keep me sane! Sometimes those boys are too much to handle but the girls are definitely a blessing from God.
4. Yesterday I had lost my earring. Mr. Jo claimed that if he found it I’d have to go to a nightclub with him. Ms. Lai approached me today and wanted a prize too. I told her I’d treat her to supper if she found my earring. So…. supper is on me Monday! ㅋㅋㅋ. .. however, now I’m treating Mrs. Cheung, Mr. Jo, and Ms. Lai to dinner. They all agreed to go to Kimbab Nala, which, if you know anything about that restaurant, it’s like the McDonalds of Korean food…ㅋㅋㅋ.
5. Found myself venting to my brother and then had to laugh. When we were kids we use to hate each other. He use to chase me around with a baseball bat but now apparently the tables have turned and so I find myself spilling my beans to him. Mom you were right… we would eventually learn to love each other.
6. Day three of my vow of silence and I’m dying to shake some sense into that boy!
7. Well tonight was a bust! It started off with me leaving late and forgetting my ID and make-up back in Cheonan. Gangster boy cancelled on me and so I did a stupid move by calling up Trouble Boy (thinking he had changed since the last drama). Ended up getting into a big argument with Trouble Boy. It was about Korean men and Philipinno Men (of course I was pro-Korean). My English university professor always told me that as long as you backed up your claim with sufficient reasoning, you could never be wrong with personal opinion. Personal opinion is just that, an opinion. It’s not fact. Trouble Boy’s opinion however was based on jealously though as suppose to the lame points he claimed it was based on. He and I both know he’s still struggling with the notion that I’d never date him. He claims to be in love with me but he is clearly misreading infatuation for love. Build a bridge and get over it already!!!... please! You’re how old?!

8. Holy snow batman! Wow.. it snowed tonight and I'm not lying when I say the snow flakes were more like chunks of snow!
9. After listening to Trouble Boy’s ranting and raving for too long, I decided I had enough. This was not how I was going to spend my Friday night, listening to some pathetic “woo-is-me” whining! So, I left and searched out other people. Meet up with Tin Grin. Turns out his cousin is Darnell… some of you may remember the big fall out I had with him some months ago. Well there I sat and low and behold Darnell sits down next to me. We ignored bringing up the past and instead chatted about good times.

10. Turns out Darnell has changed a lot since I last saw him…. for the worst. At one point I looked at him and seriously questioned who the heck he really was. Honestly, he’s quite the punk now and so with this realization, I excused myself to go to the bathroom but instead, walked out the front door.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How come drama always finds me?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The worst feeling in the world is to love and hate a person all in the same second.
-- Kaitlyn

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