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.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, January 30

1. After a year of waiting, I finally got to see my brother Troy. He showed up early and with his daughter Elizabeth. She's now 1 years old and I've only seen her twice now. It was so cool to see how much she's grown. She's no longer a little butterball and instead, is now a little walking, talking, smiling person.
2. Definitely got camera-happy with Elizabeth. It's kind of sad though, I only get to see her once a year and so that sucks.... for both of us.
3. Packed up my bags and headed off to Toronto to stay with my old roomate, Alish. Turns out she gave up my house and moved across the courtyard to another apartment. That was cool for me cause that meant I didn't have to face the akwardness of being a guest in my own place.
4. Hit my old gym and my friend, Fatima, at the front desk hooked me up with a free membership, sweet! Franky was all hugs when he saw me but besides Fatima and Franky, all the faces look new to me.
5. Checked out the Eatons Center for some shopping. Scored a huge deal on a Casio digita camera and I was all smiles. I was smiling to everyone and especially the Koreans in the mall. I may not be in Korea right now but I feel drawn to Korean people here. I must have chatted to every Korean in the mall today...ha, ha, ha.
6. While at the Eatons Center, I was approached by some random dude who blurted out "Girl, you've got style" when I walked by. I guess I've been in Korea too long cause I'm not really use to guys being so forward with me or approaching me like that. I stopped to talk to him. His name is Chris.
7. Turns out Chris is this big-wig promotor and he was running the after party for the Justin Timberlake concert. We chatted and shopped together for the rest of the afternoon and then he picked me up later for the party.
8. At the party, it was clear Chris was all about me but I was definitely not into him. I was cool with just hanging out but he was more like hanging off me. It was getting quite annoying and it was killing the scene for me.
9. That's when I met Kobe. He was this cute little Asian dude who was dancing up a storm and belting out the lyrics to every song. It was obvious he was more of my style and so I mingled with him. Chris wasn't impressed. I personally found it funny that Chris has laid "dibs" on me but instead of worrying about it, I let him be like a girl, get all ticked off and leave. Bye Chris.
10. Spent the rest of the evening with Kobe and his two buddies, Steve (aka Pook-a-roo) and Mike and it was highly entertaining. Kobe continued to humor me with his serenading (singing... ?), Steve bathed himself in his drink (literally) and was quite the backseat comic, and as for Mike, he was trying to tame Steve. Oh, and I especially liked it when Steve hugged that crazy woman who stoped to sing for us in the street. I personally prefer Kobie's singing though...ha, ha, ha.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's up with these Western guys?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Women are God's masterpiece.
-- Chris

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