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, March 30, 2007

Highlights of my Day... Friday, March 30

1. With my secret letter, that I so stressed over last night, in my pocket, I headed off to the gym for some chest training. Fitness Guy was there, looking as cute as ever. He was helping some girls train but he had called me over. I guess he had told them that I box and so he tried to get me to show my skills. I thought it was funny but then, in the corner of my eye, I spotted some of my students behind me! At first they didn’t recognize me but when they did, they instantly changed their manner and bowed to me. It was so funny but a bit awkward considering I look like a tough chick at the gym with my army hat, tank top and working the weights like the men… ha, ha, ha.
2. As I left the gym, I realized I still hadn’t given Fitness Guy the letter I wrote. So, I approached him at the front desk and tried to pass it off like I had to write it as a part of my Korean studies homework. He was so shocked that I had wrote him a Korean letter and was all smiles too. Before he had a chance to open it, I left. At the top of the stairs I turned around to glance back at him. I could see the two girls working at the front desk eagerly trying to convince him to let them see it. I’d hate to disappoint you ladies but it’s not a juicy, jam-packed sappy love letter… ha, ha, ha.
3. Apparently I have an admirer! Wow… cool! As I was about to head out the door and go to school early, the security guard stopped me and told me there was a package for me. I told him that I would get it later but he insisted that I take it now. I was kind of surprised but when I got the package, I totally understood… it was a box of sushi!!! I love sushi! There was no note attached to it, no name,… nothing. Just sushi. I asked the security guard who had brought it. He told me it was a “tall new man”, which meant he’s never seen this guy before.. ok, so that ruled out my first guess, Kim Tae. Hmm… interesting!!!
4. Showed up early for school only to walk into my first class and have no one but the cleaning ladies in it! All my students were on MT… great. Today I had two classes and two hours of office time but with one class cancelled and no students around, it left me with 4 hours to kill. I was suppose to have a physical health check (university requires all new profs to do this), but because I ate the sushi, I’ll have to do that on Monday.
5. Texted Hannah and begged her to save me from my boredom in the office. She came. The weather was incredibly beautiful today and so we went for a walk around the university campus, had coffee, checked out the hotties, and then she took me to her music studio... it was great!
6. Finally 5:30pm came around. I had managed to kill a total of 5 hours on campus and was eager to teach my last class. I was kind of disappointed though when I was greeted by only 5 students. We ended up not having class but instead walked around campus for a bit, chatting about music and fashion. Two of them had traveled over 2 ½ hours to come to my class and so I felt so bad. I was almost tempted to give them money to take the KTX home, but I didn’t.
7. Had our first official GIRLS’ NITE OUT!!! Ki Dong tried hard to let us in on our plans
but, as cute as he is, we refused. Most of my co-workers are guys but there are three of us female professors. Tamara wasn’t able to come out and so it was just Amy, Carmen (former professor) and me. We met up downtown and headed out to Mainz for some good eating. The staff there loves me and so we were hooked up with some free cider (pop) and then got a mad discount on the bill.
8. Carmen is quite the devils advocate. She’s pretty sarcastic and so I can see we’re going to have an awesome friendship!!! She’s got the retarded roommate and a Korean boyfriend of 3 years and so that made for some funny stories. Oh ya, she’s practically fluent in Korean… awesome!!! Now Amy on the other hand, she’s the same
age as me but is married and is quite the good girl… she’s super cool. I’m quite jealous of her wicked genetics though… wow! She’s got like no body fat and has quite the buff arms. I always thought I had the show-stopping ripped arms but she’s tough competition… wow! Both are super fun girls and so it made for a really funny evening.
9. I had told them that I had a Korean wedding to go to tomorrow but hadn’t a date for it and so, just for jokes, we stood outside and scoped out the hotties walking by. Some middle school boys walked by and said hi to us to Carmen yelled out, “Hey… what are you doing tomorrow at 2pm?”… it was sooooooooo funny!

10. Our last stop for the night took us to Mbar where I was caught off guard by Hannah. I had just entered the bar when Hannah spotted me and came running up to me, yelling my name at the top of her lungs. She introduced me to a table packed full of Dankook University students. One of the guys there was quite fluent in English and so he joined us at our table. We thought it was cool at first and Carmen was hoping he’d be my date for tomorrow but he was all about Amy. That’s cool… or so we thought until he got mad at Amy when she told him she was married… ha, ha, ha. What a punk! Hannah was at the next table throwing popcorn at me and so I jumped in on that. Anything was better than having to deal with punk boy and his rude manners. Despite Punk boy, our first Girls' Nite was a success. We're hoping to have a wilder night next time though and scrap the whole excess eating... ha, ha, ha!... never mind about that last comment, long story.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who brought me sushi?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Girls just want to have fun.
-- Cindy Lauper

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