1. Today my students started their midterms and I honestly think I was more nervous than them. But, in my eagerness and anticipation to get the test started, I went to the wrong class. I started writing the instructions on the board and then I turned around and realized I had NO idea who these students were... ha, ha, ha.
2. My midterm for my students was in a form of a one-on-one interview and so they were so nervous. It was actually so cute. Some tried to bribe me with chocolate, others brought banana milk, while some flat out told me that they loved me... ha, ha, ha.
3. Wore my new shirt to school today and got called "s-line" by some of my students... ha, ha, ha. Koreans love "s-line" (it refers to a woman's body line) and I was loving the fact that they were calling me that! Lately I've been kicking my butt at training... running 21 flights of stairs in the morning and then pushing the weights, but I've been really cutting back on munchies. My biggest dieting trick involves keeping limited foods in my house, drinking tons of water before bedtime (flushes my system) and drinking cider (pop) when I eat out. I don't like pop but the carbonation from the cider makes me feel full faster and so I eat less. I tend to ignore that "I am full" trigger but the cider helps... silly, I know but it works.
4. Visited Mrs. Kim and Sue tonight. Turns out tonight is Mrs and Mr. Kim's 9th wedding anniversary... congrats! She told me that her and her husband both agreed to get "couple tattoos" How appropriate... What better way to say "I love you" than inflicting your loved one to pain, how ironic, isn't that what love's all about after all... pain and tolerance?! Just joking. I'm just a bit skeptical about love lately, that's all. I wish them nothing but the best though. They're an awesome couple and I can only wish to have what they have.
5. Mrs. Kim and I had a great heart-to-heart talk and she totally hit the nail on the head... no one has the right to rob you of your happiness. What's life with out happiness and love?! So, on that note, I wrote an email to Kim Tae. It was my last attempt at trying to extend any kind of friendship to him. I miss him as my friend but I give up on him.... he's on his own now because HE chose this route.
6. Yesterday I was excited to discover a tiny run-down shop in Seoul that sells National Geographic magazines... my favourite!!! I quickly browsed through the various additions and then bought one. Today I got a chance to sit down and read it and it felt so good to read something in English that wasn't a ESL teaching resource for once.
7. The main article was titled, "Love -- The Chemical Reaction". It was quite interesting to read how they tried to explain love, particularly why we love the person we love. It talked about love on the bases of sciences..... the brain and the particulars of its' chemical components. The researchers did various tests on "love-struck" individuals, including putting them in a MRI machine and what they found was that love and obsessive-compulsive disorder have a very similar chemical profile... how crazy is that, literally!
8. Other psychologists, like Thomas Lewis, theorized that we love whom we love not so much because of the future we hope to build but because of the past we hope to reclaim. He claimed love is reactive, not proactive. It arches us backward, which may be why a certain person just "feels right" when in reality this person's smell, touch, look or whatnot activates buried memories.
9. I totally agree Mr. Lewis and Freud's hypothesis. And so this got me thinking about the kinds of guys I dated in the past and how they were so different from the guys who became my boyfriends. I've only had 4 relationships: Kenny, Pete, Paulo, and Ryan. Now I don't know what the heck I was thinking with Kenny, mind ya, he was my first boyfriend and so I didn't really know what kind of guy I liked. Anyways, I sat down today and tried to think of what they all (minus Kenny) had in common. Here's what I came up with:
They were all...
.... easy-going
.... tend to be on the shy side
.... sensitive
.... Jacks of all trades
.... funny (silly)
.... their native language wasn't English
.... had great manners
10. It was clear that the guys I dated and the dudes that became my boyfriend were so different. The guys I dated tended to be very out-going, loud, and social butterflies. They were like the male version of me. But, my ex's, on the other hand, they were my opposites. It was interesting to note this but what was more interesting was to realize that all those characteristics I listed off about my ex's were that of my father! How weird is that?!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How important is friendship to you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
-- Jane Austen
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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Oh my goodness!!! You know about that father theory, right?
Some guy--can't remember his name--Harvey somebody who was on Oprah said we look for someone who has the same qualities as our fathers (or in men's cases as their mothers). Sometimes my husband will do something that SO reminds me of my father's behavior--I get scared because I did not have a good relationship with my father. So weird.
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