1. I so wish I could show you what waking up in my house means... hehehe. Waking up means having to cover my head and hope that Mi Nam doesn't jump on any sensitive spots... hehehe. He gets so hyper when I wake up and so today I tried to fool him by pretending I was asleep... didn't work. It's all fun and games till someone loses an eye, right?! Well, had a close call today with Mi Nam's jumping!!!
2. I've totally switched up my training and started a new routine, so today I literally busted my butt and did legs. Hongik has this super funny looking machine but today I discovered the beauty of it... it gives an awesome butt work-out... good stuff! Mind ya, it meant I spent the rest of the day walking around like I just got off a horse... hehehe!
3. Getting Hannah to do my training routine was quite hilarious and I ended up breaking a part of the machine. Thankfully it was just an inexpensive knob but it made for quite the scene as it popped off and hit some dude in the head... oh gosh.
4. Met up with Corruptive C for dinner. We headed out to that super cheap place Hannah had introduced me to. It's a popular dive where we were able to get three plates of meat, rice, cold noodles, and cider (pop) for the grand total of 8,500 won (about $8.50 CDN). Gotta love that!!!
5. Unfortunately the coffee at Coffee Bean isn't so cheap... actually, it cost more than our meal and went down twice as fast!
6. Some how, Corruptive C convinced me to meet up with a male friend of hers and head out to this guy's father's club. I'm not much of a social bug lately but I had a few hours to kill and I think Corruptive C's pretty cool, so, I went along with her plans.
7. Oh gosh... turns out Corruptive C's friend is the dude Hannah, me and her two friends ditched about a month or so back at MBar. He had approached my table, sat down and then totally took over the conversation, leaving Hannah and her friends not impressed with him. I thought he was pretty cool until he starting naming off some particular foreigners he calls friends... I on the other hand, would like to refer to them as "friendemies"... yup. Needless to say, I was super embarrassed when I saw him tonight. He totally had remembered the whole situation as if it had happened yesterday. Honestly, I'm not a bad person, I'm not a bad person at all, but I know, given his first impression of me... I looked so bad!!! Within the first 5 minutes though, the previous situation had turned into the joke of the evening and so that was cool.
8. The three of us showed up at his father's club.... and wow, what a club it was. Now, given the fact that I've lived in Toronto and worked at a club for 3 years, I'm no stranger to "stuff", in that I've seen a lot of stuff go down, but this... wow, I've NEVER seen a club like this. In short, it was a saloon club with trans genders and other "working girls".... yup, I said trans genders; men who have had an operation to become female. I tried to act cool but in reality I felt so incredibly uncomfortable there.
9. According to Korean law, strip clubs with females stripping is illegal but, considering these "women" at this club are technically men, they're allowed to strip. Now I didn't stick around to see that but I did get the full low-down on what goes on there... how much the girls make, what they do, pay ranges, "after hour service", how much cash rolls into this place every night by the truck load, etc, etc.
10. Despite the generosity and kind manners of the father, I eagerly wanted to leave. The father was nothing but sweet to us and so I knew it was kind of rude of me to leave but I felt sick. I'm not an ignorant nor sheltered person at all but this was way beyond my comfort zone. Two hours later, I left. I had a promise to meet up with Hannah and so I jumped in a cab, rushed home, scrubbed (MADLY scrubbed) all my 2000 and 1 body parts... twice, and then headed out the door again. Now, I'm not saying that Canada and America doesn't have trans genders or what not, actually, I think it's more common in our western culture but I think that stems from the fact that it's more supportive of a diverse population. But, this is Korea. Korea is SO not Canada or America and so I find it rather strange that in a country that prizes men and totally shuns gays, lesbians, and handicap people, that they would spend millions of dollars at a club supporting men who have literally chopped off their manhood to become a woman. And oh please... I can't think of anything more insulting to the female gender than a man thinking that all he has to do is chop off his yin-yang to become one of us. I honestly don't know what to make of all this; it's quite confusing and personally, it made me so sad. Here all this time, my biggest fear with men was the fear of being with a cheating man, now I add the fear of being with a man who likes this kind of... well ... CRAP!!! ... Yet another reason why being single looks SO good right now!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Are there any good, healthy-minded guys still out there?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Different strokes for different folks.
-- Author Unknown
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.
1 comment:
Amy, I'm sorry you were so upset tonight. I got your text messages but thought it was a joke. I know you are a tuff cookie and so I thought maybe you were just pulling my leg.
Don't worry too much about it Amy. Only a slim percent of guys are into that stuff. I agree with you, it's sick. I know I'm not the only guy that thinks this way.
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