1. I am officially the Scrooge of Mondays… I can’t stand Mondays. In addition to having three 2 hour long classes and then two hours of language exchange, Mondays leave me exhausted and with just enough energy to hit the weights. No boxing on today :(
2. I have officially given my worst lecture yet… oh gosh. I was totally prepared for class with a list of activities and what not in my head but my sports students (first period of the day) seemed half dead. Their energy level was in the minus numbers and so I ended up answering my own questions… isn’t that the first sign of insanity?!
3. The other day I got a phone call from one of my former students at Eumbong Middle School, Vanessa. She had competed and won a scholarship to go study in America and so in addition to asking me where exactly she should go, she also asked me to write a letter of recommendation.
4. I feel so adult-like now… writing a letter of recommendation, cool! Milk Dud and most of my friends are convinced I’m a 15 year old girl stuck in a 27 year old’s body… they’re probably right too… hehehe. But writing this letter, wow… I feel so honoured. I mean, out of all the people she could have got to written it on her behalf, she asked me. Cool… very cool.
5. This Friday I’m going to Busan and so I’ve been stressing over what to do with Mi Nam. My options were as follows… a. leave him at the pet care shop, or b. find someone to take care of him. I contemplated option a cause it was super easy but I ruled it out cause I fear it’ll spook Mi Nam and really stress him out. So I am going for option b.
6. One problem… WHO could I trust and ask to look after him. I mean, I do have lots of friends but I’m very picky with who I let in my house… even more picky when it comes to them coming in my house when I’m not here! So, I decided to ask Milk Dud to look after him… hehehe. At first he was hesitant but I bribed him by telling him I'd give him some food and that was what signed the deal.. hehehe. He's just like Mi Nam... lead by his stomach. Mi Nam isn’t much of a social boy but he really does like Milk Dud and Milk Dud has kind of stepped up as an adopted dad. They’ve definitely bonded… hehehe.
7. After 5 months of purposely ignoring each other and trying to accept that we’re no longer friends, Kim Tae (no longer to be referred to as Drama Boy) and I met up. Honestly I was so nervous to see him. I came down the elevator and there he was. The first thing that came out of his mouth was, “Wow, you seem so much prettier than before”, and with that I blushed, hid my face and then gave him a good slap across the shoulder. He and I were never a couple but it really felt like we were high school sweethearts reuniting after years of being away from each other. He seemed so much taller and more confident. Turns out his confidence comes from the fact that he now has a girlfriend.
8. I was kind of weird hearing that he had a girlfriend. Apparently she knows all about me… and hates me too, that I’m sure of. Great.
9. I was really happy to see Kim Tae again. I did really miss him a lot and so I think it’s super cool that I have Kim Tae and Byung Hyuk again. Having said this though, I really wanted to say a lot to Kim Tae but I didn’t know how to say it. I figured I’d just stay quiet but then I broke down when he said he was sad he lost two good friends, me and Pretty Boy. At that point I spilled my beans and told him that he never lost two friends. Pretty Boy never cared about Kim Tae and I know this because of how he use to get so mad at me whenever I mentioned Kim Tae’s name. I remember once I cried and he even went so far as to laugh at me and call me stupid for caring so much about petty people. Kim Tae and Byung Hyuk were never petty people to me.
10. Looking back at the situation, it’s easy now to see where I went wrong… we all went wrong, but Kim Tae hit the nail on the head when he said, “Past is past”. Wow… Kim Tae and Byung Hyuk are back… I love those dudes!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How far would you go for a friend?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
--Henry David Thoreau
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.
2 comments:
friends are illusions, are there is are people you love...
i would die for someone i love...
was your chestpain ever diagnosed?
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