1. I cried over spilt milk… such a cliché thing to do, eh?! Well, it’s not the milk that I really cried over. I mean, yes I did drop a cup and cause myself and the floor to be drowned in milk, but the milk wasn’t the issue. The issue is my boxing test on Friday, October 5th.
2. At 5am this morning I was still up. I had been sitting on my couch thinking of a million and one things concerning my boxing match/test…. Everything from what key punches I should use to how the heck I’m going to keep my short hair out of my face. I tried to go to bed at 5am but after tossing and turning in my bed, I figured I should just get up and start my day. And then it hit me… the thought that both us girls competing are doing so because we both think we’ll win over the other. She wouldn’t be fighting me if she didn’t have the thought and team believing in her. And thinking this, thinking that out there there’s some girl training to kill me (not literally, of course) in the ring really hit home.
3. That thought alone was enough to send me in high gear and out the door heading to the gym. Newbie was super surprised to see me at the gym at 7am… so was I. I am by no means a morning person unless it’s my birthday or you’re offering a super delicious homemade Western breakfast.
4. Turns out my coworker, Amy, had the same desire to train early in the morning. Amy’s a pretty buff gal who’s quite tall and very pretty. Newbie joked around about the situation and says he’s convinced all girls from Canada are pretty, built like tanks and are called Amy… I take that as a compliment, for sure. Between Amy and I, we definitely were packing more muscle the men today… hehehe.
5. Work was work… always fun. In my second class of the day there’s a whole crew of my last semester students and so it’s awesome to be teaching them again. They were my pro-stars today for the listen and repeat activity in which I had created a silly dialogue between a snobbish picky eater and a super impatient water. The activity focused on intonation and so it was so hilarious to hear various students interpret the conversation differently.
6. My new favourite quote to sarcastically say in class that always makes them laugh, “Come on.. IQ upgrade please. Sank-you!” … they love it!
7. As if I wasn’t stressed enough and over exerting myself with training as it is, tonight Junior Mint informed me that I’ll have to miss work next Friday because I’m required to be in Seoul all day. Apparently they’re going to take my weight and due various formalities before my fight in the late afternoon. Junior Mint says I have to leave for Seoul at 7am… problem though, I have class from 9:20am to 1pm.
8. And with news that I might not be able to fight, my throat became all choked up. I can’t miss this fight… this is my one chance to prove myself. I remember watching Min Young’s fight. When she lost, the look on Junior Mint’s face looked as if it was he that had lost the fight. I will not make him feel like that. Junior Mint has put so much incredible effort, time and total dedication in training me. Even when I was in Busan he texted my phone and checked up on me. Sometimes I’m convinced he believes in me more than I believe in myself.
9. Trained extra hard tonight. Tonight we focused on my right upper cut and hooks. I love the right hook… that’s going to be my signature move.
10. After training I was totally exhausted… physically and mentally. As Milk Dud and I entered Sambu, there stood Hanna. I’m not one to be upset in front of people, nor am I one that deals with being upset alone and so having Milk Dud and now Hanna there was exactly what I needed. Later on I called Ki Dong and asked him to help me out with figuring out what to do with work, after which Jae Sung called me and then I talked to Seo on msn. I know things are pretty stressful for me right now and I know it’s mostly my doing but you know what, with friends that I have here, I know I'll be ok... but I want more. I want to be excellent.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Is it all it's cracked up to be?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- 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.
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