1. Spent yet more of my weekend sitting on the floor with Mi Nam, trying to mark part B of the midterms... definitely not fun, nor is it the way I wanted to spend my weekend.
2. Met up with Oppa, Eun Young and Chan Won for dinner. I've never really talked to Chan Won before but I knew of him. He's the other squash coach at my gym who, as it turns out, was quite familiar with who I am... interesting.
4. I've been super dedicated to my diet, well, with the exception of the Khan food last night (which I SO faught off as long as I could... hehehe) but tonight we headed out for tak galbi... cheese tak galbi!!! I knew I was going to face mad temptation... MAD temptation. It's right up there with ice cream!!! I love cheese tak galbi!
4. Apparently one of the tak galbi ladies is quite an admirer of me... or so Oppa says. Personally, I see nothing flattering about a woman who watches me eat from the corner of her eye, is continually caught starring at me, who leans in to listen to me talk Korean to my friends, and who's quick to interrupt my stories with random comments. Sorry, but in Canada we'd call her a freak... flat out, freak! For some reason, she felt the need to tell the three guys I was there with, that I ALWAYS come here with guys. She said I come with "new guys" every time.... ya, ok. So of course I came off looking like quite the playgirl. She, however, got away scott-free, looking like the innocent girl as supposed to the nosey woman I consider her to be. The guys all laughed and thought it was cute as I tried to recover myself by telling them that the guys I come here with are my buddies from the gym or from my boxing club. If I KNEW ANY FEMALE BOXER at my club, I'd bring her here, but, I only know Min Young and well, since her last fight, I haven't seen much of her. Moreover, my buddies from the gym are the trainers and, again, IF I KNEW ANY FEMALE TRAINER (or even a girl who lifted weights), I'd bring her here... but I don't know such a girl.
5. Dinner turned into tea time which then turned into "let's tease Amy time". They thought it was soooooo funny to stir up trouble and hint that Chan Won and I should hook up. Now don't get me wrong, Chan Won is an awesome guy who's super sweet and very passionate about sports but, right now, I just want to do my own thing.
6. Tea time turned into Khan time. Yup, off to Khan we went... for my second night in a row. As we entered Khan we were greeted by the Khan Hyun Bin who, now that he knows that I think he's a hottie, was all eager to help me out with my boots. We sat down and then the young waiter spun around to wave at me. As if I wasn't already looking like quite the playgirl, I really didn't need any more dudes acknowledging me and saying hi. Mind ya, the young waiter was all buddy-buddy with me now cause last night Jae Min was kind of rude to him and so I went back later on to apologize to him.
7. So there we sat. Oppa had to go home but the three of us stayed and chatted. We got into quite the discussion about relationships. Turns out Chan Won broke up with the love of his life about a month ago. He had been planning to marry her.... dang! I know all too well what that feels like.
8. Then came the serious question, would you stay forever in Korea for a man you loved? Hmmm.... yes, been there, done that, but would I do it again?... I don't know. Love is no longer a top priority of mine. I've had what I think will be my greatest love and so I consider myself blessed because I know some people will never experience real love. But, that love is done with. Maybe this means my turn is over, maybe not... I don't know and right now I really don't care. All I know is I have a different love in my life right now, my love for boxing. Those butterflies I use to get every time I saw Byung Ryang and how I use to constantly daydream of him, write his name over and over on my paper and rush home to see him, it's all over. Now I get those butterflies for boxing, I've got boxing running through my mind all the time, I imagine my face on those boxing posters plastered on the club walls, I rush home so that I can make sure my boxing wraps and gear are ready, and I study Korean terms that I need for my training.
9. For the most part, many of my friends are convinced I'm 27 going on 12 cause I like to do silly, retarded things. I occasionally play with my food, I still listen to Raffie (my favorite song of his being "Banana Phone"), I still read Shel Silverstein poems, and I guess I just act really silly. Well, turns out I'm not the only one who is like this... hehehe. Tonight as Chan Won and Eun Young walked me to my apartment door, Chan Won yelled out "run" as he rung the doorbell of one of my random neighbours... oh my gosh!!! I was wearing stiletto boots, not to mention, I live directly across the courtyard from her and so she's going to see where I live. Needless to say though, I ran. I dashed down the hall laughing my head off but took shelter in the stairwell as supposed to going to my door. Yup... Chan Won's silly stunt definitely put him in my good books and so tonight, he and Young Eun became the newest members of my K-Crew.
10. No sooner had I finally sat down to plan my lesson but I was interrupted... by Seo. He had asked to talk to me for 10 minutes. Well, 10 minutes turned into almost 2 hours on msn. He's convinced he must have me. Wow... he's super intense and that's all I have to say about that issue.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who said I had to grow up?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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