1. Q thought it funny when I woke up and called him to tell him my pillow was splattered with cho-pee... literal translation "nose blood". I have no idea on what I had been dreaming about but he joked, saying that I think about boxing too much... maybe.
2. On account that I had a pillow to clean up and really didn't want to deal with the curse of the walking ajjumas, I skipped my morning run and decided to go running later on in the evening.
3. My once secret admirer at my boxing club is slowly but surely gaining confidence and isn't so secretive anymore. Before, his admiration was only visible with his random glances at me, blushing around me, and asking Junior Mint questions about me. Today, he got daring... he clearly winked at me.
4. I was in the ring doing pad work with Junior Mint when he winked at me and well, it totally caught me off guard. He had been watching me train from the ring side when I looked at him and he winked, causing me to kind of step back and I ended up messing up... I forgot to dodge Junior Mint's left hook and ending up taking it in the side of the head... ouch!!!
5. Junior Mint thought he'd give me some motivation to help me with my body shots and so he called my not-so-secret admirer into the ring and told me to have a go at him... oh gosh. And so, he stood there while I did a round of non-stop body shots on him. "That's for winking at me... and that's for the punch to my head I took cause of you!" I thought to myself.
6. Many of us, Junior Mint included, aren't really expecting me to have a fair fight on February 23rd. This is Korea and well, as much as I love it, I know (and THEY know), there's a bias at play. They have a love-hate relationship with foreigners, or so it seems... or the "lying wide-eyes" as they occasionally call us foreigners. Having said that, Junior Mint is worried about this. I know my defense is still weak but my endurance is high, my punches are strong, and my left hook is my signature move. Junior Mint advised me today to aim for a knock-out, saying that the judges can't be bias on a knock-out. A knock-out is a knock-out... there's no way around it. And so, today, we worked mainly on my hooks.
7. No sooner had I returned home, showered and ate yet another meal, Junior Mint called me up and told me to go to Hongik to weight train. A couple of weeks ago I dropped weight training. It was making me strong but I felt it was also making me slow and heavy... muscle weights more than fat. Today I returned to weight training... and it felt good, soooo good! Trained shoulders and biceps.
8. I'm not one really for crowds, especially when I'm at the gym. Tonight Hongik was packed and the usual class-acts where there: Buff Boy, Newbie, Peg Legs, Peg Legs Jr., the Hongik Hulk, and even Ms. Vain was there too.
9. I'm such a guy when it comes to weight training... I love it. I love the pump that comes with straining my muscles and really working hard. It's like a natural high; it's awesome. After weight training, I took my swollen arms (hehehe) for an hour run on the treadmill and then felt like I was going to puke when my hour finally ended. Ju Wan thinks I'm a nut for running in a heavy hooded sweater, Buff Boy always gives me thumbs up, and well, I'm sure the girl on the next treadmill was amused by my singing. Mind ya, I'm sure she didn't really care for the fact that I must have listened to Rihanna's "Shut Up and Drive" song like a million and one times... hehehe.
10. Am officially addicted to the National Geographic You Tube site... it's awesome. Today I watched some dude dress up and pretend to be a hippo so that he can collect sweat from a real-live hippo... cool. I'd be lying if I didn't say that was like the coolest thing I've seen all week, but it was. Say it, I don't care... "Amy, you're a geek!" Ya, thanks... come step in the ring and say it again... hehehe.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Can I be a hippo too?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-- Anna Freud
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.
4 comments:
That you gone have mayby, not a fair ficht,damn ,that's not fair!I hated when the'y do that in sport.The best IS the best!so it be ,no mather who ,or from where he is.It's an atlete,and the have to chow respect!!
With the way you set your mind to do things (like boxing), I'm sure you can be whoever/whatever you want, Amy... Including a hippo, with a mean left hook :p
If you be the hippo, can I be you?
Hey Vbuuren,
Yes, I agree and so I have to train really hard. I would love a knock-out, then they wouldn't be able to cheat me.
Yo Andy,
Hehehe... that was so damn funny! Thanks for the good humor!
Hi Drew,
You wanna be me?! Hehehe.. I don't think you'd be able to deal with my high heel shoes let alone my retarded training schedule and life. Not too sure if Q would agree with you being me... hehehe
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