1. Training was a bust today on account that I was feeling mentally drained and couldn’t concentrate. Junior Mint stopped me during pad work to ask me if I was having “magic”… hehehe. Seriously, what’s so magic about magic and why do they call it that? For those of you who haven’t figured it out, “magic”, according to Koreans, is what us Westerners call a girl’s “monthly friend”, or “Bloody Mary” as my university mates referred to it as.
2. I guess he figured that “magic” could account for why I just couldn’t mentally focus today, but that’s not it… and no, I don’t have “magic”. I haven't been eating properly lately. I eat clean but apparently not enough, or so I think is the problem. My schedule has been so out of whack lately and so with my training, running off to Seoul for Korean studies, and meeting up with Q, it's been really easy to skip a meal or just forgot to eat. Q told me about how my former team mate Min Young dieted... she just flat out didn't eat for 4 days. What?! That's awful. I'm no pro at dieting but I know enough that starving yourself only leaves you with no energy and actually makes you gain weight. Your body goes into starvation mode and so any food you take in, it stores. Moreover, it eats away at your muscle. Having said this though, I didn't really just how bad I had sabotaged my diet this week by not eating my planned meals. My diet still needs some working on, I know.
3. Lately I’ve been getting tons of grief from my friends, well, some in particular, who think they’re right on the button by calling me a bad friend. Jae Min texted me today at 6am to tell me I am a bad friend cause we don’t hang out a lot, like we use to. He blamed it on the fact that I have a boyfriend and stated that I always see my boyfriend but never see him. Ok, fair enough, this is true. And my response to him is, well, if you trained at my boxing gym (like my boyfriend does), then you too would see me a lot. Jae Min always wants to hang out late at night and at bars… at bars with lots of food. I just don’t have any energy that late in the night. I’m usually in bed by about 11 or midnight. And being surrounded by food that I can’t indulge in is really not going to help my diet nor do I enjoy being put in that situation.
4. Honestly, I wish I could hang out with Jae Min and the rest of my friends but, as it stands, I am in the gym everyday training hard. I really have to keep focused on my fight, not only with my physical training but mental training too. I have even gone so far as to ignore my emails for days and thank God no one calls me cause I would be ignoring them too.
5. On a somewhat different note, I realize that all I really talk about lately is boxing. I noticed this the other day when my Korean language teacher asked me what I did yesterday, what am I going to do today and what do I usually do on the weekends, all of which my answers were boxing, boxing… and boxing. And when I am not boxing, I am either watching boxing videos on YouTube or talking about boxing with my boyfriend.
5. Long time, no see… met up with an old friend for sushi and a movie. I’ve been watching a lot of movies lately actually. I’m quite the movie buff now,… hehehe. I’ve been itching to see a good thought-provoking, intellectually stimulating movie, especially after the brutal movie I watched yesterday night with Q. Q really wanted to see this one particular Korean movie, I didn’t really care for it but agreed to go see.
7. Is there no good movies being written anymore? Seriously folks. Yesterday I sat for two hours watching some cheesy, totally over-rated film who’s budget was clearly spent mostly on the leading lady’s clothes… and lack there of them. I’m sure the guys were loving this flick but the director could at least made this movie less painful for us chicks to watch by at least throwing in a couple handsome, chest-baring men. The only male hottie was the main lady’s sidekick and he didn’t have any speaking parts.
8. And as for tonight’s movie, “Cloverfield”, well, if the one-man handheld camera didn’t leave you nauseous than the overly simple story line left you bored half to death.
9. After the movie I got a call from Buff Boy’s friend, Mr. Incredible… incredibly handsome that is. I had been texting him throughout the movie, jokingly asking him to kidnap me from the dreariness of the retarded movie I was being held captive and being forced to watch.
10. Met up with Q later on. He had been waiting for me at the movie theatre and so we headed to his house for some chicken. Am convinced that boy is non-stop hungry… much like me… hehehe.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Any dieting tips?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce
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:
Think you know how to do it,but you just have to organise it ,and DO IT,..NO SKIP'S CHAMP!.
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