1. Showing up at Q's house at 2am was nothing short of a true life Harlem romance ending and so I woke up today thinking about it. Q is by far one of the most sincere and trustworthy people I know and I love it how I showed up at his house at 2am and was greeted by an overly-tired but very smiley Q, who had no questions to ask except for if I had a good time.
2. It dawned on me today, how come my boxing trunks never came with a top?!!! I know a lot of girls who simply fight in their turtle shell bra... and no, it doesn’t look anything like those Hawaiian coconut bras, so get that out of your head… hehehe. I have already prepared myself for my final weight-in… I bought a pair of really nice pair of CK underwear in anticipation of having to drop my clothes to step on the scale in front of my coach, team mates, and I am assuming, the officials too.
3. Seven and a half hours later and the Trouble Maker finally mustards up enough decency to say sorry to me. Mind ya, it came in the form of a text message and so that was pretty cheap. I am so done with his drama and so I texted him back with some random message… in Korean.
4. Rushed off to boxing. Junior Mint urged me to come in at 1pm so that we could train together and so I was there… he wasn’t. Twenty minutes later, he showed up huffing and puffing, explaining that he had yet another promotional meeting to go to for the fight and so he asked me if I could stick around the club till 3:30pm. I agreed.
5. With about 2 hours to kill, Milk Dud and I had lunch together, chit chatted and watched TV. I can’t even remember the last time I actually sat down and watched TV, seriously. I made the mistake a couple years back on buying a massive TV that made the actors and actresses appear larger than life but I never watch it. Come to think of it, I didn’t even watch it before, my ex-boyfriend did.
6. Panty Boy Jr. came into training and so I trained with him. Junior Mint ended up coming back later than expected and so I ended up doing pad work with Milk Dud. Junior Mint’s method of training and boxing style is much different than that of Milk Dud’s and so it was somewhat frustrating having to adjust and box accordingly.
7. Five and a half hours after initially arriving at the club, I was finally leaving. We all joked about the fact that Junior Mint should pay me cause I seem to put in a lot of hours here… hehehe.
8. About an hour or so after training, Milk Dud and I met up. Both of us had no plans for the evening and so we figured we’d go catch a movie. One problem though, I’ve seen all the English movies playing at the local theatre, even some of the Korean movies too. We ended up watching “The Brick”, which I saw the other night.
9. Before the movie started though, we had about 2 hours to kill… it was the theme of today apparently, killing time. And so, Milk Dud and I sat at the Multi Plex food court. Milk Dud recently broke up with his girlfriend, well, correction there… she dumped him after 2 years! Anyways, he’s eager to get a new girlfriend and so today at the food court we scoped out the girls.
10. Milk Dud thought he had finally found a pretty girl to approach but when she turned, I was shocked. It was one of my troubled students from last semester… the student who got kicked out of the midterm exam cause of her bad manners. Milk Dud knows I have all the phone numbers of the 500+ students I had last year at Dankook and so he pleaded with me to give him her number. I refused to though. That girl would eat him up and spit him out before he even got a chance to get her name! And so, the search continues. Somehow I got convinced to help him find a new girlfriend. He says his only prerequisite is a pretty face… nice, way to aim high… hehehe. I take it he’s really saying that he just doesn’t want to be alone. After 2 years of always being with someone, I think he is just really uncomfortable to be alone… I understand. I think we’ve all experienced this. Now it’s his turn.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's the best advice to give to a broken heart?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Like the elephant, we are unconscious of our own strength. When it comes to understanding the power we have to make a difference in our own lives, we might as well be asleep. If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say.
-- Keith Ellis
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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2 comments:
Yo, yo Andy,
Thanks for the props dude. I definitely don't take crap here, nor did I in Canada but I think here, but in a way it's on a different level.
Ya... I gave myself a pat on the back for that line after I said it... hehehe, just jokes.
That EVERYTHING heals,even you think ,not this time!
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