1. With Q off eating lunch with coworkers, I decided to treat myself to probably one of Cheonan's biggest kimbab at a local Kimbab Chunkuk where it seriously feels like I'm exercising when I eat one of their kimbabs. I mean, even after she slices it, the diameter of it is bigger than my mouth and so you can't help but look like a pig when you feast of one of these bad boys... I love it!
2. I'm expecting hard times next week with it being midterm and the fact that I have midterms and presentations to mark, along with a new thing called an "ePortfolio" to do on my school's website.
3. Whined and dined Q at Mainz tonight cause he had agreed to help me mark presentations. We feasted away and relaxed at dinner, knowing that we'll be spending the next couple of hours, if not more, marking presentations.
4. Got fed way too much "stamina" food by Q, which meant I ate a couple mouthfuls of garlic at the restaurant tonight. I doubt I need extra stamina, I'm hyper enough as it is.... take that however you will.
5. Apparently the older man in the next booth was overly fascinated, definitely borderline rude, with the fact that I am a foreigner. Ohhhhhh.... Ahhhhh... a foreigner!!! So what people. You see foreigners all the time on TV. Don't act so ignorant or sheltered. As for this older man though, he kept on turning around to look at me. I tried to ignore him but Q couldn't help but notice me getting all fidgety and sporting a bit of an evil eye. The girl who was with the older man noticed his behaviour too.
6. Had this situation, the rude starring man, happened in Canada, I would have done something drastic like touch my breast or winked at him, thus causing him to be the one to feel uncomfortable. But this is Korea and as much as I know there are ignorant people everywhere, I really didn't want to have to deal with someone at the dinner table. There I was, sitting across from Q, enjoying a beautiful time together. I didn't want to spoil it and so I bit my teeth and kept my mouth shut....
7. ... that is, until Q got up to go to the washroom, where upon leaving I then asked the man if he would like take my picture. He looked puzzled and definitely surprised when I asked him this in Korean. He didn't answer but I think he got my point.
8. It's a Sunday and I dropped by the office to do photocopying... what's wrong with this picture?!
9. You know you've got an awesome boyfriend when he agrees to help you mark presentations, seriously. We sat there for just over two hours, adding up and entering in the marks for some 270 students.
10. Around 11pm we finished marking the presentations... sweet.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Don't people know starring is rude?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The only difference between you and a pig is two extra legs and better meat.
-- my university friend Mel
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:
Ugh. Being stared at is one of the reasons I seriously cannot live in Korea. It is SO irritating! I think you handled that so well, though. I'm amazed that you have as much restraint as you do, considering how many years you've already put up with it. I was good in the beginning, but as the years went on I found I had less and less patience for it.
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