1. Day 3 of presentations. Tuesday's classes set the bar high and today's classes, well, many were really good but some, hmmm.... no comment. Seeing various students squirm and sweat it out in their seats was funny. Many of them were so nervous. During presentations, voices cracked, palms got sweaty, and students got all fidgety as they watched the clock slowly tick away at their two minutes.
2. Let my second period class into last week's secret. Told them that my boyfriend had attended their class. "But he Korean!" was what some of them responded to that. "Oh my gosh... you're right, he's Korean?!!!" was my response... hehehe.
3. Why do people insist on telling me that my boyfriend is Korean, like I haven't noticed?!!! Taxi drivers ask me if I like Korean men, students freak out when they see Q and I, strangers give us double-looks, and random people stare at us.... get over it people. I've learned to accept it and joke about it but seriously, why is it so surprising that I, a western girl, would like a Korean guy? Korean men rock!
4. The yellow sand from China is coming, I can feel it. I feel it in the itchiness of my throat and the fact that I'm rubbing my nose like a cocaine addict. If this year is anything like the previous years, this will mean that I'll have about a month of non-stop nose-itching, face-scratching, throat-tickling, nose-blowing... not fun.
5. Well bare feet season is almost officially here and so I'm happy. I hate wearing socks and now I can get away with not wearing them and not getting funny looks for not wearing them. Sorry but sandals just aren't made for socks. Socks and sandals... they were never meant to be a couple. The whole point of sandals is to let your feet breath. My feet love walking around naked but when I do cover them up (basically only for training) they could careless that they don't match. That's become like the big joke at my boxing club, my mix-matched socks. You see, I have a bag hanging in my closet in which I put my socks in but sometimes a pair falls out. Anything on the floor for more than a second doesn't stand a chance from the lurking eyes of Mi Nam who is always on the look out for more things to put in his month. I figure my socks stood a better chance splitting up, and so after washing them, I simply throw them in the bag. When I have training, I simply reach into the bag and pick out two. 9 out of 10 times they don't match and 10 out of 10 times I don't care. "It's my style" I tell them... hehehe.
6. After work today I walked over to the bank and amused the tellers with my broken Korean explanation about my water bill problem. Twenty minutes later not only had I exhausted my Korean grammar skills and vocab but I had also dished out a wade of cash, had the bank teller phone the water company and had scored my sweet hot water back, nice. My head hurt though cause the teller showed no effort to talk slow or in simple Korean.
7. At boxing today I stood ringside to over watch a sparring match between two high school kids, one of which was clearly weaker than his opponent.... but you know boys, they think they're so tough. The weaker dude lasted two rounds, barely. I stood eagerly glancing at the clock, hoping that the 2 minutes in round two would speed up. The young guy crunched down in the corner and his opponent just wailed on him, seriously. It wasn't a sparring match, it was a brutal slaughter that, had it gone for another 10 seconds, would have left the young guy with more than just a bloody nose and a black eye!!!
8. Took the world's longest hot water shower after training today. My shower was so long that it wrinkled my fingers and toes, and even those wrinkles had wrinkles on them... hehehe.
9. Despite still not having finished editing my midterm (due tomorrow), I agreed to go on a movie date with Q. We raced to the theater and had a good laugh at the fact that we were the only ones there. Ten minutes into the movie, however, seven people showed up to join us... dang!!!
10. Later in the evening, much later, I finally got down to business... school business that is. I finished up my midterm. Marking this thing is going to be "fun".
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's your favorite movie?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.
-- Charles Rosin
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.
2 comments:
Hey, me and you have something in common! My socks never match either! I'm just far too lazy to pair them up together...and then you have socks that somehow go missing in the laundry, so why deal with it i say?
Movie!..scarface,with Alpacino!..
What you mean with that yellow sand from China Amy?
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