1. Spent my morning researching adoption in Korea... long story there but I won't get into it.. yet.
2. Most of my day was spent relaxing with Mi Nam. Deciding to play ball with him in the house sounded like a good idea, initially, until buddy-boy decided to chump down on my ear... ouch!!!
3. Headed off to the fitness gym for an early morning run and ab routine. Slowly, but surely, people have been trying to talk to me. Today it was this buff dude. I must have made every attempt under the sun to avoid eye contact and ignore his attempts to get my attention. Surprisingly enough, I'm really liking the whole idea of them not knowing a thing about me. I come in, work out hard, wear my intense look, and then leave. I hope it stays this way. It makes for adistraction-free workout.
4. While I was out, Mi Nam decided that he was going to search out his new shirt I bought him the other day; his stripped wife-beater. I had thrown it into the laundry bin but apparently he found it. Mind ya, in discovering his shirt, he fell into the laundry bin and got trapped. My laundry bin is a cloth bin with a metal frame and so I'm sure he was quite uncomfortable. It was super funny though.... hehehe.
5. Last laugh was on Mi Nam though... after I stepped out of the house again, this time to go to the bank, Mi Nam decided that he was going to eat a part of my step...nice.
6. In support of S-line Wanna-be Girl, I wore my dampbo for training tonight at boxing... just to prove my point. My point being that a dampbo is awesome for losing weight. After busting my butt I jumped back on the scale... I had lost just a little under 2kgs!!! Mind ya, that's 2kg of body water that I lost but still, it really works to give your body a harder workout. Harder = better, at least in my books.
7. Goal: Get my abs, get down to 50kgs (110lbs) and stay there. Got a couple of more pounds to go.
8. Called my mother in Canada to wish her a happy birthday and ended up blurting out, "I might be getting married next year"... quite the conversation starter.
9. Would Q like Canada? Maybe... probably, but not to live. Korea is NOT Canada!!! The people here are very communal and so I feel this in so many ways. I feel this in the fact many of my neighbours (whom I barely know) make me kimchi or help me carry my bags, I see this when I go to restaurants and see clusters of people sitting together, I feel it at work among the assistants who are always trying to invite me to join them for lunch, I see it at boxing with Q helping out all the amateurs before he gets the chance to train... etc., etc. Canada is too independent for Q and although I think he'd like to visit Canada, I think a visit is all he could adapt to. He'd be shocked to see Canadian road rage, the clothing girls wear (and lack there of it), the wide spread of broken families, and just how preoccupied Canadians are with themselves. He'd feel so alone. Then there's also the fact that his English isn't the greatest, which brings me to an interesting point I realized today. Here in Korea, when you speak even a little Korean, Koreans are easily impressed and you can feel they really respect our (foreigner's) attempts at learning their language. However, in Canada, we tend to get mad at foreigners who don't speak English. It's like we expect them to speak it, regardless.
10. Despite my hopes of airing my show on uStream.tv, tonight I crashed. If any of you are online and want to jump on uStream.TV with me, message me telling me what day and time you prefer. It'd be nice to have a whole whack of people to chat with on uStream.tv.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Can you really have your cake and eat it too
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
-- Christine Bovee
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.
3 comments:
Hi,
I've been reading your blog for awhile as I am interested in learning about the Korean culture and life in Korea. If you have any quesions about adoption in Korea, feel free to contact me. I have two children that I adopted from Korea. My daughter is 4 yrs old and my son is 21 months old. My son was born in the same town as your boyfriend Q.
I've been reading your blog as I am interested in information about living in Korea and Korean culture.
I have a lot of information about adopting from Korea. I have two children recently adopted from Korea. We have an open adoption with one our children's birth family in Korea. If you would like more information on Korean adoption or international adoption in general, you can contact me at zoh1194@hotmail.com.
Hi Umma2kimchilovers (anonymous... same person?),
Wow... awesome. Thank you so much for your compliment and for offering to help me out. Right now I am only pondering the idea of adoption. I am not married yet (key word being yet.. hehehe) but my boyfriend and I have already started talking about if we'd like a family. I do realize that I'd have to be married for 3 years before even being considered.
Considering my boxing, training and whatnot, it'd be nice to start a family in about 4-5 years. I've always thought adoption was the way for me, the right way, not because I don't want to have my own child (cause of boxing) but because of the great stress my boxing and training has put on my body and, consequently, hurt my body. It's pretty ironic to note that I'm in top notch shape and yet those around me who disregard exercising and their health, are so easy to get pregnant.
Q is convinced that I could have a child but I know my body.
When I was in high school I got really sick in my senior year and so the medication they gave me, in addition to the hardcore training I put myself in, changed everything. I am now dealing with the consequences of what everyone said was "no big deal".
I always thought adoption was such an incredible way to show love and always respected those who more than willingly opened their hearts, homes, and lives to a child that is originally not theirs. One of my friends in Canada was adopted and you'd never know cause of the amazing bonds she has with her family. I think that's awesome and so much respect to you and your family.
That's pretty cool that your son was born in Q's hometown. Have you ever been to Korea? Maybe I should get my boyfriend to take some pictures of Daejon and send them to you.
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