1. Morning fight at my health club, well, verbal fight. That chick wouldn’t be able to fight even if her life depended on it, seriously!!! As most of you know, I just recently joined a new gym for weight training and well, no one talks to me but there’s one girl that definitely finds talking about me interesting. I’ve tried to ignore her and despite her friend telling her to stop, today she really got to me.
2. No sooner had I started doing my ab workout but she walked by and laughed, pointed at me and then said some things to her friend about me. I ignored it up until the point when she called me a not-so-pretty word, followed by “pig”. I love it when people who CLEARLY don’t know a thing about what they’re talking about continue to shoot their mouth off. I may not have a perfect body but then again, I don’t go making fun of others and pointing fingers at the gym… and I am definitely not a pig unless you’re referring to the cartons of eggs I eat a day. Ok, so some people may not find muscle on a girl attractive, I understand this, however, she with her bustin-at-the-seam body was in no position to make me feel ugly and like the social circus freak. Moreover, this wasn’t my first run in with this girl. The first time she saw me was in the change room. I was unaware that my bag was in front of her locker and instead of her telling me, or pushing it to the side, she kicked it.
3. I decided that today I was going to set the record straight. I wasn’t going to let this low-mannered bubble butt get away and so, I threw my weight down on the ground and then threw some Korean comments at her. My Korean hit her like a ton of bricks and she was shocked. Yes, that’s right sweetie… next time you want to joke about the foreigner you better make sure you pick on a foreigner that doesn’t speak your language. I get paid to hit girls in the head, but you, I’d hit ya for free. Ok, so I didn’t say this to her but inside my head I was screaming this. I did however ask her what was so funny, told her she better be quiet and she better start exercising. Thinking that this would shut her up, I went back to my ab routine.
4. She continued. The front desk dude ended up approaching us and asking me if there was anything wrong. She ended up leaving in a huff and, in the heat of the moment, I blurted out (in Korean), “Good, go. Run to school little student and learn some manners”. I knew I shouldn’t had really shot my mouth off like that but I just really hate when people are so blatantly ignorant to manners. Common sense would have told her to keep her comments to herself. But then again, common sense isn’t so common, apparently.
5. My morning spat with Little Miss Dumb-Nut lead to me asking my Korean teacher teaching at tutoring for some some useful sayings and comebacks. Thanks!!!
6. Q had a night shift to do tonight and so he had the day off. We met up, went shopping and then cooked lunch together… correction, he cooked, I watched… oh, and I helped eat too… hehehe.
7. Guess what decided to come back... my play lists on my computer. How weird is that?! They just spontaneously showed up on my screen and started playing. I was in the shower when it happened and so it kind of freaked me out. I jumped out of the bathroom and cautiously approached my office room like some kind of Kung Fu master, holding my towel like it was a set of nub chucks… hehehe. I guess I could have towel-snapped them to death had someone really come into my house… hehehe.
8. If Mi Nam could talk, oh gosh. The stories he’d tell of me… hehehe. When he looks at me, half the time I’m sure he’s totally confused as to what the heck I am doing. Add in the fact that I try to only speak Korean to him but have lately been testing out my French on him, I’m sure he thinks I am a freak… hehehe.
9. Maybe I should remind Mi Nam that he licks his own butt… now, who’s the freak?!
10. Went to training late tonight, 9pm. Turns out KBS called the club today inquiring about me. And so, on that note, pressure is on now. I’ve got to schedule another fight. The other day Junior Mint had some photographer come to the club and take pictures of a couple of us while we were training. Nothing is sexy about a boxer drenched in sweat from head to toe but the sponsors love to see this kind of stuff. It’s time to refocus, revamp my diet, step up my training, and kick it up a notch.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What keeps you motivated?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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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The way you go for it and trance music!!
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