1. Monsoon season was in full effect today, sweeping over Korea like a mad women and dropping on us tons of water… it was just flat out retarded today. An umbrella was practically pointless as the beating rain seemed to attack us from all angles. I say attack cause, well, that’s what it felt like.
2. Q had taken the day off today and so we had one last “Us Day” before I head off to Canada this weekend.
3. The day started off around noon, with a good hearty meal at a neighbouring restaurant where I can never remember the name of the food but always remember how awesome it tastes.
4. Headed over to the bank, two banks actually, in order to change some of my Korean won into Canadian bills. At the first bank, KB, the bank teller didn’t even know what Canadian money looked like and so she looked all fascinated when she pulled a lump sum from the safe. The KB manager noticed me and so he curiously came over to talk to me, asking me if I was really leaving Korea… “No… I am coming back” I told him. The teller at the second bank only had $200 worth and was quick to thank me for coming to Korea. “No… I am coming back” I told him.
5. Packed my bags today and it was both a happy and sad event. Q summed it up with “Wow, you’re really going”.. yup, this weekend I am off to Canada. Packing the gifts that I bought for some of my “Canadian Lovelies” ended up taking up over have my suitcase, yikes!
6. Am hoping to score the “You’re cool” award at the family BBQ with a box of choco-pies I stashed in my suitcase… hehehe.
7. Next stop was the cell phone shop. Now I’ll be able to use my phone in Canada, cool. Mind ya, a one minute to Korea on my Korean cell phone will cost a little over a dollar CDN… ouch!!! Plan to only use it for text messaging though.
8. Checked out the flick “100 Feet” and liked it except for the last big scene. The movie revolved around a woman under house arrest after killing her husband who had abused her for years but no one paid attention to. The ghost of the deceased husband comes back for her and so the movie is all about her attempt to rid the house of him. I liked the idea and thought it was pretty cool, but I like the whole not-knowing, the whole mystery of a ghost and not being able to see it. Their computer-generated ghost really did nothing for me except make me say “Oh come on…”
9. It had been a super long day full of errand-running, getting soaked in the rain and doing lots of packing and repacking. By the time I returned home in the late evening I was so tired. Being tired makes me either one of two things, either zombie-like or super silly. Tonight it made me super silly and so Q tried to hush me as I loudly tried to talk like a Japanese girl. Hmm… writing it doesn’t sound so funny but last night, oh gosh, I was in tears at how Japanese I sounded… hehehe.
10. A big congratulations and a “I-told-you-so” goes out to Q tonight… hehehe. Once in awhile I make Q walk Mi Nam. He’ll be looking after Mi Nam while I am gone and so I want him to get use to him. In the morning I made Q walk Mi Nam but he returned back only to tell me that Mi Nam didn’t poop. “What?” I asked, “Mi Nam poops on command”… it’s true. So, I told Q, “If Mi Nam poops in my house today than you buddy-boy are cleaning it up!” Upon returning home tonight, there was a big poop in my front entrance, one said looking Korean man (Q), and one buckled-over laughing Pollack (me)… hehehe.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Is anyone reading this?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity.
-- Author Unknown
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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