1. With Q having the day off, we hibernated in the house and kept to ourselves. His days off tend to be very lazy, unproductive days centering around napping and hanging out at home and, well, that’s exactly how I have spent the first week or so of my holidays so I’m OK with that.
2. After a few phone calls Q was able to convince the Samsung service dudes to come over A.S.A.P. and so now my air conditioner is up and working, pumping crazy cold air at us…. Sooooo great!!!
3. Jokes with the Samsung dudes after they arrived and couldn’t help but notice my house definitely doesn’t belong to a Korean, or a Korean guy for that matter. Q explained to them that it was his girl friend’s house and so that’s when the questions started, “Is she a foreigner?”, “Where is she from?”… etc. I had been hiding in the office with Mi Nam but when the questions started up, I stepped out. The two Samsung dudes turned around and greeted me with huge eyes and smiles. Honestly, sometimes I LOVE being a minority in this country. It never seems to amuse me at how interested and curious many Koreans are about us foreigners.
4. Wow… my last video got a HUGE response from people, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank YOU! I love it when people comment on my homepage and videos, makes my efforts so worth it and is very encouraging. I must say this however, as much as I totally disagree with the whole issue at sake there with boxing in Korea, Korea does have a special place in my heart. Like I mentioned in my film, it is a love-hate relationship though. There’s some days when I feel so happy I wish I could kiss the sky and thank God for pointing the thought of moving to Korea in my head. But then, there are days when I am so tempted to turn and yell at the people who stare at me in the restaurant or who point at me while I am grocery shopping.
5. I can understand why many little children watch me with curious eyes; I may be the first or one of the few foreigners they’ve ever seen in person. Kids running up to me and eagerly trying to talk to me in English always amuses me and high school boys walking by and blurting out “You so pretty” will never bother me. What bothers me though is those who clearly know but don’t care that what they’re doing is rude behaviour.
6. Oh gosh… I am definitely one of those people who is exactly like their dogs!!! I realized this today when I took Mi Nam out for a walk. I am almost as anti-social as him. I like staying home rather than go out. My favorite part of the day is when I go training. Mi Nam gets as much varied reactions out of people when waking down the street as I do. We’re both rather silly, easy-going, but we are very protective and get kind of defensive about certain things. We don’t really like meeting new people and we rather be left alone than approached by many.
7. Love me, love my dog. He and I are a combo package.
8. Returned to boxing after taking yesterday off to prove my point, my point being that I was still ticked about Saturday’s fight. As soon as Q and I walked into the club Junior Mint stood up and called Q over. He knew Q had probably heard an ear full about the whole spat that went down on Saturday and so he discussed it with Q and then asked him to relay the message to me. “No, I understand” I blurted out. “I don’t need it translated into English to know that it was wrong.” Junior Mint tried to justify the Chinese girl winning by hinting that it was only some kind of tournament, that’s flat out BS. It wasn’t a tournament, it was an official match. The main match was the Korean female champion defending her title against a Chinese girl. Gee… I wonder who won?!!! Come to think of it, I’ve seen this same so-called Korean champion fight a couple of times and every time she fights it’s always with a foreigner, coincidence?!
9. I think I have just stumbled onto a whole new territory that isn’t so new but no one has bothered to address because well, everyone else who knew it was Korean.
10. I am still not convinced that what happened was right and I feel like I should do something, like I HAVE to do something, but what can I do? I’d love to fight that so-called Korean champion. I say “so-called” because now I really question the validity of her title. As far as I am concerned, as long as she is fighting foreign girls and based on what I saw on Saturday, she’s got an easy ride and will always remain the champion. I’d love to be that one foreigner who knocks her out and so, on that note, I asked Black Skinny about a million questions on how to exactly go about knocking someone out in the ring.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do they honestly think that what they are doing is right?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The more we all know about each other, the greater the chance we will survive.
-- Anthony Hopkins
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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