1. Well yesterday I was in quite the retarded mood, and so I had the right to be, or so I honestly think. Waking up today felt much better though, thanks to a couple of licks on the forehead courtesy of Mi Nam.
2. With the start of the new school semester being just around the corner, now I have a perfect excuse to go shopping… hehehe.
3. Treated myself to some fashionably trendy sparkly pale gold nail polish only for one of my buddies to disregard it and instead tease me for my boyish finger nails. Yes, that’s right… I still haven’t kicked the aged-old bad habit of chewing on my nails, so sue me… hehehe.
4. After doing a good thirty minutes of skipping at boxing, one of my friends showed up. I haven’t seen him for awhile and he’s basically the only one at my club that speaks English so it was nice to run into him. We chatted as he stretched and then I ended up skipping with him. Total time spent skipping: 1 hour… yikes.
5. After spilling my beans to buddy-boy about wanting but not having any close female friends in Korea, he blurted out, “You better quite boxing or weight training then!” “What?! That’s your advice… that’s terrible!” I responded with. For the most part all my friends in Korea are connected to my training. They’re either trainers at Hongik or team mates at boxing, so most of my friends are guys. My male friends have tried to introduce me and encourage their girl friends to hang out with me but their girl friends end up either not liking me cause I spend so much time with their boyfriends working out or because we have nothing in common, except for the fact that we both hang with their boyfriends. Drama Boy’s girlfriend hated me even before she met me and, come to think of it, the only girlfriend that really liked me and actually hung out with me was Byung Hyuk’s girlfriend. Mind ya, they then broke up and so much for hanging out with her after that.
6. There is of course Valley Girl who lives in my apartment building. Mind ya, she’s still in the honeymoon stage of her relationship and so she’s with her boyfriend 24/7 and always insists on us doing double-date things. Discussing something with her about Q doesn’t really go over well when he’s right there beside me.
7. After boxing and a couple hours of filling my time with nonsense things like cooking mounds of sweet potatoes and then feeding Mi Nam a good chunk of them, I headed over to Hongik to train legs.
8. Got approached at Hongik to be a kind of poster child for their new advertising… cool.
9. Later in the evening Q showed up. I love it how he avoids saying sorry by bombarding me with huge grins and rubbing his scratchy face all over me…. funny, Mi Nam does the same thing.
10. While out for spicy chicken tonight, some random guy at the next table over from Q and I turned and said, “Oh my gosh… you on TV!” Instantly I went red. Have no idea why I blushed so quickly, or why I blushed at all but they all giggled. Turns out the young guy recognized me from my appearance on “Love in Asia” and so this sparked a conversation between him and Q. He seemed a bit overly curious, asking Q what it was like dating a celebrity, which I wouldn’t go that far to label myself that but was flattered. When we finally got up to leave, Q paid the bill and then sent over a couple of bottles of soju and beer to their table. A couple of them got up, shook our hands and then respectively bowed to us as the rest of the restaurant stopped to oversee the situation.
QUESTION OF THE DAY…
How come I can’t feel my lips?
QUOTE OF THE DAY…
Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it.
-- Irving Berlin
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 Amy~~
Glad that Mi Nam is fine.
I wanted to let you know that I never made a single close Korean (female) friend in all of the six years that I lived in Korea.
Just so you don't feel like a freak. Haha.
The first two years in Korea, I was in lala love land with my now husband and then the remaining years, I began to seek out friendships with new foreign teachers. I had fun helping them out and teaching Korean culture. :) Of course, they all left after 1-2 years which sucked, but at least we had the experience of being foreign in Korea in common so I enjoyed my relationships with them.
Have you thought of setting up a language exchange? I know you're already taking Korean classes. Maybe someone would be interested in just doing a practical language exchange. Hanging out and doing fun things while splitting language 50/50. You could speak English half the time and Korean the other half. I don't know. Just a thought. It's hard! My husband doesn't have any friends at all here in Vermont. Reading your blog lately about how homesick you are has actually been painful for me. It brings back memories of going through this myself and also reminds me of what my husband is going through. He's been really down since he got back from his trip to Korea. I don't know what to do for him. I'm sure Q feels the same. {{Hugs}}!
Dear Beloved,
First and foremost, glad to see that although you're not blogging any more, you're still making your presence on my blog... thanks!
I thought about setting up a language exchange but never really got around to it.
Sorry to hear that your hubby is so homesick. As for what you can do for him, just give him lots of hugs and kisses and be a listener. It'll be hard hearing him talk about it but I'm sure it'll make him feel better getting it off his chest and out into the open... wish Q did that for me.
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