Forget the fact that the scene here was totally staged, check out my shot. I was quite proud... hehehe
Not a usual Sunday but definitely a usual Korean wedding... no thanks.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Highlights of my Day... Sunday, November 30
1. Was bribed with promises of a massive buffet loaded with food as far as the eye can see and so I gave in, agreed, and went as someone’s date to a wedding. Conveniently enough, the wedding was being held at the new wedding hall just a throw stone away from my apartment.
2. Despite knowing the groom, I came for the free food… that’s the truth. The wedding hall was buzzing with my date’s coworkers but it was the first time I had attended a wedding with all thoughts on the golden question, “when do we get to eat?”
3. Came up with quite some creative ways to dodge the inevitable question, “when are you two getting married?”… hehehe. Why do people always insist on asking such uncomfortable questions like that?! How exactly am I suppose to answer? It’s like the time I went to a friend’s baby shower. Her friends all cornered me and asked me, “So Amy, don’t you want one?” I thought it funny how they implied that it was so easy, like going to the store and buying new shoes. I learned quickly though not to say “I don’t like babies” at a baby shower infested with women all googly-eyed over the recently popped out bowling ball, aka the baby.
4. While my date went to get more food, I sat there watching my date’s coworker and his small family of three. His wife was clearly pregnant but their little girl kept on begging to be picked up. Some parents really don’t know how to say no. But what really caught my eye was the fact that with each new plate of food one of the parent’s brought to the table for themselves, the little kid insisted on eating their food instead of her own. In went both dirty paws into the father’s bowl of noddles and in went both dirty paws into her mother’s salad. Yup, that’s what having kids does to you. It not only takes your freedom and money away but it also takes your food away… hehehe.
5. I find Korean weddings rather depressing and sad. They’re so cookie-cut and staged. From the cutting of the cake in the middle of the service to the lights flashing off and on and people talking on their phones during the service, Korean weddings just don’t interest me. It’s all imagine and I find it rather interesting, yet strange, that in a country that is so hardcore about it’s manners that Koreans would leave them at home for a wedding. I’ve yet to go to a traditional Korean wedding and so I’m hoping that Jennipal out in Seoul throws a traditional wedding.
6. Later in the afternoon I finally got down to planning my Power Point file for this week’s final exam review. By evening though, I was itching to get out of the house and so when Lollipop texted me, saying that he’ll be downtown soon, I agreed to meet up with him and his friends.
7. Turns out Lollipop’s buddy knows me from my homepage, how weird is that?! We sat there joking the evening away when this 6ft 5” large brut of a dude then turned to me and said, “Hey, do you do some kind of homepage thing?”
(personally, I don’t understand his pick-up line. Wouldn’t that be “you’re like gas”?! I don’t know what kind of diarrhea he’s having but if it takes his breath away, maybe he should go see someone about that… hehehe!!!)
8. Am thinking about changing Lollipop’s name back to Side Salad, not too sure though. I say this because tonight we got talking about nicknames. I was thinking of T.Dot Girl for Lollipop’s sister but they threw in Croutons and MyChew (popular children’s candy). What do you think? Side Salad and Croutons or Lollipop and MyChew?.. hehehe. Ya… come to think of it, I will change his name back to Side Salad. So Side Salad and Croutons it is… hehehe. They’re hilarious.
9. Side Salad’s attempt to hug me goodnight when I walked them all to their taxi turned into quite the embarrassing situation for us both with me backing up like a defensive cat, leaving him standing there with his arms wide open and a crowd watching behind him. I guess it’s been too long since someone’s really hugged me.
10. Returning home to finish up my Power Point file turned into a long dragged out production, interrupted by a two hour phone conversation with Side Salad and then a 1 hour much-needed msn chat with Homegirl about something that's been on my mind.
Crashed at 5:30am.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where's the real significance in a cookie-cut anything?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship.
-- Iris Murdoch
2. Despite knowing the groom, I came for the free food… that’s the truth. The wedding hall was buzzing with my date’s coworkers but it was the first time I had attended a wedding with all thoughts on the golden question, “when do we get to eat?”
3. Came up with quite some creative ways to dodge the inevitable question, “when are you two getting married?”… hehehe. Why do people always insist on asking such uncomfortable questions like that?! How exactly am I suppose to answer? It’s like the time I went to a friend’s baby shower. Her friends all cornered me and asked me, “So Amy, don’t you want one?” I thought it funny how they implied that it was so easy, like going to the store and buying new shoes. I learned quickly though not to say “I don’t like babies” at a baby shower infested with women all googly-eyed over the recently popped out bowling ball, aka the baby.
4. While my date went to get more food, I sat there watching my date’s coworker and his small family of three. His wife was clearly pregnant but their little girl kept on begging to be picked up. Some parents really don’t know how to say no. But what really caught my eye was the fact that with each new plate of food one of the parent’s brought to the table for themselves, the little kid insisted on eating their food instead of her own. In went both dirty paws into the father’s bowl of noddles and in went both dirty paws into her mother’s salad. Yup, that’s what having kids does to you. It not only takes your freedom and money away but it also takes your food away… hehehe.
5. I find Korean weddings rather depressing and sad. They’re so cookie-cut and staged. From the cutting of the cake in the middle of the service to the lights flashing off and on and people talking on their phones during the service, Korean weddings just don’t interest me. It’s all imagine and I find it rather interesting, yet strange, that in a country that is so hardcore about it’s manners that Koreans would leave them at home for a wedding. I’ve yet to go to a traditional Korean wedding and so I’m hoping that Jennipal out in Seoul throws a traditional wedding.
6. Later in the afternoon I finally got down to planning my Power Point file for this week’s final exam review. By evening though, I was itching to get out of the house and so when Lollipop texted me, saying that he’ll be downtown soon, I agreed to meet up with him and his friends.
7. Turns out Lollipop’s buddy knows me from my homepage, how weird is that?! We sat there joking the evening away when this 6ft 5” large brut of a dude then turned to me and said, “Hey, do you do some kind of homepage thing?”
“Girl, you’re like diarrhea, you take my breath away” said the Texas Giant
(personally, I don’t understand his pick-up line. Wouldn’t that be “you’re like gas”?! I don’t know what kind of diarrhea he’s having but if it takes his breath away, maybe he should go see someone about that… hehehe!!!)
8. Am thinking about changing Lollipop’s name back to Side Salad, not too sure though. I say this because tonight we got talking about nicknames. I was thinking of T.Dot Girl for Lollipop’s sister but they threw in Croutons and MyChew (popular children’s candy). What do you think? Side Salad and Croutons or Lollipop and MyChew?.. hehehe. Ya… come to think of it, I will change his name back to Side Salad. So Side Salad and Croutons it is… hehehe. They’re hilarious.
9. Side Salad’s attempt to hug me goodnight when I walked them all to their taxi turned into quite the embarrassing situation for us both with me backing up like a defensive cat, leaving him standing there with his arms wide open and a crowd watching behind him. I guess it’s been too long since someone’s really hugged me.
10. Returning home to finish up my Power Point file turned into a long dragged out production, interrupted by a two hour phone conversation with Side Salad and then a 1 hour much-needed msn chat with Homegirl about something that's been on my mind.
Geez... I wish Homegirl and Italiano were here.
They're who keep me grounded.
Crashed at 5:30am.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where's the real significance in a cookie-cut anything?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship.
-- Iris Murdoch
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Hey, don't tell Adidas I'm cheating on them but my coach gave me these B2B gloves and so I use them for heavy bag work. Don't worry, I'm still very much in love with Adidas... hehehe.
See... I am an Adidas-maniac... hehehe.In this picture I'm sporting Adidas hand wraps, Adidas pants, and an Adidas sweater. I'm wearing an Adidas chest protector under my sweater and an Adidas sports bra. And what you can't see are my Adidas boxing boots and Adidas socks I have on, and the Adidas bag I carry all my gear and my Adidas boxing gloves in.
Highlights of my Day... Saturday, November 29
1. Forgot to buy Mi Nam food yesterday and so today he had to “settle” for scrambled eggs and peanut butter on whole wheat bread… rough life, eh?!
2. While on route to training I was engulfed in a sudden snow flurry. It just instantly starting snowing. Massive flakes were flying down on me. It looked so pretty and so I stopped to enjoy it. I reached my arms up and opened my mouth to eat some, like a little kid. But then it hit me... this is Korea, and with that I spat out the flakes and continued on... hehehe.
3. Spent a good chunk of my day at the boxing club. I love Saturday training. It’s always so laid back and Junior Mint lets me pretty much run the whole show, allowing me to train at my own pace, letting me crank up my own tunes, and all he asks in return is that I help him out with hanging up the club’s laundry, which just means hanging a bunch of towels on the ring lines.
4. Today, however, Junior Mint and I had agreed to train together at 3pm. I was anticipating a sparring session but we ended up doing a much different exercise. Today we focused on some minor, but just as important, details with my game. With my hair now a bit longer, it’s always getting in my face thus causing me to blink a lot. Junior Mint thought he’d test out my nerves and force me not to blink by repeatedly pretending to punch me in the face. It was quite the strange exercise and a few times he actually did square me, but it was good. Next we worked on my leg work. By the end of our technical work, my right leg was throbbing from him repeatedly whacking it and my nose was a bit bruised.
5. On December 20th Junior Mint will be stepping back in the ring for a kind of “return of the great former champ” fight. He’s been training hard and was initially told to lose 14kgs… yikes!!! He’s been successful with losing 6kgs but with three weeks left to the fight, he still has 8kgs to lose… that’s 17.6lbs for those of you who don’t do kgs. It’s been said that losing 1kg (about 2lbs) is the healthy rate to lose in one week, but 8kgs in three weeks… ouch!!!
6. While training, I worked it out in my head. 8kgs in three weeks… that’s about 2.5kgs a week (2.67 to be exact)… 0.35kgs a day (just a little under a pound). It’s going to be hard but he can do it… he HAS to. Not making the weight on weigh-in day means shilling out a lot of cash to forfeit. Having said that though, it’s quite easy to drop your weight by 3kgs the day before weigh-in. The secret to that is that you train hard in the early morning wearing either layers or a sweat-jacket, the day before weigh-in, and then don’t eat OR drink until after weigh-in the next day. My weight drops about 1 to 1.5kgs everyday during training but it’s because of water weight. It’s definitely not a healthy method to go about it but in a crunch, trust me, MANY athletes do this, if not worse things, to desperately drop their weight.
7. My Japanese friend, Satoshi, came out to boxing today and so it was great catching up with him. He’s only in Korea for another two weeks but unfortunately I’ve been too wrapped up in my own things lately and so I haven’t seen much of him.
8. For the simple fact that I really don’t care to have my dating life more pried at than it already is, I’ve decided not to write about the date I had tonight. But I will say this… it was good. It was very good. My date isn’t such a mystery man though. He’s more or less a kind of celebrity, I guess you could say... hehehe. Most likely you know who he is. And with that, that’s all I’ll say about my date.
9. Ran into Newbie downtown while out with my date. He quit his job at my fitness club so that he could pursue his Taekwondo stuff. He was out in Japan for awhile, teaching Taekwondo but I wasn’t aware he was back. It was great running into him but I was a bit confused as to why his boys gave him props for talking to me considering I spoke in Korean and was on the arm of another man.
10. Running into some of my students when they were clearly drunk and I was on a date made for an interesting situation. I know drinking is a huge social thing here in Korea but what gets me is how people can drink until they literally pass out in their seats or puke. There’s apparently no cut-off in Korean bars and so if you’ve got the cash, they’ve got the drinks… that’s terrible. One of my students was walking and sleeping at the same time, quite the multi-tasking that I didn’t think possible.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's your point?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
-- Author Unknown
2. While on route to training I was engulfed in a sudden snow flurry. It just instantly starting snowing. Massive flakes were flying down on me. It looked so pretty and so I stopped to enjoy it. I reached my arms up and opened my mouth to eat some, like a little kid. But then it hit me... this is Korea, and with that I spat out the flakes and continued on... hehehe.
3. Spent a good chunk of my day at the boxing club. I love Saturday training. It’s always so laid back and Junior Mint lets me pretty much run the whole show, allowing me to train at my own pace, letting me crank up my own tunes, and all he asks in return is that I help him out with hanging up the club’s laundry, which just means hanging a bunch of towels on the ring lines.
4. Today, however, Junior Mint and I had agreed to train together at 3pm. I was anticipating a sparring session but we ended up doing a much different exercise. Today we focused on some minor, but just as important, details with my game. With my hair now a bit longer, it’s always getting in my face thus causing me to blink a lot. Junior Mint thought he’d test out my nerves and force me not to blink by repeatedly pretending to punch me in the face. It was quite the strange exercise and a few times he actually did square me, but it was good. Next we worked on my leg work. By the end of our technical work, my right leg was throbbing from him repeatedly whacking it and my nose was a bit bruised.
5. On December 20th Junior Mint will be stepping back in the ring for a kind of “return of the great former champ” fight. He’s been training hard and was initially told to lose 14kgs… yikes!!! He’s been successful with losing 6kgs but with three weeks left to the fight, he still has 8kgs to lose… that’s 17.6lbs for those of you who don’t do kgs. It’s been said that losing 1kg (about 2lbs) is the healthy rate to lose in one week, but 8kgs in three weeks… ouch!!!
6. While training, I worked it out in my head. 8kgs in three weeks… that’s about 2.5kgs a week (2.67 to be exact)… 0.35kgs a day (just a little under a pound). It’s going to be hard but he can do it… he HAS to. Not making the weight on weigh-in day means shilling out a lot of cash to forfeit. Having said that though, it’s quite easy to drop your weight by 3kgs the day before weigh-in. The secret to that is that you train hard in the early morning wearing either layers or a sweat-jacket, the day before weigh-in, and then don’t eat OR drink until after weigh-in the next day. My weight drops about 1 to 1.5kgs everyday during training but it’s because of water weight. It’s definitely not a healthy method to go about it but in a crunch, trust me, MANY athletes do this, if not worse things, to desperately drop their weight.
7. My Japanese friend, Satoshi, came out to boxing today and so it was great catching up with him. He’s only in Korea for another two weeks but unfortunately I’ve been too wrapped up in my own things lately and so I haven’t seen much of him.
8. For the simple fact that I really don’t care to have my dating life more pried at than it already is, I’ve decided not to write about the date I had tonight. But I will say this… it was good. It was very good. My date isn’t such a mystery man though. He’s more or less a kind of celebrity, I guess you could say... hehehe. Most likely you know who he is. And with that, that’s all I’ll say about my date.
9. Ran into Newbie downtown while out with my date. He quit his job at my fitness club so that he could pursue his Taekwondo stuff. He was out in Japan for awhile, teaching Taekwondo but I wasn’t aware he was back. It was great running into him but I was a bit confused as to why his boys gave him props for talking to me considering I spoke in Korean and was on the arm of another man.
10. Running into some of my students when they were clearly drunk and I was on a date made for an interesting situation. I know drinking is a huge social thing here in Korea but what gets me is how people can drink until they literally pass out in their seats or puke. There’s apparently no cut-off in Korean bars and so if you’ve got the cash, they’ve got the drinks… that’s terrible. One of my students was walking and sleeping at the same time, quite the multi-tasking that I didn’t think possible.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's your point?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
-- Author Unknown
Friday, November 28, 2008
Highlights of my Day... Friday, November 28
1. At the crack of dawn, 6am, I woke up to start my day. I had a full morning planned: a meeting, studying, laundry, and updating my student’s homepage.
2. No sooner did I start my morning but then I fell back asleep, on the couch.
3. My meeting with the Cheonan Trump consisted of small chit chat with his assistant in the elevator, an exchanging of envelops and no sooner had I entered the elevator but then I was leaving and the meeting was over. He had to head over to his other tower and so he wasn’t there today. I had anticipated that he wouldn’t be there and so last night I wrote him a short letter to give his assistant. Much to my surprise, he thought it’d be sweet to leave me a little gift, an envelop with his “support” for my boxing.
4. It’s official… I am a level four Korean language student, cool. Today we cracked open my new textbook and workbook. Back when I first started learning Korean, the grammar was simple but the vocabulary was a lot. I was learning things like “I am Canadian” but now, yikes, my simple “I am Canadian” sentence was a walk in the park compared to the “That’s the girl who said yesterday that I am a Canadian” I’m learning now. It’s a mind maze of grammar.
5. I’ve been pretty good with retaining random new words that students and my team mates at boxing have been teaching me. While my students have taught me words like "accident" and "sarcastic", my team mates have taught me like five different ways on how to say “I want to hit you” and about ten other words to explain where exactly I want to hit you… hehehe.
6. Tonight at boxing Junior Mint and Milk Dud had it out in the ring and what started off as a simple sparring match ended with Junior Mint almost being knocked out when Milk Dud lost his balance. A couple of weeks ago they waxed the inside of the ring and so it’s still a bit slippery. It’s much better now compared to before but tonight Milk Dud stepped on a slippery spot and came crashing full force into Junior Mint, head first. “BONG!!!” went their heads, ouch!!! For the rest of the evening Junior Mint sat on the couch with an ice pack on his forehead. It was beat red and quickly swelling up.
7. Oh gosh… am I seriously becoming a Brittney Spears fan?! Oh the embarrassment. Mind ya, in her defence and to justify my own stance on this issue, I must admit that her songs have always had a sweet beat to them, her songs are catchy, and I’m loving her new Circus album.
8. I hereby declare that Side Salad’s name is, as of today, now Lollipop. He must be one big sucker to think that I would wait around for him on a Friday night. We were supposed to go to his friend’s birthday party and so I headed out to buy a cake, as promised. But while standing in line, waiting to pay for the cake, it hit me…. he won’t call me and I really shouldn’t care whether or not he will. Guys are such a dime a dozen. I’ve never been one to chase a guy, especially a guy I know relatively nothing about except for the fact that he clearly can’t be what I deserve from what he’s shown, and lack there of it. So, I left the store and opted to stay in for the rest of the evening with a movie.
9. Initially when I met him, I was intrigued but lately he’s been acting like he’s one of those fly-by-nights, out of sight out of mind kind of dudes. He shots his game, talks all sweet, and plays the cards right but when it’s convenient for him. I’m not down with that and out of all the dudes that so easily give me their undivided attention and would swing by to pick me up at the drop of a dime, I gave Lollipop my attention. He could have so easily been more to me than the cheap sugary lollipop he is today. He once said, “When you’ve dated the rest, come date the best” and I find this rather ironic. The best what?! Best sucker?! No thanks.
10. Oh the trouble I could get into if I had no morals, I tell ya. Mr. Not-So-Nice Guy from Seoul has been hunting me down, texting me that he misses me. Staple-Stomach broke up with his gold-digging girlfriend and is convinced that maybe this means that he and I are meant to be… ya right. Cutie out in Canada texted me today, reminding me that I owe him a date when I return to Canada. I’ve got my fair share of suitors but I could care less about them. They’re all a bunch of lollipops. It does nothing for my ego and, if anything, reminds me how much I think soul mates is a bowl of crock. Hallmark feasts on the idea of true love, soul mates and all that mushy make-me-sick romance stuff. I’m so over all that and am way more interested in developing my 6-pack as supposed to some relationship with a guy. I’m cool with dating but I’m done thinking that there’s someone out there for me and I’m certainly not interested in dating any wanna-bes. Mind ya, much to my surprise, when a certain someone asked me out on a date tonight, I accepted. He’s been very persistent despite me constantly brushing him off. Tomorrow’s our big date. It’s going to be something very casual and short but I’m sure it’ll be good.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who do you think you are?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Stupid is as stupid does.
-- from the movie "Forrest Gump"
2. No sooner did I start my morning but then I fell back asleep, on the couch.
3. My meeting with the Cheonan Trump consisted of small chit chat with his assistant in the elevator, an exchanging of envelops and no sooner had I entered the elevator but then I was leaving and the meeting was over. He had to head over to his other tower and so he wasn’t there today. I had anticipated that he wouldn’t be there and so last night I wrote him a short letter to give his assistant. Much to my surprise, he thought it’d be sweet to leave me a little gift, an envelop with his “support” for my boxing.
4. It’s official… I am a level four Korean language student, cool. Today we cracked open my new textbook and workbook. Back when I first started learning Korean, the grammar was simple but the vocabulary was a lot. I was learning things like “I am Canadian” but now, yikes, my simple “I am Canadian” sentence was a walk in the park compared to the “That’s the girl who said yesterday that I am a Canadian” I’m learning now. It’s a mind maze of grammar.
5. I’ve been pretty good with retaining random new words that students and my team mates at boxing have been teaching me. While my students have taught me words like "accident" and "sarcastic", my team mates have taught me like five different ways on how to say “I want to hit you” and about ten other words to explain where exactly I want to hit you… hehehe.
6. Tonight at boxing Junior Mint and Milk Dud had it out in the ring and what started off as a simple sparring match ended with Junior Mint almost being knocked out when Milk Dud lost his balance. A couple of weeks ago they waxed the inside of the ring and so it’s still a bit slippery. It’s much better now compared to before but tonight Milk Dud stepped on a slippery spot and came crashing full force into Junior Mint, head first. “BONG!!!” went their heads, ouch!!! For the rest of the evening Junior Mint sat on the couch with an ice pack on his forehead. It was beat red and quickly swelling up.
7. Oh gosh… am I seriously becoming a Brittney Spears fan?! Oh the embarrassment. Mind ya, in her defence and to justify my own stance on this issue, I must admit that her songs have always had a sweet beat to them, her songs are catchy, and I’m loving her new Circus album.
8. I hereby declare that Side Salad’s name is, as of today, now Lollipop. He must be one big sucker to think that I would wait around for him on a Friday night. We were supposed to go to his friend’s birthday party and so I headed out to buy a cake, as promised. But while standing in line, waiting to pay for the cake, it hit me…. he won’t call me and I really shouldn’t care whether or not he will. Guys are such a dime a dozen. I’ve never been one to chase a guy, especially a guy I know relatively nothing about except for the fact that he clearly can’t be what I deserve from what he’s shown, and lack there of it. So, I left the store and opted to stay in for the rest of the evening with a movie.
9. Initially when I met him, I was intrigued but lately he’s been acting like he’s one of those fly-by-nights, out of sight out of mind kind of dudes. He shots his game, talks all sweet, and plays the cards right but when it’s convenient for him. I’m not down with that and out of all the dudes that so easily give me their undivided attention and would swing by to pick me up at the drop of a dime, I gave Lollipop my attention. He could have so easily been more to me than the cheap sugary lollipop he is today. He once said, “When you’ve dated the rest, come date the best” and I find this rather ironic. The best what?! Best sucker?! No thanks.
Do I look like a girl that eats candy? ...Nope.
10. Oh the trouble I could get into if I had no morals, I tell ya. Mr. Not-So-Nice Guy from Seoul has been hunting me down, texting me that he misses me. Staple-Stomach broke up with his gold-digging girlfriend and is convinced that maybe this means that he and I are meant to be… ya right. Cutie out in Canada texted me today, reminding me that I owe him a date when I return to Canada. I’ve got my fair share of suitors but I could care less about them. They’re all a bunch of lollipops. It does nothing for my ego and, if anything, reminds me how much I think soul mates is a bowl of crock. Hallmark feasts on the idea of true love, soul mates and all that mushy make-me-sick romance stuff. I’m so over all that and am way more interested in developing my 6-pack as supposed to some relationship with a guy. I’m cool with dating but I’m done thinking that there’s someone out there for me and I’m certainly not interested in dating any wanna-bes. Mind ya, much to my surprise, when a certain someone asked me out on a date tonight, I accepted. He’s been very persistent despite me constantly brushing him off. Tomorrow’s our big date. It’s going to be something very casual and short but I’m sure it’ll be good.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who do you think you are?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Stupid is as stupid does.
-- from the movie "Forrest Gump"
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Highlights of my Day... Thursday, November 27
1. Have you ever had one of those days when you woke up and you just knew it’d be a rotten day?! Well… today was my no-good, stinky-smelly, down-right rotten day. And I totally knew it too from how I woke up.
What made my morning so rotten…
2. On the plus side however, I guess today kind of balanced it’s self out, starting with the end of class when a certain someone showed up outside my classroom, all decked out and eager to drive me where ever for whatever… can’t complain about that!
3. Unfortunately I had made the mistake of accepting an invite the other day by none other than Two-Cell Girl, as a kind of favour for Gangster Oppa, so I had to head out to her place today. Had a good laugh at the fact that Two-Cell Girl is more than comfortable walking down the street with me in her yellow duck pajamas… hehehe.
4. DANG!!! Two-Cell Girl and her lack of manners must be doing something hardcore to be living all Posh Spice-like… wow. Her place is pretty sweet but what was sweeter was the Mini that she drove… it’s awesome.
5. Two-Cell Girl thinks we’re all buddies now, we’re not. I have way too many brain cells in my head for her to comprehend and handle. This was merely me doing what Gangster Oppa had asked me to. Apparently she was all stressed the other day, thinking that I was going to beat her or something. Oh please... I don't give out beats for free, what, do you think I'm some kind of amateur?! I'm a professional. My beats are going to cost you... from your pocket.
6. The club was relatively empty tonight and so I trained along side Junior Mint and Milk Dud. Little Miss Sunshine was the only other person there and so it meant I got to crank my own tunes. I really should record on video what training on nights like these are like cause it’s totally different than usual nights when the club is packed and Junior Mint is busy training a million and one boxers. Training tonight was intense but super fun. I was super pumped from the loud tunes and Junior Mint training by my side added to my adrenaline. Mind ya, I got in trouble for still not having cut my hair, apparently it’s a big deal to Junior Mint. I haven't had my hair cut since the summer and so my bangs are quite long. I tried to pin them back tonight but that totally failed. Junior Mint says he gives me a few more days before he takes his scissors and cuts it for me… oh gosh!!!
7. Got a chance to work in my original pair of Adidas gloves that the Cheonan Trump had given me. I’ve only used them once but I killed my other gloves a week or two ago and so I’m on to breaking in a new pair.
8. SOUND HAS RETURNED!!! Yup, that’s right. My computer got fixed tonight and so I am no longer stuck listening to my own blah singing or those annoying Korean radio stations… wicked!!!
9. Had an unexpected visitor show up tonight at my house, bearing nothing but his rendition of romance in a bag… hehehe… chicken and milk. He knew I’d be coming home late from boxing and would be starving, so he showed up with a feast in hand… nice.
10. He even brought food for me to indulge in for breakfast… very nice.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Is the modern day man seriously that ignorant to romance?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
-- Ivy Baker Priest
What made my morning so rotten…
* woke up in a cold sweat from a nightmare
* woke up two hours later than I had hoped for.. so much for weight training
* emailed myself the wrong file to print off for school
* photocopier decided to go loopy, leaving excess random blank pages
* made myself oatmeal at school and was left to eat it with ONE chopstick
* went to indulge in some yummy hard boiled eggs and realized too late they were LAST week’s old eggs
* found out too late that the skirt I was wearing was altered too much by my dry cleaning man
* Murphy’s Law, the one day I don’t bring my umbrella, it rains
* forgot my book in the office… all the way on the other side of campus
* and to top it ALL off, while waiting at a red light, some older man in front of me let one rip… now that’s just flat out dirty!!!
2. On the plus side however, I guess today kind of balanced it’s self out, starting with the end of class when a certain someone showed up outside my classroom, all decked out and eager to drive me where ever for whatever… can’t complain about that!
3. Unfortunately I had made the mistake of accepting an invite the other day by none other than Two-Cell Girl, as a kind of favour for Gangster Oppa, so I had to head out to her place today. Had a good laugh at the fact that Two-Cell Girl is more than comfortable walking down the street with me in her yellow duck pajamas… hehehe.
4. DANG!!! Two-Cell Girl and her lack of manners must be doing something hardcore to be living all Posh Spice-like… wow. Her place is pretty sweet but what was sweeter was the Mini that she drove… it’s awesome.
5. Two-Cell Girl thinks we’re all buddies now, we’re not. I have way too many brain cells in my head for her to comprehend and handle. This was merely me doing what Gangster Oppa had asked me to. Apparently she was all stressed the other day, thinking that I was going to beat her or something. Oh please... I don't give out beats for free, what, do you think I'm some kind of amateur?! I'm a professional. My beats are going to cost you... from your pocket.
6. The club was relatively empty tonight and so I trained along side Junior Mint and Milk Dud. Little Miss Sunshine was the only other person there and so it meant I got to crank my own tunes. I really should record on video what training on nights like these are like cause it’s totally different than usual nights when the club is packed and Junior Mint is busy training a million and one boxers. Training tonight was intense but super fun. I was super pumped from the loud tunes and Junior Mint training by my side added to my adrenaline. Mind ya, I got in trouble for still not having cut my hair, apparently it’s a big deal to Junior Mint. I haven't had my hair cut since the summer and so my bangs are quite long. I tried to pin them back tonight but that totally failed. Junior Mint says he gives me a few more days before he takes his scissors and cuts it for me… oh gosh!!!
7. Got a chance to work in my original pair of Adidas gloves that the Cheonan Trump had given me. I’ve only used them once but I killed my other gloves a week or two ago and so I’m on to breaking in a new pair.
8. SOUND HAS RETURNED!!! Yup, that’s right. My computer got fixed tonight and so I am no longer stuck listening to my own blah singing or those annoying Korean radio stations… wicked!!!
9. Had an unexpected visitor show up tonight at my house, bearing nothing but his rendition of romance in a bag… hehehe… chicken and milk. He knew I’d be coming home late from boxing and would be starving, so he showed up with a feast in hand… nice.
10. He even brought food for me to indulge in for breakfast… very nice.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Is the modern day man seriously that ignorant to romance?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
-- Ivy Baker Priest
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, November 26
1. Thank goodness for the badai cause God knows I’m way too busy to even wipe my own…. feet… hehehe. Just joking. I am super-duper busy these days though. With the school semester coming to an end in just a few weeks, time is ticking but the work seems to piling just as fast as the time is moving.
2. Luckily for me, I’ve found myself a personal assistant. Yup, that’s right. They more or less volunteered actually and bonus for me, my assistant is a guy! A beautiful Korean guy. I have been debating for some time now on who I could employee to help me with my marking and random errands for work. Despite being able to pay him adequately, my new assistant much prefers my company and random snackies, which is perfect for me because it sure beats shilling out mad green. Tonight I paid him with the ice cream cake I have in my freezer… hehehe.
3. Many of my students come early to class or stay after lecture to chit chat with me. I guess they’re amused by my random stories, which really aren’t so random when you consider the silliness that seeps it’s way into my everyday life. Anyways, today they had a story for me. Story for today: Brittney Spear’s new song titled, “If You Seek Amy”. Never was a big fan of Brittney but I’ve ironically started to like her more since her whole lock herself in the bathroom episode. Media princess pushed past her limits by the very people that created her.
4. Returned to boxing after two days of doctors orders to stay home. I was actually ordered to refrain from doing any kind of physical labour for about a week but two days was hard enough. I am a fitness-maniac… hehehe.
5. Upon arriving at the club, I was bombarded by some of my team mates and other boxers who had all heard about my accident. Apparently Junior Mint had told a bunch of them and well, it being a closely-knit club, word flies pretty quickly.
6. Junior Mint greeted me with a huge hug and smile, along with a brutal slap to the back of the neck for not going to the cops about it, refusing to take the pain killers, and for not taking the due break from training the doctor ordered. I joked and told him, “That’s Polish style”… hehehe. Sorry Poland, but I have these Koreans now convinced that Polish people are the most stubborn people… hehehe.
7. Headed over to Gangster Oppa’s club tonight to chat with him and his buddy. Two-Cell Girl randomly invited herself into our discussion, totally disregarding the whole leaning over the table “watch yourself” situation we had last week. I guess that’s what two brain cells will get you, low manners and an even smaller memory. I’m not a big fan of girls besides the ones that sit in my classes and so some girl batting her eye lashes at me and acting all cute does nothing but annoy me. I’m down with the dudes…. Hehehe.
8. Gangster Oppa lectured me about me not letting him help me with regards to the whole bus accident. Not too sure what he means as help but I can only imagine. He complained about me not calling him anymore and not sending random texts. I argued that I don’t call anyone. Unlike most of my friends who are sure to pick up some kind of funky virus or cancer via overusing their cells, I prefer the old fashion route… face-to-face conversations. I guess that’s why I also don’t really meet up with people. Besides on my homepage and with my real friends, I rather be a woman of few words. The other day I said to much about a little side “job” I’ve started and so I really have to learn to bite my tongue and keep things on a low.
9. Being persuaded to go out for a late night dinner with Gangster Oppa didn’t work. I just wanted to go home. As a friend, I like Gangster Oppa but ever since I had that argument with Two-Cell Girl, my impression of him has changed. He told me once that he didn’t like his job and I use to think that a job is just a job, a way of making money. It’s not who you are, it’s what you do, but now I am starting to think that maybe his job is who he really is. If he wasn’t doing what he does, I really can’t imagine what other job he’d suit, and that’s sad.
10. Returning back to my safe and cozy apartment, I scooped up Mi Nam and felt incredibly happy to not be living a life similar to Gangster Oppa or Two-Cell Girl. My life is relatively simple minus…. ah… (refer to #8)… pass.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What is normal?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I'm an incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige me.
-- Author Unknown
2. Luckily for me, I’ve found myself a personal assistant. Yup, that’s right. They more or less volunteered actually and bonus for me, my assistant is a guy! A beautiful Korean guy. I have been debating for some time now on who I could employee to help me with my marking and random errands for work. Despite being able to pay him adequately, my new assistant much prefers my company and random snackies, which is perfect for me because it sure beats shilling out mad green. Tonight I paid him with the ice cream cake I have in my freezer… hehehe.
3. Many of my students come early to class or stay after lecture to chit chat with me. I guess they’re amused by my random stories, which really aren’t so random when you consider the silliness that seeps it’s way into my everyday life. Anyways, today they had a story for me. Story for today: Brittney Spear’s new song titled, “If You Seek Amy”. Never was a big fan of Brittney but I’ve ironically started to like her more since her whole lock herself in the bathroom episode. Media princess pushed past her limits by the very people that created her.
4. Returned to boxing after two days of doctors orders to stay home. I was actually ordered to refrain from doing any kind of physical labour for about a week but two days was hard enough. I am a fitness-maniac… hehehe.
5. Upon arriving at the club, I was bombarded by some of my team mates and other boxers who had all heard about my accident. Apparently Junior Mint had told a bunch of them and well, it being a closely-knit club, word flies pretty quickly.
6. Junior Mint greeted me with a huge hug and smile, along with a brutal slap to the back of the neck for not going to the cops about it, refusing to take the pain killers, and for not taking the due break from training the doctor ordered. I joked and told him, “That’s Polish style”… hehehe. Sorry Poland, but I have these Koreans now convinced that Polish people are the most stubborn people… hehehe.
7. Headed over to Gangster Oppa’s club tonight to chat with him and his buddy. Two-Cell Girl randomly invited herself into our discussion, totally disregarding the whole leaning over the table “watch yourself” situation we had last week. I guess that’s what two brain cells will get you, low manners and an even smaller memory. I’m not a big fan of girls besides the ones that sit in my classes and so some girl batting her eye lashes at me and acting all cute does nothing but annoy me. I’m down with the dudes…. Hehehe.
8. Gangster Oppa lectured me about me not letting him help me with regards to the whole bus accident. Not too sure what he means as help but I can only imagine. He complained about me not calling him anymore and not sending random texts. I argued that I don’t call anyone. Unlike most of my friends who are sure to pick up some kind of funky virus or cancer via overusing their cells, I prefer the old fashion route… face-to-face conversations. I guess that’s why I also don’t really meet up with people. Besides on my homepage and with my real friends, I rather be a woman of few words. The other day I said to much about a little side “job” I’ve started and so I really have to learn to bite my tongue and keep things on a low.
9. Being persuaded to go out for a late night dinner with Gangster Oppa didn’t work. I just wanted to go home. As a friend, I like Gangster Oppa but ever since I had that argument with Two-Cell Girl, my impression of him has changed. He told me once that he didn’t like his job and I use to think that a job is just a job, a way of making money. It’s not who you are, it’s what you do, but now I am starting to think that maybe his job is who he really is. If he wasn’t doing what he does, I really can’t imagine what other job he’d suit, and that’s sad.
10. Returning back to my safe and cozy apartment, I scooped up Mi Nam and felt incredibly happy to not be living a life similar to Gangster Oppa or Two-Cell Girl. My life is relatively simple minus…. ah… (refer to #8)… pass.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What is normal?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I'm an incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige me.
-- Author Unknown
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, November 25
1. Woke up nice and slow… nice, slow AND stiff, mind ya.
2. Junior Mint called me today, again, to try to persuade me to go to the cops about yesterday's situation, considering the doctor suggested that I might have to go to physio therapy for my shoulder. I still rather just drop it. What had happened, basically, is that the bus driver got all ticked off at me for pressing the button. He was behind schedule and so he wanted to race it through the stop light. So, he suddenly stopped but no sooner had he stopped (more like a slow down), he closed the back down and sped away, causing my foot to get jammed in the door. The sudden closing of the door caused me to go flying out and so I did a kind of Super Woman fly but can crashing down cause I was still attached to the bus, via my ankle in the door. And let me tell ya, I hit the ground pretty hard, hard enough that despite me wanting to sprint down the street after the bus, I couldn't do anything but lay there. It sucked. The embarrassment on lying on the street is what picked me up and my pride is what got me home. As for calling the cops to pursue this legally, my disgust in cops and the legal system is what stopped me.
3. Had the first period off on account that the university had so conveniently organized a festival so close to the exam time. I spent this extra free time quite productively too… sleeping in late and sitting around with Mi Nam, eating fried eggs.
4. Despite having a million and one things piling up and haunting me… student quizzes that need to be marked, student take-home assignments flooding my desk this week, a final exam I need to create, hand out, mark, and do a review for, and final grades that need to be calculated (ALL by hand to I should note cause after the crash of 2007, I refuse to depend on some wonky computer)…. So ya, despite all the million and one ways I could have productively used my time this morning, I didn’t. And you know why I didn’t?! I didn’t because I knew that this was probably the last time for the next three weeks that I’ll be able to breath easy, relax, and simply enjoy the moment. From here on in, it’ll be non-stop busy, busy, busy.
5. Worked a total of 1 hour and 50 minutes today and then called it a day… sweet! And it would have been less had I photocopied my handouts yesterday (10 minutes).
6. Did a bit of shopping after work. I figured I was deserving of some new boots. 6. Who would have known that giving out my ex’s phone number would have scored me a $20 discount on boots?! I tell ya, if I had known earlier, I would have definitely used and abused this secret… hehehe.
7. Didn’t go to boxing today… doctor’s orders. He insisted I stay home and veg for the next week but you and I both know that’ll never happen. But I took his advance, at least for today. My shoulder is still feeling pretty messed up and so I parked my Polish butt on the couch and that’s where I stayed for a good chunk of the evening, marking student assignments.
8. I really should milk this situation I’ve found myself in and I tried to after a certain someone offered to massage my shoulder but that failed when he fell asleep on my couch
9. … on so I settled with massaging my own shoulder
10. … and continued marking. Got through two whole classes worth of take-home assignments.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What would you have done if you were in my shoes?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Indecision becomes decision with time.
-- Author Unknown
2. Junior Mint called me today, again, to try to persuade me to go to the cops about yesterday's situation, considering the doctor suggested that I might have to go to physio therapy for my shoulder. I still rather just drop it. What had happened, basically, is that the bus driver got all ticked off at me for pressing the button. He was behind schedule and so he wanted to race it through the stop light. So, he suddenly stopped but no sooner had he stopped (more like a slow down), he closed the back down and sped away, causing my foot to get jammed in the door. The sudden closing of the door caused me to go flying out and so I did a kind of Super Woman fly but can crashing down cause I was still attached to the bus, via my ankle in the door. And let me tell ya, I hit the ground pretty hard, hard enough that despite me wanting to sprint down the street after the bus, I couldn't do anything but lay there. It sucked. The embarrassment on lying on the street is what picked me up and my pride is what got me home. As for calling the cops to pursue this legally, my disgust in cops and the legal system is what stopped me.
3. Had the first period off on account that the university had so conveniently organized a festival so close to the exam time. I spent this extra free time quite productively too… sleeping in late and sitting around with Mi Nam, eating fried eggs.
4. Despite having a million and one things piling up and haunting me… student quizzes that need to be marked, student take-home assignments flooding my desk this week, a final exam I need to create, hand out, mark, and do a review for, and final grades that need to be calculated (ALL by hand to I should note cause after the crash of 2007, I refuse to depend on some wonky computer)…. So ya, despite all the million and one ways I could have productively used my time this morning, I didn’t. And you know why I didn’t?! I didn’t because I knew that this was probably the last time for the next three weeks that I’ll be able to breath easy, relax, and simply enjoy the moment. From here on in, it’ll be non-stop busy, busy, busy.
5. Worked a total of 1 hour and 50 minutes today and then called it a day… sweet! And it would have been less had I photocopied my handouts yesterday (10 minutes).
6. Did a bit of shopping after work. I figured I was deserving of some new boots. 6. Who would have known that giving out my ex’s phone number would have scored me a $20 discount on boots?! I tell ya, if I had known earlier, I would have definitely used and abused this secret… hehehe.
7. Didn’t go to boxing today… doctor’s orders. He insisted I stay home and veg for the next week but you and I both know that’ll never happen. But I took his advance, at least for today. My shoulder is still feeling pretty messed up and so I parked my Polish butt on the couch and that’s where I stayed for a good chunk of the evening, marking student assignments.
8. I really should milk this situation I’ve found myself in and I tried to after a certain someone offered to massage my shoulder but that failed when he fell asleep on my couch
9. … on so I settled with massaging my own shoulder
10. … and continued marking. Got through two whole classes worth of take-home assignments.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What would you have done if you were in my shoes?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Indecision becomes decision with time.
-- Author Unknown
Monday, November 24, 2008
Highlights of my Day... Monday, November 24
1. Old Man Sambu (one of the workers for my apartment building) told me today that he cries when I forget to say hi to him in the morning... hehehe.
2. Monday morning first period students continue to drive me bonkers. They never talk, well all but Kai. The look on my student Kai’s face today was priceless. He’s one of my top students and pretty much the only one that participates in his class. I had told him once, “Don’t leave me alone with them! I need you in class.” And so, today, when he showed up late, he must have said “I’m sorry” a dozen times. He knew I was dying in class without him… hehehe.
3. Today was the due date for my assigned take-home assignment and wow, I must say, this semester’s entries are looking pretty interesting… hehehe. I’m always telling them that I really am not so concerned with their English level as much as I am with them just trying to communicate, whether that be with body language, Konglish, English, or broken English. I really tried to push the idea of creativity and well, MANY of them definitely took me up on that… AWESOME!!!
4. For the most part, students did surveys about dating, which is always a funny topic talking to Korean students about. While many students questioned their friends about who should pay for the date, where to go and what do you look for in a boy/girlfriend, one of my students took it a step farther and titled his “Men’s Secrets”… hehehe. No sooner had he handed it to me but I was already glancing through the pages.
5. I fell out of a bus today. Well, it was more of like a “squished out” or “squeezed out”, as opposed to a “fell out”, but regardless, it sure beat the “dragged out” that it almost became.
6. It was one of those curl-up-and-want-to-die moments in which you swore the whole world was watching, like with some giant satellite or something. And I spent just as much time inspecting my precious fox-fur jacket as the doctor did inspecting my body. After a couple of x-rays, random health tests, and a whole whack of questions, he turned to me and said, “Don’t worry. Your IQ is still same”… “Oh.. still high, cool” I joked.
7. Was sent me home with a prescription and, knowing prescriptions in Korea, it probably will consist of a couple dozen multi-coloured pills followed by a few follow-up appointments and another needle in the butt. No thanks. The only pills I pop into this body of mine are ones that read “vitamin A” or “vitamin C” on them and so the only use I had for my prescription paper was to use it to wrap my stale gum in.
8. I was ordered to stay home and relax but with it only being 3pm, I anticipated boredom and knew I’d have to explain this all to Junior Mint. And so, most of my evening was spent on my back, lying on the floor, as I could feel my body slowly, but surely, stiffening up.
9. The other part of my evening was spent trying to convince Junior Mint to leave the police out of this. He was really ticked off about what had happened to me but I told him to drop it. I have to take the bus almost everyday and so the last thing I need is some bus driver giving me a hard time because I ratted him out. I’m not a rat and I’ve never been one to turn to police.
10. I made the mistake by making a joke and telling him that if I was going to call anyone for help it’d be Gangster Oppa. An hour or so past and so I thought the issue had been dropped. I was lying on the floor, simply minding my business, when all of a sudden my cell started ringing. It was Gangster Oppa. Some how he had heard about today’s “situation” and was all concerned. At first I had no idea that he knew though. Our conversation started off with him asking me, “Amy, what do you want to do?”, in which I laughed and blurted out, “I want to go to Disney Land!” He didn’t like my joke and I knew by his tone that he was definitely not in the mood for it. He mentioned something about wanting to meet with me to talk about today and that’s when I clued in.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do people still trust police nowadays?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
-- Author Unknown
2. Monday morning first period students continue to drive me bonkers. They never talk, well all but Kai. The look on my student Kai’s face today was priceless. He’s one of my top students and pretty much the only one that participates in his class. I had told him once, “Don’t leave me alone with them! I need you in class.” And so, today, when he showed up late, he must have said “I’m sorry” a dozen times. He knew I was dying in class without him… hehehe.
3. Today was the due date for my assigned take-home assignment and wow, I must say, this semester’s entries are looking pretty interesting… hehehe. I’m always telling them that I really am not so concerned with their English level as much as I am with them just trying to communicate, whether that be with body language, Konglish, English, or broken English. I really tried to push the idea of creativity and well, MANY of them definitely took me up on that… AWESOME!!!
4. For the most part, students did surveys about dating, which is always a funny topic talking to Korean students about. While many students questioned their friends about who should pay for the date, where to go and what do you look for in a boy/girlfriend, one of my students took it a step farther and titled his “Men’s Secrets”… hehehe. No sooner had he handed it to me but I was already glancing through the pages.
5. I fell out of a bus today. Well, it was more of like a “squished out” or “squeezed out”, as opposed to a “fell out”, but regardless, it sure beat the “dragged out” that it almost became.
6. It was one of those curl-up-and-want-to-die moments in which you swore the whole world was watching, like with some giant satellite or something. And I spent just as much time inspecting my precious fox-fur jacket as the doctor did inspecting my body. After a couple of x-rays, random health tests, and a whole whack of questions, he turned to me and said, “Don’t worry. Your IQ is still same”… “Oh.. still high, cool” I joked.
7. Was sent me home with a prescription and, knowing prescriptions in Korea, it probably will consist of a couple dozen multi-coloured pills followed by a few follow-up appointments and another needle in the butt. No thanks. The only pills I pop into this body of mine are ones that read “vitamin A” or “vitamin C” on them and so the only use I had for my prescription paper was to use it to wrap my stale gum in.
8. I was ordered to stay home and relax but with it only being 3pm, I anticipated boredom and knew I’d have to explain this all to Junior Mint. And so, most of my evening was spent on my back, lying on the floor, as I could feel my body slowly, but surely, stiffening up.
9. The other part of my evening was spent trying to convince Junior Mint to leave the police out of this. He was really ticked off about what had happened to me but I told him to drop it. I have to take the bus almost everyday and so the last thing I need is some bus driver giving me a hard time because I ratted him out. I’m not a rat and I’ve never been one to turn to police.
10. I made the mistake by making a joke and telling him that if I was going to call anyone for help it’d be Gangster Oppa. An hour or so past and so I thought the issue had been dropped. I was lying on the floor, simply minding my business, when all of a sudden my cell started ringing. It was Gangster Oppa. Some how he had heard about today’s “situation” and was all concerned. At first I had no idea that he knew though. Our conversation started off with him asking me, “Amy, what do you want to do?”, in which I laughed and blurted out, “I want to go to Disney Land!” He didn’t like my joke and I knew by his tone that he was definitely not in the mood for it. He mentioned something about wanting to meet with me to talk about today and that’s when I clued in.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do people still trust police nowadays?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
In God we trust, all others we virus scan.
-- Author Unknown
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Walking under all these beautifully lite trees bombarded with tiny lights and crisp leaves crackling under my boots seemed too romantic for Mi Nam and I to enjoy together... hehehe.
... so someone else tried tested their luck.
I for one have never believed in luck and the only thing romantic in this picture is the dude in the background who kissed his girlfriend in front of me.
Highlights of my Day... Sunday, November 23
1. Random habits I absolutely despise doing…
- washing my face
- combing my hair… strangely enough, I only comb my hair once every 2 days...haha
- bathing Mi Nam… I prefer his “potato chip” smelly body
- vacuuming… Mi Nam always freaks out when I do
- washing my hand wraps for boxing… hehehe… stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinky!!!
- washing my frying pan… it’s gross, I know, but I my eggs don’t stick as much
when it’s one day dirty
- wearing socks
- talking on the phone... I'm just not that kind of girl anymore
- waking up early... not even a free gym membership can get me up
- ironing and after 10 years of living on my own, I still have never ironed. That's what the dry cleaning man is for silly... hehehe.
2. Weird and not-so-weird habits I can’t seem to get enough of …
- brushing my teeth… on average I wake up 2-3 times in the night to brush
- doing laundry… am addicted to the lavender fabric freshener
- grocery shopping… I stop by the grocery store at least 4 times a week
- showering… I shower 2-3 times depending on if I went weight training/boxing, and
I shower long…I think this stems from my clean-freak ex
- cat naps... I'm notorious for random mid-afternoon and mid-evening naps
- bedtime stories... I use to listen to them on a tape deck before I lost my tape
- breakfast of champions... no matter how late I'm running, I ALWAYS eat breakfast
- lounging around the house in minimal clothing... it's my golden house rule, hehehe.
- pressing the snooze button... we have a mutual love-hate relationship cause I set my alarm for 6:40am but, and it never fails, I always continually press the button and wake up at 7:30am.
- cranking my music... I like to think of it as "sharing" it with my neighbors
- breaking out into spontanious dance moves... trust me, I even do this in class... hehe
- mimicing people... it's both a bad and good thing, helps me with learning Korean
intonation but ticks some people off
3. Slaved away at my Power Point lecture. This week will be week 13 at school, lecture 12. Next week will be the exam review, then the exam, and then my final mark interviews… cool! This means that there’s technically only 1 more lecture I have to create and a total of 4 more weeks of school…. Sweet!!!
4. You know you’re a geek when you race off to the PC room to print off a TOPIK (proficiency in Korean language test)… hehehe. One of my students works part-time at the PC room near my house and I knew, if she knew the English word “geek”, she would have definitely called me that today.
5. Agreed to do the unthinkable, ditch the diet for a meal, and splurge on cheese tak galbi. I treated Mr. Starbucks my favourite meal in Cheonan and then gave him a bit of a tour of downtown, hitting the main strip of shops, the mall, theatre, bookstore, and Coffee Bean. I give him a week before he’s addicted to Coffee Bean running through his veins… hehehe.
6. The main lady at the cheese tak galbi restaurant asked me why I haven’t visited her lately, and about an hour later, once the food sat heavily in my tummy, I was reminded of why I eat smaller meals. Ahhhh… tummy ache!!!
7. Had a meeting with my director today and so I nervously headed off for that. I’m brutal for expecting the worst and so I went there thinking that it’d result in the pulling of hair or some chair throwing… hehehe. No worries though. Turns out it was just a matter of miss communication and so, needless to say, I was relieved. Still got my job… hehehe.
8. Sat with my potato-chip-smelling Mi Nam for a couple of hours, marking quizzes. Not fun.
9. I had been wanting to see the movie “Blindness” for awhile now and what a coincidence but who should I run into but a certain someone with movie tickets to the very movie I want to see and no one to share his second ticket with?! So… tonight I got to see it. It was kind of like “Lord of the Flies”. It made for an interesting watch and it had a couple of well-known actors, so my expectations of it were pretty high, but there were some noteworthy flaws in the writing. For starters, the fact that none of them clued into the fact that many of them were the main character’s patients was pretty brutal. Then there’s the fact that the main woman (who could see) didn’t really try to cover up her secret and carelessly walked around the place. Actually, I’ll stop there… I don’t want to spoil it for you. It was pretty good but not great.
10. Christmas decorations are in full-effect here in Cheonan and so tonight I sat outside in the park and enjoyed the lights. I’m not a big fan of Christmas besides it reminding me that I’m not in Canada but I dig the white lights on the park trees.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What are your habits?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you.
-- Frank Crane
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Congratulations are DEFINITELY in order for Tosca Reno who finished in 4th place despite her stunning personality and amazing sense of self that should have scored her 1st place.Strong is beautiful and so I have a lot of respect and admiration for her. Congrats to all her hardwork that paid off and congrats to her for being able to finally indulge in some much anticipated and craved for carbs!!!
Highlights of my Day... Saturday, November 22
1. Woke up to my phone going bonkers across the floor. Someone was calling me. I normally don’t pick up my cell but given the time, 5:30am, I thought it might be a friend from Canada. I stumbled to grab it, looked at the screen and then noticed the name flashing. It was someone in Korea. Hmmm…. Sorry but I am no one’s last-call lady and I don’t respond to anyone calling me at 5:30am unless they’re going to early morning weight training with me.
2. My super early morning phone call, which never did result in a conversation but instead ended with me turning my cell off, ended up putting into motion a strange morning. I ended up waking up with the biggest sugar craving. Now, anyone that knows me knows I very, very rarely indulge in any kind of sweets or treats. Jennipal can vouch for this, she’s seen my fridge, it’s filled to the brim with fruits, eggs, chicken, and veggies, and my shelves are lined with multi-vitamins, no-salt crackers, protein mix, and tuna. My house is the health-nut’s paradise but it’s also a self-made hell when cravings hit, and today, I had an unexpected, super strong craving that I wanted to satisfy. No such luck though. The only small stash of choco pies are gone, I finished off my peanut butter last week, and I threw out the ice cream cake the other day. The closest I came to scoring something sweet was gum and eating a persimmon. Mind ya, the gum was sugarless and eating fruit in the morning is ok. I would have been a real “rebel” to my diet had the persimmon been eaten after 4pm… hehehe.
3. Wow, looking back at yesterday’s post, I sounded really, really harsh and I apologize for that but it’s not easy posting your life online. I mean, the emails and comments I get… wow. I know you can’t please everyone but I sure wish that those I didn’t please would just get lost in cyberspace instead of filling up my email box…hehehe.
4. Although I admit that I do tend to get sensitive with some of the commenters, it’s funny how people don’t seem to understand the power of their words. Words can be just as hurtful as physically attacking someone, if not worse. Broken bones heal and bruises fade away, but the internal scars left by loose lips and harsh words stick with people. I still, to this day, can quote some lines from people who verbally scarred me but who probably have no recollection of it. Whether it was my father’s one-time “I’m disappointed in you”, my ex’s “... but you’re a foreigner” or my university professor’s “… a girl like you…”, words hurt. I wish I could forget them, like the millions of things I regularly forget, like picking up my dry cleaning, turning off the light, or setting my alarm clock, …but I can’t.
5. But enough about that babbling…. on to more of today’s things I did. Hmmm… what did I do?! Oh yes, I went boxing today, no surprise there. What did surprise me though was my minus level of energy. Thankfully Junior Mint was closing up the club early and so that got me out of sparring. I could have used the extra sparring practice but considering my state, I was happy for the break. Weekly training definitely takes it’s toll on my body and so by Friday night, Saturday morning, I am eagerly anticipating a day off training.
6. Stocked up on lots of goodies at the Galleria, and by goodies I mean persimmons and eggs. My hook-up man with the eggs has been slacking this week and so I didn’t get my delivery of 30 eggs.
7. Side Salad was downtown promoting the opening of his new club and so I was just about to head out the door to check it out when I got a phone call. It was Mr. Starbucks calling. He had made his official move to Cheonan and so we talked about meeting up tomorrow for lunch.
8. A phone call from Mr. Starbucks resulted in me sitting back down on my office chair and then sitting in my office chair lead to me getting back to work. Spent another hour or so planning next week’s lecture and then finally decided I had to get out of the house. It was a Saturday night, I was home alone, 28, and this was by no means the kind of Saturday night I ever envisioned for myself. My buddies back in Toronto would never believe me if I told them I was home alone on a Saturday night. I was never home. I was always out. Yup, that was me… that was me back then, Little Miss Social Butterfly. Even a city-wide blackout one summer in Toronto didn’t stop me from heading out to enjoy a night on the town, a blackened town mind ya, but nonetheless, a night on the town.
9. Eventually I made my way to where Side Salad was. He was hanging out at a little bar tucked away downtown and his sister was there. I haven’t quite figured out what nickname to give her but don’t worry, it will come… hehehe.
10. Sitting there giggling up a storm and chatting with Side Salad, his sister, the bar owner, and their friends, I realized something. I really need to learn how to have fun more.
QUESTION OF THE DAY…
Did you ever imagine you’d be here?
QUOTE OF THE DAY…
Life is venture or nothing.
-- Author Unknown
2. My super early morning phone call, which never did result in a conversation but instead ended with me turning my cell off, ended up putting into motion a strange morning. I ended up waking up with the biggest sugar craving. Now, anyone that knows me knows I very, very rarely indulge in any kind of sweets or treats. Jennipal can vouch for this, she’s seen my fridge, it’s filled to the brim with fruits, eggs, chicken, and veggies, and my shelves are lined with multi-vitamins, no-salt crackers, protein mix, and tuna. My house is the health-nut’s paradise but it’s also a self-made hell when cravings hit, and today, I had an unexpected, super strong craving that I wanted to satisfy. No such luck though. The only small stash of choco pies are gone, I finished off my peanut butter last week, and I threw out the ice cream cake the other day. The closest I came to scoring something sweet was gum and eating a persimmon. Mind ya, the gum was sugarless and eating fruit in the morning is ok. I would have been a real “rebel” to my diet had the persimmon been eaten after 4pm… hehehe.
3. Wow, looking back at yesterday’s post, I sounded really, really harsh and I apologize for that but it’s not easy posting your life online. I mean, the emails and comments I get… wow. I know you can’t please everyone but I sure wish that those I didn’t please would just get lost in cyberspace instead of filling up my email box…hehehe.
4. Although I admit that I do tend to get sensitive with some of the commenters, it’s funny how people don’t seem to understand the power of their words. Words can be just as hurtful as physically attacking someone, if not worse. Broken bones heal and bruises fade away, but the internal scars left by loose lips and harsh words stick with people. I still, to this day, can quote some lines from people who verbally scarred me but who probably have no recollection of it. Whether it was my father’s one-time “I’m disappointed in you”, my ex’s “... but you’re a foreigner” or my university professor’s “… a girl like you…”, words hurt. I wish I could forget them, like the millions of things I regularly forget, like picking up my dry cleaning, turning off the light, or setting my alarm clock, …but I can’t.
5. But enough about that babbling…. on to more of today’s things I did. Hmmm… what did I do?! Oh yes, I went boxing today, no surprise there. What did surprise me though was my minus level of energy. Thankfully Junior Mint was closing up the club early and so that got me out of sparring. I could have used the extra sparring practice but considering my state, I was happy for the break. Weekly training definitely takes it’s toll on my body and so by Friday night, Saturday morning, I am eagerly anticipating a day off training.
6. Stocked up on lots of goodies at the Galleria, and by goodies I mean persimmons and eggs. My hook-up man with the eggs has been slacking this week and so I didn’t get my delivery of 30 eggs.
7. Side Salad was downtown promoting the opening of his new club and so I was just about to head out the door to check it out when I got a phone call. It was Mr. Starbucks calling. He had made his official move to Cheonan and so we talked about meeting up tomorrow for lunch.
8. A phone call from Mr. Starbucks resulted in me sitting back down on my office chair and then sitting in my office chair lead to me getting back to work. Spent another hour or so planning next week’s lecture and then finally decided I had to get out of the house. It was a Saturday night, I was home alone, 28, and this was by no means the kind of Saturday night I ever envisioned for myself. My buddies back in Toronto would never believe me if I told them I was home alone on a Saturday night. I was never home. I was always out. Yup, that was me… that was me back then, Little Miss Social Butterfly. Even a city-wide blackout one summer in Toronto didn’t stop me from heading out to enjoy a night on the town, a blackened town mind ya, but nonetheless, a night on the town.
9. Eventually I made my way to where Side Salad was. He was hanging out at a little bar tucked away downtown and his sister was there. I haven’t quite figured out what nickname to give her but don’t worry, it will come… hehehe.
10. Sitting there giggling up a storm and chatting with Side Salad, his sister, the bar owner, and their friends, I realized something. I really need to learn how to have fun more.
QUESTION OF THE DAY…
Did you ever imagine you’d be here?
QUOTE OF THE DAY…
Life is venture or nothing.
-- Author Unknown
Friday, November 21, 2008
Highlights of my Day... Friday, November 21
1. Please, scoop where you poop! I won’t say it again. Some of you out there just LOVE bashing what I say and I can only imagine your situation, sitting in some trailer with your brother/lover by your side and a can of beer on the other side. I’m just joking…. Or am I?! Regardless, just stop it. You REALLY need to a. get a life or b. get a hobby, cause I really don’t understand some people. If you don’t like me, that’s ok. I’ll still go on to lead a very successful long life but the least you could do is keep it to yourself or move on. Many of my family, friends and whatnot read my homepage so you splattering it with your rude comments and attacks are not appreciated and will be deleated. This is my homepage, this is where I post about my life, my thoughts, and where I try to keep it open and honest. Key word there being "MY", so, if you don't like it, well, I really don't care. Go make your own homepage and rant on that. Moreover, there are plenty of other homepagers that I’m sure would love to get into a good written fight with you. But as for me, I try to keep my fights in the ring, thanks. Call me melodramatic, call me rude, call me whatever... but don't for a second think your labels fit me. Unless you are someone who knows me personally, then you really have no right critizing me. This is my life. I chose to share it with those via the Internet but never, at any point, did I ever invite you to come and poop on it. Half of you can't even sign your rude comments with your own name and so I wonder, do you ever think about what I think of YOU?! No, of course not, cause you're too busy bashing my life to really live your own.
3. The theme this week apparently has been “fight with Amy”, wow. Whether it’s people attacking me on my homepage or people asking to spar with me at the club, I’ve definitely been in a weird position this week.
4. New plan with my training:
Monday = sparring with Little Miss Sunshine at 4pm
Tuesday = sparring with Gangster Oppa at 3pm
Saturday = sparring with Milk Dud at 4pm
5. It’ll be challenging and it’ll mean that three days a week my ears will be ringing but I’m sure I’ll definitely improve my game. Little Miss Sunshine, honestly, isn’t really a good boxer. She boxes to lose weight but I totally love this girl for her volunteering to help me out and for continually being one of my cheer leaders. Sparring with Gangster Oppa is more about focusing on my defense and learning how to deal with him hustling me in the ring. We’re both in-fighters and so it’s a wicked chance for me to learn how to defend someone who fights exactly like me. And as for sparring with Milk Dud, it’ll give me a chance to really focus on the mental aspects of fighting. Milk Dud is an amateur boxer at the top of his game but his big thing is bouncing around the ring like the Energizer Bunny and so it’s really quite nerve racking. He gives a very fast paced match that leaves you mentally dizzy and feeling like you’re playing some kind of cat and mouse chase in the ring. Sparring with him always leaves me frustrated cause he moves around the ring like a two year old who’s indulged in too much candy and has been injected with 100% pure caffine.
6. As for what I actually did today, besides think of boxing which I do everyday, I stayed home and laid on the couch, well, for the most part. I was in such a weird mood today.
7. I received a text message from a certain someone at my school, urging me to come and talk to them about something important and so I had no choice but to cancel my Korean language tutoring and head off to meet this person. Nothing was really solved and so I was kicking myself for not going to Korean class.
8. At boxing tonight my coach sat me down and tried to have a serious talk with me. He’s taken notice to the fact that I’ve lost a lot of weight recently and I’m sporting some injuries lately that he’s convinced I never got from training at the club. He’s right… about both, but I couldn’t tell him and so I tried to joke it off. He didn’t look happy but if he knew where I was scoring those injuries, he’d really be not happy, mind ya, he’d definitely view me in a different light and might be somewhat impressed. After all, if he was impressed with me taking on that foreign dude at the bar awhile back, then well, ya…. He’d definitely be impressed.
9. With no real plan for the evening, I accepted an offer to go out for dinner. Boxing was the topic of discussion at the dinner table, well, that and gay men… strange combo, I know. The other day I had introduced “this person” to a friend of mine who is bi-sexual. He was shocked and it caught me a bit off guard. I didn’t know what shocked him, the fact that one person could be attracted to both sexes or the fact that a bi-sexual Korean lives in Korea. Anyways, this opened up a whole can of worms tonight at the dinner table, of all places, and so I rambled on about my gay friends in Toronto while he sat there with his jaw wide open… hehehe. I’m not even going to voice my opinion about the issue but I will say this, if they think they’re honestly in love than hats off to them, it sure beats what I got going on here… hehehe.
10. In attempt to impress me, my friend, whom I went to dinner with, had bought a whole new outfit just for the occasion…. Hehehe. He wore his gorgeous leather jacket that I once told him I loved, and under the jacket he was sporting a new dress shirt, a pair of new trendy jeans, and some shoes. I had a good giggle when I noticed his shoes cause I knew they were totally not his style, they were my style. He’s a jeans, shirt and runners kind of a guy but tonight he showed up all decked out in new threads. Impressive. My fox-fur trimmed leather coat kicked his sports leather jacket but those shoes… those shoes definitely stole the show… hehehe.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
If my boots are meant for walking, what are those shoes for?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here.
-- Author Unknown
Put that on your fork and chew it.
Silly, silly, fugly choanoflagellate-like people.2. Moving on…. Thank you to those of you who took it upon yourself to email me and show your concern. Much appreciated. Lots of hugs for you!!!
Poop pollutes; stop forgetting to scoop YOUR poop!
3. The theme this week apparently has been “fight with Amy”, wow. Whether it’s people attacking me on my homepage or people asking to spar with me at the club, I’ve definitely been in a weird position this week.
4. New plan with my training:
Monday = sparring with Little Miss Sunshine at 4pm
Tuesday = sparring with Gangster Oppa at 3pm
Saturday = sparring with Milk Dud at 4pm
5. It’ll be challenging and it’ll mean that three days a week my ears will be ringing but I’m sure I’ll definitely improve my game. Little Miss Sunshine, honestly, isn’t really a good boxer. She boxes to lose weight but I totally love this girl for her volunteering to help me out and for continually being one of my cheer leaders. Sparring with Gangster Oppa is more about focusing on my defense and learning how to deal with him hustling me in the ring. We’re both in-fighters and so it’s a wicked chance for me to learn how to defend someone who fights exactly like me. And as for sparring with Milk Dud, it’ll give me a chance to really focus on the mental aspects of fighting. Milk Dud is an amateur boxer at the top of his game but his big thing is bouncing around the ring like the Energizer Bunny and so it’s really quite nerve racking. He gives a very fast paced match that leaves you mentally dizzy and feeling like you’re playing some kind of cat and mouse chase in the ring. Sparring with him always leaves me frustrated cause he moves around the ring like a two year old who’s indulged in too much candy and has been injected with 100% pure caffine.
6. As for what I actually did today, besides think of boxing which I do everyday, I stayed home and laid on the couch, well, for the most part. I was in such a weird mood today.
7. I received a text message from a certain someone at my school, urging me to come and talk to them about something important and so I had no choice but to cancel my Korean language tutoring and head off to meet this person. Nothing was really solved and so I was kicking myself for not going to Korean class.
8. At boxing tonight my coach sat me down and tried to have a serious talk with me. He’s taken notice to the fact that I’ve lost a lot of weight recently and I’m sporting some injuries lately that he’s convinced I never got from training at the club. He’s right… about both, but I couldn’t tell him and so I tried to joke it off. He didn’t look happy but if he knew where I was scoring those injuries, he’d really be not happy, mind ya, he’d definitely view me in a different light and might be somewhat impressed. After all, if he was impressed with me taking on that foreign dude at the bar awhile back, then well, ya…. He’d definitely be impressed.
9. With no real plan for the evening, I accepted an offer to go out for dinner. Boxing was the topic of discussion at the dinner table, well, that and gay men… strange combo, I know. The other day I had introduced “this person” to a friend of mine who is bi-sexual. He was shocked and it caught me a bit off guard. I didn’t know what shocked him, the fact that one person could be attracted to both sexes or the fact that a bi-sexual Korean lives in Korea. Anyways, this opened up a whole can of worms tonight at the dinner table, of all places, and so I rambled on about my gay friends in Toronto while he sat there with his jaw wide open… hehehe. I’m not even going to voice my opinion about the issue but I will say this, if they think they’re honestly in love than hats off to them, it sure beats what I got going on here… hehehe.
10. In attempt to impress me, my friend, whom I went to dinner with, had bought a whole new outfit just for the occasion…. Hehehe. He wore his gorgeous leather jacket that I once told him I loved, and under the jacket he was sporting a new dress shirt, a pair of new trendy jeans, and some shoes. I had a good giggle when I noticed his shoes cause I knew they were totally not his style, they were my style. He’s a jeans, shirt and runners kind of a guy but tonight he showed up all decked out in new threads. Impressive. My fox-fur trimmed leather coat kicked his sports leather jacket but those shoes… those shoes definitely stole the show… hehehe.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
If my boots are meant for walking, what are those shoes for?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here.
-- Author Unknown
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Highlights of my Day... Thursday, November 20
1. Had fried eggs for breakfast and then became one big fried Pollack when I accidentally leaned on some mysterious pipe in my classroom. Instantly I yelled out and so some students jumped out of their seat to assist me. My arm had only touched it for a split second but that split second was long enough for it to leave me with a quarter-sized burn. It stung like a mofo!!!
2. Got props and tons of comments from my students for my fox-fir trimmed leather coat. See, I was right… this coat is DEFINITELY paying for itself… hehehe.
3. Ending my stressful week off with my all-boys class was awesome. They’re awesome.
4. Was treated out for lunch at a local Italian restaurant, probably the only one around where they understand and know how to make real Italian pasta, none of this ketchup business with the pasta sauce. I use to always come here with my ex, The Big Ex, and so I haven’t been here for about 2 years. Surprisingly enough, the manager remembered me and so he came to my table to chat with me. Mind ya, he knew he didn’t recognize the guy I was there with and so he gave him quite the strange look… hehehe. He use to joke with me, telling me that I must let him cook for our wedding. I guess that’s not going to happen now, oops.
5. My Man Friend has unofficially left my homepage. No more writing of him. Being attacked about issues regarding him is not a hobby I want to pursue or be pushed into, thanks. Your privilages have been used, abused... and now they're gone.
7. You know you don’t get out much for fun when your boxing coach stops you in mid-training and ask you if you want to drink soju.
8. Calling myself a wangtta at training scored me an unexpected punch to the head by Black Skinny and let me tell you this, getting a punch any where on the body from the Korean champion is DEFINITELY felt… ouch!
9. Did the unthinkable, I called someone on my phone… hehehe. Besides the random calls I make to the Original Buff Boy in Australia and Italiano in Canada, I very, very, very rarely call anyone. I hardly answer my calls too for that matter. I’m all about text messaging. I am the text message queen… hehehe. Anyways, I gave Side Salad a call tonight to wish him all the best with his concert. He was opening up for Drunken Tiger tonight out in Seoul and so I caught him in the VIP room before he went on.
10. Did what wangtta’s do best, hibernated at home for the evening with no one but Mi Nam. Was in bed by 10:30pm.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who's pointing the finger at you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
-- Author Unknown
2. Got props and tons of comments from my students for my fox-fir trimmed leather coat. See, I was right… this coat is DEFINITELY paying for itself… hehehe.
3. Ending my stressful week off with my all-boys class was awesome. They’re awesome.
4. Was treated out for lunch at a local Italian restaurant, probably the only one around where they understand and know how to make real Italian pasta, none of this ketchup business with the pasta sauce. I use to always come here with my ex, The Big Ex, and so I haven’t been here for about 2 years. Surprisingly enough, the manager remembered me and so he came to my table to chat with me. Mind ya, he knew he didn’t recognize the guy I was there with and so he gave him quite the strange look… hehehe. He use to joke with me, telling me that I must let him cook for our wedding. I guess that’s not going to happen now, oops.
5. My Man Friend has unofficially left my homepage. No more writing of him. Being attacked about issues regarding him is not a hobby I want to pursue or be pushed into, thanks. Your privilages have been used, abused... and now they're gone.
7. You know you don’t get out much for fun when your boxing coach stops you in mid-training and ask you if you want to drink soju.
8. Calling myself a wangtta at training scored me an unexpected punch to the head by Black Skinny and let me tell you this, getting a punch any where on the body from the Korean champion is DEFINITELY felt… ouch!
9. Did the unthinkable, I called someone on my phone… hehehe. Besides the random calls I make to the Original Buff Boy in Australia and Italiano in Canada, I very, very, very rarely call anyone. I hardly answer my calls too for that matter. I’m all about text messaging. I am the text message queen… hehehe. Anyways, I gave Side Salad a call tonight to wish him all the best with his concert. He was opening up for Drunken Tiger tonight out in Seoul and so I caught him in the VIP room before he went on.
10. Did what wangtta’s do best, hibernated at home for the evening with no one but Mi Nam. Was in bed by 10:30pm.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who's pointing the finger at you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
-- Author Unknown
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