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.

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.
Put that on your fork and chew it.



Silly, silly, fugly choanoflagellate-like people.

Poop pollutes; stop forgetting to scoop YOUR poop!

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!!!

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

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Im glad everythings back =)
I dont want to bring up anything that shouldnt be, but you talk about extremely rude comments on your homepage. I have only seen people being opinionated and at times negative. Do we have different perspectives or do you delete them all?
The reason I dont sign with my real name is because I dont feel I have the right. I dont even know who I am, so how can I say who wrote this comment? Sounds weird, but its the internet and although I hope to meet you one day, for know its a blog, and as much as I love it i will always feel a need to be "hidden"
*hugs*
-sweetie

권투선수 에이미 [Amy] said...

Hi Sweetie,

Ya, me too.
As for those rude comments, most of them were sent to me via my email. Waking up everyday to an email box full of negative words and rude comments tends to get to someone after a while.
Some have left some very opinionated comments on my homepage that I thought were inappropriate and just down right not called for. I know I make myself vulnerable to these kinds of people but honestly, I think most of them fail to see me as a person. I am more like a sitting duck to them whom they feel the right to continually shoot down.
Don't have the right? I don't understand. Of course you have the right, mind ya, I like the cute name you sign your comments with... hehehe.

Anonymous said...

Mean emails are a bit much, I agree. But I dont quite see the issue with homepage comments. I spend a lot of time on the net, and talk on forums and understand how people express themselves virtually. Let me tell you, a homepage likes yours, organized, creative, and interesting is a rarity. For someone to stop by and leave a paragraph of their opinion is not normal. The comments you get might not side with you, but they have a lot of effort and thought behind them. With the issue itself, it was merely a miscommunication, I think due to different cultures. Your blog read like "my ex didnt celebrate our anniversery" but what you meant is a friend didnt remember an occasion. Thats understandable. Remember, this is the internet, where people voice the opinions they wouldnt normally in real life. Not everyone who reads this is a good friend. All Im saying is you should try and see that negative comments aren't much to most of the comments people put up (Eg Youtube). And even that site tries to censor things. I like to think of myself as someone who would be a good friend if i was there, and so I try and put a lot of thought behind what I say, and time. No matter what happens, Im on your side =)
-sweeeeeetie

Anonymous said...

This is funny because I DO have a beer (bottled) and my brother at my side right now.

tee hee!

권투선수 에이미 [Amy] said...

Hey Sweeeeeeeeetie,
Did I put enough e's?! Hehehe...
Thanks for the compliment with calling my homepage as a rarity.
I know, not everyone agrees with me, that's cool. It's how they go about telling me. A lot of the times it's not what they say but instead HOW they say it.
Thanks for the continual support.

Hello Anonymous,
Oh gosh... hehehe. I doubt your brother is your brother/lover though, but thanks for the laugh.