1. Meet up with Junior Mint at 3pm to train together. The fact that this time next week he’ll be stepping into the ring for his big come back fight doesn’t seem to phase him but it’s been making me all giddy… hehehe.
2. Weigh-in time!!!
Day 1: 55.15kgs = 121.33lbs
Day 2: 54.62kgs = 120.16lbs
Day 3: 54.28kgs = 119.42lbs
Day 4: 54.40kgs = 119.68lbs
Day 5: 54.00kgs = 118.80lbs
Day 6 (today): 53.82kgs = 118.40lbs
Weight lost so far: 1.33kgs = 2.93lbs
3. Having lost more than I had anticipated, I treated myself to the dangerous delicious sugar coated small pack of crackers that’s been haunting me from the third shelf in my house.
4. Warped into such a procrastinator today when I should have been doing my marking and instead was doing everything else but that. Mind you it’s both a good thing and a bad thing. Bad in that I didn’t get my marking done but good in that now my house is spotless.
5. Procrastination kicked me into clean-freak mode and so everything got a brush down, a wipe and a wash.
6. Boredom hit me hard around 8pm and so I tried to preoccupy myself.
- Discovered that no, I can no longer put my foot behind my head.
- Painted my toe nails only to not like it and take the paint off.
- Tried to paint Mi Nam’s nails… no such luck there.
- Gave Mi Nam a bath.
- Tried to type as fast as Katy Perry could sing… she was faster.
- Cleaned out some of my make-up.
- Refolded all my bathroom towels.
- Steamed about half a dozen sweet potatoes.
- Reorganized all the food in my fridge.
- Texted random people, “I’m dying of boredom, save your self.”
- Tried to play dominoes with my lip glosses.. didn’t quite work.
- Wore sunglasses and listened to the old skool song “I wear my sunglasses at night”
- Got laughed at via a text message from Q when I texted him “I’m lonely”.
- I eat when I’m bored sooooooooo… I drank 4 liters of water to prevent that.
7. My attempt to finally let someone else besides Q into my house crashed and burn after I got forgotten about and then ditched for a bar full of sausages. And on that note, I really felt homesick for Canada.
8. Hanna texted me after months of us not hanging out. I ran into her a couple of weeks ago and she noticed how homesick I was. Tonight she texted me, asking me when I was returning to Canada. “Tomorrow” I responded, and you know what, I meant it. If it weren’t for Mi Nam, I would have runaway tonight.
9. Homesickness consumed me and so I hit a low point tonight. “If I only were in Canada…” repeated over and over in my head. And so, I called on the only other person who I thought could possibly understand, relate… and listen. I called Side Salad.
10. Side Salad argues that I have too many walls up, emotionally that is. He’s right. On my homepage I’m an open book but in real life I live like a hermit, leaving my house only when necessary. Q has been the only one allowed in my house for the longest time but tonight I let Side Salad in. Mi Nam barked at him and cautiously watched him for a bit but then he was fine with him. It was nice to have company over. We sat on the couch chatting and he stayed with me till the wee early hours.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why was I never homesick before this year?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
-- John Ed Pearce
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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There's a movie called Garden State. Seeing as how you are kinda sensitive to movies, I dont recommend watching it, but there IS a quote in the movie about home;
Andrew Largeman: You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone.
Sam: I still feel at home in my house.
Andrew Largeman: You'll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.
-Its sad in a sense, but also true and hopeful.
Home is not a location, it is a place that we make for ourselves. And I know you still miss Canada regardless (family, culture, friends) but just know that sometimes it just takes the right people to make your house your home.
-Bman
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ps-like a lil bro!
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Yo B-Man,
Hehehehe... first of all, why would you recommend me a movie that I SHOULDN'T watch... hehehe. Silly boy.
I hear you about it taking the right people to make a home. I HAD the right people, but they went away, literally. My best friend in Korea went to Australia to study English, the other got a girlfriend who dispises me, and a couple of other friends got all wrapped up in the wrong crowd.
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