1. Did my usual hibernating in the house as long as I possibly could and then I ventured out to walk Mi Nam.
2. Mi Nam killed yet another one of his Christmas presents, a yellow smiley ball my mom had sent him.
3. All this hibernating in my house is drying up my skin and so today I went to Galleria to splurge on moisturizer. It was painful to shill out $159 for face serum and eye cream from Biotherm but the “sample”, as they called it, that I got as a bonus was well worth it!!! You can hardly consider it a sample considering the contents of it were well over $200 in value! Sweet!!!
4. Mi Nam slashed the corner of my eye open the other day when our wrestling and horse-playing got a bit out of hand and so the skin around my left eye looks a bit messed up still. Hopefully the Biotherm luxurious lotion will work it’s wonders… hehehe. Mind you, I guess getting repeatedly punched in the eye at boxing doesn’t really help my situation though.
5. Spent a good chunk of my afternoon trying to figure out how to make a Power Point file for tomorrow’s Jeopardy game I want to play with my winter camp night class. Finally figured it out… even added the classic Jeopardy theme music to it too… I’m a genius… hehehe.
6. Despite it being my one day off of training, despite the boxing club being closed, and despite having to wait till Monday for word as to whether or not I got that fight, Junior Mint texted me today and ordered me to go train.
7. My knuckles are still pretty mashed up from yesterday and so I stuck to doing weight training and an hour of skipping.
8. Black Skinny just scored another fight, a fight in Japan. It’s scheduled for some time May and so I’m hoping that I’ll be able to go with Black Skinny and Junior Mint. I'm jealous... not only did he score a for sure fight but it's in Japan and he'll be able to see Satoshi again!
9. Despite my love of teaching and the fact that I adore my students at Dankook, the more and more I think about it, the more and more I’d love to quit my teaching job and just focus on my boxing. I’ve saved up quite a bit of money and considering my lack of funds needed for my social life and bad habits (because of lack of both of them), I only really spend my money on food… well, that and lip gloss… hehehe. I’d love to kick my boxing into full gear and just have that on my plate. This is my last year in Korea and so it’d be wicked to do something different, something on my own terms and something that I’ll leave having no regrets.
10. Q is convinced that I need to audition for this TV show, it’s called “Truth or Lie”, or something like that. Sometimes Q comes to my house and watches it but I can’t stand it. The actors are brutal, seriously. Their bad acting is so distracting that I end up wandering away from the storyline and just laughing at their fake crying and over exaggerated emotions and body language. Working some kind of cheesy show wasn’t exactly what I had in mind though for something different but Q’s convinced that I’d be a hit on the show and so he’s insisting that I let him call the TV company… hehehe.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What would you do if you were in my shoes?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.
-- Author Unknown
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.
4 comments:
I'd follow my dream - step into the ring full time....
Sorry to hear about Mi Nam scratching the corner of your eye. I hope it's all right. He's tough little guy huh? Just use that moisturizer. That should do the trick. :)
Beth
I think you should stay a teacher for a year, then go full boxer when you go back to Cananda.
-Bman
Hi Paul,
Ya... am definitely thinking about that. One problem though, work visa.
Hey Beth,
Sorry I still haven't responded to your email. I've been so scatterbrained lately :(
Ya, Mi Nam is definitely a tough, fiesty little boy. My eye is ok now but itchy as a mofo... hehehe.
Yo Bman,
..yes, a possibility, but being a Canadian boxer in Korea and being a Canadian boxer in Canada is totally a whole different playing field, not to mention the whole hype and sponsors I get here because of my elite status!
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