1. The whole point of today being my day off is to have a day off work but, like the past “days off”, today was filled with a lot of work. With about 200 reading log student reports sitting on my floor, haunting me and weighing heavy on my mind, I sat down and started to mark them.
2. Marked 40… and trust me, you really don’t want to know how long it took me to mark them. Mind ya, I will say that a lot of distractions occurred today and so I’m sure I could have done more.
3. My biggest distraction of the day was the Internet. I checked out my usual homepagers, of which is a limited short list, but that proved quite pointless. Am I one of the rare people who updates their homepage daily?! I can’t help but feel somewhat like a stalker checking out various homepages daily, hoping that they’d update more.
4. Getting back to marking proved to be quite unproductive, yet again. This time it was Mi Nam who distracted me. Off we went for a light jog together.
5. Junior Mint was all questions today at boxing with regards to my meeting at KBC yesterday. He’s convinced I’ve just won the lottery… hahaha.
6. Watched Milk Dud spar with some random amateur boxer. And despite no one else in the club knowing who Milk Dud’s opponent was, he was quite cocky when he got in the ring. I looked over to Little Miss Sunshine and mouthed the words “He’s going to die” to her. Sure enough, I was right. He started off really strong and full of energy but apparently had forgotten a very important fact, the fact being that a fight is more than one round.
7. In the third round Milk Dud gave his opponent a wicked body shot and down went his opponent. It was only a simple sparring practice but I think even Milk Dud was sick of the dude’s cockiness. Way to put that dude in his place though, wow. I almost felt embarrassed for him… almost.
8. Panty Boy Jr. has a game on the 25th of May and so tonight I stuck around after training to watch him get drilled by Junior Mint.
9. No sign yet of Black Skinny.
10. Ended my evening with going over my Korean language studies for tomorrow’s tutoring class.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Is this where Black Skinny's story ends?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
What doesn't break you makes you stronger.
-- Anonymous
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
2 comments:
1. It must be so weird having been a student and now a teacher. I still think grading papers is easier than doing them ><
2. Are you kidding? Internet is ALWAYS my distraction
3. I'd update more if I got more comments :P-I've got videos on the way tho
6. Boxing seems so...weird to me. A sport about hitting someone. But at the same time, the idea of massive preparation, training your body, having a diet, all for one opponent. I'd love to try boxing if just to stay in shape.
-Bman
<3
Yo Bman,
1. Ya, it's kind of weird but in a good way. It's always funny though when students think they can pull a fast one on me. I always respond with "Listen sweetie, it was my generation who came up with your trick. Try harder!"... hahaha
2. I really try not to be on the Internet so much but I can't help it when my computer is also my stereo and whatnot.
3. Is that a hint?! Hey didn't you just text me that you went to prom?! Post about that! I wanna see some pics!
6. Ya, I know. Boxing isn't exactly a natural sport but nor is most sports... like football and rugby. I love it though and yes, you're right. It's awesome for staying in shape!
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