1. Raced off to Seoul for my three hour Korean language tutoring.
2. Plan was to meet up with Mr. Not-So-Nice-Guy before heading out to see Kicks after her rugby game but plans were put on hold when both he and she hadn’t answered my calls. Waited it out in the sun but, while doing so, I ended up falling asleep for a bit only then to wake up and catch some silly pigeon eating my tuna sandwich!!!
3. It was like instant sensory overload when I reached the roof top patio where Kicks was. There were foreigners as far as my eyes could see. Now given the fact that I was meeting up with her in Itaewon (American Army base located there), foreigners galore are expected but wow, I felt like such a foreigner to the foreigners…. Hahaha.
4. Kicks, me and Kick’s former roommate Sunny skipped out on the foreigner-infested patio and checked out Myoung-Dong for some girl talk and shopping. Am now officially in love with the store Forever 21 and thank goodness I live no where near Myoung-Dong… hahaha.
5. Yesterday Homegirl, totally out-of-the-blue, called me from Canada (and much love to you for that, too) and so today I brought the issue of our phone conversation to Kick’s ears while shopping.
6. Myoung-Dong is the place to shop in Korea; it’s awesome. I always get so hyper when I go there and so I end up doing “stupid shopping”, as I call it. Despite my already growing collection of sunglasses (which I never wear I should note), Kicks helped me to pick up a perfect pair. I bought a couple of shirts, a dangerously delicious pencil skirt that I’m already obsessed with it’s side pockets, and a pair of glasses (which I have absolutely no need for but I now that I no longer need to wear glasses I love wearing them… hahaha).
7. Next on our agenda was Sunny’s going-away dinner party. She’s moving to Thailand with her foreign boyfriend on Tuesday and so they had arranged for friends to meet up. But before we all met up, we headed back to Kicks’ place to get dolled up for the evening. We all eagerly tried on the clothes we had just bought and so that was fun. Kicks’ place was buzzing with girls, as always is apparently. She lives with two other girls but while I scooted from the bathroom to the kitchen I counted a grand total of 9 of us girls in the house. Talk about a social hot spot!
8. For the most part, all the girls at dinner are rugby teammates and well, I’ll be the first to say that I know nothing of rugby beyond the fact it’s similar to football and the table full of female rugby players in front of me there could easily cream me… hahaha. Great girls but I couldn’t really follow their stories… maybe I should study English… hahaha. Anyways, so I sat beside the two only Koreans and joked to them in Korean and sat across from Kicks so that we could continue our girl chat.
9. Mr. Not-So-Nice-Guy continually checked up on me through out the day and had asked me to let me see him tonight. I agreed to see him because I knew we kind of needed to finish what we had started to talk about on Thursday night. Like Thursday however, tonight we again had a time limit on our talk. We didn’t meet up till about 10pm and the last bus for Cheonan was leaving Seoul an hour later.
10. 11pm came, 11pm left and the bus left without me. I totally blame Mr. Not-So-Nice-Guy and his overly dramatized grab-me-by-my wrist scene that he played out. I don’t doubt that I could have taken him on if I had really tried. One straight jab to his nose from me would have had him crying like a little girl but I chose to stay and talk, despite being embarrassed by his grab-me-by-my-wrist scene that I thought was really too much. It was important that we talk tonight and not drag it out to another night like Thursday but tonight's talk really didn't solve anything and with the arrival of the wee hours came frustration and more questions in my head. He really doesn't get it... he doesn't get it at all and tonight it was made all too clear to me. He thinks it's all right for him to text me and call me at random times to blurt into my ear sweet nothings but he's messing everything up for me. Before him, I somewhat knew certain things were lacking in my life but I didn't really care because they were comfortable and I had learned to either adapt, not think about them, or had distracted myself so that I didn't have time to face them. But then he came along with his persistence and charm, and selfishly tried to feed his own desires and needs. He really doesn't care about my needs, hence why he's continued on his whole "I love you" charade for well over a year now and, if I don't deal with it now, he's only bound to pop back up in another couple of months, just like he always does. Nothing got solved tonight and I thought that I could handle tonight's situation but, if anything, I ended the night feeling like I wanted nothing more than to punk him at his own game. And the moreI deal with dudes in my life, the idea of growing old in a house infested with cats is looking more and more attractive to me. I am so not interested in this scene... all of it. Life was so much simpler before guys.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where's your favourite shopping hot spot?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
-- Bo Derek
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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