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.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Highlights of my Day... Sunday, April 26

1. Apparently I’ve turned into quite the senior citizen and late nights are now a thing of the past for me. I say this because last night I arrived home close to 1am too pooped to party. Today I woke up to discover that not only was I still wearing my shoes and coat but I was also lying near the front door of my apartment. I vaguely remember coming home and sitting down to pet Mi Nam but I don’t recall totally zoning out. Do I drink, you ask, no and thank goodness too. Apparently I can’t even handle the late hours, I can’t imagine what a late night of drinking would do to me… yikes.

2. After I peeled myself off the floor, I turned on my computer and pumped my house full of music to wake myself up. Lately I’ve been listening a lot to a bunch of artists that I’ve never paid attention to before, like the Ting Tings and Lily Allen.

3. Made my Power Point lecture file for my reading class.

4. Marked more student reports… yuck.

5. Marked more exams…. yucky-yuck.

6. Yesterdays “Operation Blue Balls” (Italiano, you know what I’m talking about here) was put on hold but popped up today (no, not literally). Mr. Not-So-Nice Guy continues to play out his version of the cheesiest Korean drama known to mankind and keeps pushing me to play the role of his leading lady. I, on the other hand, have my own plan in which I’m more or less the unexpected villain… Italiano is my director/evil side-kick… … hahaha.

7. Q was away for most of the day which meant I didn’t have to deal with the usual temptations involved with him bringing cookies and bread biscuits into my house… and shame on him for that, too. How dare he load my shelf up with biscuits that I can’t touch. I usually allow myself one or two but end up forcing myself to serve them all to Mi Nam cause of the simple fact that I can never just eat one, hence why I never buy bread or ice cream.

8. Do you know, last weekend Q brought some bread to my house and I ate the whole thing in one sitting?! Yes, as embarrassed as I am and as disgusting as that sounds, I did it. And I didn’t like it either. It left my mouth and throat so dry and left me feeling so bloated… nasty.

9. Officially labeled Q my cheap-child-labor after I somehow convinced him to count up the test marks for over a hundred student midterm exams and then record them on a piece of paper. I guess I really shouldn’t call him cheap-child-labor. He’s not exactly a child, physically that is, and I didn’t exactly pay him unless you consider the comforts of my warm sauna-like-style house as any kind of reinforcement. He definitely worked though.

10. Ended my evening off with some Korean studies…. Ahhh, there’s no rest from the wicked. Between my marking a million things and racing off to Seoul, I seriously felt like I need a weekend from my weekend!


QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What did you do this weekend?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.
-- Zall's Second Law

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sat- I just sat around, did nothing...i think. Downloaded some games, nothing all too productive.
Sun-Worked out. Ran a mile, did various leg machines, benched, did inclined sit ups with a weighted ball, and then stayed up until 1am doing my essay assignment for my AP class.
-bman

White Rice said...

Not sure if people really answer your Question of the Day...but I will.
This weekend: Saturday was my birthday. I ran around at the park for 6 hours. Then honeybear and I went to dinner at a delish Middle Eastern place. I had the Lebanese Chicken (Dajaj), a couple Greek beers (Marathon), followed up with a Turkish coffee (perhaps the highlight). Then went for dessert and I had a couple glasses of Port. Our friend in town from SFO joined. Then a bunch of friends who just came from a concert joined. We went over to the hookah joint a couple doors down and had some beverages and some fragrant pulls from the hookah. Then went home. Sunday morning I parented for a few hours while honeybear met the ladies for coffee and shopping. Then we all spread 2 cubic yards of bark around the plant beds at my house. Crushed a short nap. Picked up some yummy Chinese drive through and ate with the fam. All of us bathed, had ice cream and went to bed early.
Not bad eh?

권투선수 에이미 [Amy] said...

Yo Bman,
Wow... I'm so late in responding to some of these comments, sorry. It's been a silly-silly busy week.
I envy your care-free Saturday, wow. Mine was crazy busy.

Hello White Rice,
Yes, some people actually do answer my question of the day although most of them are usually rhetorical questions.
So... your day, your birthday too of all days. Happy birthday!!! Honeybear?! Hahaha... I love that nickname. I'm Baby Bear, also referred to as Little Bear and Yorky-the-Bear... lol.
Wow... you ate more carbs today than I ate all week... good for you, after all it is YOUR birthday.
Definitely not bad... not bad at all, eh!