1. Got a call from KBC today, asking me if I’d be willing to fight in one or two weight classes lighter, bringing my required flyweight weight of 50kgs (110lbs) down to 49kgs (107.8lbs) or 47.6kgs (104.6lbs). I agreed.
2. With a little over four weeks till the fight I’m hoping to score, game nerves and butterflies have already started to kick in. I love the anticipation of the fight and, if anything, it’s more interesting to me than the actual fight. Sounds strange, I know, but I love the whole anticipation of stepping in the ring… the intense 7-days a week training, the hardcore dieting that keeps me up late at night dreaming of bread and ice cream, and all the peps talks my teammates give me that are filled with their secret moves and tips.
3. I may not be Korea’s female flyweight champion yet but I am a champion marker, or so I felt today… hahaha. “Time management is key” a former coworker once told me and so today I totally tried to use my time as effectively as possible. And so while my first class quietly wrote their exams, I did my Korean diary writing while monitoring them and answering random student questions. Then in my second class, when I had yet another exam to monitor, I marked the first classes’ exams.
4. Time well spent during school hours didn’t quite work out to time well spent after class.
5. No sooner had I returned home but then I crashed on the couch for a couple of hours.
6. Before I had even started training tonight I was already exhausted. My mad marking mixed with a spontaneous cat-nap made me slow in the ring today and sent my head spinning.
7. “Two weeks… just two weeks” is what I constantly remind myself of. In two weeks all this exam stuff and marking will be over with and it’ll be back to normal... whatever "normal" is.
8. I have officially killed yet another pair of Adidas gloves and another set of hand wraps. The padding on the gloves now flakes out and so I had to train with my old skool Ring Side gloves that I bought some 7 years ago.
9. Split open my thumb while boxing, both of them actually. Don’t ask me how cause I have no idea but now I’m sporting some pretty silly bandages.
10. By the time 11pm rolled around I was all rolly-eyed and too tired to make my way from the couch to bed and so Q tried to amuse himself by carrying me upstairs. What ended up getting me upstairs though was my cell phone going off. Two students texted me at 11:35pm with questions about tomorrow’s exam and if it weren’t for the fact that I was so brutally tired, I would have called them out for having the nerve to text me so late.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How come there's never enough time when you need it but too much time when you can't afford to wait?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
-- Dion Boucicault
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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