Our trip to Seoul's Children Grand Park.

I was a little bit overly hyper... I love the zoo!!!

I tried to look pretty in pink.

This is the second attempt at this shot. The first attempt resulted in Snickers almost taking out some chick as he flung his arms out... oh gosh... hahaha.

Took a lot of these shots... but I limited you to two of them... hahaha.

Snickers had a field day laughing at this photo but I had no idea that my finger was so coincidentally pointing at the poor little dude's butt... hahaha.

We saw lots of lions, tigers and bears... oh my, but Snickers had more fun with this animal... hahaha.

Our trip to Seoul was awesome. The weather was perfect... the company more than perfect.

We ended our day trip out to Seoul with some cheese tak galbi. Snickers thought it'd be cute to make me close my eyes while he made a heart out of the rice... what a cutie!!!

Highlights of my Day... Sunday, May 31

1. I LOVE THE ZOO and so waking up today to get ready for our day trip out to the Seoul Children’s Grand Park sent me instantly into overly hyper mode. I was like a kid who had way too much candy to eat. Snickers slept on the long bus ride out but I was all jittery in my seat.

2. People throwing food at animals aren’t cool… a HUGE boo to them. The monkeys ended up getting into a fight over some potato chips and I seriously wanted to give those people a good “one-two”, as in two punches. “Don’t need a one-two, Amy, just a one… one hook!” Snickers told me.

3. Props to my man for continually being the awesomeness that he is. Two times he offered to help carry carriages down the subway steps, he held my hand, opened the doors for me, carried my purse, and must have told me a million-zillion-trillion times that he loves me. I love that dude to pieces… hahaha.

4. Snickers isn’t a big fan of the monkeys but when I spotted them in the zoo I let go of his hand and ran to their cages. I love the monkeys. I thought everyone loved monkeys. Snickers is all about the lions and tigers, he’s such a true Leo like that.

5. Honestly, we didn’t take many pictures of the animals. We were more into each other than that was going around us… hahaha.

6. Seoul Children’s Grand Park is awesome and if you live in Korea, I HIGHLY recommend visiting it. It’s got a zoo, petting zoo, small amusement park, flower gardens, and lots of places to relax and have a picnic. And if you get bored with it, which I don’t understand how you could cause that place seriously rocks, the Seoul horse race tracks are one subway stop away.

7. We capped off our trip to the Children’s Park by taking a visit to “Chicken Street”… or so Snickers claims that’s the official name of the street… hahaha. It was like chicken heaven for me, the Chicken Killer… hahaha. We splurged, put our diets temporarily on the shelf, and indulged in some cheese tak galbi. Mind ya, with Snickers not having another game till July 27th, his game diet is on temporarily leave for a good month. This time last week he weighed-in at 63kgs, today he weighed-in at 70kgs... wow! He's still sporting his sick envious abs though, dang!

8. Upon arriving back in Cheonan I was feeling a bit too heavy and full from overdoing it with the cheese tak galbi and the ice cream and so we headed off to the boxing club together.

9. And while we were at boxing, Snickers’ friends were all busy phoning each other, talking about how Snickers has a foreign girlfriend… me… hahaha. I scored big points last night with our double date but tonight another couple came searching Snickers out with hopes of meeting me. They were successful. Mind ya, meeting anyone after two hours of hardcore training and dripping in sweat isn’t exactly the way I want to meet someone for the very first time. Regardless, they offered to drive me home and on the way they must have asked me a billion questions.

10. Snickers has to head out to Busan tomorrow for some testing. He had a heart problem some time ago and so he has to attend his annual follow-up meeting. Snickers claims he’ll be back on Thursday but I think he’ll be back Wednesday. That boy is hooked on me… as I am to him.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's your favorite kind of place?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.
-- Alec Waugh

We didn't win a toy at the shooting game. I blame it on the fact that we prefer using our own "guns".... hahaha.

Our cute little double-date table. It was rather chilly outside, which I'm sure the guys were loving because it made for the perfect excuse for "table-cuddling".... hahaha. In return, us girls left the cooking to the men.

Snickers thought it'd be funny to sneak up on his friend and scare the heck out of him, hence why his friend is eating his ice cream upside down... it went flying... hahaha.

Tonight was filled with lots of PDA, giggles, smiling, good food, great company... awesome memories.

Highlights of my Day... Saturday, May 30

1. I had originally cleared my schedule today, knocking out my KBC meeting and Korean tutoring, on account that I thought I’d be spending today recovering from my fight, but with no fight yesterday, it meant I had a clean slate today.

2. Arrived at boxing just before noon and clicked into training mode. I’m not so focused on my upcoming fight as much as I am my July 27th fight. I already am experiencing butterflies and great anticipation for that particular fight on account that I’m the expected underdog and Snickers will be fighting that day too, meaning that his whole family and friends will be seeing me fight for the first time… talk about pressure. Typing that just gave me butterflies… oh gosh. I love the anticipation and extreme training and dieting that comes with preping for a fight, maybe even more than the actual fight, but the fear of losing sometimes keeps me up late at night. I'm not afraid of getting hurt, I'm not afraid of that at all. I would rather break my nose and come out looking like Shrek himself than lose. We're both going into this fight craving the win and losing isn't an option but it'll be a reality for one of us; a very harsh and heartbreaking reality. And it's crazy to think of how it's really anyone's fight up until the time when the last round ends and the judges tally up their scores. It's such a complete rush of adreneline but with what goes up, must come down, and trust me, losing is a very, very hard and rough crash. I have a little less than 3 weeks to prep for my June 19th fight but I can't help but be overly distracted with thoughts of July 27th. My July 27th fight will either break it or make it for me. I have so much to gain, regardless of the outcome, but it'll be the biggest heartbreak of all if I lose, even more so than February 23rd, 2008.

3. Today Snickers planned a double date for us with another couple but what he told me we’d be doing and what we actually did were two different things. The other couple, who bare the nickname Jing-Jong, picked us up downtown in a super pimped up car no bigger than a shoe box. Ok, ok, so it was bigger than a shoe box but it was super tiny. Jing had gone the nine yards with designing the interior and whatnot. It was a white car on the outside but on the inside it was all shades of candy pink, with a disco ball light and even a microphone. Snickers grabbed the microphone and blasted his voice out to the on-coming traffic, yelling “I love Amy!!!” It was hilarious.

4. So much for a simple double-date dinner, forty minutes later we showed up at a small amusement park located beside the sea. Snickers insisted that we go on this one ride. It looked like an elevator shaft where you sit in a strapped-in seat and it sends you up super high, only to release the locks and let you come flying down, stopping of course at the last minute. I’ve been on this ride before… or so I thought. I thought the rough part would be when they let you drop but MUCH to my surprise they send you rocketing up. I must admit, I screamed at the top of my lungs… hahaha. No sooner did we reach the top but they dropped us. On the way down it felt like I seriously had the wind totally knocked out of me and so I literally couldn’t scream. Upon reaching the bottom, Snickers turned to me and said “Amy again”, which I thought was a question. Turns out it was a statement and up we went flying again. Finally the ride was over and I shook. That ride seriously scared the b-gee-bees out of this little Pollack!!! X100

5. The dude at the gun game kind of cheated us out of a toy and so I thought it’d be funny to point the loaded game gun at his crotch… he didn’t think it so funny… hahaha.

6. Dinner consisted of us girls snuggling up to the guys as they worked hard at cooking shell fish… or whatever the heck those things were called. Claims?!

7. If I had known I’d be asked to lift up my shirt at dinner to show my abs I would have excused myself and headed off to the bathroom to do some quick crunches or something… hahaha. They were all questions about our boxing and dieting and that’s when Snickers blurted out, “Amy has a 4-pack, show them!” Snickers whipped up his top to show his 6-pack and I blushed at showing mine. Then Jing showed us his abs, and lack there of them… hahaha. Jing-Jong have officially been renamed 1-pack (Jing) and 3-pack (Jong). Jong scored a 2-pack score because of her “female volume”, as they called it (her chest), plus her 1-pack, thus making a 3-pack… hahaha. Together they are no longer called Jing-Jong but 4-pack. I guess that makes Snickers and me 10-pack… hahaha.

8. Dinner was followed by what would have been an ultra romantic seaside walk had it not been so chilly. We of course weren’t so smart by adding ice cream to the equation but the guys worked extra hard at keeping us gals warm… hahaha.

9. Our double date was perfect minus a bit of frustration felt on my behalf. I really wanted to talk more to Jing-Jong (aka 4-pack... hahaha) but I couldn’t remember some of the words I had studied. Regardless however, a good time was definitely had by all of us and as we giggled the whole ride home, Snickers turned to me and said “thank you”. I’m not too sure why he said that, after all it was him who had planned this whole perfect double-date.

10. Talks of us flying out to Canada this summer stirred up again and so Snickers was full of questions. The plan is to stay at my parents’ house, for the most part, and then stay in Toronto for a couple of nights. Snickers prefers to stay at my parents’ house, saying that he really wants to get to know my family. Am convinced my parents will love him, for sure. My mother will love him because he’ll happily eat anything she puts on his plate and she’ll probably have to fight him off from doing the dishes and cleaning up… hahaha. And my father will love him because Snickers has quite the funny sense of humor, fine-trimmed manners, and he treats me like I’m nothing less than gold.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Could it ever get any better than this?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
-- George Herbert

I really hate moderating my comment box but I also really hate the rubbish that some of you are throwing into it, so do me the favor and stop it so that I don't have to moderate my comments or delete yours, thanks.

I never claimed to be perfect and so often you take me out of context and mistake my life and love of it as something it's not. My life ain't perfect by any means but I love it and all the mistakes that I make only make me a better person. So instead of trying to push me down or pull me down with you, enjoy the read and let me live my life. I have my good days, I have my bad days, I change my mind because it's my prerogative, and I rant, rave and ramble... so what. At the end of the day it's still my life.

Love me or hate me, I'll still get a good night's sleep.

I don't crap on your head so don't crap on mine, thanks... much appreciated.

The cute couple.

... trying to lay a big wet one on him for the camera... hahaha.

A couple of Western girls who love Korean men.

Highlights of my Day... Friday, May 29

1. Waking up to a massive box of strawberries Snickers bought for me and a love letter hidden under my laptop was the perfect way to start my morning. Snickers had once asked me what I thought the perfect gift was and I told him a letter. I love getting letters, and by letters I don’t mean text messages or emails. No one really sits down any more with a pen and paper to really write their thoughts on paper.

2. Snickers’ letter was written in Korean but I understood it. He wrote that he has never written a letter like this before but that he wanted to share with me how he feels because he feels so happy. His letter got me rather teary eyed and he ended it with writing that he’ll always thankful for me in his life and that he loves me the size of the sky.

3. Snickers was busy renovating the new boxing club him and his coach are opening up next month and so I headed over to my boxing club to hang out with Junior Mint. Junior Mint and I have this continual joke about sponsors. If either of us gives the other person a gift, regardless of what it is really, we call it a “spon” (Korean word for sponsor). In the past week I’ve received a sock spon, hair elastic spon, and a sweet potato spon… hahaha. Today I gave Junior Mint kimbab spon but the spon he gave me in return was totally unexpected and super awesome. His promised me a massive banner spon for my next game… a gigantic banner that’ll be about 15ft x 6ft and that they’ll put on display for my next game!!! So now I have to hire a photographer to take my photo for it. It’s going to be awesome!!!

4. No sparring tomorrow on account that there’s one super mad Korean husband that wants to punch me… Bella Punch’s husband... yikes. Turns out she’s still recovering from the nose injury I gave her last week during sparring… oh gosh. Word has it her nose blew up like a balloon after training. I’m so sorry Bella Punch. I had lunch with her and Junior Mint today at the club before training and she reassured me that she’s doing much better but I still felt so bad.

5. Must have been reminded by at least a couple handfuls of people today about today being my supposed game day. First it was the pharmacist who ran out of his shop to ask me about it today when I walked by. Then it was the girls at the local clothing shop I pass by a million times a day. The Kimbab Lovely Ladies yelled out to me today, asking me why I didn’t have my “game hair” on. Even the security in my building approached me about the matter.

6. Word has it that although I’m the expected winner of my next fight, that I’m kind of the underdog with my July 27th fight as my opponent is much more experienced and whatnot. Having said this though, Junior Mint informed me that after my July 27th game I’ll be upgrading to 6 round fights from there on out. No more 4 round games… sweet but I don’t expect to go the full 6 rounds. I plan on knocking my opponents out before that!!!

7. Am convinced I should ask Derma Plast band aids for a sponsor considering how much of my paycheck I've been handing out for band aids.... hahaha. It's not that I'm using so many of them but rather it's because at $1 a pop, they get quite expensive. You're supposed to be able to wear one band aid for about 3 days but because I'm sporting them on my feet and two on my knuckles, they easily peel away after two hours of boxing. For those of you who don't know what Derma Plast band aids are I'll save you the hassel and just tell you they're awesome. They form a kind of medicated bubble around the wound and it looks like fake skin.

8. Snickers’ best bud went and chopped off the tip of his finger, by accident of course, and so Snickers headed off to Suwon for the evening. I didn’t really want to stick around Cheonan and so headed out to, but in the direction of Little America, to meet Pro Star.

9. It was my first time to meet the notorious girlfriend of Pro Star and after about a year of them dating I figured it was about time I finally meet her. “What’s the Korean version of Ice Breakers gum?” she asked me. “Rice Breakers”… hahaha. Maybe you had to be there but I almost peed my pants laughing at that especially considering the vast variety of things Koreans make out of rice… rice cake being my favorite, for sure!!! She made fun of Pro Star and teased him about things and so she got my seal of approval cause anyone that can stand his silly ways and put up with his nonsense thinking is deserving of some kind of award. She’s done it for well over a year now. Anyways, we headed out for some Thai food and then walked around Little America for a bit. I hadn’t anticipated staying long but my visit was cut short when Snickers called me and told me he was at Osan subway waiting for me.

10. Snickers and I are like white on rice, or however that silly cliché goes.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Did you come up with that on your own?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.
-- Author Unknown

Hahaha... I love this picture!!! He was about to die in the game when I took it.

The only video games I was allowed to play when I was a kid was Pac Man and Donkey Kong on Atari, so these flying-shooting games, as old as they are, are definitely new to me.

I was disqualified from the game for shooting my own partner and so instead of playing and risking shooting him again, I stood by him and cheered him on... hahaha.

Highlights of my Day... Thursday, May 28

1. Me walking into work was greeted by numerous “I’m sorry to see you today” and frowns as my coworkers and students expressed their disappointment and sympathy for my fight being postponed. Students greeted me with shocked faces and were speechless. They didn’t know what to say and so I told them why my game was postponed. They apologized to me as they left the classroom and so I really appreciated that. So I’d like to send out a special thank you to my coworkers, students and staff who dared the uncomfortable situation by approaching me about the touchy issue that has been weighing heavily on me lately, my game being postponed. You all rock!!!

2. The other day Butterfly texted me, apologizing for her bad manner at the start of this semester. She’s missed more classes than accepted but because of her total turn-around in attitude, I told her I’d let it slide. She’s really changed and today when she walked into my lecture I was so happy to see her. I see a lot of potential in her and I think she’s beginning to see it too. During break time I passed by her and she reached out to grab my hand. “Thank you Professor” is what she said. “No, thank YOU!” I responded. In so many ways she reminds me of my brother Robbie and I think that’s why I’ve really tried to go out of my way to help her. My brother Robbie had a hard time in public school after he was labeled a bad student who lacked ambition. It wasn’t that he wasn’t smart, if anything it was the opposite. He was brilliant, just not interested in the boring subject matter teachers who didn’t see his potential were throwing his way. And I’ll never forget Mr. Smith, our elementary school science teacher who seemed to have it set in his mind to degrade my brother at every possible chance. I remember the first day I stepped into his science class. He looked at me and asked me, “Are you a Troy or a Robbie?” (my brother’s names). It wasn’t until my second year of university that I ever saw Mr. Smith again. I had returned home for the weekend and was studying at the public library with my boyfriend when I caught glimpse of Mr. Smith. Instantly I hid behind a book shelf and cursed his name. My boyfriend insisted we just leave but I couldn’t just leave. Instead, I got up and marched right over to Mr. Smith. He greeted me with a smile and then, instead of asking me how university is going for me, he blurted out “Is Robbie still in high school?” My brother had finished high school long time ago, was now at the top of his class in college and had a gala showing of his photography in Toronto. I should have punched him right there but I stood there, blood totally boiling in my veins. I told him that it was because of teachers like him that I want to become a teacher, to put teachers like him out of a job. I bombarded him with a huge chunk of my mind, in which I was sure to point out the huge success of my brother and how he’s going places, places Mr. Smith and his closed-off shallow mind couldn’t possibly comprehend. After I spat out a piece of my mind, I turned and walked away, leaving both him and my boyfriend looking rather dumbfounded. No one dare call my family something they’re not.

3. Snickers had originally told me that he’d be returning to Cheonan Saturday morning some time because he had to go and do his rounds in his hometown, greeting sponsors and whomever to thank them for supporting him with his Monday game. However, no sooner did I finish class but then my phone began to rang, it was Snickers. It was Snickers telling me to hurry up and go to boxing because he’s on his way to Cheonan and he has a massive hug to give me… hahaha. Two days earlier than planned?!... this guy’s so into me… hahaha.

4. So that’s what I did, I scurried my little Polish butt (what’s left of it that is) home and headed off to boxing. Today I wasn’t as hyper as yesterday but I was definitely super giddy and smiley. Junior Mint is overly happy that I’m dating Snickers and believes that I’ll never leave Korea because of him. I don’t really know how to comment on that but next year I will be staying in Korea for a sixth year. In addition to wanting to complete my Korean language studies, my big goal for Korea is to become Korea’s next female flyweight champion. That’s where my priorities are right now, with my boxing. Once I become Korea’s next female flyweight champion, who knows where it’ll take me next. Who knows, maybe I’ll do some international boxing, representing Korea… that’s be such an incredible honor and, needless to say, such an awesome experience!!!

5. While I was at boxing, Snickers sat down with his boxing coach and spilled the beans about him and I being a couple. Now those that should know do know. The cat is out of the bag and boy does it feel good. I hate secrets.

6. Was pleasantly surprised by Snickers sneaking up on me when I was walking home from boxing. He waited around while I showered and then we headed out into the downtown crowd. Plan was to grab something to eat for Snickers, do some shopping and than catch a flick. Indulged a bit in some Italian ice cream as a last treat before I bounce back into game prep mode.

7. I’m such a creature of habit when it comes to shopping. I only shop at three downtown clothing shops and it’s always followed by a trip to MAC Cosmetics. Snickers is still sporting a black eye from his Monday fight and so, as a joke, I introduced him to MAC Cosmetics… hahaha. He’s super shy about his black eye but I told him he should be proud of it. “If you think your black eye is bad, you should see the other guy!” I noted. The MAC girls working are super cute with me when I shop there and so tonight one-by-one they passed by me and whispered, “Is that your new boyfriend Amy?”… hahaha. You know you shop too much at a place when they’re all aware of your social life… hahaha. Much love to my MAC Lovely Ladies…. Hahaha.

8. Running into my Tuesday students who had already had a field day with teasing me about seeing Snickers and I at the school festival definitely means more jokes, more teasing, and more blushing on my behalf next week in class…. hahaha.

9. We had quite a lot of time to kill before the movie and so we headed over to the Game Plex in Yawoori. Snickers played those old skool video games but insisted we play together. I crashed into him, causing his race car to roll in the Indy game and then I smoked him in air hockey. “Hey, I’m from Canada, hockey’s OUR game!” I joked. I was two for two but then I made a fool of myself when we teamed up to play some random shooting game, in which I accidentally shot him… hahaha. Oops.

10. Any movie that I repeatedly fall asleep in is deserving of two thumbs down but tonight the new Terminator movie got FOUR thumbs down after both Snickers and I fell asleep in it.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Did you ever have a rotten teacher?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
-- Author Unknown

These arrived at the club today, dropped off by a "fan" of mine... very cool, thanks!

I wasn't really ready with a pose for the picture and note how I'm looking a bit rough after the fight... it's all good though.

He's like, "Get your hands off the trophy before the white chick punches you.... AGAIN!"

Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, May 27

1. In the middle of the night I woke up from a bad dream. I had dreamt that my father had fallen off the roof and died but no one knew where he was but me. Texting Snickers that I just had a bad dream was followed up by him and his sister calling me in the morning. I had learned before that Koreans think it’s good luck if someone dies in your dream but I don’t believe in luck, nor do I wish to dream such dreams about my father. Regardless, waking up to Snickers and his sister calling to wish me a good morning was super sweet of them and much appreciated. See, I was right… that “awesome gene” definitely runs in his family!!!

2. My two classes were packed today with extra students because of having canceled my Thursday class for my game weigh-in… that’s no longer happening, boo for that! It was super fun having so many students in my lecture. We maxed out the desks though and so we had to grab a desk from another classroom… hahaha.

3. Went in for my third tanning session. I didn’t really need to go but considering the mad cash I shilled out for it I figured I may as well go. The same girl came into the room with me to give me the whole rub-down with the bronzer and so we got talking. She had recognized me from my appearance on TV the other day when I was at Snickers’ and Panty Boy Jr.’s game and had noted that she’d love to come watch me fight… cool.

4. Me arriving at boxing today was greeted with a huge slap to the back of my head from Junior Mint cause of the spontaneous day off training I took yesterday. The huge slap however was followed by some very wicked news….

I HAVE ANOTHER SCHEDULED GAME!!!

June 19th, 2008

July 27th, 2008

My May 29th game got switched to June 19th but now I have another scheduled fight after that, July 27th! Snickers is fighting at the same tournament, which means his whole family will be there to cheer me on, too… awesome!!! Am thinking that we may then slip away to Canada a week or so after our fights… sweet!!!

5. Black Skinny showed up for training and was all curious to hear if my news (Snickers and I being a couple) were true or not. Yes, it’s true. Shocking as it was, Black Skinny seems to be super supportive of it and noted to me that others have been talking about the new smile I’ve been sporting. “I knew something was up… you seem too happy for things to be the same as before” he told me. My teammates at boxing all knew Q and I had our differences. For goodness sake, I use to be terrible in that I’d randomly blurt out “I want to be single damn it!”. Of course I said it half jokingly but they all knew. So the cat is definitely out of the bag now and it feels so good to not be wearing this secret on my chest.

6. Together a bunch of us watched the taping of Snickers’ fight and then of Panty Boy Jr’s. Junior Mint joked to the boys, telling them to look at how proud I look watching Snickers’ fight… so what, I say. Of course I’m proud. Not only is my boyfriend incredibly adorable and sweet but he treats me like gold and is incredibly talented. I love him.

7. With my secret out in the open at the boxing club, having had a good solid day of massive carbs to restart my system, having had taken a day off training, and word of another scheduled fight meant that tonight I was super pumped and ultra hyper while training. I was on this crazy natural high that seemed almost too high, too unnatural. After five non-stop rounds of pad work Junior Mint lowered his pads and asked me if I was crazy… hahaha. “Who are you?” he asked me… hahaha. I was just so full of energy and so after he stopped me with pad work, I then went on to pound away at the heavy bag, followed by some weight training, pull-ups, and ab work. Training lasted about two hours and then I jogged home.

8. Ran into one of my former students in the elevator when I was heading out to take Mi Nam for a walk after training. He was overly apologetic for not being able to speak English and I was overly apologetic for dripping with sweat… hahaha. He was quite relieved when I replied in Korean. Lately my Korean language skills have really jumped up a couple of notches and I know I have Snickers to thank for that, in addition to my own studying. Anyways, my former student asked me if he could join me and so together we took Mi Nam for his evening walk. It was nice.

9. The other day one of you commenters here said I look like a 13 year old girl. What’s with people referring to me as child-like when it comes to my looks. A while back someone insisted I looked like a Chinese boy. I’m 5ft 2” and I weigh-in around 49kgs…. BECAUSE I'M A FLYWEIGHT BOXER... foo. Anyways, I thought it was funny at first but then I questioned it. “What exactly makes me look like I’m 13 and not 28?” to which the only answer I could come up with was because I don’t have protruding loud breasts any more. I take it they’ve never been punched in the boob during training or a game because if they did then they’d tell me to stick with my lovely-lady-lumps. Big breasts aren’t really the thing here in Korea, s-lines are and that, my friend, I’ve got that covered. Anyways, being a big breasted woman in Korea poses it’s own challenges with finding undergarments that fit properly but don’t resemble old-times sling shots or can be easily mistaken for granny’s undergarments. I use to wait till my trip to Canada and then stock up but with my current “downsizing” means I have no problem buying my stuff here. Snickers’ says I have “pretty volume”, not too sure what he means by that but I’ll take it as a compliment. As for other possible reasons as to why they said I look like a 13 year old, I seriously question what 13 years this person is hanging out with because unless their 13 year olds are injecting steroids to pump themselves up than I highly doubt a 13 year’s muscle tone and mine match. And so to that commenter, I'll say to them what my former coach use to always say, "Step into the ring and say that to my face".... hahahaha. We'll see who the child is then.

10. Cooked up a storm tonight, cooking approximately ten chicken breasts cause that’s what us 13-year-olds-with-no-breasts do, we cook up breasts for our lack of breasts… hahaha. Ok, enough with the sarcasm. I really don’t mind the 13 year old comment but it acts as a constant reminder to me that no matter what I do or who I am, people will always find something to nit-pick at. So I’m cool with looking like a 13 year old because it sure beats looking like my age or older. I prize my health and I love my boxing, and so if those two combined are points against me than, well, we live in a twisted world I guess.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Got abs?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
-- Samuel Butler

The front: my English name, city, Boxing club name, and sponsor's name.

There's actually more to the top here, a pretty thin gold ribbon that is weaved in and out of the loops on the top but I took it off. The thought of some girl's gloves or whatnot getting caught in it during a fight sounds like a recipe for disaster.

The back: my Korean name, and my sponsor's name written write on my butt... how appropriate for this particular sponsor, too... hahaha.

[Note: the pictures don't do it justice!]

Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, May 26

1. Having to go to school today to tell my co-workers and students that my game’s been delayed was a much dreaded ordeal for me and so Snickers showed up in the morning to talk to me. I’ve never really woken up and said “I don’t want to go to school today” but today that very sentence came out my mouth twice. Snickers walked me down to the bus station, waited with me and then kissed me on the forehead when the bus came.

2. Went on quite the ramble rant in the office with one of my coworkers with regards to my disappointment with the game plan change. I’m still so very disappointed and frustrated.

3. Students in my first period class were quite the much needed distraction today when they reminded me about how they ran into me at the festival with Snickers. They had a field day teasing me about it and so I blushed in front of them all. What had happened was last Wednesday Snickers and I went to Dankook’s festival for the evening concert. The seating area was packed and so Snickers and I stood on the side. Mind ya, we stood there rather all cuddly and cozy and so when a huge group of students in front of me turned out to be my Tuesday morning students, I instantly snapped into shy mode and giggled. Snickers and I weren’t all over each other like cheap shirts, don’t get me wrong. He was standing behind me with his arms wrapped around me cause it was late in the evening and it was quite chilly. It was relatively innocent but throw in the fact that I was dressed like a student with a “I love Wonder Woman” t-shirt and had my new boyfriend with me and ya… it was a side of me that my students never see.

4. My second period students are always a blessed breath of fresh air and so class was a lot of fun and full of giggles. I did a personality quiz with them which was quite cute and so I thought I’d share it here with you.

Think of three different animals, your favorite, 2nd favorite and 3rd favorite.
The first animal is who you really are.
The second animal is how you wish others viewed you as.
The third animal is who you want to be in the future.

My three favorite animals are monkey, elephant and bear.
I totally agree with me being a monkey but not too sure where an elephant comes
into play. An elephant is slow and massive. It doesn’t quite work with me being a professional boxer but I guess it means I want people to view me as calm and gentle. As for me wanting to be a bear, very appropriate!

5.. After class I bought myself some lilies to cheer myself up.

6. I had told Snickers that I wanted to sleep today away and start fresh tomorrow but he had other ideas on how I should get over my down-in-the-dump mode and so I woke up to Snickers trying to scare me with French fry fangs… hahaha. I was dead set on staying a grumpy pants for the afternoon but it’s really hard to stay that way when you’ve got a hottie attacking you with “belly farts” and the silliest impressions of Bumble Bee (from the Transformers) under the sun…. hahaha. I cracked… and then I cried… cried tears of laughter… hahaha.

7. My game boxing uniform arrived toda and I wasn’t impressed in that I thought it was agreed upon that I wouldn’t have any sponsor names on my uniform but plastered all over it was the name of a certain someone who is friends with Junior Mint. You see, my uniform is like a walking advertisement for whomever’s name is on it and so if they want me to sport their name then, well, they have to reimburse me with some kind of sponsor. My uniform was by no means cheap and I had paid out of my own pocket, so unless the company who’s name is printed on them wants to give me mad cash than I don’t intend on wearing them. Someone better start explaining. Why should I pay out of my own pocket to advertise for them?!!! Besides that though, the uniform is quite sweet looking, I must admit. They tried to make the top sexy looking and so it’s just barely covers my sports bra and the trucks are awesome looking. Black with red strips down the side. The top is also black but it has some metallic gold material on the sides.

8. I was in no mood to head to the boxing club, face all those people’s questions about why my game has been postponed and then have to confront Junior Mint about the issue with my uniform and so I skipped out on training tonight. I figured that after 40 non-stop days of training I was due for one day off. I also took a day off my game diet too and indulged in some very sinful eating… hahaha. One tortilla wrap with way too much peanut butter wrapped in the middle, followed by an ice cream cone… hahaha.

9. Snickers had to travel back to his hometown tonight but before he did, he asked me if I wanted to go on a trip. “Ok… Let’s go to Canada!” I said. Not too sure on what answer I was expecting but when he said “Ok when?”, I was caught off guard. We ended up getting into quite the discussion and he and I may very well travel to Canada this summer. Besides the potential Canadian trip together, he and I are going on a little weekend day trip. “Where’s your favorite place in Korea?” he asked me. “Seoul Children’s Grand Park” was my answer. I love that place. In addition to the zoo there, they have a petting zoo, amusement park rides and a really beautiful seat lift that’s like a ski lift except for the fact that it carries you over the water.

10. I took the night off both my game diet and training but Junior Mint hunted me down via my phone and insisted I tell him why I missed training today… then he asked me to join him for soju…. Hahaha. I don’t drink and maybe I should have at least joined him but I was in a rather blah mood today. I just wanted to stay home alone, so that’s exactly what I did. Mi Nam and I chilled together.

QUESITON OF THE DAY...
What do you do on those "blah" days?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
-- John A. Simone, Sr.

All smiles before, during and after the big fight... he's awesome! I wore my "I love you" shirt to pump him up and thank goodness I wore my highest heels, too, cause I'm quite the shorty beside him when I'm in flats.

Was super psyched when I found out that my friend Hye Min (girl on the left) was fighting tonight. I've sparred with her a couple of times and she's now the WBCF Atom weight #7.... that's crazy awesome!!!

Who needs a wash machine when you have abs like my man?!... hahaha. After months of hard training, all his hard work and crazy dieting paid off. KO in the second round... sweet!!! Congrats baby! You're so freakin'-stinkin' awesome... hahaha

My beautiful champion, Korea's Super Light Weight Champion.

One of my man's sisters. This is now the second time I've talked to her and I already love this gal. She's awesome.... actually, I think that's a gene that runs in her family!!!

Next, it was Panty Boy Jr's turn to take the spotlight and show Korea why Cheonan is on the map. Mission accomplished. Congrats buddy!

It wasn't the expected KO that we've become use to Panty Boy Jr. giving us but it was definitely quite the fight. And despite him getting two points against him, he scored a sweet win.