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
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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