1. Snickers and I did our morning jogging and weight training together, as planned. Yesterday he impressed the socks off me by training his legs, a body part so often and so many guys fail to train. “Bobble bodies” I call them. I’m sure you know what a bobble head is, well, guys who don’t train legs are bobble bodies; heavy on top but peg legs on the bottom. Anyways, so Snickers trained legs yesterday and so today he was feeling it… and walking like he felt it, too… hahaha.
2. Like the cliché goes, “When the cat is away the mouse come out to play” and so with K-Gere off at Grandpa’s house, Snickers and I hung out all day. Our day basically revolved around food. Whether it was me banging around in the kitchen, making random combinations of whatnot to eat, or us eating chicken fitas in the park, we definitely got in our protein and veggies for the day!
3. Snickers wasn’t impressed that my lovely fingernails are once again stumpy nails and so he took it upon himself to punish me by squeezing my head… oh gosh, that hurt!!! Ironically I laughed so hard but it hurt so much. Ahhhh... Snickers and me, such an overly sarcastic, flirtatious, somewhat violent couple. He squeezes the heck out of my head and then the next minute he's opening the door for and calling me "queen". He thinks it's hilarious when I call him "Sweetie" and despite my hard bite, he thinks it's the funniest thing when I randomly bite his shoulder when we're out walking. Today I introduced him to the "wonderful" world of Charlie-horse and left him limping as we walked down the street... hahaha!!!
4. The other day I mysteriously broke my camera, I seem to go through a camera a year, and so today Snickers and I headed out in search of a new one. Scored a sweet 60% discount at Samsung with buying the display model. It’s 8.2 mega pixels, is loaded with some pretty cool features, and is blue.
5. Apparently I’ve got a fan at Samsung… cool. No sooner did I enter the Samsung store but one of the workers interrupted me and asked me when my next game is. He caught me off guard and so I didn’t know what he was talking about at first but then he repeated his question. Snickers looked impressed but I felt kind of bad, knowing full well that Snickers is so beyond my level and yet I seem to be the one to always get recognized in the crowd.
6. Leave it to Snickers to try to make me smile by stealing the plate full of coffee candies from the Samsung store… hahaha. He’s such a little prankster and so I had seen him hide the store’s cordless phone and I even caught him in the act of stashing empty candy rappers under the business card displays but I was clueless to the candies. When we returned home I reached in my bag for my cell phone and it was buried in candies… hahaha.
7. Finally around 9pm Snickers and I parted our separate ways. He walked me to the boxing club and no sooner did I step foot into the club but Junior Mint was calling me over. The original plan was for me to weight train and jog in the morning and then do my boxing training twice a day but today I had decided to only box once. At first I thought Junior Mint was joking when he asked me why I missed my afternoon training but when he raised his voice I definitely clicked in that he wasn’t joking. I felt so embarrassed at the realization and so I was forced to stand there while he lectured me and everyone watched.
8. … and when he hit me I definitely clued in that skipping training isn’t something I’ll be doing again. Dang. He has no mercy on me. Mind ya I must admit, I don’t regret skipping training today considering the overdose of leisurely lounging around the house and the giggles Snickers and I shared but I don’t think I can take too many more of Junior Mint’s beats. He’s got a new beating stick, it’s about 3 feet in length, has a handle on it and is metal.
9. As a result of missing training earlier on today, Junior Mint got even by leaving me till last to do pad work with him in the ring, bringing my shadow boxing count to 35 minutes after I had already been skipping for 40. After training I then had to hang up the laundry and help clean up. Sure Junior Mint drove me home but on the drive home I once again got lectured. Got home around 11:30pm.
10. Got a call from Q today. I had texted him, asking him how his father is. His father’s been living in a hospital for the past month or so and so Q’s taken a lot of time off work to be by his side. I wish I could be by Q’s side as a means of moral support and plus I know the weight of being his father’s father for the past years has started to really burden him, but I don’t think it’s a good idea for me to do so, considering. He sounded somewhat lonely on the phone and so after our call ended, I texted him “Just because we’re a couple doesn’t mean that you’re not important to me”. I hope he understands.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why are you with the person you're with?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
-- Woody Allen
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.
3 comments:
I am sorry, I don't want to rain on your parade but why in the world do you let a man (or anyone for that matter?) beat you with a stick when you don't follow their directions? I am all for "when in Rome" and all and cultural sensitivity and adaptability but I cringe every time I read when you get beat with a stick. I just think to the work I have done in battered women's shelters and I just kind of feel like it puts the whole moevement back decades by submitting to abuse. Why do you allow him to discipline you like that?
hey!!! so i haven't had the internet in months, and regrettably have not been able to keep up on your life (although I will be backpedaling through all of your entries to see what i've missed!) but i just wanted to say hi again and see how you're doing.
also, i may be visiting korea in a month or so with my boyfriend, would LOVE to finally meet you!
Hi Tracey,
No, don't be sorry but please understand that beatings from teachers is definitely a practice done in Korea. It's a Korean thing and as much as I don't agree with it, what can I really do?! I've told him before that if he were to go to Canada he'd be sitting in some jail but it's more or less have become a kind of joke now. I always cringe when he hits the middle school kids.
It's not that I allow it, it's just I don't know what to do to stop it. I try to obey his rules and do my best but sometimes, many times, I fall short of his expectations and out comes the beating stick. Don't get me wrong though, it doesn't draw blood but boy does it ever sting!
Hey Becca!
Hey girl!!! How's it going? Still going hardcore with the training?
You're coming to Korea?! Seriously?! I'm so there to meet you if you do!!!!!
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