1. Today was probably the most stressful and most frustrating day I’ve experienced in awhile. The morning was great, the afternoon was good too, but by early evening I had landed on an emotional roller coaster that drove me right into a hurricane of colliding and conflicting feelings.
2. So, like I mentioned, the morning was great. I had my one Monday class to teach and it was a speaking class. The classroom filled up with my cute, giggly students and our time together flew by.
3. I started work at 11:20am and 1pm marked the end of my work day. Met up with Kitty Cat for a quick coffee and then off to boxing I raced.
4. Practically sweated my brains out today at boxing and so arriving home to a camera crew of five with the camera rolling was rather unexpected and not really fun. Snickers had spent the day with them; they were the camera crew from MBC. MBC is doing a human documentary on Snickers and filming had started today.
5. So there I stood, standing with my face still dripping with sweat and my clothes smelling exactly like an hour and a half of boxing would make anyone smell… bad. They said they wanted to do a quick shot before they let me go shower and so I followed along.
6. “How do you feel about your boyfriend having to have surgery tomorrow?” they asked me and from there on out it all went down hill. Turns out that Snickers had totally lied to me about going to the hospital two weeks ago when he first injured his hand. He had made up quite the elaborate story and so I was ticked, not because of the convincing story that he sold me on but because of the fact that he was able to look me in the eyes and keep up the charade. I really don’t feel like getting into it all again by writing it here but trust me, it will definitely be on TV. With the camera rolling and bystanders taking notes, it made for a very public couple argument that is bound to go national when aired… dang!!!
7. And if it weren’t embarrassing enough having the cameras feed off our little couple spat, after I showered they took us to a photo studio and insisted us get a couple shot done. Me being asked to put my arm around Snickers’ shoulders turned into me jokingly putting him in a headlock and pretending to make a speed bag out of his head.
8. Of course, like always, Snickers bombarded me with tons of “I’m sorry” but I came back with “I’m sorry and sh#$ are your two favourite English sayings and now they mean the same thing”. And on that note I left. He called out to me, asked me if I was going to the hospital with him tonight. His surgery is for tomorrow morning but he had to stay over tonight. I turned, looked at him, and responded, “You alone made this problem and so you alone will go to the hospital.” Ya, I was super ticked off, and so I should have been but honestly, I really did want to go to the hospital with him. I love Snickers to death and it really bothered me to have to let him go alone. He had played up his puppy eyes during the photo shoot and I felt bad for being so harsh to him but he really has to learn. He argued, saying that his lie had good intentions but in my books a lie is a lie.
9. I had been asked to drop by work for an unexpected meeting and so with the whole public spat and whatnot with Snickers still very fresh on my mind, getting told to stop boxing by my director definitely was greeted by resistance by me. Basically I was told I could either continue working at Dankook and stop boxing, or stop working at Dankook and continue my boxing. I responded by saying, “That’s an easy decision for me but I feel bad for you. Tomorrow is my day off but you’ll need a teacher for my classes on Wednesday.” I knew my director was only speaking as a middle man in this situation but I didn’t understand why all of a sudden my boxing had become a problem. I’ve been professionally boxing for about a year and a half now and I have never been secretive about it. For goodness sake, my face and story has been all over the news and TV. I’ve had numerous TV crews follow me around, even around on Dankook campus, and I’ve done four TV shows in about a year, with two more scheduled. The meeting ended with my director telling me to hold off till my contract with Dankook is over, which means she wants me to wait till March 2010 to fight again. Like I said, she is only the middle person, I’m not mad at her at all but I’m curious as to why all of a sudden this is an issue.
10. Snickers knew my meeting tonight was going to be on a serious note and so him not even so much texting me about it after he had already shocked the socks off me with news of his lie and having to have surgery tomorrow, it made for a very, very frustrating night. I tossed and turned in my bed and it wasn’t until about 4am that I finally fell asleep.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Are there such things as different degrees of lying?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A half truth is a whole lie.
-- Yiddish Proverb
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.
2 comments:
Ooo,damn ,Amy ,what a bad day ,i am choked, by his lying to.Why he have not telling it you ??
And then the try to force you to stop boxing???where is that good for ??? Its a big part of your life !....2 big bad things are happens to you,poor Amy !...but let it NOT nokking you down !
I am actually surprised it took them this long to notice and/or say something. All along you had to know that it was illegal to box on an E2 and frankly, I was surprised that you were so open about it. I just assumed/hoped you had some kind of permission. You know of course, that this is a legality thing and therefore not making a decision and not following through could cost you a deportation. If you did get married (and frankly, that is what I would advise since you are planning anyways and F visas basically have free ride) Could you give up your job at Dankook and come in on a sports visa? The time line might not be too bad and it would give you a chance to get home and visit family but will you be able to do it financially until you are married and have your F visa? Or are you prepared to marry right away? I think the processing of F visas aren't too long...maybe a couple of weeks and then you could go home and then come back?
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