1. On account that I couldn’t really make a fist with my right hand, unless I wanted pain to shoot up to my elbow that is, I switched up my weight training and trained legs today at Hongik. The pain continued long into the day and evening into the late hours, meaning that boxing tonight left me frustrated.
2. After my post-weight training nap, I woke up to a strange smell in my house. Turns out it was the smell of sweet potatoes steaming in my rice cooker. While I was totally out like a light on the floor, Snickers had prepared some potatoes for me (which he and his father grew – he wanted me to tell you that) and then wrote a cute love letter for me to find.
3. I think one of the reasons why my classes are so much fun teaching and whatnot is because I try to keep it real and I am open and honest with my students. I’m constantly giving them my personal opinion on things, dishing out advice like an older sister, and chatting with them during break time or whenever. Having said that, I shared with them the fact that I think Snickers is going to propose to me soon and so I couldn’t help but laugh today when I counted five students who asked me, “Did he ask yet?”
4. Shocking my director last night by asking for a letter of reference was met with “We have to meet and talk about this” and so we met and talked about it. I was rather curious what we really needed to talk about but I was rather disappointed when nothing new was brought to the table. The phrase “Don’t burn your bridges” was what stopped me from really saying what I wanted to say.
5. Got told by that my hair doesn’t make me look like so professional anymore. “That’s funny cause I don’t think the black eye I’m dying to give you will make you so professional looking either” I screamed in my head.
6. Coming home to be greeted by Snickers sitting in the park beside Guum Ggum waiting for me was exactly what I needed.
7. At boxing tonight Mr. Dumb-Nut, as I will now refer to him as, egged on Snickers to spar with him. I tried to convince Snickers to ignore the guy but he geared up anyway and sparred. “You’re an idiot.” I told Mr. Dumb-Nut and he knew exactly why I said it too, everyone knew. Snickers is allowed to train his right hand now but has been holding off, making sure it’s completely heeled. I knew he was itching to get back into the ring but Mr. Dumb-Nut pushes his buttons and shooting his mouth off was uncalled for.
8. “Kill him” I said to Snickers and as I leaned in to help him gear up. “I heard you” Mr. Dumb-Nut said. “Good. Do you want to hear it again?” I added.
9. Snickers didn’t kill him in the ring but he definitely made a fool out of Mr. Dumb-Nut, making him stop not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES from random body shots Snickers gave him. After two rounds Mr. Dumb-Nut called it quits. He looked at me and I smiled. “Amateur” I mumbled.
10. Was certainly surprised when I called my parents in Canada and my mom picked up the phone. I got a chance to chat up a storm with both my mom and my father but throwing “by the way I’m planning to get married in a couple of months” wasn't exactly easy and so I didn’t get to throw it out to them. Earlier on today Snickers and I got taking about things and he blurted out “I want to get married February 6, 2010.” Wow, I knew he was marriage-minded but I didn’t know he had picked out an exact date… and a date that is so close, too!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you see in your future?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
And in today already walks tomorrow.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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