I like it how he acts all innocent, like "I don't know how all these candies got in my pocket!"
But truthfully, he was kind of proud of it... hahaha.Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, June 30
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
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
Monday, June 29, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Monday, June 29
1. Today Snickers and I started training at La Sya together and so at 9am we met and headed off to the gym. He met the notorious “No-Neck” and instantly broke out into a huge laugh when he spotted him, knowing full well why I had labeled him No-Neck. Turns out No-Neck’s English name is Arnold, “like Arnold Schwarzenegger” he noted. Oh please. First and foremost, don’t be go ranking yourself as high as Arnold, secondly, the comparison is impossible in that Arnold Schwarzenegger is the cream of the crop of muscle men and lastly, you’re forgetting one major point… ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER HAS A NECK, unlike you buddy-boy… hahaha.
2. My upcoming opponent comes with quite the experience in the field of amateur boxing but has since gone pro. Regardless, she’s going to be stepping into the ring with a huge advantage over me and so today I started Junior Mint’s time-consuming, energy-killing training schedule set out for me. I don't agree with the training he's making me do in that it's a whole whack of unnecessary cardio work that's only bound to make me lose too much weight and I sense this training schedule to either burn me out quickly or start to stamp out my passion for boxing, both of which I definitely don't want to happen!!!
4. Despite having about a million and one tank tops to train in, with only three sports bras and one sweat jacket [a sweat jacket is like a plastic shirt you wear that traps in your body heat and makes you sweat like a mofo; like an animal], laundry has become a required daily routine not only because I need to wear a sports bra and my sweat jacket but have you ever smelt what a lump of clothes smells like after an hour and a half of boxing training?!... exactly. Trust me, you don’t want to smell that!!!
5. Students continue to bother me about their marks, correction, only two of them are bothersome to me, stalker-wanna-be student from Friday and a graduate student who won’t be graduating now because I failed him. I’d love to say sorry but I’m not sorry.
6. The graduate student had informed me just before the midterm that he got a job during the semester and so I repeatedly told him via text messages and emails that he’d have to follow the class homepage I update weekly. He’d be required to do my lecture notes as a kind of self-study and then at the final exam he’d be required to bring in his homework and do the final. Well, he showed up for the final totally clueless not only about the requirements for the exam but also clueless about what my homepage address even is. I can’t help students who don’t try to at least help them selves and so no, I don’t feel sorry for one moment that this student will not graduate. I don’t get paid to be someone’s mother but so often that’s what my students seem to expect me to be. His 23% was me being generous to him.
7. Sat down today and started to make a cookbook of all the health-conscious recipes I’ve collected and made.
9. Hitting the boxing club for the second time today felt a bit off and I didn’t have much energy left after already have had trained for about 3 hours earlier on today. Junior Mint was brutal with me during pad work and I let it be known to him when he allowed me to practice my body shots on him.
10. By the time I came home, showered and quickly ate something, it was already creeping up to 11:30pm and I still had to take Mi Nam for a walk. Mi Nam practically dragged my sorry butt around the block and then I crashed upon returning home.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
When is too much too much?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
-- Jack Handey
2. My upcoming opponent comes with quite the experience in the field of amateur boxing but has since gone pro. Regardless, she’s going to be stepping into the ring with a huge advantage over me and so today I started Junior Mint’s time-consuming, energy-killing training schedule set out for me. I don't agree with the training he's making me do in that it's a whole whack of unnecessary cardio work that's only bound to make me lose too much weight and I sense this training schedule to either burn me out quickly or start to stamp out my passion for boxing, both of which I definitely don't want to happen!!!
Today’s Training Schedule:3. Me and my left-foot-nail-less-toe are in pain. I went a little too hardcore on the treadmill and so by the time I finished my weight training my toe was swollen. Ah the joys of being a professional athlete; it’s one injury after another.
9:00am to 10:20am: jogging on the treadmill, followed by weight training
3:00pm to 4:30pm: boxing
9:30pm to 11:00pm: boxing... again
4. Despite having about a million and one tank tops to train in, with only three sports bras and one sweat jacket [a sweat jacket is like a plastic shirt you wear that traps in your body heat and makes you sweat like a mofo; like an animal], laundry has become a required daily routine not only because I need to wear a sports bra and my sweat jacket but have you ever smelt what a lump of clothes smells like after an hour and a half of boxing training?!... exactly. Trust me, you don’t want to smell that!!!
5. Students continue to bother me about their marks, correction, only two of them are bothersome to me, stalker-wanna-be student from Friday and a graduate student who won’t be graduating now because I failed him. I’d love to say sorry but I’m not sorry.
6. The graduate student had informed me just before the midterm that he got a job during the semester and so I repeatedly told him via text messages and emails that he’d have to follow the class homepage I update weekly. He’d be required to do my lecture notes as a kind of self-study and then at the final exam he’d be required to bring in his homework and do the final. Well, he showed up for the final totally clueless not only about the requirements for the exam but also clueless about what my homepage address even is. I can’t help students who don’t try to at least help them selves and so no, I don’t feel sorry for one moment that this student will not graduate. I don’t get paid to be someone’s mother but so often that’s what my students seem to expect me to be. His 23% was me being generous to him.
7. Sat down today and started to make a cookbook of all the health-conscious recipes I’ve collected and made.
My Health-Conscious Cookbook:8. Before I headed off to boxing again, for the second time today, Snickers’ father K-Gere invited me over to the house and surprisingly showed up at my building to pick me up… very nice of him. We sat around the house chatting while Snickers fed his ongoing hobby of eating. I swear sometimes that boy never stops… hahaha. And while K-Gere was cleaning up, I caught a glimpse of a massive bag of garlic in the corner of the kitchen. K-Gere was quick to learn that I loved the pickled onion and garlic he served as a side dish the other day and so apparently he spent a good chunk of his day peeling garlic. How sweet is he?! Like really!!!
Cinnamon Peanut Butter Protein-Packed Pancakes
Protein Smoothie Pops
Post-Workout Pizza Pizzazz
Cinnamon and Vanilla Oats
High Energy Trail Mix
High Energy Energy Bars
Protein Apple Wraps
Tuna Pasta Salad
Smoked Salmon Spinach Omelet
Curried Chicken Lentil Stew
Shell Pesto Pasta
Apple Curry Tuna Pitas
Protein Ice Cream
High-Protein Quesadillas
The Ricardo
Pineapple, Banana and Berry Pops
Spaghetti Squash Pasta
Dr. John’s Chilli
Chicken Pesto Pizza
Banana-Split Proteinious Slushies
9. Hitting the boxing club for the second time today felt a bit off and I didn’t have much energy left after already have had trained for about 3 hours earlier on today. Junior Mint was brutal with me during pad work and I let it be known to him when he allowed me to practice my body shots on him.
10. By the time I came home, showered and quickly ate something, it was already creeping up to 11:30pm and I still had to take Mi Nam for a walk. Mi Nam practically dragged my sorry butt around the block and then I crashed upon returning home.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
When is too much too much?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Gotta show some love to my little man.
He's been having to share me the past month or so and so I've been trying hard to give him extra hugs and kisses when Snickers isn't around. The two of them get along but it's fair to say that Snickers gets my undivided attention when he's here. No one could ever replace Mi Nam though, he's awesome. Highlights of my Day... Sunday, June 28
1. My shoes showed up at this morning around the 10am mark.
2. Originally Snickers and his father wanted me to head out with them to Snickers’ grandfather’s house out in the country but I cancelled once I found out it was a sleepover. Meeting his grandfather is one thing but it’s a whole different story to be told I’ll be sharing a room with Snickers when we stay over. I’m not all old-school traditional but I just didn’t feel comfortable and I didn’t think it’d be in good manner to do so.
3. Snickers’ family practically has it set in their mind that he and I will get married. I won’t lie and say I don’t think about it too but Snickers has it in his mind that we’ll get married when he makes world champion status. And not to be the pessimist here but what happens if he never makes status?! Then what? I know it’s mean of me to think this despite me being his biggest fan and not wanting to become like one of those many who questioned my dreams but lately I’ve been thinking a lot. That's my problem... I often think too much, dissect things and think of the "what if's". He could become anything and anything he puts his heart and mind to but what if... what if... what if it takes longer than we both anticipate it to?! I blame my overthinking on the fact that I’m on holidays now. My brain is desperately wondering, looking for something to preoccupy its’ self with. I love Snickers, I love him a lot, but he has this preconceived idea that in order to get married you have to be loaded down with cash. He talks about wanting to shower me with gifts of luxurious dresses and dinners out to fine dining restaurants but I already have way too many clothes and I prefer my peanut butter protein pancakes over some overly expensive meal I can’t even pronounced, served by some stuck up waiter. When my parents got married they had no money. My mom made her own wedding dress and the women at their church cooked for the wedding reception but what they lacked in finances they definitely made up for it in love. Sounds kind of cheesy to say that but it’s true. Together they built upon their dreams and now they’ve got the three kids, the beautiful house, and trips around the world. They made their own Cinderella story, together and I rather do that with Snickers than wait around.
4. I’m finally completely finished filming with Arirang TV but today I got word that Snickers will now be focused for a human documentary hosted by another TV company. They called him a couple of times today, with the last phone call ringing around 10pm. Word has it they’re going to start filming on Wednesday… great (note, that’s sarcasm there).
5. Grocery shopping with Snickers at Home Plus meant test-tasting about a million different things from ice coffee to cream cheese bread. We loaded our cart with tons of veggies, chicken and fruit and then headed back home.
6. I’ve lived in Korea now for almost five years and up until today I’ve been able to avoid eating anything from Lotteria. For those of you who don’t live in Korea, Lotteria is a fast food chain that’s one step, if not more, below McDonalds. Today Snickers insisted I try it out. One word, “nasty”.
7. It was a beautiful rainy Sunday today… exactly the type of Sundays I adore.
8. Trained at the boxing club today by myself and so I cranked up my tunes and went hardcore.
9. I am now officially the 9-nailed boxer… hahaha. Due to all the skipping and running I’ve been doing, well, that and the fact that Junior Mint accidentally slammed the stick down on my toe once, the nail on my left big toe went black and today Snickers pulled it completely off my foot. Ouch!!!
10. Later in the evening I met up with one of my coworkers… not too sure on what nickname to give her yet. Anyways, we met at Tom N’ Toms Coffee Shop and giggled the evening away. She’s a sarcastic gal and so we click. Mind ya, for the most part I don’t socialize with my coworkers, with the exception of the Korean assistants. I try to keep business and pleasure separate, well, that and the fact that honestly, I probably wouldn’t be all buddy-buddy with them if we were to meet in Canada. So… we met up for coffee and the rain returned so we huddled under the patio umbrella and thought we’d wait it out. No such luck and boy did we get soaked despite our apartment being just a stone-throw away… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What if?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot
2. Originally Snickers and his father wanted me to head out with them to Snickers’ grandfather’s house out in the country but I cancelled once I found out it was a sleepover. Meeting his grandfather is one thing but it’s a whole different story to be told I’ll be sharing a room with Snickers when we stay over. I’m not all old-school traditional but I just didn’t feel comfortable and I didn’t think it’d be in good manner to do so.
3. Snickers’ family practically has it set in their mind that he and I will get married. I won’t lie and say I don’t think about it too but Snickers has it in his mind that we’ll get married when he makes world champion status. And not to be the pessimist here but what happens if he never makes status?! Then what? I know it’s mean of me to think this despite me being his biggest fan and not wanting to become like one of those many who questioned my dreams but lately I’ve been thinking a lot. That's my problem... I often think too much, dissect things and think of the "what if's". He could become anything and anything he puts his heart and mind to but what if... what if... what if it takes longer than we both anticipate it to?! I blame my overthinking on the fact that I’m on holidays now. My brain is desperately wondering, looking for something to preoccupy its’ self with. I love Snickers, I love him a lot, but he has this preconceived idea that in order to get married you have to be loaded down with cash. He talks about wanting to shower me with gifts of luxurious dresses and dinners out to fine dining restaurants but I already have way too many clothes and I prefer my peanut butter protein pancakes over some overly expensive meal I can’t even pronounced, served by some stuck up waiter. When my parents got married they had no money. My mom made her own wedding dress and the women at their church cooked for the wedding reception but what they lacked in finances they definitely made up for it in love. Sounds kind of cheesy to say that but it’s true. Together they built upon their dreams and now they’ve got the three kids, the beautiful house, and trips around the world. They made their own Cinderella story, together and I rather do that with Snickers than wait around.
4. I’m finally completely finished filming with Arirang TV but today I got word that Snickers will now be focused for a human documentary hosted by another TV company. They called him a couple of times today, with the last phone call ringing around 10pm. Word has it they’re going to start filming on Wednesday… great (note, that’s sarcasm there).
5. Grocery shopping with Snickers at Home Plus meant test-tasting about a million different things from ice coffee to cream cheese bread. We loaded our cart with tons of veggies, chicken and fruit and then headed back home.
6. I’ve lived in Korea now for almost five years and up until today I’ve been able to avoid eating anything from Lotteria. For those of you who don’t live in Korea, Lotteria is a fast food chain that’s one step, if not more, below McDonalds. Today Snickers insisted I try it out. One word, “nasty”.
7. It was a beautiful rainy Sunday today… exactly the type of Sundays I adore.
8. Trained at the boxing club today by myself and so I cranked up my tunes and went hardcore.
9. I am now officially the 9-nailed boxer… hahaha. Due to all the skipping and running I’ve been doing, well, that and the fact that Junior Mint accidentally slammed the stick down on my toe once, the nail on my left big toe went black and today Snickers pulled it completely off my foot. Ouch!!!
10. Later in the evening I met up with one of my coworkers… not too sure on what nickname to give her yet. Anyways, we met at Tom N’ Toms Coffee Shop and giggled the evening away. She’s a sarcastic gal and so we click. Mind ya, for the most part I don’t socialize with my coworkers, with the exception of the Korean assistants. I try to keep business and pleasure separate, well, that and the fact that honestly, I probably wouldn’t be all buddy-buddy with them if we were to meet in Canada. So… we met up for coffee and the rain returned so we huddled under the patio umbrella and thought we’d wait it out. No such luck and boy did we get soaked despite our apartment being just a stone-throw away… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What if?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Saturday, June 27
1. Headed out to Seoul for my Korean tutoring and no sooner did I just barely catch my bus but Wonder Bread called me. That boy reeks of drama and I can smell his drama all the way in Cheonan despite him living an hour away. He keeps on insisting that I meet him, insisting that I give him “closure”. Closure?!... closure for what. You are an idiotic playboy and I’m too smart to stick around and feed your drowned in drama ways… it’s as simple as that, way the need for closure? We were never a couple and despite his repetitious “I’m in love with you” messages that he sends my cell phone, the only thing he needs to do is get his head out of the sand, jump into reality and stop watching those silly Korean dramas.
2. Did I meet up with him, you ask… no. I’m a happily-taken woman and even if I wasn’t, I learned a while back that he’s a one-track mind man and I’m not interested. Never have, never will be.
3. I haven’t had Korean lessons for two weeks now and so I had to get my teacher to review the previous lesson. Sometimes I think my Korean is really improving, other times I feel like I’m walking backwards with it. It’s quite frustrating. I wish there were some kind of pill I could take or some other easy way to get those Korean words flowing through my brain.
4. In anticipation of getting down to business in the kitchen with some good old Korean cooking this summer, I bought myself my first Korean cookbook and it’s loaded with 136 recipes. I’m not much of a cooker and my specialities, if you’d even call them that, are quite “special”, as in short-yellow-bus special.
5. Yesterday I got invited to a wedding, a wedding that I then attended today. How’s that for notice?! Ya. Anyways, as it happened I headed out to this wedding, my camera broke and as a result of the wedding I had to skip out on my KBC meeting.
6. Upon arriving back in Cheonan I headed over to Park Jun’s Hair Studio to see if they could transform my desperately sad and lacking locks into beautiful locks of shine and posh style. Okay, so I wasn’t really wishing for that but I can armed with a translated letter from my Korean language teacher, asking them if they could return my hair back to it’s natural colour, light brown. After a couple of tests, the verdict was in. Going light brown was out of the question and they urged me to let the black grow out before I even considered it. Dang.
7. So, with no real options but to keep my hair dark, I got them to dye my hair dark brown and I went for a chop. My hair colour is questionable, it looks black, but I got my Japanese shaggy style hair back and so I’m happy with the cut. Personally, I love dark hair but because of my training I end up having to shower 2-3 times a day and so dying my hair has become a kind of by-weekly routine that’s rather annoying.
8. Training at La Sya tonight was rather annoying. It started off with me trying to sign Snickers up for a membership card and the new front desk chick trying to push me aside because she didn’t speak English when all I spoke to her was Korean. I leaned towards her and then asked, in Korean, “Do you know who I am?” I really had no answer in mind but I thought I’d flex some intimidation and get her thinking. “I know” came a voice behind me. It was the voice of one of the personal trainers. I hadn’t met him before but apparently he knows of me because of TV and so he assisted me with getting Snickers a membership card. Starting Monday Snickers and I will be weight training in the mornings together and so I thought I’d kick off our game prep training with a present for him, a gym membership at La Sya. It’s only for a month though cause after which I plan on returning to Hongik. La Sya is a nice club but the vibe here is a bit off. People stare at me, girls whisper when I walk by, the front desk girl punked me off, and so far the only people who have been nice to me is No-Neck and Orange Boy, both of which are personal trainers and so they kind of have to extend some kind of friendship to me, it’s in their job duties to do so.
9. Evening boredom got the best of me and so off I headed with Panty Boy downtown. I knew full well that this would be a bad idea and, without getting too much into the details of tonight’s strange situation, I’ll keep it short and tell you that it involved a splash of Chinese, a dash of giggles, me ending up at home minus my shoes, my camera mysteriously breaking, and Snickers searching downtown for me. He had a good laugh when he found me at home but then lectured me about resorting to “silly” things when I get bored. Snickers, just like Junior Mint, aren’t fans of Panty Boy. Dang panty-model Panty Boy and his devilish ways… getting me in trouble and stirring up the night.
10. Overheard a conversation, correction, a wickedly anger-filled Korean conversation that I really wasn’t supposed to hear. Not too sure if I was made out to be the villain or the hero in this conversation that quickly attached me to the main topic. Regardless, by the tone, the swear words and numerous other words that were being shouted through the phone, at 3:30am in the morning, it was certainly not the conversation that I wanted to hear, nor could I really stomach it at that point.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's your speciality?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
My favorite animal is steak.
-- Fran Lebowitz
2. Did I meet up with him, you ask… no. I’m a happily-taken woman and even if I wasn’t, I learned a while back that he’s a one-track mind man and I’m not interested. Never have, never will be.
3. I haven’t had Korean lessons for two weeks now and so I had to get my teacher to review the previous lesson. Sometimes I think my Korean is really improving, other times I feel like I’m walking backwards with it. It’s quite frustrating. I wish there were some kind of pill I could take or some other easy way to get those Korean words flowing through my brain.
4. In anticipation of getting down to business in the kitchen with some good old Korean cooking this summer, I bought myself my first Korean cookbook and it’s loaded with 136 recipes. I’m not much of a cooker and my specialities, if you’d even call them that, are quite “special”, as in short-yellow-bus special.
My list of specialities:
Protein-packed peanut butter pancakes
Banana-split yogurt protein shakes
Chicken supreme
Zip-lock bag omelets
Chicken oatmeal
Stuffed tomato chicken “bombs”
5. Yesterday I got invited to a wedding, a wedding that I then attended today. How’s that for notice?! Ya. Anyways, as it happened I headed out to this wedding, my camera broke and as a result of the wedding I had to skip out on my KBC meeting.
6. Upon arriving back in Cheonan I headed over to Park Jun’s Hair Studio to see if they could transform my desperately sad and lacking locks into beautiful locks of shine and posh style. Okay, so I wasn’t really wishing for that but I can armed with a translated letter from my Korean language teacher, asking them if they could return my hair back to it’s natural colour, light brown. After a couple of tests, the verdict was in. Going light brown was out of the question and they urged me to let the black grow out before I even considered it. Dang.
7. So, with no real options but to keep my hair dark, I got them to dye my hair dark brown and I went for a chop. My hair colour is questionable, it looks black, but I got my Japanese shaggy style hair back and so I’m happy with the cut. Personally, I love dark hair but because of my training I end up having to shower 2-3 times a day and so dying my hair has become a kind of by-weekly routine that’s rather annoying.
8. Training at La Sya tonight was rather annoying. It started off with me trying to sign Snickers up for a membership card and the new front desk chick trying to push me aside because she didn’t speak English when all I spoke to her was Korean. I leaned towards her and then asked, in Korean, “Do you know who I am?” I really had no answer in mind but I thought I’d flex some intimidation and get her thinking. “I know” came a voice behind me. It was the voice of one of the personal trainers. I hadn’t met him before but apparently he knows of me because of TV and so he assisted me with getting Snickers a membership card. Starting Monday Snickers and I will be weight training in the mornings together and so I thought I’d kick off our game prep training with a present for him, a gym membership at La Sya. It’s only for a month though cause after which I plan on returning to Hongik. La Sya is a nice club but the vibe here is a bit off. People stare at me, girls whisper when I walk by, the front desk girl punked me off, and so far the only people who have been nice to me is No-Neck and Orange Boy, both of which are personal trainers and so they kind of have to extend some kind of friendship to me, it’s in their job duties to do so.
9. Evening boredom got the best of me and so off I headed with Panty Boy downtown. I knew full well that this would be a bad idea and, without getting too much into the details of tonight’s strange situation, I’ll keep it short and tell you that it involved a splash of Chinese, a dash of giggles, me ending up at home minus my shoes, my camera mysteriously breaking, and Snickers searching downtown for me. He had a good laugh when he found me at home but then lectured me about resorting to “silly” things when I get bored. Snickers, just like Junior Mint, aren’t fans of Panty Boy. Dang panty-model Panty Boy and his devilish ways… getting me in trouble and stirring up the night.
10. Overheard a conversation, correction, a wickedly anger-filled Korean conversation that I really wasn’t supposed to hear. Not too sure if I was made out to be the villain or the hero in this conversation that quickly attached me to the main topic. Regardless, by the tone, the swear words and numerous other words that were being shouted through the phone, at 3:30am in the morning, it was certainly not the conversation that I wanted to hear, nor could I really stomach it at that point.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's your speciality?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
My favorite animal is steak.
-- Fran Lebowitz
Friday, June 26, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Friday, 26
1. Two things that frustrate the heck out of me with reference to students: 1. Students who wait all semester till the absolute last minute to try to make a decent grade. 2. Students who don’t deserve the mark they’re arguing for. I guess I should add being heckled by students who fulfill BOTH one and two of my things that frustrate me about students.
2. Text messages from a particular student who fulfilled both one and two started around 3pm and ended late in the evening, just before 10pm. Twenty text messages of this particular student practically begging in Korean and three calls I refused to answer later, if I was going to help him I will not anymore. Time is up and I found it extremely rude of him to harass me all day and late into the evening. I gave him 16 weeks and he chose to not come to my class, that’s not my problem. I baby my students, I know. I made them a homepage for both courses I teach, I let them talk to me in Korean, and I even handed out my personal cell phone number to them all, of which many have used. I made it very clear to them that I am here to help them but there are rules to be followed and I made those rules very clear from day one when they first stepped in my classroom. This particular student failed because of attendance, a silly way to fail, I agree, but Dankook rules are rules and I am simply the messenger of these rules. Whether he wants to follow them or not was his choice and with every action there’s a reaction and a consequence. He doesn’t like the consequences of his actions but that’s not my problem. It was his choice and now these are his consequences.
3. And no, I don’t believe marks are everything to everyone Bman. If they were, he would have been in class making those marks instead of out playing with his buddies and skipping my class. But enough about that… I don’t want to end my semester on a sour note like this.
4. My morning consisted of jogging in the wee hours and then heading over to boxing around 11am.
5. Snickers’ hair designer buddy ended up not working today and so my big plans to drastically changed my hair got instantly stamped out.
6. Ended up jumping on the Cheonan subway and heading out to Little America by myself… bit of a long story behind that, but anyways. No sooner did I get on the subway but Snickers texted me, telling me that he was on the subway behind me. Ended up in Little America with Snickers.
7. As we stepped onto Little America territory, who should I run into but D-Boy. I ran up to him and hugged him. I was so happy to see him. The last time I saw him was in the summer of 2006. He did his year in the Air Force here in Korea and then he left. His time here ended on a bit of a sour note with our friendship and so we lost touch of each other. Turns out he’s been back in Korea for a couple of weeks now and so I was so shocked to see him.
2. Text messages from a particular student who fulfilled both one and two started around 3pm and ended late in the evening, just before 10pm. Twenty text messages of this particular student practically begging in Korean and three calls I refused to answer later, if I was going to help him I will not anymore. Time is up and I found it extremely rude of him to harass me all day and late into the evening. I gave him 16 weeks and he chose to not come to my class, that’s not my problem. I baby my students, I know. I made them a homepage for both courses I teach, I let them talk to me in Korean, and I even handed out my personal cell phone number to them all, of which many have used. I made it very clear to them that I am here to help them but there are rules to be followed and I made those rules very clear from day one when they first stepped in my classroom. This particular student failed because of attendance, a silly way to fail, I agree, but Dankook rules are rules and I am simply the messenger of these rules. Whether he wants to follow them or not was his choice and with every action there’s a reaction and a consequence. He doesn’t like the consequences of his actions but that’s not my problem. It was his choice and now these are his consequences.
3. And no, I don’t believe marks are everything to everyone Bman. If they were, he would have been in class making those marks instead of out playing with his buddies and skipping my class. But enough about that… I don’t want to end my semester on a sour note like this.
4. My morning consisted of jogging in the wee hours and then heading over to boxing around 11am.
5. Snickers’ hair designer buddy ended up not working today and so my big plans to drastically changed my hair got instantly stamped out.
6. Ended up jumping on the Cheonan subway and heading out to Little America by myself… bit of a long story behind that, but anyways. No sooner did I get on the subway but Snickers texted me, telling me that he was on the subway behind me. Ended up in Little America with Snickers.
7. As we stepped onto Little America territory, who should I run into but D-Boy. I ran up to him and hugged him. I was so happy to see him. The last time I saw him was in the summer of 2006. He did his year in the Air Force here in Korea and then he left. His time here ended on a bit of a sour note with our friendship and so we lost touch of each other. Turns out he’s been back in Korea for a couple of weeks now and so I was so shocked to see him.
8. Took Snickers to a wicked Thai restaurant where although I’m convinced their so-called 5-star spicy rating should be re-evaluated, the food is awesome and super addicting. Snickers ate sweet and sour chicken and I had the cashew chicken.
9. There’s two restaurants I really like in Little America, the Thai second-floor restaurant and Puffin’s Restaurant. Puffin’s was a house that was turned into a romantic little dinner. It serves pasta, pizza and various other Western style dishes. Dinner was at the Thai place but then we headed over to Puffin’s for a light desert, a coffee and a milk shake, and lots of flirting, winking and make-you-gag couple stuff… hahaha.
10. Today marked Snickers first visit to Little America and it was funny to here him fascinate over the size of the Americans walking down the street. Snickers’ new word of the day “super-sized”… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What made you smile today?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.
-- Charles Gordy
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Me and my beautiful man.
"I do!"... but what's the question?!
... with the Arirang TV crew just feet away.
I commented about the white lanterns, saying that I thought they looked beautiful. Turns out these lanterns represent those whom have died.
Visiting Buddha.
Learning the meaning behind the temple paintings.
Attempting to do some painting... not so easy!
I'll leave the painting to the monks and stick to cuddling with my baby boy... I'm a pro at it by now!Highlights of my Day... Thursday, June 25
1. Today marked the last day of filming with Arirang TV and so I had to wake up super early to get in my morning run and boxing before 1pm.
2. Snickers joked about me only speaking English to the guys at the new gym I joined where I now weight train. I love Hongik Fitness club but getting a good workout in has proven to be harder than I thought with all the ajjumas trying to touch me (laugh as you may, it's true) and with my buddies (the personal assistants) trying to talk to me. So now I'm at La Sya, a downtown fitness gym that costs me an arm and a leg and where apparently all the personal trainers have no necks... hahaha. Anyways, back to the point I was trying to make. So.... Snickers joked about me only speaking English to the guys at my new gym but I don't think he was joking. Could it be that Snickers, the dangerously delish, insanely beautiful both inside and out, is experiencing a bit of jealous?! Oh gosh... I hope not. "You have something they could only wish to have!" I reassured him. "What... a neck?!" was his response. I was thinking more along the lines as me but ya, a neck is something they'll never have, too.... hahaha.
3. Today was the big temple stay with Arirang TV but with me having Korean class and practically already going mental with all the excessive filming, "say this... do that", I urged them to only make it a day thing. And so that's what the planned turned into, a day at the temple.
4. After the long drive out to the temple, we arrived and were greeted by a charming female monk who had flawless skin and the most delicate of hands. She was the only female monk among the 50 that lived at the temple so I found her to be particularly interesting and I eagerly tried to follow her Korean. We followed her to this little house where she then showed us how to properly pour tea. I let Snickers participate and I instead just watched... and drank LOTS of tea!
5. Of the places we visited, the old temple perched on the mountain was the most interesting to me. Inside it there was a male monk doing his daily bowing and so I watched as he must have bowed a good hundred times. Our tour guide, the Flawless monk, showed us how to properly bow and so I followed her lead. I'm Christain and I know that according to my faith I am not supposed to bow to any other idiols but if I don't believe in Buddha in the first place and there's no emotion in my heart attached to the situation, isn't it ok? I mean, I just did it for the TV show and so my concentration was more so on am I standing in the camera's view and should I adjust my hair. I mean, bowing to some gold-dipped Buddha felt no differently than bowing to K-Gere or to other Koreans when I greet them.
6. Anyways, next on the list of things to do and experience was some traditional painting. First we had to outline a pre-drawn flower by poking some holes into the piece of paper and then we had to paint it. I crouched down as close as I could to the floor but by the end of it sure my flower looked pretty but my legs were dead asleep and my eyes hurt. Next, was some meditation, of which because of my sleeping legs, I almost fell asleep. I secretly peeked occasionally at Snickers to make sure I was following the Flawless Monk's directions.
7. Last but not least on my list of things to do today with Arirang TV was to film a couple of shots at my house. I had met with Arirang TV at 1pm and it wasn't till about 8:30pm when I we were finally done.
8. Finally freedom... or so I thought. Got word that my nicely typed out computer marks wouldn't be sufficient enough to hand in tomorrow and so late in the evening I headed over to Dankook University to write out all 310 students of mine marks by hand!!!
9. Snickers surprised me by showing up at my office to act as a kind of moral support, I guess. What he ended up doing however was help me clean out my desk but eating a stash of choco pies I had for when students come to visit me.
10. Had my first piggy-back bike ride, yup, that's right. Snickers literally put me on his back and piggy-backed me while riding his bike... talk about talent... hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
-- Author Unknown
2. Snickers joked about me only speaking English to the guys at the new gym I joined where I now weight train. I love Hongik Fitness club but getting a good workout in has proven to be harder than I thought with all the ajjumas trying to touch me (laugh as you may, it's true) and with my buddies (the personal assistants) trying to talk to me. So now I'm at La Sya, a downtown fitness gym that costs me an arm and a leg and where apparently all the personal trainers have no necks... hahaha. Anyways, back to the point I was trying to make. So.... Snickers joked about me only speaking English to the guys at my new gym but I don't think he was joking. Could it be that Snickers, the dangerously delish, insanely beautiful both inside and out, is experiencing a bit of jealous?! Oh gosh... I hope not. "You have something they could only wish to have!" I reassured him. "What... a neck?!" was his response. I was thinking more along the lines as me but ya, a neck is something they'll never have, too.... hahaha.
3. Today was the big temple stay with Arirang TV but with me having Korean class and practically already going mental with all the excessive filming, "say this... do that", I urged them to only make it a day thing. And so that's what the planned turned into, a day at the temple.
4. After the long drive out to the temple, we arrived and were greeted by a charming female monk who had flawless skin and the most delicate of hands. She was the only female monk among the 50 that lived at the temple so I found her to be particularly interesting and I eagerly tried to follow her Korean. We followed her to this little house where she then showed us how to properly pour tea. I let Snickers participate and I instead just watched... and drank LOTS of tea!
5. Of the places we visited, the old temple perched on the mountain was the most interesting to me. Inside it there was a male monk doing his daily bowing and so I watched as he must have bowed a good hundred times. Our tour guide, the Flawless monk, showed us how to properly bow and so I followed her lead. I'm Christain and I know that according to my faith I am not supposed to bow to any other idiols but if I don't believe in Buddha in the first place and there's no emotion in my heart attached to the situation, isn't it ok? I mean, I just did it for the TV show and so my concentration was more so on am I standing in the camera's view and should I adjust my hair. I mean, bowing to some gold-dipped Buddha felt no differently than bowing to K-Gere or to other Koreans when I greet them.
6. Anyways, next on the list of things to do and experience was some traditional painting. First we had to outline a pre-drawn flower by poking some holes into the piece of paper and then we had to paint it. I crouched down as close as I could to the floor but by the end of it sure my flower looked pretty but my legs were dead asleep and my eyes hurt. Next, was some meditation, of which because of my sleeping legs, I almost fell asleep. I secretly peeked occasionally at Snickers to make sure I was following the Flawless Monk's directions.
7. Last but not least on my list of things to do today with Arirang TV was to film a couple of shots at my house. I had met with Arirang TV at 1pm and it wasn't till about 8:30pm when I we were finally done.
8. Finally freedom... or so I thought. Got word that my nicely typed out computer marks wouldn't be sufficient enough to hand in tomorrow and so late in the evening I headed over to Dankook University to write out all 310 students of mine marks by hand!!!
9. Snickers surprised me by showing up at my office to act as a kind of moral support, I guess. What he ended up doing however was help me clean out my desk but eating a stash of choco pies I had for when students come to visit me.
10. Had my first piggy-back bike ride, yup, that's right. Snickers literally put me on his back and piggy-backed me while riding his bike... talk about talent... hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
-- Author Unknown
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, June 24
1. I had told all my students in advance that today would be the one day they’d have to fight for their marks if they felt I had made an error with my calculations. I knew full well that for the most part I’d be dealing with students who would be fighting for marks that they clearly didn’t deserve. I say “clearly” because as far as I’m concerned, if you’re honestly going to argue with me about your English mark in Korean than you should really reconsider you’re argument and I should really reconsider your mark… as in reconsider lowering it.
2. There were of course those students who came with physical bribes; coffee and bread… both of which clearly don’t work with me. Others, who came with English-speaking friends. A couple came and almost broke down in tears but the most interesting of the day were these two students who practically hunted me down and stalked me today. At 7am I got a text message from the one, asking me when I’d be showing up for work. Text messages continued and then around 8:30am when I eventually stepped out of my house, one student was sitting outside waiting for me. The other “stalkerish-student-of-the-day” continued to bombard my cell phone with texts. They then emailed me three times today and called the office three times for me. It wasn’t until mid-morning that this particular student showed up. She gave me a big long song and dance, demanding I give her an A+, but when I refused to give her an extra 3 percent to make her mark an A+ she got all sour faced on me and almost cried.
3. I may not be a strict teacher or a hardcore tough teacher, but one thing I definitely am is an honest teacher and so it drives me mental when students have the nerve to ask me to push their mark up. “Push your mark up?” I ask. “I gave you 16 weeks to earn that mark and you come here and think you can get it in a day… no such luck” is always my answer.
4. With all the students coming in and out of my office, I never did get to finish my marks or my professional portfolio. Nor did I get the chance to post my grades on the university website and so this meant that I’ll have to pencil in another day to come work on my holidays… dang!
5. Snickers showed up around 1pm to help me with my stuff and he couldn’t have come at a better time. I had just had an “interesting” argument with a particular person and so I was ready to quit for the day… for the year actually, so him wrapping his arms around me and telling me its’ okay was a much needed escape from the stress that had hit me. He had come dressed up in anticipation of possibly running into my students and coworkers and so it seemed like such a waste for us both to be so dressed up with no place to go after work. Word had it that the new Transformers movie hit the theaters today and so off we headed to go check that out.
6. Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen was pretty cool!!!
7. Got invite number two for dinner at Snicker’s house by his father K-Gere and so that was cool. He called to ask what I wanted to eat and then we headed over for a quick dinner before boxing.
8. Nothing particularly interesting happened at boxing besides the fact that Snickers and I probably picked the worst time of the day to go train. The club was packed and I got stuck waiting it out for pad work, which meant I did about an hour of training (skipping and shadow boxing) before I got to step in the ring with Junior Mint and when I finally did, he complained about me not giving strong punches. He really knows how to push my buttons and telling me that I’m weak definitely pushes a button with me.
9. After late night training, Snickers and flopped down on the couch and chatted. We talked about his “5-year-plan”. Snickers has this plan that he’s been planning and up until a couple of months ago, prior to me that it, it only involved taking his boxing international. Truth be known, Snickers and I talk about marriage; we talk about it a lot.
10. Both of us were exhausted from boxing and so we ended up dozing off beside each other. Snickers was way off in la-la land and apparently was dreaming of boxing because no sooner did we drift off but then I woke up to him punching me!!! He squared me right in the side of the shoulder and so I popped up like a pop tart in the toaster. Dang, that hurt!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What does time have anything to do with it?
QUOTE OF THE DAY…
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire
2. There were of course those students who came with physical bribes; coffee and bread… both of which clearly don’t work with me. Others, who came with English-speaking friends. A couple came and almost broke down in tears but the most interesting of the day were these two students who practically hunted me down and stalked me today. At 7am I got a text message from the one, asking me when I’d be showing up for work. Text messages continued and then around 8:30am when I eventually stepped out of my house, one student was sitting outside waiting for me. The other “stalkerish-student-of-the-day” continued to bombard my cell phone with texts. They then emailed me three times today and called the office three times for me. It wasn’t until mid-morning that this particular student showed up. She gave me a big long song and dance, demanding I give her an A+, but when I refused to give her an extra 3 percent to make her mark an A+ she got all sour faced on me and almost cried.
3. I may not be a strict teacher or a hardcore tough teacher, but one thing I definitely am is an honest teacher and so it drives me mental when students have the nerve to ask me to push their mark up. “Push your mark up?” I ask. “I gave you 16 weeks to earn that mark and you come here and think you can get it in a day… no such luck” is always my answer.
4. With all the students coming in and out of my office, I never did get to finish my marks or my professional portfolio. Nor did I get the chance to post my grades on the university website and so this meant that I’ll have to pencil in another day to come work on my holidays… dang!
5. Snickers showed up around 1pm to help me with my stuff and he couldn’t have come at a better time. I had just had an “interesting” argument with a particular person and so I was ready to quit for the day… for the year actually, so him wrapping his arms around me and telling me its’ okay was a much needed escape from the stress that had hit me. He had come dressed up in anticipation of possibly running into my students and coworkers and so it seemed like such a waste for us both to be so dressed up with no place to go after work. Word had it that the new Transformers movie hit the theaters today and so off we headed to go check that out.
6. Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen was pretty cool!!!
7. Got invite number two for dinner at Snicker’s house by his father K-Gere and so that was cool. He called to ask what I wanted to eat and then we headed over for a quick dinner before boxing.
8. Nothing particularly interesting happened at boxing besides the fact that Snickers and I probably picked the worst time of the day to go train. The club was packed and I got stuck waiting it out for pad work, which meant I did about an hour of training (skipping and shadow boxing) before I got to step in the ring with Junior Mint and when I finally did, he complained about me not giving strong punches. He really knows how to push my buttons and telling me that I’m weak definitely pushes a button with me.
9. After late night training, Snickers and flopped down on the couch and chatted. We talked about his “5-year-plan”. Snickers has this plan that he’s been planning and up until a couple of months ago, prior to me that it, it only involved taking his boxing international. Truth be known, Snickers and I talk about marriage; we talk about it a lot.
10. Both of us were exhausted from boxing and so we ended up dozing off beside each other. Snickers was way off in la-la land and apparently was dreaming of boxing because no sooner did we drift off but then I woke up to him punching me!!! He squared me right in the side of the shoulder and so I popped up like a pop tart in the toaster. Dang, that hurt!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What does time have anything to do with it?
QUOTE OF THE DAY…
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, June 23
1. Second last day of filming with Arirang TV and so today we headed out to buy a gift for my father and to do some filming at my house.
2. This past Sunday was Father’s Day and I totally forgot about it. I don’t remember most Western holidays, to tell you the truth. Actually, I don’t even remember most of my friend’s birthdays and I’m brutal at remembering names. But whatever, that’s beside the point. The crew had asked me to think of a gift for my father and so I had been contemplating it for a couple of days now. Yesterday I woke up with a great idea and so today we headed out on the town in search of it.
3. Cooked up some of my newly adored oatmeal-cinnamon high protein pancakes for the Arirang TV crew… hahaha. They were quick to gobble those bad boys up, dang!
4. Snickers and I headed off to boxing together. Sometimes I’m convinced he tries to get a reaction out of me cause tonight he joked about having the pleasure of training among six women. Now the fact that each one of them equaled about two of me, and in some cases three, was irrelevant. I’m not a jealous person and so he could be training besides Megan Fox for all I care. I use to be the jealous girlfriend back in the day and what I found was the harder you tried to pull someone towards you the more you in actuality pushed them awa. Jealousy just eats you up. Mind ya, a little bit of jealousy is healthy… all in moderation, just like peanut butter… hahaha.
5. After a long weekend of sinfully-delicious, purely-evil eating, I weighed-in at 51.5kgs.
6. At the end of training Snickers’ father called and upon hearing my voice in the background, I instantly was invited to come over for dinner. It was past 10pm but his father insisted I come over and so that’s what I did.
7. Tonight marked the first time I’ve sat down and had an actual conversation with Snickers’ father and it marked the first time I visited their home. The two of them live in a small house on the opposite side of town. Snickers had rode his bike home but I took a taxi cause I had to shower. Upon getting out of the taxi, I heard someone call out my name. It was Snickers’ father, K-Gere, waiting for me with a massive smile. We had a bit of an uncomfortable greeting as he reached out his arms and I mistook his actions as an attempt to give me a hug. We kind of had one of those arm-extended hugs with about half a meter in between us. I laughed so hard at the awkwardness.
8. While dinner was being prepared, K-Gere handed me a photo album and so I eagerly reached out and opened up it’s cover. I love photos, they say so much. Koreans seem to have this thing with children/baby nudity and so flipping the pages and seeing my boyfriend starring back at me in the total buck in his early years threw me off guard and I giggled like an immature child discovering that boys are different than girls.
9. After dinner K-Gere’s girlfriend came over to join us on a kind of double-date stroll up the mountain. K-Gere brought along some badminton rackets and so Snickers and I entertained them by playing a good game of badminton. Every time I scored a point I’d break out into this ultra-silly “happy dance”, as I called it, and Snickers would laugh his head off. I kicked his butt royally at badminton but I think he let me cause it meant he got to see me exhaust myself with my happy dance… hahaha.
10. At the end of our double-date evening, when we reached the bottom of the mountain, I noticed some wild flowers that I use to always pick and make wishes upon. I picked one for Snickers and one for me and then I told him that he had to make a wish and then blow off all the wishes off the wishing flower in one big breath. He looked at me, closed his eyes, and just as we were both about to blow out our wishing flowers his father blurted out, “wish to get married!” I wasn’t too sure on who exactly he was directing that comment too but I almost ended up inhaling my wishing flower as a result… hahaha. We made our wishes and then K-Gere’s girlfriend drove me home. I was all smiles and full of pride on the car ride home. Tonight’s mini dinner party had come so unexpectedly and it was a lot of fun. The dinner was delish, the walk down memory lane with them via the photo album was hilarious, and checking out their second house where K-Gere makes traditional Korean medicine was really interesting. Badminton was fun, the midnight mountain stroll was beautiful, and there’s nothing I would have changed about tonight. It was perfect. Snickers tried to sneak kisses from me every second he could and K-Gere covered his eyes to tease us. K-Gere is a great dad to Snickers and I really hope my relationship with him (K-Gere) continues to bloom. He always smiles when he talks to me and he calls me beautiful, just like Snickers. I don’t know how to explain what I really want to say here except for the thought that I’m sure my mom is smiling as she is reading this now, knowing that despite her and my father not being able to be here to look after me, that someone else’s family is. Snickers’ family has really taken me in. I feel so grateful for them in my life and it feels so awesome to be part of something so much bigger than just a couple.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who's in your "second" family?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig
2. This past Sunday was Father’s Day and I totally forgot about it. I don’t remember most Western holidays, to tell you the truth. Actually, I don’t even remember most of my friend’s birthdays and I’m brutal at remembering names. But whatever, that’s beside the point. The crew had asked me to think of a gift for my father and so I had been contemplating it for a couple of days now. Yesterday I woke up with a great idea and so today we headed out on the town in search of it.
3. Cooked up some of my newly adored oatmeal-cinnamon high protein pancakes for the Arirang TV crew… hahaha. They were quick to gobble those bad boys up, dang!
4. Snickers and I headed off to boxing together. Sometimes I’m convinced he tries to get a reaction out of me cause tonight he joked about having the pleasure of training among six women. Now the fact that each one of them equaled about two of me, and in some cases three, was irrelevant. I’m not a jealous person and so he could be training besides Megan Fox for all I care. I use to be the jealous girlfriend back in the day and what I found was the harder you tried to pull someone towards you the more you in actuality pushed them awa. Jealousy just eats you up. Mind ya, a little bit of jealousy is healthy… all in moderation, just like peanut butter… hahaha.
5. After a long weekend of sinfully-delicious, purely-evil eating, I weighed-in at 51.5kgs.
6. At the end of training Snickers’ father called and upon hearing my voice in the background, I instantly was invited to come over for dinner. It was past 10pm but his father insisted I come over and so that’s what I did.
7. Tonight marked the first time I’ve sat down and had an actual conversation with Snickers’ father and it marked the first time I visited their home. The two of them live in a small house on the opposite side of town. Snickers had rode his bike home but I took a taxi cause I had to shower. Upon getting out of the taxi, I heard someone call out my name. It was Snickers’ father, K-Gere, waiting for me with a massive smile. We had a bit of an uncomfortable greeting as he reached out his arms and I mistook his actions as an attempt to give me a hug. We kind of had one of those arm-extended hugs with about half a meter in between us. I laughed so hard at the awkwardness.
8. While dinner was being prepared, K-Gere handed me a photo album and so I eagerly reached out and opened up it’s cover. I love photos, they say so much. Koreans seem to have this thing with children/baby nudity and so flipping the pages and seeing my boyfriend starring back at me in the total buck in his early years threw me off guard and I giggled like an immature child discovering that boys are different than girls.
9. After dinner K-Gere’s girlfriend came over to join us on a kind of double-date stroll up the mountain. K-Gere brought along some badminton rackets and so Snickers and I entertained them by playing a good game of badminton. Every time I scored a point I’d break out into this ultra-silly “happy dance”, as I called it, and Snickers would laugh his head off. I kicked his butt royally at badminton but I think he let me cause it meant he got to see me exhaust myself with my happy dance… hahaha.
10. At the end of our double-date evening, when we reached the bottom of the mountain, I noticed some wild flowers that I use to always pick and make wishes upon. I picked one for Snickers and one for me and then I told him that he had to make a wish and then blow off all the wishes off the wishing flower in one big breath. He looked at me, closed his eyes, and just as we were both about to blow out our wishing flowers his father blurted out, “wish to get married!” I wasn’t too sure on who exactly he was directing that comment too but I almost ended up inhaling my wishing flower as a result… hahaha. We made our wishes and then K-Gere’s girlfriend drove me home. I was all smiles and full of pride on the car ride home. Tonight’s mini dinner party had come so unexpectedly and it was a lot of fun. The dinner was delish, the walk down memory lane with them via the photo album was hilarious, and checking out their second house where K-Gere makes traditional Korean medicine was really interesting. Badminton was fun, the midnight mountain stroll was beautiful, and there’s nothing I would have changed about tonight. It was perfect. Snickers tried to sneak kisses from me every second he could and K-Gere covered his eyes to tease us. K-Gere is a great dad to Snickers and I really hope my relationship with him (K-Gere) continues to bloom. He always smiles when he talks to me and he calls me beautiful, just like Snickers. I don’t know how to explain what I really want to say here except for the thought that I’m sure my mom is smiling as she is reading this now, knowing that despite her and my father not being able to be here to look after me, that someone else’s family is. Snickers’ family has really taken me in. I feel so grateful for them in my life and it feels so awesome to be part of something so much bigger than just a couple.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who's in your "second" family?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig
Monday, June 22, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Monday, June 22
1. Snickers is all about these random “surprise secrets”, as I call them, and so today I woke up at the crack of dawn to Snickers looking at me. He had gone cycling in the morning and ended his ride at my house. We talked a bit about last night’s turn of events and agreed to put it aside, noting that it was just a matter of miscommunication.
2. Me biting my nails drives Snickers bonkers and so I’ve been trying my hardest not to randomly nibble away on them. As a result, today Snickers thought it’d be cute to bring a manicure set to my house and do my nails. I’m a chic and even I don’t know how to do my nails. I giggled away when Snickers pulled out a manicure set, opened it up and there before my eyes laid a dozen or so shiny nail tools. “You’re my queen” he noted and yes, that’s exactly how I felt.
3. This summer my plan is to go hardcore with my training and studying Korean but I’ve also convinced myself to take up cooking. I’m not a big fan of cooking in that I find it rather lonely to cook for just myself but with Snickers repeatedly visiting my house on a daily bases, he eats most of his meals at my house and so I figure it’s the very least I can do for the guy who walks 40 minutes to my house, does my nails, and whatnot.
4. I suppose I should use a different word than “cook” because, for the most part, my meals required limited cooking and what I consider to be a meal wouldn’t necessarily be labeled a meal by the average person. Whatever word you may chose to use, I’ve created some pretty cool things so far. Snickers is obsessed with ice cream and Popsicles and so today I made sugar free coffee Popsicles and banana split yogurt slushies. My friend Italiano in Canada bought me an ice cream receipt book and so I’m hoping to attack some of those more diet-friendly recipes this summer.
5. But the best thing I’ve made so far was a massive peanut butter, cinnamon oatmeal pancake the size of my head! I made that yesterday after I discovered the recipe in an Oxygen Fitness magazine. Don’t worry, I plan on making a video about it sometime next week. The pancake was pure delish and with only 11g carbs and a whopping 36g of protein it was a sure hit!!!
6. Slaving away at student final marks so that I could post them on my two student-oriented homepages was going smooth up until the point when Mi Nam decided to randomly attack my computer cord, causing a black screen to pop up and my eyes to almost literally pop out of my head. Three hours worth of typing and calculations gone.. dang.
7. Do you believe in destiny? Snickers does. I’m not too sure if I do but I’m a strong believer in the idea that everything happens for a reason. I don’t know if I’d give destiny credit for it but instead believe it’s God who’s at play here. I ask because today Snickers randomly showed up at my house today overly giggly and super hyper. He passed me a stack of photos and so I went through them while he eagerly waited some kind of reaction from me. They were photos of his previous fights and his friends’ fights. That’s when I saw why he was so overly hyper. It was a picture that was taken over a year ago and in the picture stood Snickers and two of his friends. His friend was fighting that day but in the background stood me. I too was fighting that day. It was February 23rd, 2008. We initially thought our paths first crossed up in Incheon when I went to watch Panty Boy Jr. and two other of my teammates fight in July of 2008. Snickers also had a fight that day. In both situations when our paths crossed, I was happy… happily involved with Q that is. Meeting Snickers at that point would have automatically thrown him in the friend category and he and I would never have become an “us”.
8. Arriving at the boxing club I did a quick mental note and reminded myself to change my thinking. I didn’t want to step into the boxing club tasting the same bitterness on my tongue that I tasted the other day. When I stepped into the club I was greeted by Black Skinny. He got all up in my face and that was exactly what I needed. He liked the purple eye I was sporting and called me “gangster”… hahaha. Junior Mint, on the other hand, was equally as quick with getting up in my face and pointing out where I had gone wrong in my fight.
9. I only have to weigh-in at 51kgs for my next fight by my opponent is stepping into the ring with a load of experience. I’m not familiar with her professional boxing record but she’s stacked up quite the number of amateur games prior to turning pro and so my game prep training for this upcoming fight will have me boxing two times a day, or so Junior Mint insists. I know I bring a lot of strength into the ring and I’m much more comfortable stepping into the ring for a fight but my sense is still not up to par with where it should be.
10. After training I was pleasantly surprised to look up and see Snickers. He thought it be sweet to come walk me home from boxing, which of course it was. Today marked start day for Snickers next game prep work and so today he went cycling, boxing and then did evening weight training. I, on the other hand, still have school stuff and Arirang filming splattered on this week’s schedule but I’m anticipating this upcoming Wednesday to be my official game prep start day. Junior Mint wants me to do morning running, followed by mid-morning boxing and then boxing in the evening.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do you believe in destiny?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
2. Me biting my nails drives Snickers bonkers and so I’ve been trying my hardest not to randomly nibble away on them. As a result, today Snickers thought it’d be cute to bring a manicure set to my house and do my nails. I’m a chic and even I don’t know how to do my nails. I giggled away when Snickers pulled out a manicure set, opened it up and there before my eyes laid a dozen or so shiny nail tools. “You’re my queen” he noted and yes, that’s exactly how I felt.
3. This summer my plan is to go hardcore with my training and studying Korean but I’ve also convinced myself to take up cooking. I’m not a big fan of cooking in that I find it rather lonely to cook for just myself but with Snickers repeatedly visiting my house on a daily bases, he eats most of his meals at my house and so I figure it’s the very least I can do for the guy who walks 40 minutes to my house, does my nails, and whatnot.
4. I suppose I should use a different word than “cook” because, for the most part, my meals required limited cooking and what I consider to be a meal wouldn’t necessarily be labeled a meal by the average person. Whatever word you may chose to use, I’ve created some pretty cool things so far. Snickers is obsessed with ice cream and Popsicles and so today I made sugar free coffee Popsicles and banana split yogurt slushies. My friend Italiano in Canada bought me an ice cream receipt book and so I’m hoping to attack some of those more diet-friendly recipes this summer.
5. But the best thing I’ve made so far was a massive peanut butter, cinnamon oatmeal pancake the size of my head! I made that yesterday after I discovered the recipe in an Oxygen Fitness magazine. Don’t worry, I plan on making a video about it sometime next week. The pancake was pure delish and with only 11g carbs and a whopping 36g of protein it was a sure hit!!!
6. Slaving away at student final marks so that I could post them on my two student-oriented homepages was going smooth up until the point when Mi Nam decided to randomly attack my computer cord, causing a black screen to pop up and my eyes to almost literally pop out of my head. Three hours worth of typing and calculations gone.. dang.
7. Do you believe in destiny? Snickers does. I’m not too sure if I do but I’m a strong believer in the idea that everything happens for a reason. I don’t know if I’d give destiny credit for it but instead believe it’s God who’s at play here. I ask because today Snickers randomly showed up at my house today overly giggly and super hyper. He passed me a stack of photos and so I went through them while he eagerly waited some kind of reaction from me. They were photos of his previous fights and his friends’ fights. That’s when I saw why he was so overly hyper. It was a picture that was taken over a year ago and in the picture stood Snickers and two of his friends. His friend was fighting that day but in the background stood me. I too was fighting that day. It was February 23rd, 2008. We initially thought our paths first crossed up in Incheon when I went to watch Panty Boy Jr. and two other of my teammates fight in July of 2008. Snickers also had a fight that day. In both situations when our paths crossed, I was happy… happily involved with Q that is. Meeting Snickers at that point would have automatically thrown him in the friend category and he and I would never have become an “us”.
8. Arriving at the boxing club I did a quick mental note and reminded myself to change my thinking. I didn’t want to step into the boxing club tasting the same bitterness on my tongue that I tasted the other day. When I stepped into the club I was greeted by Black Skinny. He got all up in my face and that was exactly what I needed. He liked the purple eye I was sporting and called me “gangster”… hahaha. Junior Mint, on the other hand, was equally as quick with getting up in my face and pointing out where I had gone wrong in my fight.
9. I only have to weigh-in at 51kgs for my next fight by my opponent is stepping into the ring with a load of experience. I’m not familiar with her professional boxing record but she’s stacked up quite the number of amateur games prior to turning pro and so my game prep training for this upcoming fight will have me boxing two times a day, or so Junior Mint insists. I know I bring a lot of strength into the ring and I’m much more comfortable stepping into the ring for a fight but my sense is still not up to par with where it should be.
10. After training I was pleasantly surprised to look up and see Snickers. He thought it be sweet to come walk me home from boxing, which of course it was. Today marked start day for Snickers next game prep work and so today he went cycling, boxing and then did evening weight training. I, on the other hand, still have school stuff and Arirang filming splattered on this week’s schedule but I’m anticipating this upcoming Wednesday to be my official game prep start day. Junior Mint wants me to do morning running, followed by mid-morning boxing and then boxing in the evening.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do you believe in destiny?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Ok, so it's not exactly the best breakfast of champions but knowing full well that next week our game diets will start up again, he's definitely going all out while he still can. What he's eating here is half a box of cereal... nasty!!!
Snickers trying to be romantic but being stalked by the camera man at the same time.
Interview time... again.
Striking a pose for the cameras.
My favourite ring... my black rose.
Indulging in some ice cream and trying to make it look sexy but coming out looking silly.
The beautiful owner of my "first-last kiss"
Silly s-lines... hahaha.
I spy with my Pollack eye, a cute tummy!!!
Trying to do an action shot.
Caught in a very sweet thought.
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