Snickers with one of the KBS crew members.
Three other members on set.
K-Gere getting in on the action.And with a driver out front, it brought the people count in this situation to 8. Five of them, three of us.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, September 30
1. I couldn’t wake up for weight training on account that in the past two nights I’ve only had a total of 5 hours sleep, so when I woke up this morning my body felt so out of whack. I hadn’t had slept long enough to score bed-head or pillow wrinkle lines on my face. I didn’t even have morning breath. Instead however, I woke up seriously questioning how the heck I was going to make it through the day.
2. Snickers and I had had our whole kiss-and-make-up scene last night in the hospital stairwell and so I was eager to see him again because I felt terrible for not being there for him when he came out of surgery. My attempt at making up for that was preparing a bag full of goodies for him. I don’t call Snickers a “food terrorist” for no reason, my boy can definitely eat, and so my bag full of goodies consisted of the following:
Milk
Banana milk
Orange juice
yogurt
Apples
Oranges
bananas
Freshly cooked rice
Still hot-from-the-oven sausages
Kimchi
Seaweed
Choco pies
Orea cookies
Crackers
3. Showed up at 9am and arrived to find Snickers sad looking, bored out of his mind, and slumped over the mini table on his bed. I wrapped my arms around him and apologized. Staying mad at him for a long period of time is practically impossible for me. I adore him.
4. Got an update on Snickers’ condition… a real update. His surgery went as planned but the doctors were rather stunned by what they saw in his x-rays. Turns out this isn’t the first time he’s injured his hand and didn’t do anything. His x-rays showed that he had broken his right hand SIX OTHER TIMES, only one of which Snickers admits to!!! He has to stay in the hospital for two weeks because of the metal plate they put in his right hand but he’ll be able to get back into the ring in two months.
5. I only stayed with him for about an hour and then I had to race off to work to finish preparing my Power Point lecture files. No sooner did I finish work though but I was racing home to see him again.
6. In my writing level two class with my medical students, I had them think up various inventions they thought would be useful and so I too thought up a couple.
My inventions:
Reversible pants: Flip them inside out and voila, another pair of pants.
The vibe-blanket: Instead of an annoying alarm sound going off to wake you up, the blanket vibrates.
Self-cleaning glasses: They have mini tucked-away windshield wipers that automatically swish down and wipe your lens when dirty.
My Vibe-Blanket invention
K-Gere's invention, the Duo-Purpose Sock... hahaha
Some smart student inventions:
The automatic toothpaste brush: Instead of
fumbling around with the toothpaste tube, this brush automatically pushes the
toothpaste up and out via the bristles.
The punch clock: An alarm clock that hits you in the head to wake you up.
The self-watering plant pot: No need to remember when to water your plants, the pot has it’s own watering hose that automatically does it for you.
Snickers sporting his robotic new hand.
K-Gere getting some camera action. 7. Filming continued with Snickers and so that meant I had to go along for the ride. No sooner had I arrived home from work but KBS was calling me, telling me that they were going to film me at boxing. I had been out of my house since 8:40am and it was now 5:30pm. I was tired, my feet hurt, and I was hungry. No time to stop and breath though… the show must go on, or so they say.
8. Having the film crew show up at boxing was rather funny because they made it look like such a big production by turning off the club lights and shinning a massive spotlight on me while I trained.
9. When we wished filming at the boxing club, they raced me back to Guum Ggum. We have very limited time before we were to arrive at Snickers’ father’s house for more filming and so I basically was given two choices: eat and show up dripping with sweat or shower and show up cranky from not eating. My own personal choice from them went somewhere along the line as “let me shower and eat and I’ll let you keep your teeth”. Ended up showering and tossing a protein shake into my purse, not exactly satisfying for an after boxing workout meal but I really had no choice.
10. Filming at Snickers’ father house was funny and I got to see just how big Tuna and Kimbab have got; they’re just as hyper now though as when they were puppies. I haven’t seen K-Gere for awhile now and so it was nice to see him. He’s going to be my father-in-law soon and so, honestly, I felt proud sitting in on his interview. With his rosy cheeks, salt and pepper hair, pudgy hands, and stocky figure, I think he’s super cute and so sweet.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Is that thing legal?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~
-- Erica Jong
Is that thing legal?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~
-- Erica Jong
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
My Korean wedding list (minus one person's picture)Now this is based on the idea that my portion of the guest list would be small because I'd get to have a huge guest list once we're in Canada.
Some people who I'd love to add if I could included a couple of former and current coworkers, some past and present students (of which of course Giggle Girl Jr would be invited regardless of the fact that she's under the age of ten), Woo and the Hongik Oppa from Hongik, Satoshi, and various other friends.
Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, September 29
1. With about two hours of sleep and definitely sporting the bed-tossing bedhead to prove I had a rough time trying to sleep, I got up and headed out to early morning weight training.
2. Snickers was scheduled to have surgery today sometime in the morning. It was my dad off and so it definitely didn’t sit well with me that he was laying on some hospital bed alone. I really wanted to be with him but had decided that I wouldn’t give in. “I’ll show him some tough love”, I thought.
3. Spending my day off on the phone with immigration wasn’t fun and it ended up spooking me. I had called immigration for answers regarding my boxing and my work visa but they ended up having to call me back. Even they didn’t have answers. As it turns out, my case is quite the unique case with immigration, one of which they admitted they’ve never encountered before.
4. Having immigration being all up in the air with what to do with me and having them call people like Junior Mint at my boxing club worked to kill my nerves about the situation. Immigration isn’t exactly the place where I want my name to bounced around, let alone said or even known.
5. By mid afternoon I had failed miserably at trying to plan my two Power Point lecture files for tomorrow’s classes and my patience and nerves had been brutally shot down. I always think too much and so of course I imagined the worse case scenario. Worse case being I get deported back to Canada. I heard about this one foreigner who got deported. Immigration froze her bank account and she was given a 24 hour “get-out-of-here” notice. I contemplated taking all my cash out of my bank account and what the heck I’d do with all my stuff and with Mi Nam.
6. By evening my patience had reached the minus numbers, while my stress and frustration felt like they were entering the triple digits. I gave in, I text Snickers. Twenty minutes later I showed up at the hospital where he was staying. He greeted me with the same puppy eyes he had sported yesterday. He was dressed in the typical ugly hospital clothes and his arm was bandaged up to his elbow. I wanted nothing more than to bury my head in his chest, have him swallow my body up with his massive arms he’d wrap around me, and cry, but I didn’t.
7. Well, okay, I did cry. We sat in the stairwell for about three hours. Our discussion started off with me blurting out, “I’m running away. I’m going back to Canada.” That’s exactly what, at that moment, I wanted to do too. I had had enough with people toying around with me and my frustration with not being able to see my mom through her recent struggle turned success had gotten to me. I knew running away meant I couldn’t come back but I wasn’t too sure if that was a bad or good thing. Mind ya, the look on Snickers’ face after I spilled out that comment showed me right there and then that of course it’d be a bad thing.
8. They say “desperate times call for desperate measures” and so when Snickers turned to me and said
I sat there and contemplated it. Snickers and I are already planning to get married and so it’s not like it’s a far-fetched idea. But now with immigration barking at me and Dankook giving me warnings about my boxing, getting married would definitely solve the problems related to my work visa. Snickers tried his hardest to sell the idea to me by telling me, “Who else is as special to get three weddings… a paper wedding tomorrow, a wedding in Korea, and then another wedding in Canada?!” To tell you the truth, I really don’t care for a big wedding and a paper wedding is fine with me. I’ve already gone through all the stress of planning a wedding with my ex-fiance and so I really don’t care to do it again. We’d do the so-called paper wedding (city hall deal) and then the so-called 2nd wedding would simply be a late night dinner party in a park here in Korea with a very small elite crowd, consisting of only those in Korea who really matter to us. Snickers' side of the guest list would be much larger than mine but in our so-called 3rd wedding, it'd be reversed, I'd have a huge chunk of the list. Our so-called 3rd wedding would take place after our big move to Canada and it would consist of a church ceremony and intimate reception.
9. Don’t worry… I’m not getting married tomorrow, after all, I’m too busy with work and filming with KBS. Mind ya, KBS would love us to death if we were to do this tomorrow cause their ratings would be crazy high.
10. Had a super late night dinner with Snickers. He took me out to a restaurant beside the hospital and I had to laugh at the sight of him dressed in ugly hospital clothing, pushing his IV stand down the street. He had not a care in the world with regards to what people thought. It’s totally expected and accepted in Korea for hospital patients to venture outside in similar fashion but I always find it so funny and odd.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who's list do you think you're on?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Choices are the hinges of destiny.
-- Author Unknown
2. Snickers was scheduled to have surgery today sometime in the morning. It was my dad off and so it definitely didn’t sit well with me that he was laying on some hospital bed alone. I really wanted to be with him but had decided that I wouldn’t give in. “I’ll show him some tough love”, I thought.
3. Spending my day off on the phone with immigration wasn’t fun and it ended up spooking me. I had called immigration for answers regarding my boxing and my work visa but they ended up having to call me back. Even they didn’t have answers. As it turns out, my case is quite the unique case with immigration, one of which they admitted they’ve never encountered before.
4. Having immigration being all up in the air with what to do with me and having them call people like Junior Mint at my boxing club worked to kill my nerves about the situation. Immigration isn’t exactly the place where I want my name to bounced around, let alone said or even known.
5. By mid afternoon I had failed miserably at trying to plan my two Power Point lecture files for tomorrow’s classes and my patience and nerves had been brutally shot down. I always think too much and so of course I imagined the worse case scenario. Worse case being I get deported back to Canada. I heard about this one foreigner who got deported. Immigration froze her bank account and she was given a 24 hour “get-out-of-here” notice. I contemplated taking all my cash out of my bank account and what the heck I’d do with all my stuff and with Mi Nam.
6. By evening my patience had reached the minus numbers, while my stress and frustration felt like they were entering the triple digits. I gave in, I text Snickers. Twenty minutes later I showed up at the hospital where he was staying. He greeted me with the same puppy eyes he had sported yesterday. He was dressed in the typical ugly hospital clothes and his arm was bandaged up to his elbow. I wanted nothing more than to bury my head in his chest, have him swallow my body up with his massive arms he’d wrap around me, and cry, but I didn’t.
7. Well, okay, I did cry. We sat in the stairwell for about three hours. Our discussion started off with me blurting out, “I’m running away. I’m going back to Canada.” That’s exactly what, at that moment, I wanted to do too. I had had enough with people toying around with me and my frustration with not being able to see my mom through her recent struggle turned success had gotten to me. I knew running away meant I couldn’t come back but I wasn’t too sure if that was a bad or good thing. Mind ya, the look on Snickers’ face after I spilled out that comment showed me right there and then that of course it’d be a bad thing.
8. They say “desperate times call for desperate measures” and so when Snickers turned to me and said
“Let’s get married tomorrow!!!”
I sat there and contemplated it. Snickers and I are already planning to get married and so it’s not like it’s a far-fetched idea. But now with immigration barking at me and Dankook giving me warnings about my boxing, getting married would definitely solve the problems related to my work visa. Snickers tried his hardest to sell the idea to me by telling me, “Who else is as special to get three weddings… a paper wedding tomorrow, a wedding in Korea, and then another wedding in Canada?!” To tell you the truth, I really don’t care for a big wedding and a paper wedding is fine with me. I’ve already gone through all the stress of planning a wedding with my ex-fiance and so I really don’t care to do it again. We’d do the so-called paper wedding (city hall deal) and then the so-called 2nd wedding would simply be a late night dinner party in a park here in Korea with a very small elite crowd, consisting of only those in Korea who really matter to us. Snickers' side of the guest list would be much larger than mine but in our so-called 3rd wedding, it'd be reversed, I'd have a huge chunk of the list. Our so-called 3rd wedding would take place after our big move to Canada and it would consist of a church ceremony and intimate reception.
My Korean wedding list
1. Junior Mint
2. Buff Boy the Original
3. Drama Boy
4. Milk Dud
5. Black Skinny
6. Panty Boy Jr.
7. Pro Star
8. Kitty Cat
9. My Korean tutor
10. Mrs. Jung (Eumbong coworker)
9. Don’t worry… I’m not getting married tomorrow, after all, I’m too busy with work and filming with KBS. Mind ya, KBS would love us to death if we were to do this tomorrow cause their ratings would be crazy high.
10. Had a super late night dinner with Snickers. He took me out to a restaurant beside the hospital and I had to laugh at the sight of him dressed in ugly hospital clothing, pushing his IV stand down the street. He had not a care in the world with regards to what people thought. It’s totally expected and accepted in Korea for hospital patients to venture outside in similar fashion but I always find it so funny and odd.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who's list do you think you're on?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Choices are the hinges of destiny.
-- Author Unknown
Monday, September 28, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Monday, September 28
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
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
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Sunday, September 27
1. Mi Nam didn’t exactly make friends today when he sprinted across the river and decided to sniff out what looked like a pile of weeds. Turns out it was a bird’s nest and so no sooner did he start to sniff it out but a very mad mother bird came charging at him!
2. Between Mi Nam being distracted by the mother bird and his over curious interest at the nest, I’m pretty sure he managed to eat not just one but two eggs!!!
3. Headed out to Little America with Snickers on account that I had to met Pro Star and get the protein powder shake mix he had picked up for me on base.
4. The silence of the restaurant was definitely broken by my sudden out burst of laughter when Snickers asked “where’s the rice?” I’m always sure to get in a good western-style breakfast before leaving Little America and I thought it would impress Snickers, apparently not. You can take the Korean out of Korea but you definitely can’t take Korea out of the Korean.
5. Pro Star got quite the early morning older sister-like lecture from me when he brought up his ex. Snickers nudged me and even went so far as to tell me to mind my mouth but I refused to. “Hope you either look good in stripes or in orange!” He just doesn’t get it. His ex is the post-child of craziness and he’s just as crazy for not moving on. She’s returned to Korea. It’s only for a very short time and he knows she can very well put his celebrity butt in jail, and so I have no idea why he’s even daring to tread on such thin ice here.
6. Heard the worst proposal story ever and who should it belong to but none other than Snickers’ best friend. I’m embarrassed for him writing this but, basically, the story dialogue went as follows, “This is either the third and last time we break up or you marry me. What do you want?” “sniff, sniff… I… want… marry.”
7. Snickers and I had a good laugh over the proposal story and I joked, telling him that I’d drop kick him in the head if he ever pulled that stunt on me!!!
8. Took my man out for dinner at the one buffet I must admit I like… I must admit also that we ate too way much food!!! I paced myself but Snickers went loose and went wild like an animal… hahaha.
9. “I’m full” was definitely the understatement of the evening and as I walked Snickers painfully waddle home, yes, he waddled, I couldn’t help but laugh. I’m always getting on his case about eating healthy foods but tonight I had told him to go to town on the buffet bar. Mind ya, I didn’t think he’d go on a kind of free-for-all feast-off fest! I definitely didn’t eat as much as Snickers but I too was experiencing the painful tummy. Our tummies were definitely cursing our names and so we had no choice but to lie down and wait for it to pass. I assumed the fetal position, where as Snickers did the sprawled eagle, and if it weren’t for the fact that it literally hurt to laugh, we definitely would have had a good laugh at ourselves.
10. Tomorrow filming starts for Snickers' TV human documentary and so that means I'll be getting in on that camera action, too. We're kind of like a combo deal in that sense... hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
He who eats alone chokes alone.
-- Proverb
2. Between Mi Nam being distracted by the mother bird and his over curious interest at the nest, I’m pretty sure he managed to eat not just one but two eggs!!!
3. Headed out to Little America with Snickers on account that I had to met Pro Star and get the protein powder shake mix he had picked up for me on base.
4. The silence of the restaurant was definitely broken by my sudden out burst of laughter when Snickers asked “where’s the rice?” I’m always sure to get in a good western-style breakfast before leaving Little America and I thought it would impress Snickers, apparently not. You can take the Korean out of Korea but you definitely can’t take Korea out of the Korean.
5. Pro Star got quite the early morning older sister-like lecture from me when he brought up his ex. Snickers nudged me and even went so far as to tell me to mind my mouth but I refused to. “Hope you either look good in stripes or in orange!” He just doesn’t get it. His ex is the post-child of craziness and he’s just as crazy for not moving on. She’s returned to Korea. It’s only for a very short time and he knows she can very well put his celebrity butt in jail, and so I have no idea why he’s even daring to tread on such thin ice here.
6. Heard the worst proposal story ever and who should it belong to but none other than Snickers’ best friend. I’m embarrassed for him writing this but, basically, the story dialogue went as follows, “This is either the third and last time we break up or you marry me. What do you want?” “sniff, sniff… I… want… marry.”
7. Snickers and I had a good laugh over the proposal story and I joked, telling him that I’d drop kick him in the head if he ever pulled that stunt on me!!!
8. Took my man out for dinner at the one buffet I must admit I like… I must admit also that we ate too way much food!!! I paced myself but Snickers went loose and went wild like an animal… hahaha.
9. “I’m full” was definitely the understatement of the evening and as I walked Snickers painfully waddle home, yes, he waddled, I couldn’t help but laugh. I’m always getting on his case about eating healthy foods but tonight I had told him to go to town on the buffet bar. Mind ya, I didn’t think he’d go on a kind of free-for-all feast-off fest! I definitely didn’t eat as much as Snickers but I too was experiencing the painful tummy. Our tummies were definitely cursing our names and so we had no choice but to lie down and wait for it to pass. I assumed the fetal position, where as Snickers did the sprawled eagle, and if it weren’t for the fact that it literally hurt to laugh, we definitely would have had a good laugh at ourselves.
10. Tomorrow filming starts for Snickers' TV human documentary and so that means I'll be getting in on that camera action, too. We're kind of like a combo deal in that sense... hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
He who eats alone chokes alone.
-- Proverb
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Saturday, September 26
1. Early morning weight training was a no-go on account that I woke up to the surprise arrival of the fall weather chill and my weight training buddy, Kitty Cat, was off to Singapore for the weekend.
2. Stocked up on groceries and despite Snickers still sporting his freakishly-swollen hand, he insisted he carry all the groceries home.
3. Snickers is always getting on my case for my poor efforts with stretching before training and well, today he proved his point with the importance of stretching when I made a miserable attempt to give myself a pedicure. I just couldn’t bend over to care to my toes. Snickers practically peed his pants laughing at me.
4. End result: Snickers gave me a pedicure and I agreed to stretch before and after every workout.
5. Yet again KBS replayed Snickers’ previous fight on TV and yet again I was called by Snickers’ side to watch it again.
6. Snickers headed out for dinner with his boys, leaving me bored senseless at Guum Ggum. I thought about calling on some friends but came up with various excuses why I shouldn’t. Moreover though, I hate calling on people. I much rather be invited out than be the one inviting. Mind ya, with me not being a drinker or single, and with me being so into my boxing and training, my invites out have definitely dwindled. The typical thing for many to do in Korea on a weekend night is to hit up the bars. I don’t hang out at bars because a. I value my lungs,thanks, b. I don’t drink, and c. bar food doesn’t interest me, and so there goes that invite. Shooting pool bores me half to death, I don’t do Korean dance clubs, and I really don’t want to head out to Seoul to pursue the night life there like many of my friends repeatedly do.
7. …. So, where does that continually leave me?! Home alone.
8. Regardless of the occasional complaint I have about my very routine-like quiet weekends, I must admit that I much rather spend my evening home alone than with a bunch of people who I don’t particularly favor or care to impress. I’m very much so as comfortable on my own as I am in my own skin, two situations that I admit I definitely wasn’t at all comfortable with before. I definitely value my own “me time”.
9. When home alone and bored out my skull, I tend to distract myself with silly things but tonight I decided to go shopping. Bought some new lip gloss at MAC Cosmetics and then proved to be quite unsuccessful with searching out L’Oreal hair colour downtown.
10. Most successful move of the night was deciding to go for a jog. Heading out for a late night jog turned into quite the 40 minute jog, which was then followed by a 5 minute full-fledge sprint.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Nature or nurture?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I am a part of all that I have met.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
2. Stocked up on groceries and despite Snickers still sporting his freakishly-swollen hand, he insisted he carry all the groceries home.
3. Snickers is always getting on my case for my poor efforts with stretching before training and well, today he proved his point with the importance of stretching when I made a miserable attempt to give myself a pedicure. I just couldn’t bend over to care to my toes. Snickers practically peed his pants laughing at me.
4. End result: Snickers gave me a pedicure and I agreed to stretch before and after every workout.
5. Yet again KBS replayed Snickers’ previous fight on TV and yet again I was called by Snickers’ side to watch it again.
6. Snickers headed out for dinner with his boys, leaving me bored senseless at Guum Ggum. I thought about calling on some friends but came up with various excuses why I shouldn’t. Moreover though, I hate calling on people. I much rather be invited out than be the one inviting. Mind ya, with me not being a drinker or single, and with me being so into my boxing and training, my invites out have definitely dwindled. The typical thing for many to do in Korea on a weekend night is to hit up the bars. I don’t hang out at bars because a. I value my lungs,thanks, b. I don’t drink, and c. bar food doesn’t interest me, and so there goes that invite. Shooting pool bores me half to death, I don’t do Korean dance clubs, and I really don’t want to head out to Seoul to pursue the night life there like many of my friends repeatedly do.
7. …. So, where does that continually leave me?! Home alone.
8. Regardless of the occasional complaint I have about my very routine-like quiet weekends, I must admit that I much rather spend my evening home alone than with a bunch of people who I don’t particularly favor or care to impress. I’m very much so as comfortable on my own as I am in my own skin, two situations that I admit I definitely wasn’t at all comfortable with before. I definitely value my own “me time”.
9. When home alone and bored out my skull, I tend to distract myself with silly things but tonight I decided to go shopping. Bought some new lip gloss at MAC Cosmetics and then proved to be quite unsuccessful with searching out L’Oreal hair colour downtown.
10. Most successful move of the night was deciding to go for a jog. Heading out for a late night jog turned into quite the 40 minute jog, which was then followed by a 5 minute full-fledge sprint.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Nature or nurture?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I am a part of all that I have met.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Friday, September 25, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Friday, September 25
1. Do you believe in magic? I don’t. Do you believe in luck? I don’t. But what I DO believe in is fate and miracles and if there were anyone deserving of a crazy, out-of-this-world miracle it’d be my mother, and so, that’s exactly what she got today. My parents are so incredibly faithful to God and so it was so reassuring to my own faith that my mom received this blessed miracle.
2. News of my mom’s miracle reached me this morning when one of my cousins called me from Canada. My mom was scheduled for surgery today and before she went in, they tested her blood. Once again, the doctors found cancer in her blood and so in she went for surgery. She had been told back in August that she had a tumor on her pancreas but while under the knife, the doctors couldn’t find it.
3. No only could they find no traces of the tumor but when they tested her blood once again, there was no cancer. So, at 8am (Canada time) my mom was literally on her death bed and then five hours later she had not only got a clean bill of health but she had been given the biggest miracle of all by God, a second chance at life. What would I do if I had a second chance at life… hmmm… I’d probably start with one massive party.
4. No sooner did I get off the phone with my cousin but I screamed at the top of my lungs. I could hear my neighbors instantly open their doors and poor Snickers in the other room almost had a heart attack as a result. I was soooooooooooooo happy, still am.
5. Despite this huge burden of stress that’s been suddenly taken off my shoulders, I was still sporting a buzzing head from last night’s dinner at the Sushi Den. I thought a couple of coffee and tons of water would flush it out but I had no luck.
6. Thankfully most of my first period students were away on their MT (school trip) and so I chilled out in the office while I nursed my throbbing head and waited for my next period class.
7. Turns out so many of my last period students not only had watched Snickers’ fight on Saturday but had also read about us in the news.
8. Got offered a chance at a title match, the title being “Korean Flyweight Champion” but with my opponent being the girl I just fought at the end of August and the weigh-in being 51kgs, I rejected the offer.
9. With my head still spinning, I headed off to boxing. I hadn’t been feeling good all day but I was definitely feeling better than the cocky dude who definitely got not only his butt but his pride kicked by Milk Dud in sparring. Good job Milk Dud!!!
10. With Chusok being just around the corner, stores are busy selling gift sets and Snickers has been on my back everyday, asking me what my plans are for it. Tonight Snickers arrived with a special gift set. It was for me and it was from K-Gere. He had bought me a massive box full of various cans of tuna and it was awesome. Thanks K-Gere!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
On a scale of 1 to 10, how thankful for life are you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no.
-- Author Unknown
2. News of my mom’s miracle reached me this morning when one of my cousins called me from Canada. My mom was scheduled for surgery today and before she went in, they tested her blood. Once again, the doctors found cancer in her blood and so in she went for surgery. She had been told back in August that she had a tumor on her pancreas but while under the knife, the doctors couldn’t find it.
3. No only could they find no traces of the tumor but when they tested her blood once again, there was no cancer. So, at 8am (Canada time) my mom was literally on her death bed and then five hours later she had not only got a clean bill of health but she had been given the biggest miracle of all by God, a second chance at life. What would I do if I had a second chance at life… hmmm… I’d probably start with one massive party.
4. No sooner did I get off the phone with my cousin but I screamed at the top of my lungs. I could hear my neighbors instantly open their doors and poor Snickers in the other room almost had a heart attack as a result. I was soooooooooooooo happy, still am.
5. Despite this huge burden of stress that’s been suddenly taken off my shoulders, I was still sporting a buzzing head from last night’s dinner at the Sushi Den. I thought a couple of coffee and tons of water would flush it out but I had no luck.
6. Thankfully most of my first period students were away on their MT (school trip) and so I chilled out in the office while I nursed my throbbing head and waited for my next period class.
7. Turns out so many of my last period students not only had watched Snickers’ fight on Saturday but had also read about us in the news.
8. Got offered a chance at a title match, the title being “Korean Flyweight Champion” but with my opponent being the girl I just fought at the end of August and the weigh-in being 51kgs, I rejected the offer.
9. With my head still spinning, I headed off to boxing. I hadn’t been feeling good all day but I was definitely feeling better than the cocky dude who definitely got not only his butt but his pride kicked by Milk Dud in sparring. Good job Milk Dud!!!
10. With Chusok being just around the corner, stores are busy selling gift sets and Snickers has been on my back everyday, asking me what my plans are for it. Tonight Snickers arrived with a special gift set. It was for me and it was from K-Gere. He had bought me a massive box full of various cans of tuna and it was awesome. Thanks K-Gere!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
On a scale of 1 to 10, how thankful for life are you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no.
-- Author Unknown
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Check out his hands. His right hand is still super swollen.
Before moving to Korea, there's no way on God's green Earth you'd catch me eating a fish with it's head still on.
It was like a non-stop foodfest... it just kept on coming and coming!
It was super delish!!!
Highlights of my Day... Thursday, September 24
1. Did my usual early morning routine – weight training followed by me putting my Pancake Master skills to work – but today’s usual post-weight training nap was canceled out on account that I had another Dankook staff meeting to attend.
2. “Boo” for early morning meetings but “Yahhhh!!!” for Kitty Cat’s cup of “survival coffee” that got me through that meeting.
3. One of my sparring partners, well former sparring partners, Bella Punch, was out in Seoul today with Junior Mint, attending her pro test for her boxing license. She didn’t pass, which I’m sure her husband is jumping for joy over, but I question why she even went for it in the first place. Her husband can’t stand her boxing and I’m supposedly not allow to box with her cause of the repeated injuries I keep on giving her in the ring. I tried to understand her reasoning but in a country where I’m boggled by girls who wear both a skirt and pants, I figure it’s just one of those things I’ll never understand.
4. But anyways… while there were out in Seoul, I was here in Cheonan teaching my two writing classes. I walked into the one class and there, around the lecturer computer, were a bunch of students eagerly eye-balling what ever was on the computer screen. I thought I’d take a gander and so I pressed the button for the overhead projector to turn on.
5. Joke was on me. Turns out what they were eye-balling was the Snickers’ and my interview that had bombarded the Internet the other day. I turned beat red… and they loved it!!!
6. Training at the boxing gym tonight was definitely a light train considering I had no yelling Junior Mint pushing me around and insisting I do extra rounds of this and that. Instead, it was just Milk Dud and I. Panty Boy Jr. and Motor Cross stopped by and congratulated me on my interview and on my plans to get married.
7. Snickers returned to Cheonan today and so we had one of our spontaneous dinner dates. Dinner consisted of indulging in sushi at The Sushi Den.
8. As if we weren’t being totally pampered enough by the Sushi Master, at one point he offered us each a small shot glass. Inside the glass was what he called “the tears of the fish” and numerous flakes of shaved gold. I downed it, like he told me too, but then about ten minutes later my head started to feel funny. Snickers noted experiencing the same thing, too. We asked the Sushi Master if there was alcohol in it but he assured us there wasn’t. Something was definitely in it though because both Snickers and I felt seriously buzzed. It was the strangest of feelings. Snickers sat beside me looking all dazed and confused, while all of a sudden everything seemed funny to me. The height of the Sushi Master’s hat, the colour of the fish… everything was funny.
9. Sushi was then followed by a movie. We checked out “Fame” but no sooner did we sit down in the theater but it was lights out for me. It seemed more like a spin-off of “Step Up” and I wasn’t particularly interested in the numerous mini story lines within the main one, so I continued to sleep the time away.
I woke up and realized everyone had left... was he going to leave me there?!
10. Before I officially crashed for the night, I had to take Mi Nam out for his late night evening stroll. “I don’t understand Mi Nam” Snickers blurted out and apparently that one comment was hilarious to me and so it resulted in a full-fledged gigglefest… hahaha. “He’s a dog, why does it bother you? Do you want to understand him? Maybe if you ask him, he’ll answer you and then you’ll understand” I joked. QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What does the sound track of your life sound like?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
-- Robert Brault
2. “Boo” for early morning meetings but “Yahhhh!!!” for Kitty Cat’s cup of “survival coffee” that got me through that meeting.
3. One of my sparring partners, well former sparring partners, Bella Punch, was out in Seoul today with Junior Mint, attending her pro test for her boxing license. She didn’t pass, which I’m sure her husband is jumping for joy over, but I question why she even went for it in the first place. Her husband can’t stand her boxing and I’m supposedly not allow to box with her cause of the repeated injuries I keep on giving her in the ring. I tried to understand her reasoning but in a country where I’m boggled by girls who wear both a skirt and pants, I figure it’s just one of those things I’ll never understand.
4. But anyways… while there were out in Seoul, I was here in Cheonan teaching my two writing classes. I walked into the one class and there, around the lecturer computer, were a bunch of students eagerly eye-balling what ever was on the computer screen. I thought I’d take a gander and so I pressed the button for the overhead projector to turn on.
5. Joke was on me. Turns out what they were eye-balling was the Snickers’ and my interview that had bombarded the Internet the other day. I turned beat red… and they loved it!!!
6. Training at the boxing gym tonight was definitely a light train considering I had no yelling Junior Mint pushing me around and insisting I do extra rounds of this and that. Instead, it was just Milk Dud and I. Panty Boy Jr. and Motor Cross stopped by and congratulated me on my interview and on my plans to get married.
7. Snickers returned to Cheonan today and so we had one of our spontaneous dinner dates. Dinner consisted of indulging in sushi at The Sushi Den.
8. As if we weren’t being totally pampered enough by the Sushi Master, at one point he offered us each a small shot glass. Inside the glass was what he called “the tears of the fish” and numerous flakes of shaved gold. I downed it, like he told me too, but then about ten minutes later my head started to feel funny. Snickers noted experiencing the same thing, too. We asked the Sushi Master if there was alcohol in it but he assured us there wasn’t. Something was definitely in it though because both Snickers and I felt seriously buzzed. It was the strangest of feelings. Snickers sat beside me looking all dazed and confused, while all of a sudden everything seemed funny to me. The height of the Sushi Master’s hat, the colour of the fish… everything was funny.
9. Sushi was then followed by a movie. We checked out “Fame” but no sooner did we sit down in the theater but it was lights out for me. It seemed more like a spin-off of “Step Up” and I wasn’t particularly interested in the numerous mini story lines within the main one, so I continued to sleep the time away.
I woke up and realized everyone had left... was he going to leave me there?!
10. Before I officially crashed for the night, I had to take Mi Nam out for his late night evening stroll. “I don’t understand Mi Nam” Snickers blurted out and apparently that one comment was hilarious to me and so it resulted in a full-fledged gigglefest… hahaha. “He’s a dog, why does it bother you? Do you want to understand him? Maybe if you ask him, he’ll answer you and then you’ll understand” I joked. What does the sound track of your life sound like?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
-- Robert Brault
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, September 23
1. Back on Saturday, August 15th (2009), my life took quite the turn when sad news from Canada was sent via the telephone line to me here in Korea. I was asked to keep this on the low but no longer feel I can as I am now feeling like I’m living by the edge of my seat, waiting for a phone call that may ultimately lead me to drop everything and fly off to Canada. I thought I’d briefly write about here because although many of my readers may not be Christian, or even religious for that matter, this person really needs your prayers… my whole family does.
2. Please pray for my mom, Mama Bere. Please pray for her like you’ve never prayed for anyone else in your whole entire life.
3. Yesterday I received an email from her and today her words continually distracted me throughout my day.
4. I hadn’t much sleep last night because of my brain being totally preoccupied with what’s going on in Canada but somehow I managed to get up, get out, and put in a full intense workout before 7am.
5. Early staff meetings are never a favourite of mine, especially considering the team
mentality that certain members are lacking. Today’s meeting was about our contracts and sure contracts are a private, independent thing but a pubic put-down of the middle man isn’t helping to build any kind of team spirit or faith.
6. I love my job, I really do, it’s just too bad I work with some who don’t.
7. I picked up an extra class and so today was our first class together. I had to walk all the way across campus to their classroom and when I walked in I was greeted by 39 medical students. Turns out they all have about 15 more years of schooling ahead of them. "Wow, by the end of that you'll all be professional students" I joked. Many of them dream of owning their own hospital and so I thought that was really admirable but I can't say I'd want to be in their shoes. They'll have to slave away in school only to then have to slave away at work... no thanks. I'm quite content with my four day work week and crazy-long vacation, thanks.
8. Snickers headed out of town today for some military-related meeting he had to attend tomorrow and so I had Guum Ggum all to myself. I had anticipated cashing in on the quietness and getting an early night’s sleep but after heading out for coffee with Kitty Cat, the cafine kicked in.
9. Discovered a little secret love letter that Snickers had left for me to find. It was a post-it note he had stuck on the wall, beside the TV.
10. By 2am I still hadn’t worn-off the caffeine buzz I was sporting and so I took Mi Nam out to play in the park with me. He did his usual “wild child” zig-zag sprint around the park and then continually jumped on me like a fat kid in a candy shop; he was so happy. I, on the other hand, went home and received yet more news about my mom’s situation. The stress, mixed with the dwindling traces of caffeine in me, resulted in me throwing on my Shox shoes and heading out for a quick jog along the river.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What continent are you on?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
-- John Donne
2. Please pray for my mom, Mama Bere. Please pray for her like you’ve never prayed for anyone else in your whole entire life.
3. Yesterday I received an email from her and today her words continually distracted me throughout my day.
“I love you very much Amy. You are the daughter I have always prayed for and I
love you dearly. I am so proud of what you have accomplished in your life!”
4. I hadn’t much sleep last night because of my brain being totally preoccupied with what’s going on in Canada but somehow I managed to get up, get out, and put in a full intense workout before 7am.
5. Early staff meetings are never a favourite of mine, especially considering the team
mentality that certain members are lacking. Today’s meeting was about our contracts and sure contracts are a private, independent thing but a pubic put-down of the middle man isn’t helping to build any kind of team spirit or faith.
6. I love my job, I really do, it’s just too bad I work with some who don’t.
7. I picked up an extra class and so today was our first class together. I had to walk all the way across campus to their classroom and when I walked in I was greeted by 39 medical students. Turns out they all have about 15 more years of schooling ahead of them. "Wow, by the end of that you'll all be professional students" I joked. Many of them dream of owning their own hospital and so I thought that was really admirable but I can't say I'd want to be in their shoes. They'll have to slave away in school only to then have to slave away at work... no thanks. I'm quite content with my four day work week and crazy-long vacation, thanks.
8. Snickers headed out of town today for some military-related meeting he had to attend tomorrow and so I had Guum Ggum all to myself. I had anticipated cashing in on the quietness and getting an early night’s sleep but after heading out for coffee with Kitty Cat, the cafine kicked in.
9. Discovered a little secret love letter that Snickers had left for me to find. It was a post-it note he had stuck on the wall, beside the TV.
10. By 2am I still hadn’t worn-off the caffeine buzz I was sporting and so I took Mi Nam out to play in the park with me. He did his usual “wild child” zig-zag sprint around the park and then continually jumped on me like a fat kid in a candy shop; he was so happy. I, on the other hand, went home and received yet more news about my mom’s situation. The stress, mixed with the dwindling traces of caffeine in me, resulted in me throwing on my Shox shoes and heading out for a quick jog along the river.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What continent are you on?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
-- John Donne
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, September 22
1. Despite Snickers still sporting a very swollen left hand, he came out to weight training with Kitty Cat and I today. I laugh cause the guy definitely works up a sweat and does quite the intense workout at boxing but blob him in a weight training gym and he doesn’t seem to understand the concept of sets and reps. I’d definitely give him an A for effort and cause he’s so damn hot but a F for effectiveness.
2. No sooner did I chow down on my banana protein-packed pancake, being the Pancake Master that I am (hahaha) and hit the sack for my morning nap but then my cell phone went mad with text messages.
3. Page 36 of the sports section, that’s where a massive picture of Snickers and I as well as our story took up half the page. Tons of people ranging from current students to previous coworkers, a former boss, gym buddies, and friends buzzed my phone when they caught sight of Snickers’ and my interview and picture in today’s newspaper. Consequently the question of the day was “When are you getting married?” and the common comment was “congrats on your upcoming wedding”.
2. No sooner did I chow down on my banana protein-packed pancake, being the Pancake Master that I am (hahaha) and hit the sack for my morning nap but then my cell phone went mad with text messages.
3. Page 36 of the sports section, that’s where a massive picture of Snickers and I as well as our story took up half the page. Tons of people ranging from current students to previous coworkers, a former boss, gym buddies, and friends buzzed my phone when they caught sight of Snickers’ and my interview and picture in today’s newspaper. Consequently the question of the day was “When are you getting married?” and the common comment was “congrats on your upcoming wedding”.
Techincally, we took up about 55% of the page... hahaha.
4. Everyone seems to love a good romance story and so our modern day Cinderella story was quite the hit today. Not only did we take up half a page in the newspaper but our story had been sold to various Internet sites, one of which (Naver) our story was listed as one of the most popular for the day. The story revealed a lot about us and even went so far to reveal things like my full name, my Korean name, our ages, the fact that Snickers went to jail, our plans to get married, and even how many kids we want. It was definitely a modern day love story though and I got numerous emails from students and friends, all saying that they were really touched by the story. “Now all of Korea knows our story!” said Snickers proudly. Yes, that’s true… so very true. We’re so “out there” now.
5. Found it rather amusing that people who have never talked to me before and whom I’ve never even have met talked to me today as a result of that newspaper write-up. On my way to boxing I was stopped by two guys at a cell phone story who wanted to ask me about my story. At boxing I was asked at least a couple dozen times from various boxers “When is the date?” (as in the wedding date). Then on my way home from boxing some girls on the street walked by me and whispered my name to each other. My eye glasses store dude who randomly gives me drinking yogurt called me into his shop and asked a bunch of questions. Then there was the Kimbab Lovelies who gave me thumbs up and congratulated me on my plans to get married.
6. So yes… I am getting married.
7. Snickers returned to Guum Ggum today looking like he was in a desperate need of a big bear hug. He had just got into an argument with his coach/manager and threatened to quit boxing if things didn’t change.
8. Not only did Snickers make it out to weight training this morning but he also made it out to boxing with me. I was glad he came out despite he being only one-handed. He stuck to shadow boxing and pounding away at the heavy bag with one hand. But I glad he came out because it gave him the chance to talk to Junior Mint, a coach whom I firmly believe in and have put a lot of my trust in. The two of them talked about sponsors, opportunities else where with his boxing, and future steps he should take while I slaved away beside them.
9. Tomorrow I’ll be starting a new class, a writing level two class, and so I wasn’t really impressed when one of my coworkers failed to give me the textbook. Thankfully Kitty Cat had a copy of the textbook and so I scooted over to her place to pick it up. Tomorrow’s class is full of medical students and so I’ve got my fingers crossed with this bunch.
10. Having made two Power Point lecture files today and today being my day off, I was super exhausted and really could do nothing but veg out for what little was left of the night. Snickers and I curled up on the couch for a movie but fifteen minutes into it I was out like a light.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What have you changed?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
Monday, September 21, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Monday, September 21
1. Early morning weight training proved to be a great way to start my week when I creamed my goal on the treadmill… sweet!!!
2. Only had one class today and it was a speaking class that actually speaks. Go figure… a speaking class in which the students actually talk, and talk in English! Ya… it’s only Monday and I’m already off to an overly sarcastic start.
3. One of the benefits of being a professional boxer is the royalties I get from being considered a somewhat local celebrity. And by royalties I’m not referring to the obvious ones my sponsors send my way but the little things, the more discrete and random acts of sweetness various locals throw my way. The cute older pharmacist down the street occasionally sneaks me free stuff, like band aids and aloe cream. The dairy lady who walks around downtown with her cart, selling various dairy drinks, occasionally stops me to ask about boxing and is almost always sure to send me back on my way with a small carton of milk. Then there’s the fruit man I use to religiously say hi and bye to every time I went to train. He use to stop me every so often and hand me a free apple. Lately I’ve scored another royalty, yogurt. The man that runs one of the local eye glasses shops usually stops me on route to boxing once a week and hands me a drinking yogurt.
4. Got butchered at boxing today, seriously. I did the mistake of shooting my mouth off and saying that I had to get going because I had plans. Junior Mint hates it when anything but our passion for boxing is driving us at training and so he hates any kind of restrictions, like time limits or whatnot. So me saying I had to leave in 30 minutes meant he held me back by making me do extra rounds and so my 30 minutes left to training turned into an extra hour.
5. I had a double-date dinner with Panty Boy Jr. and his girlfriend for 6pm but that got pushed back cause of training.
6. I knew as soon as Snickers said we were going to a buffet that I wouldn’t be a fan of whatever restaurant we’d be ending up at. I don’t really care for buffets because I can’t eat $20 worth of food and whenever I think of the word “buffet” I think sneezing people and their little kids with their dirty hands pawing at all the food. Sure enough, we ended up at a buffet restaurant that presented to all an insane and retarded amount of food and sure enough there were sneezing people and little kids pawing at everything. It was a seafood place and even though I do like seafood, there’s something about excessive amounts of it that turn me off. I mean, a seafood buffet is a health hazard waiting to happen and I’m talking about hazards beyond the sneezing people with the pawing kids. I’m talking about mounds of food that have to be quickly cooked but risk not being properly cooked, for whatever reasons.
7. Regardless, Snickers and Panty Boy Jr. were loving the seafood buffet. I thought about taking pictures but the sight of all those plates piling up beside Snickers just grossed me out.
8. No sooner did we arrive back at Guum Ggum but Snickers and I started to assume the fetal position. Just like I had imagined, something we had ate was sending our tummies on an unexpected roller coaster and so then it was a fight to see who’d score the thrown first.
9. I never was a fan of the television but Snickers and I have become somewhat hooked on a couple of shows and, laugh as you may, they include “The Biggest Loser”, “Style Her Famous”, and “Instant Beauty Pagant”… hahaha.
10. Our famous show definitely is “The Biggest Loser” but we have one question, if the show is about losing weight than why in the world would they pick overweight hosts to host the show? Snickers joked and said that they should make the host a contestant… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Wouldn't a qualification to host a diet show be that you have to be fit?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
--Author Unknown
2. Only had one class today and it was a speaking class that actually speaks. Go figure… a speaking class in which the students actually talk, and talk in English! Ya… it’s only Monday and I’m already off to an overly sarcastic start.
3. One of the benefits of being a professional boxer is the royalties I get from being considered a somewhat local celebrity. And by royalties I’m not referring to the obvious ones my sponsors send my way but the little things, the more discrete and random acts of sweetness various locals throw my way. The cute older pharmacist down the street occasionally sneaks me free stuff, like band aids and aloe cream. The dairy lady who walks around downtown with her cart, selling various dairy drinks, occasionally stops me to ask about boxing and is almost always sure to send me back on my way with a small carton of milk. Then there’s the fruit man I use to religiously say hi and bye to every time I went to train. He use to stop me every so often and hand me a free apple. Lately I’ve scored another royalty, yogurt. The man that runs one of the local eye glasses shops usually stops me on route to boxing once a week and hands me a drinking yogurt.
4. Got butchered at boxing today, seriously. I did the mistake of shooting my mouth off and saying that I had to get going because I had plans. Junior Mint hates it when anything but our passion for boxing is driving us at training and so he hates any kind of restrictions, like time limits or whatnot. So me saying I had to leave in 30 minutes meant he held me back by making me do extra rounds and so my 30 minutes left to training turned into an extra hour.
5. I had a double-date dinner with Panty Boy Jr. and his girlfriend for 6pm but that got pushed back cause of training.
6. I knew as soon as Snickers said we were going to a buffet that I wouldn’t be a fan of whatever restaurant we’d be ending up at. I don’t really care for buffets because I can’t eat $20 worth of food and whenever I think of the word “buffet” I think sneezing people and their little kids with their dirty hands pawing at all the food. Sure enough, we ended up at a buffet restaurant that presented to all an insane and retarded amount of food and sure enough there were sneezing people and little kids pawing at everything. It was a seafood place and even though I do like seafood, there’s something about excessive amounts of it that turn me off. I mean, a seafood buffet is a health hazard waiting to happen and I’m talking about hazards beyond the sneezing people with the pawing kids. I’m talking about mounds of food that have to be quickly cooked but risk not being properly cooked, for whatever reasons.
7. Regardless, Snickers and Panty Boy Jr. were loving the seafood buffet. I thought about taking pictures but the sight of all those plates piling up beside Snickers just grossed me out.
8. No sooner did we arrive back at Guum Ggum but Snickers and I started to assume the fetal position. Just like I had imagined, something we had ate was sending our tummies on an unexpected roller coaster and so then it was a fight to see who’d score the thrown first.
9. I never was a fan of the television but Snickers and I have become somewhat hooked on a couple of shows and, laugh as you may, they include “The Biggest Loser”, “Style Her Famous”, and “Instant Beauty Pagant”… hahaha.
10. Our famous show definitely is “The Biggest Loser” but we have one question, if the show is about losing weight than why in the world would they pick overweight hosts to host the show? Snickers joked and said that they should make the host a contestant… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Wouldn't a qualification to host a diet show be that you have to be fit?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
--Author Unknown
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Today was fight day...
Highlights of my Day... Sunday, September 20
1. All our plans, and by “our” I mean Snickers and I, for the day were centered around watching boxing today, in particular, the “Pretty Boy”, “Money” Mayweather fight.
2. Loaded up on groceries.
3. I’d say on average I eat pizza about 4-5 times a year and today was one of those times. Snickers dashed out of Guum Ggum right before the boxing fights started on TV and returned with a pizza loaded to the brim with grade A goodness and a ton of calories…. sausages, sweet potato, cheese-filled crust, and dough that left you with sore gums from having to chew it so much. It tasted good, don’t get me wrong, but I knew full well that I’d be paying the price for it later.
4. Snickers hand is still about three times its’ normal size. He refused to go to the hospital but I convinced him to go tomorrow, once some of the swelling has gone down. He’s able to move his fingers and says it doesn’t hurt, but nothing is natural about his balloon hand.
5. Checked out the Mayweather fight. He hasn’t stepped into the ring for a fight for 21 months, almost two years, and so it was quite the fight, although I’m curious to know why he didn’t have any sponsor names or even so much as his own name on his game trunks.
6. Watched a total of three hours of boxing, followed by about two hours of ultimate fighting.
7. Met up with K-Gere for a late evening dinner and started our little dinner double-date off by totally embarrassing myself with what I’d like to call “The air born splat”… hahaha. Snickers and I had gone over to his father K-Gere’s house and so I was all eager to see his two dogs, Chumchi and Tuna. They were in the backyard but in order to get to the backyard you have to go through the bathroom, the bathroom which, I hadn’t noticed, was sporting quite the wet floor. Ya, I’m pretty sure you can guess as to what happened when my racing feet and the wet floor made contact… “SPLAT”. I knew K-Gere, his girlfriend, and Snickers had all seen and heard my air born splat and so I put my head back and laughed at myself.
8. It wasn’t until about three hours later when I couldn’t take the pain anymore that I admitted to Snickers that I had really messed up my left elbow.
9. Our dinner date was set at a restaurant way in the middle of nowhere in Cheonan but it was nice. It was followed by the two of us couples taking a nice leisurely stroll down a country road and then returning back to downtown Cheonan.
10. Snickers studying English tonight consisted of him cooking up some sausages and making fried eggs. He argued that he couldn’t do the homework I had made for him on account that his hand was swollen but I found it rather convenient that he couldn’t use a pencil but he had no problem using chopsticks or a cooking spatula.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who is the gardener of your soul?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-- Marcel Proust
2. Loaded up on groceries.
3. I’d say on average I eat pizza about 4-5 times a year and today was one of those times. Snickers dashed out of Guum Ggum right before the boxing fights started on TV and returned with a pizza loaded to the brim with grade A goodness and a ton of calories…. sausages, sweet potato, cheese-filled crust, and dough that left you with sore gums from having to chew it so much. It tasted good, don’t get me wrong, but I knew full well that I’d be paying the price for it later.
4. Snickers hand is still about three times its’ normal size. He refused to go to the hospital but I convinced him to go tomorrow, once some of the swelling has gone down. He’s able to move his fingers and says it doesn’t hurt, but nothing is natural about his balloon hand.
5. Checked out the Mayweather fight. He hasn’t stepped into the ring for a fight for 21 months, almost two years, and so it was quite the fight, although I’m curious to know why he didn’t have any sponsor names or even so much as his own name on his game trunks.
6. Watched a total of three hours of boxing, followed by about two hours of ultimate fighting.
7. Met up with K-Gere for a late evening dinner and started our little dinner double-date off by totally embarrassing myself with what I’d like to call “The air born splat”… hahaha. Snickers and I had gone over to his father K-Gere’s house and so I was all eager to see his two dogs, Chumchi and Tuna. They were in the backyard but in order to get to the backyard you have to go through the bathroom, the bathroom which, I hadn’t noticed, was sporting quite the wet floor. Ya, I’m pretty sure you can guess as to what happened when my racing feet and the wet floor made contact… “SPLAT”. I knew K-Gere, his girlfriend, and Snickers had all seen and heard my air born splat and so I put my head back and laughed at myself.
8. It wasn’t until about three hours later when I couldn’t take the pain anymore that I admitted to Snickers that I had really messed up my left elbow.
9. Our dinner date was set at a restaurant way in the middle of nowhere in Cheonan but it was nice. It was followed by the two of us couples taking a nice leisurely stroll down a country road and then returning back to downtown Cheonan.
10. Snickers studying English tonight consisted of him cooking up some sausages and making fried eggs. He argued that he couldn’t do the homework I had made for him on account that his hand was swollen but I found it rather convenient that he couldn’t use a pencil but he had no problem using chopsticks or a cooking spatula.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who is the gardener of your soul?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-- Marcel Proust
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Saturday, September 19
1. Skipped out on morning weight training on account that I had a heck of a time falling asleep last night and I had to trek it out to Snickers’ fight location via an early morning bus… sorry Kitty Cat.
2. Dressed to impressed and then headed out to Ilsan where Panty Boy Jr. and Snickers were to have their fights. I had missed breakfast and my second meal of the day was creeping up but I missed it too. I just couldn’t stomach anything. I don’t doubt Snickers’ talent but this fight marked the third time he’d be fighting the same opponent and so he really needed to butcher this fight.
3. With only minutes to spare before Snickers is to fight, he couldn’t find his mouth guard. The bunch of us scrambled to retrace his steps and I even went so far as to embarrass myself and snoop around in the men’s bathroom. Turns out Snickers had slipped it into my purse, which would have been good if had told me, and so I had to boot my butt in super high heels and hand it to him.
4. The crowd was filled with various media folk. A Japanese magazine reporter was busy taking pictures of Snickers while one particular newspaper reporter followed me around and was sure to take note of my comments, answers and whatnot.
5. I had ran into Snickers’ opponent during warm-up and so it was a bit reassuring to note just how nervous he was. I think he was probably the only one to go to the bathroom more than me that day.
6. Snickers did exactly what he had promised to me, he finished the fight in the first round. He had his opponent against the ring and was pounding away at him when the official called the game, leaving his opponent all groggy and disappointed.
7. In between Snickers and Panty Boy Jr.’s fight, I was bombarded by random people asking me random questions. Two of these random people were two foreigners, I’ll call them The C.C. Twins. They were both two really cool gals and so I gave them my business card and they promised to come see my next game. As for the random questions I got, here’s some of the random and not-so-random questions:
2. Dressed to impressed and then headed out to Ilsan where Panty Boy Jr. and Snickers were to have their fights. I had missed breakfast and my second meal of the day was creeping up but I missed it too. I just couldn’t stomach anything. I don’t doubt Snickers’ talent but this fight marked the third time he’d be fighting the same opponent and so he really needed to butcher this fight.
3. With only minutes to spare before Snickers is to fight, he couldn’t find his mouth guard. The bunch of us scrambled to retrace his steps and I even went so far as to embarrass myself and snoop around in the men’s bathroom. Turns out Snickers had slipped it into my purse, which would have been good if had told me, and so I had to boot my butt in super high heels and hand it to him.
4. The crowd was filled with various media folk. A Japanese magazine reporter was busy taking pictures of Snickers while one particular newspaper reporter followed me around and was sure to take note of my comments, answers and whatnot.
5. I had ran into Snickers’ opponent during warm-up and so it was a bit reassuring to note just how nervous he was. I think he was probably the only one to go to the bathroom more than me that day.
6. Snickers did exactly what he had promised to me, he finished the fight in the first round. He had his opponent against the ring and was pounding away at him when the official called the game, leaving his opponent all groggy and disappointed.
7. In between Snickers and Panty Boy Jr.’s fight, I was bombarded by random people asking me random questions. Two of these random people were two foreigners, I’ll call them The C.C. Twins. They were both two really cool gals and so I gave them my business card and they promised to come see my next game. As for the random questions I got, here’s some of the random and not-so-random questions:Q: How old are you, 21, 22?8. As for my teammate’s fight, Panty Boy Jr., it wasn’t as a clean of a fight as Snickers’ was. In the third round Panty Boy Jr. definitely left us nervous by the ringside as he stumbled around and then fell. In the fourth round, however, he regained his focus and then knocked his opponent out.
A: I officially love you now… hahaha. No, I’m 29.
Q: Do you speak English?
A: I’m trying to quit… hahaha.
Q: When are you hoping to fight again?
A: Am aiming to fight again in November.
Q: What’s your favourite point on your boyfriend?
A: His smile and his long legs that don’t seem to end.
Q: How do you feel when you watch your boyfriend fight?
A: Like I can’t breath.
Q: What do you want for your boyfriend’s fight today?
A: I want him to keep his promise of a first round knock-out.
Q: If you had a child, would you want them to box?
A: For sure. Boxing is more than a sport, it’s a lifestyle for me and it’s a passion. If my child were to be as passionate about it, or anything, then I would for sure support them.
Q: How many children do you want?
A: Want and can have are two different things. My boyfriend wants four… a
home-corner, away-corner, official, and a card girl… hahaha.
9. Most of Snickers’ family came out to watch his fight and so after his fight we headed out for dinner together. I'm still a bit freaked-out around Snickers mother. She's nice to me and all but she doesn't smile so much and I can't help but remember our first meeting... me punching the bathroom wall and her walking in. One of Snickers’ little nephews, Hyun June, totally adores me though and so he was all for sitting on my lap, putting my hands on his tummy, and insisting I listen to him sing. He even went so far as to try to steal a donut for me… sounds like he’s been hanging out with Snickers too much… hahaha.
10. The original plan was for Snickers and I to head out to his grandfather’s house where his grandfather and father were but plans changed on account that his grandfather really needed to better nurse his health. Snickers was in need of some nursing, too. In the first minute of his game he had injured his game. I joked about it to him cause it was such a short fight, a fight that I should note here resulted in him not getting punched at all!!! Snickers definitely dished out the punches though but one punch had left him injured and about an hour or less after his fight, it also left him with a very swollen right hand. We don’t think it’s broken but there’s definitely something wrong going on with it.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What are you successful at?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
-- David Frost
Friday, September 18, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Friday, September 18
1. Waking up for 6am early morning weight training was like waking up the dead, totally unnatural.
2. Beat my record of 170 calories burned in ten minutes on the treadmill.
3. I planned a weight training program for Kitty Cat and she’s been super consistent with following it and so I definitely have to send out a congrats to her for weighing in this week 2kgs less than a week and a half ago. Congrats Kitty Cat!!!
4. After that last bite of banana protein-packed pancake hit my lips I was desperately seeking the bed and so I crashed for a bit.
5. Thought I was way ahead schedule when I showed up for work an hour early, that is until I realized I had emailed myself the wrong PPT file and so I had to race home to fix that dilemma.
6. Snickers had his game weigh-in today out in Seoul and so I got numerous updated text messages about that. He texted me telling me that he weighed in at 65.2kgs but his opponent weighed-in at 63.7, which meant his opponent had to go for a quick run. Then he texted me about all the food he was filling his belly with and this and that.
7. Gave my speaking class today quite the lecture about manners and their lack of them in the hall and before class. “Check yourself at the door and make sure you come with manners or don’t come at all!” I told them. I followed up with it in Korean and so they looked somewhat spooked. I hate stressing my students out with such lectures but today they showed such nonsense manners. Girls painted their nails in class, others copied each other’s homework, some were play fighting at the back of the room, while others were standing on the chairs or playing with the classroom equipment.
8. My last class of the day was a writing class and I am really, really enjoying these students. They’re just such a great group of students, with such positive energy and the class is so laid back. Today I continued on with my lecture about special places and so while they were busy writing away I circled around the classroom looking at their writing. “… the girl with the sunshine in her eyes” was one of the sentences that caught my eye today but when I questioned the male student about who this girl “with sunshine in her eyes” was, he blushed. Later I found out his special place was Dankook. He wrote about how he had seen me on campus but it wasn’t until this year that he finally met me. Apparently I’m the girl “with sunshine in her eyes”; sounds so poetic, and so I was so flattered.
9. Met up with Kitty Cat after work for a much craved for chicken wrap and a black coffee (with a dash of low fat milk… so I guess it’s not so black). We chatted away and then ran into one of my former co-workers, Maria-Marie. Did some downtown shopping together and then we went our separate ways.
10. With Snickers out of town and sleeping over at his game location, this meant I flew solo tonight. I had hoped to hit the sack early but I couldn’t sleep. Snickers kept on text messaging me and asking my every move, well pretty much… hahaha. Lately he and I have been pretty much attached at the hips and so I knew it bothered him to hear that I was taking Mi Nam out for a late night walk, of which I should note I didn’t listen and yes, I did let Mi Nam run wild and off his leash. Snickers was tired but he told me to call him back when I returned from my walk with Mi Nam. I tell ya, Snickers may be a hell of a boxer but he sure is quite the sweetheart and gentleman to me outside of the ring.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What change do you want but actually deserve?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
-- Jim Rohn
2. Beat my record of 170 calories burned in ten minutes on the treadmill.
3. I planned a weight training program for Kitty Cat and she’s been super consistent with following it and so I definitely have to send out a congrats to her for weighing in this week 2kgs less than a week and a half ago. Congrats Kitty Cat!!!
4. After that last bite of banana protein-packed pancake hit my lips I was desperately seeking the bed and so I crashed for a bit.
5. Thought I was way ahead schedule when I showed up for work an hour early, that is until I realized I had emailed myself the wrong PPT file and so I had to race home to fix that dilemma.
6. Snickers had his game weigh-in today out in Seoul and so I got numerous updated text messages about that. He texted me telling me that he weighed in at 65.2kgs but his opponent weighed-in at 63.7, which meant his opponent had to go for a quick run. Then he texted me about all the food he was filling his belly with and this and that.
7. Gave my speaking class today quite the lecture about manners and their lack of them in the hall and before class. “Check yourself at the door and make sure you come with manners or don’t come at all!” I told them. I followed up with it in Korean and so they looked somewhat spooked. I hate stressing my students out with such lectures but today they showed such nonsense manners. Girls painted their nails in class, others copied each other’s homework, some were play fighting at the back of the room, while others were standing on the chairs or playing with the classroom equipment.
8. My last class of the day was a writing class and I am really, really enjoying these students. They’re just such a great group of students, with such positive energy and the class is so laid back. Today I continued on with my lecture about special places and so while they were busy writing away I circled around the classroom looking at their writing. “… the girl with the sunshine in her eyes” was one of the sentences that caught my eye today but when I questioned the male student about who this girl “with sunshine in her eyes” was, he blushed. Later I found out his special place was Dankook. He wrote about how he had seen me on campus but it wasn’t until this year that he finally met me. Apparently I’m the girl “with sunshine in her eyes”; sounds so poetic, and so I was so flattered.
9. Met up with Kitty Cat after work for a much craved for chicken wrap and a black coffee (with a dash of low fat milk… so I guess it’s not so black). We chatted away and then ran into one of my former co-workers, Maria-Marie. Did some downtown shopping together and then we went our separate ways.
10. With Snickers out of town and sleeping over at his game location, this meant I flew solo tonight. I had hoped to hit the sack early but I couldn’t sleep. Snickers kept on text messaging me and asking my every move, well pretty much… hahaha. Lately he and I have been pretty much attached at the hips and so I knew it bothered him to hear that I was taking Mi Nam out for a late night walk, of which I should note I didn’t listen and yes, I did let Mi Nam run wild and off his leash. Snickers was tired but he told me to call him back when I returned from my walk with Mi Nam. I tell ya, Snickers may be a hell of a boxer but he sure is quite the sweetheart and gentleman to me outside of the ring.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What change do you want but actually deserve?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
-- Jim Rohn
Thursday, September 17, 2009
I thought it was strange at first that our boxing club had yoga mats until I realized tonight what they're really used for here.Amongst the constant ringing of the ring bell, the loud pumping music, and the sound of a dozen or so boxers training, there laid Panty Boy Jr. totally exhausted from training.
"Ouch" he said when he raised his arm to do the notorious Korean 'kimchi-fingers'.Highlights of my Day... Thursday, September 17
1. With all my windows cranked open, a chilly room and a super cozy blanket calling me to stay, I was a no-go for early morning weight training today.
2. Well, after two days off work it was back to work today.
3. I had two writing classes today and this week’s chapter focused on special places near their home. I had them brainstorm and then had them write a short story about their special place. In my efforts to help them with it all, I had brainstormed a series of five places and then wrote a story to share with them. Here’s my short story:
5. The cutest story came from one of my male students who wrote about an argument he had with his girlfriend when they first started dating. He wrote about how his new girlfriend was jealous of his ex and how she repeatedly insisted that he wasn’t over her. In his story he wrote about how he settled the ordeal by having their first kiss on the doorsteps of his ex’s house…. Hahaha, so funny.
6. One student amused me with a story about his first drinking experience. He drank soju in attempt to impress a girl he liked but his friend’s parents spotted him at the bar and so they called his parents. Shortly there after, his parents arrived and his mother literally pulled him out of the bar by his ear.
7. Trained along side Panty Boy Jr. tonight at boxing and he was looking quite under pressure, to say the very least. Tonight marked his last boxing training session before his weigh-in tomorrow and before his game on Saturday, and Junior Mint was definitely putting the pressure on him. I’m use to him being the joker at the club but tonight it was me who was throwing all the jokes into the ring as Panty Boy Jr. was clearly too stressed. He’s lost a lot of weight for this fight but still had a bit to shed and so Junior Mint kept him long and kept him late at boxing.
I'm super glossy from sweating my brains off at boxing.
8. On my way home from boxing I thought I’d dash into Lotte Mart and pick up a treat to sneak into Snickers’ bag for when he goes to weigh-in on Friday. I thought I’d pick up a bag of his favourite chips, these silly chips that are shaped like French fries and supposedly taste like them too but I beg to differ. Anyways, no sooner did I pick up a bag but who should come around the grocery store isle but Snickers. Great, so not only was I not about to pick up a little surprise treat for him but now he thinks I’m both secretly in love with the chips I claimed the other day I hate and am a closet junk food eater… hahaha. Of course I couldn’t tell him what I was really doing and so I told him I checking the calorie count… okay, so I maybe conscious about what I put into my mouth but counting calories while standing dripping head to toe in sweat isn’t exactly what I call fun.
9. No sooner did we arrive back at Guum Ggum but then Junior Mint called me, telling me that I had to come back to the boxing club. Tomorrow he’ll be traveling to KBC in Seoul for Junior Mint’s weigh-in and then out to the fight location and so he needed me to lend my key to whomever would be filling in tomorrow at the club.
10. On the way back to the boxing club I picked up a tuna kimbab. I was starving from training and I hate skipping meals so I thought I’d treat myself. However, Snickers thought he’d treat himself too and so he ate about half of it. He hadn’t eaten a lot but with his game weigh-in being tomorrow, he really shouldn’t have risked not making weigh-in by giving into a bit of temptation. Of course he wouldn’t had eaten it if it weren’t for me, after all it was me who had bought it, and so when we arrived at the club I had him weigh-in. He weighed-in at 65.8kgs, 0.3kgs over, and so I made for the rest of the evening, despite me dying for a glass of water and something else to eat, I resisted the temptation and decided to wait it out till tomorrow. No big deal though, I predict he’ll lose about 0.4kgs between tonight and tomorrow’s weigh-in and so he should be safe.
2. Well, after two days off work it was back to work today.
3. I had two writing classes today and this week’s chapter focused on special places near their home. I had them brainstorm and then had them write a short story about their special place. In my efforts to help them with it all, I had brainstormed a series of five places and then wrote a story to share with them. Here’s my short story:
4. About 70% of my students wrote about their girl/boyfriend. Some wrote about where they first met their significant other, others talked about their first kiss or first date, while some wrote about a special holiday they had with them.The Secret Teddy Bear
Just down the street from my apartment in Cheonan was a small boxing club, and it was called UP Boxing Club. It was spring of 2009, and a handsome boxer I didn’t know had arrived for training. His name was Kim Young Bin. He was a tall, good-looking guy, but I was afraid and so nervous to talk to him because my friends told me nasty rumors about him. Some people said he was a street fighter, and others said he was in a gang. I felt so uncomfortable training beside him, but I was curious about him. Then one late evening he called me, and he said he wanted to take me out for a walk. I met up with him a couple of days later. After I started to date him, I realized that he was just a big teddy bear, and I felt relieved and happy to meet such a sweet guy. We’ve been a couple ever since.
5. The cutest story came from one of my male students who wrote about an argument he had with his girlfriend when they first started dating. He wrote about how his new girlfriend was jealous of his ex and how she repeatedly insisted that he wasn’t over her. In his story he wrote about how he settled the ordeal by having their first kiss on the doorsteps of his ex’s house…. Hahaha, so funny.
6. One student amused me with a story about his first drinking experience. He drank soju in attempt to impress a girl he liked but his friend’s parents spotted him at the bar and so they called his parents. Shortly there after, his parents arrived and his mother literally pulled him out of the bar by his ear.
7. Trained along side Panty Boy Jr. tonight at boxing and he was looking quite under pressure, to say the very least. Tonight marked his last boxing training session before his weigh-in tomorrow and before his game on Saturday, and Junior Mint was definitely putting the pressure on him. I’m use to him being the joker at the club but tonight it was me who was throwing all the jokes into the ring as Panty Boy Jr. was clearly too stressed. He’s lost a lot of weight for this fight but still had a bit to shed and so Junior Mint kept him long and kept him late at boxing.
I'm super glossy from sweating my brains off at boxing.
8. On my way home from boxing I thought I’d dash into Lotte Mart and pick up a treat to sneak into Snickers’ bag for when he goes to weigh-in on Friday. I thought I’d pick up a bag of his favourite chips, these silly chips that are shaped like French fries and supposedly taste like them too but I beg to differ. Anyways, no sooner did I pick up a bag but who should come around the grocery store isle but Snickers. Great, so not only was I not about to pick up a little surprise treat for him but now he thinks I’m both secretly in love with the chips I claimed the other day I hate and am a closet junk food eater… hahaha. Of course I couldn’t tell him what I was really doing and so I told him I checking the calorie count… okay, so I maybe conscious about what I put into my mouth but counting calories while standing dripping head to toe in sweat isn’t exactly what I call fun.9. No sooner did we arrive back at Guum Ggum but then Junior Mint called me, telling me that I had to come back to the boxing club. Tomorrow he’ll be traveling to KBC in Seoul for Junior Mint’s weigh-in and then out to the fight location and so he needed me to lend my key to whomever would be filling in tomorrow at the club.
10. On the way back to the boxing club I picked up a tuna kimbab. I was starving from training and I hate skipping meals so I thought I’d treat myself. However, Snickers thought he’d treat himself too and so he ate about half of it. He hadn’t eaten a lot but with his game weigh-in being tomorrow, he really shouldn’t have risked not making weigh-in by giving into a bit of temptation. Of course he wouldn’t had eaten it if it weren’t for me, after all it was me who had bought it, and so when we arrived at the club I had him weigh-in. He weighed-in at 65.8kgs, 0.3kgs over, and so I made for the rest of the evening, despite me dying for a glass of water and something else to eat, I resisted the temptation and decided to wait it out till tomorrow. No big deal though, I predict he’ll lose about 0.4kgs between tonight and tomorrow’s weigh-in and so he should be safe.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's the silliest thing you've ever done to lose weight?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket.
-- Author Unknown
What's the silliest thing you've ever done to lose weight?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket.
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