Snickers showing off his Indian food.
And me showing off my new butterfly necklace.Saturday, October 31, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Saturday, October 31
1. It’s my weekend and yet despite me still sporting swollen eyes from yesterday's big upset with Dankook, I headed off to weight training. Can’t really complain though cause I do love training. Training legs, however, although it's my shortest of three workout routines I do every week, it's definitely quite the workout… but I love it, too.
My leg work-out routine:
1. leg extensions
2. seated leg curls
3. standing calf raises (with weights)
4. squats (with weights)
Cardio and abs also included.
2. Snickers went off to work for the company he’s hoping to get sponsored by. I have my opinions about that but I trust his judgement, and plus he looks so cute when he comes to Guum Ggum after work. He’s always so proud.
3. Spent part of my day slaving away at marking student writing notebooks.
4. The other day Snickers played a mean joke on me by pretending to propose and instead offering me chap stick when what I thought he was going to give me was a ring. Today he did it again, and I fell for it… again! After he said his speel and opened his hand to reveal the fact that it held nothing, he thought it’d be funny to scoop me up and literally throw me onto the bed. He tried to motion for me to look at the pillow but after falling for his empty hand trick twice, I wasn’t about to give in to him again.
5. Turns out there really was something on my pillow. I went to go adjust it under my head and when I grabbed it I felt something. There on my pillow laid a white gold butterfly necklace. It was beautiful.
6. To tell you the truth, and I told this to Snickers too, seeing it made me sad at first. I know Snickers doesn’t make money like me and he’s never one to buy unnecessary things, so I knew him buying me the necklace was a big thing to him. Having said that though, at the back of my head I couldn’t help but wonder if him buying me this necklace meant that he was trying to distract me from me wanting an engagement ring.
7. For dinner Snickers asked if we could go check out the Indian restaurant I had gone to this past Monday for the foreigner dinner party. We sat in a cute little booth, ordered our food, and then chatted away.
8. We weren’t the only ones chatting away though. In the next booth sat a foreign guy who was clearly on a date, I’m assuming the first date, with a Korean girl. Both were speaking in English but it was kind of annoying in that I think I like not really knowing what others are saying around me. There’s a certain kind of peace with being somewhat out of the loop. I mean, if I want to I can just as easily listen in on a Korean conversation but it’s not the same. Their conversation started off with the girl asking him, “Do you like eating?” to which I had to laugh. He said yes but honestly, what could he really say though. “No, I’m trying to quit”…?! I tried to block them out but Snickers tried his best to listen in to what they were saying and finally at one point he clued right in. He clued into the conversation after the two repeatedly said a swear word, great.
3. Spent part of my day slaving away at marking student writing notebooks.
4. The other day Snickers played a mean joke on me by pretending to propose and instead offering me chap stick when what I thought he was going to give me was a ring. Today he did it again, and I fell for it… again! After he said his speel and opened his hand to reveal the fact that it held nothing, he thought it’d be funny to scoop me up and literally throw me onto the bed. He tried to motion for me to look at the pillow but after falling for his empty hand trick twice, I wasn’t about to give in to him again.
5. Turns out there really was something on my pillow. I went to go adjust it under my head and when I grabbed it I felt something. There on my pillow laid a white gold butterfly necklace. It was beautiful.
6. To tell you the truth, and I told this to Snickers too, seeing it made me sad at first. I know Snickers doesn’t make money like me and he’s never one to buy unnecessary things, so I knew him buying me the necklace was a big thing to him. Having said that though, at the back of my head I couldn’t help but wonder if him buying me this necklace meant that he was trying to distract me from me wanting an engagement ring.
7. For dinner Snickers asked if we could go check out the Indian restaurant I had gone to this past Monday for the foreigner dinner party. We sat in a cute little booth, ordered our food, and then chatted away.
8. We weren’t the only ones chatting away though. In the next booth sat a foreign guy who was clearly on a date, I’m assuming the first date, with a Korean girl. Both were speaking in English but it was kind of annoying in that I think I like not really knowing what others are saying around me. There’s a certain kind of peace with being somewhat out of the loop. I mean, if I want to I can just as easily listen in on a Korean conversation but it’s not the same. Their conversation started off with the girl asking him, “Do you like eating?” to which I had to laugh. He said yes but honestly, what could he really say though. “No, I’m trying to quit”…?! I tried to block them out but Snickers tried his best to listen in to what they were saying and finally at one point he clued right in. He clued into the conversation after the two repeatedly said a swear word, great.
Me trying to strike up a good pose for the camera.
And Snickers, of course, not caring what the camera thinks about him showing off his food
or rolling his eyes.
9. I had originally planned to go to a Halloween party tonight but Snickers and I headed out for dinner too late and I really needed to get back to my marking.
10. What ended up happening though is Snickers headed out to see his buddies and Kitty Cat brought over coffee and we watched a movie.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What is today?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
-- Jean Anouilh
Friday, October 30, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Friday, October 30
1. Kicked my own butt at weight training today with training back and chest. Eating that delish protein-packed banana pancake after though made it all worth my wild.
2. My morning schedule six days a week follows the same routine: 5:50am wake-up, 6am meet Kitty Cat for weight training, 7:30am return home to eat my protein-packed banana pancake and shower, and then go back to bed. Hitting the sack after training usually consists of an hour nap but today I slept for two hours.
3. Waking up to my director calling me was definitely not the way I wanted to wake up. Nor was ending our phone conversation in tears how I anticipated that conversation to end. I had texted her earlier on this week to tell her that I wanted to talk to her. It was regarding my work contract, immigration and my boxing. Immigration and I have sorted things out but all that’s needed now is a letter of permission from Dankook saying that they’re allowing me to continue competing with my boxing.
4. I won’t get into the details of the conversation but it ended with me getting all frustrated at the fact that the very person who is suppose to represent me and be fighting for me is fighting against me. Basically, Dankook is trying to push me into stopping my boxing. “Why don’t you just do amateur boxing?” she asked. “That’s like telling a marathon runner to do a 100 meter dash; it’s not the same thing.” Boxing is my passion but so is my teaching, and if anything, my boxing has added so much to my teaching. It has greatly changed who and what I am when I walk into those classrooms and what I bring to my students so mark my words, I refuse to give up my boxing because someone tells me so. When and if I do stop, it'll be because I decided to.
5. I had anticipated my sour morning to seep into my afternoon with the arrival of my difficult class of the week, my Friday 1:20pm speaking class. However, and much to my surprise, they were awesome for me today. I felt like a mother watching her child take it’s first steps in the fact that I bombarded them with so much praise today and continually told them that they were being so great today.
6. I got spotted at the school’s bus stop by one of my former students and his friends. His friends had read all about me in the paper and so we jumped on the bus together and they started up with the million and one questions. Snickers called me when I was on route home and so the three male students I was with asked if they could meet Snickers. They were all overly eager to meet a professional boxer, a “real celebrity in Cheonan” as one put it, and so when Snickers surprised me by showing up at the bus stop they all jumped off the bus with me to meet him.
7. Friday was looking really good despite it’s sour mid-morning break. Snickers took me by the hand and treated me out to dinner at the Sushi Den. It was there, however, that Friday got bad again.
8. My director had called me during dinner and I got all choked up. No sooner did I hang up the phone but then the tears started to fall. I cried right in front of the Sushi Master. He turned and shewed the waitress away to give Snickers and me privacy.
9. Today my request for a permission letter to continue my boxing here in Korea was rejected and I was crushed. Snickers tried to cheer me up by asking me if I wanted him to go march right over to Dankook and talk to the dean himself. I knew he would if I had let him but instead I told him I just wanted to not think about it tonight. To tell you the truth, Snickers isn't all that keen on me having actual bouts but he knows how much I love it and even he has agreed that me traveling to Japan for this next upcoming fight is a huge honor and quite the once-in-a-lifetime experience. He agrees with me, I need this Japan fight.
10. And so on that note, tonight I put all thoughts and ideas regarding my boxing on the shelf temporarily. Junior Mint flooded my phone with text messages, teammates called to see where I was, and even the promoter working with arranging my fight in Japan was texting me. I just wanted to escape it all and so Snickers took me out for movie and ice cream. I was crushed though. “I know you’re really sad when you won’t even eat ice cream!” Snickers told me… and that is true.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How far would you go for something you love?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
-- Glade Byron Addams
2. My morning schedule six days a week follows the same routine: 5:50am wake-up, 6am meet Kitty Cat for weight training, 7:30am return home to eat my protein-packed banana pancake and shower, and then go back to bed. Hitting the sack after training usually consists of an hour nap but today I slept for two hours.
3. Waking up to my director calling me was definitely not the way I wanted to wake up. Nor was ending our phone conversation in tears how I anticipated that conversation to end. I had texted her earlier on this week to tell her that I wanted to talk to her. It was regarding my work contract, immigration and my boxing. Immigration and I have sorted things out but all that’s needed now is a letter of permission from Dankook saying that they’re allowing me to continue competing with my boxing.
4. I won’t get into the details of the conversation but it ended with me getting all frustrated at the fact that the very person who is suppose to represent me and be fighting for me is fighting against me. Basically, Dankook is trying to push me into stopping my boxing. “Why don’t you just do amateur boxing?” she asked. “That’s like telling a marathon runner to do a 100 meter dash; it’s not the same thing.” Boxing is my passion but so is my teaching, and if anything, my boxing has added so much to my teaching. It has greatly changed who and what I am when I walk into those classrooms and what I bring to my students so mark my words, I refuse to give up my boxing because someone tells me so. When and if I do stop, it'll be because I decided to.
5. I had anticipated my sour morning to seep into my afternoon with the arrival of my difficult class of the week, my Friday 1:20pm speaking class. However, and much to my surprise, they were awesome for me today. I felt like a mother watching her child take it’s first steps in the fact that I bombarded them with so much praise today and continually told them that they were being so great today.
6. I got spotted at the school’s bus stop by one of my former students and his friends. His friends had read all about me in the paper and so we jumped on the bus together and they started up with the million and one questions. Snickers called me when I was on route home and so the three male students I was with asked if they could meet Snickers. They were all overly eager to meet a professional boxer, a “real celebrity in Cheonan” as one put it, and so when Snickers surprised me by showing up at the bus stop they all jumped off the bus with me to meet him.
7. Friday was looking really good despite it’s sour mid-morning break. Snickers took me by the hand and treated me out to dinner at the Sushi Den. It was there, however, that Friday got bad again.
8. My director had called me during dinner and I got all choked up. No sooner did I hang up the phone but then the tears started to fall. I cried right in front of the Sushi Master. He turned and shewed the waitress away to give Snickers and me privacy.
9. Today my request for a permission letter to continue my boxing here in Korea was rejected and I was crushed. Snickers tried to cheer me up by asking me if I wanted him to go march right over to Dankook and talk to the dean himself. I knew he would if I had let him but instead I told him I just wanted to not think about it tonight. To tell you the truth, Snickers isn't all that keen on me having actual bouts but he knows how much I love it and even he has agreed that me traveling to Japan for this next upcoming fight is a huge honor and quite the once-in-a-lifetime experience. He agrees with me, I need this Japan fight.
10. And so on that note, tonight I put all thoughts and ideas regarding my boxing on the shelf temporarily. Junior Mint flooded my phone with text messages, teammates called to see where I was, and even the promoter working with arranging my fight in Japan was texting me. I just wanted to escape it all and so Snickers took me out for movie and ice cream. I was crushed though. “I know you’re really sad when you won’t even eat ice cream!” Snickers told me… and that is true.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How far would you go for something you love?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
-- Glade Byron Addams
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Thursday, October 29
1. Day one of my game diet was made official with an early morning 6am weigh-in. Last night I had kissed my “freedom eating” goodbye and celebrated it’s departure with some good grub. Weighed-in today at 54.50kgs, an all-time high for me. I blamed it on last night’s eating but also on my weight training. I’ve been beefing up lately because of it but it’s feeling so good and I’m feeling so super strong as a result.
2. I have to be under 47kgs for weigh-in, meaning that I am aiming to weigh-in at the 46.5kgs marks, which also means that I have exactly 8kgs to lose. That’s 17.6lbs to you out there in the world of pounds.
3. Had my first period writing class students sitting a bit on the edge of their seats today when I showed up and handed out three pieces of paper to every student. The last time I did this it was for an in-class writing activity that they then had to hand in before they left the class, so they all looked at me with worried eyes today. I then went around and told them to reach into my bag and take two of what was in it. What was in it though was chocolate and so handing out chocolate and paper definitely was greeted by confused looks.
4. “The chocolate is to sweeten you up so that you’ll forgive me, and the paper is because I haven’t finished marking your books as promised” I told them. They all laughed, told me that I really didn’t have to bring them chocolate because it was okay, and so I responded by jokingly telling them, “Okay, then give me back my chocolate… hahaha.”
5. My cell phone has been acting up, and by acting up I am referring to the fact that it spontaneously decides to turn off and the screen randomly picks even more random colours to switch to. It’s not good, it’s really not good.
6. Out with the old, in with the new. After much window shopping downtown, Snickers and I picked out the perfect replacement phone. It’s pink and it’s called the “Cooky phone” and I had to laugh cause leave it to Koreans to try to use English and end up calling something crazy, a word that they use to literally mean crazy, as in mentally insane.
7. Originally I was totally against touch-screen phones but I was sold when I saw the Cooky phone. The phone sells at 500,000 won (= $456 CDN) but they told me that if I put it in Snickers’ name I’d get it for free. A free phone?! I thought that was a pretty sweet deal until they told me that I’d have to change my phone number, no thanks. Bargained with them and paid only 150,000 won to keep my old number and put it in Snickers’ name. Correction, it cost Snickers 150,000 won. He insisted on buying me it for a gift. “It’s ok” I told him, “Save your money… for an engagement ring.”
8. Turns out my phone has video calling!!! While waiting outside for Snickers to drop something off at Guum Ggum before grocery shopping, my phone rang but when I answered Snickers’ face came on the screen. It was the first time I had ever seen video calling and so I instantly broke out into a giggle-fest. It was hilarious.
9. Couldn’t resist going to boxing tonight. I haven’t been to boxing since last Friday and I think that’s the longest I’ve been away from it. I showed up late for training but was greeted by a million and one questions from Junior Mint about my where abouts. “Did you miss me?” I asked him. “Sooooooooooooooo much!” he responded with.
10. With about an hour left till Junior Mint wanted to close up the club, I put on all my layers and trained. I trained like an animal.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How have you changed your mind?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
-- Author Unknown
2. I have to be under 47kgs for weigh-in, meaning that I am aiming to weigh-in at the 46.5kgs marks, which also means that I have exactly 8kgs to lose. That’s 17.6lbs to you out there in the world of pounds.
3. Had my first period writing class students sitting a bit on the edge of their seats today when I showed up and handed out three pieces of paper to every student. The last time I did this it was for an in-class writing activity that they then had to hand in before they left the class, so they all looked at me with worried eyes today. I then went around and told them to reach into my bag and take two of what was in it. What was in it though was chocolate and so handing out chocolate and paper definitely was greeted by confused looks.
4. “The chocolate is to sweeten you up so that you’ll forgive me, and the paper is because I haven’t finished marking your books as promised” I told them. They all laughed, told me that I really didn’t have to bring them chocolate because it was okay, and so I responded by jokingly telling them, “Okay, then give me back my chocolate… hahaha.”
5. My cell phone has been acting up, and by acting up I am referring to the fact that it spontaneously decides to turn off and the screen randomly picks even more random colours to switch to. It’s not good, it’s really not good.
6. Out with the old, in with the new. After much window shopping downtown, Snickers and I picked out the perfect replacement phone. It’s pink and it’s called the “Cooky phone” and I had to laugh cause leave it to Koreans to try to use English and end up calling something crazy, a word that they use to literally mean crazy, as in mentally insane.
7. Originally I was totally against touch-screen phones but I was sold when I saw the Cooky phone. The phone sells at 500,000 won (= $456 CDN) but they told me that if I put it in Snickers’ name I’d get it for free. A free phone?! I thought that was a pretty sweet deal until they told me that I’d have to change my phone number, no thanks. Bargained with them and paid only 150,000 won to keep my old number and put it in Snickers’ name. Correction, it cost Snickers 150,000 won. He insisted on buying me it for a gift. “It’s ok” I told him, “Save your money… for an engagement ring.”
8. Turns out my phone has video calling!!! While waiting outside for Snickers to drop something off at Guum Ggum before grocery shopping, my phone rang but when I answered Snickers’ face came on the screen. It was the first time I had ever seen video calling and so I instantly broke out into a giggle-fest. It was hilarious.
9. Couldn’t resist going to boxing tonight. I haven’t been to boxing since last Friday and I think that’s the longest I’ve been away from it. I showed up late for training but was greeted by a million and one questions from Junior Mint about my where abouts. “Did you miss me?” I asked him. “Sooooooooooooooo much!” he responded with.
10. With about an hour left till Junior Mint wanted to close up the club, I put on all my layers and trained. I trained like an animal.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How have you changed your mind?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
-- Author Unknown
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, October 28
1. Trained legs at morning weight training today. My butt is definitely loving those squats and Snickers is definitely loving those squats too… hahaha.
2. Was told I have a big bum by one of my coworkers, to which I responded with, “Listen, I’ve never had a complaint from any of my boyfriends about my butt!” I guess I should be happy that he said I had a big bum as supposed to “You look like a Chinese boy”.
3. This week’s writing activity in my writing level one class is planning a party. I told them to try to venture away from “safe English” and go for more creative ideas because this week’s writing will be marked according to interest level. Most of the students went with themed birthday parties but one girl decided to go with a lingera party.
4. Just about had it with my medical students when they yet again showed up late after break time but this time they showed up with popsicles and ice cream. It’s one thing if they want to bring a drink to class but I don’t allow ice cream so when they showed up late and with ice cream, I stopped everything. I had them pass around a mini garbage can and one by one they threw their snacks out.
6. Last night it was The Biggest Loser finale and I was so stoked about it last night. Snickers however, went out with one of his buddies for a mini birthday celebration, leaving me home alone at Guum Ggum shouting and cheering alone. Today the finale was on repeat on TV and so we watched it together. It’s funny cause I’ve never really watched TV so becoming so into a TV show is definitely not my style. Snickers and I had been rooted for Erik since the start and so seeing him transform and then kick major butt at the finale was awesome!!!
7. With plans to fight in Japan being juggled around and me trying to sort out the detail of it all, tomorrow will start day one of my Japan fight diet. And so on that note, I celebrated today as my last day of “freedom eating” by letting Snickers cook me up some meat and then serving me ice cream.
8. I figure I have about 7kgs (= 15.4lbs) to lose by December 17th’s weigh-in.
9. So how will I lose this much weight… no problem. I’ll be going back to my no carb, low carb, high carb day. A high carb day means three out of my six meals will include a starchy carb (ie. sweet potatoes, tortilla shell, oatmeal). A low carb day means that that two out of my six meals will include a starchy carb. A no carb day meals I will avoid all starchy carbs and instead will have six meals that combine only veggies and protein.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How can you change?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
-- Glade Byron Addams
2. Was told I have a big bum by one of my coworkers, to which I responded with, “Listen, I’ve never had a complaint from any of my boyfriends about my butt!” I guess I should be happy that he said I had a big bum as supposed to “You look like a Chinese boy”.
3. This week’s writing activity in my writing level one class is planning a party. I told them to try to venture away from “safe English” and go for more creative ideas because this week’s writing will be marked according to interest level. Most of the students went with themed birthday parties but one girl decided to go with a lingera party.
4. Just about had it with my medical students when they yet again showed up late after break time but this time they showed up with popsicles and ice cream. It’s one thing if they want to bring a drink to class but I don’t allow ice cream so when they showed up late and with ice cream, I stopped everything. I had them pass around a mini garbage can and one by one they threw their snacks out.
New class rules:5. It was a long day at work, not because I had tons of classes to teach, cause I didn’t, but because the two hour break in between my classes really stretches my day out. I used my time though to continue my marking.
1. After the 10 minute break time, the classroom doors will be locked so if you are not back in the class on time, you will not be allowed back in and you will be marked as absent.
2. Unless you plan on buying snacks for every one else in the classroom, no snacks are allowed.
6. Last night it was The Biggest Loser finale and I was so stoked about it last night. Snickers however, went out with one of his buddies for a mini birthday celebration, leaving me home alone at Guum Ggum shouting and cheering alone. Today the finale was on repeat on TV and so we watched it together. It’s funny cause I’ve never really watched TV so becoming so into a TV show is definitely not my style. Snickers and I had been rooted for Erik since the start and so seeing him transform and then kick major butt at the finale was awesome!!!
7. With plans to fight in Japan being juggled around and me trying to sort out the detail of it all, tomorrow will start day one of my Japan fight diet. And so on that note, I celebrated today as my last day of “freedom eating” by letting Snickers cook me up some meat and then serving me ice cream.
8. I figure I have about 7kgs (= 15.4lbs) to lose by December 17th’s weigh-in.
9. So how will I lose this much weight… no problem. I’ll be going back to my no carb, low carb, high carb day. A high carb day means three out of my six meals will include a starchy carb (ie. sweet potatoes, tortilla shell, oatmeal). A low carb day means that that two out of my six meals will include a starchy carb. A no carb day meals I will avoid all starchy carbs and instead will have six meals that combine only veggies and protein.
Monday = high carb day10. I figure getting down to 50kgs is no problem, I could do that in about a week if I really wanted to, but getting down to under 47kgs for the 47kgs weigh-in is going to be hard. Kitty Cat said it best when she wrote on my Facebook, “You can do it and the sick thing is you will have fun doing it!” and it’s true. I love the challenge.
Tuesday = no carb day
Wednesday = low carb day
Thursday = no carb day
Friday = low carb day
Saturday = high carb day
Sunday = no carb day
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How can you change?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
-- Glade Byron Addams
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, October 27
1. I hibernated inside my warm home today literally did not even so much stick my head out the door. I left Snickers in charge of Mi Nam, the recycling and the garbage, and stayed inside to do a whopper-of-a-load of marking. Today was all about finishing midterm exam marking and notebook marking, and so I didn’t even so much as shower. I did, however, brush my teeth. I’m not that barbaric.
2. I slaved away at marking while Snickers acted as my assistant. He entered the marks into the marking sheets, insisted I take occasional breaks for massages, made me coffee, and he even served me dinner.
4. Just after dinner time, Snickers suddenly got all giddy. He ran into the family room and then returned with his fists behind his back. “I have something for you – something I know you want—something I know you need. I love you” and with that I bit my lip and hesitated on what to say.
5. Got proposed to today… a proposal for chap stick that is.
6. With all the proposal and wedding talk that’s been flooding out from out mouths and filled up our ears, joking around and proposing a mock proposal wasn’t exactly funny to me tonight, nor will it ever be. So when he pulled out chap stick from behind his back I was not impressed. Sure my lips were dry and yes, I did need chap stick but he thought he'd tease me. I grabbed the chap stick, threw it at the bathroom door and then covered my face with embarrassment. The one side of me was relieved that it wasn’t another brutal proposal like my other two but the other side of me had hyped myself up for it.
7. It’s times like this, when I have a ton of marking to do, that I feel like I’m a university student all over again, and I hate it. It definitely feels like I’ve been putting more effort into this midterm with making it, printing it out, and marking it than my students did with studying for it. I sure hope that’s not the case but I can’t help but feel like it is. These late nights of marking are killing me and are definitely discouraging.
8. I take that back. It’s not the midterms that have been eating up my time but the marking of the writing student’s notebooks that have been. I have five writing classes this semester, one of which is a level two, and so they definitely have loaded me down with a lot of marking.
9. In between marking this notebook and that notebook, I found myself constantly wondering to the kitchen. I’ve never been a stress-eater but instead consider myself to eat out of boredom. Mind ya, I promised myself that for every thing I put in my mouth that I’d drink a cup of water before I ate anything. And let me just tell you this, I definitely got my day’s supply of water today… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
If you are what you eat, what are you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
-- Jim Davis
2. I slaved away at marking while Snickers acted as my assistant. He entered the marks into the marking sheets, insisted I take occasional breaks for massages, made me coffee, and he even served me dinner.
4. Just after dinner time, Snickers suddenly got all giddy. He ran into the family room and then returned with his fists behind his back. “I have something for you – something I know you want—something I know you need. I love you” and with that I bit my lip and hesitated on what to say.
5. Got proposed to today… a proposal for chap stick that is.
6. With all the proposal and wedding talk that’s been flooding out from out mouths and filled up our ears, joking around and proposing a mock proposal wasn’t exactly funny to me tonight, nor will it ever be. So when he pulled out chap stick from behind his back I was not impressed. Sure my lips were dry and yes, I did need chap stick but he thought he'd tease me. I grabbed the chap stick, threw it at the bathroom door and then covered my face with embarrassment. The one side of me was relieved that it wasn’t another brutal proposal like my other two but the other side of me had hyped myself up for it.
7. It’s times like this, when I have a ton of marking to do, that I feel like I’m a university student all over again, and I hate it. It definitely feels like I’ve been putting more effort into this midterm with making it, printing it out, and marking it than my students did with studying for it. I sure hope that’s not the case but I can’t help but feel like it is. These late nights of marking are killing me and are definitely discouraging.
8. I take that back. It’s not the midterms that have been eating up my time but the marking of the writing student’s notebooks that have been. I have five writing classes this semester, one of which is a level two, and so they definitely have loaded me down with a lot of marking.
9. In between marking this notebook and that notebook, I found myself constantly wondering to the kitchen. I’ve never been a stress-eater but instead consider myself to eat out of boredom. Mind ya, I promised myself that for every thing I put in my mouth that I’d drink a cup of water before I ate anything. And let me just tell you this, I definitely got my day’s supply of water today… hahaha.
My average consumption per month:10. I can’t say I ate bad though, considering the eating habits of many I know. I don’t eat bad but I eat a lot. I justify it with the fact that my life is very active. I weight train in the mornings, box in the evening, play outside with Mi Nam about twice a day, and then walk around a classroom teaching for about 4 hours a day. I think my love of crackers are what’s holding me back from my 6-pack though. Damn those crackers taste so good but at about 200-some calories a pack (a pack holds 6 crackers), they’re not exactly a healthy snack.
1. 200 eggs
2. 40 tuna (cans)
3. 20 chicken (breasts)
4. 10 ice cream
5. 14 coffee
6. 40 bananas
7. 40 frozen yogurt
8. 12 protein slushies
9. 20 frozen persimmons
10. 96 Alis crackers
My Top Ten favorite Snacks:
1. frozen yogurt
2. frozen persimmons
3. frozen “monkey” bananas
4. apples
5. rice cakes with a bit of peanut butter
6. protein slushies
7. mixed nuts
8. homemade granola bars
9. yogurt smoothies
10. coffee with a little dash of milk
My Top Ten favorite Healthy Meals:
1. protein-packed banana pancake
2. tuna-cesaer salad
3. chicken in oatmeal
4. grilled tomatoes
5. salmon steak
6. chicken wraps
7. yogurt with nut-mix and flax seed oil
8. chicken salad
9. chicken-veggie stir fry
10. beef stir fry
My Top Ten Sinful Snacks:
1. ice cream
2. ice cream
3. ice cream!!!
4. Alis crackers
5. baked bread goodies
6. peanut butter
7. Coffee Bean’s French vanilla latte
8. frozen cookies
9. sausages
10. milk-popsciles
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
If you are what you eat, what are you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
-- Jim Davis
Monday, October 26, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Monday, October 26
1. Despite only having to work a grand total of one hour and forty minutes, today I was super busy. I still haven’t finished marking. I’ve completed marking all the midterm exams but I still have the student notebooks haunting me and taunting me.
2. I’d also have writing in all the marks into the attendance sheets if it weren’t for the fact that I do in fact have the world’s best boyfriend, and no, I’m not being bias here…. Hahaha. Snickers willingly volunteered to total up all the marks and then enter in the grades and all I had to do was continually throw him kisses and smiles.
3. Snickers calls it “bait”, I call it “butt-kissing” but what ever it is, it’s hilarious. What I’m talking about here are the writing notebooks of many of my students. Numerous students left surprises for me in their notebooks. Some wrote cute little comments, others went a little further and wrote short letters to me, while others took it a step further and used me as their writing piece focal point.
4. Snickers’ newest phrase is “I’m going to kick their a$$”. This came about after he oversaw one too many “I love you Amy” notes written in students’ books and then jokingly he blurted out “My kick a$$”. “Yes sweetie, you do have a kiss a$$ a$$ but I think you mean ‘I’m going to kick their a$$’… hahaha.”
5. Well, I did it. I poked my head out of my shell tonight and mingled with the foreign crew in my city. I joined a social dinner club on Facebook for foreigners living in Cheonan and tonight’s dinner was the second invite they’ve sent me. I didn’t go to the first one because I did the ever-so-expected get dressed and then bail-out routine. Tonight I did in fact show up though, and it was good. There were about 12 of us girls, and one dude. The dinner party was held at an Indian restaurant and it was delish but now I think I’m hooked on it… hahaha.
6. I always feel somewhat of a foreigner to the foreigners but walking into a restaurant and simply sitting down at the table filled with people I have never met or have even seen was rather nerve-racking at first. By the end of the dinner however, we were deep into girl talk, talking about the differences between Korean men and Western men, and talking about hooking each other up. One girl talked about trying to set some of the girls up with some of her Korean classmates but I joked and tried to sell off my teammates to them… hahaha.
7. I didn’t go to boxing today on account that I was trying to make a point… and when, or if, Junior Mint ever figures out my point, I’m sure he’ll call.
8. Apparently he’s going to need more than a day to figure it out.
9. Last week I had emailed the IFBA (International Female Boxing Association) President. Tonight she called me up. She called me up to talk about the unfair judging in the Lisa Brown fight back on October 15th, a fight that I’m sure even the Korean opponent was shocked by.
10. Ended my night by slaving away again at marking student’s writing notebooks.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Are kisses sufficient pay for him?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
-- Author Unknown
2. I’d also have writing in all the marks into the attendance sheets if it weren’t for the fact that I do in fact have the world’s best boyfriend, and no, I’m not being bias here…. Hahaha. Snickers willingly volunteered to total up all the marks and then enter in the grades and all I had to do was continually throw him kisses and smiles.
3. Snickers calls it “bait”, I call it “butt-kissing” but what ever it is, it’s hilarious. What I’m talking about here are the writing notebooks of many of my students. Numerous students left surprises for me in their notebooks. Some wrote cute little comments, others went a little further and wrote short letters to me, while others took it a step further and used me as their writing piece focal point.
4. Snickers’ newest phrase is “I’m going to kick their a$$”. This came about after he oversaw one too many “I love you Amy” notes written in students’ books and then jokingly he blurted out “My kick a$$”. “Yes sweetie, you do have a kiss a$$ a$$ but I think you mean ‘I’m going to kick their a$$’… hahaha.”
5. Well, I did it. I poked my head out of my shell tonight and mingled with the foreign crew in my city. I joined a social dinner club on Facebook for foreigners living in Cheonan and tonight’s dinner was the second invite they’ve sent me. I didn’t go to the first one because I did the ever-so-expected get dressed and then bail-out routine. Tonight I did in fact show up though, and it was good. There were about 12 of us girls, and one dude. The dinner party was held at an Indian restaurant and it was delish but now I think I’m hooked on it… hahaha.
6. I always feel somewhat of a foreigner to the foreigners but walking into a restaurant and simply sitting down at the table filled with people I have never met or have even seen was rather nerve-racking at first. By the end of the dinner however, we were deep into girl talk, talking about the differences between Korean men and Western men, and talking about hooking each other up. One girl talked about trying to set some of the girls up with some of her Korean classmates but I joked and tried to sell off my teammates to them… hahaha.
7. I didn’t go to boxing today on account that I was trying to make a point… and when, or if, Junior Mint ever figures out my point, I’m sure he’ll call.
8. Apparently he’s going to need more than a day to figure it out.
9. Last week I had emailed the IFBA (International Female Boxing Association) President. Tonight she called me up. She called me up to talk about the unfair judging in the Lisa Brown fight back on October 15th, a fight that I’m sure even the Korean opponent was shocked by.
10. Ended my night by slaving away again at marking student’s writing notebooks.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Are kisses sufficient pay for him?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
-- Author Unknown
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Sunday, October 25
1. Woke up to Snickers telling me that he wanted to go “bling-bling shopping”, as he put it. He wanted to get a couple ring but as much as maybe I should have been happy to hear this, it frustrated me. I think couple rings are a Korean thing because I’ve never heard about them in Canada or the States. But the thing about couple rings that doesn’t interest me is that even middle school kids wear them and so I don’t consider them to be all that special. Moreover, I figured that if Snickers were to buy me a couple ring then it pretty much meant he wouldn’t get me an engagement ring, and I’m all about the engagement ring!
2. I thought I’d go along with it though and so off we paraded downtown in the search of the perfect couple ring. We never did find a couple ring that we liked but instead I was able to enlighten him with a bit of western culture regarding how the whole proposal goes down and the rings that are involved. Speaking of rings though, we still really don’t know what’s up with Koreans and whether or not they even give a proposal ring when they actually propose.
3. We contemplated the whole Korean way of proposing while shopping and thought we’d entertain ourselves by asking random people what they thought. The sushi master where we ate lunch told us that the proposal ring he gave his wife was also the wedding ring, meaning that she never got a second band but instead just wears the one ring. The girl at Coffee Bean told us that her fiance used their couple rings as a kind of proposal ring, and the jewelry seller told us that more and more Koreans are switching to the western way of proposing (proposal ring followed by a wedding band at the actual wedding). This lead us to the next natural question, what do you do with the couple ring later on?
4. One question led to another and of course the more and more questions we thought we got answered, the more and more questions we had.
5. With every ring we looked at Snickers asked me if I liked it. “If I like it there’d be no question about whether or not I do. It’d just be an automatic answer on my face” and with that, by mid-afternoon Snickers was convinced he had found the perfect ring. He’s also convinced that I am definitely a lady of luxery… hahaha. Apparently I amused the jeweler sellers with my selections. With every shop we went to, Snickers had me pick out my top two. Turns out my top two also sported the top two price tags in each shop… hahaha.
6. Honestly, to me the more and more rings we looked at, the more and more they started to look the same. I’m not a very traditional person in the style of things I like. All I know is that I prefer a white gold ring that’s not so cookie-cutter-like. If marriage is till death do us part and I’m going to be wearing this ring for the rest of my life, it better be reflective of who and what I am.
7. I’m not too sure of what ring Snickers had labeled as the “perfect ring” but I will note that there were two rings that I really liked. I saw this one ring that looked like three bands of diamonds that crossed in the middle and had a bigger diamond at the crossing point (similar to the picture posted above). I also saw this one particular butterfly ring (not similar to the picture posted above but I like that ring too). I’ve always had a thing for butterflies ever since my second year of university. Butterflies have a particularly special meaning to me but wouldn’t it be a bit strange to have a butterfly engagement ring? I thought it was gorgeous but it of course would cause a problem with trying to add a wedding band to it later. But then again, if a traditional way of things has never really been my way, why go traditional now with the need of a wedding band, right?
8. Today was definitely an overload of engagement and wedding talk, but it didn’t stop there. Snickers then made a strange excuse about having to feed his dad’s dogs and off he left me home alone at Guum Ggum. He returned much later but I was already in bed. I wasn’t asleep but was merely pretending to be, mind ya, my plan to raid his jacket pockets didn’t go as planned when he stood in the kitchen brushing his teeth instead of in the bathroom.
9. I woke up today with Snickers talking to me about engagement stuff and then I went to bed talking about engagement stuff. Snickers wanted to hear all about my previous engagements, both of which were terrible. Note to guys: proposing to a girl on an already special holiday (ie. Valentine’s Day or Christmas) doesn’t really make the proposal special. And not making a big deal out of something (the proposal) that is a big deal to about 99% of females will not only get your name dragged through mud every time she has to tell the proposal story to her friends (and you know she’s going to be asked a billion and one times), but it also kills the proposal. I’ve been proposed to twice and both times my reaction was “Are you kidding me… you asking me like this???” And on both occasions, I excused myself after and cried in the bathroom because of disappointment. Come to think of it, both my proposals were, as I now call them, “scared proposals”. My first proposal came about after my boyfriend cheated on me. He thought I was going to leave him and so he proposed. My second proposal occurred two days before I was scheduled to move to Korea – and it was on Valentine’s Day. In both cases, both guys thought that proposing to me was the one sure way to convince me they loved me and to keep a grip on me. It never worked though but I guess it made for a good story here on my homepage… hahaha.
10. Taught Snickers how to say “Will you marry me?” in English… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
If we're all about equality these days, then why aren't more women proposing to the men?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-- Anne Taylor Fleming
2. I thought I’d go along with it though and so off we paraded downtown in the search of the perfect couple ring. We never did find a couple ring that we liked but instead I was able to enlighten him with a bit of western culture regarding how the whole proposal goes down and the rings that are involved. Speaking of rings though, we still really don’t know what’s up with Koreans and whether or not they even give a proposal ring when they actually propose.
3. We contemplated the whole Korean way of proposing while shopping and thought we’d entertain ourselves by asking random people what they thought. The sushi master where we ate lunch told us that the proposal ring he gave his wife was also the wedding ring, meaning that she never got a second band but instead just wears the one ring. The girl at Coffee Bean told us that her fiance used their couple rings as a kind of proposal ring, and the jewelry seller told us that more and more Koreans are switching to the western way of proposing (proposal ring followed by a wedding band at the actual wedding). This lead us to the next natural question, what do you do with the couple ring later on?
4. One question led to another and of course the more and more questions we thought we got answered, the more and more questions we had.5. With every ring we looked at Snickers asked me if I liked it. “If I like it there’d be no question about whether or not I do. It’d just be an automatic answer on my face” and with that, by mid-afternoon Snickers was convinced he had found the perfect ring. He’s also convinced that I am definitely a lady of luxery… hahaha. Apparently I amused the jeweler sellers with my selections. With every shop we went to, Snickers had me pick out my top two. Turns out my top two also sported the top two price tags in each shop… hahaha.
6. Honestly, to me the more and more rings we looked at, the more and more they started to look the same. I’m not a very traditional person in the style of things I like. All I know is that I prefer a white gold ring that’s not so cookie-cutter-like. If marriage is till death do us part and I’m going to be wearing this ring for the rest of my life, it better be reflective of who and what I am.
7. I’m not too sure of what ring Snickers had labeled as the “perfect ring” but I will note that there were two rings that I really liked. I saw this one ring that looked like three bands of diamonds that crossed in the middle and had a bigger diamond at the crossing point (similar to the picture posted above). I also saw this one particular butterfly ring (not similar to the picture posted above but I like that ring too). I’ve always had a thing for butterflies ever since my second year of university. Butterflies have a particularly special meaning to me but wouldn’t it be a bit strange to have a butterfly engagement ring? I thought it was gorgeous but it of course would cause a problem with trying to add a wedding band to it later. But then again, if a traditional way of things has never really been my way, why go traditional now with the need of a wedding band, right?
8. Today was definitely an overload of engagement and wedding talk, but it didn’t stop there. Snickers then made a strange excuse about having to feed his dad’s dogs and off he left me home alone at Guum Ggum. He returned much later but I was already in bed. I wasn’t asleep but was merely pretending to be, mind ya, my plan to raid his jacket pockets didn’t go as planned when he stood in the kitchen brushing his teeth instead of in the bathroom.
9. I woke up today with Snickers talking to me about engagement stuff and then I went to bed talking about engagement stuff. Snickers wanted to hear all about my previous engagements, both of which were terrible. Note to guys: proposing to a girl on an already special holiday (ie. Valentine’s Day or Christmas) doesn’t really make the proposal special. And not making a big deal out of something (the proposal) that is a big deal to about 99% of females will not only get your name dragged through mud every time she has to tell the proposal story to her friends (and you know she’s going to be asked a billion and one times), but it also kills the proposal. I’ve been proposed to twice and both times my reaction was “Are you kidding me… you asking me like this???” And on both occasions, I excused myself after and cried in the bathroom because of disappointment. Come to think of it, both my proposals were, as I now call them, “scared proposals”. My first proposal came about after my boyfriend cheated on me. He thought I was going to leave him and so he proposed. My second proposal occurred two days before I was scheduled to move to Korea – and it was on Valentine’s Day. In both cases, both guys thought that proposing to me was the one sure way to convince me they loved me and to keep a grip on me. It never worked though but I guess it made for a good story here on my homepage… hahaha.
10. Taught Snickers how to say “Will you marry me?” in English… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
If we're all about equality these days, then why aren't more women proposing to the men?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-- Anne Taylor Fleming
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Saturday, October 24
1. Technically I didn’t really go to sleep last night and so when I headed into Hongik for weight training I more or less kind of bounced in. Lack of sleep does that to me, it leaves me super giddy and everything becomes funny to me.
2. Switching things up and doing the stair master was apparently too funny for me and me jumping from foot pedal to foot pedal instead of actually using how it’s suppose to be used, turned out to be not so effective and very ridiculous looking… hahaha.
3. Trained my legs like a beast and definitely felt it.
4. I honestly think I will never get sick of eating my protein-packed banana pancake. Seriously, it’s simply divine and what better way to reward myself for a wicked workout than some definitely worked for, definitely earned, and definitely delish healthy carbs and a whack load of protein?!
5. Leaned on Tang today to help get the whole issue regarding my visa, immigration and boxing through to Junior Mint and all that resulted was me discovering just how thick his head actually is. Dang, talk about frustrations. Junior Mint is convinced that I don’t need to worry about immigration and so I’m still stressed out about it all.
6. Yesterday Junior Mint wasn’t able to meet up with me to talk about the Japan fight proposal and so he told me to meet up with him tonight. Snickers was going to come along with me because he’s considering changing managers. I’m a bit apprehensive about him possibly training at my club but I think Junior Mint definitely has proved to be the more effective coach. He may be as stubborn as a mule and rather thick-headed, but man can that guy push you around at training, kill you on pad work, and then squeeze out that extra bit of energy you have on sand bag work.
7. When Junior Mint called in the early evening and talked to Snickers, he then broke another promise. That’s three promises in two days that he’s broken. I was ticked.
8. Turns out Junior Mint is ticked at me for scoring this fight on my own as supposed to letting him set up a fight for me, but I know how it is. I know how things are at my club. Junior Mint is juggling not only me but Panty Boy Jr., Black Skinny, The Cheonan Bulldog, and a whole whack of amateur boxers that want to set up fights.
9. Snickers tried his best to defend me, after all, it’s not like I wanted to tick Junior Mint off but the fact was that the person I went to for this fight has major connections with promoters in Japan, speaks English and Japanese, but doesn’t speak Korean so him talking to Junior Mint about it would be next to impossible. I love it how he’s ticked at me when it should be me ticked at him. Needless to say though, we were both super ticked and Snickers was ticked at us being ticked. Just a whole lotta ticking going on!!!
10. “If he doesn’t want to stand in my corner in Japan than I’ll have no problem finding a replacement.” Of course I said that out of anger but the fact of the matter is that I have become such a cash-cow for my boxing club and to have him so quickly jump on my head and not celebrate with me on the chance to fight in Japan really hurt. Whether I win or lose in Japan is not the point. The point is that I’m the only other boxer at my club that has traveled to another country for a fight. This is a huge opportunity and a once in a life time chance for me to really take my boxer farther. Sometimes Junior Mint acts so spoiled though and tonight his ego and pride got in the way. When he went off on his little spaz-attack and got ticked off, inside my head I yelled “Oh please... put your ego aside and don't act so spoiled!" It's times like this I wish my mother were here. She'd look him straight in the face and tell him "You're not too old to be spanked!" Okay, so maybe she wouldn't be in my mind I foresaw the situation going down with her yelling it at him and then telling him to say sorry to me. Then, of course, she'd send him to his room to think about it... hahaha. I can laugh about it now but I was super ticked tonight and me being ticked off lasted way into the wee hours. Snickers went off to go clean up his father’s house and whatnot, leaving me seeping in my own ticked-off fumes. I tell ya, it’s times like this I seriously wished I drank!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you do to blow off steam?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
-- Baltasar Gracian
2. Switching things up and doing the stair master was apparently too funny for me and me jumping from foot pedal to foot pedal instead of actually using how it’s suppose to be used, turned out to be not so effective and very ridiculous looking… hahaha.
3. Trained my legs like a beast and definitely felt it.
4. I honestly think I will never get sick of eating my protein-packed banana pancake. Seriously, it’s simply divine and what better way to reward myself for a wicked workout than some definitely worked for, definitely earned, and definitely delish healthy carbs and a whack load of protein?!
5. Leaned on Tang today to help get the whole issue regarding my visa, immigration and boxing through to Junior Mint and all that resulted was me discovering just how thick his head actually is. Dang, talk about frustrations. Junior Mint is convinced that I don’t need to worry about immigration and so I’m still stressed out about it all.
6. Yesterday Junior Mint wasn’t able to meet up with me to talk about the Japan fight proposal and so he told me to meet up with him tonight. Snickers was going to come along with me because he’s considering changing managers. I’m a bit apprehensive about him possibly training at my club but I think Junior Mint definitely has proved to be the more effective coach. He may be as stubborn as a mule and rather thick-headed, but man can that guy push you around at training, kill you on pad work, and then squeeze out that extra bit of energy you have on sand bag work.
7. When Junior Mint called in the early evening and talked to Snickers, he then broke another promise. That’s three promises in two days that he’s broken. I was ticked.
8. Turns out Junior Mint is ticked at me for scoring this fight on my own as supposed to letting him set up a fight for me, but I know how it is. I know how things are at my club. Junior Mint is juggling not only me but Panty Boy Jr., Black Skinny, The Cheonan Bulldog, and a whole whack of amateur boxers that want to set up fights.
9. Snickers tried his best to defend me, after all, it’s not like I wanted to tick Junior Mint off but the fact was that the person I went to for this fight has major connections with promoters in Japan, speaks English and Japanese, but doesn’t speak Korean so him talking to Junior Mint about it would be next to impossible. I love it how he’s ticked at me when it should be me ticked at him. Needless to say though, we were both super ticked and Snickers was ticked at us being ticked. Just a whole lotta ticking going on!!!
10. “If he doesn’t want to stand in my corner in Japan than I’ll have no problem finding a replacement.” Of course I said that out of anger but the fact of the matter is that I have become such a cash-cow for my boxing club and to have him so quickly jump on my head and not celebrate with me on the chance to fight in Japan really hurt. Whether I win or lose in Japan is not the point. The point is that I’m the only other boxer at my club that has traveled to another country for a fight. This is a huge opportunity and a once in a life time chance for me to really take my boxer farther. Sometimes Junior Mint acts so spoiled though and tonight his ego and pride got in the way. When he went off on his little spaz-attack and got ticked off, inside my head I yelled “Oh please... put your ego aside and don't act so spoiled!" It's times like this I wish my mother were here. She'd look him straight in the face and tell him "You're not too old to be spanked!" Okay, so maybe she wouldn't be in my mind I foresaw the situation going down with her yelling it at him and then telling him to say sorry to me. Then, of course, she'd send him to his room to think about it... hahaha. I can laugh about it now but I was super ticked tonight and me being ticked off lasted way into the wee hours. Snickers went off to go clean up his father’s house and whatnot, leaving me seeping in my own ticked-off fumes. I tell ya, it’s times like this I seriously wished I drank!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you do to blow off steam?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
-- Baltasar Gracian
Friday, October 23, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Friday, October 23
1. Last day of midterms… thank you God for that!!!
2. Ending my week of midterms with my speaking class that is oh so attentive and well-behaved (that’s me sarcastically speaking, of course) wasn’t they way I wanted to end it. Thankfully, I was able to end the week on a high note, with one of my favorite writing classes.
3. Half way during my day I got an unexpected phone call regarding an even more unexpected issue… a kind of proposal you could say.
4. Looks like Japan wants me to come fight!!! Got offered a 4 round fight in Japan with all expenses paid (aka flight and hotel). My opponent is a young south-paw Japanese fighter with only three professional fights under her belt. Weigh-in requirements are 48kgs but I want to push it down to 47kgs.
5. With Kitty Cat off in class, Snickers busy at Grandpa-K’s house, and my close friends and family being miles upon miles away, I had no one to share in my wicked news and so I had to wait to share my awesome, awesome news.
6. Called up Junior Mint and arranged to tell him my news tonight. We had promised to meet at 8pm but then he ended up cancelling on me on account that something with his family came up.
7. I haven’t made my decision about Japan offering me a fight but I definitely want to take it. I guess you could say I have made my decision but now it’s a matter of getting my stuff together for immigration – what a hassle that’s going to be!
8. After work Kitty Cat and I met up for chicken and coffee at Coffee Bean and what started off as just her and I turned into quite the work social when we ran into past and present coworkers and students. Ended up taking a walk down memory lane with one of my coworkers when she started to ask questions about Snickers and I. “I went through a lot of frogs to get to my prince” I noted and only God knows just how true that is!
9. Heading into boxing tonight was accompanied by a massive wave of awesome energy. I went hardcore with training and had brought my usual game prep-ware, meaning I brought extra layers of clothing so that I could sweat my brains out. And sweat my brains out was exactly what I did!!!
10. I had showed up at training around 9pm and left a bit after 11pm. It had been a long and super intense training, leaving me with very little energy, or time for that matter, to do much more than veg-out at Guum Ggum. Made myself a protein shake-slushie and then called it a night.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do you believe in destiny?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
To the lamp of love: may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial.
-- Author Unknown
2. Ending my week of midterms with my speaking class that is oh so attentive and well-behaved (that’s me sarcastically speaking, of course) wasn’t they way I wanted to end it. Thankfully, I was able to end the week on a high note, with one of my favorite writing classes.
3. Half way during my day I got an unexpected phone call regarding an even more unexpected issue… a kind of proposal you could say.
4. Looks like Japan wants me to come fight!!! Got offered a 4 round fight in Japan with all expenses paid (aka flight and hotel). My opponent is a young south-paw Japanese fighter with only three professional fights under her belt. Weigh-in requirements are 48kgs but I want to push it down to 47kgs.
5. With Kitty Cat off in class, Snickers busy at Grandpa-K’s house, and my close friends and family being miles upon miles away, I had no one to share in my wicked news and so I had to wait to share my awesome, awesome news.
6. Called up Junior Mint and arranged to tell him my news tonight. We had promised to meet at 8pm but then he ended up cancelling on me on account that something with his family came up.
7. I haven’t made my decision about Japan offering me a fight but I definitely want to take it. I guess you could say I have made my decision but now it’s a matter of getting my stuff together for immigration – what a hassle that’s going to be!
8. After work Kitty Cat and I met up for chicken and coffee at Coffee Bean and what started off as just her and I turned into quite the work social when we ran into past and present coworkers and students. Ended up taking a walk down memory lane with one of my coworkers when she started to ask questions about Snickers and I. “I went through a lot of frogs to get to my prince” I noted and only God knows just how true that is!
9. Heading into boxing tonight was accompanied by a massive wave of awesome energy. I went hardcore with training and had brought my usual game prep-ware, meaning I brought extra layers of clothing so that I could sweat my brains out. And sweat my brains out was exactly what I did!!!
10. I had showed up at training around 9pm and left a bit after 11pm. It had been a long and super intense training, leaving me with very little energy, or time for that matter, to do much more than veg-out at Guum Ggum. Made myself a protein shake-slushie and then called it a night.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do you believe in destiny?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
To the lamp of love: may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial.
-- Author Unknown
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Thursday, October 22
1. After my exams finished today, I jumped into a cab and booted it over to the other university for my interview. It felt like my Dankook interview all over again. I say that because when I initially handed in my application and whatnot to Dankook I really wasn’t interested in it, nor was I particularly interested in it once they actually offered me the job. At the time I was working at Eumbong Middle School and loving it, absolutely loving it, but I took my job at Dankook because I thought it would spruce up my resume nicely and I liked the challenges it posed with having to teach at a much higher level of schooling that I was use to.
2. As for today’s interview, despite the things in the job description that I really didn’t care for, I thought I’d keep an open-mind and give it a chance.
3. Arrived at the beautiful university campus and walked into my interview. I was being interviewed by two middle aged men and another man sat in on while we talked. I’d have to say that about 50% of our chatting was directed towards my boxing. They made it known to me that they knew of me because of my media coverage and so they curiously asked a million and one questions about my boxing. Once my interview was over, I then sat with one of the men and we continued to talk about boxing. He and his wife then dropped me off at the bus stop and off we parted our separate ways.
4. Despite the work hours at this university consisting of 9-6pm, five days a week, and despite the pay being lower than Dankook, they offer four and a half months of vacation, I’m not required to prepare anything because I’d be more like a campus tutor than a professor, and they’re super flexible with what I’d actually be doing on campus as work. Everyday students would have the chance to come to me for extra help on what ever English homework they’re struggling with and I’d be allowed to set up my own English clubs if I want something that’s more of a regular thing than a kind of drop-by thing. “We have a new gymnasium, so feel free to use that” one of my interviewers told me, and with that the gears in my brain started to work in full gear. “So if I wanted to workout on campus, with students, and call it some kind of English club, I could?” I asked. “Sure!” And so that was the hook that lured me in. I could start my own kind of personal training on their campus and as long as I’m speaking English than I’d be getting paid for it…. Sweet!!!
5. Treated myself to a home cooked salmon steak and Caesar salad. I’ve never cooked salmon before but it was super easy and even more delish than easy!!! Mind ya, it stank up Guum Ggum!
6. No sooner did I induldge in my salmon steak but then it was lights out for me. I crashed on the couch and later, while in the middle of a nightmare, I woke up to a pitch-black house and someone pounding away on my door. It was like an instant head rush, a sensory overload, and I had no idea what the heck was happening. Turns out it was Snickers.
7. So much for Snickers and his “I’ll see you tomorrow” comment he made earlier on today. That boy simply can’t stay away from me. We made this rule that we can’t be away from each other more than two nights a week, but, on average, we are usually only away from each other one or two nights a month.
8. Junior Mint has been away all this week and so I’m craving pad work like crazy. He will be returning tomorrow. Tonight Snickers and I headed out to boxing together. Because of the fact that he still can’t train with his right hand, he’s been training only with his left. Tonight some members at UP thought they’d make him the butt of their joke and so they snickered away while Snickers trained. I found it rather annoying considering they had no idea who he was or why he was training with only one hand and so I took it upon myself to shed some light on the situation when they tried to amuse me with their lame joking. “Ya, him fighting with one hand is pretty funny. The fact that he broke his hand on some guy’s face in the first round is even funnier.” And with that they stopped fighting. I’m not one to fight my boyfriend’s fights but sometimes it’s fun to get my kicks out of putting people in their place.
9. It’s funny how much Snickers’ manners have changed at the boxing club since I first met him. He use to be the quiet guy who came with his coach, and he was talked about but not talked to. He did his own thing, trained hard and then left. When we first started to date I noticed him opening up a bit, especially to my teammates. He’d still do his own thing with training hard but after training he’d stick around to talk to the guys. He never really talked to me, instead, it was his coach who always talked to me. It wasn’t until we really started to date that he then got chatty at boxing. He no longer was the quiet guy training alone but instead the one approaching the younger boxers and trying to help them with their training.
10. He bloomed and he is still blooming. He is Bloom Kim.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How fitting is your name?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Words have meaning and names have power.
-- Author Unknown
2. As for today’s interview, despite the things in the job description that I really didn’t care for, I thought I’d keep an open-mind and give it a chance.
3. Arrived at the beautiful university campus and walked into my interview. I was being interviewed by two middle aged men and another man sat in on while we talked. I’d have to say that about 50% of our chatting was directed towards my boxing. They made it known to me that they knew of me because of my media coverage and so they curiously asked a million and one questions about my boxing. Once my interview was over, I then sat with one of the men and we continued to talk about boxing. He and his wife then dropped me off at the bus stop and off we parted our separate ways.
4. Despite the work hours at this university consisting of 9-6pm, five days a week, and despite the pay being lower than Dankook, they offer four and a half months of vacation, I’m not required to prepare anything because I’d be more like a campus tutor than a professor, and they’re super flexible with what I’d actually be doing on campus as work. Everyday students would have the chance to come to me for extra help on what ever English homework they’re struggling with and I’d be allowed to set up my own English clubs if I want something that’s more of a regular thing than a kind of drop-by thing. “We have a new gymnasium, so feel free to use that” one of my interviewers told me, and with that the gears in my brain started to work in full gear. “So if I wanted to workout on campus, with students, and call it some kind of English club, I could?” I asked. “Sure!” And so that was the hook that lured me in. I could start my own kind of personal training on their campus and as long as I’m speaking English than I’d be getting paid for it…. Sweet!!!
5. Treated myself to a home cooked salmon steak and Caesar salad. I’ve never cooked salmon before but it was super easy and even more delish than easy!!! Mind ya, it stank up Guum Ggum!
6. No sooner did I induldge in my salmon steak but then it was lights out for me. I crashed on the couch and later, while in the middle of a nightmare, I woke up to a pitch-black house and someone pounding away on my door. It was like an instant head rush, a sensory overload, and I had no idea what the heck was happening. Turns out it was Snickers.
7. So much for Snickers and his “I’ll see you tomorrow” comment he made earlier on today. That boy simply can’t stay away from me. We made this rule that we can’t be away from each other more than two nights a week, but, on average, we are usually only away from each other one or two nights a month.
8. Junior Mint has been away all this week and so I’m craving pad work like crazy. He will be returning tomorrow. Tonight Snickers and I headed out to boxing together. Because of the fact that he still can’t train with his right hand, he’s been training only with his left. Tonight some members at UP thought they’d make him the butt of their joke and so they snickered away while Snickers trained. I found it rather annoying considering they had no idea who he was or why he was training with only one hand and so I took it upon myself to shed some light on the situation when they tried to amuse me with their lame joking. “Ya, him fighting with one hand is pretty funny. The fact that he broke his hand on some guy’s face in the first round is even funnier.” And with that they stopped fighting. I’m not one to fight my boyfriend’s fights but sometimes it’s fun to get my kicks out of putting people in their place.
9. It’s funny how much Snickers’ manners have changed at the boxing club since I first met him. He use to be the quiet guy who came with his coach, and he was talked about but not talked to. He did his own thing, trained hard and then left. When we first started to date I noticed him opening up a bit, especially to my teammates. He’d still do his own thing with training hard but after training he’d stick around to talk to the guys. He never really talked to me, instead, it was his coach who always talked to me. It wasn’t until we really started to date that he then got chatty at boxing. He no longer was the quiet guy training alone but instead the one approaching the younger boxers and trying to help them with their training.
10. He bloomed and he is still blooming. He is Bloom Kim.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How fitting is your name?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Words have meaning and names have power.
-- Author Unknown
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, October 21
1. Headed out bright and early, well not so bright but definitely early, for weight training with Snickers and Kitty Cat. Snickers lectured me about wearing sandals when the air is cold enough to see your breath. I take it I’ll have to switch or get another lecture, that or deal with him sulking… hahaha.
2. My first class of the day consists of 40 students who sit crammed in a classroom that makes it all too easy for students to cheat and so I had Snickers assist me today with monitoring them during the exam.
3. Am convinced that if Snickers is added to any equation than you’re bound for fun. He stood at the back of my classroom and provided quite the authoritative influence but he continually made me crack my stern look by making faces at me. Of course the students couldn’t see what he was doing because he behind them all but they could see me facing them. I tried my hardest to bite the sides of my mouth in attempt to not smile but it was hard. Probably the hardest thing I’ve done all week… hahaha.
4. And on that note, I hope Snickers never grows up. I hope that when we’re old and crusty that he’ll still be the mental two year old he so often acts like… hahaha.
5. Spent part of my afternoon marking student notebooks. Discovering random “I love you Professor Amy” and “Please punch me Amy” written in student books will never score them extra marks but it definitely added a much needed smile to the mundane notebook marking scene.
6. Boxing definitely wasn’t as productive as it should have been tonight when MBC decided to call up Snickers during training. We kind of have this “no-cell phones while training” rule, or at least Junior Mint imposes that on many of us, and so I repeatedly told Snickers to end his conversation. He didn’t seem so impressed so he packed up his stuff and headed out the door sulking. Snickers is just as stubborn and set in his way of thinking as I am and so I followed behind him, knowing full well that if one of us didn’t break then we’d continue to butt heads and get no where fast.
7. I know me not being fluent in Korea means that Snickers has become somewhat of a representative/manager for me with the media but I hate how they always call him first instead of me. I can do phone interviews and I have done phone interviews. The last phone interview I did lasted about forty minutes and okay, it left me feeling somewhat brain dead, but I respected the fact that they came straight to me. MBC has been ringing Snickers’ cell phone off the hook and it’s like they’re making one long phone call when they do call, instead, they make about five phone calls to follow up with questions or whatnot from the previous phone call.
8. Snickers and I may be as stubborn as mules and sulk like children but we’re puddy in each others’ hands and it doesn’t take much to crack a smile on the others’ face. Snickers may have left the boxing club in a sour puss mood but by the time we hit the second light on our walk home, our fighting went from us arguing to me literally fighting him off my face… hahaha. I swear he was trying to drown me in kisses… hahaha.
9. I’ve been trying to be more productive with my time lately and so I’ve been super anal with my schedule these days, writing down a million and one things to do. From responding to particular emails to training, I’ve been writing down everything in my agenda.
2. My first class of the day consists of 40 students who sit crammed in a classroom that makes it all too easy for students to cheat and so I had Snickers assist me today with monitoring them during the exam.
3. Am convinced that if Snickers is added to any equation than you’re bound for fun. He stood at the back of my classroom and provided quite the authoritative influence but he continually made me crack my stern look by making faces at me. Of course the students couldn’t see what he was doing because he behind them all but they could see me facing them. I tried my hardest to bite the sides of my mouth in attempt to not smile but it was hard. Probably the hardest thing I’ve done all week… hahaha.
4. And on that note, I hope Snickers never grows up. I hope that when we’re old and crusty that he’ll still be the mental two year old he so often acts like… hahaha.
5. Spent part of my afternoon marking student notebooks. Discovering random “I love you Professor Amy” and “Please punch me Amy” written in student books will never score them extra marks but it definitely added a much needed smile to the mundane notebook marking scene.
6. Boxing definitely wasn’t as productive as it should have been tonight when MBC decided to call up Snickers during training. We kind of have this “no-cell phones while training” rule, or at least Junior Mint imposes that on many of us, and so I repeatedly told Snickers to end his conversation. He didn’t seem so impressed so he packed up his stuff and headed out the door sulking. Snickers is just as stubborn and set in his way of thinking as I am and so I followed behind him, knowing full well that if one of us didn’t break then we’d continue to butt heads and get no where fast.
7. I know me not being fluent in Korea means that Snickers has become somewhat of a representative/manager for me with the media but I hate how they always call him first instead of me. I can do phone interviews and I have done phone interviews. The last phone interview I did lasted about forty minutes and okay, it left me feeling somewhat brain dead, but I respected the fact that they came straight to me. MBC has been ringing Snickers’ cell phone off the hook and it’s like they’re making one long phone call when they do call, instead, they make about five phone calls to follow up with questions or whatnot from the previous phone call.
8. Snickers and I may be as stubborn as mules and sulk like children but we’re puddy in each others’ hands and it doesn’t take much to crack a smile on the others’ face. Snickers may have left the boxing club in a sour puss mood but by the time we hit the second light on our walk home, our fighting went from us arguing to me literally fighting him off my face… hahaha. I swear he was trying to drown me in kisses… hahaha.
9. I’ve been trying to be more productive with my time lately and so I’ve been super anal with my schedule these days, writing down a million and one things to do. From responding to particular emails to training, I’ve been writing down everything in my agenda.
10. One thing I didn’t get done today was responding to an email sent to me by the IFBA President (IFBA as in the International Female Boxers Association). I emailed her the other day to apologize for not staying in contact with her and to express my thoughts about the unfairness of Lisa Brown’s fight on October 15th. She emailed me back asking me to help “getting the position the the IFBA in fighting for fair judging and sportsmanship out to the appropriate media sources in Korea” but I’m not too sure on how to go about that, not to mention I don’t want to tarnish my own name or those associated with me here in Korean boxing. I do want to help, honestly I do. I just don’t know how though. Korean boxing is very bias, I know that, but I’ve made quite a name for myself here in it and I no longer have to compete with the “home advantage” other foreigners do when they come here to compete because now I am the home girl here.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you suggest?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
-- Bill Vaughan
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, October 20
1. Today was the first day off since my days off in the summer that I had absolutely no school work to do…. no quizzes waiting to be marked, no tests to make, no notebooks to mark, and, most importantly, no Power Point lecture files to create.
2. So what did I do with all my time today, you ask. I slept most of the day away. That is, I slept a good chunk of it away after I returned from early morning weight training.
3. Yesterday I decided to sit down and fill out a job application for a local university that’s hiring for March. I’m still contemplating what I’m doing next year and whether or not I want to renew my contract at Dankook, but I thought about seeking out my other options.
4. Apparently Snickers took it upon himself to mail out my application when he discovered my addressed packed envelop sitting on the table yesterday. I hadn’t finished filling it up with all required contents and I noticed it missing today. I thought I had simply misplaced it.
5. That university called me today. Turns out not only did Snickers mail it but he had it mailed with rush delivery.
6. University interview was officially set for this upcoming Wednesday at 3:30pm.
7. Definitely got my beauty sleep today and then I definitely got the beats when I showed up at boxing. Junior Mint wasn’t there to give me his usual “hard-lesson-beatings” but I got them just the same from Panty Boy Jr. and Motor Cross.
8. Got word that Milk Dud lost his fight. Actually, as it turns out, Junior Mint threw in the white towel during the fight. Not too sure what all went down but I definitely want to hear this story once these two return.
9. Ended my evening on a very sad note. Today K-Gere called up Snickers to discuss Grandpa-K’s future, and lack there of it in their eyes. Grandpa-K isn’t doing well at all, to say the very least, and so K-Gere phoned to tell us that he’s been given 10 days to live. Snickers is very close with his grandfather and up until recently, his grandfather has never missed one of Snickers’ fights. Surprisingly enough, Snickers seem to take the news well but I was left sitting in tears. I only had my Baba (it means grandmother in Polish). She died when I was 13 and then my so-called adopted grandmother, Grandma Burge, died a couple of years later. Now I have no grandparents but I always envied my friends for having them. Grandpa-K is a pretty cool grandfather and I had kind of adopted him as my own.
10. Within a matter of literally minutes, Grandpa-K’s 10 days got pushed down to one day. Snickers and K-Gere have decided to take Grandpa-K off his life support machine, out of the hospital and take him back to his home in the country. K-Gere’s conversation with Snickers was brief because he then had to call the rest of the family and arrange for them to come to Grandpa-K and Granny-K’s house tomorrow. I was shocked when I heard the news but agreed that it was for the best. Grandpa-K has been in the hospital now living off a machine and considering the he’s away from his wife and family, and he’s only allowed an hour and a half total a day for his visitors, he’s really not living much of a life. I rather have one good day with my close friends and family than a couple of weeks waiting for the time to tick by and only being allowed a “tease” visit from those whom I love. Tomorrow we’re all expecting it to be Grandpa-K’s one good day and his last day of life.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's so good in saying good-bye?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Grandfathers are just antique little boys.
-- Author Unknown
2. So what did I do with all my time today, you ask. I slept most of the day away. That is, I slept a good chunk of it away after I returned from early morning weight training.
3. Yesterday I decided to sit down and fill out a job application for a local university that’s hiring for March. I’m still contemplating what I’m doing next year and whether or not I want to renew my contract at Dankook, but I thought about seeking out my other options.
4. Apparently Snickers took it upon himself to mail out my application when he discovered my addressed packed envelop sitting on the table yesterday. I hadn’t finished filling it up with all required contents and I noticed it missing today. I thought I had simply misplaced it.
5. That university called me today. Turns out not only did Snickers mail it but he had it mailed with rush delivery.
6. University interview was officially set for this upcoming Wednesday at 3:30pm.
7. Definitely got my beauty sleep today and then I definitely got the beats when I showed up at boxing. Junior Mint wasn’t there to give me his usual “hard-lesson-beatings” but I got them just the same from Panty Boy Jr. and Motor Cross.
8. Got word that Milk Dud lost his fight. Actually, as it turns out, Junior Mint threw in the white towel during the fight. Not too sure what all went down but I definitely want to hear this story once these two return.
9. Ended my evening on a very sad note. Today K-Gere called up Snickers to discuss Grandpa-K’s future, and lack there of it in their eyes. Grandpa-K isn’t doing well at all, to say the very least, and so K-Gere phoned to tell us that he’s been given 10 days to live. Snickers is very close with his grandfather and up until recently, his grandfather has never missed one of Snickers’ fights. Surprisingly enough, Snickers seem to take the news well but I was left sitting in tears. I only had my Baba (it means grandmother in Polish). She died when I was 13 and then my so-called adopted grandmother, Grandma Burge, died a couple of years later. Now I have no grandparents but I always envied my friends for having them. Grandpa-K is a pretty cool grandfather and I had kind of adopted him as my own.
10. Within a matter of literally minutes, Grandpa-K’s 10 days got pushed down to one day. Snickers and K-Gere have decided to take Grandpa-K off his life support machine, out of the hospital and take him back to his home in the country. K-Gere’s conversation with Snickers was brief because he then had to call the rest of the family and arrange for them to come to Grandpa-K and Granny-K’s house tomorrow. I was shocked when I heard the news but agreed that it was for the best. Grandpa-K has been in the hospital now living off a machine and considering the he’s away from his wife and family, and he’s only allowed an hour and a half total a day for his visitors, he’s really not living much of a life. I rather have one good day with my close friends and family than a couple of weeks waiting for the time to tick by and only being allowed a “tease” visit from those whom I love. Tomorrow we’re all expecting it to be Grandpa-K’s one good day and his last day of life.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's so good in saying good-bye?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Grandfathers are just antique little boys.
-- Author Unknown
Monday, October 19, 2009
Even when I was a little kid, I never liked pop. I use to open it up, leave it on the counter and then drink it a day later when it was flat. Now days the closest I get to drinking pop is wearing Pepsi lip balm that Mama Bere sent me.
What's left of what was a massive pile of tangerines tonight. And yes, that is a gun you see. It's a pellet gun that I use to play with but tonight it served to protect the tangerines from Snickers. And yes, I have used in on Snickers. I think I've shot him a total of three times in the bum, and yes, it does hurt... hahaha. Highlights of my Day... Monday, October 19
1. Day one of midterm exams and the first and only exam I had to give today was to my speaking class. I was doing one-on-one 5-question interviews and had anticipated it taking two hours. An hour later and I was finished… sweeeeeeeeeeet!
2. With the arrival of my new hair color and me looking like quite the foreign girl, I definitely stick out now in a crowd. I originally dyed my hair dark as a result of one too many Russian-prostitute references and so my dark hair became a kind of security blanket for me in that it kind of confused people and, at first glance, people mistook me often as being Korean.
3. But now that I have my light hair back, people have once again started to make random comments to me. And it’s not people I know either, it’s random people on random streets making random remarks to me. Little kids say hi to me and randomly wave to me when I pass them in the street, high school boys blurt out “pretty girl”, and the old man seem to think it’s okay to give me the twice-over and act strange to me.
4. Was asked “Where are you from?” by an older man who had so clearly given me the obvious double-look while I waited for the light to change. I replied by telling him to guess and he responded with saying I was from Russia. have nothing against Russia or Russian people but I knew what he was implying and we ten or so other Koreans listening in on the situation, I definitely felt like I was in the hot seat. But what got me the most was my response to him. Without even thinking I opened my mouth and out came “Go back to school you ugly, perverted monkey” in Korean.
5. My apologies to the monkeys in this world. I do love my monkeys and I would have called him an ugly boar if I knew how to say that in Korean… hahaha.
6. Junior Mint is away at the big amateur tournament this week and so that means Milk Dud is away too because he’s got a fight. So with both Junior Mint and Milk Dud away from the club, this means that Panty Boy Jr. is running the club. I would have been left to manage it but I couldn’t on account that I have a job I have to go to, crazy concept, I know.
7. Snickers joined me for training at boxing tonight and so that was super distracting. He’s all about teasing me when I’m skipping and so I tried to eliminate him as a distraction by wearing my iPod and cranking the volume up.
8. With Junior Mint out of the club, this means that rules will be tested and rules will be broken, temporarily that is. Me wearing my iPod is definitely a no-no and Snickers answering his cellphone was another no-no.
9. On the way back to Guum Ggum, Snickers bought us some tangerines… a LOT of tangerines! We were going to give one bag of tangerines to the Building Tool that lives next door but considering that family of three cries and yells at each other every single day, we figured the tangerines would only work as weapons in that house. I’m sure they’d probably just end up throwing them at each other so instead Snickers ate a bunch of them… too many of them. Word of the wise, just because something is a fruit doesn’t mean it doesn’t have sugar in them. Fruit has natural sugar in them and eating over ten of them around 11pm is never a good idea. Too much of a good thing IS a bad thing.
10. Took an evening nap and then woke up to watch “The Biggest Loser”. Dang… I’m addicted to that show. Snickers yelled at Kai on the show while I rooted on Erik. I hope Erik wins the show because he’s been the only one that hasn’t got nasty or has been two-faced. Erik and Marty were my favorite but Marty is off the show now. He got voted off last week but wow, it was awesome to see his follow-up profile. He’s lost so much weight and is quite the looker now. Good for him!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What good thing have you turned bad?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease.
-- V.L. Allineare
2. With the arrival of my new hair color and me looking like quite the foreign girl, I definitely stick out now in a crowd. I originally dyed my hair dark as a result of one too many Russian-prostitute references and so my dark hair became a kind of security blanket for me in that it kind of confused people and, at first glance, people mistook me often as being Korean.
3. But now that I have my light hair back, people have once again started to make random comments to me. And it’s not people I know either, it’s random people on random streets making random remarks to me. Little kids say hi to me and randomly wave to me when I pass them in the street, high school boys blurt out “pretty girl”, and the old man seem to think it’s okay to give me the twice-over and act strange to me.
4. Was asked “Where are you from?” by an older man who had so clearly given me the obvious double-look while I waited for the light to change. I replied by telling him to guess and he responded with saying I was from Russia. have nothing against Russia or Russian people but I knew what he was implying and we ten or so other Koreans listening in on the situation, I definitely felt like I was in the hot seat. But what got me the most was my response to him. Without even thinking I opened my mouth and out came “Go back to school you ugly, perverted monkey” in Korean.
5. My apologies to the monkeys in this world. I do love my monkeys and I would have called him an ugly boar if I knew how to say that in Korean… hahaha.
6. Junior Mint is away at the big amateur tournament this week and so that means Milk Dud is away too because he’s got a fight. So with both Junior Mint and Milk Dud away from the club, this means that Panty Boy Jr. is running the club. I would have been left to manage it but I couldn’t on account that I have a job I have to go to, crazy concept, I know.
7. Snickers joined me for training at boxing tonight and so that was super distracting. He’s all about teasing me when I’m skipping and so I tried to eliminate him as a distraction by wearing my iPod and cranking the volume up.
8. With Junior Mint out of the club, this means that rules will be tested and rules will be broken, temporarily that is. Me wearing my iPod is definitely a no-no and Snickers answering his cellphone was another no-no.
9. On the way back to Guum Ggum, Snickers bought us some tangerines… a LOT of tangerines! We were going to give one bag of tangerines to the Building Tool that lives next door but considering that family of three cries and yells at each other every single day, we figured the tangerines would only work as weapons in that house. I’m sure they’d probably just end up throwing them at each other so instead Snickers ate a bunch of them… too many of them. Word of the wise, just because something is a fruit doesn’t mean it doesn’t have sugar in them. Fruit has natural sugar in them and eating over ten of them around 11pm is never a good idea. Too much of a good thing IS a bad thing.
10. Took an evening nap and then woke up to watch “The Biggest Loser”. Dang… I’m addicted to that show. Snickers yelled at Kai on the show while I rooted on Erik. I hope Erik wins the show because he’s been the only one that hasn’t got nasty or has been two-faced. Erik and Marty were my favorite but Marty is off the show now. He got voted off last week but wow, it was awesome to see his follow-up profile. He’s lost so much weight and is quite the looker now. Good for him!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What good thing have you turned bad?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease.
-- V.L. Allineare
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Sunday, October 18
1. Day two of Snickers working at the wedding hall today and I already can’t stand his job. It’s not what he’s doing for work that bothers me, instead, it’s the fact that he’s at the top of his game (boxing) and yet he continually doesn’t get the due credit. He’s been struggling lately because he has no sponsor and so it’s frustrating to me having to see this. I have two Korean friends who are professional athletes outside of the sport of boxing and they’ve landed wicked sponsors. Pro Star is a professional golfer whom I’m yet to even see on TV and yet he’s sponsored by Puma. Another one of his sponsors dished out $70,000 towards his imported new BMW, his BMW that they got to replace the old one he just got last year. And okay, good for Pro Star, I’m proud that he’s so successful with what he does and I’m glad that he’s tapped into some super sweet sponsors but I really wish the same could come true for Snickers, obviously.
2. The other day The Miracle Worker (my new much-loved hair designer) called to ask Snickers about my hair. Today he called again to remind me that he’ll be traveling to my home next weekend to do my hair again… sweet!
3. Did some downtown shopping with Kitty Cat and got to check out MAC Cosmetics. I’ve been anticipating the arrival of MAC’s new line, called DSquared2. I was particularly interested in snagging myself the new “DSquared2 Lip Erase” but was told that MAC’s new DSquared2 line wouldn’t reach international stores until November. Turns out they were wrong and, as luck would have it, turns out the new DSquared2 Lip Erase is sold out at the Galleria. Booo for that!!!
4. Instead of snagging myself the much anticipated for new MAC DSquared2 Lip Erase, I snagged myself some spicy sausages to add in the pizza I was planning to surprise Snickers with. Apparently I’m turning into quite the housewife and, quite frankly, it’s kind of freaking me out.
5. I made cow-zones, which is pretty much a folded pizza, but for it I had to steam broccoli, steam sweet potatoes, bake mushrooms, and then there was the joy of trying to make my own pasta sauce instead of using the one I bought today because I thought it’d make my pizza more delicious. And to think, when I lived in Toronto I use to pay a woman to cook for me.
6. Snickers and I headed out to the movies tonight and checked out the new Bruce Willis movie. I like Bruce Willis but he’s so type-casted.
7. This week it’s midterm exam week at Dankook, which meant I finally got a Sunday off of having to make a Power Point lecture file… sweet.
8. Called the Polish Paradise in Canada, the Polish Paradise as in being the residence of my parents. Mama Bere isn’t doing well, not well at all. She’s lost an insane amount of weight and is back in the hospital due to an unexpected surgery wound infection.
9. Papa Bere thinks it’s best I hold off on visiting Canada this Christmas on account that Mama Bere really needs her peace and quiet at the house. Holding off and waiting till next Summer to see my friends and family would mean it’d be two years since I saw them all.
10. It’s one thing that I don’t visit Canada often but it’s another thing being told that I can’t go. I understand Papa Bere’s reasoning and totally agree with him but by next summer I plan to be married and was really hoping he’d meet Snickers before that. My parents are going to adore Snickers, that I know of, but I always seem to jump the steps of things and so for once it’d be nice to follow the routine of things: meet the parents, have the wedding, and then be officially engaged. As it stands right now, it looks like we’ll be officially married, then we’ll meet the parents, and then we’ll have the wedding party.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Can you ever come back to a specific point?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
--Tenneva Jordan
2. The other day The Miracle Worker (my new much-loved hair designer) called to ask Snickers about my hair. Today he called again to remind me that he’ll be traveling to my home next weekend to do my hair again… sweet!
3. Did some downtown shopping with Kitty Cat and got to check out MAC Cosmetics. I’ve been anticipating the arrival of MAC’s new line, called DSquared2. I was particularly interested in snagging myself the new “DSquared2 Lip Erase” but was told that MAC’s new DSquared2 line wouldn’t reach international stores until November. Turns out they were wrong and, as luck would have it, turns out the new DSquared2 Lip Erase is sold out at the Galleria. Booo for that!!!
4. Instead of snagging myself the much anticipated for new MAC DSquared2 Lip Erase, I snagged myself some spicy sausages to add in the pizza I was planning to surprise Snickers with. Apparently I’m turning into quite the housewife and, quite frankly, it’s kind of freaking me out.
5. I made cow-zones, which is pretty much a folded pizza, but for it I had to steam broccoli, steam sweet potatoes, bake mushrooms, and then there was the joy of trying to make my own pasta sauce instead of using the one I bought today because I thought it’d make my pizza more delicious. And to think, when I lived in Toronto I use to pay a woman to cook for me.
6. Snickers and I headed out to the movies tonight and checked out the new Bruce Willis movie. I like Bruce Willis but he’s so type-casted.
7. This week it’s midterm exam week at Dankook, which meant I finally got a Sunday off of having to make a Power Point lecture file… sweet.
8. Called the Polish Paradise in Canada, the Polish Paradise as in being the residence of my parents. Mama Bere isn’t doing well, not well at all. She’s lost an insane amount of weight and is back in the hospital due to an unexpected surgery wound infection.
9. Papa Bere thinks it’s best I hold off on visiting Canada this Christmas on account that Mama Bere really needs her peace and quiet at the house. Holding off and waiting till next Summer to see my friends and family would mean it’d be two years since I saw them all.
10. It’s one thing that I don’t visit Canada often but it’s another thing being told that I can’t go. I understand Papa Bere’s reasoning and totally agree with him but by next summer I plan to be married and was really hoping he’d meet Snickers before that. My parents are going to adore Snickers, that I know of, but I always seem to jump the steps of things and so for once it’d be nice to follow the routine of things: meet the parents, have the wedding, and then be officially engaged. As it stands right now, it looks like we’ll be officially married, then we’ll meet the parents, and then we’ll have the wedding party.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Can you ever come back to a specific point?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
--Tenneva Jordan
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Highlights of my Day... Saturday, October 17
1. In Snickers’ attempt to get a sponsorship from a local wedding hall, today he went and worked for the wedding hall. Not sure how that works and I’m not sure how having their name printed on his game robe before getting a sponsorship works either but he returned to Guum Ggum super proud. He absolutely glowed with pride when he walked in the door and so, despite my own comments that I wanted to share, I held back and shared the moment with him.
2. Did a double workout session today at Hongik, working on my legs, back and chest.
3. Working out later in the morning worked as a reminder to me why 6am training isn’t so bad. After all, 6am weight training at Hongik means not having to wait around for chatting ajjumas (older women) who lounge on the equipment to get off it so that I can train. And yes, getting recognized for my feature article in the newspaper by two ajjumas at Hongik doesn’t mean I find those lounging ajjumas any less annoying.
4. Headed out for dinner with my beautiful man. We had cheese tak galibi (chicken) and it was delish… not as delish as Snickers though ;)
5. I find it rather funny how much of a typical Korean boyfriend Snickers can be at times. Today’s totally typical Korean boyfriend move he made was when he ordered soju at the restaurant. I don’t drink and Snickers drinks once in a very blue moon. Tonight it was apparently a very blue moon. I poured him some soju and then motioned for him to pour me a shot. He reacted with a surprised look and so I asked him when he didn’t pour me some. “You’re not allowed to drink” he responded with. “Says who?” I asked. “Me.”
6. You know who shouldn’t have drank tonight was this no-named strange old man Snickers and I ran into tonight… yikes. We were simply walking by the waterway when I noticed a man on the other side of the path staggering.
7. Call us lame but out entertainment for the next little bit became that old man. He had taken a couple of bad spills into neighboring bushes along the waterway path and so we both agreed that we should help him. Us trying to help him consisted of us trying to call his home with his cell phone and trying to get him into a taxi. We had no such luck though and all that became of our efforts was finding out the man was 60 and definitely too drunk to do anything. His eyes continually rolled back into his head whenever we tried to talk to him.
8. … so we called the cops on him. How ironic I thought, Snickers calling the cops. His friends will get a good giggle over this one if they catch word of this story… hahaha.
9. I played up the whole scene by grasping Snickers’ arm and yelling out “You’re my hero! Save me too… hahaha”
10. I guess me egging him on didn’t help and so with me by his side and “brave juice” (aka the soju) flowing through his veins, Snickers was feeling quite brave tonight. Next heroic thing on his list to do tonight involved him marching into the annoying guitar-playing bar next door and telling them to turn off their flashy sign that beams into my bedroom window. I stood outside, not thinking he was serious about what he was doing, but next thing I knew it he and four people running the bar came out the front door with him. They all stood around looking up at the sign. They looked, they talked, and then they promised to turn it off around 11 or midnight.
QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What gives you an extra kick of courage?
QUOTE OF THE DAY…
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-- Winston Churchill
2. Did a double workout session today at Hongik, working on my legs, back and chest.
3. Working out later in the morning worked as a reminder to me why 6am training isn’t so bad. After all, 6am weight training at Hongik means not having to wait around for chatting ajjumas (older women) who lounge on the equipment to get off it so that I can train. And yes, getting recognized for my feature article in the newspaper by two ajjumas at Hongik doesn’t mean I find those lounging ajjumas any less annoying.
4. Headed out for dinner with my beautiful man. We had cheese tak galibi (chicken) and it was delish… not as delish as Snickers though ;)
5. I find it rather funny how much of a typical Korean boyfriend Snickers can be at times. Today’s totally typical Korean boyfriend move he made was when he ordered soju at the restaurant. I don’t drink and Snickers drinks once in a very blue moon. Tonight it was apparently a very blue moon. I poured him some soju and then motioned for him to pour me a shot. He reacted with a surprised look and so I asked him when he didn’t pour me some. “You’re not allowed to drink” he responded with. “Says who?” I asked. “Me.”
6. You know who shouldn’t have drank tonight was this no-named strange old man Snickers and I ran into tonight… yikes. We were simply walking by the waterway when I noticed a man on the other side of the path staggering.
7. Call us lame but out entertainment for the next little bit became that old man. He had taken a couple of bad spills into neighboring bushes along the waterway path and so we both agreed that we should help him. Us trying to help him consisted of us trying to call his home with his cell phone and trying to get him into a taxi. We had no such luck though and all that became of our efforts was finding out the man was 60 and definitely too drunk to do anything. His eyes continually rolled back into his head whenever we tried to talk to him.
8. … so we called the cops on him. How ironic I thought, Snickers calling the cops. His friends will get a good giggle over this one if they catch word of this story… hahaha.
9. I played up the whole scene by grasping Snickers’ arm and yelling out “You’re my hero! Save me too… hahaha”
10. I guess me egging him on didn’t help and so with me by his side and “brave juice” (aka the soju) flowing through his veins, Snickers was feeling quite brave tonight. Next heroic thing on his list to do tonight involved him marching into the annoying guitar-playing bar next door and telling them to turn off their flashy sign that beams into my bedroom window. I stood outside, not thinking he was serious about what he was doing, but next thing I knew it he and four people running the bar came out the front door with him. They all stood around looking up at the sign. They looked, they talked, and then they promised to turn it off around 11 or midnight.
QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What gives you an extra kick of courage?
QUOTE OF THE DAY…
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-- Winston Churchill
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