As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).

After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.

Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Highlights of my Day... Saturday, February 20

1. I think Snickers tried to get out of helping me with my nails by making me bleed as much as possible…. Ouch!!! Snickers insisted he help me with my manicure when it was clear that I had no idea on what I was doing. I’ve never done my nails before, partly because I’ve never really had nails before or cared about them but also because I’ve either paid someone to do them for me or Snickers had volunteered to do them. “Am I fired?” he asked me. “Would you rather some other guy sit half naked in our house and do them?” I joked, and with that he continued to do my nails… hahaha.

2. Booted around town on the back of Snickers and my scooter just for the sake of getting out of the house for a bit. Our drive around town lead us to Home Plus where we bought some bananas and ended up running into Mouse Doctor and another friend of Snickers whom I’ve never met before. “This is my girlfriend” he accidentally introduced me as. “Girlfriend?! … I guess that makes you my boyfriend then. Well, gotta go. My gorgeous husband is waiting for me” I joked. “I’m so sorry baby angel” and with that he batted his lashes and I was made victim yet again to his cuteness.

3. I was advised awhile back that by taking a birth control pill that I’d be able to regulate myself. I’ve been taking them for some time now but this medical mentality doesn’t seem to proving itself. Today we celebrated “Bloody Mary Day” and Snickers thought he’d celebrate it by hiding my birth control pills. “Hide them all you want, it still doesn’t change the fact that you score more bloody noses than I do Bloody Mary Days.” I told him. “But I’ve never got a bloody nose from boxing” he added. “Yes, you got one during a fight and two during sparring last year.” “But that’s only 3 times” he added. “Ok, but that’s one time more than me” I commented.

4. Snickers suggested we see some kind of fertility doctor about what’s going on (and what’s not going on) with my body but I’m so against the idea. I’ve mentioned before about how one of my closest friends in Canada who went through a similar situation and I don’t want to go through that too. I don’t see the point in putting up such a fight for something that I really don’t really want to fight for. Looking after myself and Snickers is all I care to sport on my plate and I’m not sure on when that will change or if that will change.

5. Met up with two of my friends (a Korean couple) who just returned from studying English in the States. We stayed in contact via Facebook but they really thought my change of status from “in a relationship” to “married” was a joke. It was great to catch up to date with each other and I was proud to tell them the story of Snickers and I. They loved our story in the paper.

6. With Snickers out of town I was home alone and bored. Amused myself trying to teach Mi Nam a new trick. It didn’t quite work but I definitely amused some passer-byers with the silly scene, great.

7. Jogging at 1am never spooks me, now those Korean street cats, dang, they spooked me tonight!!! If across from Sambu is “Pervert’s Park” and “Proposal Park” is beside The Galleria, then I’m not too sure on what to call the park across from my house. Tonight it apparently was the mating grounds for some very loud street cats. I hadn’t noticed the sound until I finished my jog and took off my earphones. Instantly my ears were flooded with the grotesg sound of some dirty kitties doing the dirty just steps from my house.

8. Is it me or is spring the season of pee problems for men in Korea?! I mean, only recently did I notice the flock of pee problem remedies that have been bombarding the TV waves. Don’t get me wrong, it must be rotten to have such a problem but that animated characture that proudly pees like a race horse follow by the animated diagram is not the last vision I want cross my sight before I go to sleep.

9. 여보 안녕… 여보 이천으로 가서 지금 천안에 너무 심심하지만 재밌게 보내세요… 내일 빨리 와!!! 보고싶어요. 여보 어리기 때문에 친구 나한태 에이미 는 능력자 라고 했어요… 나도 생각해요… ㅋㅋㅋ.

10. Was way too bored tonight… hence the strange writings and ramblings of this post.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why not?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song.
-- Jerry Van Armerongeon

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