1. As I mentioned just the other day, I get spooked easily, so when Snickers thought it funny to tell me a ghost story his sister once experienced, I didn’t like it. He’s always making these silly sounds to try to scare me and he often rolls his eyes all the way back so that only the whites are showing. Well, today I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to a nightmare.
2. In my nightmare a woman that looked like what I imagined a witch doctor would look like was kneeling beside my floor mat where I was sleeping. With her eyes all white and her hair all messy, she started to reach out for me. I then reached out for whatever was close to me, which in this case was a wooden ball full of Bali coffee that I had bought for Cat, and threw it in her direction. Of course there was no witch doctor woman in my room but I had in fact thrown the coffee at her. Thankfully I hadn’t killed the wooden ball of coffee but I did totally spook Snickers. He sprung up from the floor mat like a jack-in-the-box. Serves him right though for telling me scary stories.
3. So much for tight security at airports and their long lists of what you can and cannot take back home. I thought things like plants, insects and animals were at the top of the no-no list, apparently not as I discovered today. We had unpacked almost all our stuff except for a bag of wet clothes that Snickers had scooped up right before we had left. In it were our bathing suits and a towel… and lots of ants and a dead gecko.
4. Does getting married mean giving up holidays, to which I would answer “heck no!”, so I refuse to give up Valentine’s Day. Snickers, on the other hand, claims that because we’re now married that he doesn’t have to show his love on Valentine’s Day. “I married you, isn’t that enough?” he asked. Well, it just so happens that this particular Valentine’s Day falls on the same weekend as Seol Nal New Year and, now because I am married, I’ll be spending it at Granny Kim’s house out in the boonies.
5. After a little bit of talking and a whole lot of me batting my lashes, Snickers agreed to make a compromise and so now we’ll be celebrating both our culture’s holidays. Through in the fact that it’s also my dad’s birthday on Friday and ya, it’ll be a packed weekend. Initially Snickers wanted to go to Granny Kim’s house from Friday till Monday but I cringed at the thought of both having to slave away with the rest of the women and having to decide whether I’d not shower for a couple of days or risk baring all in a bathroom with windows and no curtains. Plan now is to call my dad on Friday, then go Saturday morning, return Sunday morning, and celebrate Valentine’s Day just the two of us, in Cheonan.
6. The switch from the hot temperatures and all-day swimming and whatnot activities of Bali to the chilly cold and blah days of Cheonan is bugging me. I slept most of the day today out of boredom and my days now solely consist of running and boxing.
7. Today I had coffee with Cat but even the caffeine didn’t really work to waken me up.
8. .. getting punched in the head at boxing did however.
9. Almost scored yet another dog. Today I ran into the same dirty dog three times and in three different locations. The third time I saw him I was with Snickers. We were dropping by a local store to pick up some milk when he decided to follow me, yet again. Turns out his an “easy change love dog”, as Snickers called him, and no sooner did we arrive home but I looked out my window and he had started to follow another person.
10. While Snickers and I were away on our honeymoon we had two of Snickers’ friends look after Mi Nam, and both complained about a particular lady and her two off-the-leash dogs that live nearby. It’s one thing to have your dog off it’s leash but it’s another thing when other dogs are around. Moreover, she’s always yelling at other dog walkers and blaming them for this and that. I let Mi Nam off his leash but then again I also take him out for walks around 2am, when no one is around. Anyways, this lady drives me bonkers but Snickers and I had quite the laugh tonight when we watched the dirty dog sniff out her dogs and she had absolutely no one to yell at.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who took that lady of her leash?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.
-- Sri Guru Granth Sahib
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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