1. We’ve got the ‘purple nurple’, ‘double chop’, ‘knuckle punch’, ‘leg pin’, and a few other moves but today Snickers introduced me to another move, the ‘trick chop’. I thought he was going in for a rough but romantic kiss when he firmly grabbed me by the back of the neck but I learnt quickly that I was wrong. No sooner had he grabbed the back of my neck but then he took his other hand and gave a quick chop to the front of my neck. It hurt but I laughed… and why is that?! Moreover, why the heck do we think this is so hilarious?!
2. Strapped for cash?! Strapped for cash AND hungry… no problem. Visit your local Lotte Mart, seriously! Snickers and I went there today to do some grocery shopping and ended up leaving feeling somewhat stuffed. They bombarded us with samples galore and oh boy, talk about testing your temptation levels!!!
3. My one-veggie-addiction for the last week and a bit has been mushrooms. Stir fried mushrooms with a bit of a mixed soya-sauce paste is delish. As for protein, I’ve been sticking to mainly eggs. My tuna makes the house too stinky and I can’t seem to find tuna packed in water and I keep on forgetting about packs of chicken at the back of the fridge, so eggs it is.
4. Today I ate 15 eggs.
5. As for Snickers and what he eats, I’ve been really trying hard to encourage him to pick better food choices. He’s all about his rice which is loaded with carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are good and are needed but when you eat a small country’s worth of rice in one sitting and the only kind of side dish is kim (dried seaweed) and pickled garlic, that’s hardly nutritious. I tried to load up on healthy choices at Lotte Mart but he’s just so stubborn.
6. Snickers is on standby for a fight in April, and his fight is scheduled for a 61kg weigh-in, meaning that he’s got about a month to lose 13kgs (28.6lbs). But at the rate he’s going with his “I-gotta-have-my-rice” mentality, it’s going to be a tough one. Training extra hard isn’t going to do it. Sure training is very important but diet is more important. Training is only 10% of the equation. Another 10% is genetics but 80% of it is diet. Diet IS key!!!
7. And as for my diet and my weight, I’ve incorporated weight training back into my daily routine but it’s upped my weight. I’m smaller, stronger and healthier, but I am also heavier. The number on the scale is irrelevant but when you’re in a sport like mine where the scale determines whether or not you can compete, it is important. Today I weighed in at 53.8kgs. I’ve put on almost 2kgs of muscle in the past month… sweet!!!
8. Despite my “I-don’t-like-new-people” mentality, I did manage to get out to the Cheonan Language Xchange meeting. I only went because Snickers told me to. I anticipated running into numerous Koreans who wouldn’t want to speak Korean to me but would instead be all about English. But considering yesterday’s first meeting with Goldilocks was certainly a success, I thought I’d play the odds again and head out to the meeting. After I said my introduction to the group in Korean, I knew my Korean level had smoked the other foreigners who had come out. The Koreans outnumbered the foreigners but so did the amount of English being spoken compared to Korean. I could have been more aggressive and I suppose I should have spoken up more but my hopes with improving my Korean at this meeting crashed and burned.
9. I had gone to boxing early so that I could come to this meeting. Snickers knows me… knows me too well in fact because he knew to only give me forty minutes before I’d need him to save me from this meeting. “Change your mind, change your life” is what he told me. I don’t feel I fit this group because unlike the other foreigners who are fresh off the plane, I’ve been here in Korea a long time so many things aren’t so fresh anymore. I was once in their shoes, so I can totally understand them just starting out with the language and whatnot, but I’m not there anymore. I JUST WANT TO SPEAK KOREAN. I don’t want to speak English and I definitely don’t want to teach English for free. I don’t have any bad feelings towards the group but I didn’t join the group for any other reason but to improve my Korean. I’m trying to “change my mind”, like Snickers said, but it’s hard.
10. Snickers had a good laugh at me and all jokes were on me tonight when later in the evening I got notice that I was just made the co-organizer of the language exchange group. So, as it stands, I am now apparently the weekend organizer. This should be interesting.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do you know what a 'jersey-move' is?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Change your mind, change your life.
-- Snickers
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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