Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, March 31

1. Trying to get creative with what feels like endless days has been tough because of the weather. Going outside to do weight training at the park, playing badminton, scooter adventures, “senior citizen” walks around downtown, and any other outdoor ideas were ditched because of the bad weather. Today it was ran that rained on our parade.

2. Turned Ggum Guum into a karaoke room and somehow convinced Snickers to sing “Tears in Heaven” by Eric Clapton with me.

3. It’s a miracle, Snickers finally cracked open the English textbook and asked if I would study with him today. Today’s lesson was on eating – eating at home, table manners, and so on. Gotta give it to Snickers for being a good sport about me laughing at his poor pronunciation. He saying “I’m full” came out as “I’m fool” and I laughed so hard.

4. Not having my F2 visa yet killed a commercial opportunity I got offered today and may very well have killed a movie extra part too.

5. Discovered sweetener today – was quite happy with that! It’s called ‘Fine Sweet’.

6. Damn Daejon… seriously!!! One of my boxing sponsors so generously offered to buy me two plane tickets so that Snickers and I could fly off to Japan for Black Skinny’s fight on Saturday, but I can’t go. I can’t go because of Daejon taking it’s sweet time with my F2 visa!!! It’s one thing that I can’t legally work in this country because of having to wait but it’s another thing that I’m also trapped here for the time being. My old visa expired and because my F2 visa has yet to be processed, I have no visa. So, if I were to even attempt to cross the Korean border, there definitely would be a lot of questions asked, frowns thrown my way, and immigration officers pointing their fingers at me. It would certainly be a big scene.

7. Got to train with Black Skinny one more time before he heads out for his Japan fight. His Japanese opponent, Koji Sato, will be coming to the fight with quite an impressive ranking, as will Black Skinny, but he’ll have Japan’s ‘home advantage’ backing him up.

Koji Sato
OPBF Middleweight Champion
16 fights total: 15 wins (13 KO), 1 loss

Black Skinny
OPBF ranked #2 Middleweight
12 fights total: 11 wins (8 KO), 1 loss (= his Japan fight)

8. Tonight Black Skinny was super stressed at training, so I tried to break his tension by joking. Koreans are all about cheering each other on with their notorious “fighting!” words of encouragement but at UP Boxing Club, I’ve been quite successful with getting many of my teammates to replace “fighting” with “kill”… hahaha.

9. With tomorrow being April Fool’s Day, I tried to think of the perfect prank to pull on Snickers. He’s always trying to freak me out and scare me so I thought of using body paint and playing dead in the middle of the floor. Knowing me I’d probably start laughing, so that idea was a no-go. He prizes our scooter so I thought of moving it and then letting him believe that someone stole it. Mind ya, considering how loud that bad boy is when you start it up, I doubt I would get away with it. The only thing I thought would definitely get him would be telling him that I’m pregnant.

10. I was all set on fooling him into believing I was pregnant until I thought back on a TV show I once saw where they gave a friend a fake lottery ticket. Ya… as much as my simple prank would get him, I’m sure it’d upset him, not to mention he’d probably only take a couple of milliseconds to tell the world my news. Damage control would be uncontrollable.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What prank have you pulled on someone?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Laughter is by definition healthy.
-- Doris Lessing