1. Woke up at 7am, thought to myself “What the heck am I doing up so early?!”, so I went back to sleep.
2. Woke up at 10am, didn’t feel well, so I went back to sleep.
3. … same deal at 1pm.
4. Woke up at 3pm, figured it was about time I woke up, so I got out of bed.
5. Had to get the 4pm bus to make sure I would arrive early for my Fila commercial meeting with the director.
6. I was told the other day that today’s meeting would be just a sit-down chat with one of the two directors in charge of the Fila commercial, but I had a gut feeling that it’d be more than just that.
7. I was right.
8. Upon arriving, I was then driven to another location – a mixed martial arts gym with so many floor pads with all the fixings. The director was there, along with a couple of Korean gymnasts, two guys filming us, the model agent, and a couple other people. Two other foreigners were there with me, two guys. When the director turned to us, I knew it was show time. I so knew to expect the unexpected today, so I showed up dressed head to toe in Adidas training gear. As for show time, we didn’t exactly show them the show they were hoping for, and instead I gave them a little English lesson – we all did. They had asked us to ‘tumble’ but their ‘tumble’ and our ‘tumble’ were two different things. They wanted us to do handsprings. Our jaws dropped when one of the Korean gymnasts showed us the ‘tumbling’ they wanted. Their jaws didn’t exactly drop with our bad renditions of ‘tumbling’. We got ‘A’ for effort but ‘F’ for giving the Fila commercial a go. Fila commercial is a no-go. No worries, Adidas kicks Fila's butt anyway... hahaha.
9. After a two-hour bus travel to Seoul, a forty-minute meeting, waiting an hour for my train, and then a one hour train ride home, I arrived back in Cheonan exhausted and frustrated. Snickers was sweet enough to surprise me at the train station – that was definitely the silver-lining in my day.
10. Arrived home and it was lights out for me.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What does 'Fila' stand for?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
All day I dream about sparring... ADIDAS.
-- me
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.
1 comment:
oh bummer! Too bad about the Fila video!
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