1. If there’s anything set on my daily schedule it’d be “don’t put off for later what you can do now”, so on that note I got in my run during the morning. And it’s a good thing too because no sooner did I return and do my warm-down stretching out in the park but then it started to rain.
2. Meet up with Cherry Pie for lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant that I’ve been wanting to check out for some time now. I ordered the same very dish I use to back in the day when I use to visit this little hole-in-the-wall Vietanmese restaurant in Toronto after boxing. Tasted pretty much the same, minus the missing almonds that is and minus the fact that this place gave me twice the noodles – I’m not a fan of noodles.
3. Visits with Cherry Pie are never short of girl talk and never consist of just one activity. Today was no different. Lunch was followed by coffee and coffee was followed by running into a kind of so-called business partner of mine, being introduced to someone new, and being joined by Cherry Pie’s husband, Sweet Tart.
4. Spilled my beans about my near death experience last night on the scooter and Sweet Tart’s eyes just about popped out of his head when Cherry Pie turned to him and asked if he would buy her a scooter. Instead of him simply saying no, he gave her an ultimatum, a couple actually. “A scooter or a car …a car or a laptop computer …a laptop computer or a bicycle.” I laughed so hard at the fact that he went from offering to buy her a car to working his way down to a measly bicycle. “Don’t worry” I told her. “You can ride on the back of my scooter”, and with that Sweet Tart was stumped for words and was defeated.
5. Cherry Pie lives a life of luxury and leisure but Sweet Tart says this is making her lazy. She’s fairly small in size but says she wants to get leaner and Sweet Tart is always telling me to help her out and to “take care of her”. I think I’ve figured out an appropriate plan to get this anti-sports girl more active – a bicycle. I figure that if she had a bicycle she could ride beside me while I run. She could then lock up her bike and do a lap around the Dankook lake with me. “One lap is only 2.3kms” I told her. “Only?!” she said sarcastically.
6. Heard the funniest of Konglish words today and who should say it but Cherry Pie. “Hip burp” was the phrase she used in her conversation. At first I had no idea on what that meant. I know Koreans are always mistaking the bum for hip but “hip burp – bum burp”, that’s a new one. Turns out what she meant to say was “toot”… hahaha.
7. Upon arriving at boxing tonight, Snickers ran up the stairs and just as I was about to follow behind him someone pulled on the back of my sweater. It was Little Miss. I asked her why she was hiding in the bottom stairwell and she seemed uncomfortable answering that. From what I understood of what she said, she was afraid to go to boxing tonight because Junior Mint was mad at her. I didn’t get why he would be so mad as to scare her like this but she seemed really uncomfortable. “He gets mad at everyone, don’t worry. How about we train together tonight?” I asked her. She seemed to brighten up with my words but when I went to take her hand and go upstairs with her she stepped back. I didn’t really know what to say after that, so I told her that if she changed her mind that I would be upstairs waiting for her.
8. I stalled my training by twenty minutes, waiting for her. She never came. I did my usual training – skipping, shadow boxing, pad work, heavy bag, weight training, and abs – but she still never came up. It wasn’t until I went to the bathroom after training that the whole situation unfolded. I looked down the stairwell when I left the bathroom and she was still there, some two hours later. Again I tried to get her to come up but she refused. When I was taking off my boxing boots I overheard Motor Cross and Junior Mint talking; they were talking about Little Miss. Turns out what happened was Little Miss had run away. The city informed Motor Cross of this today and he had called Junior Mint, asking him if she had shown up at the club today. I motioned for Motor Cross to follow me out into the stairwell where I there whispered to him that Little Miss was only but three floors down from us. Motor Cross has become somewhat of a designated big brother for her now that the military has assigned him to work at where she’s staying, or was staying, so he’s been running around like a chicken with his head cut off today trying to track her down.
9. Panty Boy Jr. continues to disappear, in size that is, as he prepares for his fight and struggles to drop the required weight in time for his fight this weekend. He’s got less than four days to lose just a little over 3kgs.
10. As for the rest of my evening, well what little was left of it, I headed over to K-Gere’s house to feed Kimchi and Chumchi, I returned home to play with Mi Nam, and then it was an early lights out for me.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you do to stay in shape?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
-- Sidney J. Harris
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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