1. Anticipated plan for this weekend: Drive out to Costco, learn how to drive stick shift and master driving our scooter. I figure now that we have a car the least I could do is use it and abuse it, which means also learning how to drive it myself. Moreover, I bought the scooter a while back and have yet to drive it. Snickers is always driving it and, though it’s so much bigger than the scooters I use to drive, I figure it’s about time I got behind the wheel.
2. My mother use to joke and ask me if I was trying to grow potatoes in my ears, Snickers asks me the same thing. So, as gross as it sounds, Snickers now cleans my ears… hahaha. Too much information, so be it, at least it’s too much information from someone with clean ears… hahaha.
3. Visited Mama Kim’s house for a brief bit because K-Gere had asked us to pick up the twins (my two nephews) and bring them over to his house. Hyun Jun is my favorite of the two, though I am definitely warming up to his brother. You know how when you were little, you could always tell what little boy liked you based on whether he hit you or not? Well, apparently that child-like manner is international. Those two boys must really love me cause not only did I have a fake cell phone propelled towards my head but I they tried to repeatedly poke me in the back with a plastic sword… hahaha. No real injuries so no worries but I did play up the idea that I was hurt. Hyun Jun was quick to kiss my back with his ‘magic kisses’… hahaha.
4. Next on our list-to-do was Costco but before that we stopped by Kyobo Bookstore and grabbed a CD for the drive. Bought a CD called ‘Love Stories’. It consists of 5 CDs loaded with many old skool love song favorites from various artists and bands like The Corrs, and Mr. Big. I love old skool songs!!! Snickers just about had a heart attack when ‘Eternal Flame’ by the The Bangles started to play. As cheesy as I’m sure many people think this song is, when I was younger I use to think it was one of the most romantic songs. I was only nine when it hogged the number one spot on music charts but it wasn’t until I was in grade seven, some 3 years later, that I fell in love with this song. I had walked in at a school dance and it was playing. There were the boys on one side, the girls on the other, and a couple of teachers and parents mingling. And me with my more-than-healthy imagination that always seemed to work overtime, I had convinced myself that at my grade eight graduation dance that me and my crush would dance to this song. I never did end up dance to that song but I did get asked to graduation by none other than my crush, Evan, the only Asian kid I knew.
5. Arrived safe and sound at Costco in Daejon about two hours later. Traffic was brutal but I had turned the long car ride into a kind of karaoke trip, teaching Snickers some key lines to many of the songs. He may have very well mastered the first minute of ‘Eternal Flame’… hahaha.
6. Snickers has never been to Costco, let alone has ever heard of it, so he was like a kid in a candy store at the sight of crates of food stacked up to the ceiling. It was definitely sensory overload for him… hahaha.
7. We hadn’t really made a list of things we wanted to buy with the exception of oatmeal and protein powder shake. We scored with the oatmeal but the protein powder they had was definitely not worth shilling out so much for poor quality. We did, however, manage to pack our shopping cart full of stuff. I picked up some cheddar cheese for a former coworker and Texas chicken wings for another former coworker of mine. For my sister-in-law, we grabbed various things for her nursery school and then we got this massive apple pie that left me with a sore arm for carrying it… hahaha. Snickers went to town with buying a huge box of ramin and beef jerky while I stocked up on oatmeal, organic granola cereal with added flax seed and pumpkin seeds, seasoned chicken, and other things like frozen string green beans and frozen blueberries.
8. With a car packed with well over $200 worth of goodies, we made our way back to Cheonan. The plan was to drop off the groceries and then head over to Mama Kim’s house to indulge in the apple pie with Mama Kim, my two sister-in-laws, and the twins. Well, that was the plan. It got delayed though when we received a totally unexpected phone call just as we were pulling into Mama Kim’s apartment complex.
9. Immigration was waiting for us back at Ggum Guum. Returning home to an immigration officer standing outside my door at 9pm was definitely a surprise. We invited the officer in and then he started to ask us numerous questions. The interview only lasted about thirty minutes and it ended with him telling us that he expects my visa processing to be completed by this week, next week at the very latest. Awesome news!!!
10. After the interview, we jumped back into the car and headed over again to Mama Kim’s house where we were greeted by huge smiles when they saw the over sized apple pie we had got them. It was pure delish!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What song has stuck to you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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