1. Happy April Fool’s Day!!!
2. It rained again today, killing my chances of going out for a run.
3. Leave it Mi Nam to love running in the rain. Rain, wind, sun, you name it, nothing stops my little four-legged boy from enjoying a good run around the river and park.
4. The people have spoken so, consequently, the Guitar Bar has died! It was made official today when they posted up vacant signs on the front windows and one big moving truck blocked the road while they gutted the place. I watched. I watched to make sure it was true. I have to hand it to them though, it was a great idea in the beginning and on a late summer evening a romantic idea, but as time progressed on the bar’s concern about the neighbours digressed. What started off as a quiet little bar with live music tucked away on our street, got bigger and louder. Up went a massive sign that blared into our apartments and that they so often forgot to turn off. Open went all their door so that all could hear their music, and out came all the loud drunks that this place attracted.
5. With the Guitar Bar now gone, our concern is what’s next?!
6. Black Skinny and Junior Mint headed off to Japan early this morning, leaving Snickers and I in charge of the club until they return.
7. In celebration of April Fool’s Day, I tried to pull off a couple of pranks. My pranks certainly didn’t go as planned but people were definitely hit by them – literally too in one case.
8. I tried to do the whole bucket-of-water-on-the-door trick downstairs on my apartment building’s entrance door, thinking that Snickers would be returning any minute. Oh he returned alright but he returned after someone came in first. My apologies to the chicken delivery dude!!!
9. No sooner did the chicken delivery dude finish using every curse word in the book but then I swung open my door to set up another prank. I was sure I would get Snickers this time. I thought it funny to saran wrap the entrance door of our actual apartment but when the post office delivery man showed up unexpectedly I was made the fool. I’m sure he was saying “this white chick is a freak” to himself while he stood there watching me try to unwrap the doorway. I looked like I was some kind of freakish bubble girl.
10. My first two attempts at pulling off a prank failed miserably but I refused to let April Fool’s Day come and go without Snickers being hit by it. It was closing in on the evening, so I knew my time was limited. We were sitting around chatting when all of a sudden I blurted out “I’m pregnant”. His jaw dropped, eyes widened and he was speechless. I let him hang on those words for a minute or two and then added “Do you know what day it is in Canada?” I had told him the other day about April Fool’s Day and at the realization of this being a prank, he looked so disappointed. I felt terrible. The prank was definitely not worth it but he did say I had fooled him. “Do you really hate kids?” he asked me. “No, I don’t hate kids, I just prefer them to belong to anyone but me.”
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What prank did you pull today?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
-- Hugh Elliott
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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