1. Raced off to meet up with my language group today and showed up extra early, in addition to our meetings already being brutally early that is. Today’s conversation topic was Internet addiction. Learned that in 2002 a Korean student died from playing online gaming for 86 hours straight – that’s crazy!
2. Every time I have my language meeting I always end up having the same bus driver for the ride home. I always sit in one of the back corner seats, I always eat a piece of fruit, and I always have a yogurt. It marks meal 2 of 6 for me in the day. I think the bus driver has caught unto my daily routine because he always looks at my bag when I get on, as if to say he’s curiously wondering what fruit I’ll pull out of my bag today. This reminded me today of that episode on ‘Sex and the City’ when Carrie was called into jury duty and the guy beside her pulled out a new fruit everyday from his brief case. I should bring something silly tomorrow, like a full pineapple or some freakish foreign fruit that is unrecognizable or needs some kind of instructions on how to peel it open and eat it… hahaha.
3. I tell myself everyday that I’m not going to nap but I always end up napping. Today I napped from 10am to noon, woke up for meal 3 of 6, then fell asleep again, and then woke up for meal 4 of 6.
4. Ya, today was pretty unproductive.
5. I tried overdosing in caffeine by indulging in a couple of black coffees and hoping that it’d get me up and working, but it only served to make me overly hyper and in no way possible to sit still. Ended up cranking up the tunes on my computer and busting out some old skool dance moves... and some very questionable dance moves too… hahaha.
6. Snickers craves going to the bath house like a fat kid craves the candy shop, I’m convinced of it. I thought me jumping in on his shower yesterday and scrubbing his back as if I were trying to scrap the layers of skin off would kill his craving. I know it sure as heck would kill my craving of even leaving the house if he were to do the same. Regardless however, he said he wanted to go to the bath house tonight with a friend. I’ll never get why you’d ever want to be buck naked with your friend and purposely go with one so that they could scrub you down. I can’t even do a number two with Snickers in the house without yelling out “Don’t listen” and then singing some random silly song or humming. Bathroom deeds, whether that be the actual act of going to the bathroom or using the shower always make me feel vulnerable, I guess that’s why I hate public bathrooms with a passion.
7. While Snickers was off doing whatever it is that naked people in naked places do, I decided to go to Coffee Bean to sit and type yesterday’s homepage entry. Snickers is convinced that him working will make our time together more special but I’ve yet to really be able to spend time with him unless that is you count the weekend but even then he wants to go see family. I’m not buying into his logic and am starting to really regret him going off to work. He comes home sore and late from work, only to then race off to boxing where we spend about two hours fully immersed in our training and only exchanging the odd wink and smirk. By the time we return from boxing, shower and eat, it’s coming up to 10pm and usually by 10:30-11pm he’s too exhausted to stay awake. So basically, during the week the only real quality time I spend with him is in the morning car ride to my language meeting, a 15 minute drive that, given the earliness of the drive, I’m usually half asleep during.
8. If Canada were only but a long car ride away, I certainly would have willing walked that route tonight – I would have walked that route backwards, barefooted, buck naked, and in ten feet of freezing snow with no food in my belly and frostbite claiming another toe every so often. Boredom use to turn into clean-freak mode and make me excessively sleep but it’s changed. I can last a year without seeing friends and family but I’m creeping up to two years and it’s just way too long. Now days, boredom does two things to me, it either makes me eat when I’m not hungry or it makes me easily homesick. Today I got out of falling for number one by excessively drinking coffee and green tea, but I had no backup plan to deal with number two besides distracting myself with a visit to Coffee Bean.
9. Distraction only worked for so long and was broken by the giggling of a couple of foreigners whom had sat at the next table. What I wouldn’t give to have it be Homegirl or Italiano’s laughter breaking my silence. Today Italiano had text messaged me, he texts me quite frequently. I miss stirring up trouble with him. He’s pure rock star.
10. Leave it to Snickers to turn my frown upside down; he’s always guilty of having this super power over me. I blame it on his A.D.D-like manners, big heart, charming good looks and duck-bum.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who plays one of the leading roles in your life?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Not going home is already like death.
-- E. Catherine Tobler
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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