Note the 26 year old big kid hogging the machine... hahaha.
That's right, my husband still loves his video games... hahaha.Sunday, February 28, 2010
Highlights of my Day... Sunday, February 28
1. Had anticipated traveling out to Seoul today to watch some amateur boxing matches but once I got word that Homeboy-C (Snickers’ now former coach) would be in attendance, I thought it best to leave the fighting to the amateur boxers instead. Stayed home and missed the bouts.
2. Sundays are my only day off for training but they are by no means boxing-free. Usually my Sunday mornings are marked with countless hours of watching boxing bouts on TV but with Snickers not yet back from Granny-Kim’s house, I slept the morning away.
3. I’ve been contemplating heading off to Japan for a month of training with Mr. Seiki, the coach of my Japan opponent. I really want to change up my training and am hoping to add pad work with Snickers into my weekly boxing routine.
4. May have scored a fight in Japan for Snickers in May. My Japan Promoter contacted me today and advised us to go there early and train at a local club so that when he’s introduced at the fight they’ll introduce him as a Korean boxer training in Japan.
5. K-Gere and Junior Mint had a serious talk on the phone regarding Snickers’ boxing and what Junior Mint plans to offer Snickers if he signs with him. Turns out what he’s offering is a fight on the first of May which apparently doesn’t work if Snickers accepts the fight in Japan. Regardless, I’m happy to note that it looks like Snickers will be signing with UP Boxing… awesome!!!
6. An overly-smiley and ecstatic Snickers bounced home today and came bearing gifts… an excessive amount of kisses and a hug that I swore was going to pop my head off and a chicken wrap! Delish!!!
7. Our boxing-free morning was substituted with a boxing-full afternoon. After Snickers proudly kicked butt at Play Station2 boxing, he then thought it funny to play wrestle with me. Mind ya, he caught me off guard and I ended up accidentally giving him a good jab to the mouth. Now to a regular couple this would be quite the case of domestic abuse but to a couple like Snickers and I, it’s kind of foreplay for us… hahaha.
8. The plan was to have a date night with Snickers tonight but the date was cut short because he apparently seemed to have some kind of flu bug. We refunded our movie tickets and back home we went. I loaded him up with blankets, cranked up the floor heat, and played “Doctor Amy” – I’m not down with being “Nurse Amy”… hahaha.
9. We laid on the floor chatting about his time at his grandmother’s house. Today his father and him were cleaning out the house of his grandfather’s stuff when his father, K-Gere, stumbled upon a book; it was a diary. It was a diary Grandpa-Kim had kept a secret and had written in it for about 5 years. In it he had drawn cute cartoon strips and random notes about his day. In it he had also hidden a note that he had written two years ago. The note was addressed to his children and upon discovering it, K-Gere “cried like a child”, Snickers told me.
10. One minute Snickers was super cold, the next minute he was sweating like a fat kid. I tried to keep his temperature down by continually blotting his face with a wet towel but it was the NyQuil that put him to rest. One dose of that and it was lights out for Snickers.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How will you be remembered?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
-- Farrah Gray
2. Sundays are my only day off for training but they are by no means boxing-free. Usually my Sunday mornings are marked with countless hours of watching boxing bouts on TV but with Snickers not yet back from Granny-Kim’s house, I slept the morning away.
3. I’ve been contemplating heading off to Japan for a month of training with Mr. Seiki, the coach of my Japan opponent. I really want to change up my training and am hoping to add pad work with Snickers into my weekly boxing routine.
4. May have scored a fight in Japan for Snickers in May. My Japan Promoter contacted me today and advised us to go there early and train at a local club so that when he’s introduced at the fight they’ll introduce him as a Korean boxer training in Japan.
5. K-Gere and Junior Mint had a serious talk on the phone regarding Snickers’ boxing and what Junior Mint plans to offer Snickers if he signs with him. Turns out what he’s offering is a fight on the first of May which apparently doesn’t work if Snickers accepts the fight in Japan. Regardless, I’m happy to note that it looks like Snickers will be signing with UP Boxing… awesome!!!
6. An overly-smiley and ecstatic Snickers bounced home today and came bearing gifts… an excessive amount of kisses and a hug that I swore was going to pop my head off and a chicken wrap! Delish!!!
7. Our boxing-free morning was substituted with a boxing-full afternoon. After Snickers proudly kicked butt at Play Station2 boxing, he then thought it funny to play wrestle with me. Mind ya, he caught me off guard and I ended up accidentally giving him a good jab to the mouth. Now to a regular couple this would be quite the case of domestic abuse but to a couple like Snickers and I, it’s kind of foreplay for us… hahaha.
8. The plan was to have a date night with Snickers tonight but the date was cut short because he apparently seemed to have some kind of flu bug. We refunded our movie tickets and back home we went. I loaded him up with blankets, cranked up the floor heat, and played “Doctor Amy” – I’m not down with being “Nurse Amy”… hahaha.
9. We laid on the floor chatting about his time at his grandmother’s house. Today his father and him were cleaning out the house of his grandfather’s stuff when his father, K-Gere, stumbled upon a book; it was a diary. It was a diary Grandpa-Kim had kept a secret and had written in it for about 5 years. In it he had drawn cute cartoon strips and random notes about his day. In it he had also hidden a note that he had written two years ago. The note was addressed to his children and upon discovering it, K-Gere “cried like a child”, Snickers told me.
10. One minute Snickers was super cold, the next minute he was sweating like a fat kid. I tried to keep his temperature down by continually blotting his face with a wet towel but it was the NyQuil that put him to rest. One dose of that and it was lights out for Snickers.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How will you be remembered?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
-- Farrah Gray
Saturday, February 27, 2010
You know the aged-old question, "If you had to save one thing in your house, what would it be?" Well, Snickers is convinced that for me it'd be this shelf. It's got my stash of coffee, teas and hot chocolate, peanut butter, Animal Pak vitamins, creatine, all my nuts, oatmeal, and it even has a spare pair of Adidas boxing gloves.Highlights of my Day... Saturday, February 27
1. I played my best “I’m-mad-at-you” poker face but it’s always so hard for me to stay mad at him when he’s just too cute for words. He definitely knows how to play the cute card God gifted him with, dang, and today when he came home he played that card hard. Dang that cute card!!!
2. My mom use to say “this hurts me more than you” when she spanked me for whatever no-good I was getting caught for and now I finally know what she meant. I think me not letting Snickers come home last night hurt me more than him because it wasn’t until after 6am that I finally fell asleep.
3. Turns out Snickers didn’t exactly sleep too, so no sooner did we kiss and make-up but it was lights out for the both of us. Slept from 9am till about 3pm.
4. While other couples have their make-up “playtime”, for a more interesting choice of words, I prefer to use the opportunity to get Snickers to do the more difficult of chores. Today’s list of “make-up chores” included scooping up the poop from Mi Nam’s housing unit, cleaning the winter blankets, and cleaning up the bedroom stack of clothes.
5. Got asked to go to Granny-Kim’s house with Snickers but opted out after I had convinced Snickers to use this opportunity to tell his father what’s been going down with his boxing coach, Homeboy-C.
6. Met up with Cat. She had asked me to help her plan her reading course for this upcoming semester at Dankook and it felt strange but good to not have that on my plate. I do miss my students but it’s nice to have the chance to do my own thing and breath.
7. I always find it amusing when people pass me in the streets and randomly say English words or sentences to me. Usually it’s high school boys but on weekends there’s always the added night club ushers passing out flyers that stop me. Tonight one usher in particular stopped me a couple of times. I had passed by him when I was out with Cat but later in the evening I ran into him again when I quickly stepped out to pick something up. Initially he had stopped to talk to me in English but when I responded to him in Korea his interest was sparked. He was trying to convince me to go to his club and I responded by saying “I don’t need to go to a club; I have a husband.” When I ran into him the second time it really got interesting. One of his coworkers had recognized me from TV and blurted out “You’re a professional boxer!” Snickers would have cracked him one on the head if he saw them pawing at me. Club ushers are pretty aggressive here in Korea and so them pulling on girls’ arms and following you down the street is more common than you think. Tonight’s pawing consisted of them asking me to flex. I didn’t flex my muscled for them, instead, I did flex my Korean language skills… hahaha.
8. I love getting a reaction out of people when I respond to them and start speaking Korean. I’m always trying to improve my Korean but lately it’s been that “Making Out in Korean” book that’s caught my attention. I've been particularly interested in the 'fighting' phrases though I don't really see the connection with it to the title, but anyways. I’ve been trying to memorize the following so-called fighting phrases but was left kicking myself tonight when I couldn’t quite remember the second one.
10. Around 2:30am I laced up my runners and was about to head out the door to go jogging when I overheard a huge commotion on the main floor of Ggum Guum. The two other families that live in Ggum Guum are religious with locking the front doors at night and so I was quite surprised to hear someone enter. This someone was drunk… real drunk… like puke-out-your-body-weight-on-the-stairs drunk. I waited till they finished puking their brains out and then headed out the door when I heard one of my neighbors start to clean it up. He had hosed down the stairs when I headed out and he stopped to ask me if I was scared running so late. “Why scared? This is Korea” I responded with. “Plus I need the extra sparring practice” I added. He laughed and I giggled, but then when I went to go start my jog, he mumbled “strange girl”. I'll take that as a compliment although I don't think that's quite what he intended it to be.
QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What do you have to fear?
QUOTE OF THE DAY…
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
-- Susan Jeffers
2. My mom use to say “this hurts me more than you” when she spanked me for whatever no-good I was getting caught for and now I finally know what she meant. I think me not letting Snickers come home last night hurt me more than him because it wasn’t until after 6am that I finally fell asleep.
3. Turns out Snickers didn’t exactly sleep too, so no sooner did we kiss and make-up but it was lights out for the both of us. Slept from 9am till about 3pm.
4. While other couples have their make-up “playtime”, for a more interesting choice of words, I prefer to use the opportunity to get Snickers to do the more difficult of chores. Today’s list of “make-up chores” included scooping up the poop from Mi Nam’s housing unit, cleaning the winter blankets, and cleaning up the bedroom stack of clothes.
5. Got asked to go to Granny-Kim’s house with Snickers but opted out after I had convinced Snickers to use this opportunity to tell his father what’s been going down with his boxing coach, Homeboy-C.
6. Met up with Cat. She had asked me to help her plan her reading course for this upcoming semester at Dankook and it felt strange but good to not have that on my plate. I do miss my students but it’s nice to have the chance to do my own thing and breath.
7. I always find it amusing when people pass me in the streets and randomly say English words or sentences to me. Usually it’s high school boys but on weekends there’s always the added night club ushers passing out flyers that stop me. Tonight one usher in particular stopped me a couple of times. I had passed by him when I was out with Cat but later in the evening I ran into him again when I quickly stepped out to pick something up. Initially he had stopped to talk to me in English but when I responded to him in Korea his interest was sparked. He was trying to convince me to go to his club and I responded by saying “I don’t need to go to a club; I have a husband.” When I ran into him the second time it really got interesting. One of his coworkers had recognized me from TV and blurted out “You’re a professional boxer!” Snickers would have cracked him one on the head if he saw them pawing at me. Club ushers are pretty aggressive here in Korea and so them pulling on girls’ arms and following you down the street is more common than you think. Tonight’s pawing consisted of them asking me to flex. I didn’t flex my muscled for them, instead, I did flex my Korean language skills… hahaha.
8. I love getting a reaction out of people when I respond to them and start speaking Korean. I’m always trying to improve my Korean but lately it’s been that “Making Out in Korean” book that’s caught my attention. I've been particularly interested in the 'fighting' phrases though I don't really see the connection with it to the title, but anyways. I’ve been trying to memorize the following so-called fighting phrases but was left kicking myself tonight when I couldn’t quite remember the second one.
“Why don’t you go somewhere and die.”9. With Snickers out of the house and me having slept a good chunk of the day away, it left me bored out of my skull and still wide awake around 2am.
“Go drink your mother’s breast milk and then come back!”
“You’re lower than an insect.”
“Come here, I’ll teach you some manners.”
“You givin’ me attitude?”
“Mind your own business.”
“What you lookin’ at?!”
10. Around 2:30am I laced up my runners and was about to head out the door to go jogging when I overheard a huge commotion on the main floor of Ggum Guum. The two other families that live in Ggum Guum are religious with locking the front doors at night and so I was quite surprised to hear someone enter. This someone was drunk… real drunk… like puke-out-your-body-weight-on-the-stairs drunk. I waited till they finished puking their brains out and then headed out the door when I heard one of my neighbors start to clean it up. He had hosed down the stairs when I headed out and he stopped to ask me if I was scared running so late. “Why scared? This is Korea” I responded with. “Plus I need the extra sparring practice” I added. He laughed and I giggled, but then when I went to go start my jog, he mumbled “strange girl”. I'll take that as a compliment although I don't think that's quite what he intended it to be.
QUESTION OF THE DAY…
What do you have to fear?
QUOTE OF THE DAY…
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
-- Susan Jeffers
Friday, February 26, 2010
Highlights of my Day... Friday, February 26
1. Headed into Dankook to sign some last minute papers.
2. Happily picked up a bag of oatmeal… sweet! Then it was off to pick up some groceries.
3. Cooked up a couple of mean cups of coffee, and yes, I said “cooked”. Coffee is a sacred thing here at Ggum Guum and we have tons of it, along with tea and hot chocolate, in our house (check out the list below). It consists of using milk instead of water and mixing a selection of coffees with things like cacao, cinnamon, pieces of candy cane or whatever. I once even threw in a spoonful of peanut butter into a cup of coffee. It wasn’t the best of coffees but it wasn’t so bad.
5. As Paris Hilton would say, “That’s hot!” Did you see the hot pink uniform for the Ukraine and Bulgaria’s uniform for the doubles figure skating?! Wow!!! And what was with France’s uniform?! The female partner looked like she only had a splash of sparkles covering her “sisters”.
6. Thought another earth quake happened. Last Sunday around 9:15pm while Snickers and I were chilling out on the floor, our giggling came to a stop when we literally felt the building shake and heard a huge rumble. It was an earth quake but because it only registered at 3.0 it didn’t hit the news. Turns out tonight’s big rumble was the neighbors moving furniture.
7. Convinced Snickers to go training with me at my boxing club. I knew a good chat between Junior Mint and him would do him good. After training, the two of them decided to go out for a drink together. I was invited but thought it best for them to have a serious chat about Snickers’ boxing career. Junior Mint is one of the managers that Snickers is considering.
8. Met up with Cat for coffee and chatting.
9. Had quite a strange situation unfold outside my house when I returned after midnight from coffee with Cat. It involved me being followed by some random middle aged woman. I was taken a bit off guard when she started to follow me and then continued to follow me to my building’s doorstep. The front doors to my building were locked, so I reached for my keys to unlock the doors but when I turned there right behind me was that woman. I ended up having to confront her and tell her to leave. She tried to play it off that she lived in my building but with only two other families in my building, I know who lives here. Next thing I knew it, I was arguing with her in Korean and telling her that if she didn’t leave my building than I would literally kick her out. There was an intense stare down and then she left. I have no idea what that was all about!
10. My heart skipped a beat and I instantly felt sick tonight when Junior Mint and Snickers thought they’d play a mean trick on me. I had told Junior Mint to not push Snickers into drinking not only because he doesn’t drink and can’t hold his alchol but because he had to drive home. Well, around 12:30am Junior Mint thought it’d be funny to call me and ask me where Snickers was. Instantly I felt a wave of panic and so while I kept the conversation going and drilled him with questions I got my jacket and boots on. I didn’t know where I’d start looking for him but I felt I had to do something. No sooner had I grabbed my keys to head out the door but Snickers came on the line. They both thought it was so funny. He didn’t think it funny of me to hang up but it served him right. Apology text messages immediately followed and then a little bit later an apologetic Snickers showed up at Ggum Guum. Unfortunately for him, the main doors to our building were locked and I wasn't about to unlock them. I wasn't so angry but he's too carefree with things that he shouldn't be and he can't be pulling stunts like this. He ended up sleeping at a friends’.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How tough is your tough love?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
-- Bette Davis
2. Happily picked up a bag of oatmeal… sweet! Then it was off to pick up some groceries.
3. Cooked up a couple of mean cups of coffee, and yes, I said “cooked”. Coffee is a sacred thing here at Ggum Guum and we have tons of it, along with tea and hot chocolate, in our house (check out the list below). It consists of using milk instead of water and mixing a selection of coffees with things like cacao, cinnamon, pieces of candy cane or whatever. I once even threw in a spoonful of peanut butter into a cup of coffee. It wasn’t the best of coffees but it wasn’t so bad.
4. Korea definitely got noticed today when Kim Yu Na, known as “Queen Yu Na” here in Korea, scored a much deserved gold medal and left her main competitor, a girl from Japan, with quite the tough act to follow. I loved the end of Yu Na’s performance when she got teary-eyed. She knew she had given it her all and for a girl but only 19 years of age and with so much passion for skating, the gold was clearly hers for the taking. Congrats to her!!!COFFEE
1. Mocha gold (mix)
2. Mocha gold black
3. Mocha gold
4. Mocha drip coffee
5. Hazelnut
6. Hazelnut (mix)
7. Caramel macchiato (mix)
8. Well-Being Polyphenal (mix)
9. 100% Colombian
10. 100% Indonesian Robusta
11. Bali coffee
12. Ice black (mix)
13. Ice coffee (mix)
TEA
1. Ice wine
2. Tazo chai
3. Peppermint
4. Red Rose
5. Herbal
6. Green tea (about 4 different brands)
7. Pure Barley tea
8. Mixed nut tea
9. Peach tea
10. Lipton’s Peach tea (mix)
HOT CHOCOLATE
1. Bali cacao
2. Hot Choco-mocha (mix)
3. President’s Choice Hot Chocolate
4. Swiss Miss Milk Chocolate
5. White Hot Chocolate
6. White Hot Chocolate with marsh mellows (mix)
5. As Paris Hilton would say, “That’s hot!” Did you see the hot pink uniform for the Ukraine and Bulgaria’s uniform for the doubles figure skating?! Wow!!! And what was with France’s uniform?! The female partner looked like she only had a splash of sparkles covering her “sisters”.
6. Thought another earth quake happened. Last Sunday around 9:15pm while Snickers and I were chilling out on the floor, our giggling came to a stop when we literally felt the building shake and heard a huge rumble. It was an earth quake but because it only registered at 3.0 it didn’t hit the news. Turns out tonight’s big rumble was the neighbors moving furniture.
7. Convinced Snickers to go training with me at my boxing club. I knew a good chat between Junior Mint and him would do him good. After training, the two of them decided to go out for a drink together. I was invited but thought it best for them to have a serious chat about Snickers’ boxing career. Junior Mint is one of the managers that Snickers is considering.
8. Met up with Cat for coffee and chatting.
9. Had quite a strange situation unfold outside my house when I returned after midnight from coffee with Cat. It involved me being followed by some random middle aged woman. I was taken a bit off guard when she started to follow me and then continued to follow me to my building’s doorstep. The front doors to my building were locked, so I reached for my keys to unlock the doors but when I turned there right behind me was that woman. I ended up having to confront her and tell her to leave. She tried to play it off that she lived in my building but with only two other families in my building, I know who lives here. Next thing I knew it, I was arguing with her in Korean and telling her that if she didn’t leave my building than I would literally kick her out. There was an intense stare down and then she left. I have no idea what that was all about!
10. My heart skipped a beat and I instantly felt sick tonight when Junior Mint and Snickers thought they’d play a mean trick on me. I had told Junior Mint to not push Snickers into drinking not only because he doesn’t drink and can’t hold his alchol but because he had to drive home. Well, around 12:30am Junior Mint thought it’d be funny to call me and ask me where Snickers was. Instantly I felt a wave of panic and so while I kept the conversation going and drilled him with questions I got my jacket and boots on. I didn’t know where I’d start looking for him but I felt I had to do something. No sooner had I grabbed my keys to head out the door but Snickers came on the line. They both thought it was so funny. He didn’t think it funny of me to hang up but it served him right. Apology text messages immediately followed and then a little bit later an apologetic Snickers showed up at Ggum Guum. Unfortunately for him, the main doors to our building were locked and I wasn't about to unlock them. I wasn't so angry but he's too carefree with things that he shouldn't be and he can't be pulling stunts like this. He ended up sleeping at a friends’.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How tough is your tough love?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
-- Bette Davis
Thursday, February 25, 2010
I was once told that once a penguin picks a partner it mates for life and even if their partner dies, they will never make another mate.Not too sure what's going on here with three penguins... maybe they're competing for the girl.
There's no competing here, nor is there any doubt. He is my penguin... hahaha!Highlights of my Day... Thursday, February 25
1. Ate my last scoop of oatmeal… so sad but so delish. And no sooner did I finish my last scoop of oatmeal but then I got on my phone and text messaged a whack of people in hopes of them "hooking a sister-of-another-mister up"... hahaha. The other day I had posted about needing oatmeal and, as much as I was entertained by several people emailing me in response to it, I was relieved to hear that I could pick up a bag of oatmeal tomorrow with no strings attached. Having said that, thank you to those of you who took the time to email me regarding it but no, I'm not interested in exchanging a bag of oatmeal for a pair of my panties or a lock of my hair. I will, however, happily send a signed pair of hand wraps to you, a Mr. Grin in Memphis, Texas for free -- no need to send me oatmeal for that.
2. On account of the drizzling rain, Snickers’ and my drive to the beach was postponed.
3. Snickers got asked to look after the twins, my nephews, and I knew full well that it wouldn’t be just an hour or two so I opted not to go.
4. Not going meant I ended up having to stick around the house because he left his keys at home. He does this a lot, actually, we both do it. I guess we do it cause it’s nice to know that someone’s at home waiting for us but sometimes it doesn’t quite work out so nice, like tonight.
5. At boxing I ran into one of my High School kiddies who occasionally spars with me. I haven’t seen him for awhile because of my change in training schedule. Ever since he called me pretty, which was way back in the day now, Junior Mint has always made a point of teasing him about it. Today Junior Mint yelled out to him and told him that I was now a married woman. His eyes bulged out and Junior Mint joked that he looked heartbroken. I’m sure he wasn’t heartbroken but instead was impressed to hear that my husband is a younger guy. “Congratulations Amy!!!” he told me. I think the congrats was for snagging a young pup… hahaha.
6. Taking Mi Nam out to play in the rain sounded like a good idea that is until he decided he’d jump in the river. The river isn’t frozen anymore and it hasn’t been for some time not but it’s certainly not warm water yet. He got a standing ovation from the chicken delivery boy who was sitting on his scooter across the street.
7. Was initially going to attend the monthly dinner party group gathering but I didn’t know what time Snickers would be coming home and so I decided to stick around the area.
8. Met up with a buddy who then had other buddies join us. Talk of the table was “Korean verses foreigners” with regards to dating. On my side of the table sat me and two Korean guys. Across from us sat two Western guys (from America?). “Once you go Asian, you never go Caucasian” was my motto… hahaha.
9. Speaking of Asia, along walked in Snickers. He had left the house before 1pm and it was about 8pm when he returned. So much for “just an hour or two”.
10. As for the rest of the evening, Snickers did a miserable attempt at studying English and no sooner had he opened his books but then he was distracted and tempted to join me while I painted my nails. We watched some of the Olympics and then it was an early lights out.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who's your favourite person?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer
2. On account of the drizzling rain, Snickers’ and my drive to the beach was postponed.
3. Snickers got asked to look after the twins, my nephews, and I knew full well that it wouldn’t be just an hour or two so I opted not to go.
4. Not going meant I ended up having to stick around the house because he left his keys at home. He does this a lot, actually, we both do it. I guess we do it cause it’s nice to know that someone’s at home waiting for us but sometimes it doesn’t quite work out so nice, like tonight.
5. At boxing I ran into one of my High School kiddies who occasionally spars with me. I haven’t seen him for awhile because of my change in training schedule. Ever since he called me pretty, which was way back in the day now, Junior Mint has always made a point of teasing him about it. Today Junior Mint yelled out to him and told him that I was now a married woman. His eyes bulged out and Junior Mint joked that he looked heartbroken. I’m sure he wasn’t heartbroken but instead was impressed to hear that my husband is a younger guy. “Congratulations Amy!!!” he told me. I think the congrats was for snagging a young pup… hahaha.
6. Taking Mi Nam out to play in the rain sounded like a good idea that is until he decided he’d jump in the river. The river isn’t frozen anymore and it hasn’t been for some time not but it’s certainly not warm water yet. He got a standing ovation from the chicken delivery boy who was sitting on his scooter across the street.
7. Was initially going to attend the monthly dinner party group gathering but I didn’t know what time Snickers would be coming home and so I decided to stick around the area.
8. Met up with a buddy who then had other buddies join us. Talk of the table was “Korean verses foreigners” with regards to dating. On my side of the table sat me and two Korean guys. Across from us sat two Western guys (from America?). “Once you go Asian, you never go Caucasian” was my motto… hahaha.
9. Speaking of Asia, along walked in Snickers. He had left the house before 1pm and it was about 8pm when he returned. So much for “just an hour or two”.
10. As for the rest of the evening, Snickers did a miserable attempt at studying English and no sooner had he opened his books but then he was distracted and tempted to join me while I painted my nails. We watched some of the Olympics and then it was an early lights out.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who's your favourite person?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, February 24
1. Just like Korea was “painted in red” with the World Cup, today Korea was all wide-eyed and full of anticipation with Kim Yu Na scheduled to skate today in the Olympic’s women figure skating short program.
2. No sooner had Yu Na’s tough, tough competition from Japan finish her routine but it was her turn. I must say, I really liked the Japanese skater’s routine and thought it had much more passion and stirred up more crowd energy than Yu Na’s but I think I felt this because seeing Yu Na’s James Bond hand-gun pose excessively, like on TV and in various other media forms, has got a little annoying. I was really happy to see her come in first ranking and would love to pick her brain about how she stays so focused and whatnot. However, with Korea already being so Yu Na obsessed, I felt kind of bad for the other Korean figure skater, a much younger girl, who was totally lost from Korea’s spotlight.
3. Once we were done watching the Olympic figure skating, Snickers and I headed out for a little drive around town on the scooter… a day date.
4. So much for a little drive, our drive took us on quite the tour of Cheonan, starting off with a stroll around a park and then a little military equipment checking-out at another park.
5. On the other side of Cheonan we ventured on our scooter and ended up at one of my sister-in-laws’ nursery schools that she owns and runs. Inside, there were 16 little ankle bitters… mini Koreans… bite-size mini people. I have no interest in babies so while Snickers got mesmerized over the babies, I played tickle-tag with a couple of the mini Koreans.
6. Got in trouble for running around too much with the mini Koreans… hahaha. I didn’t get into a lot of trouble, don’t get me wrong, but a house full of kids screaming because of my monster noises and me tickling them excessively was rather a big commotion.
7. Next we headed over to an Indian restaurant in Cheonan where I still can’t pronounce the food I so often crave for.
8. Once we returned from our day date Snickers headed off to boxing and then so did I.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Could you handle the heat?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
-- Hasidic Saying
2. No sooner had Yu Na’s tough, tough competition from Japan finish her routine but it was her turn. I must say, I really liked the Japanese skater’s routine and thought it had much more passion and stirred up more crowd energy than Yu Na’s but I think I felt this because seeing Yu Na’s James Bond hand-gun pose excessively, like on TV and in various other media forms, has got a little annoying. I was really happy to see her come in first ranking and would love to pick her brain about how she stays so focused and whatnot. However, with Korea already being so Yu Na obsessed, I felt kind of bad for the other Korean figure skater, a much younger girl, who was totally lost from Korea’s spotlight.
3. Once we were done watching the Olympic figure skating, Snickers and I headed out for a little drive around town on the scooter… a day date.
4. So much for a little drive, our drive took us on quite the tour of Cheonan, starting off with a stroll around a park and then a little military equipment checking-out at another park.
5. On the other side of Cheonan we ventured on our scooter and ended up at one of my sister-in-laws’ nursery schools that she owns and runs. Inside, there were 16 little ankle bitters… mini Koreans… bite-size mini people. I have no interest in babies so while Snickers got mesmerized over the babies, I played tickle-tag with a couple of the mini Koreans.
6. Got in trouble for running around too much with the mini Koreans… hahaha. I didn’t get into a lot of trouble, don’t get me wrong, but a house full of kids screaming because of my monster noises and me tickling them excessively was rather a big commotion. 7. Next we headed over to an Indian restaurant in Cheonan where I still can’t pronounce the food I so often crave for.
8. Once we returned from our day date Snickers headed off to boxing and then so did I.9. Ran into Black Skinny, Panty Boy Jr., and Motor Cross at boxing, all of whom were overly eager to ask me about Snickers’ situation between him and his coach. You can’t even begin to imagine how happy I am that Snickers finally pulled the plug on his coach. I know he felt a sense of loyalty and whatnot because it was his coach, Homeboy-C, that initially got him interested in boxing while he was serving time, but that Snickers’ has been out for almost 5 years. A lot has happened in 5 years… the good, the bad, and some very ugly – his belt situation being the ugliest. I’ve never been one to say my relationship with my coach, Junior Mint, is perfect but it, like almost all relationships, has its’ ups and downs. There is some hate mixed with the love but it’s definitely more good than bad and I wish for Snickers to have the same kind of relationship with his coach. The relationship between an athlete and their coach is so vital and is just a key ingredient to the athlete’s success, as is trying hard and believing in your self.
10. Snickers was out kicking butt at pool when I returned from boxing. I sat around the house contemplating and pondering his situation and ended up going for a run. I wanted to run off the stress but no sooner had I reached the half way mark on my run but a scooter pulled up on the path. It was Snickers. He followed behind me while I ran.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Could you handle the heat?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
-- Hasidic Saying
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
This boxer lost against Japan in Japan last year,
Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, February 23
1. Snickers. Writing his name at the top of today’s list of daily highlights was the very least I could do considering what certain special list of firsts I found out my name sits at number one… and sits alone. I couldn’t believe it but it’s been confirmed, it’s true, and it’s by the far the biggest turn on, which only reinforces just how awesome Snickers is. Wow... now I know why it took him so long to kiss me in the first place.
2. Spring is in the air – I can feel it!!!
3. Headed off to the hair salon. I hate getting my hair done in Korea; I especially hate how they blow dry my hair without parting it and then they style it nothing like how I first walked in. Anyways, Snickers came alone with me, kind of an emotional support for me, and so we chilled out at the hair shop with our fingers crossed, hoping for the best.
4. Good bye blondie, hello ash light brown!
5. Watched some Olympic skiing trick-jumping, or whatever it’s called, on the television. Now what I want to know is how exactly do you go training for such a sport?
6. Flexed some “girl power” at boxing tonight when Junior Mint pushed me and trained me extra hard on pad work in attempt of making an example out of me for some new girls who recently joined our boxing club. I was dripping in sweat.
7. It’s official, Snickers is a free agent. Today he signed the required contract-breaking papers with his coach, so now his coach is no longer his coach but instead just a past bully who will have to find someone new to pick on.
8. Tonight’s “Strong Man Competitions” on TV were replaced with a turkey-eating contest… nasty. Earlier on I questioned how one would train for the ski trick-jumping but I won’t even bother with the turkey-eating contest.
9. Found something very “interesting” online. Apparently, in 2009, the OPBF website recorded 18 OPBF high ranking fights where one opponent was Japanese and the other was a foreigner. All 18 of these fights resulted in a Japan victory… ALL.
10. By the time I was able to pull Snickers away from his Dragon Boy Play Station2 game playing it was after 1am. He was too tired to go running with me but instead drove me over to the Dankook University and timed me, watched me, and yelled encouragement at me while I did my laps. Did three laps while wearing three layers of clothing, that’s 6.9kms in total, in 35 minutes.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do I smell something fishy?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
-- Charles A. Dana
2. Spring is in the air – I can feel it!!!
3. Headed off to the hair salon. I hate getting my hair done in Korea; I especially hate how they blow dry my hair without parting it and then they style it nothing like how I first walked in. Anyways, Snickers came alone with me, kind of an emotional support for me, and so we chilled out at the hair shop with our fingers crossed, hoping for the best.
4. Good bye blondie, hello ash light brown!
5. Watched some Olympic skiing trick-jumping, or whatever it’s called, on the television. Now what I want to know is how exactly do you go training for such a sport?
6. Flexed some “girl power” at boxing tonight when Junior Mint pushed me and trained me extra hard on pad work in attempt of making an example out of me for some new girls who recently joined our boxing club. I was dripping in sweat.
7. It’s official, Snickers is a free agent. Today he signed the required contract-breaking papers with his coach, so now his coach is no longer his coach but instead just a past bully who will have to find someone new to pick on.
8. Tonight’s “Strong Man Competitions” on TV were replaced with a turkey-eating contest… nasty. Earlier on I questioned how one would train for the ski trick-jumping but I won’t even bother with the turkey-eating contest.
9. Found something very “interesting” online. Apparently, in 2009, the OPBF website recorded 18 OPBF high ranking fights where one opponent was Japanese and the other was a foreigner. All 18 of these fights resulted in a Japan victory… ALL.
10. By the time I was able to pull Snickers away from his Dragon Boy Play Station2 game playing it was after 1am. He was too tired to go running with me but instead drove me over to the Dankook University and timed me, watched me, and yelled encouragement at me while I did my laps. Did three laps while wearing three layers of clothing, that’s 6.9kms in total, in 35 minutes.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Do I smell something fishy?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
-- Charles A. Dana
Monday, February 22, 2010
Highlights of my Day... Monday, February 22
1. Once my eyes and Snickers’ eyes met the TV screen we were mesmerized and lost in the excitement of the Olympics. Still haven’t seen any people from Togo or any Mexicans… hahaha.
2. What?! The Americans beat the Canadians in hockey?!!! Hockey is Canada’s sport, in their blood. Whether it’s ball hockey, field hockey, air hockey, street hockey, air hockey, or foot hockey, Canada loves it’s hockey, so why the heck did they lose? And to make matters worse, they lost to the Americans!!! Ahhh… it’s a black, black day in Canada.
3. For some silly reason I thought it funny to spontaneously spit a chocolate across the family room. Snickers didn’t share in my amusement and instead thought I was trying to prove a point. Not too sure on what point that was but I got told to clean it up immediately and he gave me quite the stern frown.
4. Snickers got asked to babysit his two nephews while his sister tended to her father-in-law in the hospital. I went along to help him and got to play Auntie Amy. I’ve got two nieces in Canada and two nephews in Korea. My two nephews, Hyun Jun and Su Sung, are only four years old but they’re super cute and super fun.
5. Hyun Jun has always been my favorite. He’s three minutes older than Su Sung but is like double his size. He always gives me kisses and sneaks peeks at me to see if I’m looking at him when he walks away. Today, however, it was Su Sung who bombarded me with attention and so Hyun Jun looked a bit jealous when I kissed Su Sung on the hand. He pouted and sat in the other room at one point so I went to go talk to him. He told me not to kiss Su Sung. “Don’t be sad” I told him, “I always save my best kisses for you!”
6. Playing with the twins is exhausting but fun. Snickers always throws them around and once you start horsing-around with the one, the other wants the same treatment. Next thing I knew it I was riding around on all fours with both of them on my back.
7. By the time we got finished looking after the twins we were too tired to do anything else.
8. I stayed home while Snickers headed off to his boxing club to sit down with his coach for a serious talk.
9. When Snickers returned home I was definitely curious about what the two had talked about. Turns out Snickers had told his coach that he wanted to leave him. He wants to break his contract with his coach as his manager and seek out a different manager. I am all in favor of this situation and think it’s long overdue.
10. As for the rest of the evening, we watched some more Olympics.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How cute can one kid get?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
-- Dr. Haim Ginott
2. What?! The Americans beat the Canadians in hockey?!!! Hockey is Canada’s sport, in their blood. Whether it’s ball hockey, field hockey, air hockey, street hockey, air hockey, or foot hockey, Canada loves it’s hockey, so why the heck did they lose? And to make matters worse, they lost to the Americans!!! Ahhh… it’s a black, black day in Canada.
3. For some silly reason I thought it funny to spontaneously spit a chocolate across the family room. Snickers didn’t share in my amusement and instead thought I was trying to prove a point. Not too sure on what point that was but I got told to clean it up immediately and he gave me quite the stern frown.
4. Snickers got asked to babysit his two nephews while his sister tended to her father-in-law in the hospital. I went along to help him and got to play Auntie Amy. I’ve got two nieces in Canada and two nephews in Korea. My two nephews, Hyun Jun and Su Sung, are only four years old but they’re super cute and super fun.
5. Hyun Jun has always been my favorite. He’s three minutes older than Su Sung but is like double his size. He always gives me kisses and sneaks peeks at me to see if I’m looking at him when he walks away. Today, however, it was Su Sung who bombarded me with attention and so Hyun Jun looked a bit jealous when I kissed Su Sung on the hand. He pouted and sat in the other room at one point so I went to go talk to him. He told me not to kiss Su Sung. “Don’t be sad” I told him, “I always save my best kisses for you!”
6. Playing with the twins is exhausting but fun. Snickers always throws them around and once you start horsing-around with the one, the other wants the same treatment. Next thing I knew it I was riding around on all fours with both of them on my back.
7. By the time we got finished looking after the twins we were too tired to do anything else.
8. I stayed home while Snickers headed off to his boxing club to sit down with his coach for a serious talk.
9. When Snickers returned home I was definitely curious about what the two had talked about. Turns out Snickers had told his coach that he wanted to leave him. He wants to break his contract with his coach as his manager and seek out a different manager. I am all in favor of this situation and think it’s long overdue.
10. As for the rest of the evening, we watched some more Olympics.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How cute can one kid get?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
-- Dr. Haim Ginott
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Attention all owners of oatmeal, those who can get a hold of a box, those who have an extra box, and especially those who would be oh so kind to send me a box....
email me: Flipsidegirl@rocketmail.com
Highlights of my Day... Sunday, February 21
1. CALLING ALL OWNERS OF OATMEAL… or anyone who can get in contact with oatmeal, real oatmeal, not instant oatmeal. My worst fear has happened, ok maybe not my worst fear but definitely a not-so-fun situation has happened. I am down to my last few scoops of natural oatmeal and desperately need more. WILL YOU HELP ME?!!!
2. .… must… have… oatmeal…. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
3. Besides the oatmeal crises, everything else today was good. I practically inhabited a seat in Coffee Bean for the day when Cherry Pie and I chatted the hours away and then I met up with Buff Boy the Original.
4. A couple of weeks ago Snickers and his coach reached a breaking point in their relationship as coach and athlete, and as trusted frien. A lot of silly and unexplainable things have been going down between them and it’s been driving me bonkers. I had emailed my trusted friend, the Japanese Promoter, about it and today I got a response.
5. I shot my mouth off awhile back when I told Snickers “I want your boxing club to die” but now I’m second guessing as to whether I can honestly apologize for those words. Today I vented to Cherry Pie about all the stress and silly unexplainable things that have been going down as a result of Snickers’ Coach – Homeboy C. When Snickers and I first started to date we kept our business a secret from his coach, knowing full well that if he knew he wouldn’t let us train together and he’d give Snickers a hard time about it. We knew he’d view me as a big distraction, which is totally understandable, but what he doesn’t know is that I am also the main person who pushes him to succeed. I try to support him 120% because I know he loves his boxing and because I know what it’s like to have a passion that those around me don’t support. I don’t want him to go through the same problems I went through. Having said this though, it’s extremely frustrating when those who really should be supporting him (hint, hint.. his coach) don’t.
6. Snickers is ranked third in the OPBF (Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation), which is impressive by itself, but he also holds Korea’s Super Light Champion belt… or so he did up until a couple of weeks ago when his coach suddenly decided to hand over not only the belt but the title to KBC (Korean Boxing Commission). Ya, you read that right. He showed up at the club and his belt was gone. Now my initial question was “why?”… Who does this?
7. Snickers was supposed to defend his belt at a fight on February 6th but he couldn’t accept the fight because we had already planned our honeymoon and would be returning on the 5th. No sooner did we arrive back from Bali but the belt had been returned to KBC… coincidence?! I think not. Homeboy-C had taken it upon himself to strip Snickers of his belt AND title, something that both he nor I (nor anyone else for that matter) ever imagined he would do. You can imagine the frustrations this had brought not only Snickers but also myself. Junior Mint, the Japanese Promoter, and even numerous teammates of mine have all expressed their disbelief and disgust with regards to this situation. It still boils my blood to think about it.
8. I really don’t want to get involved with whatever is going on between Snickers and Homeboy-C but I can no longer stay neutral. Nobody gets away with messing with my man – my husband!!! And let it be known, this will NOT be tolerated. He picked the wrong person to mess with.
9. Cherry Pie let me vent to her about the whole Snickers/ Homeboy-C situation and Buff Boy the Original let me ramble on about how perfect my honeymoon was. After all that was done, I returned home to find my beautiful husband waiting for me.
10. Capped the weekend off with a dinner date at the cheese tak galbi place with Snickers.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Can you really forgive if you can't forget?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
-- Thomas Szasz
2. .… must… have… oatmeal…. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
3. Besides the oatmeal crises, everything else today was good. I practically inhabited a seat in Coffee Bean for the day when Cherry Pie and I chatted the hours away and then I met up with Buff Boy the Original.
4. A couple of weeks ago Snickers and his coach reached a breaking point in their relationship as coach and athlete, and as trusted frien. A lot of silly and unexplainable things have been going down between them and it’s been driving me bonkers. I had emailed my trusted friend, the Japanese Promoter, about it and today I got a response.
5. I shot my mouth off awhile back when I told Snickers “I want your boxing club to die” but now I’m second guessing as to whether I can honestly apologize for those words. Today I vented to Cherry Pie about all the stress and silly unexplainable things that have been going down as a result of Snickers’ Coach – Homeboy C. When Snickers and I first started to date we kept our business a secret from his coach, knowing full well that if he knew he wouldn’t let us train together and he’d give Snickers a hard time about it. We knew he’d view me as a big distraction, which is totally understandable, but what he doesn’t know is that I am also the main person who pushes him to succeed. I try to support him 120% because I know he loves his boxing and because I know what it’s like to have a passion that those around me don’t support. I don’t want him to go through the same problems I went through. Having said this though, it’s extremely frustrating when those who really should be supporting him (hint, hint.. his coach) don’t.
6. Snickers is ranked third in the OPBF (Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation), which is impressive by itself, but he also holds Korea’s Super Light Champion belt… or so he did up until a couple of weeks ago when his coach suddenly decided to hand over not only the belt but the title to KBC (Korean Boxing Commission). Ya, you read that right. He showed up at the club and his belt was gone. Now my initial question was “why?”… Who does this?
7. Snickers was supposed to defend his belt at a fight on February 6th but he couldn’t accept the fight because we had already planned our honeymoon and would be returning on the 5th. No sooner did we arrive back from Bali but the belt had been returned to KBC… coincidence?! I think not. Homeboy-C had taken it upon himself to strip Snickers of his belt AND title, something that both he nor I (nor anyone else for that matter) ever imagined he would do. You can imagine the frustrations this had brought not only Snickers but also myself. Junior Mint, the Japanese Promoter, and even numerous teammates of mine have all expressed their disbelief and disgust with regards to this situation. It still boils my blood to think about it.
8. I really don’t want to get involved with whatever is going on between Snickers and Homeboy-C but I can no longer stay neutral. Nobody gets away with messing with my man – my husband!!! And let it be known, this will NOT be tolerated. He picked the wrong person to mess with.
9. Cherry Pie let me vent to her about the whole Snickers/ Homeboy-C situation and Buff Boy the Original let me ramble on about how perfect my honeymoon was. After all that was done, I returned home to find my beautiful husband waiting for me.
10. Capped the weekend off with a dinner date at the cheese tak galbi place with Snickers.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Can you really forgive if you can't forget?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
-- Thomas Szasz
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Highlights of my Day... Saturday, February 20
1. I think Snickers tried to get out of helping me with my nails by making me bleed as much as possible…. Ouch!!! Snickers insisted he help me with my manicure when it was clear that I had no idea on what I was doing. I’ve never done my nails before, partly because I’ve never really had nails before or cared about them but also because I’ve either paid someone to do them for me or Snickers had volunteered to do them. “Am I fired?” he asked me. “Would you rather some other guy sit half naked in our house and do them?” I joked, and with that he continued to do my nails… hahaha.
2. Booted around town on the back of Snickers and my scooter just for the sake of getting out of the house for a bit. Our drive around town lead us to Home Plus where we bought some bananas and ended up running into Mouse Doctor and another friend of Snickers whom I’ve never met before. “This is my girlfriend” he accidentally introduced me as. “Girlfriend?! … I guess that makes you my boyfriend then. Well, gotta go. My gorgeous husband is waiting for me” I joked. “I’m so sorry baby angel” and with that he batted his lashes and I was made victim yet again to his cuteness.
3. I was advised awhile back that by taking a birth control pill that I’d be able to regulate myself. I’ve been taking them for some time now but this medical mentality doesn’t seem to proving itself. Today we celebrated “Bloody Mary Day” and Snickers thought he’d celebrate it by hiding my birth control pills. “Hide them all you want, it still doesn’t change the fact that you score more bloody noses than I do Bloody Mary Days.” I told him. “But I’ve never got a bloody nose from boxing” he added. “Yes, you got one during a fight and two during sparring last year.” “But that’s only 3 times” he added. “Ok, but that’s one time more than me” I commented.
4. Snickers suggested we see some kind of fertility doctor about what’s going on (and what’s not going on) with my body but I’m so against the idea. I’ve mentioned before about how one of my closest friends in Canada who went through a similar situation and I don’t want to go through that too. I don’t see the point in putting up such a fight for something that I really don’t really want to fight for. Looking after myself and Snickers is all I care to sport on my plate and I’m not sure on when that will change or if that will change.
2. Booted around town on the back of Snickers and my scooter just for the sake of getting out of the house for a bit. Our drive around town lead us to Home Plus where we bought some bananas and ended up running into Mouse Doctor and another friend of Snickers whom I’ve never met before. “This is my girlfriend” he accidentally introduced me as. “Girlfriend?! … I guess that makes you my boyfriend then. Well, gotta go. My gorgeous husband is waiting for me” I joked. “I’m so sorry baby angel” and with that he batted his lashes and I was made victim yet again to his cuteness.
3. I was advised awhile back that by taking a birth control pill that I’d be able to regulate myself. I’ve been taking them for some time now but this medical mentality doesn’t seem to proving itself. Today we celebrated “Bloody Mary Day” and Snickers thought he’d celebrate it by hiding my birth control pills. “Hide them all you want, it still doesn’t change the fact that you score more bloody noses than I do Bloody Mary Days.” I told him. “But I’ve never got a bloody nose from boxing” he added. “Yes, you got one during a fight and two during sparring last year.” “But that’s only 3 times” he added. “Ok, but that’s one time more than me” I commented.
4. Snickers suggested we see some kind of fertility doctor about what’s going on (and what’s not going on) with my body but I’m so against the idea. I’ve mentioned before about how one of my closest friends in Canada who went through a similar situation and I don’t want to go through that too. I don’t see the point in putting up such a fight for something that I really don’t really want to fight for. Looking after myself and Snickers is all I care to sport on my plate and I’m not sure on when that will change or if that will change.
5. Met up with two of my friends (a Korean couple) who just returned from studying English in the States. We stayed in contact via Facebook but they really thought my change of status from “in a relationship” to “married” was a joke. It was great to catch up to date with each other and I was proud to tell them the story of Snickers and I. They loved our story in the paper.
6. With Snickers out of town I was home alone and bored. Amused myself trying to teach Mi Nam a new trick. It didn’t quite work but I definitely amused some passer-byers with the silly scene, great.
7. Jogging at 1am never spooks me, now those Korean street cats, dang, they spooked me tonight!!! If across from Sambu is “Pervert’s Park” and “Proposal Park” is beside The Galleria, then I’m not too sure on what to call the park across from my house. Tonight it apparently was the mating grounds for some very loud street cats. I hadn’t noticed the sound until I finished my jog and took off my earphones. Instantly my ears were flooded with the grotesg sound of some dirty kitties doing the dirty just steps from my house.
8. Is it me or is spring the season of pee problems for men in Korea?! I mean, only recently did I notice the flock of pee problem remedies that have been bombarding the TV waves. Don’t get me wrong, it must be rotten to have such a problem but that animated characture that proudly pees like a race horse follow by the animated diagram is not the last vision I want cross my sight before I go to sleep.
9. 여보 안녕… 여보 이천으로 가서 지금 천안에 너무 심심하지만 재밌게 보내세요… 내일 빨리 와!!! 보고싶어요. 여보 어리기 때문에 친구 나한태 에이미 는 능력자 라고 했어요… 나도 생각해요… ㅋㅋㅋ.
10. Was way too bored tonight… hence the strange writings and ramblings of this post.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why not?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song.
-- Jerry Van Armerongeon
Friday, February 19, 2010
Highlights of my Day... Friday, February 19
1. Marriage is bliss… well, my marriage with Snickers certainly is! We continue to be big active advocates of PDA (public display of affection) and clearly our honeymoon has yet to come to any end. Nor does it look like it will be doing so any time soon. Today I woke up to Snickers all snuggled up on what tiny weenie part of the floor mat I hadn’t taken over. I couldn’t help but give a little giggle. My giggle woke him up whereupon he looked at me, smiled, kissed me on my nose, and then went back to sleep. This IS the good life!
2. A year ago one of my friends left to go study English in America with her boyfriend. They’ve returned, yah for that!!! It’s been but only a year since we’ve last seen each other but boy has a lot changed for me in that one year. Am looking forward to catching up with her for some much anticipated catch-up girl talk.
3. Speaking of catching up on days passed, today on MSN I was able to get caught up to date with one of my cousins who’s going through quite a difficult time, which is apparently quite the understatement.
4. News from my cousin weighed heavy on me today and I laid back to ponder it all. My plans were to go to training but I ditched that idea and instead got lost in thoughts regarding my cousin.
5. MSN is like a big tease for me. It lets me connect with those I love but it is quick to remind me that I can look but I can’t touch. I feel like some kind of viewer, listening and watching from the outside but unable to get fully involved in the picture. That’s rough.
6. Snickers arrived home early from training and walked into a dark house. I was sitting in the middle of the floor, exactly where I had sat down two hours ago, and all the lights were off. I had totally zoned out.
7. Zoned back into it with the arrival of Snickers.
8. Picked up the pictures from our honeymoon. We had bought an underwater camera while in Bali and had fun playing around with it in the pool though we doubted whether it was actually capturing our shots. I posted two of the photos in yesterday’s posting and included two more in today’s posting.
9. Went on a date with a married man – my married man… hahaha. Our date started off with dinner at Mainz and it was supposed to be followed by a late night walk with hot chocolate around Dankook University’s lake. However, when we returned home after dinner, Snickers turned on the tube while I changed clothes and on TV “Dragon Boy” (I think that’s what it’s called). It’s a Japanese animation show that he is crazy about. Well, the walk never did happen but I did score a back massage for him skipping out on me… hahaha.
10. Taught the word “discrimination” and “spoiled” the other day to Snickers and tonight he tried them out when we were watching the Olympics. “Canada is spoiled discrimination. No Togo people or Mexicans are in their Olympics!” Instantly I blurted out laughing. Snickers only of Togo because of the fact that Korea played them in the World Cup and he’s only interested in Mexico because they have some famous boxers he favors. I knew he was only joking with his sentence, and poor use of those two words, but it was hilarious. “Nice try there smarty pants but how are they supposed to train? They have no snow” I told him. “That’s not the point… there’s still no Togo people or Mexicans!”
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where's all the Togoians?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
-- Tom Stoppard
2. A year ago one of my friends left to go study English in America with her boyfriend. They’ve returned, yah for that!!! It’s been but only a year since we’ve last seen each other but boy has a lot changed for me in that one year. Am looking forward to catching up with her for some much anticipated catch-up girl talk.
3. Speaking of catching up on days passed, today on MSN I was able to get caught up to date with one of my cousins who’s going through quite a difficult time, which is apparently quite the understatement.
4. News from my cousin weighed heavy on me today and I laid back to ponder it all. My plans were to go to training but I ditched that idea and instead got lost in thoughts regarding my cousin.
5. MSN is like a big tease for me. It lets me connect with those I love but it is quick to remind me that I can look but I can’t touch. I feel like some kind of viewer, listening and watching from the outside but unable to get fully involved in the picture. That’s rough.
6. Snickers arrived home early from training and walked into a dark house. I was sitting in the middle of the floor, exactly where I had sat down two hours ago, and all the lights were off. I had totally zoned out.
7. Zoned back into it with the arrival of Snickers.
8. Picked up the pictures from our honeymoon. We had bought an underwater camera while in Bali and had fun playing around with it in the pool though we doubted whether it was actually capturing our shots. I posted two of the photos in yesterday’s posting and included two more in today’s posting.
9. Went on a date with a married man – my married man… hahaha. Our date started off with dinner at Mainz and it was supposed to be followed by a late night walk with hot chocolate around Dankook University’s lake. However, when we returned home after dinner, Snickers turned on the tube while I changed clothes and on TV “Dragon Boy” (I think that’s what it’s called). It’s a Japanese animation show that he is crazy about. Well, the walk never did happen but I did score a back massage for him skipping out on me… hahaha.
10. Taught the word “discrimination” and “spoiled” the other day to Snickers and tonight he tried them out when we were watching the Olympics. “Canada is spoiled discrimination. No Togo people or Mexicans are in their Olympics!” Instantly I blurted out laughing. Snickers only of Togo because of the fact that Korea played them in the World Cup and he’s only interested in Mexico because they have some famous boxers he favors. I knew he was only joking with his sentence, and poor use of those two words, but it was hilarious. “Nice try there smarty pants but how are they supposed to train? They have no snow” I told him. “That’s not the point… there’s still no Togo people or Mexicans!”
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where's all the Togoians?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
-- Tom Stoppard
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Highlights of my Day... Thursday, February 18
1. When I was on my honeymoon it was one of the tour guide sellers and now it’s some of my teammates at the boxing club that are heckling me about the baby question – “When are you going to have a baby, Amy?” I haven’t even fully digested the fact that I am now married and already they’re expecting me to poop out a baby.
2. Snickers’ buddy boy out in Suwon gave him a PlayStation 2 the other day and so we’ve been testing it out. I argued that Wii is better but not really one for video games to start off with. We bought a game the other day while out in Seoul and it’s a totally old skool game.
3. Transferring a current E2 visa in Korea is really easy but considering I got asked to do it today after just handing in my F2 application and documents yesterday is a whole other issue. As many of you know, I use to work at Dankook but I resigned from my position, and I did so for various reasons, part of which was so I had more time and more freedom to do as I please. Transferring my current E2 a to another employer, of whom I’m only interested in part-time work, and being obligated to them till my F2 visa comes through certainly defeats the purpose of it all but it did however solve some issues regarding having way too much time on my hands and keeping my wallet full.
4. The whole situation was made all that more clearer to me after a long chat with Cherry Pie over a much needed coffee. Together we came to several conclusions regarding the whole E2-F2 visa situation.
5. Together we even came up with a solution for the whole wanted wedding dinner party I’ve been pondering. Although May is a long way away from the wedding date that occurred in January, it’d provide the perfect weather for the outdoor venue I think would pose as the perfect romantic hot spot for an evening dinner party. All I have to do now is sell Snickers on the idea.
6. Despite the double espresso shot in the cup of coffee I downed, I ended up crashing in the early afternoon. Last night I had a late night cup of coffee on an empty tummy and it kept me up till about 3am tossing and turning in my bed while Snickers slept the time away.
7. Changed my routine at boxing.
2. Snickers’ buddy boy out in Suwon gave him a PlayStation 2 the other day and so we’ve been testing it out. I argued that Wii is better but not really one for video games to start off with. We bought a game the other day while out in Seoul and it’s a totally old skool game.
3. Transferring a current E2 visa in Korea is really easy but considering I got asked to do it today after just handing in my F2 application and documents yesterday is a whole other issue. As many of you know, I use to work at Dankook but I resigned from my position, and I did so for various reasons, part of which was so I had more time and more freedom to do as I please. Transferring my current E2 a to another employer, of whom I’m only interested in part-time work, and being obligated to them till my F2 visa comes through certainly defeats the purpose of it all but it did however solve some issues regarding having way too much time on my hands and keeping my wallet full.
4. The whole situation was made all that more clearer to me after a long chat with Cherry Pie over a much needed coffee. Together we came to several conclusions regarding the whole E2-F2 visa situation.
5. Together we even came up with a solution for the whole wanted wedding dinner party I’ve been pondering. Although May is a long way away from the wedding date that occurred in January, it’d provide the perfect weather for the outdoor venue I think would pose as the perfect romantic hot spot for an evening dinner party. All I have to do now is sell Snickers on the idea.
6. Despite the double espresso shot in the cup of coffee I downed, I ended up crashing in the early afternoon. Last night I had a late night cup of coffee on an empty tummy and it kept me up till about 3am tossing and turning in my bed while Snickers slept the time away.
7. Changed my routine at boxing.
MONDAY TO FRIDAY DAILY ROUTINE
Usually at 6-8pm I go boxing. Boxing is then followed by an ab workout, in which I do 4 sets of 50 reps of two different ab exercises of my choosing, and 20-30 minutes of light weight training.
MONDAY – Chest, shoulders and triceps
Chest
Flat bench flyes with dumbbells
Shoulders
Alternating dumbbell press
Lateral raises
Triceps
Tricep kick-backs
Prone pulley tricep extensions
TUESDAY – Biceps and back
Biceps
Hammer heads
Alternating bicep curls
Back
Seated rows
Lat pull-downs
WEDNESDAY -- Legs
Legs
Calf raises
Hack lifts
Weighed lunges
THURSDAY -- Chest and triceps
FRIDAY -- Biceps, back and shoulders
Ab workout favorites
Bicycle kicks
Side bends with dumbbells
Bench crunches
Reverse crunches
Traditional sit-ups
Captain’s chair crunches
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
Usually, I pick only one of these two days as my day of rest while the other day I do my longer run (about 9km).
RUNNING
4-5 times during the week I run 6km around midnight or 1am. It’s followed by a cool-down session of stretching. Because I am such a night hawk and this evidently doesn’t really work with Snickers’ internal clock, running super late helps me sleep. After a good run, it’s an easy lights out for me.
8. Trained tonight with Panty Boy Jr. and the Korean Bulldog. Ran into one of my favourite High School Kiddies and I think I sent him home with “issues”, so to speak, when I asked him to reach up the back of my top and pull my headphone wire down… hahaha.
9. Bought myself a late Valentine’s Day gift – a massive bag of Snickers bite-size chocolates. Actually, I didn’t really buy it but I told Snickers I did. I wasn’t about to tell him that it was actually the biggest piece of “bait” used yet by one of the guys at the local eye glasses store that I pass by every time I go to boxing. Usually he (the eye glasses dude) and I simply exchange smiles and nods. Occasionally though he stops me to chat or treats me to a yogurt drink and sometimes he’s even gone so far as to walk me a couple of blocks. Tonight, however, I ran into him in the grocery store when I stopped after boxing to pick up milk. Upon seeing the massive counter of Snickers bags I commented, telling him that I had wished for a bag for Valentine’s Day but never got one. “Now you got one” he said as he picked up a bag and placed it on the check-out counter.
10. Spent the rest of my evening lounging around the house and watching “Strong Man Competitions” on TV. Go Poland!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why does the F2 visa take so long to process?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
-- Ben Stein
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, February 17
1. With a bag full of papers and whatnot, I took the train out with Snickers to Daejon and then jumped in cab to head off to Daejon Immigration.
2. Of the required documents we were asked for, we were told to fill out this one specific form. I called it the “Couple Love Story” because it asked about the history of us as a couple.
4. Daejon now has a foreigner working as a translator and helper for those coming into the immigration office to fill out forms. I thought it was a much overdue and much needed thing but it was funny to note the reactions on the faces of Koreans entering the office. What was even funnier was their reaction when they noticed this particular foreigner and I speaking in Korean. Many Koreans stepped back to watch while some asked if they could use Korean on the Korean forms… hahaha.
5. My current E2 visa expires in about a week and, because I was told it takes about 3 months to process my F2 visa, I have been told that I can’t work. The immigration officer who accepted my F2 visa documents asked me if I knew this fact and I said yes, I did. “But it means you can’t work at all, not even part time” she added. “I know” I told her. Let’s see, what do I really need money for… hmmm…. I don’t like shopping unless it’s for groceries and I only do that once a week. I probably only go out to a restaurant maybe once, maximum twice a week. My transportation usually consists of me walking or Snickers driving me on our scooter, and my outings to Coffee Bean are now only once a week. Moreover, considering I have more money in my bank account than the average person in Korea makes in a full year, Snickers and I are certainly good to go. No worries and, if worries do rise which I highly doubt they would or could, I am connected in Korea. My Korean “uncle” has my back.
6. Ever since we returned from Bali Snickers has been all about PDA – public displays of affection – and he’s totally proud about it. What gets me though is how feisty he gets with me in public these days. We usually have a good round or two of play wrestling but that’s usually in the confines of our own house. Today, however, he started to stir things up in front of a crowd of people all waiting for the same train we would be taking. It started off with a “Hollywood kiss” and then he ended it by surprising me with a brutal knuckle punch to my butt cheek. It hurt like a mofu but I laughed out so loudly. I got my revenge by sinking my teeth into his shoulder and I thought that would end it but apparently it was just the start of what would be a very loud, very amusing, and very public play wrestle match. I think I won the last round though when I bit down on a chunk of his beautiful locks. He pulled away and out came one too many strains of hair… ouch!!!
7. Am pretty sure our play wrestling on the train platform was the reason why we got so many stares while riding the train. We had boarded the mini café train car because we had bought a standing-only ticket. We were okay with the stares of others but there was one guy in particular that we were not cool with him staring at us. He was a rough looking business man who had drank one too many beers while on the train. I tried to ignore him but when he was clearly getting on Snickers’ nerves. “Are you looking at me?” Snickers asked him. “No” he answered. “Are you looking at her [me]?” he added. “Yes!” And with that I stepped in between them and told Snickers that if anyone was going to punch the drunk it’d be me. I never did punch him, of course not, but he was definitely cruising for a bruising.
8. By the time we arrived back in Cheonan it was about 2pm and we were exhausted. Laid down for a short cat nap but my cat nap turned into a full on crash, with me waking up about 4 hours later.
9. Got asked to drop in weight class with my boxing license registry – light flyweight (49kgs).
10. Drinking a cup at 8pm definitely wasn’t the smarted of decisions today. I drank it after boxing not thinking that by only drinking it and not eating anything that I’d be struggling to fall asleep later on. Snickers crashed around 11pm and I stayed up counting anything and everything I thought would help me fall asleep. No such luck though. I finally dozed off after 3am.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why such the long wait?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind.
-- Author Unknown
What we prepared and packed in my bag:
(SNICKERS)
passport
driver’s license
family registry
housing registry
boxing license
reference form
(ME)
Passport
Self photo
Alien registration card
Housing contract
Bank Statement
Marriage registry certificate with the Canadian Embassy
Korean marriage registry certificate
F2 visa application form
“Couple Love Story” form
2. Of the required documents we were asked for, we were told to fill out this one specific form. I called it the “Couple Love Story” because it asked about the history of us as a couple.
Questions asked:3. For the most part, when Snickers and I first started dating the money we spent on our dates consisted of convenience store coffee money for the most part. Our dates basically consisted of us sitting in the park till the wee hours with a cup of coffee in our hands. Then there was the time Snickers showed up at my house with tea light candles. At the sight of the candles I thought he’d be giving me my first kiss that night but he ended up setting up my table and sitting half way across the room, or so it felt like. One time Snickers surprised me with cough meds, that was very sweet and definitely much needed. Anyways, our dates were very low budget and our pocket change clearly covered any expenses.
When did you first meet? (specific date)
Where did you meet?
How many dates have you two been on together?
How much money in total were spent on your dates together?
Briefly describe your timeline together starting from the first time you met till your marriage.
4. Daejon now has a foreigner working as a translator and helper for those coming into the immigration office to fill out forms. I thought it was a much overdue and much needed thing but it was funny to note the reactions on the faces of Koreans entering the office. What was even funnier was their reaction when they noticed this particular foreigner and I speaking in Korean. Many Koreans stepped back to watch while some asked if they could use Korean on the Korean forms… hahaha.
5. My current E2 visa expires in about a week and, because I was told it takes about 3 months to process my F2 visa, I have been told that I can’t work. The immigration officer who accepted my F2 visa documents asked me if I knew this fact and I said yes, I did. “But it means you can’t work at all, not even part time” she added. “I know” I told her. Let’s see, what do I really need money for… hmmm…. I don’t like shopping unless it’s for groceries and I only do that once a week. I probably only go out to a restaurant maybe once, maximum twice a week. My transportation usually consists of me walking or Snickers driving me on our scooter, and my outings to Coffee Bean are now only once a week. Moreover, considering I have more money in my bank account than the average person in Korea makes in a full year, Snickers and I are certainly good to go. No worries and, if worries do rise which I highly doubt they would or could, I am connected in Korea. My Korean “uncle” has my back.
6. Ever since we returned from Bali Snickers has been all about PDA – public displays of affection – and he’s totally proud about it. What gets me though is how feisty he gets with me in public these days. We usually have a good round or two of play wrestling but that’s usually in the confines of our own house. Today, however, he started to stir things up in front of a crowd of people all waiting for the same train we would be taking. It started off with a “Hollywood kiss” and then he ended it by surprising me with a brutal knuckle punch to my butt cheek. It hurt like a mofu but I laughed out so loudly. I got my revenge by sinking my teeth into his shoulder and I thought that would end it but apparently it was just the start of what would be a very loud, very amusing, and very public play wrestle match. I think I won the last round though when I bit down on a chunk of his beautiful locks. He pulled away and out came one too many strains of hair… ouch!!!
7. Am pretty sure our play wrestling on the train platform was the reason why we got so many stares while riding the train. We had boarded the mini café train car because we had bought a standing-only ticket. We were okay with the stares of others but there was one guy in particular that we were not cool with him staring at us. He was a rough looking business man who had drank one too many beers while on the train. I tried to ignore him but when he was clearly getting on Snickers’ nerves. “Are you looking at me?” Snickers asked him. “No” he answered. “Are you looking at her [me]?” he added. “Yes!” And with that I stepped in between them and told Snickers that if anyone was going to punch the drunk it’d be me. I never did punch him, of course not, but he was definitely cruising for a bruising.
8. By the time we arrived back in Cheonan it was about 2pm and we were exhausted. Laid down for a short cat nap but my cat nap turned into a full on crash, with me waking up about 4 hours later.
9. Got asked to drop in weight class with my boxing license registry – light flyweight (49kgs).
10. Drinking a cup at 8pm definitely wasn’t the smarted of decisions today. I drank it after boxing not thinking that by only drinking it and not eating anything that I’d be struggling to fall asleep later on. Snickers crashed around 11pm and I stayed up counting anything and everything I thought would help me fall asleep. No such luck though. I finally dozed off after 3am.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why such the long wait?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind.
-- Author Unknown
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, February 16
A lot has gone down this past week, so here's a brief recap:
1. I'm definitely not a fan of meeting new people, so after many used excuses and skipped-out on social engagements, I gave in to Snickers' puppy eyes and got dolled up for Mouse Doctor's birthday. I called it a night when one particular party-goer got way too on my nerves. Some people are just naturally stupid while some fall into it, but acting like some know-it-all and talking stupid about my husband will never be tolerated by me. Stupid is as stupid does, so I left her for her boyfriend to deal with.
2. The situation with Little Miss Crap Stirrer at the party bloomed into quite the full-blown argument with Snickers. It marked our first official married fight, and it wasn't pretty.
3. I joked with Snickers, telling him that I should have waited till after the Solnal New Year to marry him but the truth is I was totally apprehensive and nervous about this past weekend. Now Snickers' family is my family and so I can not longer lean on my creative excuses to save me, nor should I really because the truth of the matter is I do like them. It's not them I have a problem with, it's their culture. I'm really not cool with Korea's oh-so defined gender roles that are so evident during the holidays and I'm really not cool with seeing the daughter-in-law every time there's a holiday. You see, when a woman marries she then goes to her husband's family's house for holiday ceremonies. In Snickers' case, this means one of his aunts is out of the scene, another one (now divorced) is there, but the main weight of all the food preparing and whatnot falls on the daughter-in-law. I guess she thought Snickers getting married would mean another woman would be helping out but then again I'm a foreigner and definitely not a cooker of Korean food. It was tough luck for her and I felt bad.
4. Helped with the food prep for a bit but K-Gere posed as my hero and saved me from the oh-so-defined Korean gender roles by asking me to come help him chop wood. So outside with the men I worked, and it was so cold my lips literally turned blue!
5. Oddly enough, when I am uncomfortable I get ultra shy... and apparently I don't eat. I eat when I am bored but being stressed means I ignore food completely. I think the house mouse ate more than me this weekend.
6. This holiday marked the first official holiday without Grandpa Kim, so Granny Kim's weekend was marked with sad moments when she realized it. I think she really loved having a buzzing house though and it was good to see her again. She's super tiny and I think she really tries to make me feel comfortable by constantly touching my hands and by telling me to sit by her.
1. I'm definitely not a fan of meeting new people, so after many used excuses and skipped-out on social engagements, I gave in to Snickers' puppy eyes and got dolled up for Mouse Doctor's birthday. I called it a night when one particular party-goer got way too on my nerves. Some people are just naturally stupid while some fall into it, but acting like some know-it-all and talking stupid about my husband will never be tolerated by me. Stupid is as stupid does, so I left her for her boyfriend to deal with.
2. The situation with Little Miss Crap Stirrer at the party bloomed into quite the full-blown argument with Snickers. It marked our first official married fight, and it wasn't pretty.
3. I joked with Snickers, telling him that I should have waited till after the Solnal New Year to marry him but the truth is I was totally apprehensive and nervous about this past weekend. Now Snickers' family is my family and so I can not longer lean on my creative excuses to save me, nor should I really because the truth of the matter is I do like them. It's not them I have a problem with, it's their culture. I'm really not cool with Korea's oh-so defined gender roles that are so evident during the holidays and I'm really not cool with seeing the daughter-in-law every time there's a holiday. You see, when a woman marries she then goes to her husband's family's house for holiday ceremonies. In Snickers' case, this means one of his aunts is out of the scene, another one (now divorced) is there, but the main weight of all the food preparing and whatnot falls on the daughter-in-law. I guess she thought Snickers getting married would mean another woman would be helping out but then again I'm a foreigner and definitely not a cooker of Korean food. It was tough luck for her and I felt bad.
4. Helped with the food prep for a bit but K-Gere posed as my hero and saved me from the oh-so-defined Korean gender roles by asking me to come help him chop wood. So outside with the men I worked, and it was so cold my lips literally turned blue!
5. Oddly enough, when I am uncomfortable I get ultra shy... and apparently I don't eat. I eat when I am bored but being stressed means I ignore food completely. I think the house mouse ate more than me this weekend.
6. This holiday marked the first official holiday without Grandpa Kim, so Granny Kim's weekend was marked with sad moments when she realized it. I think she really loved having a buzzing house though and it was good to see her again. She's super tiny and I think she really tries to make me feel comfortable by constantly touching my hands and by telling me to sit by her.7. Watched my first Solnal New Year ceremony in which they had a ceremony for him in the house and then we visited Grandpa Kim's grave. K-Gere splashed some alcohol on the four corners of the mound of dirt and I stood off to the side, holding Granny Kim's hand while the others bowed in respect to Grandpa Kim.
8. Last year my Valentine's Day was brutally sad and consisted of me going to the movies on my own. This year, however, Solnal New Year fell on Valentine's Day but when I asked Snickers if we'd be doing anything for Valentine's Day, he started to say "but this is Korea.." "When do I get to enjoy my culture? My holidays?" I asked him. "Why do I have to forget about things important to me because I am in your country?! I haven't had a Polish cabbage roll in over three years" So on that note, after we left Granny Kim's house Sunday afternoon, I stayed in Cheonan while Snickers' headed off to Granny Shin's house (his mother's mom). Then I did like I did last Valentine's Day, I went to the movies alone.
9. Found quite a cool new friend, correction, she found me. I've decided to nickname her "Cherry Pie" for the time being because, as the saying goes, she's "as sweet as cherry pie". The other day she took me out for coffee. Coffee turned into lunch with her and her husband and lunch turned into three hour chat, just the three of us.
10. I guess that will have to do for an update. The Solnal New Year is now over (and thank you God for that) and now my dad is another year older... Happy B-Day Papa Bere!!! As for today, I celebrating today being my five year anniversary in Korea by buying a new Toshiba laptop. I also registered my marriage with the Canadian Embassy in Seoul and tomorrow we'll be traveling to Daejon Immigration to apply for my F2 visa.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How do you set up wifi?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Stupid is as stupid does.
-- Author Unknown
How do you set up wifi?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Stupid is as stupid does.
-- Author Unknown
Monday, February 15, 2010
Hold up...
I haven't been updating this particular homepage because my computer crashed. And while I've been able to faithfully up keep my other homepage, I'm losing interest in this one and am not too sure if I'll maintain once I get my new computer.
My other page is definitely my "foot in the door" to things I am pursuing and this one, well, this one is a pain in the "you-know-where" because of some of you so called "Anonymous" people, which really aren't so anonymous considering I have a tracking device on my computer. But whatever. To each their own.
I'm on to bigger and better things and this just might be something I let go.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Wait for me...
Trying to catch up with all my holiday photos and numerous entries missed because of my honeymoon hasn't been so easy. I figured I'd update you with my latest day's entry and then post about my honeymoon when I have time to do so. I'm hoping to finish off my honeymoon entries by this Wednesday night so please be patient, thanks.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Highlights of my Day... Tuesday, February 9
1. As I mentioned just the other day, I get spooked easily, so when Snickers thought it funny to tell me a ghost story his sister once experienced, I didn’t like it. He’s always making these silly sounds to try to scare me and he often rolls his eyes all the way back so that only the whites are showing. Well, today I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to a nightmare.
2. In my nightmare a woman that looked like what I imagined a witch doctor would look like was kneeling beside my floor mat where I was sleeping. With her eyes all white and her hair all messy, she started to reach out for me. I then reached out for whatever was close to me, which in this case was a wooden ball full of Bali coffee that I had bought for Cat, and threw it in her direction. Of course there was no witch doctor woman in my room but I had in fact thrown the coffee at her. Thankfully I hadn’t killed the wooden ball of coffee but I did totally spook Snickers. He sprung up from the floor mat like a jack-in-the-box. Serves him right though for telling me scary stories.
3. So much for tight security at airports and their long lists of what you can and cannot take back home. I thought things like plants, insects and animals were at the top of the no-no list, apparently not as I discovered today. We had unpacked almost all our stuff except for a bag of wet clothes that Snickers had scooped up right before we had left. In it were our bathing suits and a towel… and lots of ants and a dead gecko.
4. Does getting married mean giving up holidays, to which I would answer “heck no!”, so I refuse to give up Valentine’s Day. Snickers, on the other hand, claims that because we’re now married that he doesn’t have to show his love on Valentine’s Day. “I married you, isn’t that enough?” he asked. Well, it just so happens that this particular Valentine’s Day falls on the same weekend as Seol Nal New Year and, now because I am married, I’ll be spending it at Granny Kim’s house out in the boonies.
5. After a little bit of talking and a whole lot of me batting my lashes, Snickers agreed to make a compromise and so now we’ll be celebrating both our culture’s holidays. Through in the fact that it’s also my dad’s birthday on Friday and ya, it’ll be a packed weekend. Initially Snickers wanted to go to Granny Kim’s house from Friday till Monday but I cringed at the thought of both having to slave away with the rest of the women and having to decide whether I’d not shower for a couple of days or risk baring all in a bathroom with windows and no curtains. Plan now is to call my dad on Friday, then go Saturday morning, return Sunday morning, and celebrate Valentine’s Day just the two of us, in Cheonan.
6. The switch from the hot temperatures and all-day swimming and whatnot activities of Bali to the chilly cold and blah days of Cheonan is bugging me. I slept most of the day today out of boredom and my days now solely consist of running and boxing.
7. Today I had coffee with Cat but even the caffeine didn’t really work to waken me up.
8. .. getting punched in the head at boxing did however.
9. Almost scored yet another dog. Today I ran into the same dirty dog three times and in three different locations. The third time I saw him I was with Snickers. We were dropping by a local store to pick up some milk when he decided to follow me, yet again. Turns out his an “easy change love dog”, as Snickers called him, and no sooner did we arrive home but I looked out my window and he had started to follow another person.
10. While Snickers and I were away on our honeymoon we had two of Snickers’ friends look after Mi Nam, and both complained about a particular lady and her two off-the-leash dogs that live nearby. It’s one thing to have your dog off it’s leash but it’s another thing when other dogs are around. Moreover, she’s always yelling at other dog walkers and blaming them for this and that. I let Mi Nam off his leash but then again I also take him out for walks around 2am, when no one is around. Anyways, this lady drives me bonkers but Snickers and I had quite the laugh tonight when we watched the dirty dog sniff out her dogs and she had absolutely no one to yell at.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who took that lady of her leash?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.
-- Sri Guru Granth Sahib
2. In my nightmare a woman that looked like what I imagined a witch doctor would look like was kneeling beside my floor mat where I was sleeping. With her eyes all white and her hair all messy, she started to reach out for me. I then reached out for whatever was close to me, which in this case was a wooden ball full of Bali coffee that I had bought for Cat, and threw it in her direction. Of course there was no witch doctor woman in my room but I had in fact thrown the coffee at her. Thankfully I hadn’t killed the wooden ball of coffee but I did totally spook Snickers. He sprung up from the floor mat like a jack-in-the-box. Serves him right though for telling me scary stories.
3. So much for tight security at airports and their long lists of what you can and cannot take back home. I thought things like plants, insects and animals were at the top of the no-no list, apparently not as I discovered today. We had unpacked almost all our stuff except for a bag of wet clothes that Snickers had scooped up right before we had left. In it were our bathing suits and a towel… and lots of ants and a dead gecko.
4. Does getting married mean giving up holidays, to which I would answer “heck no!”, so I refuse to give up Valentine’s Day. Snickers, on the other hand, claims that because we’re now married that he doesn’t have to show his love on Valentine’s Day. “I married you, isn’t that enough?” he asked. Well, it just so happens that this particular Valentine’s Day falls on the same weekend as Seol Nal New Year and, now because I am married, I’ll be spending it at Granny Kim’s house out in the boonies.
5. After a little bit of talking and a whole lot of me batting my lashes, Snickers agreed to make a compromise and so now we’ll be celebrating both our culture’s holidays. Through in the fact that it’s also my dad’s birthday on Friday and ya, it’ll be a packed weekend. Initially Snickers wanted to go to Granny Kim’s house from Friday till Monday but I cringed at the thought of both having to slave away with the rest of the women and having to decide whether I’d not shower for a couple of days or risk baring all in a bathroom with windows and no curtains. Plan now is to call my dad on Friday, then go Saturday morning, return Sunday morning, and celebrate Valentine’s Day just the two of us, in Cheonan.
6. The switch from the hot temperatures and all-day swimming and whatnot activities of Bali to the chilly cold and blah days of Cheonan is bugging me. I slept most of the day today out of boredom and my days now solely consist of running and boxing.
7. Today I had coffee with Cat but even the caffeine didn’t really work to waken me up.
8. .. getting punched in the head at boxing did however.
9. Almost scored yet another dog. Today I ran into the same dirty dog three times and in three different locations. The third time I saw him I was with Snickers. We were dropping by a local store to pick up some milk when he decided to follow me, yet again. Turns out his an “easy change love dog”, as Snickers called him, and no sooner did we arrive home but I looked out my window and he had started to follow another person.
10. While Snickers and I were away on our honeymoon we had two of Snickers’ friends look after Mi Nam, and both complained about a particular lady and her two off-the-leash dogs that live nearby. It’s one thing to have your dog off it’s leash but it’s another thing when other dogs are around. Moreover, she’s always yelling at other dog walkers and blaming them for this and that. I let Mi Nam off his leash but then again I also take him out for walks around 2am, when no one is around. Anyways, this lady drives me bonkers but Snickers and I had quite the laugh tonight when we watched the dirty dog sniff out her dogs and she had absolutely no one to yell at.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Who took that lady of her leash?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.
-- Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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