It's been a rough year; it's been a year of terrible losses.
I lost my mother to cancer.
I lost my scooter to some random thief.
I lost my Mi Nam to sickness.
I lost my patience for KBC with them not scheduling any decent fights for Snickers.
I lost my daycare job because of complications with having to visit my mother one last time.
I lost a lot of money with having to drop every thing and spend two months in Canada.
I lost an ex-boyfriend's father to brain cancer.
I lost a boxing teammate to suicide.
... and I almost lost my husband a month or so ago when he was accidently tossed out of a moving car and missed an oncoming car by just a hair.
So ya, it's been a very trying and very tiring year to which I am ever so eager for it to end. Bring on 2012 and bring it on quick please! Snickers got scheduled a Welter weight championship fight for Christmas Eve but just the other day -- Thursday -- the whole tournament got post-poned to Janauary.
New news has surfaced regarding Mi Nam's totally unsuspected death. Word has it that there's a bug going around, especially nere more wooden areas, and great, I live right beside the river where apparently it's perfect breeding grounds for such a bug. This bug apparently is somewhat like the flu bug but more lethal. I don't know much about it and honestly at this point I really don't give a damn about it. Mi Nam is gone. Mi Nam is gone and I'm really having a hard time trying to accept it so having the vet want to call me up about this flu bug or whatever it is really isn't helping me.
Pyen Chi went through a solid week and a half of depression which is odd in that she never really cared for Mi Nam. Mi Nam followed her around every where and Snickers and I always had to tell Mi Nam to stop licking Pyen Chi's gums and teeth -- strange manner, I know, but that was Mi Nam. A strange little character. Anyways, Pyen Chi lost all interest in eating for about a week and getting her to go outside for walks involved me having to carry her down three flights of stairs half the time. But with her being now close to 40kgs (88lbs) it's rather hard to carry her. She pulls the "dead fish" -- legs go jelly and she is pure dead weight, making it even harder to carry her. She is better now but she often acts out if left alone in the house for longer than an hour. We've decided to let her now sleep with us on our floor mat at night but waking up in the middle of the night to her insisting on sleeping on my chest means I wake up gasping for air and feeling rather crushed.
I say it's been a year of losses and that it has but I also gained three really great things out of the bad -- a love for Pyen Chi, a matured relationship with my father that is closer than it already was, and I've started my own fitness company.
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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