They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, so this year I'm doing things differently. Tonight Snickers and I talked about this over dinner, New Year's Eve dinner out. We had headed out to one of our favorite restaurants here in Cheonan for a quiet romantic dinner but romance wasn't on the menu of discussion, change was.
Tomorrow, like last year, we're planning on doing our usual New Year's day coffee date -- coffee sipping and resolution writing at a cozy coffee shop. Tonight I started to think seriously about all that went down this year and all that I hope for in 2012. 2011 was a hard year, possibly my hardest yet, so it was with a huge sigh of relief that New Year's Eve was finally here.
I've been waiting for today this whole year -- the day I get to close the door on 2011.
2012 entered tonight without the anticipated bang, minus the New Year's Eve strike at midnight kiss and without me yelling out the window "Happy New Years" for all the neighbors to hear. Nope. New Year's came quietly and Snickers and I slept through it. Actually, I woke up at exactly 12:02am to greet it. Snickers, on the other hand, didn't wake up till about 1am to give it any kind of recognition and by then I had poured myself a glass of red wine. We had purchased the bottle earlier on today, anticipating a romantic nightcap with mocha bread and a good midnight smootch, but Pyen Chi grabbed our mocha bread off the counter when we were out at dinner and then we had fallen asleep before midnight.
I had had a single glass of red wine during dinner -- my first and last real drink of 2011 -- but I had slept off any of the buzz it had given me during dinner. When I realized it was 12:02am and consequently already 2012, I thought I'd crack open the bottle, pour a little and then wake Snickers up to toast him. He was out like a light so I sat beside him and took a sip.
I took more than just a sip actually... I took two glasses, and two glasses were enough to send me into super giddy-mode. When Snickers woke up I was sitting in the kitchen trying to tie Pyen Chi's blanket around her waist. I was quite buzzed and when I realized it I started to laugh so hard, knowing full well that it's been over a year and a half since I last had a drink. I think I'm good to go for another year now.
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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