Valentine's Day, for me and Snickers at least, has been postponed till Monday, February 20th.
On account of the fact that I'm doing my fight prep diet and am basically eating, sleeping, training and breathing solely boxing these days, we thought it best to celebrate the day after my fight, when we can actually enjoy it. Despite the postponed date, we did however celebrate it to a certain extent today. I surprised Snickers with his favorite chocolates and a hand written Korean letter. He made sure I had a very relaxing and mellow day, giving me massages, making sure Pyen Chi let me sleep, and he cleaned the whole house. In the afternoon my new Canadian passport arrived at my front door so that was definitely a great Valentine's Day gift -- thanks Canada!
I spent a good part of the afternoon cooking chocolate chip cookies only to try to put my own special touch to them and consequently kill them. Snickers took one look at them and when he asked me "Why did you cook bread?" I knew my cookies had failed. Perhaps I could use them as doorstoppers or throw them at the noisey neighbours as opposed to apples and oranges... hahaha.
So my chocolate cookies that I was planning to wow my teammates and those at the boxing club were a big bust as was my present that I bought my coach -- a box of chocolate cookies that 7 other people thought of buying him too. Despite the two fails, I did however score big at the boxing club with a back-up plan -- Canadian chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil that I had bought this past summer when I was in Canada. They've been sitting in my fridge since I returned in October so I was more than happy to hand them out today because they've been pure temptation, of which I can proudly say I only gave into once!!!
Here in Korea, Valentine's Day is all about the guys -- girls give guys chocolates. Us gals have White Day (March 11th) and on this day the guys give us girls candies, so I didn't get any little gifts from my boys at boxing but am sure I'll get lots of White Day. I don't really care if I do get anything actually though because it felt pretty good giving out those gold foiled chocolate coins and handing select teammates of mine extra chocolates I had bought the other day for them. They all were overly smilely about it and I made a couple of them blush. A Korean that blushes?! Yup, there's a few of them at my boxing club;)
Despite not really doing anything with Snickers today to celebrate the day, I did rack up quite a high number of people to call my Valentine, 23 to be exact -- my coach, 5 teammates, 4 amateur boxers, 10 boxing enthusiasts, 1 professional motorcross race driver, and of course my two favorite being Snickers and Pyen Chi.
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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