A certain someone has read between the lines and discovered my weakness.
Banana milk. It's like my kryptonite!!!
I walked out of my office today and was greeted by a male first year university student who with his big baby eyes all wide-eyed and glossy, he smiled at me and then placed a single container of banana milk into my hand.
A week ago I first met this young guy. He stood around in the hall waiting for me to come out and when I did he asked me, in Korean, about my boxing. As it turns out, he attends a boxing club in Suwon and my name came up the other day at his club while he was training. Wonder Boy (Snickers' best buddy) and some other pro boxers I know train there. Anyways, he was all excited about hearing his boxing buddies are also my boxing buddies.
"You're like Superman," he said, "but you are a woman!"
Today he meet up with me again, again unexpectantly, and when he gave me the banana milk I grined from ear to ear. Banana milk was one of my first favorite things I discovered here in Korea. It is to me today what ice cream used to be when I was a little girl -- a comfort food that always brought a smile to my face. I don't drink Banana milk so often these days, it's a treat to me, but when I do drink it I must admit I'm definitely not one to share it... hahaha.
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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