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.

Sunday, April 01, 2012

All Scratched Up but What'cha Going to Do?!... Sunday, April 1

Learned a hard lesson today – just because coffee puts you on a caffeine kick, don’t go running right after downing an extra strong cup of it!!! I did the mistake of doing this – chugging a cup of strong espresso -- and then going out for a long run. Big mistake. I suppose I should be a bit embarrassed about what I’m about to admit to, so be it, but Snickers got a HUGE laugh out of it.

So there I was, running around the Dankook lake when all of a sudden my caffeine kick turned into tummy cramps. My espresso was now kicking me… and it was kicking EVERY thing I ate today out, literally. I thought I could just run off the tummy cramps, they weren’t so bad, but then I realized there were other things going on that I just couldn’t hold off till I returned to Ggum Guum. Ya,… perhaps you know what I’m talking about.

Coffee works like a laxative to my body when it’s a bit strong. Well, today’s cup was rather too strong and so ya… I had to search out a bathroom asap or else… Thankfully there’s a bathroom on the path leading up to the lake so I took a detour and rushed over to it, no problem. Then there was the realization that there was no toilet paper, big problem. I hadn’t layered up with my clothing on account of the weather so I was basically only wearing my Adidas windbreaker tracksuit and Adidas runners.

My choices for toilet paper…
a. my Adidas socks – nope, can’t treat Adidas like that!!!
b. my sports bra – ya, like I’m going to run commando!
c. my CK underwear – at $50 a pair, ya right!

My limited choices were a no-go in my mind so I went in search of some “natural” toilet paper – leaves. I ended up finding some kid’s notebook right outside the bathroom. And now I have three paper cuts on my Polish bum… dang. I don’t think Snickers will ever forget this one… double dang!!!

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