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.

Monday, May 07, 2012

Pity Partying... Monday, May 7


Threw myself a pity party today.

Yup, it’s true.

I put up a stink yesterday via text messaging on Kakao Talk when Snickers was a no-show midday.  It was my own fault, convincing myself he’d show up to say goodbye when he had already said goodbye the day before.  My stink messages meant not only did he not show up but consequently he also didn’t call.  He didn’t call to say goodbye; that was pretty rotten.

And with Snickers out of the country all the responsibility of looking after Pyen Chi and Balboa has fallen on me.  Today I was out of the house from 11am till about 9pm, so to help cancel out any kind of boredom felt by Pyen Chi – remember, a bored Pyen Chi is a bad Pyen Chi – I was busy hiding treats around the house in the morning.  Then I threw a massive bone layered with raw meat on the floor for her to spend the next hour or so chewing on.  Of course this meant I’d then have to wash the floor when I got home.

My allergies continue to test away at my patience and my ability to restrain myself from seriously scratching out my eyeballs!  I’m done all the meds the doctor gave me the other day and had even paired them with the just recently expired Claratine I bought when I was in Canada.  The expiry date on the box reads March 2012 but at the pretty penny they cost me mixed with my desperation for any kind of relief, I’ve been popping those bad boys like they’re Tic Tacs.  Yesterday I started a home remedy that was suggested to me – rinsing my eyes with water mixed with apple cedar vinegar.  Nothing much has resulted from rising my eyes with this mixture except for the fact that I now walk around smelling vinegar all day.  My eyes continue to itch so today I resorted to telling those around me to yell out “stop” if they see me rubbing my eyes. 

I didn’t go to boxing tonight on account that I didn’t want to put up with my teammate’s inquiring questions about Snickers and I just couldn’t stop rubbing my eyes.  Oh ya, plus I was still very much in the partying mood, the pity partying mood that is.

I exhausted myself today with being overly distracted with my allergies, wondering about Snickers, and just flat out wasting my time letting things get the best of me.  I missed Snickers, that was an obvious, but I was also still upset with his no-show, no-call goodbye.  What a waste of what could have been a really, really good day.  

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