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, March 17, 2013

All Worked Up and No Where to Go... Sunday, March 17


It was a long day… too long.  It started at 7am, about four hours after I initially went to bed, and it ended around 5am.  It was a sweet and sour kind of day, full of unexpected running around and a freakishly long list of things to do, and it ended with Snickers getting his name put on my “people I want to head kick” list. 

Upon returning home from the Flipside Fitness Glam Girls Night Out, he dropped me off and left.  He wanted to go hang out with his friends.  “You do realize I may never ever wear an outfit like this until next year’s dinner, right?” I asked him. And with that I jokingly asked if he was gay. 

The dress I sported tonight was dangerously short and I kept on having to adjust it so that not only did it continually cover my bum but so that I wouldn’t “fall out” the top.  It was hot, flat out.  I had bought the dress back when I lived in Canada, for a dress-to-impress Italian wedding that was as over-the-top flashy as my dress was.  Mind you, back when I bought it I was pudgier and chestier so I no longer “fill it out” like I used to.  Anyways, the dress was clearly nothing like anything Snickers had ever seen me in… EVER!  Earlier on, in the car, my friend had noted to Snickers that Snickers is probably driving fast so that he can take me home and “have his way”.  Apparently he was driving fast so that yes, he could take me home, but so that he could meet up with his friends.

I wasn’t impressed though I must note I had to laugh at myself, realizing that I had become like the very guys I had dated in the past – expecting something from the date but getting nothing.  In a way, I had the equivalent of “blue balls” but for women, hahaha.  I even resorted to the “but I have needs” speech… brutal. It’s not like I wanted “adult play” (don’t call me out on that phrase, that’s what Snickers calls it) but I didn’t exactly want him to just drop me off and leave.  It would have been nice to make a kind of date out of what was left of the evening, after all I had been running around all day like a mad women, rearranging tables, helping out at La Cubo, and dealing with all the details and complications that came with me hosting a 20 guest party.  I really was anticipating unwinding from the long day with him but instead I just got myself worked up even more.

Of course Snickers was clueless as to what I was talking about; he’s innocent like that. He was all geared up to go play with his boys so that’s what he did.  I refused to drop the issue though and me joking about if he was gay continued into a long stream of text messages, both to him and then amongst his friends and I.  Snickers isn’t gay, he’s just a 12 year old stuck in a 28 year old man’s body sometimes, but I couldn’t help but wish he was more of a serious guy tonight.  It really bothered me to have friends bombard me with comments about the way I looked tonight but get really no response from him.  

Sometimes a guy just really needs to be an in-your-face kind of guy.  

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