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.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The Above Abandoned Floors of Spookiness and Filth

Our building, well from the rooftop to our floor.
Starting from the very top of our building, the rooftop, our abandoned building is pure ghetto.
We found this table but brought up our own chairs and ghetto BBQ for our late night parties, hence the shells littered on the ground.  We got a little "shell happy" at last party... hahaha.
This is the fifth floor, well the entrance to what used to be a bowling alley.  On the other side of the left wall are numerous bowling lanes.
This is the fourth floor.  I'm not too sure on what it used to be but apparently whoever ventured into here before us went a little bowling-ball happy and brought many of them to this floor.  In the far corner window area are numerous bowling ball bags and balls.
This is the third floor and again, someone brought some of the bowling balls here too.
And you know this floor, it's the second floor, where we have Hulk's.
Our floor was BY FAR so much nastier and in need of desperate work in comparison to the above and below floors and it is surely the best floor of all now.
But even though we've cleaned up our own second floor, we haven't quite escaped the ghettoness of the rest of the building, like the bowling pins that litter our stairwell and the random cheap call-sex note scribbled on our wall.  We could clean it up, sure, but it's a humble reminder of our humble beginnings.  Well, that and the fact that to clean up all the ghettoness of the building would take another year to do.

As for what's below us, I've never ventured to check out the first floor or three basements.  A stairwell full of broken toilets and sketchiness keeps me from wanting to even attempt.
So that's our building -- 8 floors.  Seven floors of ghettoness and one floor of fabulousness.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Now I really want to see pictures of the basement...