Today I celebrated two things:
1. My 5th round KO victory
2. Baby Pac's 2nd birthday
I joined up with a friend today who had told me a while back he wanted to give me a special dinner in celebration of my fight victory in Thailand. He didn't have to but the gesture alone was so very sweet and so very encouraging. My fight in Thailand wasn't a championship fight but all that lead up to it and went down on fight day definitely made me feel like a champ for having successfully gotten through it all. No one but me will even know the full story of it all. There are some secrets I'll have to keep regarding it and that is now the burden I carry. Meeting up with my friend to celebrate my victory -- my victory both in and out of the ring -- was rather late but better late than never and I was so very thankful for the special night out. I know a lot of friends congradulated me on the fight whereas others personally couldn't care. I'd love to spill my beans and shock the socks off the "non caring people" with the details of it all but I won't. Instead, I decided to share a part of my story to my friend tonight, a part that I haven't even told Snickers because he'd freak, and it felt so good to get it off my chest and out into the open if only to one person. My friend is also a young entrepreneur so we talked a lot of business talk and bounced ideas off of each other. Our businesses aren't in the same field but none the less we share a common business mentality that I've yet to find in so many others I know here.
I also had Pac's second birthday to celebrate today so upon arriving back from dinner, we then had a little party for him. It's hard to believe that Pacquiao is already two and it's hard to believe that he is just a dog and not actually a little boy who just happens to have four legs. Sometimes Snickers teases me because I talk so much to our "four-legged friends", as you know I always refer them to as, but I think humans and animals have a deeper connection than most would assume. I once had to teach this story in English reading at Dankook University that talked about the different beliefs and customs of different cultures. I can't remember if it was the Egyptians or what but one culture of people believed that dogs were guardian angels. I can see why people would believe that. Heck, I can't even go into the bathroom stall here without them all following me and trying to sneak under the dog. Snickers and I joke that perhaps Pacquiao may not be so much of a guardian angel but more so of a personal bodyguard for me and a sniffer-outer-of-bad-people.
You know how they say "if my dog likes you than I probably won't either", or something along that lines, well we're always very curious as to who Pac does and doesn't like. He's a wild one, there is no ignoring that, but he is also very sure in who he likes and doesn't like. All my pups, they liked Wow the first second they met him which of course is awesome because he is our main sponsor. We'd have a serious problem if they didn't, especially considering how much he comes over and spends time with us at the club. Our four-legged friends love the entire Wow family actually and I can understand why -- they're just honest to goodness nice people who try hard to be good. Tonight Wow showed up for Pac's second birthday party and it was so cute.
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