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.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

What-the-Fudge... Thursday, January 29

Sometimes you just have to laugh at life or find the humour in the everyday and have a good giggle.  Life isn't suppose to be so serious and if you stop to look at it you'll be able to see the humour in the everyday.  My days at Hulk's always seem to be filled me sitting down at the end of a long day and telling my friends about work.  Our conversations about my job usually start with "You'll never believe what happened" and they always are accompanied with lots of laughs and giggles.  Today seemed an exceptionally strange and derranged day, filled with extra "what-the-fudge moments" so I decided to jot down some that I remembered, the few that stood out.

Now a "what-the-fudge moment" is just as it implies, a moment that makes you go "hmmm".  And though those I write down here happened at work, please don't misunderstand me, they're not me making fun of the person or the situation but instead me just finding the humor in the everyday.  Oh who am I kidding?!  They're just moments that lack the common sense we often take for granted and the silliness or ignorance that accompanies them are just too undeniably funny.  It's all good because it's all just more humour of the everyday that makes life so interesting.


MOMENT 1:  Change room doors need "please close door" signs.
Walked in on a member undressing in the locker room so I politely reminded them that they are to change in the change rooms.  They said "OK" and so I left.  Upon realizing I had forgotten what I had gone in there for, I returned.
WHAT-THE-FUDGE MOMENT:  Returned to find them changing in the changeroom but with the door completely wide open.  

MOMENT2: Not everyone knows Snickers and I are married, as in to each other.
Was asked by a member why both Snickers and I took Tuesday off instead of having one of us work while the other didn't.  I told her it was because we were celebrating our wedding anniversary.
WHAT-THE-FUDGE MOMENT:  "Wow, you both got married on the same day, very fun", she said.

MOMENT 3: Questionable measurements questioned.
A new member joined and so I told him to stand on the InBody machine so that I could get his weight measurements and then I was going to take some measurements with my measuring tape.
WHAT-THE-FUDGE MOMENT:  He asked me if he had to take his pants off right there or if I was going to go into the change room stall with him so that I could measure him.

MOMENT 4:  Need a sign to say "please read ALL sentences of our signs, not just parts".
I put up a notice in the change room telling people that if their name was on this particular then they have to talk to me.  Many people's names are on the list because I simply need to take their picture for their profile or I have their handwraps they left behind after training.
WHAT-THE-FUDGE MOMENT:  Upon seeing her name on the list (as I stand there taping it to the wall) this member smiles, says "You can write Korean well -- my name looks pretty", and then walks away.

MOMENT 5:  Too much information leads to too much additional information.
One of our members works as a nurse for a "men-secret-bits" doctor (actual job title, no idea) and occasionally she talks about it, which poses various what-the-fudge moments.
WHAT-THE-FUDGE MOMENT:  When she arrived for training tonight, one member watched her walk by him and then said "every time I see her I think of penises and she doesn't even have one" he noted.

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