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.

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Not the Saturday I Expected... Saturday, August 29

I had a really rough day, like a really, really rough day that started off on a brutal note, got better, but then ended up an even worse note than it had originally started.

Let's all go back to bed and just erase this day from our memories, shall we?!

I got some very upsetting news from Snickers this afternoon regarding our club and I ended up cutting the conversation short with him because it made me sick to my stomach with anger and disbelief.  It's very hard to be juggling what I am doing here with trying to continue my involvement with running Hulk's.  Something has come up, something big, and now I'm totally having to trust in Snickers to get this all figured out without having to pull me out of Canada and involve me.  Moreover, it's almost the end of the month and I still have yet to receive the scanned documents from Snickers so I can update the files and whatnot.  So my nerves are a bit on end, my patience is a bit thin, and my mind is a bit in a slump with everything.  Throw in the bad news I got today and ya, this is going to be a really "great" weekend.

I wish I could just hide my head in the pillow and wish it away.  No such luck.

Thinking that I could pick myself up from the mid day phone conversation that kicked my confidence to the curb, I headed to the grocery store.  Anyone that knows me knows I am always hungry and Canadian grocery stores, well, they are just fabulous.  With their deli section, diet-specific sections, massive grain section that always proves to be a sensory overload for me, walls of cheeses and crazy selection of dairy goodies like cottage cheese, and the fact that their green veggies are always so much greener than that in Korea, well I love grocery shopping in Canada. 

Grocery shopping proved to cheer me up but I had gone there hungry so while waiting for the bus I had a "little nibble" -- 2 bananas, 1 apple, a granola bar, and a slice of sliced, smoked chicken.

And while grocery shopping helped to cheer me up, another crash in my optimism happened when I was out at a friend's birthday party.  It was a pretty intense argument I got into, an argument that I would rather not share, repeat or dissect on this homepage, but it happened and it left me curbside and quite upset to say the least.  Got home after 5am from that and seriously pondered staying up just a bit longer so that I could grocery shop some more, for the sake of cheering myself up.

1 comment:

Jacky said...

That sounds awfully stressful. :( I hope Snickers steps up so that you don't have the added stress of Hulk's while you try succeed in Canada. Grocery shopping seems too easy to be true. ;-) I felt the same way when I came back to the states. haha.