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, April 23, 2017

Panic Mode... Sunday, April 23

Crank calls, 11 of them.

Late in the evening someone crank called me.

They crank called me a total of eleven times on my Filipino number.

I answered after the third call and the person on the other end somewhat pretended like they couldn't hear me.  All I got out of the short call was asking them what their name was.  There was a pause and then they said "Kevin".  I doubt that's their name though.  It doesn't matter.  What mattered to me was how they pronounced Kevin.

And just like that I became scared.

I'm only a short four hour flight away from Korea, a place I left a year and a half ago for various reasons, one of which was my safety.  All this time though I've been in Canada, a 20hr, $2000, 2 plane ride away.  The cost of the flight alone gave me a sense of security.  But now I'm in the Philippines and the cost of the flight to "run into me" is super cheap in comparison.

I didn't fear Korea until tonight, when I hadn't heard from Snickers for almost a full week and then suddenly started getting crank called.  It seemed like such a nerve racking coincidence.

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