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.

Monday, September 04, 2017

An Original... Monday, September 4

I'm going to a massive wedding this Saturday where the bride and groom have flown off to Japan to do yet another gorgeous photo shoot.  It's a wedding where it reads "strictly formal" on the five-million piece invitation that got hand delivered to me and it's a wedding where some 600+ guests are going to include politicians and business elite who will be decked out in their very finest and looking absolutely picture perfect.

No pressure.

I'm wearing the dress I bought for New Year's Eve.  It cost me $20.

I'm wearing Valentino high heels I bought from Greenhills and, if you knew Greenhills, aka bargain central and the land of fabulous fakes, you'd know my shoes really aren't real Valentinos.  

My purse is a cute clutch bag I picked up a year ago at H&M and I'm either going to go for a pale pink lip or a loud, hot pink lip because, well, I only own two lip glosses.  

I don't know what I'll do for my eye make-up because beyond mascara and the occasional cat eye line I do with liquid eyeliner that never seems to last long before I accidentally smudge it off, I really don't wear anything on my eyes.  Nor do I really know how to do eye make-up.  

I don't even know how I'll do my hair.  I wanted to put it in wild, out-of-control curls but I have no curling iron here so that's a bit of a problem.  

What I do know is that I will definitely be out-dressed but I won't be out-haired.

Not such a word, thanks genious, I know that.

I'm going to show up at this beautiful wedding with beautiful pink hair.  I'm going to be a real original.  I'm going to be the only one with pink hair.   So that's what I did today, after boxing, I headed off to BGC and got my hair cut and dyed pink.  It looks fabulous.

No comments: