1. Had one of those mornings where I waited till absolute last minute till I had to get out of bed. Wished hard that it'd be Saturday but my wish never came true.
2. Busted my butt to work so that I could be on time for tutoring with Hanna. Talk about a rough morning... even Guy Smiley wasn't at the GS store to cheer me on.
3. Ice cream treat day with Wisdom, like every Friday. Beginning to think I either treat them too much cause they're deserving of this or I'm totally spoiling them. I think I'm a sucker for these kids... I love these little runny-nosed mini-Koreans!
4. Turned into the "English Nazi" with my afternoon elementary Peace class. Listened and watched in shock as four students played a full English game in Korean and then much to their surprise, handed out sheets of paper for them to write "lines". ("At SLP I will only speak English" x24).
5. Think it's funny how I was forewarned that Bedro in my elementary Glory class was extra shy, shy with who though? I can't get this little one to be quiet or stop touching me!
6. Ice cream date planned for Sunday with Dream Minseo and Jimmy is canceled once again due to Jimmy's grandparents now coming in from out-of-town. I think I'm more disappointed than either of them.
7. Ventured downtown to MBar to meet up with a whole crew of people but unfortunately only 2/3 of the people showed up....what's up with that?! It was so cool to see Cheung again though, I really missed that guy. Always good times at MBar!
8. Hmmm, interesting.... got my picture taken with some of the MBar guys and realized much after the picture was taken that one of them had snuck a kiss in the shot... or so it looks like! I'm sure Ryan will be impressed.
9. Ran into the "Brown boy idiot" at MBar and tried hard to be on my best behavior (ie. tried hard not to snap on him after have to deal with his repetitive comments everytime I walked). It's only cause I'm in Korea that I didn't punch that fool.
10. After leaving MBar, sat on the curb and watched the men lift up a three story high star onto the front of Yawoori and reminisced about Christmas decorating with my mom and dad. No hanging of the stockings, no lighting up the tree and sadly, no cabbage rolls and coffee at midnight this year.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's your favorite holiday?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Where are you Christmas
Why can't I find you
Why have you gone away
Where is the laughter
You used to bring me
Why can't I hear music play
My world is changing
I'm rearranging
Does that mean Christmas changes too
Where are you Christmas
Do you remember
The one you used to know
I'm not the same one
See what the time's done
Is that why you have let me go?
-- Song lyrics from "Where are you Christmas"
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.
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