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, January 23, 2006

Highlights of my Day... Monday, January 23

1. I knew this was going to be a day of frustration when I rushed to tutoring early in the morning and Hanna didn’t show up till 9am.
2. Hats off to Johnny in my Wisdom class for totally milking the system. I told them that for every “love letter” they wrote I’d give them one sticker. Well… Johnny wrote 12! Ya it’s true. I walked into class and there were 12 love letters addressed to me and so I had to give him 12 stickers!
3. Sat back, closed my eyes, pictured myself on the back of Ryan’s scooter flying around Korea… opened my eyes and much to my incredible disappointment, realized the reality of it all. There I sat sitting with Spazzy-K and 37 days still to go.
4. You can imagine my anger and frustration when I discovered that Jinny, my 4 year old student in Wisdom class, knew more about what’s going on with the kindergarten program than me. This is pretty sad.
5. Money can’t buy you love but it apparently buys attention. Everyone wants to be the hero.
6. After a frustrating work day I retreated to my former elementary Peace class for a breath of fresh air… it really sucks large that I’ve been pushed into Virgo class and so now I’m not able to have this class.
7. Have you ever wanted to scream “What are you thinking?” at someone….ya, experienced that after Dave told me a certain someone rejected the leveling down of a particular student. She babo!
8. Funny story today… can’t remember how it all started but it ended up with me telling Louis that whenever he ticks me off I’m going to just sit on his head.... the calander that is. In the SLP calander there's two pictures of him. Jokes all around and there I sat in the staff room on Louis’ head.
9. Meet Mr. Important tonight by fluke and am totally stoked about the next couple of weeks. Definitely ready to play the duo role of both the villain and the hero. This should make for a very interesting story.

10. Came to the conclusion that the “Captain” was right… this is a business. On that note, I hope there’s no hard feelings, after all, this is just a business. Consider this a business transaction.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Where does your loyalty lie?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
-- Henry Ford

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