1. Hanna showed up at 9am and ya, I was really impressed.
2. Not too sure why I had to do this but I got measured for a hambok today (traditional Korean dress). I’ve worn one before but didn’t need to get measured. Dave is convinced they just wanted to see just how much bigger Canadians are… they’re fascinated. He got measured too. Hmmmm….
3. Still have not mastered Ryan’s lesson “just give medium” but admit that I have learned to accept that you can’t change people…. no matter what I do, say, or think, some people will always remain strange and deranged.
4. Dinner date with Home-girl. Had to laugh at the fact that she’s been here for awhile and she can’t stomach spicy Korean food at all! So I sat there and ate her veggies that were definitely smothered in red pepper paste.
5. Got an unusual phone call from a friend of a friend who insisted I meet him cause he had some question he just had to ask me in person. Agreed to meet this Mr. Who at my gym despite my hesitation and thoughts of this being a “set-up”.
6. Turns out Mr. Who isn’t as strange as he initially started off being. Wanted to talk business with me…. good stuff! What’s the business you ask, ummm, let’s just say that’s MY business!
7. Had an interesting but very hard conversation with Jin Suk at training. She assumes I know more Korean than I do and so now she hardly ever uses English. The worse part about it is that I think I just agreed to something. I don’t know what, but later in the evening she texted me a message that read “thank you Amy”. Thank you for what?!
8. Busted my butt at training and pushed myself way too far with the skipping. Some women were watching me as they WALKED on the treadmill and so I felt obligated and a bit pressured to show them what the term “working-out” really means.
9. Surprise visit from my favorite Korean….. Mr. Yoon. He claims he came over just for my stash of cheese. I know better though…. he thinks I’m pretty. Ha, ha, ha.
10. Got kidnapped, tossed onto the convertible and then taken to a hide-away near Yawoori. I can’t say I really put up a fight though… I blame that either on the hard work-out or the cute Korean.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's the best advice you've ever recieved?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
He's so cheesy, I can't watch him without crackers.
-- from the movie "Reality Bites"
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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