1. My mom use to have this thing with pennies. She use to set aside a certain number of pennies on the kitchen counter and use them to keep track how many glasses of water she drank that day. Lately I've been waking up each night. I usually make my way down to the bathroom to brush my teeth, pee, drink some water, and then head back to bed. Mind ya, I didn't realize just how often I was doing this until I started using my mom's penny idea. Turns out I did it 5 times last night... wow! That's a lot of brushing, a lot of water... a lot of pee... hahaha.
2. Have you ever got one of those gifts that was worse than getting no gift at all? Well, I checked my mailbox today and it looks like I got one of those gifts.
3. Felt rather discouraged today. I didn't know whether it was because of the numerous idiots who continually shine their stupidity around me, the Ungratefuls who are long overdue thanking me, or the fact that the masses here seem to only find interest in bickering about bad news but basically disregard my awesome news yesterday. I guess good news makes for boring news. People are always so disturbingly attracted to bad news. I don't understand it. It's like the car crash I saw today. Traffic came to a crawl as everyone downtown just had to take a peek. People seemed so fascinated by it but what fascinated me more was how everyone insisted on checking it out. Someone could have been killed in the crash, do you really want to see that? Are you going to sleep better at night now knowing that you saw a dead person? One of my students killed himself and at least 2 nights a week it haunts me in my sleep. I don't sleep better knowing the situation and I didn't even see his body. Seriously... what's wrong with people these days?
4. The boxing club is closed for the next four days and so I'll be training alone, well, that's not quite right. Panty Boy Jr. will be joining me, not too sure when though; he didn't show up today.
5. No sooner had I geared up and cranked up the tunes in the club but Buddy-Boy's trainer from the jail dropped by. At first I thought he was simply dropping off something for Junior Mint but then he sat down. He pulled up a chair and sat to watch me train... very strange. "He'll get bored watching me" I thought, after all, I start with 30 minutes of skipping and so I thought there would be no way he'd stick around for that ...oh, but he did.
6. Some time later, about 40 minutes later, Buddy-Boy also showed up at the club. Did they not see the notice on the door this past week, noting that the club would be closed?! Well, there wasn't much I could do or say and so I trained beside him. Turns out Buddy-Boy is only 24, is the current Korean male flyweight champion, has a fight this upcoming holiday Monday... and has fire red painted toe nails, how bizarre is that?! Korean guys sporting painted nails isn't so uncommon but I'm sure he'd get a pounding by my male friends over it if he went to Canada like that. Painting my boyfriend's nails has never been something I've ever pondered over. It's a bit too freakish for me and it screams gay.
7. Anyways, the pressure was on, definitely. With Buddy-Boy's coach directing all his undivided attention my way, I certainly felt the heat of his spotlight and so I trained hard. I even did a 40 minute weight training session on shoulders and triceps with the free weights.
8. Waking up today to a winter wonderland wasn't so wonderful as it meant the my evening dinner plans were canceled. The roads were covered in snow and ice, and well Korea not really use to getting much snow, doesn't exactly have snow-plowers. They more or less put sand (sometimes salt too) on the road and blankets on the street, hoping that it'll due until the snow leaves. And you know what, after a day or so, the snow usually does leave. But today's downfall... yikes. It's going to be staying around for a while. It snowed all day today!!!
9. Mi Nam loves the snow which is perfect for the winters to come when he'll be spending them in the Great White North. I put his little jacket on him in anticipation of him wanting to stay out longer in the snow... hahaha. Oh gosh, I talk about him like he's a person. Q thinks it's hilariously cute how much I adore Mi Nam but I fear becoming one of those annoying dog owners who's so obsessed with their mutt that they let their dog take over priority and rule the house. Good thing for me, I have an apartment... hahaha.
10. What better way to enjoy a white Saturday night than with a good movie... well, my options were kind of limited actually. It was more or less go catch a flick at the theater or watch one at home. Home sounded much cozier, and it was.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Did you remember to say your "P's" and "Q's" today?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
-- Jean Baptiste Massieu
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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