1. Little Miss Sunshine showed up nice and early at my apartment door today to borrow my key for the boxing club and to tell me that I a certain someone had been asking her questions about me.
2. At training today Buddy-Boy came by with a newspaper reporter. He had won his fight this past Monday... K-O in the first round!!! Needless to say, his awesome win scored him a lot of attention, especially considering his background with the jail and whatnot, so now they're doing a profile on him in the paper.
3. Turns out the "certain someone" that Little Miss Sunshine was referring to was Buddy-Boy. While the reporter repeatedly bombarded him with her camera and told him to pose like this, pose like that, he tried to stir up a conversation with me. "You didn't come to my game" he noted. "I figured it was about time I washed my hair... hahaha" I joked. "I like your dirty hair" he added. "Thanks... I guess." The truth of the matter is, besides the fact that no my hair isn't dirty but instead it's just this extra extended, ongoing joke, I wanted to go to his game, I really did, but I had no clue where it was being held, nor did anyone else at the club for that matter. Most people I asked didn't even know who he was beyond "that kid from the jail" and so I felt bad.
4. Well it's official... I've lost about 90% of my tunes do to my computer crashing last month. Great... note that's sarcasm there.
5. Fabulous... just fabulous. That's how I feel and no I'm not going to act all humble about it. The other day an anonymous commenter wrote "we get a lot of 'I'm wonderful, I'm beautiful, I'm smart (maybe not on those exact words, but that's what you're implying all the time)". And you know what I say to that.... yes, I do think I'm wonderful, I do think I'm beautiful, and yes, I do think I'm smart. I don't bust my butt off at training and continually try to educate and better myself so that I could look in the mirror and see an ugly dumb-nut starring back. After years of letting people step on my body image I no longer care what others see when they look at me. They're not the one I have to face in the mirror. And up until a year ago, I had never seen my full body naked in the mirror and I think that's pretty sad. To me, the mark of beauty is being confident with who and what you are... a smile on the face that matches the inner smile on the heart and soul, so why can't I call myself beautiful if that's how I feel? The opposite of beautiful is ugly and I no longer want to be that.
6. In the day of age in which we live in where so many of us have continuous weight struggles, body complexes, and self confidence that raises and falls like a roller coaster, I am proud to say that I no longer am a rider. I got off that roller coaster in my last year of university when I was sick of the ride and realized that if I had the time to complain about my body and whatnot then I had the time to do something about it. I've earned my right to feel fabulously happy in my own skin and self, so if this makes me sound cocky than well, you've mistaken me for someone I'm not. There's a difference between confidence and cocky, and cocky I am not. I've never claimed to be perfect in any way. Like everyone else, I too have my weaknesses but you know what, I'm doing the best with what I got and am making better to get what I want ... so yes, I think I'm pretty fabulous and I'm not going to apologize for that... why should I?!
7. Took my fabulous Polish self and my fabulously cute Q out for a fabulous dinner.
8. Leave it to Q to order like half the menu worth of food at Mainz... hahaha. We must have ordered an amount equivalent for four people. Q justified it by saying "we are athletes... must feed our muscles"... hahaha.
9. So dinner out was definitely a nice change from my blah eggs and veggies. Mind ya, these past couple of days my eating patterns have been quite relaxed and I've been eating like royalty. It stops after this weekend though. First of all, money wise, our eating has been quite expensive lately and secondly, although the food tastes totally delish, nothing tastes as good as being fit feels!!!
10. Dinner was followed by a movie and then the movie was followed by an at-home facial... hahaha. Hats off to Q for being a fabulous sport about it all. I had dragged him off to Skin Food to load up on facial treats and then made him endure about an hour's worth of face scrubbing, mask wearing, lotion applying facial "fun"... hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Since when was confidence a bad thing?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-- Confucius
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.
20 comments:
Yes, you are fabulous Am.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
- Margaret Thatcher.
Amy,
"And up until a year ago, I had never seen my full body naked in the mirror and I think that's pretty sad."
For once, I agree with you.
I'm sorry to hear that you've had such body issues in the past, but cramming your greatness down our throats does nothing whatever to convince us that you are, in fact, great.
Humility need not mean that you do not FEEL confident, merely that you allow others to recognize your talents on their own. If you are as great as you claim, it will out in the end.
~Geraldine
Hey Ricky,
Thanks dude.
Hello Scucji,
Great quote but I think you missed my point, sorry.
Hi Geraldine,
For once?!... oh gosh... hahaha. Thank you though.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to "cram" anything down your throats. I think it's just so strange how we're viewed as either insecure or cocky when it comes to self confidence. Can't we just be confident and appreciate that?
I know my entry was a bit in your face and I appologize. I guess I'm just overly relieved to be over that which once held me so back.
I remember those days you're talking about Am and I too am glad they're over and out. You go girl!
Hey Amy.
Sometimes I wish I wasn't your little brother. I do feel like family to you, but other times I feel like just cuddling with you and telling you everything will be ok. I don't know what it is, but I have this urge to protect. To not be the LITTLE brother, but the BIG HERO =D
I love you, AND your body :P
<3
-Bman
Rock on Amy. All the more power to you if you can hold your head up high. Sadly enough, ALOT of people have confidence issues, me included.
Actually, what I said (and you deleted) the other day was that we get a lot of those comments from you, but you have BIG issues if anybody disagrees with you about it. It's great that you think you're beautiful and smart, but some of us have a right to think you're not. And that's when you get defensive and start calling us all crazy. And I agree that there's a difference between confident and cocky. Somebody who's confident does not need to go around telling everybody how great he/she is, because other people can see it.
the only person here with BIG issues is you
she never called us crazy and she also never said we should think she's beautiful
she is beautiful on her own terms
you're probably the ugly one because you just can't seem to be happy for her
PEOPLE WHO CONTINUALLY PEE ON OTHER PEOPLE'S PARADES DO IT OUT OF JEALOUS AND ENVY
i particularly don't like short girls but i like her spunk
you really need to get a hobby
the girl writes daily on her homepage, expresses her opinion about a subject and all of a sudden she's a monster and in the wrong
wow
definitely you have issues
Sounds like Geraldine-the-Porcipine needs to get laid.
Is it just me or did ya all miss the rest of her post? Amy, I'm glad to here that that guy won his match. I think your buddies at the gym need to learn his name. Afterall he is the current flyweight champ. Keep up the training and back up your computer files will ya. Music is my life. I feel ya pain. Peace out girl.
We get it Geraldine, she deleted your comment. Tell us again.
We’ve all dealt with haters. “Haters”, as we know them are success-haters: those who resent you for what you have accomplished or are trying to accomplish. It becomes obvious after a point: not all haters are created equally. Different haters hate on you differently, for different reasons and thus must be handled differently. Before you can learn how to handle the assaults of haters, you must understand who you are really dealing with (yes, there are actually different TYPES of haters… all haters are not created equally).
To make things simple, haters can typically be classified based on two factors:
a) How strong their desire is to damage you and put a halt to your success or smother the flame of your ambition.
b) How effective and cunning their tactics are in actually accomplishing their intended purpose (which may include deterring you, stopping you, damaging your confidence or making you feel guilty for succeeding).
In other words; how much they want to stop you and how effective they are at actually doing so.
Well hello there Miss Amy, I'm jealous of all the attention you're getting but couldn't help to note that you have some haters scribling crap on your pages and so I thought you might like these quotes about haters. Remember, haters help make you famous.
1. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them more.
2. Don't hate cuz I'm cute and sweet; hate cuz you can't compete.
3. Don't hate me because I wasn't who you thought I was or who you wanted me to be. From start to finish you never knew the real me.
4. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful; hate me because... Well, okay. Hate me because I'm beautiful.
5. Hating is the sincerest form of flattery.
6. Don't hate what you can't imitate.
7. Hated by many. Confronted by none.
8. Haters only hate the things that they can't get and the people they can't be.
9. Haters wanna play hard. I won't pretend to be mad. I'll just disregard you like my memory's bad.
10. Hating on a certain name only gives them fame.
11. If you don't like me remember it's mind over matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.
12. If you hate me or what I'm reppin then click the [x] and get to steppin!
13. It's better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not.
14. Keep looking my way. My head is held high. You wanna bring me down? I dare you to try.
15. Love me or hate me. Either way I'm on your mind.
16. So many assume. So little know.
Maybe critizing you is their way of saying they like you Amy. Maybe some people are just still stuck in kindergarten when pulling hair meant the boy liked you. Maybe this is their way of 'pulling your hair'.
... hell I'm 32 and I'd luv to pull ur hair Amy!
Amy,
Thank *you* for listening.
As for your friends here, I'm wondering what a "Porcipine" is? Did you perhaps mean the prickly porcupine or were you intending to insult me by calline me porcine?
Either way, I'm sure Amy does not appreciate being "defended" with such low-brow comments. Especially as we all know her personal views regarding sex.
And I am not the same "anonymous" who referred to another deleted comment. I believe Amy and I had already resolved our differences as to the matter of one stupid little comment she deleted and I assure you I have no lingering ill will regarding it.
~Geraldine
oh my God!!!!! More drama
"Dinner was followed by a movie and then the movie was followed by an at-home facial."
I'll come to Cheonan and give you a REAL at-home facial.
Because I don't think Amy is beautiful it means I'm ugly? That's some twisted logic.
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