1. Well I got so far as to shower, get dolled up and put my boots on, but just as I was about to open up my apartment door, my cell phone rang. It was the Cheonan Trump's assistant, the First Lady as I like to call her. Meeting canceled.
2. Got lots of slaps on the bum today at Hongik... hahaha. I don't know what it is with these Korean ajjumas (older women) but they always seem to get all touchy-feely with me at random times. Today it was over my fight and when I told them I tied my game, instantly Hongik's weight training room turned into a men's football locker room with about a dozen or so Korean ajjumas eagerly slapping me on the bum.
3. Change of plans with my friend Nat. She's coming tomorrow instead. She called me up to apologize and we started gabbing about numerous things. Unlike me, Nat travels a lot, something I wish I did but haven't because I really don't have anyone to travel with. Q never has more than a couple of days off in a row and most of my friends don't have the needed money. I have both, money and time, but I'm not really into traveling alone. It's not even a matter of safety, it's a matter of wanting to make memories with someone as opposed to sitting on some beautiful exotic beach with no one to chat it up with. Nat just might be the traveling buddy I've been needing.
4. Took a boxing pad to the side of my lip which only served to leave yet another bruise on my face... great. Just add it to the collection.
5. Motor Cross dropped by the boxing club. He use to be quite the cutie but has been on this huge diet kick lately. Mind ya, he's more or less popping pills as opposed to really dieting and losing the weight through exercising. He's quite proud of all the weight he's lost and so he proudly whipped up his shirt to show me but, honestly, I thought he was more attractive when he had a bit of pudge on him.
6. Panty Boy Jr. has his big title match this upcoming Monday night and so I'm stoked about that.
7. I'm still somewhat the Polish Smirf and I didn't think it was so bad until I met up with Buff Boy the Original and I caught my reflection in a mirror. I looked like one of those double-faced circus freaks. The right side of my face looks normal but my left side is a different story. I joked and told him that we're like beauty and the beast, me being the beast, but reassured him that in a couple of days I'll return to being the beauty and so he'll have to do something about his beastly looks... hahaha.
8. We had originally met up for coffee but coffee turned into me spilling my beans about things and then he insisted we go out for dinner, where he then spilled his beans. He took me out to one of my favourite restaurants for cheese tak galbi (cheese chicken). Buff Boy the Original has this "I'm honest" mentality that he thinks justifies why he's got absolutely no strainer on his mouth. And thankfully for me, I was just about finished my meal because when he started spilling his beans.. oh gosh.
9. For the sake of my homepage having quite the variety of readers, including my mother and whatnot, I'll refrain from regurgitating some of his stories. But I will say this, Buff Boy the Original left Korea for over a year and, in doing so, he really tried to "experience" what was out there... the good, the bad, the pretty, and the oh so down-right-ugly... and apparently he's got quite the collection of Polaroids to prove it... hahaha.
10. I never considered Buff Boy the Original to be an innocent boy, I always knew there was a wild streak in him but never in a million years did I ever think he'd do the things he did while away and then tell his mother!!! Oh gosh. And with his story about the Polaroids, I burst out into a complete giggle fest. I had a small cup of coffee in my hand but by the time we reached the stop lights, I had most of it on my hands from laughing so hard. I must have laughed for ten straight minutes all the while Buff Boy the Original walked beside me and hid his face in his hoodie... hahaha. My giggle fest lasted from when we left the restaurant, to us checking out the movie times in the theater, to me arriving at my apartment elevator... a full downtown walk... hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Did you ever think 10 years ago that you'd be here today?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-- Marcel Proust
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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