1. Waking up too fast resulted in a very, very nasty morning scene as certain "projectiles" instantly made their way up and out from my tummy and unto the floor... and my housecoat.
2. I promise to never ever eat any more fish from that food stand in the Galleria. Just thinking about it is making me sick.
3. After I cleaned up my morning mess, I pretty much spent the whole day on the couch.
4. Between 9am and 9pm I did nothing but act like a human vegetable. I ate nothing, drank nothing... did nothing. I tried to force myself to eat something but the thought alone of food turned my stomach.
5. Finally around 10pm I finally managed to stomach something, some bread Q brought me.
6. With all my laying around the house and waiting for both time and my food poisoning to pass, I got thinking about people, more specifically, people who insist on spreading their bad vibes. Gotta love people who continually try to pee on other people's parade, sarcastically speaking. I ask you, what's wrong with people now days?! So what if someone has a nicer house than you, a better job, or whatnot. There are so many other things we could be focusing our interest and efforts on than "haves" and "have nots". If you have the time to complain about it than you have the time to do something about it. I know a lot of people in the haves category are not fairly there but so be it, what good does it do you complaining about it?!!! Instead of sitting around and accepting whatever life gave them, they went out and did something about it. And what's so wrong about being happy for those who have achieved whatever it is that they wanted?! Since when did reaching goals and conquering dreams become the reason why we don't like people?
7. This reminds me of a friend of mine, a Korean friend who since early childhood has been practicing a particular sport. While all his friends were hanging out at the park or going to the movies, he was at training. He ate, slept, breathed, and lived the sport. Many years later he was then faced with the issue of having to go to the Korean army. All Korean males, with some minor exceptions, have to go to the Korean army for roughly two years. At the time when he was to be enlisted he was offered a huge sponsorship and a chance to travel the world doing what he had been practicing since he was a little boy. It was one of those very rare once in a lifetime opportunities, take it or leave it. This was the very dream he had been wishing and working for but it couldn't have come at a worse time. As it happened, my friend's father ended up paying his son's way out of the army and, despite not regretting it, my friend constantly feels the burden of this decision. He's now a very successful professional athlete but many of his friends are now former friends and he's constantly disrespected and looked down upon for his decision. But, and I ask you to answer honestly, what would you have done? If your dream was finally on your doorstep and all you had to do was accept it after years of striving towards it, would you give it up or would you take it?
8. I for one will be the first to say that I would have done the same. This is your life, you only have one so what's the point of wasting your time on dreaming a dream when you can go out and make it actually happen? And that's what I'm doing here, I'm living my dream. When I entered university many years back, I had a dream. My dream was to move to Korea to teach and so that's what pushed me through schooling and got me here. I never really dreamed of becoming a professional boxer but instead just really wanted to see how far I could take my boxing. So that's what I am doing, teaching and boxing. And although my dreams may at times burden me, just like my friend's does, at least I took my chances, took my shot at happiness, and did something about my dream instead of the so many people who clearly don't. I don't feel bad or regret anything that I am doing here in Korea because I can't change any of the bad choices I made, I can only learn from them and continue living a life that I think is pretty great. I'm living a life that is so far from the "cookie-cutter life" that so many people I know have settled for.
9. My dream of Korea may end but then my next dream will kick in and then I'll pursue it, but please, please don't think for one moment that you're in any position to stop my dream. If anything, it just makes me stronger and makes me feel sorry for you.
10. I went through a really trying and nasty time last fall and I'm still trying to move past it. I'm really trying to turn over a new leaf in my life, trying to be more optimistic, trying to better myself, but it's so continually hard to do so. You and I are no different in that we all need encouragement and love, so I don't want to wake up to pestimistic comments on my homepage. They don't and will never make me a better person. I am but one girl trying to live her life and somewhere along the way I agreed to share it with you here, on the Internet, so I'm asking you politely to be more considerate.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why is it so much easier for people to be mean than to be nice?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Good girls may go to Heaven, but the rest of us can go wherever we want!!!!
-- Chylanna
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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Hey here's a great idea Amy. Why don't you ask all those neg.vibes people to post links to their homepage so that we can all go and bash them and see if they can handle the pressure!
Hi Anonymous,
Ya sorry, but that's not such a great idea actually and it's not what I was suggesting by any means.
But between you and me, I doubt they'd last though.
So many times I see how people mistake the Internet and their ability to stay 'anonymous' as a means of justifying why they can say anything to anyone. They have no balls.
Be careful when you use the word "cookie cutter life" because that may actually be someone's dream. Imagine a woman who grew up with a drunk mother who left an older sibling in charge most of the time. Money was constantly short. Random boyfriends brought in and out of life. Well perhaps that girl always wanted a "normal life" she worked hard, got an education, married a great guy, had kids and now lives in a cute little house with an actual white picket fence. Her dream, too. Not all dreams are fantastic, challenging ideas that are meant to blow people away. Some are just "live a normal life and be there for my kids"
That is not my story but my good friend's and sometimes I would say the same thing and then I realized, wait a second, that is her dream. I am proud of her for reaching her dream.
By the way, I am not crapping on your dreams. I don't discourage you from training and competing. I find inspiration in that and that is why I read your blog. However, there are moments when you say and do things that are, I think, out of character for you (at least I hope) and at times I feel you are not being authentic. I feel you conflate situations to add drama and intrigue to your life, to make a great story. I personally feel if you keep a blog for the world to see, then you are inviting the positives and the negatives. Nobody should harass or disparage you but people have the right to comment and criticize. Sometimes criticism hurts but sometimes it changes us for the better.
Hi Mark,
Yes... and no.
Hello Tracey,
Actually, you know what, I totally agree with you in that yes, it may very well in fact be someone's dream and for that I appologize but I was making a general statement. I know it doesn't mean it's OK to say it but I was just mentioning that I didn't want it for my life. Unlike many who I'm sure came from a hard upbringing or hardtimes, I came from a very white picket fence, father home at 5pm, dinner at 6pm kind of life, much like the Clever family in "Leave it to Beaver", but I never was happy with that life. I wanted more than the more I already had.
Fair enough, people have the right to criticize and comment, but it's when it's always criticism that is really discouraging. My homepage is a kind of way of making sense of my life and so it'd be nice if more people were adding insightful thoughts and whatnot as opposed to making me feel like I'm always in the hot seat getting the finger pointed at.
Are there really that many negative anonymous comments? Unless Amy's been deleting them, I don't think there've been way more than on any other blog/webpage (and in fact, some of the comments replying TO the comments have often been snarkier than anything that was originally said.) Most of us have been signing our names.
Anyway, I personally have never commented here with the deliberate intention of hurting anyone's feelings. I've just called it like I see it. No different from the way I operate IRL.
So you're only accepting comments now? That's a good idea, I like it.
I think that that friend of yours should be admired for being able to achieve success. So many people try and fail, what if he had his dad borrow the money only to fail at the sport? He was able to do the very best with what he had, and that is something to be proud of.
You are something to be proud of. Please remember that I am not only PROUD of you and AMAZED by you, but that I look up to you, and I love you =)
<3
Bman
Hi Mrs. Kim,
Yes, I've been deleating them. Actually, there were only a couple but they were pretty in my face about petty things. Things I really have no reason to explain and prove them wrong. Trying to prove myself with them would only prove they got to me and that I am no different than them.
IRL = in real life?!
Thanks for the continual comments though Mrs. Kim. Sometimes I really need someone's opionion from the outside looking in to make sense of things. After all, another perspective is always helpful.
Yo Bman,
Ya, but now that I've been monitoring my comments here so many people have turned into chicken sh%* and so my comments numbers have nose dived... hmmm.
I'll be sure to tell my friend you support him. He's in the States right now on tour but he's dreading coming back to Korea, his homeland, because of the slack he gets from so many people.
And thank you for the shout-outs to me too, you're ALWAYS such an encouraging sweetheart to me... I guess that's why I love being your big sister!!!!
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