1. Considering I spend most of yesterday thinking that Tuesday was Wednesday meant that today was a pretty sweet bonus.
2. Why do naked women continually insist on patting my back and stirring up conversations with me when I'm in the change room at Hongik?!! Seriously... I wanna know. I'm not naked-phobic, which I know isn't a real word but I'm sure there's some word out there to describe people's phobia with being naked or around nakedness. Anyways, I'm not that. I just don't feel so comfortable with women approaching me so openly exposed. Today I got asked if I was going to shower with them and I had to giggle, thinking back at most recent English tidbit I taught Q. "If you really want to say a strong no, then say 'Hellllll no'... but it's a very sarcastic no". It would have been the perfect time to put it into practice but of course I didn't. I giggled, gave a cute but polite "No thank you", and then raced it out of there.
3. For the past month I've been getting all googly-eyed over a particular item at the Galleria; a gift for my father. Tomorrow is my father's birthday and so I've been visiting it every other day. The sales lady giggles every time she sees me and knows me on a first name bases now... hahaha.
4. Today I took Q to see the gift. I didn't want to tell him that I've been coming so often to see it and so I played it off that this was the first time I saw it... hahaha. Upon seeing it, Q gave me the same bulging eyes reaction that I gave when I first saw it. It's perfect. Slapped down the cash and bought it. My dad's going to be the most styling man in W-town!!! (Note, I can't write what I bought just yet... my mom reads my homepage. Hi mom!)
5. Tomorrow I'm going to finally mail out my late Christmas/birthday gifts. I've had my mom's gift sitting on my office shelf for over two months now so I guess it's way overdue. Better late than never right?... right mom?!
6. Apparently I'm a chameleon, or so Junior Mint keeps on calling me. He claimed I was a chameleon because I'm always adapting, changing my image, and there's many different sides to me. I am a professional business woman by day, aggressive boxer by night, sending out encouraging "try again" and "you can do it" in the mornings and then yelling out "kill him" in the evenings. Sounded as if he described me as a skitsophreniac though... hahaha.
7. With Panty Boy Jr. slaving away at the heavy bag beside me, starving himself so that he can make the insane weight cutt-off and stressing over it, Junior Mint yelled out, "How many times did you eat today?" I guess he was expecting me to be starving myself cause when I yelled out "five times" his eyes just about popped out of his head, as did the eyes of those listening. "Five times?!... are you pregnant?" he asked me. Of course I'm not pregnant, we all know you don't get pregnant by holding hands, but I also know that starving myself only eats away at my energy and makes me gain weight. So yes, I eat every three hours; I eat five, sometimes six, times a day.
8. Tonight I was on a roll. Junior Mint thought he'd crack me and break me down by holding the sand bag while I whaled away at it. He made me go for two straight rounds. Now bare in mind that this was straight after already doing five full non-stop rounds on pad work. After the two rounds he then walked away and told me to go for five more rounds... and that I did. I was so pumped today. My condition is in excellent shape and although I'm a bit nervous about having to fight pretty much half naked, I'm pumped for this fight, eating like a champ, and my weight is right in check.
9. Regardless of the outcome of my upcoming fight, I am looking forward to it. I'm scared of losing and I know that my opponent has a sweet record but I'm not afraid to get hurt, I can better wrap my head around it cause of having experienced my other fights, and I'm determined to do the best I possibly can. Everyday I'm flooded with numerous opposing emotions; I'm nervous, excited, scared, anxious... it's mind boggling but I like the whole anticipation and prep needed for a fight. It gives me focus, it gives me direction... it gives all my hard work meaning. I need this. I'm doing what so many people have told me not to do, what so many people wish they could do but don't,... what I believe I can do. And there isn't anyone that can rob me of my glory, win or lose, I've already won just by stepping up to the challenge.
10. Turns out the book "Confessions of a Shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella has been turned into a movie and is coming out soon, cool. So on that note, I ditched the book "Running with Scissors", headed over to Kyobo Bookstore and picked up a copy for myself. I'll start it tomorrow.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Isn't it just flat out beautiful?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
--Seneca
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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