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.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Highlights of my Day... Saturday, March 14

1. In my desperate need of something to eat for breakfast, I stopped by Kimbab Nala for a chumchi kimbab (chumchi = tuna) and ended up getting told to punch some older man. This all came about when the lady, whom I’ve known for over 4 years now, questioned me about my boxing. And as for the older man in this situation, he was some random customer who thought it funny to repeatedly insist I wasn’t a boxer. “Pretty girls don’t box” he noted. "Who you calling girl?!" I thought. Anyways, so the Kimbab lady spoke up and told him that if I really wasn’t a boxer than he wouldn’t mind if I punched him…. Hahaha. I never did punch him but I’m sure I would have scored a free kimbab if I had… hahaha.

2. At my Korean tutoring class I was repeatedly distracted by a love-struck couple that just couldn’t get enough of each other at a corner table. I tell ya, it’s like they had just discovered kissing or something. Finally my teacher stopped the lesson and turned to see what I was distracted by. “If they don’t stop in two minutes I’m going to say something to them” she told me. And as if my teacher’s makeup-wastes-my time, I-don’t-want-a-man mentality didn’t already score her spot in my cool books, today she definitely secured her spot with telling the couple off. I was tempted to ask them if they were like frogs and breathed through their skin or if she was giving him mouth-to-mouth because of him being smothered to death but my teacher got up and said something. “I didn’t come to Coffee Bean to watch an adult movie so stop it or leave!” she told them…. Hahahah…. She’s my hero… hahaha.

3. Oh the horror!!! My safe secret stash of Natural Skippy Peanut Butter isn’t so safe anymore… it’s not even there any more!!! While in Seoul I went to go pick up a couple of jars of it but to my terrible surprise the shelves that were once loaded with over 10 different kinds of delish peanut butter now only shelf three different kinds; fatty, more fatty, and super expensive.... almost $19 for a jar of peanut butter and I've never even heard of this brand, no thanks! Natural Skippy... where are you baby?!!!



4. Starting today my boxing club is no longer open on the weekends… boo for that but yah for the fact that I have a key. Today I trained with Black Skinny and Junior Mint. Black Skinny has an upcoming fight in Japan next month that I’m dying to go watch but I doubt I’ll be able to. Nonetheless, I’m always a fan of his pre-fight training and how intense he gets with it. Today he went 10 rounds on pad work with Junior Mint… awesome!!!

5. Scored a White Day gift from Junior Mint… sweet!

6. At 8pm Q showed up at my doorstep. I opened the door and there stood a finely-tuned, dressed up Q with a big White Day gift and a huge smile on my face. I had been expecting him and so I had slipped into my new shimmery dress and had got all dolled up. I even bought new eye shadow and lip gloss at MAC for the occasion… hahaha.

7. First stop on our “White Day Evening of Romance” date was dinner at Dono Marco where not only was Q super smoothed with his lines but the chef/owner added extra smoothness to the meal by personally coming to our table to say hi to me and to bring me extra garlic bread.

8. Next stop: Baskin Robins. I think on average I eat ice cream once a month, twice if there’s a holiday or something to celebrate. So tonight we indulged in some delish ice cream…. Pumpkin cheesecake, love-struck strawberry, triple fudge chocolate, and pearline's and cream ice cream, all nicely packaged up in a take-home container.

9. Third stop of the evening took us to the movie shop where I told Q, “You have to rent a romantic movie… that’s the White Day rule.”… hahaha.

10. The evening ended with us making our way back to my house and popping in the movie. We had rented “Lars and the Real Girl”, which definitely wasn’t romantic but it definitely made for an entertaining evening. It was a strange, strange movie actually. The dude ends up buying some android girl off the Internet and then goes delusional, thinking that she is really real. And what was so funny about it all was how the community really tried to support him and went out of their way for him and this android girl… hahaha. Not quite my type of movie but I definitely laughed a lot because of it.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
How far would you go to help those you love?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I like her because she smiles at me and means it.
-- Anonymous

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. Sounds like an awesome date! Q finally pulls through haha
2. You should make a list of all the things you miss from home. You use to talk about lucky charms and macaroni a lot, im curious.
3. Question of the day: I'd go all the way baby haha. I think sometimes I do too much ><

Anonymous said...

Since you've said sex is gross and icky more than once why do you have "I Love Cocks" in your new banner?

Anonymous said...

She doesn't.
It means "I love chicken", as in chicken YOU eat not f'ing cocks.

Anonymous said...

I have to laugh her because I don't recall AM ever saying sex was gross and icky. Way to take things out of context. And your comment about cocks (and lack them of them here on her HP) only proves that YOU'RE the gross and icky one here.

Anonymous said...

Well it's gone now. So no point pointing that out.

Anonymous said...

Actually, she has said sex was icky. She said it in her comments.

And that wasn't a chicken, it was a rooster, also known as a cock. The very first definition of "cock" is "an adult male domestic chicken."

Learn something about English, please, Mark.

Anonymous said...

When I saw the "I love (picture of a rooster)" sign - I immediately thought it stood for "I love cock" as well. D'oh!
-Charlene