1. Despite the boxing club now officially being closed on the weekends, I’ve got a key and so I went in for training. Black Skinny has a fight next month and so he showed up too, and with Junior Mint. Panty Boy Jr. dropped by, too.
2. Congrats to Black Skinny for the healthy birth of his “Mini-Skinny” baby boy yesterday who remained nameless up until me showing up at training today. “Your baby has no name?! No… no… no. We can’t have this” and so I officially nicknamed Black Skinny’s baby “Hogan”, as in Hulk Hogan… hahaha. Black Skinny didn’t quite appreciate my joke but Junior Mint and Panty Boy Jr. loved it… hahaha.
3. Turns out when Q said “see you later” to me today “later” meant “next month” as supposed to the assumed “tomorrow”. I knew he had to travel to Busan today for work but I thought he was returning tomorrow… yet another lost-in-translation situation. It wouldn’t have been such a big deal if it weren’t for the fact that it totally leaves me high and dry for Wednesday when it was planned that Q would go to Immigration for me because I work on the one day immigration comes to Cheonan every week.
4. Pro Star has returned from his golfing tour in the States and so we agreed to meet up in Little America tonight.
5. Because I didn’t have cleavage inappropriately popping out of my shirt, bust out in any mad-grinding, dirtier-than-dirty dance moves, or drape myself over random dudes, it meant I was somewhat the “boring girl” in the crowd and so no one randomly approached me. OK, so maybe all guys aren’t into that, I know, but wow… it definitely was the theme being pushed tonight. Some gave me their double looks, gave me mad eye contact or purposely did a "oops, didn't mean to bump into like that" but that was about it. “Wow how ironic”, I thought. It’s no secret that many Western dudes here are guilty of cracking jokes regarding ‘male size’ in Korea (I pretty sure you know what I’m referring to here) but I found it rather ironic to find myself in an overly packed club full of testosterone-high Western dudes who apparently lack the very ‘parts’ they mock Korean men about… hahaha.
6. I’m not particularly a fan of Western boys (or Western girls for that matter) but one of the main things I use to enjoy about Little America was everyone’s carefree party-goer attitude. It use to be fun here. Talking to random strangers wasn’t read into and wasn’t a big deal; it was the social norm. Everyone wanted to have a good time, or at least they once did. Tonight it felt like I had seriously just walked into a cheap meat market that prized it’s self for having low grade meat because of it’s flashy advertisements in the window…. OK, so that was a strange analogy but whatever… hahaha.
7. Needless to say the whole happy-go-lucky feeling wasn’t there and so I pretty much stuck to my corner of the club, dancing beside the speaker. Just me and Pro Star. One girl talked to me but only because she wanted to know if I had an extra hair elastic and some dude talked to me after I overheard him and his girlfriend tell Pro Star I was pretty.
8. Regardless of the hoochies that continually made me shield my eyes and the fact that almost every guy there was a wanna-be gangster or poser, Pro Star and I had fun. He’s all about “face dancing” and by that I mean he seems to put more effort into his facial expressions than using the rest of his body to dance… it’s definitely hilarious but he loves it so that’s cool.
9. After all the Air Force people rushed off to meet curfew, Pro Star and I went for a light stroll downtown. Indulged in some deep fried mandu and sweet potato. It’s a kind of a traditional treat I allow myself went I come out to Little America well, that and picking up some cheap movies the next day.
10. English TV channels!!! I was like a little kid in a toy store; it was sensory overload. Watched CSI for the very first time; wasn't so impressed. I admit I don’t like watching TV but I’ll also admit that I don’t like watching TV because I get no English channels at my house in Cheonan. I haven’t watched anything in English on TV since last summer in Canada… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
"What" is she?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Whatever you are be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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.
2 comments:
So you went to Little America without me....and what "parts" are you talking about?
Ah Yanky!!!
And here I thought you totally forgot all about me!!! Maybe I went there looking for you... hahaha... maybe. "Parts"... [Amy blushes here]... pass. You don't have to worry about that, or so I am told... by a little bird... hahahahahahaha.
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