Today was loaded to the brim with strangeness and randomly odd situations.
It all started in the morning when some young guy misjudged his space while backing up and scratched one of Gotti's front blinkers. He totally blew the situation out of proportion when he insisted I let him replace it – replace both front blinkers actually. I tell ya, it was totally unnecessary but he insisted. I knew something was up though when he followed behind me and sat around the scooter shop with me. I guess he thought shilling out $30 for new blinkers would either score him an hour of English practice or my number. No such luck. He didn’t get either. I don’t speak English for free. I charge $50-$60 an hour, so using the odd English word here and there was all his $30 scored him.
Got a visit from my landlord today. He lives on the floor below me. Originally he had come over to see if my boiler was working properly but one simple chat ended up turning into a full-fledge one hour talk. “Your husband is right” he told me. “You are very stubborn!” He made that comment after asking me why I hadn’t told him about the troubled boiler and other things around the house I had taken the liberty upon myself to try to fix. Prior to Snickers leaving for Japan, Snickers had approached our landlord and asked him to randomly check-up on me but had forewarned him that my stubbornness may stop me from telling him if I have any problem.
Am getting paid to host a pizza party next Friday for my Church Kiddies… sweeeeeeet!!!
Received a random text message from one of my tutoring students, telling me that I am the highlight of his Mondays and Wednesdays. I texted him back, “But today is Friday”, to which he responded with, “Yes. I need to change today”. I wasn’t too sure on how to take it but was flattered.
Got a personal invite to a sleepover party – a private party for two from someone who knows full well not to be sending me such invites. Apparently being married means nothing to many people. It means everything to me though. I would seriously drop-kick Snickers in the head if he ever slept over at some chic’s house and I seriously want to drop-kick this so-called friend for even considering sending me such a totally inappropriate invite.
Met up with Vitamin C, a blast from the past I once went on one fun date with to an aquarium many moons ago. I once accused him of being too American and not Korean enough. Despite our sour parting from before, we had a great time. We chatted the hours away over a couple of plates of delish food and coffee.
No sooner did I arrive back at Ggum Guum, thinking the strangeness of the day had past, I got a text message. It was from none other than a former really close friend, The Black Widow. We had a bit of a falling out a while back when she started to rebel against her role as a young single mother and I felt forced into more of a stressed-out older sister role than that of a friend. Text messages from her, reading “I miss you… I want to see you”, lasted till about 2am.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why thank God it's Friday?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
-- Peter De Vries
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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