Another Bloody Sunday... Sunday, November 21

Sundays in Korea have often be referred to as "Bloody Sundays" because Sundays at Ggum Guum are always filled with UFC and boxing blarring on the TV. Today it was yet another Bloody Sunday but this Sunday was a very live, very in-your-face Bloody Sunday with a bunch of us heading out to Suwon to watch a fellow UP boxer fight.

I had asked Cheeto Girl prior to today if she wanted to join me on the little road trip and she was more than happy to come along. She's watched boxing on TV before but today marked her first live fight... ohhhhh, a virgin to the joys of live boxing!!! I love it! Her first dose of live boxing was a good two hours long and was filled with overseeing all the last minute game prep work, meeting numerous refs and judges as I did my usual rounds greeting them all, and having to sit beside me as I yelled and cheered.

When they called the name of our Boxing club's fighter a bunch of stood ringside and cheered him on. Cheeto Girl took pictures while the rest of us watched on. Junior Mint and I stood there yelling out shots but it was the High School Kiddie who yelled out quite the shot in the second round when he knocked down his opponent. I didn't catch what exactly he had blurted out but it was then that the game took a spin and got quite aggressive.

Down his opponent went again. The High School Kiddie gave a super cute jump for joy that made the crowd of onlookers laugh and then they called the game. He won by knock-out... sweet!!!

Ran into several of my favourite Korean Boxing people, of which I was happy to see my ever-so-cute favourite ring official, Thomas (a boxing coach in Seoul) and my friend the Japan promoter, Loren.

After the fights we headed back to Cheonan, had to deal with Gotti being MIA and stuck at Home Plus, and I was super damn hungry. Decided to dine out with Cheeto Girl, so together we dined on what translates to "raw beef with mixed vegetables and rice". Raw beef, yes, you read right. This is one of my favourite Korean dishes to dine on, though I must admit that I add only but a couple of spoonfuls of rice cause I don't care for white rice let alone empty carbs.

After dinner Cheeto Girl and I got down to business with dealing with Gotti. She ended up totally working her charm and, in addition to getting the repair man to skip his dinner, she got him to go pick up Gotti on his truck, take it to the shop, fix it, and then return it right to my door step. She milked her good looks even further by insisting he give her a break on the price in addition to the already obvious up-and-beyond help he had already provided us.

SCORED!!!! Scored a huge chunk off the price and Gotti returned with a new engine belt.

Prior to Gotti returning to Ggum Guum, Cheeto Girl and I headed out to Tom N' Toms to wait for his return and to chat up a storm over a cup of joe.

Cheeto Girl doesn't like drinking coffee so she sipped on hot chocolate and got quite picture-happy with taking about a dozen shots of me randomly drinking my black coffee... hahaha.

Snickers is convinced that Cheeto Girl loves me -- not that kind of way, relax -- because she's always texting me and has been known to randomly drop by my house. I for one will be the first to say that I think she's an awesome girl. The other day she literally went through my fridge and cupboards to note what kind of food I was eating. She really wants me to help her lose weight but she's hates exercising. No problem. Exercising is only 10% of the equation, genetics are 10%, but diet is 80%!!!

One thing is for sure though about what Cheeto Girl loves, she too loves Mi Nam, so she amused herself by lying on the floor tonight with Mi Nam and snapping numerous shots.

When it was time for Cheeto Girl to go home, we jumped back on Gotti and zoomed down the street, or so we tried. In front of me was the probably the slowest moving cars that had taken the phrase "Sunday driving" to a whole new brutal level. Based on the drivers' brutal speed and the fact that they hit three pilons and almost two passing cars, Cheeto Girl and I both questioned whether or not this person was drunk.

I must have followed behind this brutal driver for about five minutes and watched them so desparately struggle to drive straight when all of a sudden they stopped and backed-up, hitting Gotti and us!!! I was ticked, ticked enough to tell Cheeto Girl to stay put on the back of Gotti.

"I'm gonna punch this drunk ajjuma!" I blurted out.

Yes, I was definitely set on punching what I assumed was a drunk older woman dangerously driving downtown Cheonan. I walked up to the driver's side, opened up the door and it was then that the driver looked up to me. I was shocked. It was a girl no older than about twenty and she looked like she was about to cry.

"Damn chick, you're lucky you're young cause I was about to give you something to really cry about!" I told her (along with some other not-so-nice comments). She and her passanger, who I assumed was her overly-skinny boyfriend, both stepped out of the car and repeatedly appologized to me.

I didn't know what to say next, I mean I was totally expecting her to be some drunk older woman or a drunk man, so I told her "Stay in school fool" and drove away. Cheeto Girl stayed quiet but it wasn't until a minute or so later until I broke the silence by bursting out into laughter. Gotti had no scratches or whatnot from the ordeal but Cheeto Girl and I continued to drive around downtown joking about it. I had really spooked that girl and though I felt bad for having had yelled at her, it really turned out to be super funny.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What pushes your button?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.
-- Author Unknown