“Today’s moving day…?! What the kimchi?!” I blurted out.
I had just woken up when Snickers rolled over and told me that today was moving day for us. “But where are we moving to?” was my natural next question. Turns out my complaints to my landlord and jabs at his total lack of concern for my sabatogued sinuses via the mini mold farm I apparently am hosting in Ggum Guum has finally turned on a switch in his hard head. Good, it’s about time. It’s way overdue too!
I had but only a limited of time to get all the facts Snickers could spill my way before I had to head off to work, but the facts are that yes, today is moving day for us. My landlord just recently turned his apartment into a floor of four one-room apartments so we’ll be living in two of them for about two weeks while workers come and totally gut and renovate our apartment, Ggum Guum. Snickers had arranged for him and five of his boys to do all the moving so that was incredibly awesome of him. Not only did the six of these Korean sweeties pick up and move all of our furniture, clothes and whatnot that was in Ggum Guum but they also spent a good chunk of the day setting up all the stuff in the two new one-bedroom apartments. Mind ya, I don't yet have the Internet set up, hence why my homepage is super behind... sorry.
So when I left this morning Ggum Guum was a happy-go-lucky but moldy apartment and when I returned it stood naked and sad looking. I’m not a huge fan of our living conditions either with having to live in two apartments. Actually, we’re kind of living in three.
Apartment #1 where we cook, shower and sleep
Apartment #2 where Mi Nam stays and sleeps among all our clothes, couch and TV
Apartment #3 Ggum Guum, where we store our fridge full of food and larger furniture
It’s actually quite annoying living among three apartments cause coming home from boxing means going into apartment #1 for a shower, apartment #2 for a change of clothes, then up to apartment #3 for eggs and whatever else I wanted to cook as a post-exercise meal. I then head back down to apartment #2 to relax and eat, go to apartment #1 to brush my teeth, apartment #2 to say goodnight to Mi Nam, and then back into apartment #1 to sleep.
Ya… you can understand my annoyance with it I’m sure. But I guess if it means them returning Ggum Guum to me in tip-top condition with no mold hidden under the floor or creeping through my wallpaper than I can’t complain. My only complaint that continues though is the fact that it’s taken my landlord two years to get his act together. I should note too that the situation with my house has been dealt with in the past with this time being the THIRD TIME!!! It’s obvious that their so-called “dealing with it” was just a mere bandage to cover up having to really deal with the problem – they knew it, I knew it, and they knew I knew we all knew it. Dang.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Is there any kind of health and safety board to protect us in Korea?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
If you want something said, ask a man...if you want something done, ask a woman.
-- Author Unknown
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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