Off to Granny Kim’s house we went.
This past week it was K-Gere’s birthday so today we headed off to Granny Kim’s house for what was anticipated as a day of lots of eating, talking, and killing mosquitos.
Let it be known, killing mosquitos while all the doors and windows are open is just flat out pointless and yes, I’d have to rank a mosquito/ fly swatter as one of the most nastiest things in a house… hence why Snickers can’t seem to find his and has “lost” three already. Note the quotes around lost. He didn’t lose them, I just decided they were better stored outside so I threw them out the window from our third floor apartment… hahaha.
Anyways… so off to Granny Kim’s house we went. K-Gere was there, he’s always a big fan of me as is Granny Kim whose hand apparently always finds a way to incorporate a tap on my bum or brush of my leg into any and all situations. Both my sister-in-laws had arrived so the twins were there, as were a couple of Snickers extended family.
It’s official – well in the ears and minds of those in the room – Snickers’ cousin is now to be addressed by the name “Brooklyn”.
It’s also official, Snickers learned a new skill today – how to break into a car. Great, like my bad boy-in-disguise needed to add another skill to his already full list of bad boy things. It came about today when he again – for the third time in 2 months – locked his keys in the car with the car still running. This has happened plenty of times before but being all the way out in no-man’s-land where there’s more rice fields than homes and where the livestock outnumbers us people 7:1, the chances of the insurance company coming to bail us out is right up there with one of the neighboring pigs flying by to catch the commotion.
Besides the dancing by the twins that accompanied the birthday cake and breaking into our own car, we did manage to make rice cake.... well, we paid someone in town to mix it for us and then we spent a good chunk of the afternoon cutting it, rolling it in bean powder and then eating it.
Gotta love Koreans and their hundred and one ways to use rice; I am huge fan of rice cake!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
If your family wasn't your family, would you pick them to be?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.”
-- Proverb quotes
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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