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.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Oh Christmas Tree... Saturday, December 22


One of the beauties of living above a bar and being smack-dab downtown is that I can blast my tunes as loud as I want and no one can complain.  So that’s exactly what I did tonight.  I blasted some Christmas tunes and Snickers and I rocked around as we set up the Christmas tree for A Very, Merry Sugarplum Christmas. 

All our ordered decorations arrived today, one-after-one and with each delivery man who showed up I’d yell out “Merry Christmas!” as they scooted down the stairs and continued on to their next stop.  That is until one of the delivery men came with a letter from Santa for me.

Don’t get all excited… the letter was the one I had written TO him, he sent it back.

Apparently Vita Ali was right, Santa lives in Finland.  I had addressed my letter to the North Pole.  Snickers thought the whole thing was way too funny.  He started off with a little snicker, but then it turned into a cute giggle, then a chuckle, and then it escalated into a full out down-from-the-bottom-of-the-gut loud laughter.

That is until I told him to read to me my letter… [enter evil laugh here].

Plan for the new year, teach Snickers how to read English… hahahaha.  Actually it’s quite cute.  He goes from being this strong mocking-me man to that of a shy schoolboy.  Perhaps I won’t teach him how to read and I’ll continue to NOT correct his English.  I think it’s adorable that he calls the TV remote a “remote controller”, the freezer a “up fridge, and a bull dozer a “country car”… hahaha. 

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