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.

Friday, January 11, 2013

I'm Happy, They're Happy, and It's Blue... Friday, January 11

It took me a total of three hours to get home – taxi, subway, bus, walk.

I juggled sipping on coffee and answering a bombardment of text messages from my campers and Snickers while on route home.  Snickers was waiting for me at the Cheonan Bus Terminal so that was super sweet.  I saw him when my bus was pulling up.  We only live about five minutes from the terminal but he had showed up thirty minutes early, just to make sure he surprised me.

[Feel free to enter any “make-me-gag” motions, I’m not offended... even I do it to… hahaha.]

It felt sooooooooooo good to be back in Cheonan with Snickers and on route to our house.  So good that it was almost too good.  The first thing we did was head out for meat.  I had picked up a cup of coffee at the terminal in Seoul but now it was fulfilling my craving for meat that I needed tending to.   I don't think I could ever become a vegetarian -- my favourite animal is steak... hahahaha.  I don't think I'll ever eat tofu again  either for a long time, well that and beans.  My one-word suggestion for the camp cook would be "eggs".  They're very versitle, you can make about a thousand different dishes with them, they taste great, are super high in protein, and are a hell of a lot more filling.  Their high tofu, low flavor meals left me frustrated because there was no real chewing required and no real feeling of substance.  I had a tofu burger at camp and no, it just couldn't compete with a real hamburger. 

Anyways.... arriving home, I prepared myself to be bombarded by Pyen Chi, Balboa and Pacquiao.  They jumped up on me, tried to tackle me down like some kind of quarterback linemen and then I broke away from them and noticed something.

I noticed something bad... something so bad!!!

My bigger than big white leather couch has three spots of blue ink on them.  One spot is about the size of my palm but the other two are like the size of a head – a Korean head!  I rolled my eyes and blurted out, “Yet another reason why I don’t want kids.  Kids do this kind of crap!”  My mother-in-law had a dream that a blond-haired little girl approached her but woozers, don’t be looking to me to be the mother of any kid.  Three dogs and a husband are where I draw the line. 

I’ve got the one dog that weighs in more than the kids I just taught hockey too (and eats more than them too), another that acts like a pouch on cheap acid in that he’s just way to hyper, and the other one is growing by the second and is still in baby mode so when he’s quite you know he’s getting into trouble.  And then there’s the fact that I’ve got a husband who is 4 years younger than me and has the energy level of a two year old.  Fourteen legs to look after is quite enough for me, especially when 12 of these 14 legs killed my couch with a blue pen the other 2 legs so carelessly left lying around the house.

Coming home to a shockingly spotted couch wasn’t cool but I was back and no silly blue spots on a couch could dampen my mood.  I was home.

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