tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7618749523642985872024-03-07T18:31:50.806-08:00Survive, Emerge...FlourishFelicia Oh's BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-49198057188953387492016-04-21T15:12:00.001-07:002016-04-21T15:12:37.624-07:00What is this all about? What am I doing? What am I searching for? I think what it all boils down to is just that I would like to have more gratitude...for everything. So, how do I go about that? That is the next chapter...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-30194031042418952772016-03-16T04:09:00.001-07:002016-03-16T04:09:11.578-07:00The Return of the Blog!
I've been in the process of making some changes in my life and wanted to keep a document of it. I didn't want this to be part of the overwhelming and excessive constant blasting of the reality show-stream of consciousness-attention whoring-need for approval-competition for "likes" and "friends" of Facebook. I wanted this to be something more personal...that someone choses to read. I want this to be more about choosing to participate as a reader/viewer rather than getting caught up and washed away in the constant flood of Facebook white noise. Last week I found myself helping someone out who was really frustrated with BJJ and I remembered a blog entry I had written years ago. I had to check and make sure this blog was up and get the link of the correct entry. I started reading some of my old posts and was pleasantly surprised. I had forgotten a lot of what I had written and was amused by how I felt a sense of identification with the writer who had some pretty good insights! I realized that maybe this was again the right forum for what I needed to communicate and how I needed to communicate it. This is deliberate. This is not fast food Facebook or the People Magazine for the masses of Instagram. A word of warning if you go peruse the archives: you can pretty much ignore all the entries from 2011 and 2012. I don't think there was anything interesting or insightful but I decided not to delete the entries because I still accept them as part of my history and a document of what I was doing at the time. I also decided against creating a whole new blog because I think part of what paints a bigger life picture is the challenge to integrate all the different experiences, lessons and roads that we travel into the one entity of ourself. It is what makes us who we are so I didn't want to isolate or partition segments of my life, or myself. It's very gestalt. Actually, my memory pretty much sucks and sometimes I need to remember what I was doing during certain time periods and this helps fill in some gaps. So here's to the next phase of my life and the Return of the Blog!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-20581038923544333472012-10-26T08:53:00.000-07:002012-10-26T08:53:54.129-07:00Thank you for the amazing support everyone has shown for these seminars!
Just added 2 new sessions...
Thursday, Nov 29 and Friday, Nov 30
5:30PM - 8:30PM (especially for people who work on the weekend)
Saturday, Dec 1
9AM - 4PM
Registration will open soon!
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-42238860054715467172012-10-13T20:58:00.000-07:002012-10-13T20:58:01.748-07:00Reserve your space for “the Art of Competition” Seminar now!!!Spaces for this seminar are very limited and filling up. Email teachme2compete@gmail.com or theartofcompetition@gmail.com to register and reserve your spot!
This seminar is open to anyone (men and women) who is looking to compete for the first time, get better at competing or just get better at BJJ/grappling!
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It’s been a long time for me...struggling the last few years to make sense of the last 12 years of my life and work and trying to figure out a way to share what I have learned and experienced in that time with you...because I think it can help you too! Anyone that has read my blog at some point, anyone who has trained and wanted to get better, anyone that has struggled in the sport, anyone who has struggled with competition or even in thinking about competition.
This is the beginning of more to come...
Attendance is very limited for this event.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-69536934598300372502012-09-27T20:47:00.001-07:002012-09-28T08:37:47.392-07:00Survive, Emerge...FlourishIt’s been a really long time since I actually posted any actual thoughts on this blog. I was just listening to a friend tell me about how she was feeling about her jiu-jitsu and her current struggle and I remembered an early blog post I had written that I thought would be perfect for her to see. I found it and then read a couple of other posts I had written in...(gulp!) 2006!!!
I wondered “How did I get to where am I today?" and then I wondered “Uh...Where AM I today?” So maybe I might have some thoughts to share with the “Blog-OH!-sphere" again...or maybe I won’t.
No promises, but today, I’m ramblin...er...I mean...blogging.
Where does the time go and where does life take us? I just read some posts from 2007. It was the year of my ADCC, the year of my divorce, the year that changed my life in so many ways, good bad and otherwise. Actually, that last part is a value judgment and there’s really no need for that because it is past and history and “It is what it is.” There’s no judgment needed.
I felt a wave of emotional nostalgia as I remember the feeling of my world being a snow globe getting shaken up. I remembered the term “A new normal” and how we have to constantly adjust to what happens to us in life. Usually it’s more the traumatic things that we are more aware of and how we respond, react and just keep plodding down the road of life with the new battle wounds and scars that become a part of what makes up who we are.
When I was about 20 in art school, I made a video documenting every scar on my body, it’s size and what it was from. It was my attempt to literalize the metaphorical.
25 years later...there are too many scars, both literal AND metaphorical, to document. Too many come and gone and faded and forgotten. Too calloused - maybe that’s a bad word choice - maybe “developed resilience” is better...resilient to the constant assault of life.
Victorious in the daily struggle to survive, emerge and flourish.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-77873512405625743782011-10-01T08:48:00.000-07:002011-10-01T08:48:00.693-07:00Day 80Today: do 80 burpees.<br />
Current total: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25+26+27+28+29+30+31+32+33+34+35+36+37+38+39+40+41+42+43+44+45+46+47+48+49+50+51+52+53+54+55+56+57+58+59+60+61+62+63+64+65+66+67+68+69+70+71+72+73+74+75+76+77+78+79+80 = 3240Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-43210877034544820022011-09-19T08:31:00.000-07:002011-09-24T08:34:23.908-07:00Day 68Today: do 68 burpees.<br />
Current total: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25+26+27+28+29+30+31+32+33+34+35+36+37+38+39+40+41+42+43+44+45+46+47+48+49+50+51+52+53+54+55+56+57+58+59+60+61+62+63+64+65+66+67+68 = 2346Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-64665045484905290352011-08-20T05:05:00.001-07:002011-08-20T05:05:57.994-07:00Day 38Today: do 38 burpees.<br />
Current total: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25+26+27+28+29+30+31+32+33+34+35+36+37+38 = 741<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-33492518403468936192011-08-17T07:02:00.001-07:002011-08-18T09:29:55.292-07:00Day 35Today: do 35 burpees.<br />
Current total: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25+26+27+28+29+30+31+32+33+34+35 = 630Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-8843903408024976662011-08-07T08:46:00.000-07:002011-08-07T08:51:11.223-07:00Day 25Today: do 25 burpees.<br />
Current total: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25 = 325<br />
or<br />
25(25+1)/2=325<br />
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! We are a quarter of the way there! Feeling great! Keep it up! Rah rah rah...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-46388529390840844192011-08-02T12:34:00.000-07:002011-08-02T12:34:18.196-07:00Day 20Today: do 20 burpees.<br />
Current total: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20 = 210<br />
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Big 20!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-86060616548953894952011-07-30T09:36:00.000-07:002011-07-30T09:36:23.429-07:00Day 17Today: do 17 burpees.<br />
Current total: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17 = 153<br />
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Anyone still out there? Don't fall behind!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-49551911516645421052011-07-24T09:11:00.000-07:002011-07-26T12:45:11.429-07:00Day 11Today: do 11 burpees.<br />
Current total: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11 = 66<br />
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Get 'em done and enjoy the day!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-83652411784788578902011-07-16T10:24:00.000-07:002011-07-16T10:28:49.072-07:00Day 3Today: do 3 burpees.<br />Current total: 1+2+3 = 6<br /><br />Carmageddon...sort of a let down so far, huh?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-76682358419338379292011-07-14T23:45:00.000-07:002011-07-18T08:54:11.983-07:00I(t) Live(s)!!! - Day 1Today is Day 1 of the Burpee Challenge!<br />
Day 1 - Do 1 burpee.<br />
Day 2 - Do 2 burpees.<br />
Day 3 - Do 3 burpees...<br />
You see the pattern, Brainiacs?<br />
We are going to 100! See ya on the other side!<br />
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Of course I didn't make this up! As far as I know, it's a Crossfit thing.<br />
How did this happen??? Today Dennis tells me about the workout and how some of his friends are doing it. I've heard about it before, but never did it. So I tell him I'll join him and we can bug each other and make sure we do it. So, I tell a few others and they want to join in...then the Fight Team...then other people at the gym...so now it's grown into a whole "thing"!<br />
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Oh, did I say??? HAVE FUN!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-53188949694498330652010-11-19T20:38:00.000-08:002010-11-19T20:50:14.300-08:00Coast to CoastVal Worthington (http://bjjvisionquest2006.blogspot.com/) and I just got back from doing a Charity Benefit Seminar at TKC in Woodland Hills, CA (where I recently started a grappling and fitness program), taking a red-eye to New Jersey and then doing a Charity Benefit Seminar with Emily Kwok at Princeton BJJ (where Emily recently started a BJJ program with Art). We will be donating proceeds to Safe Passage (www.safepassagelives.com) and The Breast Cancer Resource Center (www.ywcaprinceton.org).<br />Stay tuned here and at www.womensgrappling.org for upcoming camps, events and fundraisers...maybe coming to a place near YOU!<br /><br />Also check out Eddie Goldman's interview with us about the seminars...http://nhbnews.blogspot.com/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-53496776551873740612010-09-07T00:04:00.000-07:002010-09-07T00:07:10.893-07:00Reminded again...that at any moment, your life can change forever. Take every day, every moment for what it is. You will never have it again. It's hard to remember but life gives you little (and big) reminders. Don't take anything or anyone for granted.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-12028332345948641402010-08-28T07:19:00.001-07:002010-08-28T07:39:00.489-07:00House to HouseWomen's Grappling Camp is over. Another amazing group of women...old friends, new friends...so much learning for everyone...on the mat, in the head, in the heart and mind, in the world. Always getting challenged in some way and somehow intensified and condensed into one week. What a deal! Starting out with the cup of stress overflowing with tears to the trust and acceptance of surrender and floating and feeling the rolling of the waves letting the course of the world play out. And now from the House of Laundry (no clothes dryer in Canada so everything got hung out to dry) back to the House of Ferment.<br /><br />Can't wait to get back to the House of Ferment and see what has happened. I should have a whole lot of Kombucha tea (or vinegar) waiting for me and some cold and sleepy Kefir bacteriods. Hopefully they haven't died of hypothermia in the refrigerator.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-27577713759648068452010-08-16T23:59:00.001-07:002010-08-17T00:43:31.878-07:00Eggplant...takes FOREVER to cook. Forever = well past midnight. ARGGHH! Kelly was right.<br />In other news...<br />Earlier today I bottled some of the kombucha tea I've been making in the big pickle jar.<br />Lately, I've been accumulating kefir in the refrigerator. So I'm making it into cheese. The whey is strained off and what remains is cheese. Sort of a ricotta-like cheese. I'm going to put it as a topping on the "Past Midnight Eggplant".<br />I also put some in a container and mixed in some bits of the "bleu" from the blue cheese I had in the fridge. Let's see if it rots...er...cultures. LOL.<br />I'm drinking the whey. Tonight I mixed it with ice, water and some orange stevia. Not bad.<br />When I get back from camp, I'm going to make sauerkraut and attempt Kim Chee with it.<br />My house is fermenting.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-30944263256000544372010-08-14T09:03:00.000-07:002010-08-14T09:05:11.934-07:00Toronto Camp is just around the corner...and it's almost sold out. If you want to go to camp, register now! Only two spots left!<br /><a href="http://www.womensgrappling.org">www.womensgrappling.org</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-25801718144361250982010-08-12T08:08:00.000-07:002010-08-12T08:32:37.258-07:00Muffin Challenge ExperimentsApparently I've taken on this challenge where I try and make everything into a muffin. It's fairly quick and easy and they are portable...easy to take wherever you go to snack on. I love baked things, especially breads like banana, zucchini, carrot, etc. So I just bake them in muffin tins (usually with cupcake liners). So far, I've tired the usual zucchini and banana varieties (with my own little twists, of course)...but also various types of beans, various types of squashes, kefir I make, and anything I stumble upon in the street...<br />And then there's the additional occasional challenge of taking things OUT of the muffins...flour, sugar, and dairy.<br />I've only had one batch that was over baked and burned because I got lazy with the timing. Aside from that, it's been pretty interesting and relatively yummy. Relatively...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-45006125891035436312010-08-09T23:10:00.001-07:002010-08-12T08:07:24.271-07:00Fit Prizes and Dry FruitEvery Saturday morning, I get a box of organic vegetables from <a href="http://www.abundantharvestorganics.com">www.abundantharvestorganics.com</a>. It's a really cool thing if you are trying to get more organic in as fresh and cost effective way as possible. You don't get to choose what you get, but that's part of the fun. Each week, you get the freshest harvest of what's in season. There's usually stuff that you have no idea what to do with, in which case I "Google" and learn what it is and how to cook/use whatever it is. Sometimes, you keep getting something you don't really like. They do have a trade box so sometimes that comes in handy. This last week, I got more potatoes and I don't really eat a lot of potatoes. I decided to use them for the Ultimate Fit prize. Whoever "won" the workout got the surprise. Congrats, Cory!!! And you win....Organic POTATOES!!!! Enjoy!!!<br />You can also add on different things that they offer...all organic....meat, nuts, cheese, eggs, beans, oats, even fish. This last week they were offering 15lbs of cosmetically challenged stone fruit for 9.00. That could be things like peaches, nectarines, or plums that are a bit scuffed or have a spot or something like that. So, I took the chance. Why not? I like all those fruit and I still have Drew's dehydrator from the overload of persimmons back in December from Joe. Drew only uses his dehydrator for deer jerky and he hasn't gone hunting and now that he just had ACL reconstructive surgery, I doubt he's going hunting anytime soon. Coincidentally, he came by the gym in a big brace and crutches :( Get on that rehab!!!<br />So the other project in my fermenting lab is nectarine dehydrating.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-761874952364298587.post-49406685083508279852010-08-09T22:41:00.000-07:002010-08-09T23:25:50.568-07:00MoonshinerThe last few weeks, I've been making and experimenting with Kombucha and Kefir...courtesy of my friend from the farmer's market, Dale. I made Kombucha once before, back in the 90's and then have occasionally purchased it at the store....for a LOT of not-so-pretty pennies!!! Well, since getting the "starter stuff" from her, I've been doing my obsessive researching on the internet and found out that Lindsay Lohan is blaming Kombucha for her elevated alcohol readings. As a result, in June, Kombucha teas have been temporarily taken off the market pending investigation. So, now I'm feeling a bit like a crazy old moonshiner!!! But i still have all my teeth ;)<br />There are two ways of making Kombucha. The first way is a one time thing and you just keep repeating the process every week. When I did it "back in the day", I had bought two large glass (can't use metal and not so desirable to use plastic) bowls. At some point between then and now and multiple moves, I broke one. The other, however, was ready to return to it's initial life calling. Then I found out about the second way called "continuous brewing". This calls for a very large jug or vat where you have a LOT of tea and then whenever you take some out, you add more in. It's supposed to have all sorts of other health benefits as a result of the prolonged fermentation process. Some sites have these vats and containers for sale and the cheapest one was over 20 bucks, not including shipping. I went to Smart and Final to get some Mason jars to store the Kombucha tea in. I was also looking for a big glass vat type thing if I happened to find one. All the storage containers they sold were plastic!!! Damn plastic!!! There was one big glass one that looked like the one on the internet but it was 21.00. Too much for me. So I kept looking around and remember that my mom had once told me about getting glass pickle jars from restaurants to do pickling and preserving at home. They throw them away anyways. I eventually find the pickle aisle and lo and behold, there are very large clear jars. But...they seem...wait...I knock on the container...and they are...PLASTIC!!! Not just regular plastic, but plastic molded to LOOK like glass jars!!! WTF? Okay, so now I find myself picking up each container and knocking on it to see what it's made of. I'm sure if anyone saw me...well, whatever. Eureka!!! I finally find a glass one!!! It's dill pickles. Everything is packed in plastic except DILL PICKLES. I keep looking around to see if there are any I haven't knocked on and then I start to scan the prices. A big container (probably plastic) of olives is 23 bucks! 16.99...11.99....back to the dill pickles and they are (drumroll, please) 3.99...on sale!!! They are usually 4.99. I get two of these big beautiful glass jars and the bonus of free pickles!!!! How cool!!!! These jars alone sell for at least 5 bucks plus shipping each. What do you do with a ton of big dill pickles? Text people and ask them "Do you like big dill pickles?", of course. Lots of people got free pickles and pickle juice that afternoon and by the next morning, I only had 4 left. I didn't even taste them. Took the jar home, cleaned it out and set up my continuous brew Kombucha tea project.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0